“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Within 15 minutes of finishing her statement, Jane spontaneously began writing a second, longer one. She produced it in an altered state of consciousness — albeit a sort of grudging one, as her subsequent notes show. But first the material: She regards its method of reception, as well as its content, as representing breakthroughs of a kind for her, and because both that reception and content are related to “Unknown” Reality we’re presenting considerable portions of the statement here:)

(Now here, Jane told me later, she began moving into a different, hard-to-define, “strange” state of altered awareness. At the same time she began casting her material in the third person. Ruburt, “him,” “he” — entered in; yet [as she was to note in a subsequent statement] she wasn’t picking up on Seth:)

(I kept Jane busy! That afternoon, after we’d discussed her second statement of the day, I asked her to write a description of the circumstances surrounding her reception of it. So for the third time that day she led off a page with the date:)

“February 26, 1974. At Rob’s request this morning I wrote a statement about my experience in the sleep state last night. Today, Tuesday, is my ESP class day, which means that I have a little less time for my writing, so after giving Rob the small description I intended to type a chapter of Adventures in Consciousness.⁴ I’d lost some writing time lately because of business matters, and because I was trying to catch up on the mail, so I was particularly concerned about getting back to Adventures.

“Instead, I felt myself entering another level of consciousness. I grumbled for a minute, wondering if I wanted to go along or end it and type. Then I thought that something important might be up; and I ‘knew’ that this-whatever it was-was connected with my experiences of last night. So I went along, and wrote my second statement of the day.

“Toward the end of the material (in the second statement) I briefly thought the Seth level might be involved, but the wording didn’t come through as automatically and smoothly as it does with Seth, and I didn’t feel his … personality. The information referred to me as Ruburt, though, which automatically meant that it was from a ‘higher’ or other level than the Ruburt one. Yet I dislike the connotations called up by my use of the word ‘higher’ here.

(There’s much to be learned here, Jane said in conclusion, providing she can find the time for study. An interesting question: According to the feelings she expressed toward the end of her third statement, Seth himself evidently isn’t represented by [or called out of] such a sidepool of consciousness — yet what sort of connection might, or does, he have with one? We haven’t asked yet.)