“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Well,” Jane said, indicating two points in front of her as we sat waiting for the session to begin, “there’s book stuff there [to the left], and stuff on me there [to the right]. But that’s funny: I don’t think of Seth being over there — just the information. It’s as though I wait for the material to fall into a slot; then Seth, who’s here” — she touched her belly — “deals with it.”

(Jane’s delivery was rather slow as the session started.)

This applies at all levels, mental and biological. Probabilities involve the atoms and molecules, therefore, and the cells. They involve thoughts also, as well as more obviously physical events. Your bodies are probable-constructs (hyphenate that if you want to), in that they exist only because of the atoms’ appearance at certain points of probability. At other levels the atoms do not exist at those same points, and your bodies there (Jane leaned forward for emphasis) are not the same physical constructs. They do not, then, exist there.

(Seth-Jane finished the last sentence on a note of triumph, after indicating all of its punctuation.)

(“Well, I know you said in the last session [just before 10:33] that from her nonphysical reality my mother isn’t trying to coerce Jane and me into buying Mr. Markle’s house — yet I keep wondering what others will think about the idea of influence being felt in our reality from ‘the other side,’ you might say — ”)

(10:34. Jane, in a deep trance, had spoken for over an hour. I told her I thought “Unknown” Reality was excellent. “But I’m out of it on this one,” she said, explaining that she didn’t know it well consciously, had little idea of its structure, and couldn’t particularly say what was to come in it. In contrast, her involvement with Seth’s last book, Personal Reality, had been much more intimate during its production.

(We discussed the general implications of Seth’s material on my mother — that she was not only “alive” after her “death,” but that a portion of her was focused upon Jane and me. Jane had allowed Seth to talk about the whole situation in a more personal way than she usually does; the result is that we already have more data on Stella Butts than on the earlier deaths of Jane’s own parents [in 1971 and 1972], for instance.⁴ We knew that Seth wouldn’t continue describing my mother and her present reality indefinitely; such a study could easily grow into a book by itself. In addition, Jane holds deeply felt convictions about giving material on survival personalities; the information in Appendix 10 has a bearing here. I also think that Seth will be able to say more on the beliefs behind her feelings as this book progresses.

(11:00. Book work was over for the evening. Jane paused in trance, then proceeded to deliver a good amount of material on several other matters. The session ended at 11:43 P.M.)

1. In the Glossary for Adventures, Jane defines prejudiced perception as “The propensity for organizing undifferentiated data into specific differentiated sense terms.” Also see Chapter 14 in Adventures.

4. For a little material on Jane’s family background, see Note 4 for the 679th session, as well as the first delivery of the session itself.

5. A note added 10 months later: There were many house ramifications to come, though, concerning not only Mr. Markle’s place in Sayre but some here in Elmira, where Jane and I live. In ordinary terms, we could hardly have expected such a mass of “house connections” to develop. The events took place while Seth-Jane was producing Section 6 for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, and are described there in some detail; they also provide nearly ideal links between the two volumes.