“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Seth did give much unexpected material about the brain — and about his own reality, incidentally — but the session turned out to be so long and closely interrelated that I found it very difficult to excerpt; most of the portions I picked out were left hanging, or were too incomplete. Naturally, Seth said what he said from his own viewpoint. I ended up choosing the few quotations gathered together here just to indicate the direction of the information, while hoping that the entire session, with others promised on the subject by Seth, will be published some day.

(From the 211th session for November 24, 1965:) First of all, as far as the hands are concerned, to be left- or right-handed has to do with inner mechanisms and brain patterns that come first, before the motions of the hands. Characteristically I operated in certain manners that resulted in the primary use of my left hand, when I was focused within physical matter.

(Seth came through with this material, including his jocular closing remarks, because a good friend of ours had asked many questions as he witnessed the session — one of them being why the right-handed Jane gestured mainly with her left hand while speaking in trance. I hadn’t noticed this mannerism.

(It’s of interest to add that as far as she knows Jane was born right-handed, yet does recall her mother saying that she [Jane] was originally left-handed and had been taught to switch handedness. Jane is sure she wasn’t compelled to do so in school, say. At the same time, she laughed, in early grades she had much trouble learning to salute the flag with her right hand; she repeatedly used her left hand until she “learned better.”

18. As Jane wrote in Chapter 8 of The Seth Material, the Instream tests were very unsatisfactory for us. Since we were never informed as to their results, we were left with no way to judge what proportions of Seth’s impressions could be considered hits, near-misses, or failures. Our nine-month involvement under those conditions revealed both our naïveté at the time and our stubbornness in trying to learn. But learn we did, if not always as we’d expected to; for besides gaining valuable insights into Seth-Jane’s abilities through our own envelope tests, we discovered much through our dealings with at least some kinds of “authority.” Overall, the affair of the tests was most instructive.