“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane, in an obvious state of altered or enhanced consciousness, not only outlined all of Politics today, but wrote four manuscript pages that will either go into its Introduction or Chapter 1. All of the material poured out of her in a most remarkable, unimpeded way — “… as though it was already finished somewhere else, just waiting for me to get it down. But I had to do it just so, right to the last word,” she said, then added enthusiastically, “I think it’s a classic.” Involved with Politics is her perception of another version of herself in a psychic “library,” from which, evidently, she is to acquire a significant portion of her new book.

(There were clear-cut connections between her creative performance today and her reception of the outline for The Way Toward Health last March; see the notes at 10:45, as well as Note 8, for Session 713; and in Volume 1, see Appendix 7. But there was even more creative expression to come through Jane this evening, not only in the session itself of course, but after it, as I try to explain in the concluding notes.

(As we sat waiting at 9:32, Jane reported that she was getting her “pyramid” or “cone” effect. At such times she feels that subjective shape come down just over her head — always pointed upward, symbolically perhaps, toward other realities. She also thought she might go into her “massive” feelings at any moment. “But I don’t think any of this has to do with Seth Two,”² she said. She was still exhilarated from her work on Politics. “I’m getting two things: The session’s going to be book dictation, which surprises me, but it’s also going to be on what’s happening to me now…. And I am getting the massive thing….”

(She had something of a cold, but had told me earlier in the evening that she wanted to hold the session. She fell quiet now after reassuring me that she was all right. The evening was quite warm; we had a window open; the traffic noises rushed up to our second-floor living room. Using many pauses, Jane began speaking very softly for Seth.³)

The unknown reality and the psyche’s greater existence cannot be separated from the intimate knowledge of the flesh, however, for the life of the flesh takes place within that framework. As earlier mentioned,⁴ the conscious self generally focuses in but one small dimension. Period. That dimension is experienced as fully as possible, its clear brilliance and exquisite focus possible only because you tune in to it and bring it to the forefront of your attention. In your terms, when you understand how to do this, then you can begin to tune in to other “stations” as well.

You know where physical reality is, then, on the dial of your multidimensional television set. While focused within that living scene you can learn to travel through it, leaving the “surface” picture intact and whole. In a way you program yourself, going about your daily duties as conscientiously and effectively as usual — but at the same time you discover an additional portion of your own reality. This does not diminish the physical self. Instead, in fact, it enriches it. You discover that the psyche has many aspects. While fully enjoying the physical aspect you find that there is some part of you left over, so to speak; and that part can travel into other realities. It can also then return, bringing the physically oriented self “snapshots” of its journeys. These snapshots are usually interpreted in terms of your home program. Otherwise, they might make no sense to the physical self.

So you take a psychic guided tour into other realities; the unknown seems known, so that you are not an explorer after all, but a tourist, taking with you the paraphernalia of your own civilization, and beliefs that are quite conventional.

(Jane was aware of the elongated, giant-sized feeling now, as she had been just before the session began. “Everything’s in proportion, though” she said “It’s crazy, but I feel that when I stand up my head could go through the ceiling.” But she looked quite normal to me, and of course nothing out of character happened when she stood up.

You make your own reality. So, programmed ahead of time, they perceived [data] according to the psychic conventions that had been established. There are tigers in Asia, but you can travel through Asia and if you do not want to you’ll never see a tiger. It’s according to where you go. In the unknown reality your thoughts are instantly made apparent and real, materialized according to your beliefs. There, if you believe in demons, you will see them — without ever realizing that they are part of the environment of your psyche, formed by your beliefs, and thrown out as mirages over a very real environment that you do not perceive. You will believe the psychic tour books and go hunting for demons instead of tigers.

Give us a moment … Individually and en masse, you form the world that you know, yet it has an overall individual and mass basis so that some things are agreed upon. You view those things through your own unique vision. You form the reality. It is a valid one. It is experience. It is not therefore unreal, but one of the appearances that reality takes. It has a valid basis — an environment that you all accept, in which certain experiences are possible.

“Seth — or somebody’s saying — maybe it’s just me — relates to the people in our time. I’ve tried to do the same thing, but I suddenly heard my own true tone, which I’m bound to follow … to go beyond the conventionalized postcards … I’m done, Bob.”

(11:03 P.M. “Wow, I’m out, I’m telling you,” Jane said rather groggily after a few moments. “I don’t know how you’re going to put this together with the Seth stuff. It’s like a note that finds its own true tone, and when it does nothing else makes sense. That’s all I can say. But once you strike it, you know that’s it.”

(Except for a few instances in which I eliminated repetitive phrases, all of the material Jane gave after 10:47 is unchanged here. At times, because her delivery had become so steady, even precise, I’d wondered if she had entered into a Seth trance, but one without Seth’s usual voice effects. I had also been concerned lest she speak so rapidly that I wouldn’t be able to keep up with her in my notes, but that hadn’t happened. Nor had she spoken for Seth, I realized by the time she finished. Her enhanced state of consciousness had been her “own.”

(“I know there’s a universe between my chair here [in the living room] and the kitchen floor,” Jane said as she got up, “but I can walk it okay. When you strike your own true tone, you recognize it and you’ve got it made. You know your own meaning in the universe, even if you can’t verbalize it….”

(Jane told me that her feelings of massiveness had left her by the time she began her own dissertation. I was surprised to suddenly notice that her voice was much clearer now, cold or no. She did feel unsettled. She didn’t quite know what to do. She let our cat, Willy, into the living room from the second apartment we rent across the hall. I suggested she eat something. “It’s strange,” she commented. “I feel that no matter which way I turn, there’s a path laid out for me — and I never felt that way before.” Then she announced that she was going to bed. “But as soon as I get over there [in the other apartment] I’ll turn around and come back here, I’ll bet.” She left. I decided to have a snack myself and to work on these notes while waiting to see if she would return.

(So, given Jane’s satisfying yet exhilarating expressions of consciousness throughout the day, I hardly regard it as surprising that she plunged into additional excellent states this evening. Paradoxically, her inspired reception of the material for Psychic Politics came about not only because of her innate knowledge feeling-tones, but because she gave that basic creative phenomenon expression in Politics.

But see Note 1 (with its references) for Session 697 in Volume 1; it contains some of Seth’s material on the consciousness connected with any information.

Occasionally we’ll meet one or more of our secondhand detractors. Then of course we’re greeted with polite smiles; the conversation may touch upon the weather, but hardly ever upon matters psychic. Sometimes we’ll discover that the “knowledge” of us held by the skeptic(s) in question is so far removed from our actual beliefs and activities that it would take us a very long time to establish any real understanding among all involved — if it would be possible to begin with, that is. We always elect to pass up such “opportunities.”

Even as I wrote this note Jane received a letter “Do what I ask for me, if you are not a fraud….” I threw the letter away. At the same time I remembered, as I do every so often, the prophetic and amused remarks Seth made way back in the 20th session for January 29, 1964: “As far as publishing this material is concerned, I have no objections. I didn’t give it to you, and I’m not giving it to you, simply for your [collective] edification. Because of its source you will probably be called crackpots, but I imagine you know this by now.”

Yes … And in the face of such skepticism or misunderstanding, Jane and I may at times find ourselves wondering why psychic attributes even exist in nature, in those terms, if they’re denied any application within that framework. “You [each] must have a basic approval of yourself,” Seth told us recently in a personal session. “This is information not only for the two of you, of course, but for others: You must trust your basic being, with its characteristics and abilities. You have them for a reason, in all of their unique combinations. You should also avoid labels, for these can stereotype your perception of yourself.”