“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Just as she had this afternoon, Jane “picked up” a little material from Seth at 9:00 this evening. I’ll cover both episodes in the notes at the end of the session.)

Since these are far more lively than ordinary shadows, and are definitely more colorful, they may be more difficult to distinguish at first. You must remember that you are wandering through a mental or psychic landscape. You can stand before the shadow of a friend in the afternoon, in waking reality, and snap your fingers all you want to, but your friend’s shadow will not move one whit. It will certainly not disappear because you tell it to. In the dream world, however, any hallucination will vanish immediately as soon as you recognize it as such, and tell it to go away. It was cast originally by your own thought or feeling, and when you withdraw that source, then its “shadow” is automatically gone.

(Twice today Jane had tuned in to very similar concepts while going about her daily business. “I’m sure I got that from Seth,” she told me after the first such instance had taken place this afternoon. “Not only about your reincarnational stuff; but your thing as the old man [as described in Note 4 for the 719th session]. And the history of the species is written in the mass psyche in just the same way….”