“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The material in these recent excerpts rather prepared us for Seth’s introduction of counterparts, then, in Session 721. In ESP class the next evening [on November 26], Seth began contending with some of the questions that instantly arose as a result of his new material. I’d just read aloud portions of the 721st session when one longtime student, whom I’ll call Florence, commented that there “has to be a balance between each of us and our counterparts.” Speaking strongly and humorously, Seth immediately took over the discussion.

(To Florence:) Far be it from me to disturb your ancient ideas of yin and yang, or Jung, or good and evil, or of right and wrong, or of good and bad vibrations! I was beginning a new body of material, and so we have not finished with it by a long shot! What I hope to say is that your world exists in different terms than those you recognize, and that reincarnation is indeed a myth and a story that stands for something else entirely.

Each of you takes part in your world — and in your time as you understand it, and in your terms, all the creatures of the earth participate in the century. You work out creative challenges and possibilities. You are born into different races, into different cultures, with different — but the same — desires … There are many things that you are learning. And so, if you will forgive me, my dear Florence, I will use you as an example.

For there is also a version of our Florence, a young man in China, who does not weigh even 70 pounds, and who is 26 years old. (Florence is in her late 40’s.) He has starved for years. He feels very vulnerable. It does not particularly help that young man when our Florence piles on weight because she then feels less vulnerable, and more protected from her world.

Now our Florence is working with her own ideas of good and evil, searching for what she thinks of as an aesthetic and moral code that she can rely upon. Her counterpart had that code, but found that he could not count upon it. Each is working on the same series of challenges. There are also two other counterparts. Between the four of them, the century is being covered. (To Florence, smiling:) I will tell you about that at another time. It is not my suspense story — it is your own!⁴

(Florence: “What you said about my counterpart in China makes perfect sense to me.”

4. Seth never did tell Florence any more about her other counterparts, though. Nor did she ask him to; she worked with the information he’d already given her, plus whatever she could divine for herself.