“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“I’m beginning to get a cluster of images. They’re of islands,” Jane said at 9:40. “I don’t know why, but I’ve been doing things that way lately. Then Seth uses what I get in the material … Okay: I guess I’m about ready.” She lit a cigarette.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(11:04. “I knew we weren’t going to get a break until we finished that goddamn analogy,” Jane laughed after she’d come out of a good trance. “I do think we’re going to lose readers along the way, though — this book’s getting too hard to follow. I also think it’s going to be in two volumes. I haven’t had the guts to see how much material we’ve gotten so far.”

(Nor have I checked up on “Unknown” Reality’s bulk. This was the second time in three weeks that Jane had mentioned a two-volume work; see the opening notes for the 721st session. I wondered aloud whether she might be getting herself used to such an idea. I added that I didn’t think she need worry about readers following Seth’s material — that certainly many others are just as curious as we are about where “Unknown” Reality is going.

(The Seth material to come is presented for these reasons:

(1. It not only incorporates Seth’s “island” analogy, but Jane’s and his information in the last [725th] session on strands of consciousness.

(3. The material on my parents reaches back to the first two sessions, 679–80, in [added later] Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality.

(4. The counterpart references are a good example of how Seth weaves such concepts into a discussion.

(5. I think the application of tonight’s material to Jane and me is neatly summarized in the last paragraph of the session.

(6. At the same time, that paragraph contains very challenging ideas; they strongly remind me of the “Miriam” material I obtained about my father last week. See the last session, with its Note 4.

(“Thank you, Seth.” 12:01 A.M.)

1. Seth’s statement here is reminiscent of some of his material on moment points. See Note 11 for Appendix 12.

3. For material and references concerning my Nebene life in the first century A.D., see Session 721, with notes 9 and 12. Seth’s remark here, that “Ruburt was indeed the ‘prostitute’ priestess,” concerns unpublished material we plan to eventually study in depth.

5. In Volume 1 Seth described the role a nonphysical Stella Butts played in Jane’s and my house-hunting activities in Sayre, Pennsylvania, last April: See the 693rd session, with notes.

I’d like to add that Seth’s material tonight on the Butts family situation is, if brief, very acute.

8. Related material about my parents that has been published can be found in Volume 1. See Note 9 for the 679th session, and notes 2 and 3 for the 680th session.