“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(10:18. Jane’s trance had been deep, her delivery often fast and impassioned. She’d felt a great energy sweeping through her, she told me. In volume, her voice had ranged up and down the scale — a most unusual demonstration as far as these sessions for “Unknown” Reality are concerned; usually she has Seth come through in a rather businesslike, routine manner, with any milder voice or speed effects taking place within that framework.

(Jane was quite relaxed. “Now I don’t know what to do — I could go to bed or continue the session for hours. …” She’d spent most of her day writing lyrics for rock music — for reasons not necessary to go into here — and now that activity reminded her of a poem she’d written in May 1963, well over six months before she began speaking for Seth. She recited the first verse:

(“Thank you, Seth, and the same to you.”

1. Seth, way back in the 23rd session for February 5, 1964: “Nor do I know all the answers. It is, however, a fact that even man, in his blundering manner, will discover that he himself creates his own physical universe, and that the mechanisms of the physical body have more functions and varieties than he knows.”

2. At about the time Seth was producing his material on patterns for “Unknown” Reality, Jane was dealing with the same concept from her own much more personal viewpoint. See Chapter 18 of Politics: “It’s the entire human element that is so perplexing, vast, humorous, and tragic all at once. To some extent, my humor helps me avoid pitfalls, and lets me help others to see their lives in better perspective.

3. See Seth’s material on his units of consciousness, or CU’s, in sessions 682–83 for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality. In the 682nd session after 9:47, for example, he discussed relationships between CU’s and probable realities.

4. I felt distinctly uncomfortable here as I took down Seth’s vehement words. For whatever reasons, he sounded too much like I had at the supper table tonight, right after I’d scanned the headlines of the front page of our daily newspaper.

6. Much of Seth’s material in this session (and in this paragraph), along with his obviously intense feelings about what he was saying, reminded me of a group of sessions he gave well over a decade ago on the three creative dilemmas of All That Is. In them he discussed at length the “agonized search” for expression of the powers of creativity and existence, and how the beginning of that search “may have represented the birth throes of All That Is as we know it.”

Those sessions, 426–28, were held in August 1964, and Jane presented excerpts from them in Chapter 18 of The Seth Material.

7. For material concerning some of Jane’s experiences with massiveness, see the opening pages of Appendix 19, as well as its Note 2. Not only is Seth Two involved; Volume 1, of “Unknown” Reality, as well as Personal Reality, are referred to.

Seth’s almost casual remark here: “So does it appear to my consciousness,” embodies a new thought for us in connection with Jane’s adventures with massiveness; it’s the kind of clue about the Seth phenomenon that we’re always interested in getting. I also think the statement represents one way in which Jane, while speaking for Seth, interprets his reality for us in terms we can understand.