“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: In a way, it is quite difficult to tell you what I have been doing with my time (humorously emphatic) while I have been involved in the production of “Unknown” Reality — and therefore, to some extent at least, inclined toward your time.²

In your terms I see not only greater chunks of time than you do, but I can to some considerable extent view the probable actualizations of events and times.

(Pause at 10:05. Now Seth took off into some areas involving Jane that were more personal; at the same time he gave material on the third and then the first of the questions I’d listed during break for the last session. I thought I’d include a few quotations from him on both issues, while eliminating portions of the session that deal with other matters entirely. I think the information on Jane is quite relevant to both her work and her life in general.)

The Nature of Personal Reality [our last book] is there for others to follow. Others, however, did not have a hand in producing it. They will try out the ideas, many of them, to the best of their ability, and learn and gain much — all the time (much more forcefully.) hanging on safely to the banners of conventional beliefs. Ruburt has allowed himself no such comforts. He should remember that many people have far greater hassles … with health, personal relationships, finances and vocations, and without any satisfying accomplishments to offset their misfortunes.

2. See the material on Seth’s concept of simultaneous time as given in the concluding notes for Session 724. Included are some very intriguing excerpts from the 14th session, which was held over 11 years ago. Seth: “While I am not affected by time on your plane, I am affected by something resembling time on my plane … It is therefore still a reality of some kind to me.” In this case, I added the underline myself for emphasis.

To Seth’s remarks in that early session I’d now like to add what he said a decade later in our time. From the 514th session for Chapter 2 of Seth Speaks: “Consciousness is not dependent upon form, as I have said, and yet it always seeks to create form. We do not exist in any time framework as you know it. Minutes, hours, or years have lost both their meaning and their fascination. We are quite aware of the time situations within other systems, however, and we must take them into account in our communications. Otherwise what we say would not be understood.”

5. Jane has yet to see Seth’s apparition, however, or to meet him in her library or any other “out-of-the-way place.” In Note 2 for Appendix 11, in Volume 1, I refer to the time she set out to “find” Seth.

Stranger still, that reading marked one of the few times — and certainly the last, to the best of our mutual recollection — that Jane has “tuned in to” an individual under such circumstances. “I just did it because I liked her after we got talking,” Jane said, once the Steffanses’ relative had reminded her of the affair. “But I don’t think I precognitively picked up that we were going to buy their house two years later, or anything like that. We didn’t know this place [the hill house] even existed then. Hell, we didn’t even know the street existed.”

14. This final note is added well over a year after Jane finished delivering “Unknown” Reality. As I wrote at the start of the 740th session, Jane suspended ESP class on February 26, 1975, to give us time to not only prepare for our move to the hill house (in March), but to settle down afterward.

As might be expected, the class hiatus soon began to have a ripple effect: The longer we delayed making up our minds as to whether we’d have the time to resume class, the more Jane’s students began to scatter. The younger people, especially those who weren’t natives of the area to begin with, began to fan out across the nation, and even into foreign lands, continuously searching for more of that indefinable essence or quality many of them called “truth.” They took Seth’s ideas with them, however, and with considerable interest Jane and I thought of them as not only looking for truths but meeting counterparts. Why not, indeed? According to Seth’s views, such encounters with other portions of their whole selves would be inevitable.

The longer we went without class, the more Jane and I saw how much its demise paralleled the ending of “Unknown” Reality. Both events were inevitable, we came to understand; both had had their time; our regrets about the finishing of both are real, while simultaneously we heartily agree that the nature of life in this physical — or “camouflage” — reality is one of unending change and renewal. Even though we may never again see many of those counterparts we’d known, we realize that all of us are indissolubly joined. Nor is the fact that a number of us are physically separated (or invisible to each of the others) of great importance, for as Seth told us recently in a private session: