“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

While probabilities do operate, your consciousness usually deals with one at a time. In your terms, after class broke up last evening another class began, as those events were experienced in the private and mass psyche of those involved. This “second class” did not actually happen, however, after the first one, but simultaneously. It represented the larger dimensions of the event of the class, and those events that composed it did take place at a different level of actuality.

Carol left the physical class (early), but still participated at that other level of reality in the entire proceeding. Pat (Arnold), who has not attended lately, psychically is present. In that dimension therefore Ruburt was aware of both presences. He was perceiving the greater dimensions of the physical class event. In those terms Pat, who did not attend the physical class, attended a probable one; and Carol, who was not present for the end of the official class, was a participant in the probable one.

To Ruburt’s experience the classes seemed separate, one real and the other probable. But these simply represented the greater, usually unperceived, dimensions of any class event (or of any perceived event).

Many of the students are embarrassed by Larry’s behavior, and his piercing laugh, but Ruburt recognizes the energy involved. Several things were operating. Ruburt was out-of-body, as he knows, and in that state he was perceiving the greater dimensions of the class event, and trying to correlate this with ordinary class perception. You were also out-of-body, but do not recall the situation.

[...] With others you can get an idea for things in class that you can do on your own. [...] is that I’m also sending stuff out to some of the regular members in class who are working hard and to whom I dont have time to speak in class. [...]  I think that before we finish all the regular class members will be having dream experiences that are as vivid as what goes on in regular class. [...]

Anyway, we do different things in that class and one of the things that we did, you know how we in this class use the pyramid at the top of the head to contact other probable selves? Well, in that class I suggested that we use the pyramid and I didn’t give them any suggestions as to what they might come up with, but just that they send their consciousness out. [...]

[...] I’m sorry to say that Florence will not be able to come to class next week, so I suggest that we take Sue, instead of Ron or Florence, and all work on Sue this week. [...] And I’m saying good night for Seth and that means class is over. [...]

Jane: What I imagine is that in Creative Writing class which consists here today of two people, Charlie’s mother, and Hope W., who is a young gal or a gal in, I don’t know how old, 30 maybe, no, 28. [...]

[...] These meetings occur in this room, but they also occur in other realities, and when you come here to this class you are also attending a class on another level, and you are not aware of those classes, though I am aware of them. I am very aware of them, for while our friend Ruburt gives this class, I have been giving other classes and you have all been there. [...]

[...] When these classes in this room are in progression, other portions of your own personality are attending other classes. [...] And you will see that while you are aware of simply one room and one time, and one evening and one class in your present moment, there are other rooms and other classes and you sit in them all. [...]

Bega is doing well in his classes, and you are doing well in these classes. [...]

[...] So also at this moment in other realities do you sit, replicas of yourselves in other rooms and in other classes. [...]

(Student Bill Herriman is a professional pilot who flies a considerable distance to Elmira for class; his counterpart in class, Carl Jones, lives in Elmira each summer while giving instructions in sailplane flying, the third member of the counterpart trio, Bill Granger, is not a member of class, lives in Elmira, has always had a deep interest in aircraft, and is now learning to pilot sailplanes. [...]

[...] Seth’s naming a good number of class members as counterparts came as no great surprise to Jane and me — but it did make us more than a little suspicious at first. [...] Yet I felt no strong surge of emotion, for instance, to learn that Norma Pryor [whom I’ve met but a few times], Peter Smith, and Jack Pierce are counterparts of mine — nor did they when I read Seth’s material to them during ESP class six nights later. [...]

(I found it very interesting to consider my class counterparts with that general designation of them in mind. [...] Norma is a new member of class. [...]

(Our suspicions entered in, however, when Jane and I realized that between us [and including each other] we were personally acquainted with nine counterparts: All but one of them [Alan Koch] were class members. [...]

6. You tell class about a dream. [...]

8. There is no one in class named

[...] Seth ends class by biding us all a fond

[...] We all come to class to

[...] And so, also, keep track of whatever class members may appear within these dreams. Then when you are doing well in class, you will be able to relate not only to some reincarnational selves but to the inner self and to its activities and use these activities to enrich your normal daily encounters and to increase the nature and extent of your perceptions. [...]

As so often happens you are each involved now, not only in this class, but with another. [...] And in one of these classes you have been a member for some time (Margie), so have you (Wally). [...]

Now the members of your so-called probable class are involved, in your terms, at precisely this point with the same experiment. Therefore, of course, they consider this the probable class. [...]

[...] Now there will be, as far as our regular class members are concerned, a particular meeting held that you will attend. [...] They will be here at class next week and before then I would like you to have some kind of relationship. [...]

Welcome (to Florence, just arrived from her class) to our class on abnormal psychology. [...]

(There was class conversation about the “circle” after which Rachel spoke of the possibility of not coming to classes anymore.)

(There was a class discussion of the adjustment to be made going from death on the physical plane to “spirit” plane.)

[...] Attending this class they certainly should. [...]

Now, our regular members will find themselves having more group class dreams, and when you do not have group class dreams, there is a reason for it. [...]

[...] Now your class reflects what you are doing, so always look beneath the surface, and examine your class reactions as you examine your dream reactions. [...]

Now, my welcome to those who came for the evening, and I have a few remarks to make to our regular class members. [...]

[...] None of you have made the connections as yet between the strangers you have met in your dreams, the strangers that have come to class, and your own experiences. [...]

[...] He cannot expect no problems with his classes; I hardly promised that. He can expect an overall successful class arrangement, however, over a sustained period, successful in all main aspects. [...]

The beginning of his classes was another important element.

(Jane held her first ESP class last night.)

(“What did you think of the class last night?”

[...] Some of you are quite familiar with what we will class, or Ruburt will call, Alpha V or VI, but the time has come for you to start at the beginning and work your way through. [...] And you are quite correct in thinking that an added dimension has appeared in class. And it is a dimension that had to appear in class for, as I told you before, the time has passed, here, where you can hide in concepts. [...]

[...] We should change the name of the class and simply call it a class in communication and direction of energy. [...]

(To class.) Now you can utilize this state as a method of inner transportation. [...] And we will use it in class as a background for some of the material we have been discussing of late. [...]

(After an explanation and discussion of Alpha I, Jane had the class do it after which Seth came through.)

I always say “hello” to my hostess when you have your classes here. [...]

[...] I also expect another member of the class to come awake in the dream state and to do very well after two years. [...]

(Question from class member: “Does it mean two years from now? [...]

([Another class member:] “No, it has been two years for some of us.”)

(It happened that in ESP class last night Seth came through with material pertaining to the nine families of consciousness he’d begun discussing a week ago; see the 732nd session. These class excerpts, which I’ve rearranged somewhat for easy reference, may be used when considered with book material still to come, since Seth will occasionally use the class format to supplement his dictation in our “regular” sessions. [...]

The Sumari experience began when one family, the Sumari, learned that some class members felt alone in this world — bereft of family, often. A class member lost a father. [...]

[...] The death of the student’s father had taken place on Thursday, November 11 of that year; Jane’s father, Delmer, died without forewarning on the following Tuesday, November 16; Jane came through with Sumari in class one week later, on November 23; and the next night, in the 598th session, Seth discussed Sumari for the first time.

Often spontaneously we had class sessions, and as you noticed he would miss our next session. [...] Nevertheless, the class sessions serve an important purpose. [...]

Our two sessions should always be maintained, with the class sessions added as long as they do not drain Ruburt’s resources. [...] Strangers who write can be invited to the Tuesday classes. [...]

[...] He teaches a high school course called “Inner and Outer Space,” in a small city in Connecticut; the class uses Jane’s book, The Seth Material, as text. [...]

[...] All work dealing with other people generally will be done in whatever room class sessions are held.

[...] We will hopscotch back and forth and with our friend Ruburt, for this is also one of his main lines of interest, but your own experience can be used to benefit by the class at large for you must be led to see that you can alter physical events in such a way. [...]

[...] Tell him also that Mr. Nassair’s friend, who was here at class, subconsciously knows that Mr. Nassair should not set up the fund at this time, but did not want to take the responsibility for saying so. [...]

[...] We will get to all of your dreams in our class sessions, this was simply a particular point I wanted to make to you. [...]

This is a do-it-yourself class. [...]

(In Session 725 Seth discussed the spiritual aspects of our biological nature, and in Note 4 for that session I presented brief excerpts from the material he’d given in ESP class the night before, on the truly limitless “ceilings to the self” or identity.

(In that same class, however, Seth also brought our biological nature “down to earth” in most literal terms. [...]

(Earlier that evening, class members had been discussing some of the letters they’d been answering for Jane.¹ One young man mentioned “feeling like shit” in connection with another matter — a remark that Seth must have overheard. [...]

[...] (To the class, with deep humor:) He wanted me to use that word (fuck) on tape. [...]

[...] Five are class sessions; one is included because it is relevant to the discussion on after-life organization in Chapter Nine. [...] In the remaining class excerpts, Seth answers questions that readers might also have in mind.

[...] To an engineer he gives an explanation of the pulsations of atoms, discusses mental health with a nurse and aggression with a minister — all class members. [...]

I have been here, as Ruburt knows well, through your class this evening, and he has given me permission, for I would not dare peek into this class unless he told me that I could do so. [...] But Ruburt knew that I would be here before class was over, and I come to you with no great pronouncements. [...]

Now there have been several developments here in class with these two (Vera and Theodore) and there are other developments which should come in this class. [...]

When I come in this class I do so so that you realize the knowledge that is in the material comes through a personality, and that I am not some “ditto.” [...]

Now, only because of the hour and Ruburt constant(ly) probing which I do indeed feel, I will leave you, and it will indeed be some classes before I return, for you have your own problems to consider, your own inner development to consider. [...]

(Class had been discussing dream realities, personality, etc., for about an hour; Gert and Sheila began talking back and forth on Sheila’s ideas on separate personalities, when Jane interrupted to say that she had one impression that the “hole in the universe” had opened up in Sam Levine’s house and a crowd of people were flying from it into the room. [...]

(Sumari:) It is with this always we begin, and we begin our classes. [...]

[...] Thank you for coming to our class. [...]

ESP CLASS SESSION, NOVEMBER 23, 1971
TUESDAY

Concepts are extremely important and we will never leave them aside in class, but you must learn to experience a concept, and in order to do so, you must realize the importance of your own inner experience. And since many of you are not doing too well out of class in this regard, you can do it in class. [...]

Now, this class worked for our young friend because she was ready to use her abilities and open to use her abilities and prepared. Some of you are ready and using your abilities, to some extent, but the ideas you have discussed in class this evening will be a great benefit if you follow them through. [...]

[...] Some of you would rather stand up in this class and say, “I killed an animal in hatred” or “I knocked a man’s guts out” or “I shot my neighbor” almost, rather than express a simple statement of love or acceptance to another person in the class wholeheartedly and act, that was not an act, when you are not a star performing. [...]

(Following a discussion of last week’s session, Theodore M. stated he wasn’t sure he would acknowledge his inner secrets to himself, much less reveal them in class.)

(In ESP class for April 16, a student asked Seth to comment on “the differences between the male and female [human beings] as we understand them.” [...] [This sometimes happens in class: Seth will elaborate upon book information, or discuss it from a different viewpoint; this in turn makes Jane and me want to see such material used in the book.])

[...] For perhaps five minutes she sang to the class in Sumari,² the trance language she initiated a few years ago. [...] Class members discussed the song briefly. [...]

All time is simultaneous (Seth told the members of class), and so you are male and female at once.

2. Sumari is a “family of consciousness” that Jane first contacted in ESP class for November 23, 1971. [...]