“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In some ways you see you must both operate as a closed unit against the world, but you must also operate as an open unit, receptive to the world. You must close yourself off from some stimuli in order to fully utilize the stimuli that you do perceive.

[...] Nevertheless there must also be balance, for to close yourself off too much robs you of any abundant expansion of spirit.

[...] Her eyes remained closed. She sat quite still for at least a minute after closing them, before resuming at 9:44.)

[...] Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed, and once again her pace was slow; at times during this first delivery it was as slow as I can remember during any session. [...]

(Now, her head down, her hands raised to her closed eyes as usual, she began the material on the 44th Dr. Instream experiment.)

[...] (Jane gestured, her eyes still closed.) The color orange used as a decoration. [...]

(Jane, her eyes still closed, paused briefly at 9:37. Her pace now slowed somewhat, and she held a hand up to her closed eyes.)

[...] As usual she sat down; her eyes remained closed for the entire session. [...]

[...] Her eyes had remained closed, and she did not smoke. [...]

[...] Jane now resumed with her eyes closed, and at a good pace. [...]

[...] Her eyes were closed, and they remained closed even though she smoked while giving the Dr. Instream material. [...]

(Now one of my close friends—I cannot recall his name, if I ever knew it—was due to ski down one of the trails. [...]

[...] Her eyes were closed to begin, but she was smoking and they soon began to open frequently.)

[...] (Pause, eyes closed.)

Close friends obviously no longer bother him. It is only strangers, or those with whom you are not closely familiar.

[...] There were two children then, and he is in this life closely acquainted with three individuals who were close to him in the past existence.

[...] One life was in a country close to what you now call Palestine, I believe approximately 832 A.D., and in this life the accident occurred.

[...] It happened very close to Lepanto. [...]

(Jane’s eyes now closed. She continued speaking without interruption, and her eyes remained closed for the balance of the session.)

(Jane spoke while seated in the Kennedy rocker, and with her eyes closed for this first delivery. [...]

[...] But she resumed with her eyes closed, in the same quiet dry voice, at 9:27.)

[...] She blinked several times without closing her eyes for any length of time, then she was out of her trance.

[...] Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed for the most part. [...]

[...] The psychic and exterior environments are closely connected, and the correlations are available if you know where to look for them.

[...] Her eyes had remained closed; her pace had been fast as break approached.

(Jane resumed again with her eyes closed, and at a somewhat slower pace, at 9:33.)

[...] Her eyes remained closed mostly; her voice was even and normal, pace fairly good with occasional long pauses.)

[...] Close the door in the face of a constant and the elements converge. [...]

[...] Then the center is the vortex,” and Jane made a pointing gesture into the middle of the image she had been drawing in the air, eyes closed.)

Mine is the hand that wrote (a long, puzzled pause, eyes closed), finis (hesitantly spelled out), to the proposition dealing with (pause, voice weaker), uncharted (voice suddenly stronger) then uncharted, aspects of... [...]

[...] Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed. [...]

[...] Her eyes remained closed. [...]

[...] Her eyes remained closed. [...]

(When Jane resumed, still seated and with her eyes closed, her pace was somewhat faster than it had been in previous tests. [...]

[...] Finally when Jane went to the post office just before closing time today to claim the package, it proved to be lost again, this time on the premises. [...]

[...] Jane’s eyes opened almost at once, briefly, closed, then began their usual fluctuation. [...]

(Jane now took a pause that lasted a full minute, sitting quietly with her eyes closed.)

[...] Jane sat with her head down as she leaned forward, hands clasped, eyes closed.)

[...] Her voice remained quiet; there were many people in the yard outside our windows but it was too warm to close ourselves in.)

(While giving the 74th Instream data she spoke at an average pace, with a hand raised to her closed eyes. [...]

[...] We will then close our session, unless of course for any reason you request that we continue. [...]

[...] (Pause, hand to closed eyes.) We shall insert the material during one of next week’s sessions, as Ruburt is blocking me. [...]

[...] Her eyes were closed, her pace good. [...]

[...] Her eyes remained closed. [...]

(She resumed with her eyes closed at 10:00.)

(Her eyes still closed, Jane took the envelope from me for our 70th experiment, and held it up to her forehead with her right hand. [...]

[...] Jane spoke while sitting down, with her eyes closed and in a rather rapid manner, throughout the session. [...]

[...] Her eyes had remained closed, her voice fairly deep but not loud to speak of.

[...] The descriptions here tally very closely with my remembered childhood impressions of Aunt Ella, when I saw her most often.

(Jane resumed in the same deeper voice, at a good pace and with her eyes closed, at 9:30.)

[...] (Eyes closed; Jane gestured as though attempting to understand.) I believe to someone else beside the man and his wife—the man, or his wife.

[...] (Long pause, eyes closed.)

[...] A woman very close to the wife, I believe, now, will die before her and be waiting for her.

[...] For your private information, middle or late March… I do not know whether this is the woman’s death (open eyes, pointing at me), but it is an event involving death of a woman (gestures) close to the wife, you see?

(Actually Jane sat with her eyes closed from 9 PM until 9:10, waiting to see if a session would develop. [...]

[...] Jane paused, eyes closed; then they opened easily, and she was out of trance. [...]

[...] We viewed this idea and the cone effect as Jane’s efforts to construct methods to explain the sessions’ data on levels close to consciousness.

[...] Now she leaned forward, eyes closed but with the familiar gestures and mannerisms of Seth.)

[...] Her eyes were closed, and remained closed whenever she delivered material throughout the evening. [...]

(Jane still sat opposite me, her eyes closed. [...] Her eyes were still closed. [...]

[...] Again her eyes closed, again her hand went to her chin, and again she used frequent and sometimes long pauses. [...]

[...] Ruburt may return now, and we will close our session. [...]

[...] As session time approached she had no idea of what her procedure would be—whether she would sit, stand, pace, open or close her eyes, etc. She was still worried also about the time element when her eyes were closed, and we agreed that I would ask for breaks if it seemed the monologues might carry past the customary half-hour limit.

(Jane said that when she delivers material while sitting and with her eyes closed, she is aware of a feeling of resistance at going into the dissociated state. [...] Once more now she resumed dictation while sitting down and with her eyes closed. [...]

[...] She did not get up, or remove her glasses, but began to speak in a normal voice with her eyes closed and her head down somewhat. [...]

[...] Her eyes were closed.)

[...] Jane began speaking in an average voice, with her eyes closed and while sitting down, at 9:09.)

(Jane took a long pause, sitting with her eyes closed.)

(Long pause, eyes closed, at 9:57.)

We will shortly close.

[...] In this way you also close the door unknowingly to additional energy and refreshment (pause), to some extent (underlined). You cannot close one creative door without closing all of them to some degree. [...]

(This gave rise to another question, which I did not ask but will note here: Seth has said on occasion that Jane was too close, too emotionally involved with data to answer clearly, and that it is then best to wait. [...]

[...] You fear that direct psychic experience in terms of projections could rob you of the energy you should put into your painting and quite unconsciously, though not entirely, when you are focusing upon your painting strongly with particular inner vigor, then you close the door to personal psychic adventures out of a misplaced jealousy for your art.

[...] (Smile, eyes closed.

[...] Because he is presently a woman he will react strongly and aggressively if he feels you are drawing too far apart, for this would threaten your life and goals as much as children would—children in your minds being coming too close together. [...]

You feel threatened if you get too far apart or if you come too close together physically. [...]

[...] This symbolically highlighted the whole affair, and brought it too close to consciousness for either of your comforts.

Now you feel more actively threatened when the two of you reach the opposite end of closeness and contact, where you feel that despite all your precautions pregnancy might result. [...]