“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

1207. Three months before a proper position. I see a lower story of a house that is divided in two, it seems. An initial engagement that is not to your liking. A turnabout and another turnabout. The letters C A R which do not refer to a vehicle. A torn ligament. A marriage and to a broken strap. Five men in a group and one woman. For your friend a particularly desired, I believe, musical engagement within a three-year period. Nearly three years from this time and a connection with a woman who may help him achieve it. 1972, February perhaps a Saturday. A first child. There seems to be a woman relative, though not your mother, with whom you should use considerable care. Perhaps this is a cousin.

I will not introduce you to my own big brother personality this evening. Nor do I think that we should engage in any undue voice effects for my friend again will be upset due to the hour. You will have to wait for such dainties. I am indeed myself as usual however in excellent spirits and if Ruburt were not restraining me then you would not have to listen so hard to hear what I say.

An engagement that is not scheduled will be important, and the crux of the matter.

(During argument sequence: surprised as anyone else at sudden pounding of hand [has been lacking in strength for some time—had no idea it could pound that hard]—did feel myself controlled by someone else; vivid, angry vital woman, engaged in an argument. [...]

[...] She’d encountered me there, in my own out-of-body state, and we engaged in a very animated conversation. [...] We estimated that at the proper time I’d just quit painting for the morning and was washing my brushes at the bathroom sink—a routine task I perform each day, and one that could leave a portion of my psyche free to engage in other adventures. [...]

[...] An immediate engagement connected with another engagement. [...]

(“An immediate engagement connected with another engagement.” [...]

[...] The waking self may be engaged in normal activities while the inner self is someplace else entirely. [...]

Obviously the self that engages upon this study is not the waking normal consciousness, which becomes instead part of that which is studied, so another portion of the self is brought into activity. [...]

[...] In the 358th session for August 2, 1967, Seth stated, after mentioning Jane’s speaking engagement at Star Island, off Portsmouth, NH, scheduled for Saturday, August 12: “A meeting on Ruburt’s part with an old forgotten acquaintance;” and “The possibility of an unusual Seth session.”

[...] One pertains to a return engagement and could take months to work out.)

[...] In your mind you see yourself (A) saying no and staying home, (B) saying no and going somewhere else instead, or (C) saying yes and keeping the engagement. [...]

[...] At the same time, if he imagines that he took another alternative and agreed on the engagement, then he might experience a sudden rift of dimensions. [...]

His body is engaged in a process in which interchanges of his energies are involved as they change themselves almost automatically into different organizations of power and utility. [...]

[...] He is excellent at communicating ideas in writing or vocally, gifted in understanding people—so those abilities do come to his aid in public speaking engagements. [...]

(Long pause.) In such engagements, however, for him at least, that necessary private threshold is crossed, endangered. [...]

The radio shows from the house pleased him for some time, but they also became taboo because he feared they might lead to other engagements of a more public venture that would be difficult to refuse. [...]

[...] and speaking engagements, etc., would limit it to specifically to human problems.... [...]

(Jane also said that when the information “An engagement,” etc., came through, it represented Seth’s effort to put her on the right track. She had our Marine friend in mind during the test, and he was engaged to be married at the time he went into the service. [...]

[...] An engagement, as of an appointment or meeting.

(“An engagement, as of an appointment or meeting,” applies to the S.F. Iszard sales slip. [...]

[...] John now told us that he took several meals in the Manger Hotel—pronounced with a hard G—and had some business engagements there also. [...]

[...] This man engaged John in conversations designed to feel him out, John said, and did it so cleverly that the meeting in Cleveland was over before he fully realized what had taken place. [...]

[...] Also a supper engagement, two men, and a paper is shown.

(During my efforts to get as much data written down as possible, I forgot to ask John whether “a supper engagement, two men, and a paper is shown.” [...]

[...] An initial engagement that was broken. [...]

Ruburt should make it clear that he will accept another engagement however. [...]

[...] His wife is anxious for him, and the engagement will give him new impetus that would carry him for several years. [...]

[...] They are engaged, then. [...]

The appearance of confidence, the engaging social self, is indeed a cover-up, adopted to give him time to acclimate to new circumstances of this sort. [...]

[...] Like others, though to a lesser extent, you were misled by the more gaudy desire for exuberance and freedom, which is also a basic and engaging part of his nature, and an important part actually from the standpoint of his writing and our sessions.

[...] I do not like the term “surface” in this regard, though I have used it to suggest the multitudinous portions of the self that are otherwise engaged — some of them as entranced in their reality as you are in yours.

Also a connection with a supper engagement, with two others beside Ruburt. [...]

[...] We ate during the course of the evening, but do not know whether this would be a “supper engagement, with two others beside Ruburt.”

[...] Since Seth goes into something else shortly, I will note here that John Bradley and Bill Gallagher engaged in lively argument here the evening before this session, on the subject of war.)

[...] He was engaging, and knew it. [...]