“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

“I gently pushed against Gus’s head, and he began to back out through the glass. With a sudden inspiration I kept my hands on his head until they went through the glass with him as he withdrew. Then, in order to obtain some physical proof that this was really happening, with my right hand I began to ‘carve’ a squarish hole a few inches across in the glass where Gus’s head had been. I made the opening as the glass began to ‘congeal’. The hole’s sides were smoothly rounded and posed no problem as far as sharp edges went. And I ended up with the proof I wanted — an irregular hole that I had formed in the glass with my fingers. The dream glass was about one-quarter-inch thick — double, say, its ‘real’ thickness.

“I dreamed that I was in the kitchen of the hill house, in Elmira, crouched down just inside the room’s glass storm door, which was closed. The kitchen’s inside wooden door was wide open, just to my left. Gus, the friendly old Shetland sheepdog who belonged to our neighbors across the street, came up to the storm door, looking for the handful of dry food I give him each morning when I scatter birdseed in the driveway. Gus was on the other side of the door, on the screened-in back porch, as he should be — only then I saw to my amazement that he was starting to walk through the glass panel in his eagerness to get to the food. I felt his head pushing effortlessly through the glass, and exclaimed about this to Jane, who sat at her usual place at the breakfast table just in back of me. I was really surprised. I had my hands on Gus’s head as he sought to enter the kitchen through the glass.

The main issue was the relative ease with which you were able to enlarge the hole in the glass door. Ease is the key word. To the world of the intellect, a glass door must be considered solid, as it is in the world of physical senses. In other quite as factual terms, indeed in the larger framework of facts, the door of course is not solid at all, as no objects are. Obviously that is known to science.

(I sneezed three times just as Jane took off her glasses and went into trance. As Seth, she stared at me with quite an amused air, waiting until I was ready to take notes.)

[...] I thought she may have yelled at the cats—but in the kitchen I saw that she was sitting at the table with shards of glass littering the rug at her feet. For some reason that day I’d forgotten to stopper the storm door, and the sudden blast of wind had slammed it shut with enough force to shatter the bottom of the two glass panels.

[...] The broken glass had catapulted toward Jane, yet she sat unharmed by the razor-like edges. Underneath the table I found a large jagged piece of glass, close to a foot across, propped up against the inner table leg where I usually sit. [...]

[...] As I cleaned up the dozens of pieces of glass and put them in a heavy carton we talked about why she might have been protected, and decided to ask Seth to comment.

[...] At the same time, she had a lot of material in mind from Seth—on the glass experience; a dream I’d had on August 1, in which I’d found her lying on the floor in the bathroom doorway; and a fairly strong earthquake that had struck south of San Francisco, California, this afternoon. [...]

Eye right still bothers; all right side but suddenly without my glasses I read even small print as well as I usually read with glasses; and when I got those bifocals I couldn’t read that well even with glasses. [...]

Last week I received from our current optometrist (whom I’ll call John Smith) his standard notice that two years have passed since my glasses were changed. I told myself to ignore it, yet began to feel a sense of strain whether or not I wore the glasses. [...] The glasses I now have are getting to be too strong. [...] That score is a considerable improvement over anything I’d ever achieved before, with or without glasses.

[...] They weren’t very strong—but once the habit was set I wore glasses without protest for the next 40 years or so. It wasn’t until Jane began coming through with the ideas embodied in the Seth material that I began to question my “need” for glasses. [...] The glasses got in the way when I wrote and painted. [...]

[...] You discovered instead that the so-called symptoms are signs that your glasses have become too strong because your eyesight has not simply held its own, but most remarkably improved, and in a way this is medically demonstrable.

(A note added later: On my last New York State Visual Acuity Report, which he filled out in May 1983, John Smith wrote that I passed the test for driving without wearing glasses [combined Snellen test score 20/30]. [...]

If five people stand observing that glass, or rather if five people seem to be observing that glass, you have five different glasses, not one. Each person constructs that glass in terms of his own personal perspective.

Therefore, given the five people, there are five different perspectives and space continuums in which a glass exists. [...] However each of the five people has constructed a glass. In fact you have five physical glasses.

Each physical glass is constructed of quite real molecules and atoms, which have their own generalized consciousness and capsule comprehension, and which form together in the gestalt called a glass.

If ten people seemingly observe this glass, you have ten personal perspectives that actually exist, ten space continuums, and ten actual glasses. [...]

(First, though: Last week I received from our eye doctor, Jim Adams, the usual card telling me that it had been two years since my eyes had been examined and new glasses prescribed. At first I put it out of my mind, but soon began to be bothered by a mild feeling of strain, especially when painting—without glasses, by the way. I thought suggestion was operating, that I was telling myself I needed new glasses, whereas before receiving the notice I’d felt okay. [...]

[...] When JA examined me I got a very pleasant surprise, for he told me that my eyes had improved over last time, and that they were now bothering me because my present glasses were getting to be too strong. [...]

[...] I’d also ordered an extra pair of glasses to experiment with for painting and writing—not bifocals.

[...] You discovered instead that the so-called symptoms are signs that your glasses have become too strong because your eyesight has not simply held its own, but most remarkably improved, and in a way that is medically demonstrable. [...]

As you know, many people acquire all kinds of glasses when their eyes are in temporary periods of stress. When Ruburt took his glasses off at times, the eyes tried automatically to adjust themselves (as today). There is no need for him to go without glasses for any specific amount of time. When he feels, however, as he did today, like taking the glasses off, let him do so. [...]

(Yet several times today, again, Jane experienced brief period where she could read much better without her glasses than with them—quite phenomenal changes, in fact.)

[...] The eyes do not function right—and they are given glasses. [...]

[...] Contact lenses impede that responsiveness, to a greater extent than glasses. [...]

Many individuals are given glasses to correct an eye difficulty at an early age. [...] The glasses can impede any such self-correction by providing a crutch that further weakens eye muscles, for example, and instead fixes the condition. When you believe that only glasses will correct poor vision then only glasses will.

[...] He wanted to know why so many in this country wore glasses. He wondered if people unacquainted with glasses and suddenly introduced to them would develop a need for them; and they would.

[...] Now for most people it is easier to get glasses.

[...] A stout man who either wears glasses, or has worn them, with pale eyes; or the lenses of his glasses are extremely pale. [...]

[...] He said that Seth had correctly described the stout man with glasses, though the description was so general it could apply to many.

[...] She had been holding a glass partially filled. [...]

[...] She knew the glass was going to fall dimly, but after that she lost contact. [...]

[...] While we were talking about health in general, I wondered why so many people in our society wore glasses. [...]

(Just before 9:45 Jane told me I could have material from Seth on the glasses idea, or on his book. [...]

(Margaret Bumbalo gave Jane a colored-glass butterfly of yellow and blue-stained glass, opened flat for a wall decoration, and fastened by a suction cup. [...]

[...] Georgia got us some ice and we each had a glass of the wine the Gallaghers had left. [...]

I have said that if five people seemed to view this glass, then what you would have in actuality would be five individual physical glasses. As you and Ruburt and Mark view this glass, each of you see a different glass.

Neither of you can see the glass that the others see. [...] The three of you each create your own glass. You each create your own glass in your own personal perspective. Therefore, here you have three different glasses, but each one exists in a different perspective, in an entirely different space continuum.

Now Mark, you cannot see Joseph’s glass, nor can he see your glass. [...]

[...] I will, if I may, use our glass again to make another point clear.

[...] She remarked that she was certain that as Seth she could see better without glasses than she could see without glasses as Jane. Explaining, she said she felt she could see as well, as Seth, without glasses, as she could see as herself with glasses.

“None of you sees the glass that the others see. … Each of the three of you creates your own glass, in your own personal perspective. Therefore you have three different physical glasses here, but each one exists in an entirely different space continuum.”

Shortly after the session began, I picked up the abandoned glass and held it out to show to Rob and Bill. [...] Then Seth began to use the glass as a point around which to build his discussion.

“Now, Mark, you cannot see Joseph’s glass, nor can he see yours,” Seth said. [...] Again, theoretically, if you could perceive that point, you could actually each see the other two physical glasses.

“Because I say that you create physical matter by use of the inner vitality of the universe, in the same way that you form a pattern with your breath on a glass pane, I do not mean that you are the creators of the universe. [...]

[...] And pertaining to our imaginary situation concerning the three glasses, you must realize then that each of these three glasses, being valid physical constructions, are composed of atoms and molecules that contain their own capsule comprehension and generalized consciousness.

As long as he uses glasses, the ability will not be utilized, and the glasses will shortly need to be changed.

However, instead of our glasses, please consider a very simple situation: the two of you in this room. [...]

(Jane has no depth perception, although her glasses help this condition. [...]

[...] She put her glasses on, telling me that she’d felt my concern during the session. [...] “I’ll do what I can,” she said, taking off her glasses. [...]

[...] She had delivered the last break’s material while not wearing her glasses; she had paced as usual around the room, deftly avoiding furniture and other obstacles, in a way that ordinarily she would have had difficulty doing. She said being without glasses seemed to be no handicap.

(Again without her glasses, Jane resumed at 10:02.)

[...] Again without her glasses, she resumed in the same manner at 10:33.)

[...] Jane stated that doing without her glasses bothered her not at all while delivering the material.)

[...] Jane had already taken her glasses off, saying she could see better without them. [...] I don’t wear my own glasses nearly as much as I used to. [...]

[...] She took off her glasses….)

[...] “I’m so surprised I haven’t even put my glasses back on yet,” Jane exclaimed after she’d come out of trance. [...]

I get the impression of glass. He is looking at a glass. The glass is the object. [...]

The glass which I have given as the object has a connection with roses. [...] This disturbance is in connection with the owner of the glass.

The glass is in front of him. [...]

[...] A pronounced limp. (Pause.) There is a connection with the glass and a note. [...]