“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Jane’s trance had been good, her pace rather slow. [...]

(Jane had a lot of images while Seth was speaking. [...]

(While telling me this, Jane abruptly remembered that during part of the delivery she seemed to be standing beside the long, floor-to-ceiling bookcase that divides our living room from her workroom. [...]

(Jane had a “memory,” now, of giving part of Seth’s data from the bookcase area, of seeing the living room from a different viewpoint. [...]

(Several times during the last week I’d mentioned to Jane that we should get more information from Seth on her eyes—insisting upon more specific reasons why they were so protuberant. [...] Tonight I found out that Jane too had been dunning Seth—but mentally—about more on her eyes. [...] I also realized that Jane’s quite unique set of symptoms might lead to effects as they released that we’d certainly be unprepared for.

[...] As Jane and I have decided to do lately, I began giving myself suggestions about increased sales of her books. [...]

[...] I mentioned to Jane that it would be fun if Seth could give us a little bit on Rubin’s reaction when he saw the book on Cézanne—not on its contents.)

(With gestures, Seth simulated Jane reaching to one side while keeping her head and eyes facing straight forward.)

[...] Jane and I had discussed the report at the supper table.)

[...] Jane paused for a few moments, then resumed after I had thought she was out of trance and had called her name.)

[...] Jane left trance easily, eyes opening after a bit. [...]

(Just before break ended, Jane said, “I just got a whole chunk of thought from Seth.” [...]

Beneath all of the frustrations and upsets we may feel at their surface manifestations, Jane and I are caught up in the deeper meanings of events like those at Jonestown and TMI, for they represent great challenges that our species has set for itself, through this century and beyond. [...] In our lifetimes Jane and I look forward to our species at least making a start at grappling with such large areas of its own activity as science and religion. [...]

[...] We sat for it as usual, but became involved watching the last episode of a television mini-series about events growing out of the Watergate break-in.² While we followed the drama, Jane reported to me a steady flow of comments about it from Seth. [...]

(After supper tonight, however, Jane chose not to have the session because she felt so free and relaxed. [...]

(I sat working on my notes for the beginning of the session while Jane left the room. [...]

1. Yesterday Jane finished typing the final draft of Chapter 2 for God of Jane. All of her work on the book is still plastic, however. As she wrote in her journal today: “Great day … began typing Chapter Three of God of Jane and the book really started taking off; I’m just tickled; I did great, and added lots of on-the-spot stuff as I typed. [...]

[...] After giving a few notes for Jane and me, Seth ended the session at 10:13 P.M. “I can’t remember the session now, but I think I covered everything I got from him yesterday and today,” Jane said.)

[...] Jane and I find it fascinating to think about—to attempt to trace—some of the ways by which the overall consciousness of the United States continually becomes involved with—entwined with—the consciousnesses of adversaries like Russia and Iran: Such consciousnesses, once created, continue to grow and to complicate themselves in new ways within our concept of “time.” [...]

[...] (Last summer, Jane found an injured bird, and for several days tried to make it live.) When the personality understands, it can indeed then will itself to leave the body in an aware state, and as it goes bless the body consciousness who has served it so well, release the tiny birdlike awareness within each cell, and go on to its own transition.

[...] Jane’s delivery was active and positive, with her eyes open much of the time. [...]

[...] Jane said that her trance was good, that Seth was coming through fine. [...]

(At break, Jane showed me some yoga exercises she has recently resumed. [...]

[...] (“I guess I’m confused,” Jane said as we waited for the session to begin. [...]

[...] Jane’s delivery had been quite a bit faster than usual — which means she’d kept me writing at a steady pace even though I was recording the material with my homemade “shorthand.” [...]

[...] Seth-Jane’s pace had been good, though — quiet yet forceful.)

[...] “No,” I said again, in answer to Seth-Jane’s obvious concern. [...]

(Jane went for a walk by herself after supper tonight, and got mad at herself because she was so slow. [...]

[...] Jane said the pendulum session helped. [...]

(As we talked about Seth’s statement, and decided we should concentrate upon beneficial things, Jane then wanted to know how this idea fits in with the importance of not repressing negative thoughts. [...]

[...] Jane said she felt better already. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been good. [...] This is a humorous reference to my putting a new seat in Jane’s favorite Kennedy rocker—her session chair, etc.

[...] We wanted some data on Jane’s slow movements. [...]

[...] Jane sat quietly in trance, while I stretched a bit and rested my right hand. [...]

[...] Seth suggested that Jane or Sue Watkins could transcribe the notes, etc., while I commented that it would be quite a job, etc.)

[...] Jane felt well. [...] Jane’s manner was easy and relaxed, her voice average, her eyes closed often.)

[...] Jane resumed at the same fast pace at 10:33.)

[...] Nor have I ever heard Jane discuss painting in Seth’s manner. [...]

(10:58 P.M. Jane’s pace had been good right up until the end of the session.)

(Jane became so excercised by those answers that she scribbled her own notes and doodles [some of which are presented here], then pounded out on her typewriter, misspellings and all, her further reactions before tonight’s session.)

(I explained to Jane that I’ve never felt any aspersions against my manhood; that has never been a problem with me. [...]

(Again, I don’t consider that any success of Jane’s would put me in a poor light. [...]

(A quick recheck with the pendulum as I write these notes reaffirms that I want Jane to be a success, that I am not jealous, that I am happy to have left the job, and that I want to be a painter.)

(Last night in ESP class Jane delivered a session that was long, forceful, dramatic, and humorous. [...] Seth covered many interesting points, and [I can add later] Jane presents the entire session in slightly abbreviated form in Chapter 15 of Politics. [...]

(Finally, as we waited for Seth to return, Jane said: “Now I am confused — I can get material on three different subjects….” [...] The other two were points 4 and 5, as listed in the notes preceding this session; since Jane became consciously aware of material on them just before the session began, she’d had no time in which to give it. [...]

5. Point 5 at the start of this session contains my note that later I added to Appendix 18 a few of the comments Seth made in last night’s ESP class, concerning his connections with Jane. Seth obviously elaborated on that material here, but instead of quoting it in Appendix 18 also, I thought of letting the reader first come across it in this session; and so, to whatever tiny extent, this additional information now alters each reader’s present reality by changing his or her conception of that Jane-Ruburt-Seth relationship.

[...] Just before Seth came through Jane said she had information on them — but that she didn’t have time to relay it to me. [...]

(Meaning the Jane Fleming incident at The Elms in Elmira Heights; covered in Session 204, Volume 5 of The Early Sessions.)

[...] Jane reported she had images of block letters, as on children’s blocks, when giving the data on the name Tanz Mansdavens.

(I write the figure 4500(0) in this fashion because of Jane’s pronunciation. [...]

[...] Jane’s voice had been quite loud throughout, though her pace was rather slow and her eyes were closed most of the time. [...]

And: “I’m pissed off,” Jane said now by way of further irritation. [...] “If we’d had any inkling of what we were getting into with the Seth material, I’d never have done it,” Jane said. [...]

(Jane will be 51 years old tomorrow.

“Maybe I’d better concentrate on those great letters we got today,” Jane said—for she had indeed received some of those, too. [...]

10:36 P.M. Although it had ranged from being slow to fast, Jane’s delivery had often been quite forceful. [...]

(Tam arrives this weekend, May 2. Jane’s original dental appointment was for later in May. The receptionist told Jane she would notify Jane of any cancellations that developed.)

[...] A period of time where the issue is uncertain on both the part of your present landlord and your prospective buyer. (Florence Halliday, who was once an ESP student of Jane’s.) This, again because of the psychic conditions involved, is highly plastic. [...]

[...] First a mutual friend of Jane’s and F. Halliday explained what was intended by the parking lot. [...]

(On Sunday, May 4, Jane spoke to F. Halliday by telephone, and was so informed by the prospective landlady herself. [...]

(In an emotional way Jane also expressed some fears about her mother. [...] Jane did express herself with emotion. [...]

[...] Since the session for January 18 was held, Jane has noted some dramatic improvement in her condition since she began following these ideas. [...]

(This is when Jane became deeply frightened last week, etc.)

[...] Jane said she was out “pretty good.” [...]

[...] Seth’s presentations clearly illuminate the subject matter of both Jane’s dream and our questions about evolution. First he went into Jane’s dream per se, then continued as follows.)

(The first half of this session came through because of a dream Jane had last night, and interpreted on her own today. [...]

(The balance of the session is in response to a discussion of evolution that Jane and I had before the session. [...]

(As Seth, Jane delivered all of the above most forcefully.)

(By 8:45 Jane had the jitters as usual before a scheduled session. [...]

[...] We opened the session by sitting silently at the board, but Jane began to receive Seth even as the pointer spelled out his greeting. [...]

(Jane’s voice was still normal and her eyes had their usual darker look. [...]

[...] Jane said the sentences making up this message were so long and involved that she made no effort to pay any attention to them while voicing them. [...]

(The session started late because Jane became so involved in a painting after supper. [...] Since then there have been some rather humorous episodes—I mean it kindly—as Jane tries to use those methods, with very mixed results. [...]

[...] Sue Watkins visited us last night, and related several recent dreams in which she saw Jane functioning normally physically. [I’ve also had others in which Jane was okay physically – walking well, and so forth.] “But what happens,” I asked, as we waited for the session to begin, “after I have the dream about you, for example? [...]

(Jane was “just mad,” though, as we waited for the session to start at 10:10. [...]

(Jane’s delivery was good, interspersed with many pauses. [...]

(Jane had no idea of what Chapter Fourteen would be about: “I’m just waiting….” [...]

(In trance, her eyes closed, Jane sat quite still for well over a minute.)

[...] Jane said that while in trance she hadn’t been aware that her delivery had been slow at times — yet she seemed to recall these fluctuations when I asked her about them. [...]

[...] [See the 637th session in Chapter Nine.] Jane is receiving more letters from scientists these days, many of whom ask intriguing questions about the type of material covered in this session. [...]