“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(By 8:55 PM Jane was uncomfortable and nervous because she didn’t know what Seth was going to talk about. [...]

[...] Jane remained seated as the session began. [...]

[...] Once again Jane’s eyes opened sleepily. [...]

[...] As I understand the present dilemma, over the long run, the more successful Jane becomes as a writer the more she feels she needs the symptoms to keep her chained to her desk, to cut out all distractions. In the short run, our troubles with Prentice-Hall lately, especially those revolving around Tam’s decision to leave Prentice full time, have touched off Jane’s latest poor reactions re her hips and legs. [...]

[...] Jane had marked three of them —running from September 10 to September 24, as being particularly good. [...]

(This afternoon Jane told me that she’d been picking up from Seth about the poor Italian villages that had been destroyed in the great earthquake of November 23. [...]

(This afternoon Jane’s editor at Prentice-Hall, Tam Mossman, called her re the Seth book Jane is completing for P/H. Tam also had a couple of questions, which Seth begins to answer in this session.

[...] Jane had been “far-out,” she said. [...] But Jane was tired; the session ended rather abruptly. [...]

[...] A rather innocent remark made by Jane shortly before 9 PM got me started, hence the session’s late beginning.

[...] Jane’s trance had been good. [...] Jane and I are to spend Christmas in Rochester with brother Dick and family, and bring mother back with us, etc. [...]

(Jane was quite relaxed this evening, hence our late start. [...]

(This afternoon Jane had some very good insights as to why we had taken in the kitten, Parmesan – who, incidentally, is now gone to the parents of friends, etc.)

[...] Jane had no images of the woman Seth had been discussing. [...] When the sessions began, Jane was especially bothered by what she called the trite and popular ideas about reincarnation, mixed up as they were with ideas of good and evil, punishment, etc.

[...] I told Jane I hoped Seth would discuss a dream she’d had last night. [...]

(With the approach of 9:00 Jane began to acquire a typical bearing. [...]

(Today we were visited —unannounced—by a young man named Jim Poett, who has been assigned to interview Jane for The Village Voice. [...] This wasn’t an interview: he is to call Jane in a couple of weeks about that procedure, after he’s read more of her work. Jane gave him our unlisted phone number. [...]

[...] Jane and I have started our own list for Wednesday night’s session, instead. [...] No commitments have been made, and I’m anxious that Jane consider whether she even wants the interview, as well as the questions that would then arise, should she answer yes.

[...] But Jane says she trusts him, and I’m willing to go along with her feelings on the matter.)

[...] I must remember that my own caustic reactions pass rather quickly—even if they do return—but that they have a considerable effect on Jane. [...] But I’m afraid some of my responses affect Jane more deeply, aside from her problems with her own reactions.

(My two questions for Seth concerned the small lumps on the underside of Jane’s left arm, including one on her elbow, and the bright redness of the palms of her hands that I noticed the other day. [...]

(Jane had no specific questions, as usual. [...]

[...] Along with Dreams, Jane is back working on If We Live Again and God of Jane. [...]

Yesterday and earlier today Jane had scribbled down notes she was picking up from Seth; she’d put them in the session notebook in case I had time to type them. [...]

(A few notes: Jane continues to free herself of her symptoms, if too slowly for her taste. [...]

[...] After the session Jane called his wife Venice and tried to offer some comfort.

(Jane missed last week’s session because nighttimes found her so relaxed from her own healing processes that she couldn’t concentrate enough. [...]

[...] Jane came out of trance quickly, but said that the trance had been a good one. [...]

[...] It took Jane awhile to come out of trance. [...]

[...] Jane showed definite tendencies to go back into trance, notably a rolling up of the eyes, and I continually talked her out of it, gave her tea, etc.)

[...] Leanne came in to give Jane medications. [...] I read the last sentence to Jane at 4:14.)

[...] Jane had coffee and a smoke. [...]

(4:26 p.m. Jane had done well, I told her. [...]

(Sue was fumbling with the tape recorder while Jane held the reel with her finger, when Seth came through.)

([Sue:] “Wait!” [turns on Jane’s recorder].)

[...] Jane then came out of trance and instructed the students to stand in various areas of the room, in answer to significant feelings she had about these positions. [...]

[...] This in turn left Jane feeling not quite ready for the session at the usual time. But we sat for it as usual, and eventually Jane began to feel Seth around. [...]

[...] At the same time, an extra copy of it is inserted into the deleted notebooks so that Jane can refer to it along with the rest of the material Seth has given for her.

(Earlier this afternoon Jane reread several deleted sessions dating from 1973. [...]

[...] I understood Seth’s material on the subject, and even agreed with it, I told Jane after the session. [...] Jane agreed....)

[...] Jane’s dictation had been the most fluid and even in some time, with few pauses until the near end. [...]

(Seth’s material on Paul O’Neill’s cottage came about because of our conversation with Paul this noon as he checked Jane’s lower teeth here at the house. [...]

(Before the session Jane said she thought Seth might discuss some of the ideas in a book by Fred Hoyle, the English astronomer that she’s reading, on the ten different universes of man. To our considerable surprise, much in the essays has turned out to be not what one might expect, and Jane disagrees with a number of points therein. [...]

(On two occasions within the last week—Saturday and Sunday—Jane walked for the first time in at least a year. [...]

[...] Actually, Jane had originated them, and I’d asked her to write them down – which neither of us had remembered to do. [...]

(Jane was having some difficulty assuming a trance state. [...] It took concentrated effort on Jane’s part to break through my emotional barrier and assume a trance state.)

[...] You would not have been at all surprised had Ruburt (Jane) jumped up grabbed a ruler and banged your fingers. [...]

([Rob to Jane:] “Want your glasses? [...]

[...] “I’m just not up to it,” Jane said, “but there’s a lot of stuff he could give on the ulcer thing right now. [...]

(Jane’s remarks were in reference to Seth’s material, given in his book dictation earlier in tonight’s session.)

[...] Jane’s trance had been excellent, her delivery fast considering my writing speed. Seth’s material, especially that given around 9:34, was quite apropos in light of an amusing incident involving Jane shortly before the session. [...] Leafing through it, Jane became so angered at the poor suggestions it contained that she threw it across the room.

[...] Jane didn’t know, adding that she hadn’t “looked at the book in four or five years.” [...]

(Jane paused, still in trance. [...]

[...] Jane’s pace had speeded up considerably after a slow start. [...] The air conditioner had been on since before the session, yet Jane felt warm at break. [...]

[...] After listening for a bit, Jane asked me not to pursue this subject now; she suggested I ask these questions at the end of the chapter, if Seth hadn’t volunteered the answers before then. [...]

(Here Seth was making a little joke, for Jane has been doing some writing lately which she has tentatively entitled “Adventures in Consciousness.”)

(This afternoon and evening, and somewhat to my surprise, Jane has been talking about discussing her physical symptoms in her new book, God of Jane. I thought her changed attitude stemmed from her long phone conversation with Tristine Rainer, of Dan Curtis Associates, a television production company that wants to option her life story. [...]

[...] Every time she jumped up on a chair—or down—Jane and I winced, but Mitzi wasn’t concerned at all. [...]

[...] Jane’s change of attitude, about discussing her physical hassles, came about because the movie company got in touch with her, right?” See the notes at the start of the session.)