“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Jane lay quietly on my right, her back to me. [...] I also knew that by an act of will I could ‘swing’ the lights around in front of me if I wanted to, and I tried enough of this to verify that it was possible: As they moved the lights began to grow even more powerful—enough to quickly convince me that I didn’t want to confront their glare full blast, even with the shades.

[...] Do you follow me?

“I enjoyed the experience for some little time as Jane slept beside me, then let myself drift off to sleep.”

4. It took me a while to realize that Seth had made a most interesting statement here—implying that somehow I’d picked up Floyd’s worries about his age and virility. [...]

[...] She told me bits of the material at times, but I didn’t retain them. [She also relayed to me Seth’s comments about an article on bird migration that I read to her while we were having lunch, but I lost those too.] Jane called me early for the session—at 8:20, while I was still busy with Mass Events. [...]

As soon as she delivered the first phrase of the first full sentence for Chapter 6, I recalled that she’d accurately quoted it to me this afternoon, saying that that was the way Seth would start the session.)

(To me, loudly:) “You are still learning. [...]

In a strange way, determinism has always seemed lacking as a concept to Jane and me—for if it means what it’s supposed to mean, then surely human beings set up the parameters within which determinism is said to operate. [...]

He is not, therefore, supposed to think of me, and I have said this often, as some sort of ghostly spirit in those terms. [...]

He has the idea at times that he should accept me in conventional terms, from the books that he has read. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s students have helped him, strangely enough, because they helped reinforce his faith in me. [...]

[...] To the contrary, he does not have to see me as a white-gowned spirit. [...]

Ruburt’s idea did come from me, about your reincarnational episodes, and your personal experience illustrates what I am saying in the book—the individual’s history is written in the psyche, and can indeed be uncovered. [...]

(Jane told me this afternoon that she’d had a flash from Seth about my reincarnational episodes of late, and how I was in the process of uncovering my personal “past”, as Seth says in The “Unknown” Reality.

[...] As we waited for the session Jane gave me two very long letters she had received yesterday. [...]

[...] Note that when he uses the pronoun “you” this evening he refers not only to Jane and me in particular, but to readers in general.)

[...] To me, it starts to get some kind of resounding ring to it.”)

[...] Do you follow me?

[...] Pretend you are paying me several hundred dollars a week, tell him. [...]

[...] Do you follow me?

[...] She woke me to tell me about them:

(Jane had told me that during my illness she hadn’t felt Seth around. [...] Sonja Carlson visited us twice; almost at once I understood the negative character of her thoughts, and decided not to let it bother me. [...]

(For some other examples of the psychic power of negative expectations, see the 9th, 15th and 17th sessions, involving Jane and me at York Beach, Maine. [...]

I know that you wanted me to explain. [...]

[...] Jane shed a few tears when she came to the studio to tell me that she had heard from Seth late this afternoon. [...]

[...] Do you follow me?

[...] I sat in silence for several minutes because I didn’t know what to do; I seemed to be neutralized by the conflicting feelings washing over me. [...]

[...] Do you follow me?

[...] Jane then handed the page back to me and asked me to read the verse. [...]

Et u non regon du me nenorg agghor

Ruburt, I understand, has given me free rein. [...]

[...] Do you follow me?

[...] Seth-Jane did not answer my question, as usual; but the superior, you-should-know-better look Jane threw my way made me laugh aloud.)

[...] I suggest you take your break before you break me up.

Before I answer the question that you voiced during break, Joseph, let me continue first along the lines of our discussion. [...]

Briefly let me mention that transportation in the universe, that is transportation as such, is basically unnecessary. [...]

(In the last session, Seth began discussing separate photographs of Jane and me [taken at the ages of 12 and 2, respectively] in connection with his ideas about probable selves. [...]

[...] (To me:) Your “sportsman self”* was never endowed with the same kind of force as that of your artistic or writing self. [...]

[...] Do you follow me?

[...] She died in her 50’s — do you follow me?

(Drawing in the air, Seth-Jane finished the list, then told me that I was to place a second one, with its own heading, opposite the first. [...]

(She went over them with me now, checking my placement of them on the page. [...]

[...] Ruburt has often said, “Some of my correspondents expect me to be completely healthy, wealthy and wise, and indeed beyond any human feelings,” and he is quite correct.

Do you follow me?

(Jane didn’t call me last night. [...]

Without going more deeply into the reasons for such beliefs until later, let me discuss several of the ways in which they impede general well-being. [...]

[...] Georgia brought me ice cream without me asking for it. [...]

(At 4:20 Jane was able to move both arms and shoulders to such an extent that she had me take away her ashtray and cigarette so she had more room. [...]

[...] “It reminds me of those old envelope tests. [...]

[...] The whole thing seems to me to be a symbolic turning point in world history, full of danger in the terms of Framework 1. To me, all the parties involved in the dispute seem helpless and frightened; it echoes similar conscious-mind threats that I think the species has created for itself throughout recorded history.)

[...] I thought she’d felt somewhat the same way today, and was rather surprised when she told me at 8:30 PM that she’d have the session....

(Again Seth surprised me. [...]

[...] The pendulum told me my situation was related to the fact that I stopped painting early, the windows, my worries about Jane, my age—the whole bit, in other words, so that I ended up thinking I’d accomplished precious little over the years. [...]

(Jane said she’d have a session for me after supper. [...]

[...] “You’ll be lucky to get a session out of me,” she laughed, but at the same time she felt Seth around. [...]

[...] I’d thought I was doing fairly well there, but evidently Leonard represents a host of old fears that rose up en masse when triggered, and caught me unprepared. [...]

[...] So the last time I said: ‘Now, look, Seth, if you want to take me to some of these probabilities, great; with you leading the way; but my consciousness is having a hell of a time handling whatever it is we’re doing.’ Then I fell asleep and the material stopped.”

(Now here, Jane told me later, she began moving into a different, hard-to-define, “strange” state of altered awareness. [...]

[...] The information referred to me as Ruburt, though, which automatically meant that it was from a ‘higher’ or other level than the Ruburt one. [...]

“Actually I think today’s experience was a different kind of approach to what happened to me when I was sleeping last night … After reading over all of this material, I see that on both occasions I was experimenting with the process it describes — trying to dip directly into a ‘sidepool’ of data and bypass usual neural connections.”

[...] Now give me a moment, for some of this material I want you to have now.

[...] When I was through she surprised me by saying, “Good. [...]

[...] After supper Jane said to me, in effect: “I don’t know how we do it. [...]

[...] You never directly questioned me about that, but Ruburt was not prepared for that book to sell in any great manner, and it was to his advantage that it appear, to give him a book, but also that it lie quietly for a while.

This leads me rather naturally to my next topic (which concerns our questions about evolution).

[...] What Seth had to say about the spontaneous beginnings of life, in our terms, surprised me….)

(Long pause.) Words do nearly forsake me, the semantic differences are so vast. [...]

If you have more questions on this subject, give them to me at our next session. [...]