“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The medium perceives so clearly the reality of the surviving personality that the medium to some extent directly perceives that reality. You see the correlation here with what I told you in the past about experiencing concepts. That is one thing. To experience the reality of another does not necessarily mean that the medium negates her own personality—only that momentarily she allows it to perceive as directly as possible the experience of what it is to be the other. This involves a high degree of cooperation from the other person who does not exist in your physical terms, an opening of his reality to the medium rather than an invasion of the medium.

Now this is pertinent since the medium-communicator language can be legitimate in many other areas beside the one in which it is involved. In the simplest perception in those terms you are involved in the same way that a medium is. You are receiving data that is not basically physical, and translating it into terms meaningful to your own physical organism.

(Pause.) True and basic perception is a highly complicated phenomena, in which the line between perceiver and perceived vanishes. There is a strong correlation in what happens when the medium feels that a surviving personality has taken over the personality itself.

(The other event concerned a medium in Hollywood, California, who claims to be speaking for Seth, and who gave a well-advertised seminar at a Holiday Inn there. He’s been doing such speaking in trance since the early 1970’s. The literature a fan sent us last week made it seem that the medium claimed to be speaking for Jane’s Seth. [...]

(Jane was angered by this material [the second batch; I’d already sent Tam the first communication, asking for his help], and decided to call the medium, Thomas Massari, since a number was listed. [...] Jane talked to Carole, the medium’s wife who works with him, and stated clearly that she didn’t want others claiming to speak for her Seth—who, incidentally, had told us years ago that he spoke through no one else but Jane. [...]

[...] We did agree that there must be a least unconscious cheating going on, on the medium’s part, else why keep the Seth name all these years and speak so cleverly in imitation of Seth, who has garnered at least some sort of reputation, thus making the road easier for any other Seth? [...] [She’d also called Tam today before contacting the lawyer and the medium’s wife.]

[...] And the medium, Thomas Massari, was basically spreading Seth’s ideas among the so-called leaders of at least segments of our society: M.D.’s, psychotherapists, and others in the medical field. Even if, as we thought likely, all was not strictly honest on the medium’s part.

Once scientists theorized the ether as the medium in which the physical universe existed.¹ Framework 2 is the psychological medium in which the consciousness of the world exists. [...]

[...] By the last decades of the 19th century, and in line with Newtonian physics, the ether was postulated as an invisible, tasteless, odorless substance that pervaded all unoccupied space, and served as the medium for the passage of electromagnetic waves of light and other kinds of radiant energy, like heat — just as the earth itself serves as the medium for the transmission of seismic waves, for instance.

Dictation: In the terms of our discussion, Framework 2 is the medium in which your world exists. [...]

Some ancient religions put the existence of gods there, and saw the spirits of each living thing as existing primarily in that invisible medium of reality. [...]

When you have completed a life then it is as if you have finished a living portrait of yourself, using the mediums of space and time. [...]

Some are more proficient in using the mediums than others. [...]

[...] Even paintings of great destruction spoke of the great creative energy behind the talent that vitalized the very medium, and by its very creativity denied the very strength of the destruction so cleverly depicted.

As I told you (humorous) the medium is the message, and more than the message in many ways, and therefore for best results the medium should not be too hot or too cold. Information can rarely flow like crystal-clear water, with the medium a faucet, to be turned off and on at will.

[...] Now whether or not a medium is in a trance that is as deep as the Atlantic Ocean, the medium will not be a pure channel. [...]

Information quite literally must be sifted through the layers of the medium’s personality. [...]

Think first in terms of being yourself a medium, through which visions flow. [...] Do not try consciously to settle upon any given medium, oil, et cetera (pause), or consciously try to set up a lifetime program, in those terms, now.

[...] (Long pause.) Let the medium and technique follow naturally from the original vision. [...]

[...] Your problem being your overall attitude toward the emotion from which your art springs, for your attitude is then projected outward upon your mediums. [...]

[...] Because you are you, you will attract your own unique visions, and if you follow these suggestions each vision will indicate its form and medium, and the general pattern of these will then be seen to be following along certain lines.

“Now whether or not a medium is in a trance that is as deep as the Atlantic Ocean, the medium will not be a pure channel. [...]

“Information can rarely flow like crystal-clear water, with the medium [as] a faucet to be turned off and on at will. It must be sifted through the layers of the medium’s personality. [...]

[...] Sort of a vitalized fourth-dimensional letter or communication, in which, if you’ll forgive the term, the medium is the message.

“Again: the medium is the message in the Spacious Present,” Seth said, smiling, “and whenever the time for the program arrives, I am here in your present, regardless of where I am in what you would term my present. [...]

[...] Mr. Van Over had much interesting information to impart; and also, much of what he had to say about the way mediums operate struck responsive notes within us, since we had seen the same things transpiring within, and in connection with, Jane.

(Jane was also encouraged when Ray Van Over told her that many mediums operated in the fashion she contemplated. [...]

[...] If memory serves me correctly Ray Van Over said some of the effects she described were effects experienced by other mediums also.

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[...] (Long pause.) Then: “The Interior Medium in Which Society Exists.”

Give us a moment… Before we discuss man’s and woman’s private roles in the nature of mass events — no matter what they are — we must first look into the medium in which events appear concrete and real. [...]

[...] It exists in a medium of reality, a realm of being in which all possibilities exist. [...]

[...] Then today I opened a package that contained a book of trance material similar to Seth’s. I guess I’m supposed to say thanks and that it’s great, to the publisher and the medium. [...] You could take six of those books, I thought, shuffle the names of the mediums around, and never know who produced what. I can only think the mediums involved must be afraid of the emotions and implications involved.

(Long pause.) These can often serve as springboards, however, leading to greater understanding, and the feelings themselves do indeed help rid you of fears and doubts that are expressed through such a medium. [...]

^* In Jane/Seth’s The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, which was published in 1981, I wrote: “Seth maintains that Framework 2, or inner reality, contains the creative source from which we form all events, and that by the proper focusing of attention we can draw from that vast subjective medium everything we need for a constructive, positive life in Framework 1, or physical reality.” [...]

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF FRAMEWORK 2. A CREATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MEDIUM IN WHICH PHYSICALLY-ORIENTED CONSCIOUSNESS RESIDES, AND THE SOURCE OF EVENTS

[...] (Long pause.) “A Creative Analysis of the Medium in Which Physically-Oriented Consciousness Resides, and the Source of Events.”

[...] The medium could telepathically receive this information—then subconsciously act it out, of course; this has to be admitted as a possible explanation.)

[...] Note here I maintain more awareness than most mediums I believe—therefore necessity of learning how to protect myself, in such involvement. [...]

[...] I do not travel physically in a UFO (with amusement), and yet my mental or psychic journeys must occur in a medium of some kind. [...]

(“What do you think of that reading Jane received in the mail today?” I referred to a reading by the medium, Elwood Babbit, given for someone who had written Jane several months ago; the individual subsequently saw Babbitt, and sent Jane a copy of the long, rambling, very generalized material that could have applied to many people. [...]

[...] It is convention, in that the medium’s insights are automatically translated into stylized versions that will be understood by those for whom he reads. [...]

[...] The medium, for example, has not opened up into the higher intellect, for he will not question enough to truly discover the point where the intellect can go no further.

Some new developments should also occur in our sessions, as our reluctant medium finally comes to terms with me. [...]

I had some pertinent remarks to make this evening, and since Philip (Seth’s entity name for John Bradley) is indeed a friend, I shall feel free to make them, although they are somewhat of a personal nature, and directed to you and our reluctant medium.

[...] Sort of a vitalized 4th-dimensional letter or communication, in which, if you will forgive the term, the medium is the message. [...]

For again, the medium is the message in the spacious present, and when- ever the time for the program arrives I am here in your present, regardless of where I am in what you would term my present.

[...] I can be here in your terms at appointed times, for the medium is also more than the message.

The first book would of course introduce me, and it would involve a study of mediumship; not from the viewpoint of the medium, but from the viewpoint of the personality for which she speaks.

Such a book would do much to explain how the medium is led, wherever possible, to make those correct statements that add up to almost what your parapsychologists like to call a hit—for she is almost literally hit with them.

[...] Statements received by various mediums, in which quite different pictures of afterlife reality are received.

Now, to avoid confusion, the girl is not a medium as, say, Ruburt is, according to your use of the term. [...] But the medium through which Ruburt traveled was the electrical and electromagnetic medium sent out by the girl’s highly-charged emotional condition.

[...] The medium through which Ruburt traveled was the emotional charge thrown out by the girl.