“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The characteristics needed for “mediumship” are much like those needed by any strongly creative person. A strong supportive ego is a necessity, particularly in initial stages. In periods of severe personality disturbances that can occur simultaneously with great creativity, the ego becomes terrified of the strength of the creative ability, fearing that it can be crushed beneath.

In such cases the ego is too rigid, and does not expand with the nature of the personality’s whole creative experience. Of course this could happen with mediumship, as with any other such activity. In this case, however, Ruburt’s ego gradually began to let its rigidity go, in a gradual process that allowed the whole personality, itself included, to expand.

[...] You are not nearly as aware of your own consciousness when it is not operating primarily through the mediumship of the body, as it does in out-of-body states and some dissociated conditions.

Earlier I said that you are only familiar with those characteristics of your own consciousness that you use through the mediumship of the body. [...]

[...] Close to death, this same sort of thing happens in varying degrees when the consciousness realizes that it can no longer express itself through the mediumship of the body. [...]

[...] I had little notion of the inner mechanics involved in mediumship, and most likely my attitude effectively blocked any consistent demonstrations at that time.

[...] Academic psychologists were apt to take a dim view of mediumship, he said. [...]

[...] ‘The Mediumship of—1885.’ I saw a book with this title. A study of the mediumship of a mother and daughter, it seems. [...]

[...] It is only because so-called mediumship is more unusual than simple perception that it appears so striking. [...]

[...] It’s practically impossible, for example, to get free of the connotations of the worst elements of the whole field: the moment the subject comes up, we’re associated with all the history of mediumship in the most banal of terms. [...]

Nearing is fascinated by mediumship and the like. [...]

[...] He did not simply accept “mediumship” at its face value, so to speak. [...]

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.

The philosophical and psychological implications of mediumship and ESP phenomena and the possible origins of the Seth Material, along with several questions concerning Seth’s independent reality, will be considered. [...]

[...] He also told us that amateur mediumship could produce mental symptoms under certain conditions.

[...] The mechanics of her mediumship? [...]

[...] In the first years of my mediumship Seth’s voice and accent seemed very odd to me, whether I heard myself speaking for him during sessions or listened to tapes. [...]

[...] Without this the development into what you call mediumship would not have occurred. [...]

[...] It has at one time or another in various lives been on the side of the strongly disciplined portions, in which case it was greatly given to dogma, and concerned with cultural problems of punishment and law; or followed the intuitive side, in which it emerged as mediumship, and high mysticism.

“The book would involve a study of mediumship, not from the viewpoint of the medium, but from the viewpoint of the personality for whom she speaks. [...]

[...] The Seth material’s inception lay nine years ahead of us; neither of us knew what mediumship was. [...]

[...] (He mentioned the Patience Worth case, with which we were now familiar, as a notable exception.) But he also cautioned that in some circumstances, amateur mediumship could lead to mental problems.

[...] Yet I do think that even if he hadn’t accepted Jane’s mediumship per se, still he would have recognized it as being a portion of her psyche.

[...] (I am a student of mediumship, as well as a reader of and believer in the Seth material. [...]