“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane’s poem can also serve as a symbol to show that she hasn’t held a session for Mass Events for 42 weeks, or since giving the 830th session last March; indeed, the summer, fall, and winter of 1978 have passed, and we’re into the next year [and a very cold and stormy one it is, so far]. [...]

[...] Yet even though Seth also discussed those psychic frameworks to some degree in a dozen sessions for the book, still he finally took that break in dictation to ‘re-educate’ us, looking at our own previous beliefs and those of the world at large in the light of Frameworks 1 and 2.

[...] The thing is, often we’re so busy getting the material and preparing it for publication that we don’t have the time to really study it as our readers do. [...]

[...] Let me try to put that unhappy event in perspective now, in the continuing chronology of our lives as they’re enmeshed in the Seth material in general and in Mass Events in particular.

[...] Even though he didn’t call this 840th session book dictation, we’re presenting part of it here because the material fits in so well with his themes for Mass Events.)

We’re still trying to get answers, with the help of the Seth material. [...]

(11:03.) Now: I have several remarks, and before I get to Ruburt I have a few for you, Joseph: there is no division in your activities daily (re a discussion Jane and I had today). [...]

(The data re the paintings—Bega—Tom M, was interesting, etc. [...]

(This question was inspired by Bill’s note re city, country, territory, etc. [...]

[...] The questions re details snapped her back unpleasantly, she said, and were very irritating. [...]

[...] We’re progressing well on both projects. [...] We’re getting up at 6:00 again, so that we can get in a good morning’s “work” before lunchtime.)

[...] However, that pile of letters means that people are reading our books, and for that we’re grateful indeed. [...]

First, though, they’re to visit still another member from class who lives in a nearby town: He has tapes of some early class sessions that Jane had forgotten about; copies of the tapes will be made. [...]

[...] And as soon as I realized she was going to continue the series for a while, I jokingly asked her what was going on: “What do you think you’re up to, hon? [...]

[...] Sometimes we’re not sure whether the people are simply rebelling against the help offered by establishment disciplines [especially when that “help” is partially or wholly ineffective], or are more aware than most that some individuals, like Jane, have other “psychic” dimensions of personality that can be asked for information. [...]

When they’re published the reader will be able to see that she touched upon her physical hassles in Chapter 17 of God of Jane, for example, and referred to them in her Introduction for Mass Events. She didn’t actively object when I began to mention them more extensively in the notes for Dreams. But as Seth said in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, while discussing her goals in life: “The power of his (Ruburt’s) will is indeed awesome, and he is just beginning to feel it.” [...]

[...] To begin with, however, his magical-approach information reminded me at once of the two thoughts Jane had picked up from him back on May 12, the day she held the 915th session for Chapter 8. I’m stressing these points because I think they’re important: “Alone, reason finally becomes unreasonable. [...]

(Today the newspaper carried the story of the violence attending the Democratic presidential convention in Chicago in August, 1968, telling of the many clashes between police and various groups of demonstrators; and a guilty verdict re police behavior was rendered by an investigative commission. [...]

Many will try various methods of re-experiencing the energy, in order to release creative feelings they did not know they possessed. [...]

[...] “About the confusion that comes when you start trying to change beliefs, ‘cause they’re all raveled in together. [...]

(See yesterday afternoon’s session, re “overlays of meanings.” [...]

[...] It was quite intrusive and cut through what she was talking about and thinking—which was on the discouraged side re her condition.

[...] And Hazel last week stopped in Chicago on the way across country and got the address of the Bar Association and some other people, and we’re finally going to check this stuff. [...]

[...] I don’t think it’s the kind of thing, for example, if it doesn’t check out we are not going to say, ‘Well, Bill, you’re a fake, go away.”)

[...] They’re on file. [...]

[...] They seem to be like small test cases, meaning that our reactions to them, how we handle them, will show rather clearly where we’re at these days, as they say.

[...] I thought the name Alice familiar, but couldn’t help out re Prentice. [...]

[...] Perhaps I have been trying too hard re Van Elver.)

[...] “You’re a celebrity,” she said, pointing to Jane. [...]

We have been involved in a re-educational process from the beginning, then, and wherever you have not succeeded it has been because on those areas you were not able to fully accept those precepts, and apply them effectively. [...]

(Today the newspaper carried the story of the violence attending the Democratic presidential convention in Chicago in November 1968, telling of the many clashes between police and various groups of demonstrators; a guilty verdict re police behavior was rendered by an investigative commission. [...]

They exploded and were re-created many times—disappeared and returned. [...]

[...] We’re to discuss her mistrust of her physical body, and related subjects. [...]

[...] The first time they met, Jane said Father Rakin said to her when she was but 13: “You’re just too forward.” [...]

[...] Some refugees have already reached the Elmira area, where we live, and upon checking a map Jane and I were surprised to see that we’re only about 130 airline miles north of Harrisburg. [...]