“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

We always liked the idea, however, that others were recording class events and were keeping tapes for us if and when we wanted them; we also liked the idea that it was safer to have the tapes scattered about instead of being kept in one place. [...] one of the few tapes we’d made together, or use our recorder when writing poetry. She gradually gave up working that way, however, as it became more and more difficult for her to exert enough finger pressure on the recorder’s keys.

[...] However, she hadn’t had a session, regular or private, in over 10 weeks [since August 13], so on October 27 she recorded in her journal the continuance of her daily creative struggles: “And once again I’m way behind in sessions and writing. [...]

[...] We grew up without modern conveniences like portable tape recorders, of course, but even so our natural creative desires had always been to express ourselves graphically, in written and printed words and in drawn and painted images. [...]

[...] When they’ve been recorded she can do the same with her Sumari songs and her verbal prose, as I call it. [...]

You lose advantage, Joseph, from your recorder. You lose the advantage of your recorder. [...]

[...] They would keep a record of the chosen objects for a month, without telling us what they were, then we would compare the list with Seth’s data after the experiment ended. [...]

[...] First of all, I advise Ruburt along these lines: it is best if he not work at his own writing or records up until the last moment or so before a session.

[...] See page 49.), and died at the age of 9. I do not believe that the church is still standing or that any records will be found. [...] Lack of record should not be taken to ridicule the validity of these facts, since many people today could not find their own birth certificates.

[...] This experience follows, of course, the one I had for my last appointment, and which is on record — when I chipped a tooth and went to my dentist’s office the same day to see if he could fix it — and discovered that I had an appointment I’d forgotten about for that very same time on that same day. [...]

[...] I told Jane that we may never hear from Blue Cross, since they’ve already turned down the claim once because the hospital was late in sending them her medical records. [...]

Were your recorder set up again, I would simply chat with you in a give and take session that would allow you to ask more questions. [...]

[...] How could he record my perceptions when my consciousness was across the continent? [...]

[...] Seth has given him information concerning his business dealings, correctly predicting the behavior of certain stocks among other things; and Phil is keeping record of Seth’s percentage of “hits.” [...]

I’d like to close this chapter with excerpts from Session 329 recorded in March 1967 for a teacher-friend’s high-school group. [...]

(Jane wanted some material on herself for the balance of the session, in line with my comments recorded at the start of this session. [...]

[...] Not enough attention has been given by Ruburt to his feelings in his daily records. [...]

[...] This material is not included in the records.

[...] The balance of the session is deleted from the record. [...]

[...] She wanted to record it and play it for the college class.

Then Seth addressed the members of the college class for whom the recording would be played. [...]

[...] Also, we recorded a few moments of conversation, so that my normal voice could be compared with Seth’s. Even the most lecturelike private session is always enlivened by Seth’s gestures, and this is more marked when he is relating to a group.

(I’ve made no effort to record her progress systematically since we began our twice-daily suggestion routine, and since Frank Longwell has been giving her a weekly massage. [...]

[...] These remarks, Joseph, do not have to go in the record.

(For the record: “Uknown,” it seems, appears to be one of those jobs that won’t go too smoothly, even though now we’re reaching the end of its cycle. [...]

(Sunday, August 22nd, Jane discovered the tape recording of the first two Father Trainor episodes was deteriorating, for unknown reasons. [...] She turned off the recorder.

[...] See page 269 of the 232nd session for Frederick Fell’s request to see the book plus the tape recording Jane made of some of the poems. [...]

[...] Nor, for the record, does Jane’s unmailed letter of December 2,1965 to Father Martin contain any doodles. [...]

[...] We did not use twine on the package, incidentally, but did use it on the package containing the tape recording Jane made of some of the poems in the poetry book. [...]

[...] In other cases the experience is simply not recorded in any way within the physical organism, but it is recorded to deeper layers of the self that are divorced to a large degree from any physical manipulations.

[...] If it is recorded and registered by the physical organism it becomes a part of, and an equal part of, memory. [...]

(For the past few days I’ve done little “creative” work, beyond working on my watercolor portrait of Mrs. Johnson, the subject of my dream of last November, for an hour or two in the mornings; then in the afternoons I’ve typed these sessions and written the required notes for the record. [...]