“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] But more than this, words cannot really record the very humorous exchange that developed between Rich and Seth. [...]

(Rich was half embarrassed and half serious; at the height of the exchange between the two, Seth’s addresses to Rich were so fast I couldn’t hope to record them. [...]

(Seth’s remarks about the recorder point up the reason we do not use it to routinely record the sessions for later transcription. Not only would I sit through the session with Jane even though we were recording, but in doing the transcription I would have to expend an equal amount of time listening to the session again, plus the time necessary for typing, and starting and stopping many times.)

I would suggest when it is convenient that your recorder be repaired, and that it be kept in a handy place in this room, set up for recording for any occasions when I could speak less formally, that is also quicker, conversationally, without the need of your taking notes.

[...] I was quite reluctant to do so, since I felt it was better to continue with the board, and to accumulate a written record which might serve as a basis for other types of experiments at a later date.

(The following pages of this account will be called A B C D E etc., for insertion into the record after this page. [...]

[...] And she will check over this account before it goes into the record.

[...] This has a drawback, of course, in that we have no official evidence of her “symptoms” on the medical record. However, we do have the testimony of many who know us, plus years of sessions on record, plus our own memories. [...]

[...] Seriously, as he does with his own work, and that you continue to record our sessions.

I do not want you to take any time from your own painting to work on Book One of the Seth sessions, nor do I want anyone else to record the sessions.

(Bill has [by coincidence?] made a painting of the general area described above, and I will photograph it for the record.

(For the record: I copied Bill Macdonnel’s map of the Provincetown area discussed in the 82nd Session.)

[...] The records of that historical period are scattered and contradictory.

(There followed a short exchange between Seth and me, which isn’t recorded verbatim because it was too rapid. [...]

You can still record and chat with me, without notes, some evening for your own freedom.

(“That’s why I’m having our recorder fixed.”)

(I thought of recording this evening’s session earlier, as stated, but did not do so in the interests of spontaneity, a quality to which Seth attaches great value. To be ready to record an unscheduled session we would have to have the recorder set up and ready to go at a flick of a switch, constantly. [...]

[...] After the conversation had turned to matters psychic, Jane played the tape recording of the Father Trainor episode of last February 11. [...]

(Since we had been taken by surprise by this development, we had made no plans to record the reading. [...]

[...] Why do you not utilize your recorder to a greater degree, particularly for such unscheduled sessions?

[...] Our recorder was set up in case we had to rely upon it, so I laid these notes aside and started up the recorder. [...]

[...] I have never seen such an infernal machine (Humorously, referring to my attempts to get the recorder properly adjusted.

And I want you all to know that this is no recording and I have not prepared my lesson ahead of time. [...]

[...] It wasn’t recorded because we weren’t prepared. [...]

[...] “Now, I get the messages and you have to write them down, whereas before you had the ancient records and made the copies yourself. [...]

(In preparation for her next book, which will deal with the Seth material itself, Jane made an exploratory trip to several county records offices in Elmira; she is beginning an effort to track down Frank Watts. [...]

(Here Seth refers to Jane’s trip downtown to the records offices, in search of data on Frank Watts. [...]

For if I did not get the names through, Ruburt did not distort the material in that instance, so that the record shows that I mentioned a man and a woman, and J. B.

(Amused, and loudly:) This is not a recording.

[...] It serves no purpose to include all of the many dreams of this nature that I recorded — dreams in which I managed to regain my critical senses, sometimes only to fall back into normal dreaming and sometimes to embark upon conscious experiments. [...]

This was followed by two innocuous dreams, also recorded consecutively.

[...] In the back of my mind all night was the resolution to make sure I recorded my dreams. [...]

[...] The idea behind those was different: I wanted to go someplace in an out-of-body state, record my impressions of what I saw, and check the results in whatever way I could. [...]

[...] This made it one of the shortest on record, although [without checking] I remember an even briefer, spontaneous one on a Christmas Day several years ago….

[...] Now, that is for your record. [...]

[...] Jane and I used to marvel at their endurance.) Rick recorded and has produced many audio tapes of Jane and Seth speaking in those classes; at this time he’s also producing an additional group of tapes. [...]

[...] I don’t know who would have the patience to read them, but I’d really like to see all of them out there, on the record. [...]

(Within that deleted information were a few lines I’d like to present here for the record. [...]

[...] So have her records, since she keeps detailed accounts of all of her dream activities and correlating “conscious” events. [...]

It is an experiment concerning the recorder, somewhat along the lines which Ruburt had planned, but with certain innovations. [...]

[...] I do want to have on record my own comments concerning my warning to Philip, or John Bradley, and the implications that are involved. [...]

I thought I would write this out instead of calling, so that you’d have the record to study at your leisure. [...]

(Usually we keep the records of her ESP class in a separate set of three-ring binders, but Jane wanted to insert this one as part of Session 393 in our “regular” sessions: She wanted to show Seth discussing a subject that was emotionally very important to a class member—Audrey Shepherd—whose adopted son had died by drowning last summer.)

[...] And that name, approximately as given, in some records. [...]

([Rob:] “Where would the records be?”)