“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane and I decided to record tonight’s session, and to make it a practice to do so more often in the future. Accordingly, Jane set up the recorder after supper, so that she had but to flip a switch to start it going at the beginning of the session.

[...] Jane has nothing to add to this record.

[...] She was having an animated conversation with John as 9 PM approached; when she began without the usual greetings, she flicked the recorder on.)

[...] I am indeed no businessman as such, and yet I know that true value speaks for itself, as his value to the company is on record.

I’m going to devote this chapter to various kinds of dream projections from our own records and those of my students. [...]

From the Records of Sue Watkins

[...] Like mine, Sue’s records are full of notes concerning the effort needed to maintain consciousness at the required level and to prevent falling off into a regular dream state.

From my records

[...] I’d told Andrew Fife that Pete would be calling him, probably requesting records, and that Fred Kardon may be called or asked for a statement, and so forth. [...] I may have to spend time getting our own records together. [...]

(Yesterday I found in the mail a letter from Steve Blumenthal, requesting copies of just about every record we’ve got, and so forth—no need to go into that here. [...]

[...] The insurance company told him, I believe, that according to her medical records, Jane didn’t need to be hospitalized—a strange attitude, and one neither of us could believe. [...]

(Jane, for instance, hasn’t had her brain waves formally recorded by an EEG, or electroencephalograph. It’s not that she’s against that procedure — just that she’s much more interested in what she feels and does than she is in the mechanical records offered by the machine.

[...] Measuring and recording brain waves is a complicated task, however; not only is it important which areas or lobes of the brain are monitored — if not all of them — but because of the mechanical limitations of the EEG itself much that goes on in the brain is necessarily missed. [...]

[...] They are not recorded by your machines because quite literally they go in a different, “unofficial” direction. [...]

[...] How different her singing is now from that very mournful Sumari song she’d recorded last February, a few days before going into the hospital. [...]

Jane didn’t tape this new Sumari, though—which we regretted—for she wasn’t able to get out of her chair to hunt for her recorder; I was too charmed just listening to her sing to think of a tape. [...]

[...] After lunch I explained the situation about the hospital being 30 days late sending her medical records to Blue Cross in Syracuse, their denial of the major medical claim, the $10,000 I’d given the hospital on her current bill, and the payments I’d arranged on the old bill we still owed from last year—all of this just so she’d know what was going on. I also explained that I may get a copy of her medical records for our own files. [...]

[...] However, her statement prompted me to tell her that a few days before the insurance company had denied our claim for major medical benefits because they hadn’t received the hospital records, I’d waked up early one morning and lay there worrying about the possibility of a denial for perhaps an hour. [...]

[...] I turned her on her back after stopping at Medical Records first to see Janet Troutt about the copy of Jane’s records that I’d been promised. However, the copies were so poor—and lacking lab reports—that Janet said she’d have them redone; now I’m to stop in a couple of days from now—which means the records don’t go to the insurance company before then, either. [...]

When Jane began delivering the Seth material in 1963, I became very conscious of the record we’d leave, not with Seth but concerning our private lives. [...] Long ago I came to believe that nothing exists in isolation; to omit some of the record leaves gaps, obviously. [...]

During those 21 months in the hospital, Jane, Seth, and I said much about her physical/psychic condition, and I recorded it all in my homemade shorthand as best I could under often very stressful conditions. [...]

[...] I haven’t made any effort to record dreams since her illness, simply not focusing on that activity. [...]

[...] I explained the situation to Jane, for the record, and add these notes. [...]

(Long pause at 9:16.) Have him keep his recorder at handy reach out there also. [...]

The next night, Rob and I purchased a tape recorder, hoping that we might be able to lighten his work load. We didn’t get back from the shopping center until nearly 8:30 and then we began fussing with the recorder. As was usual in those days, I began to get the jitters as 9:00 P.M. approached; we finally decided not to use the recorder that night but to wait until the next session and give ourselves time to become acquainted with the gadget.

[...] Only one experiment using the tape recorder showed us that our usual procedure was the best one. Rob really had a great time, though, for the twenty-fifth session he didn’t have to take notes while we tried out the recorder. [...]

[...] These days or hours of psychological experience are not recorded by the physical body and are outside of the physical time camouflage. [...]

[...] But he discovered that it took him much longer than this to transcribe the tape, since he had to start and stop the recorder so often. [...]

[...] I have a record of that incidental material in my daily handwritten notes. [...]

[...] He said he’d be up to see her, but is keeping tabs on her through records.

(Jane is in her second year of keeping records of her dreams, and has written down several hundred. Since September of 1965, a period of 11 months, I have recorded 185 dreams. Jane recorded 103 dreams for 1964, and so for 1965 has recorded 303 dreams, for a total of 406 dreams to date.)

[...] She has a complete record of her experience this morning in a notebook kept for such purposes.

[...] There is a full record of this experience in my prediction notebook.

(Jane has a full record of this experience.)

(Tracing of the pay record used as the object in the 75th envelope experiment, in the 298th session for October 31,1966.)

[...] During the evening we played some tapes also, and among these was one of the recordings Jane made of G. K. Chesterton’s poem Lepanto; Jane was in a trance state while reading this, apparently in a close approximation of the voice of her now dead friend, Father Trainor. [...]

[...] Jane did not know this offhand consciously, Seth said, but had the records to prove it, and subconsciously was well aware of it.

(Jane has in her files a family record book going back to the mid 1800’s. Consulting this after the session we found that Seth was correct, that her grandfather had been 67 when he died March 12,1948. [...]

(Fortunately, class member Sue Watkins managed to tape all but the first few paragraphs of the session, but even the sense of those was taken down in longhand by another student while Sue got our recorder going. [...]

[...] The elite leave you records and methods, telling you of kings and queens, of gurus and prophets and gods, in whose eyes the masses of the people vanished. [...]

[...] Forget the dusty old records and feel your reality in the moment as you are. [...]

(Rob: “Yeah, well, say a group of people chose that type of existence, where their history was essentially obliterated by never being recorded. [...]

(We held the session in Jane’s study so that she could sit before the double microphones of her new recording system. [...]

I will let you take a break and listen to your recording.

[...] We played the tape back, then made some adjustments in our recording setup. [...]

[...] She’d heard the recorder turn itself off some ten minutes ago, but no other external sounds.

(An excellent session, deleted from the record. [...]

(As mentioned by Seth in the last session, I have begun keeping a record of outside weather data from our television weather channel. [...] This record is for session nights only; I do not know whether it is necessary to insert the data into each session. When we begin our dream experiments with the recorder, we will also keep a daily weather record, again as suggested by Seth.

[...] I will try to recall just enough to lead into the second half of the session, which I recorded verbatim in my homemade shorthand.

[...] There was much here, including some generalized locations and descriptions, that is not recorded. [...]

[...] As far as he knew, there is no record of Viking activity in this part of the northeast, in New York State.

[...] As nearly as I can recall, I recorded them accurately. [...]

(The false awakening: I tell Rob about the plants, and perhaps make a note to record the dream. [...]

[...] With enough training, these conversations can be recorded in both of your dreams. [...]

[...] With continued development you will be able to keep appointments and pass information in the dream state, and have your records to prove it.

If you want to record any given experience in its clearest form, then you should train yourself to wake up immediately afterward. [...]