“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

We will continue with this material, the main material of the session, at our next session. [...] The sessions will have a format again, you see.

In one of our earliest sessions I told you that trees have consciousness, and that consciousness resided within all things, as the plants within this room to some extent are aware of you, and the happenings here, can sense strangers, and can strongly sense emotional and psychic atmospheres, to which they do indeed react. (In Volume 1, see sessions 9 of 12/18/63, and 18 of 1/22/64.)

[...] We will continue from our last session.

In the case of the apparitions and ghosts mentioned in that session, there was one main difficulty behind their situation. [...]

(The following material is from the 836th session. [...]

(9:46.) Some of the material (in this session) on pain should help clear Ruburt’s mind, but the past week’s blue periods and so forth simply represented one more example of a situation in which he tried to make himself get better by “realizing the gravity of his condition”—by contrasting his performance against “normal” performance, and by the old beliefs of not trusting the body. [...]

[...] From here on Seth returned to the regular session, saying good night at 9:54 PM.)

SESSION 836 (DELETED PORTION)

[...] She finished the session in very good style. [...] A couple of minutes later Jane started reading aloud the session for the day before—November 29. [...] She finished the session at 3:34. [...]

(Jane didn’t have a session yesterday, December 1, so here I’ll summarize the day’s activities. [...]

(Jane read yesterday’s session, doing better than she had the day before. [...]

[...] Jane started reading the session over again from the day before yesterday. [...]

(I did remind Jane that in yesterday’s session Seth hadn’t addressed the question I’d mentioned to her at lunch time — why were we such extremists in our behavior, considering the severity of the symptoms, and so forth? Jane did want to have a session this afternoon.)

(In the session notes for January 9, I’d noted that I still felt that something was holding Jane back from feeling free to walk, in spite of all the advances we’ve made. Seth hadn’t mentioned this is yesterday’s session [for the 10th], and now I asked Jane if she had any insight into that question. [...]

(I haven’t typed yesterday’s session, on Sasquatch. [...]

(Yesterday’s session was mainly on the Sasquatch phenomenon, triggered I imagine by the program In Search Of, and I’ll probably take time off from Dreams one morning to get it done. [...]

[...] “I told myself before the session that you’re supposed to identify with your creative self, so I just said I’d go along with whatever happened in the session. [...]

(I’d asked Jane today if Seth could discuss briefly two subjects in the session this evening: My recent hassles with the discomfort in my side and groin, and Jane’s right hand. [...]

(The following material, then, is from the 846th session. [...]

[...] The work, however, would not have been right for you, but upside down in a fashion, because with your knowledge before, say, our sessions, your particular blend of psychic abilities and writing abilities would not have developed; your painting would have lacked, in a way that would be quite noticeable to you. [...]

(“The minute before I said I was going to have a session, that idea came into my mind,” Jane said. [...] She hadn’t had time to mention it to me before the session began.

[...] Jane began reading yesterday’s session — and she did very well, even better than yesterday. [...]

[...] I thought she was going to pass up having a session, it was getting so late, but finally she decided to have a short one as the time to turn her on her side arrived.)

As always, the session format sets up its own accelerated healing framework.

2. Jane referred here to the deleted part of tonight’s session, and Seth’s discussion therein of the work we are to do in translating early Speaker material: “The Speaker manuscripts are in your future, and will involve as I told you considerable work — a labor of love.” See the notes following the 623rd session in Chapter Five. [...]

(Jane and I sat for the session at about 9:15. [...]

[...] Then, as Jane told me about all of this, she announced that Seth was coming through right away — a most unusual procedure as far as our regular sessions are concerned. [...]

[...] This work can be followed by one utilizing sessions concerned with art mainly but covering some other artistic areas as well, such as the nature and origin of inspirations.

(Jane said she didn’t want to postpone the session even though she felt “so great”— so much like just taking it easy. [...] I mention this here because the subject unexpectedly crops up in the session.

(No session was held last Monday night.

[...] See the notes at the end of Seth’s Preface, which we received as the 609th session on April 10, 1972.

SESSION 623, OCTOBER 25, 1972
9:45 P.M. WEDNESDAY

(For several days now I’d been thinking about a remark of Seth’s in one of the earliest of this group of sessions, to the effect that Jane’s symptoms would get worse before they got better as we tried to cope with them. I’ve wished, often that I’d asked him to elaborate at the time—or at least marked the session so that I could find the remark later. [...] Before the session began I tried to locate the remark, but couldn’t. I felt considerable frustration, and finally laid the book aside. “Well, I hope I don’t ever have to find a specific remark in these sessions any more, “because it’s becoming impossible.” [...]

[...] The session had been excellent—so excellent that I’d felt like interjecting many questions as Seth preceded along: one of those times when I had a hard time not injecting myself, with my own impatience, into the session. [...]

(Upon thinking it over—it’s now Sunday afternoon as I finish typing the session—I now believe that I should have said little or nothing, and I became concerned lest I undid, or tried to, what progress Jane has managed to achieve lately. I was angry at session’s end, however, with the fact that she had responded to the publicity dilemma with aggravated hand and arm symptoms, and that it had taken me so long myself to realize what was going on. [...]

(This session came about because of a phone call I took today from the publicity department at Prentice-Hall. [...]

2. For material on CU and EE units in Volume 1, see sessions 682 (with notes 3 and 4), 683–84, and 688. The last two sessions also contain some of Seth’s comments on cellular consciousness.

7. In Volume 1, see the 689th session. In Volume 2, see the references in Note 7 for Session 708.

8. So far in the two volumes of “Unknown” Reality, Seth has discussed the freedom of cells from time, along with a number of their other attributes, in well over a dozen sessions. In Session 684 (in Volume 1) he said at 10:07: “Your body’s condition at any time is not so much the result of its own comprehension of its ‘past history’ as it is of its own comprehension of future probabilities. [...]

[...] The world as you know it is the result of a complicated set of “codes” (as given at the beginning of the last session), each locked in one to the other, each one in those terms dependent upon the others. [...]

[...] (With much humor:) I hope this session benefits you both. End of session, and a fond good evening.

[...] “I didn’t know he was going to do that,” she said after I told her it was an excellent session. “Maybe that’s why I felt so uncomfortable before the session. [...]

(A copy of this session is also being placed in the deleted notebook, since I’d like it to be placed under both categories.) I think it contains some excellent general material that, I told Jane, I was afreaid wouldn’t be seen by anyone if it were filed exclusively under private material.

[...] Jane said we could have “just a question-and-answer Seth book”—one made up of just those ingredients, without the formal session format. [...]

(Before tonight’s session I read to Jane this question: “In the 462nd Session, page 232, you say [meaning Seth] that any perception, however slight, alters every atom within our physical structure. [...]

[...] This was a reference to the fact that Jane got “mad” at Seth—one of the few times this has occurred—at an ESP-class session last night, for some remarks Seth made concerning Jane’s tendency to intellectually categorize people. See the 461st session in this respect. [...]

—and I thank Ruburt for the class sessions. (Elaborate, courteous amusement.) He learns as much from them as the students, but of a different nature; and he also knows that if he did not give his permission, such sessions would not be held. [...]

(Long pause.) Any questions that you have from this material, ask at our next session and I will answer them.

It is highly important, however, that you read those sessions over together, and discuss them, even if only one session at a time. All of the relationships in his bodily behavior are changing for the better, but reading those sessions will make sure that the old beliefs are not buried again, and hence allow the process to continue, and more smoothly accelerate. [...]

This session will be brief, because I would like you to use the rest of the session time to read from the latest material, and discuss it. [...]

(After this session was over we did settle down to read over this month’s previous four private sessions, and talk about a few points as a result. [...]

(Jane was quite relaxed as she told me she wanted a session at about 8 PM. [...]

[...] Jane said the pendulum session helped. [...] We had a talk before the session tonight. I reminded her of what Seth had said in the deleted session for February 26, 1972 , in Marathon: “You get what you concentrate upon. [...]

I have several suggestions; the remarks you made before the session are most pertinent, and must be kept in mind. [...]

[...] I suggest that the session be placed in front of his old journal notebook, and that the list of material written by you also be read by him every day before work. [...]

[...] I suggest that in a joint pendulum session you address Ruburt’s conscientious self with this in mind.

Last month, in the opening notes for Session 931, in Chapter 9, I recorded that on July 8 Jane spontaneously wrote “a complete outline for a book on Seth’s magical approach to reality.” Actually, we’ve been quite aware of the potential of such an idea ever since Seth began that material a year ago.³ After supper this evening we went over the loose-leaf notebook of information Jane has accumulated for The Magical Approach to Reality: A Seth Book, and discussed how she could follow her outline in putting all of that material—on our dreams, psychic events and insights, her poetry and our essays—together with Seth’s private sessions on the magical approach. [...] I now feel that many of those sessions aren’t so private after all, and can help others. [...]

[...] It’s from Session 747 for May 14, 1975, and I found that I had quoted portions of the session in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality: See Note 11 for Session 742. [...]

2. Sometimes together, sometimes separately, Jane and I listen to portions of the tapes students had made of the sessions and other exciting happenings in her ESP classes. I’d hardly put into shape for Session 933 my musings about the workings of consciousness than I heard Seth come through with these two passages; at once they reminded me of what I’d just been writing about.

SESSION 933, AUGUST 7, 1981
8:22 P.M. FRIDAY

[...] It is indeed important that you reread the sessions, and Ruburt’s improved reading status today (when Jane read yesterday’s session after lunch today) should at least give you a glimmer of the improvements that are possible—improvements that will indeed occur as you continue with our “program.” [...]

(The sponge exercise is described at the end of yesterday’s session; I’m pleased that Seth thinks it of value. Jane and I talked about it after the session today. [...]

(I mentioned them to Jane after lunch—just in case she did decide to have a session today.

[...] What I’m saying, of course, is that today’s session goes along with all of the others, in that it continues to offer renewed hope in a consistent way. [...]

[...] The letters C A R are part of the last name of a person I was thinking about prior to the session and this could be the reference. My friend as referred to in the session is the one I plan to marry in September. [...]

(This session took place at 10:10 PM on Thursday, May 30, 1968. [...]

(Part one of the session began at 10:10 and ended at 10:20. [...]

[...] This appears to be the last ESP class session she attended.)

[...] He lives in Williamsport, PA, but has witnessed several sessions. At the date of the 166th session he knew of no drug or pharmaceutical firms in Minneapolis. [...]

[...] I remarked that it was going to be a busy session, what with the material on the Gallaghers and Dr. Instream, a possible envelope test, and the chance that Seth might discuss two very long, vivid, and complicated dreams Jane had while taking a short nap last Friday morning. [...] She believes that at least one of these dreams is a therapeutic dream, resulting from suggestions she gave herself following Seth’s material on therapeutic dreams in the last session.

[...] For an account of an instance occurring during psy-time, involving John Bradley, see the unscheduled 190th session. As it happened John witnessed this session also.)

[...] Her eyes were open at the end of the session, her voice quiet, and she was smiling. I might add that while Jane was reading her dreams to me just prior to the session, I was only half listening as I got ready to take the notes. [...]

3. The day after this (738th) session was held I wrote to the real estate agents in Sayre, the Johnsons, informing them that Jane and I were withdrawing any interest we had in the Markle house. We sent the notice not only because of Seth’s material in the session, but because we felt that on our own we’d intuitively resolved a certain probable course of action — just as we’d done concerning the house on Foster Avenue in Elmira. (See Note 8 for Session 737.)

[...] [See the notes prefacing the 736th session.]

(Seth had used more than half of Monday’s session to discuss our house hunting in connection with Sayre and Foster Avenue. [...]

[...] This is the one Sue Watkins had “picked up on” several years ago; see the notes preceding the last session. [...]

(Jane was quite upset before the session this evening, and I’m the one who was responsible for her state. [...] We already had the perfect title for the book, one we’d jokingly originated following last Monday night’s session: Seth on Jonestown and Three Mile Island: Religious and Scientific Cults.

[...] Jane believed me, finally, and in the course of the conversation I learned that she’s also been worrying about which of Seth’s recent sessions should be presented in Mass Events. She agreed with the decisions I’d made in that area, but she also wanted Seth “to get back to the book per se, and call his sessions dictation.

[...] I do try to give hints and clues to some of it in this book, though, as I’ve done recently in sessions 841 and 844–45.

[...] Maybe we’d have sessions almost every night for a few weeks, or whatever it took. [...]