“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(In the 253rd session Seth told us he didn’t dream of us, just as we didn’t dream of him, and promised to tell us why soon. Before tonight’s session Jane said she hoped he hadn’t forgotten to go into the matter.

This session will be a relatively informal one, and not as long as our last session.

[...] Also, the same object was used in the next session, the 258th, and it is interesting to see how Seth picks up some of the same points both times. These points of agreement will be noted in the 258th session.

[...] At the end of the session she said she’d had no images while giving the envelope data. [...] These images can be difficult to recall, particularly on the spur of the moment, and Jane has had other instances where they came to mind some time after the session.

(This afternoon John Bradley, who was our witness for the 26th session, stopped in to ask if he could be a witness for the session tonight. [...] He thought he might miss the beginning of the session while working in the studio, but the informality of the idea seemed good. [...]

[...] After the glaring distortions of last session Jane had decided that she must relax, witnesses or no, so as the time for the session approached the radio still played, and we played with Willy, our cat, and exchanged banter with John.

(During this session, Jane spoke with much emphasis. [...] Seth began this session in a very positive manner, as though he would be all business this time, and kept at it hammer and tongs.)

(As session time arrived John was still busy in my studio. [...]

[...] Jane resumed reading the session, did well, and finished at 4:10. [...] She suggested having a short session when the hour began to grow late.)

[...] She’d called last night as I was finishing the session. [...]

[...] Jane began reading yesterday’s session, and doing quite well. [...]

Many of the contradictory beliefs and negative ones discussed in yesterday’s session led to strong feelings of self-disapproval. [...]

This will be a brief session, and unless you have other comments I will try to answer two or three of your questions at a time in the sessions immediately following. [...]

[...] and I could tell that she was pleased that she’d held the session. I told her it was excellent—that we ought to paste it on our foreheads and memorize it, along with last Monday’s session.)

(Once more, Jane wasn’t comfortable in her chair as she prepared for the session at 9 PM. [...]

[...] Part of your accomplishment lies in our sessions and your own considerable work with the notes, and with the invisible aura contained in those notes, for there in a different way you are painting a portrait—a portrait of two lives from a highly individualistic standpoint, extremely unique—and that is the kind of experience that would be ripped out of your life’s fabric, were you the hypothetical idealized version with whom you sometimes relate—a version highly romanticized, let me add. [...]

[...] Even though it was a shorter session, Jane’s delivery had often been intent and emphatic. A good session, I told her. It’s the next night as I type the session, of course. [...]

(We sat for the session at 8:45. [...] Jane has done excellent work interpreting the dreams; some of my nighttime excursions have resulted from these sessions on the magical approach.

NOTES: SESSION OF AUGUST 20, 1980

[...] See especially sessions 656-57 in Chapter 15.

(The regularly scheduled book session for last night was not held. [...] We decided to reschedule the session for this evening.

(After supper tonight, however, Jane chose not to have the session because she felt so free and relaxed. [...] Yet she launched into the session as easily as ever; I had to write fast to keep up with her delivery.)

(I sat working on my notes for the beginning of the session while Jane left the room. [...] “I think it started with Seth, but then I went into another altered state of my own, like the time I got that dream material at the kitchen table — when was that, last March?” [See the 844th session for April 1.]

SESSION 856, MAY 24, 1979
8:23 P.M. THURSDAY

As of December 1969, my husband, Rob, and I have held over 500 Seth sessions, over a period of five years. [...] Through sessions he has helped friends, strangers, and students, and by following his instructions my husband and I are learning to develop our own psychic potentials.

[...] Finally I agreed to hold a few sessions for those most in need, though the responsibility frightened me. The people involved didn’t attend the sessions since they lived in other parts of the country, yet they said the advice helped them; information given concerning individual backgrounds was correct. [...]

Excerpts from some of the early sessions will also be included in the first chapters, since Seth’s ideas were then as new and strange to us as the sessions themselves. [...]

[...] They had read my first book, knew about Seth, and had attended a few classes, but they had never witnessed a Seth session. [...]

[...] I never knew when we would have such a test, and I never saw the envelope before a session. Rob would hand an envelope to me in the middle of a session. [...] After the session we checked our results. [...]

Usually no one was present at these sessions but Rob and I—hardly a scientific state of affairs. [...] We were trying to see what we could and could not expect of the sessions. [...]

We were in the middle of a Seth session and Seth was giving his impressions of the Gallaghers’ trip. [...]

[...] The session was held on Monday, October 25, 1965, but the incident happened to the Gallaghers one week earlier, on Monday, October 17. [...]

(Jane and I were tired from our recent activities and might have missed the session, except that she didn’t want to interrupt the rhythm we’d built up. [...] All of us expected an easygoing session — one that might touch upon current events involving the three of us, from a very ill feline, say, to our impromptu Friday evening “reincarnational dramas.” [...]

(Since I knew so little about the time of Christ, it’s taken me a while to do the extra reading necessary so that I could write appropriate session notes. [...]

(Pause.) You had better remember in what session that information was given you.

(The session was being held in our living room. [...]

(I had only part of the last session typed, so I read the rest of it to Jane from my notes. Just before tonight’s session began she said with unwitting humor, “I’m starting to get stuff from Seth, but it’s about us. [...]

[...] (See the 634th session in Chapter Eight, among others.)

[...] Because of the connection with survival mentioned earlier (in the last session), there is a great charge here. [...]

The concept of nirvana (see the 637th session in Chapter Nine) and the idea of heaven are two versions of the same picture, the former being one in which individuality is lost in the bliss of undifferentiated consciousness, and the latter one in which still-conscious individuals perform mindless adoration. [...]

(Jane didn’t feel particularly like having a session, but decided to anyway. I asked no questions before the session, nor did Jane, but we were still surprised at the subject matter.)

(Just before the session I had said that I feared I would have to revise my preliminary planning, and allow more background area in the painting than at first planned.)

[...] I hadn’t tried to conjure up these words; the emotional climate set up in the session by Seth had made their release from the subconscious effortless.

[...] I would not want to keep my sleepy babies awake—and so I will close the session. [...]

(In the opening notes for Session 852 I wrote that starting with the 846th session for April 4, “Seth has been dictating material for Mass Events on Wednesday evenings only.” [...] Even last Thursday night’s session was displaced from the evening before. I took it upon myself to present material from two Monday night sessions — 853 and 855.

(Monday night’s session is a private one.

(Earlier tonight Jane had picked up from Seth some of his material for the session, should she decide to hold it.)

[...] He ended the session at 10:56 P.M.

[...] “I’ll do what I can about the session,” she said. [...] I reminded her of my two questions from Monday’s session, plus the one about my reaction to the mail today. [...]

(We’ve learned a good deal about Jane’s symptoms, working with the pendulum since Monday’s session. [...]

(We had several questions for Seth, including the one noted at the end of the last session: Why didn’t the unconscious realize it was going too far in its protective role? [...]

(This afternoon Jane had a very revealing dream about the whole question of protection, the male aspects of her personality, etc.; a copy is attached to the session.

[...] Smile.) My big brother does not have to tune in, you see, at the time of the session. The session exists in all time. [...]

Our friend the artist (Van Elver; see the data last session regarding sepia) is not available this evening, but if you make the point of reminding me before sessions, I will see that we get more information for you.

(See page 15 of the last session. [...]

(Seth now discusses my dream of July 30, 1968; I described it to Jane before the session. [...]

[...] I also used Jane’s appointment card of May 5,1965 as the test object for the 15th envelope test in the 199th session. I picked the card for tonight’s session because I thought it would be loaded with strong emotional charges of a personal nature, whereas the identification card used in the last test belonged to a person almost unknown to Jane and me.

(The session was again held in our front room, and was not interrupted. [...] She was smoking as the session began.)

I will not take too much of our session up with these matters. [...] You may as you wish include the early part of the session in your records, or exclude it as you wish.

[...] See Session 68 in Volume 2.)

[...] I would like you to have several Sumari sessions together. You can arrange this any way you like—in the place of one regular session, for example.

(The first portion of this session, the 603rd, is deleted from the record. [...]

Your own discussions, and the improvement in your relationship as I told you, in one way is responsible for your latest developments in our sessions, and I include the Sumari—the songs, and the statement. [...]

[...] I am going to end our session. [...]

[...] She’s had but two regular sessions — one for friends, and a personal one for us — and only one for her weekly ESP class. [Class sessions aren’t numbered.] Occasionally Jane has wondered what effect, if any, the break would have on Seth’s book. [...]

SESSION 518, MARCH 18, 1970,
9:25 P.M. WEDNESDAY

I did promise to hold a Seth session for him, and later I was glad I did. Not only was the session a help to Jon, but it contains some excellent information on what can go on while a person is supposedly unconscious, in coma, and what we experience just before and after death.

A few days after this session we were visited by a retired minister and his wife. [...] I told him about Jon’s session, and he was very interested in what Seth had to say about Sally’s experience while in coma.

Finally after the breakup of one such episode, she asked for a Seth session. She knows both of us well, so I was quite astonished at her behavior before the session. [...]

We are still having sessions that deal with reincarnation, and when questions come up, we ask them. This helps to add to our material on the subject, of course, but yet in the entire fabric of the sessions, reincarnation plays a comparatively minor part, as only one aspect of our reality.

(The following material is from the 720th session.

[...] (See sessions 714, 716 for instance.) Your own creativity emerges, and will not only in your sketches of your experiences—those you have done and those that you will do—but in the paintings also that you will indeed do from them. [...]

Ruburt should continue reading the sessions he has picked out, every other day or so, plus my current personal material. [...]

SESSION 720 (DELETED PORTION)

(This material is taken from the regular 621st session.)

Some sessions for example can be quite long, but the time is right.

(See regular 621st session, this date, for more re Timothy Foote, etc.

SESSION 621 (DELETED PORTION)