“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(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.)

(This portion of an unnumbered ESP class session was transcribed from incomplete notes made by a member of Jane’s Thursday-night class, beginning at 10:15 PM on December 28, 1967.

SESSION 393

(The following material is from the 709th session.

(12:07 AM.) We are about ready to end the session after a few remarks.

SESSION 709 (DELETED PORTION)

(I finished typing last Monday’s session just before we sat for this one. At my request Jane read the page of notes I’d attached to the end of the session. [...] Among other things I’d written that Monday’s session was even better than I’d thought it was. [...]

(Once again—by 8:47—Jane was very uncomfortable, trying again and again to find a tolerable position in her chair so that she could hold the session. [...]

[...] And as soon as Seth opened the session, I understood at once how he was going to link that tale with Jane’s own hassles. [...]

[...] End of session—

[...] This will be a brief session. [...]

(“How did the tape of the 329th session for go over for Pat Norelli’s class in Boston?”

[...] On March 25th, she recorded the 329th session, with the intent of playing the tape for her honors class in high school. [...]

(Seth also correctly picked out the seat of Art Finnegan, to whom he referred in the 329th session. [...]

The session, the late one, dealing with “work” attitudes, should be read at least twice a week now. A new synthesis is taking place concerning Ruburt’s ideas about his writing and life, so that particular session will simply insure that the old ideas are sufficiently broken up so that the new synthesis can form.

[...] In fact, she was still feeling the effects of a relaxation as this session began. [...]

[...] everything as given in the latest session to this date.

Now: This will be a short session.

(Tonight’s session was an effort to complete the truncated session of last night.)

[...] I will continue this at your earliest convenience—but begin at once as given with the book, and the understanding, I hope, you will achieve from this session. I bid you a fond good evening, but unless you do what I have said, and until you do, we will not have another private session, for you will not be ready for it.

We are starting anew, and again this time I will not hold another session for you unless you follow what I say this evening.

DELETED SESSION

(To open this session we tried something different, to see if we would still get results. [...]

(“Out of curiosity, Seth, what do you do between these sessions?”)

(Whereupon I commented with a laugh that I was spending a lot of time thinking about these sessions.)

(Last night, while sitting quietly for a moment after my day’s work, I saw again briefly the scene of the 6th session-Ruburt on the path. [...]

(I was so absorbed typing that Jane had to call me three times for the session. [...] I mentioned what Seth had said about her father in the last session, and asked her if she thought material on her mother might help. [...]

At the time the sessions began (pause), the world was beginning to seem senseless, truly incomprehensible, to anyone who held any sense of poetry or sanity. [...] Ruburt’s creativity broke through those frameworks to provide our sessions and to release the psychic abilities that had earlier been nearly but not completely repressed. [...]

[...] I’m just finishing typing last Monday’s session, the first in our new series, but already I think the program has helped her.

(9:37.) The sessions then opened the door to a particular kind of value fulfillment that was natural to Ruburt’s being. [...]

(According to him, tonight’s session after 9:52 isn’t book material either, but Jane and I are presenting it here because in it Seth returns to questions I’d asked earlier in Mass Events: What about the roles played in human affairs by viruses like smallpox? As I quoted myself in the opening notes for the 840th session: “What is the real relationship between the host organism and disease?” See Session 840 itself, and certain parts of Session 841.

(Since the 863rd session was held three weeks ago, Seth has given us but two regular sessions — both on subjects other than those for Mass Events — and two private sessions.

[...] In particular, I reminded Jane of a paragraph of material Seth gave in the 865th nonbook session, which she held a week ago from last Monday evening:

[...] In your belief system, however, it is almost imperative to see a doctor in such circumstances (as Jane wrote in Note 2 for Session 805), for many fears are unsubstantiated, and the fear alone, found groundless, gives the person new life symbolically and physically.

[...] Always end your pendulum sessions with the new beliefs you want to instill, reinforcing whatever you have learned from that particular session. The idea of those pendulum sessions should not be to find out what is wrong, but to discover Ruburt’s feelings and beliefs, and to ascertain how they can be changed to bring about more favorable conditions.

(We’ve also talked over Seth’s answer in the last session about why the subconscious doesn’t back off when it’s obvious that it’s gone too far in a protective role, say. [...]

A private session.

[...] His beliefs and hopes arose again later when I gave the sessions on spontaneity and work that I want him to reread. [...]

(We expected Seth to speak tonight, and to deal with material Jane and I had been discussing just before session time. [...]

Such a book would be written during our sessions however, dictated by me, for our friend Ruburt would not let me inside his own writing hours.

[...] It would take care of the sessions’ organization, for one thing.

[...] For what you have during sessions is not really my complete identity. [...]

[...] The material really belongs in a regular session. To avoid its getting lost or forgotten, I plan to insert a note calling attention to it in the next regular session we have, which would be a book session on mass reality. [...]

(We went over the questions left over from last Saturday night’s short session. [...]

Your attitudes before—and after—our last session, about Ruburt’s condition, can be equated however with precisely such uncreative and cowed frames of mind. [...]

I realize that you have both been busy, and that these sessions themselves take time. [...]

[...] And feel free with the sessions. If you want to write, and it happens to be a session night, as far as I am concerned there is no difference. [...]

(No session was held Monday night.

(More developments took place today, before I began typing this session. [...]

I do want you to find the sessions on self-approval, and to read them—both of you.

(No sessions were held last week. I’ve finished working on the last session for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, and today began the last note for the book, on ESP class. [...]

(In connection with all of this, I came across the deleted session for December 18, 1974 while looking for something else yesterday. It fit in so well with the visit last Friday evening, concerning authority versus our interests, that I asked if Seth would comment on both the visit and that four-year-old session this evening.)

[...] You began before our sessions even, in your private lives before you met. [...]

Now in our sessions I must unfortunately try to explain the greater aspects of reality in terms of a Framework 1 culture, with its psychic conventions. [...]

(The following material is from the 725th session.

End of session. [...]

SESSION 725 (DELETED PORTION)

(The following material is from the 764th session.

[...] End of session, and a fond good evening.

SESSION 764 (DELETED PORTION)

[...] She said she thought it was a good session, because “my head feels as though there’s absolutely nothing else in it but the session.” [...]

[...] We did not like to see the session end so abruptly. Since interruptions have evidently become something of a hazard because of Jane’s deeper trance state, we have decided to move the sessions into our bedroom. [...]

[...] Once again, as in the 133rd and 134th sessions, Jane was shocked out of her trance state. [...]

[...] I suggest that we end this evening’s session.

(Jane was smoking as the session began and her eyes soon began to open. [...]

We are going to have a brief session this evening, and after a break we shall have the Instream material.

[...] She knew before the session began that there would be no envelope.)

[...] We will then close our session, unless of course for any reason you request that we continue. [...]

[...] We’d sat for the session at 8:50, when Jane said she was ready. This was the first time I’d heard her express her impatience at Seth, as though everyone was supposed to be ready when we wanted a session.

[...] “I’m not blocking,” she repeated several times, reiterating that she really wanted the session, no matter what it said.)

[...] Some of the reasons were given in other sessions. [...]

[...] In other words, tell him, I am not giving the session for my benefit but for his, and not to hear myself talk. [...]

(We did not hold our regularly scheduled session last night. [...] Eventually she decided to have the session. [...]

End of session. [...]

And I told her that she’d given an excellent session indeed, and that I wished such important material was common knowledge.)

SESSION 935, AUGUST 13, 1981
8:34 P.M. THURSDAY