“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It was not distorted. The Speakers are gifted according to their own characters, some having far more abilities than others, but all playing roles in the communication of inner data. In your terms, therefore, some Speakers would be much more accomplished than others. For example, there have been a far smaller number of truly prominent Speakers than the number given.

(“Does that include data on the Speakers?” I planned to ask several questions about the Speakers.)

The greatest Speakers do not only translate and communicate inner data, but also go much further into these inner realms of reality than others connected with your physical system. They add, then, to the basic inner data. The greatest Speakers have not needed the intensive training necessary for most. Their unique combination of characteristics has made this unnecessary. (Pause. One of many.)

M-A-U-B-U-N-D-U, in Africa, 14 B.C. The Speakers, more than most, are highly active through all aspects of existence, whether physical or nonphysical, waking or sleeping, between lives or at other levels of reality. As certain physical data are carried along in the gene structure, so this inner information is codified within whatever psychological structures the Speakers may inhabit; but far more readily available than it is to other personalities. It needs, often, trigger points to release it, however. These can take place in either the waking or dream state, and they serve to open up the reservoirs of knowledge and make past training available.

Dictation: Generally speaking (smile), once a Speaker always a Speaker, in your terms. [...] The Speakers possess an extraordinary vividness of feeling and thought projection.

[...] The Speakers were not confined in their activities, therefore, to waking consciousness. [...] For example, conventional images of the Christian God and the saints may be utilized by the Speakers, with all of this highly vivid. [...] Some Speakers confine their abilities to the dream state; and, waking, are largely unconscious of their own abilities or experience.

It is very possible for one dreamer who is a Speaker, to go to the aid of another individual who is having some difficulties in an inner reality within the dream state. [...] A good Speaker is as effective within one reality as he is within the other, creating psychic frameworks within physical reality as well as within interior environments. Many artists, poets, and musicians are Speakers, translating one world in terms of another, forming psychic structures that exist in both with great vitality — structures that may be perceived from more than one reality at once.

Now the Speakers are familiar with the rules within many systems. [...] In this larger context, then, the Speakers must be called local. [...]

The Druids obtained some of their concepts from Speakers. [...] The Speakers predated the emergence of any religions that you know, and the religions of the Speakers arose spontaneously in many scattered areas, then grew like wildfire from the heart of Africa and Australia. [...]

(10:41.) Various bands of the Speakers continued through the centuries. [...] The Speakers, singly, existed in your Stone Age period, and were leaders. [...] There was little physical communication, however, in those days between the various Speakers, and some were unaware of the existence of the others.

(A note: Seth has mentioned the Speakers just once before. [...] Jane and I find the idea of the Speakers most interesting. [...]

[...] The Speakers were the first to impress this inner knowledge upon the physical system, to make it physically known. Sometimes only one or two Speakers were alive in several centuries. [...]

(This excerpt from the session contains Seth’s first mention of the Speakers and their functions in the reincarnational process, and supplements the Speaker data in Chapter Seventeen.

[...] After winding up some very interesting material concerning that situation, Seth launched into the Speaker data at about 11:15. [...] The term “Speaker,” as Seth uses it, was as unknown to Jane and me then as it was to Ron and his family.)

Your people learned them from their elders, and they were called Speakers. You were a Speaker. [...]

[...] If Seth means that the Essenes were promulgating the Speakers’ codes of ethics in, say, the first century A.D., then this of course is a time many centuries later than Ron’s life in 1200 B.C.

To some degree everyone is a speaker. In deeper terms there are Speakers, with a capital, who specialize. [...] Beside using such expression, however, the speakers become the voices in people’s dreams.

The speakers operate in individual capacity, and yet they affect mass life conditions, for they can point out needed alterations in, say, a political system long before this is apparent. The speakers use language, yet stretch it beyond its means. [...]

(11:24.) As a speaker, I bring into your world information not generally a part of it, and in other terms as speakers yourselves, you contribute your knowledge of the world as it is in your time, along with that vaster knowledge that is a part of your heritage. [...]

(Recently I’d mentioned to Jane that it would be nice if Seth would say something about the speakers, and counterparts.)

The Speakers help you in the formation of dreams which are indeed multidimensional artistic productions of a kind — dreams existing in more than one reality, with effects that dissect various stages of consciousness that are real, in your terms, to both the living and the dead and in which both the living and the dead may participate. [...]

Divorced from physical focus, you are in a better position to hear the Speakers, to translate their instructions, to practice with the creation of images, and to be guided in the methods of maintaining the health of the physical body. [...]

The purpose of the Speakers is to help you correlate and understand this multidimensional existence, and to bring as much as possible of it to your conscious attention. [...]

You can direct the healing of your body, telling yourself that this will be accomplished by you at one of the other levels of sleep consciousness, and you may ask for the aid of a Speaker to give you any necessary psychological guidance that is needed to maintain health. [...]

[...] I came across his essay, The Poet, in which he talked about the ‘speakers’ as being those who use their inner abilities to ‘speak the inner secrets of nature.’ The essay impressed me strongly, seeming to echo elements in my own writing and psychic characteristics; and of course I thought of Seth’s ‘Speakers’ as he described them in Chapter Twenty of Seth Speaks. [According to Seth, Emerson was a Speaker too!] Then Bob Monroe and his wife arrived, and we had a busy evening. [...]

[...] The result was a nine-page poem called Dialogues of the Speakers, which may or may not continue into a book. [...]

Do the Speakers live?

[...] I began to sense the Speakers’ ‘massive lives,’ and I realized that I had gone beyond the poem. [...]

Now, this is different from the speakers. A speaker may or may not be a Sumari. Some speakers are Sumari, and some are not. There are bonds of affection and understanding that unite this group, and a speaker may or may not be one. [...]

(“All right,” Rob pursued, “say some speakers are Sumari, but might another group of speakers be of another family?”)

The speakers generally do not fall into any particular group. [...] There will be groups of speakers, within these large guilds. [...]

[...] Therefore, you see, I do not believe that at one time you will be able to get a translation of some of the old speakers manuscripts, but it still will be a difficult endeavor. [...]

The data was also given as I told you by speakers before the time of recognized written language. Some of the speakers were Sumari, and so we will often deal with speakers who were Sumari. [...]

Other speakers of different groups would “specialize” (in quotes) in the same way.

[...] Some of the Sumari speakers in the beginning transmitted inner information in precisely such a way, and hopefully at some time at least a few such versions may be picked up by Ruburt. [...]

[...] In yet another state of consciousness, material is received that is supposed to represent remnants of ancient Speaker manuscripts. (These are also translated later.) Seth defines the Speakers as teachers, both physical and nonphysical, who constantly interpret and communicate inner knowledge through the ages. [...]

[...] This led to another group of poems, The Speakers. To me this all means that there is a rich vein of creativity and knowledge available to each according to his abilities, just beneath the surface of usual consciousness. [...]

Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time, The Speakers, and some Sumari poetry are being combined into a book that will be published soon by Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] For example, the novel included many Sumari poems and portions of Speaker manuscripts; and when I sing Sumari I identify with Cyprus, who is supposed to be a fictional character. [...]

(As with Sumari, we expect that references to the Speakers will be included in this book from time to time. In reincarnational terms, the Speakers are teaching personalities who reach across the centuries. Seth commented in Chapter Twenty of Seth Speaks: “The Speakers, more than most, are highly active through all aspects of existence, whether physical or nonphysical, waking or sleeping, between lives or at other levels of reality….”

[...] One of its services will be to teach Jane to free her inner cognitions enough so that she can translate Speaker manuscripts without distorting them out of all proportion.

(Ironically, many of the very ancient Speaker “manuscripts” are entirely verbal. [...]

(When Seth tells me I’ve done a Speaker’s portrait, I translate this to mean that I’ve tuned-in on but one personality out of the very many making up that Speaker’s entity.

(“Number twenty-eight: Have I painted any portraits of Speakers?”)

(In Chapter Seventeen Seth told Jane and me that we’d both been Speakers. [...]

[...] Few of the paintings are of Speakers, obviously, and in no case did I realize I was working with such a personality.

While the speaker, or speaker-system, necessarily loses many meanings, the very distortions that do occur make the messages decipherable. [...]

The speaker at your end must necessarily do the translating, and the purity of the translation, relatively speaking, is determined by the speaker’s own development. [...]

(At noon, as we ate, I asked her what she thought the Sinful Self might make of the Speaker manuscript material she’d been getting in recent days. [...]

In the last period of time Ruburt has also produced his material on Speaker manuscripts, for example, when his mood has been on an entirely different nature, when he was immersed in creativity, and he felt a sense of accomplishment. [...]

(“We were wondering what the Sinful Self might think about work on those Speaker manuscripts. [...]

[...] I repeated my question about the Sinful Self’s opinion of Jane working on Speaker manuscripts.)

The Speaker manuscripts are in your future, and will involve as I told you considerable work—a labor of love. [...]

[...] During the above presentation, Jane was again aware of channels being available from Seth, about us, the speakers, the book, etc.; she could tune into any of these, etc.

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.” [...]

[...] A Speaker or Speakers will appear in whatever guise will be most acceptable to the projectionist, whether it be the guise of a god, an angel or a disciple. [...]

According to the abilities and understanding of the projectionist, however, more thorough messages can be given, and it may be quite obvious that the Speakers are indeed only symbols of greater identities. [...] The true nature of the nonphysical Speakers may then be made known.

(Today Jane wrote two poems — one of them several pages long — that, she said, fit into the scheme of her potential book of poetry, Dialogues of the Speakers. See the notes prefacing the 653rd session for April 4, in Chapter Thirteen, describing how she gave birth to the original long Speaker poem while in an altered state of consciousness. [...]

[...] The sixth presentation is from a session held for a student in which Seth mentioned the Speakers for the first time.

[...] As it does, so the speakers within each of you can rise to the surface of ordinary consciousness without being considered blabbermouths or mad men and women, or fools, without having to distort their information simply to bring it to your attention. The speakers are those inner voices that first taught you physical languages. [...]