“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In a brief communication one afternoon I explained to him the similarity between multiple personalities and the various aspects of the personality as it appeared in the dreaming and trance states.

[...] In a few seconds she was out of her trance.

[...] To come out of the trance she blinked or squeezed her eyes shut several times. [...]

[...] All of us were in very good humor, including Seth; the session as it continued reflected this, and a rapid-fire exchange resulted in which Jane was in and out of trance at the wink of an eye, so to speak. [...]

[...] Jane left trance quickly, although it had been a good one, she said. She did not remember being bothered by the picture-taking, or the flashgun, etc.; in trance she gave no sign, for instance, that the flashgun interfered in any way, etc.

[...] It was held primarily so that Rich Conz, of The Elmira Star-Gazette, could photograph Jane in trance. [...]

[...] Most of them are of Jane in trance, from a variety of angles; I appear in a few to show our procedure in note-taking, etc. [...]

[...] I saw Jane, as Seth, laugh herself far more than ever before in trance. [...]

[...] Jane paused, eyes closed; then they opened easily, and she was out of trance. [...] As soon as she left trance she became aware of music playing in the apartment downstairs; before she hadn’t heard this.

[...] She appeared to have left trance as she talked, but then said: “If I came out so good, how come I’m still half under?” As before recently, Jane was partially in trance during break, but felt well. [...]

[...] She said it was like a cone or pyramid suspended above her head, and that as she went into trance she was to “align” herself directly beneath this cone, which is inverted. [...]

[...] After a brief pause with her eyes closed, Jane then came out of trance. [...]

(The trance was the deepest I have been in. [...] He tried to help me break the trance, which was rather difficult. [...]

[...] Then suddenly I was in a very deep trance of which I have no memory—except at the very end, when I was yelling my lungs out, and I believe, flat on the floor crying. [...]

[...] We didn’t check out the information I gave during the second, more emotional part of the trance. [...]

(I had no idea, consciously, that I could go into such a deep trance or for that matter, give such precise information. [...]

[...] Nor did she know she would be kept in trance during breaks to rest my writing hand. [...] She felt a sense of strangeness at break time because she didn’t leave trance, but was not worried, nor did she try to get out of trance. [...]

[...] Jane now came out of her trance for the first time since 9 PM. As far as we know this is by far the longest trance she has undergone. [...]

(Jane stopped speaking at 9:42 but did not come out of trance. [...]

[...] Since she was still in trance I thought it voluntary, and that she must feel in excellent form this evening. [...]

(The first thing she wanted to know when she came out of trance was if the session contained new material. [...]

[...] It was almost an inside-out process of going into trance, and as I watched Seth a few minutes later it seemed that Jane’s consciousness was rushing past her open eyes, beyond my comprehension of what speed is. [...]

(“When Jane came out of trance it was, again, an almost audible experience for me — a feeling of slowing down from a high airy whine to our normal ‘sound’ or speed. [...]

[...] Sue was on the edge of the couch, watching Jane closely as she came out of a deep trance. [...]

(Jane came out of trance at 9:40PM, rested, then resumed in trance as Seth at 9:50.)

[...] Jane began speaking for Seth, in trance, in a quiet voice broken by many long pauses, and with her eyes closed. [...]

(Jane’s pace was faster now, and her eyes began to open and close as she remained in trance.)

(Jane came out of trance at 10:24 PM.

[...] Again, Jane said upon coming out of trance, she had been aware of the footsteps of people passing back and forth in the hall outside our living room door. I had been hoping her trance was deeper this time. [...]

[...] Jane’s delivery had been fast but even so, she said, her trance hadn’t been as deep as it usually is. [...]

[...] Once again Jane’s trance was broken when our cat, Willy, jumped up into her lap. [...]

(10:47 P.M. At last, Jane’s trance had improved. [...]

(On November 4, 1964, Jane unwittingly achieved a trance state, during psychological time, that lasted for several hours. [...] Seth called this one a semi-trance. [...]

[...] Ruburt has been in enough of a trance as it is. [...]

[...] However, I do not feel that Ruburt should remain in a trance state today, any longer than he already has. [...]

(Jane went into a trance one evening during a discussion. Out of this episode — which we did not understand was a trance for several years afterward — evolved a group of writers, Jane among them, who called themselves “The Five.” [...]

[...] Jane was out of her trance easily. [...]

[...] The psychological climate at that time, of those involved, initiated the conditions, and without realizing what she was about our friend [Jane] went into a trance.

[...] Jane’s trance had been good. [...]

[...] Jane’s eyes stayed closed but she nodded that she was okay to my question, then came out of trance easily enough.

[...] It’s like coming down out of trance; it wasn’t like this before. [...]

(“You think of a trance as going deeper. [...]

[...] In a few moments Jane came out of trance and opened her eyes. [...]

[...] (Pause.) He is becoming fairly proficient now in the use of the trance state, and in its controls. [...]

[...] He has been used to the trance, and of course with what you call the normal waking state, and has not happened to become acquainted with this transition phase. [...]

[...] All the more so since the obvious, more noticeable symptoms of the trance state itself are absent; and therefore the state could pass unnoticed for some time.

[...] It is passed through very quickly as a rule, both on the way into a trance and on the way out of one. [...]

[...] I was in a very deep trance the night of the session, which deepened as the session continued. [...] I had thought when the session was over of suggesting we do this, but I was exhausted even though I knew I was having trouble snapping out of the trance.

[...] I had some difficulty coming out of the trance state and did not realize the fact of the projection critically until I lay in bed.

I averaged 40 of the sessions, just the parts devoted to dictation, for two things: the time Jane spent in trance only, and her trance time plus relevant break times. [...] For she completed the two volumes of “Unknown” Reality in a total trance time of 90:35 hours, or a total trance-plus-break time of 131:30 hours (sums which translate roughly into times of 45 hours and 65 hours per book). [...]

“The trance state is characterized by a feeling of inexhaustible energy, emotional wholeness, and subjective freedom. [...] Even in trance I’m aware of this, and I’m swept along in its energy. [...] But in the trance, what is known is known. [...]

“The ‘Unknown’ Reality itself is a product of the unknown reality of the mind, of course, since I produced it entirely in a trance state, as Seth. [...] I would compare it to a higher state of wakefulness rather than to the sleep usually associated with trance — but a different kind of wakefulness, in which the usual world seems to be the one that is sleeping. [...]

[...] Although they bear my name, before I was finished with them I’d had plenty of help from my wife, Jane Roberts, and from Seth, the nonphysical entity who speaks through her while she’s in trance. [...]

[...] Jane was rather slow coming out of trance. [...]

(She was on the whole quieter than usual at break, as though not quite all the way out of trance. [...]

[...] Jane was out of trance more easily, but it had still been a deep one—she remembered nothing of the material just spoken. [...]

[...] Jane was soon out of trance, but again it had been deep. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance has been good, but she was out of it almost at once. [...]

[...] For you are fascinated with physical reality, and you are in as deep a trance now as the woman is through whom I write this book.

[...] There is a reason for such a trance, as you will discover, but little by little you must wake up. [...]

(11:12 P.M. Jane was quickly out of a deep trance. [...]

(Jane resumed after a break, and her trance deepened considerably. Later she said it was her deepest trance ever. [...] It took some time for her to come out of the trance, with what little help I could offer.

There are methods of course where the trance can be terminated gradually. It is not good to terminate that kind of trance too quickly. [...]

[...] Later Jane began to give impressions on her own, in trance. [...]

I will explain more clearly the differences in perception that are involved in various trance procedures. [...]

[...] I was confident that I could induce a good sound relaxation and at least a light trance state, and we achieved this and more. [...]

[...] I thought she was in a light trance state and Jane later agreed that she was, that she felt very relaxed. [...]

(I began to tell Jane that she was now going into a deeper trance. [...]

[...] Yet it was now apparent that Jane felt a sense of blame, even shame; at the start of the deeper trance state she told me she felt I was mad at her all the time because I had worked full time at Artistic, etc; I tried to counter this by pointing out to her the benefits we had both obtained from this.

(Jane began speaking in trance this evening with her eyes open at once, her voice a little stronger than usual. She used few pauses and many gestures, and it was evident from the outset that the trance was a deep one.)

[...] This time she told me I had better speak her name three times, as Seth had suggested I do in a recent session, when her trance was deep. [...] But, as she said later, she never really got out of the trance, and resumed at 10:15.)

This has something to do with Ruburt’s difficulty in breaking the trance state. [...]

[...] When she finally began to talk Jane said this was the deepest trance, the “farthest out” she had ever been, bar no other time. [...]

Now no one asked me what it was like when I go in trance. Now to go into a trance is simply to focus intensely in a highly specific area of reality and, therefore, I throw or project a part of what I am here because I am able to utilize greater areas of my personality than those with which you are now acquainted in yourself. [...]

[...] You know that you are as much in trance here as you ever are when you are in psy-time or when you are making an effort to look inward. I simply want you to realize that if this life is a trance you can turn the direction of your consciousness in other ways and perceive greater realities that presently exist. [...]

[...] The question was raised, where is consciousness when one is in trance?)

[...] When he is in trance your eyes are as strange as his. [...]