“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. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

(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. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

(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. [...]

(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.)

[...] 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. [...]

(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 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. [...]

[...] (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.

[...] 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. [...]

[...] 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’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. [...]

(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 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. [...]

(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. [...]

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?)