“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Jane said she hadn’t been cold in trance, but was now.

[...] In that ESP class session, you mentioned going into a trance yourself, and the effort required by you to pinpoint us in our time and space.”)

[...] Jane paused in trance for some moments, her eyes closed as if to repel the noise.)

(10:01 P.M. Her trance hadn’t been particularly deep, Jane said, yet now she proceeded to underestimate by almost half the 51 minutes she’d been “under.” [...]

[...] The table between Joseph and myself (Jane, in trance, sat with her feet upon our long narrow coffee table) does not feel invaded by the invisible particles that compose it. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been excellent, her delivery fast for much of the time. [...]

[...] It was obvious that she was in a deep trance.)

(The outward signs of Jane’s trance performances as Seth are very interesting in themselves, and I don’t intend to minimize them: indeed, I describe them every so often. [...] As she took them off her eyes were much darker and more luminous than they usually are: She was dissociated — in trance. [...]

[...] Jane came out of trance very easily and quickly, as she usually does. [...]

[...] “I’ve got that feeling again,” Jane said, after she’d come out of a deep trance. [...]

[...] As soon as she was out of trance Jane began rotating her arms once again. [...]

[...] Sharon didn’t give any sign that she noticed or heard anything unusual—and looking at Jane, one couldn’t tell that she was in trance. [...]

[...] She began speaking in trance in a quiet voice, with a few pauses, eyes open often.)

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

[...] She also sang in Sumari, her trance language, after finishing with the session. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been an excellent one, her delivery often forceful and rapid, her manner very animated. [...]

The two volumes making up The “Unknown” Reality: A Seth Book, were dictated by my wife, Jane Roberts, in cooperation with Seth, the nonphysical “energy personality essence” for whom she speaks when she’s in trance. [...] She produced the two books in an accumulated trance time of about 90 hours — an accomplishment that I think quite remarkable.

[...] But as I wrote in introducing Volume 1, whatever comments I make along the way will explain Jane’s trance performances from my view, as best I can offer them — her behavior while she’s “under,” the varied, powerful or muted use of her voice as she speaks for Seth, her stamina and humor in sessions, the speed or slowness of her delivery. [...]

[...] For whatever reasons since holding the 709th session, she hasn’t had to wait for that certain, more “difficult” kind of trance to develop before launching into Seth’s book material; see the note at 10:55 for that session. In some fashion she can’t describe, Jane is now able to reach the “right” trance state, or to arrive at it, much more easily. [...]

(Still in trance, Jane poured herself more beer. [...]

[...] When in the beginning you were cautious, and worried about his overdoing it, or going into trance at the drop of a hat, he relied upon you in that way. [...]

[...] He was in a trance of his own; so were Rob and I, watching. [...]

[...] As always I went into trance easily, without preamble.

[...] “I do speak in trance for a personality who claims to have survived death. [...]

[...] Once he nipped at my ankles as I was speaking for Seth, and in trance I dragged him half across the room while he hung on to the bottom of my slacks. [...]

[...] Now he pays no attention to the sessions, and even occasionally jumps into my lap when I’m in trance.

[...] Jane’s trance had been excellent, her delivery fast considering my writing speed. [...]

(Jane paused, still in trance. [...]

[...] Have I been trying to hold this conscious level with the mirror trances?”)

([Gert:] “In one of my mirror trances I got an image of a man climbing the ropes of an old-fashioned ship. [...]

[...] The trance had been a deep one but Jane emerged easily. [...]

[...] Jane was again in a deep trance. [...]

[...] She began speaking in trance while sitting down, in an average voice and with many pauses. [...]

[...] She began speaking in trance at a good pace; her eyes opened often, her voice was active, and she was smoking.)