“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] As we sat at the kitchen table discussing her work, Jane felt that she could go into a trance state that was her own for a change, instead of being in “just” a Seth trance. [...]

2. Much of Jane’s trance material on how individuals use dreams personally came through in answer to a question of mine that we’d often speculated about lately: If most people do not remember their dreams most of the time, of what use can their dreams be to them? [...] Here are quotations from the answers Jane gave while in trance today:

[...] “Oh-oh, there’s more —” and she went back into “her” trance almost at once.)

[...] Jane left trance, which had been deep, easily. [...]

[...] It was obvious Jane’s trance was a very deep one.)

[...] It was by my estimate Jane’s deepest trance yet achieved. [...]

[...] I suspected her sensitivity to heat and humidity might have contributed to the trance depth; before the session she hadn’t felt very active, but still wanted to hold the session.

[...] Instead after a long pause Jane coughed; she then began to come out of trance rather quickly. [...]

[...] Jane’s head tilted; she stopped speaking, then nodded that she was coming out of trance, if slowly, when I finally spoke to her. [...]

[...] She said she feels “distant” when she comes out of trance when the entity speaks; she seems to have to travel back to her physical body, to warm it up. [...]

[...] Jane said that as she left trance last time she got the feeling that “this personality felt that he was able to use some of my processes, that we were clicking together better, to get his ideas across.”

(2. Much of Jane’s trance material on how individuals use dreams personally came through in answer to a question of mine that we’d often speculated about lately: If most people do not remember their dreams most of the time, of what use can their dreams be to them? [...] Here are quotations from the answers Jane gave while in trance:

[...] For a moment I wondered again if trance depth was sufficient as sounds in room bothered me. [...]

[...] I panicked and yelled out and broke the trance with Rob’s help. [...]

[...] In second episode I discovered that there were ways of “finding my I” I guess, and ending experience, by motioning Rob to touch me, or shake me, which breaks trance. [...]

(Jane first mentioned a couple of weeks ago that Seth, her trance personality, would start another book of his own soon. [...]

[...] The next moment, her eyes much darker, she was in full trance.)

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

(Still in trance, Jane took a long pause at 10:37. [...]

As Seth varied the trance depths, I became aware of two lines of consciousness, his and my own, and to understand at least to some degree when my own personal associations were an aid and when they were a detriment. In a very deep trance, the inner processes are hidden even from the medium. [...]

[...] I didn’t realize how much depended on the depth of my trance and on my willingness to give him freedom—I had to learn not to “block” information that came through. [...]

[...] He varied the depth of my trances during tests so I could get the feel of various stages of consciousness, and also showed me how to let him use my own personal associations in order to get certain data. [...]

[...] I was always in trance, and usually my eyes were closed. [...]

[...] Rather a strange thing to realize that in these hospital sessions she’s giving trance material while laying down—something I recall her doing only a couple of times in all the years previous.)

[...] I had the feeling when she spoke those opening words tonight that they constituted a blend of her own conscious desires plus those of the trance personality, whatever “its” status may eventually prove to be.)

This pocketing-of-space effect can be perceived in certain trance states.

[...] Jane was quiet after coming out of a deep trance. [...]

[...] “I got a whole bunch of stuff that time,” she said, meaning that she received some extra information after trance. [...]

[...] “Only when I’m in a Seth Two trance, the coordination point is in a different direction. [...]

[...] Jane then came out of trance shortly, without complications. She said she felt “tipped a little to the right,” during break, and a few times showed what I thought was a willingness to go back into trance. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance was a good one but she came out of it easily enough after I spoke to her. [...]

[...] I thought this could be a typical unannounced break by the new personality; I was also ready to interrupt if I thought Jane was trying to get out of trance and having some difficulty.

[...] She was quiet now but it took some minutes before John and I could coax her out of trance. [...]

[...] Still in trance, she lit a cigarette and sipped a drink.)

[...] But instead of taking a break, Jane sat quietly, still in trance.)

(Jane sat in trance so long that I began to ask a question; but then she raised a hand to indicate that I wait.)

[...] Her trance had been deep. [...]

[...] You are in a trance as well as Ruburt is in a trance state now. [...] Your ordinary consciousness is as much a trance state as any trance state induced through hypnotism. Therefore it is nearly impossible to convince a subject in trance that something he does not see exists.

Let us first consider the trance state. [...] We will therefore consider this imaginary circumstance: an individual is in a trance state. [...]

Though objects upon the table be dearly familiar to him, in his trance state he will not recall them. [...] The ordinary state of consciousness is no different from that trance state. [...]

[...] The table will not exist in actuality for this subject in the trance state. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been a good one. She said the music when it started really bothered her, although she didn’t leave the trance state. Jane said that when Seth deepened the trance it was as though the music was turned off. [...]

[...] Pace slower.) I am trying to give you some information concerning the back symptom, and will have to deepen Ruburt’s trance, because of what you might call the underground noises. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance was again deep. [...]

[...] I thought she could slip into a deep trance from this state, and she later agreed. [...] In a few moments she was out of the trance.

[...] Jane said she could very easily have gone into a deep trance, and had to work to keep everything in balance—herself, Seth, etc. [...]

[...] Rob was to follow the procedure given, recently, to end my trance. (Just lately I had begun going into particularly deep trances compared to earlier ones, and Seth had suggested that Rob call my name three times.) Seth said, “This evening you have reached somewhat beyond the personality by which I usually make myself known to you. Even if I continue to speak, end the trance.”

[...] This interrupted the trance state. [...]

Here we had a break and I came out of trance easily enough. [...]

I came out of trance easily enough once Seth came through. [...]

[...] These books consist of the first 510 “sessions” that my wife, Jane Roberts, delivered for that well-known “energy personality essence”, Seth, after she began speaking in a trance or dissociated state in December 1963. [...]

[...] Let alone the bulk of Jane’s other work: her poetry, novels both published and unpublished, her other published books, an unfinished autobiography, the records of her ESP class sessions, her journals and paintings, her singing in musical trance language, Sumari, her never-ending correspondence. [...]

[...] In the larger one, she was 41 years old when Rich Conz, a photographer for the Elmira Star-Gazette, took her picture in 1970, when she was in trance. [...]

[...] Jane began speaking in trance at quite a fast pace, eyes open often, etc.)

[...] Jane left trance easily. [...]

[...] Seth ended on a humorous note, and Jane was out of trance quickly. [...]

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

(Jane said she had to “fight to stay in trance” at the last, because she began to pick up some “bad feelings” about Midge, alone in the house down there in Florida, and probably drinking. Jane kept wanting to come out of trance. [...]

[...] Jane, in trance, kept speaking though, seemingly not bothered.)

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

[...] When I looked up I saw that Jane was out of trance, her eyes bleary. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had again been a good one, her pace fast, voice fairly strong, eyes closed for much of the early part of the delivery.

(Jane resumed at 9:50, again in a deep trance.)

[...] Ruburt’s trance state has improved indeed, but having opened the door, oftentimes he does not know how to close it. [...]

[...] This broke the trance state, and a few minutes later her eyes began to open. [...]

[...] Ruburt could put himself in a light trance state before a session, and you could ask the questions while he holds the pendulum.

[...] Without the trance however you will not reach buried past-life data.

Not without the trance state, not in a dependable manner.