“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Jane’s trance had been excellent, her delivery steady and rather quiet for the most part. [...]

[...] Now Jane paused, then came partially out of trance. [...]

[...] Are her messages really from Jane, or is she “only” telepathically picking up from me what I want to hear, and flashing it back to me from her trance states — as communications from Jane? [...] The most parsimonious view — the simplest, stingiest one — would be that through studying the Seth Material Valerie subconsciously divines the replies I want from my dead wife, and in all subjective innocence comes through with her trance messages for me, to fit my own stubborn belief in Jane’s survival.

[...] First, though, I remind the reader that Jane spoke in a trance or dissociated state for a discarnate personality who calls himself Seth; by his own definition he’s an “energy personality essence,” no longer focused within physical reality. [...]

[...] The racket was so loud and prolonged that I was surprised when Jane went back into trance. [...]

(12:36 a.m. Each of Jane’s trances and deliveries tonight had been deep and very steady. [...]

[...] “I feel you did it again,” Jane said as soon as she was out of trance, “hit on some real good stuff.” [...]

[...] She then went into trance.)

[...] She was in trance before she laid her glasses on the coffee table between us. [...]

(10:26 P.M. “Jesus, I was so exhausted before the session, but I really had the feeling that we were getting some good stuff,” Jane said as soon as she was out of trance. [...]

10:07 P.M. Once Jane was out of trance, I told her that most of Seth’s material since break can also be considered book work, including his hint about his own reality. [...]

As far as I can see, Seth’s reference to hypnosis had to do with the “training” undergone by some mediums in which hypnosis is used to initiate and stabilize the trance state, and occasionally to call forth the communications of “control” personalities. [...]

[...] (The heat never bothers me when I’m in trance, although otherwise I’m very susceptible to it.)

(“Jesus, I ought to go in trance more often,” Jane laughed after she’d ended the session at 10:20 P.M. “I wasn’t aware of how I was sitting or anything. [...]

[...] Jane, in a very deep and active trance, had been so focused on the material that she’d been unaware of anything else. [...]

(Yesterday, Tuesday, Jane suffered no apparent psychic fatigue from her prolonged trance state of last Monday. [...]

[...] Jane left trance quickly. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been good, her pace good also. [...]

[...] I simply went into trance twice a week, spoke in a “mediumistic” capacity for Seth, or as Seth, and dictated the words to my husband, Robert Butts, who wrote them down.

[...] “I feel sad,” Jane said as soon as she was out of a very good trance. [...]

[...] Then later, after Jane paused in trance at 10:12:)

[...] Jane came out of trance. [...]

On occasion he is in somewhat deeper a trance state, and our results are better, but this does not teach him what I want him to learn. The light trance state is ideal for my purposes. [...]