“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Volume I of “Unknown” Reality came out in the fall of 1977 — and by then Seth was well into his latest, The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, even though this book, Psyche, hadn’t yet been typed for publication. I was still working on the notes for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality.

(Then this noon we received from Prentice-Hall copies of the revised index for Volume 1 of “Unknown,” plus new page proofs of the type chosen for Volume 2—a matter we’d thought already settled. [...]

The material that came from “Unknown” today—you disagreed with the type of lettering, if I understand properly. [...]

The unknown self, the “original self,” straddles realities, dipping in and out of them in creative versions of itself, taking on the properties of the system in which it appears, and the characteristics native to that environment. [...]

Give us a moment … (Humorously, to me:) You are the living version of yourself in space and time, around which your world revolves.¹¹ The great potentiality that exists in the unknown self, however, also actualizes other such focuses, and in the same space-time framework. [...]

2. For some background information on Seth’s basic units of consciousness (CU’s), cells, probabilities, time structures and other material in connection with his delivery here, I suggest reviewing these sessions in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality: 682–84, 688, and 694.

(Jane told me this afternoon that she’d had a flash from Seth about my reincarnational episodes of late, and how I was in the process of uncovering my personal “past”, as Seth says in The “Unknown” Reality.

(Tonight we started the sessions up again after a three-month layoff: During that time I typed the final manuscript for Volume I of Seth’s “Unknown” Reality, with Jane’s help, and we’ve just mailed it to her publisher, Prentice-Hall, Inc. [...]

[...] As Jane worked on “Unknown” Reality, Willy often lay on her lap, and we felt his approaching death with heavy hearts of our own.

[...] His material is also an extension of much that he gave in the 679th session for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, when he discussed the early background of the probable Jane who chose to live in this physical reality, and how that Jane began to contend with her strongly mystical nature. [...]

(A note added after Seth had completed his dictation for “Unknown” Reality in April 1975: The 712th session was held on October 16, 1974. [...]

2. Just as he talks here about the surface nature of our travel, in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality Seth had a similar observation to make about our ideas of time; see the 688th session after 10:26: “Again, you live on the surface of the moments, with no understanding of the unrecognized and unofficial realities that lie beneath.”

Now for the unfortunate results I mentioned near the beginning of this note: Of the two cassette tape recorders that had been operated by class members last night, one malfunctioned throughout the evening, unknown to its owner, and so recorded no class material at all. [...]

[...] Instead a look at the private unknown reality as it becomes somewhat visible.

[...] You do have equal contemporaries, unknown to you, but you are working at a different level. [...]

[...] Some of the concepts that will come in The “Unknown” Reality will help Ruburt understand the nature of healing, for that is highly important. [...]

[...] You must remember also that the art of the great masters was largely unknown to the poor peasants of Europe, much less to the world at large. [...]

(Pause.) Science has until recently provided you with a unified belief system that is only now eroding—and if you will forgive me (smile), your space voyages have simply been physical attempts to probe into that same unknown that other peoples in other times have tried to explore through other means. [...]

2. For a brief description of Jane’s encounter with Mrs. Steffans, see Note 13 for Session 744, in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. Seth, and Jane and I, described a number of our house-hunting adventures in the two volumes of that work. [...]

Stopped writing these notes; getting some more good ideas for my preface— but the good feelings in my leg and foot continue; I want to call out to Rob and tell him, but feel constraint; he’s working on Unknown; I’ll disturb him ... [...]

(2. How will “Unknown” Reality do? [...] But I was also simply curious about whether “Unknown” Reality was going to do as well as the other Seth books.

[...] “Unknown” will do well. [...]

(Jane held her last session for “Unknown” Reality three weeks ago. [...]

(“Is ‘life’ the word you want used there?” This is one of the few times I’ve interrupted Seth during his presentation of “Unknown” Reality.)

2. See the 683rd session in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality. As Seth told us: “All kinds of time — backward and forward — emerge from the basic unpredictable nature of consciousness, and are due to ‘series’ of significances … Memory operates backward and forward in time.”

[...] Someday that material may be transcribed and used, for some as-yet-unknown purpose.

[...] “Why was Tam so upset about “Unknown” Reality being too long?”)

[...] He was upset with Prentice on some other matters, and then began to worry that “Unknown” might be too long — might run into difficulties. [...]

(Intently, and with humor:) I am somewhat familiar with food before canning and refrigeration, and there were maggots everywhere, and feces and dirt, and sanitation was largely unknown. [...]

[...] The Word, by Irving Wallace, is a book on the discovery of an unknown gospel by the brother of Christ, James the Just. [...]

[...] By way of contrast, however, Seth stated last month in the 713th session, after 10:32:) Nothing exists outside the psyche, however, that does not exist within it, and there is no unknown world that does not have its psychological or psychic counterpart. [...]

(Continuing to trace such references back through the material, I’d like to direct the reader to several passages from the 683rd session for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality; in them Seth contends with variations on the counterpart theme as they’re developed in certain other probable realities:)

[...] In retrospect that material seems to be a clear indication of the later development of the counterpart concept — and one passage could well refer to “Unknown” Reality long before that project was ever thought of as far as Jane and I were concerned. [...]

2. I’ve directed the reader to them before — but in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality see Jane’s information on neurological speeds in appendixes 4 and 5. As I wrote in Note 19 for Appendix 12: “My personal opinion is that although many may find it difficult reading, Appendix 4 contains some of the most important material in Volume 1.” [...]

[...] You may, however, include portions of the session in “Unknown” Reality if you so choose. [...]

(The next morning Jane told me that she’d been “getting stuff all night again” on “Unknown” Reality. [...]

1. In Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, see the 683rd session just after 10:11. [...]

(Jane has just finished the final typing of her own The World View of Paul Cézanne, and now I’m ready to type the finished version of Volume I of Seth’s “Unknown” Reality. As I explain in the Introductory Notes for his book, we decided to publish Seth’s very long manuscript for “Unknown” in two volumes. [...]

(I’ll open this appendix by referring to a pair of short notes I wrote for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality. [...]

[...] This system automatically makes room for any references in Volume 1. In actuality the chronology begins long before “Unknown” Reality was started, and continues well beyond the date of its ending, in April 1975. [...]

[...] The first, for our own study, was for Seth to describe objects thoroughly sealed in double envelopes; the envelopes were prepared [unknown to Jane, of course] by myself and by others. [...]

[...] Throughout this period she did a great deal of other work: Besides holding class and continuing Rich Bed, she produced in their entirety Dialogues, Personal Reality, Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, and started Volume 2. Toward the end of this period the aspects channel began opening up regularly, providing further refinements on her original inspirations. [...]

[...] Studying yourself and the nature of your own consciousness, then, will automatically lead you to some extent to an understanding of the “unknown” reality. The unknown reality is composed of those blocked-out portions of your own psyche, and the corresponding frameworks of experience they form.

(End at 12:35 A.M. As we ate breakfast several hours later, Jane told me that during the night she’d kept waking up with ideas she thought were connected to “Unknown” Reality. [...]

3. Refer to Seth’s material on the basic unpredictability of consciousness, and on probabilities, in the 681st session in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality.

You have then two separate people living in different countries, completely unknown to each other, of different ages and backgrounds. [...]

[...] The meeting was real in your terms, yet the manipulations of consciousness behind it were largely unknown.

[...] It is only because so many of the manipulations of your own consciousness are unknown to you in life that such issues appear odd.