“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Margaret Bumbalo called before I left Jane and invited me to supper, but by then I was full. [...] By then I was actually half bombed, so I didn’t get down to typing this session until 9:50 p.m.)

(The crew at the hospital did have a birthday party for me, and even though I knew what they were up to, it was still a delightful surprise, what with their obvious good will and cheers, the cards, and the food — more than we could eat, at least Jane and I. Mary, the head nurse, made the chocolate cake with chocolate icing. [...]

[...] All was quiet and peaceful in the hospital now. [...]

A certain portion of Adam was: the version was... you had a body consciousness of a protective nature, but this was only one portion of an entire personality who has yet to appear. [...]

[...] Seth’s pace was rapid.)

[...] Our recorder was set up in case we had to rely upon it, so I laid these notes aside and started up the recorder. [...]

([Tam:] “Then Adam was one step in that direction as a result of that exercise?”)

[...] At first I thought the break was announced because our cat, Willy, had jumped up into Jane’s lap while she was speaking. [...]

(Jane told me that “at the tail end of the session,” she had picked up this idea from Seth; I could tape a session, and while it was in progress I would be free to do a series of sketches of her speaking for Seth. [...] Jane was sure the idea came from Seth. [...]

[...] Such was the case.)

[...] Christianity was but a distortion of this main truth — that is, organized Christianity as you know it. [...]

[...] Played old Safe Universe Seth tape for them, was struck by Seth’s discussion strongly and saw how back in ‘75 he had the issues already organized for the future.... [...] When we went to bed I was restless. [...]

[...] It was highly important that you receive fresh input through the telephone, hearing peoples problems and questions at first hand. [...]

Fresh input was also necessary for Psychic Politics in the beginning, and so were all of the moving episodes.

[...] Jane was out as usual. Her eyes had opened more often; though she was still tired, she did not appear to be as much so now. She wondered where all the material, excellent as it was, could be coming from. [...]

[...] Jane was dissociated as usual. [...]

[...] Jane was out as usual, and her eyes had been closed most of the time. [...]

[...] I told Jane she needn’t have a session, but she was willing enough if Seth decided to. [...]

[...] Jane was out of trance quickly enough, although it had been a good one. [...]

(“Yes?” I thought I probably knew the word Seth/Jane was looking for, but I didn’t have time to think and write.)

[...] Jane recalled the house lights flickering briefly, saying that at that moment she was “on the way out” of trance.

I was, indeed, starting to talk and the word was now. [...]

I not only support you but congratulate you, and I want you all to know that the effort involved on Our Lady of Florence’s part this evening was only somewhat short of fantastic, and that her achievement more than equals the achievement of those who had had the projections. [...] And the secret when it is said, you see, releases that energy, particularly as you begin to understand that in that past there was nothing shameful. [...]

[...] You are not in communication with that portion of yourselves that is not physical, that was never physical and that will not know physical existence at all, and since you identify with the physical self then, indeed, we come to you in the guise of ghosts that you do not understand our forms that you cannot see. [...]

[...] The Egyptian religion was largely based upon the work of the Speakers, and great care was given to their training. [...]

(9:30.) The symbolism of the gods, the idea of the gods on Olympus, for example, the crossing-over point at the River Styx — that kind of phenomenon was originated by the Speakers. [...]

[...] Much of the most pertinent information, in fact, was memorized by trainees during the dream condition, and passed on in the same manner. [...]

[...] The “time out” itself, however, will not be detected in any way, the tracings showing only whatever characteristic pattern was being given immediately before departure.

[...] The body in which our friend, Joseph, viewed his relatives (in the dream mentioned earlier) was not operationally physical. It was quite real, however, and at another level of reality it was operational, suited to its environment.

[...] The brother was definitely himself, yet somehow altered in appearance, his features having an Oriental cast. The entire dream was very pleasant, and seemed to be like a home coming.

[...] The emphasis is never static, but ever-changing In some periods, then, the normal behavior was “more dreamlike,” while more specific developments occurred in the dream state, which was then the more clear or specified of the two. Men went to sleep to do their work, in other words, and the realm of dreams was considered more real than waking reality. [...]

[...] “I didn’t feel that I was necessarily with it tonight,” Jane said, although her delivery had moved along well enough, and the material was good. [...]

(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.

[...] The session hadn’t been underway long before I’d realized he was bringing Psyche to a close. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s hesitation was caused this evening by misplaced nostalgia at ending our book. [...]

(As can be seen by Seth’s comments about the mass world mind-brain, he was all ready to launch into some new material. [...]

[...] He feared for a while, again, that it was not possible for him to walk properly or move normally. [...] There in that area he was not sure of his power. [...]

[...] Her determination even shows somehow in photographs taken when she was of preschool age. [...] Yet she was—and is—free of guile and sophistication.

Until she became so ill that she was practically forced to go into the hospital, I’d always felt that my wife’s single-minded yet literal focus of intent was capable of lasting however long it took to reach a particular goal—whether for five minutes or fifty years. [...]

[...] I was pleasantly surprised by her reaction, for her reluctance to talk about a certain subject often was a sign that she’d end up doing something creative with it.

[...] Yet I thought she did, and so I was driven to grope for larger understandings. [...]

[...] You broadcast the negative feelings, which were then picked up by whomever was ready to receive them, for their own purposes.

(It was now time for the data on the Gallaghers, who are vacationing this week in New York City.

It was not played at the school for these people, I believe two men and a woman. [...]

(Nor, evidently, is Seth referring to the two adults sitting in on the class the day the tape was played. [...]

[...] (Several years later, Jane was to list nine such inner senses in Chapter 19 of The Seth Material.) Jane said that upon coming slowly awake from her nap she’d had the very peculiar feeling of ‘growing larger.’ The laughing phrase she used was that she’d felt as ‘big as an elephant.’ Her boundaries of awareness seemed to have expanded. [...]

[...] While she’d been in this unusual state, that area was much enlarged — she used the words ‘infinitely large’ to describe it. Jane said it was as though her eyes had actually moved further apart to create this expanded field of awareness, of infinite black. [...]

[...] Beside that, Ruburt was able to help you to some degree—while before you felt that he could not because of his concentration upon his own problems.

[...] You were proud that Ruburt was in the process of improving so considerably. [...]

[...] Ruburt was not always the one who needed to be waited upon, for example. [...]

Now this was Ruburt’s state before the emergence of the symptoms. The explosive first emergence represented the first forceful emergence of the problem into physical terms, but as such was actually productive and of a healing nature—much more beneficial, say, than if such emergence had not occurred.

[...] Until these emerged physically he was not aware of them sufficiently enough to handle them effectively. [...]

[...] For seeing that he creates his own reality now, he will understand that he also helped form the environment in which he grew, and that his mother was not entirely responsible.

The despondencies that he encounters also should show him that these feelings emerge into his conscious awareness now, to be dealt with, where in the past they festered beneath consciousness, and he would not admit them as a problem for he was not that aware of their existence.

[...] Jane’s trance had been good, she said, but she was out of it quickly at break.

[...] She was aware only of the shape of the head, as it began to move closer toward her. [...]

[...] Her impression was of a face with “no hair at the sides, or perhaps bald.” [...]

[...] I do not know whether I have met the two men mentioned by Seth or not; I am inclined to think I haven’t. On the other hand Tom Hartley told Jane the party was primarily for newspaper people, and I have met some of this local group... [...]

[...] She was both surprised — as she remarked several times — and a bit disconsolate now that Seth’s part of the long project was through. [...]

[...] “As far as I’m concerned the whole thing was effortless. It just came out of me, it seemed, while I was busy doing other things….” [...]

[...] “You know,” she said, “I thought this book was going to go longer, but I’ve got the funny nostalgic feeling that Seth’s going to end it real soon. [...]

[...] It was born out of her writings on Adventures in Consciousness, as mentioned in Chapter Twenty-one of Seth Speaks, and incorporates that material.)