“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane had produced her statement so quickly that after reading it I was left with several questions. I took notes on our conversation about it that Sunday night. Yes, she had been in an altered state of consciousness during her reception of The Way Toward Health “on a real high” — both while the outline for it was coming through and while she wrote her description of the process. No, she hadn’t heard Seth, or sensed his presence while this was going on; she’d just realized that his help would be necessary if she decided to do the book. Nor was it connected with “Unknown” Reality. “I wrote down what I could snatch from the whole book,” she said, “but I knew that what I got was nothing compared to what was there. If I could have immediately spoken the whole thing, it would have been done at once — that’s what was so frustrating! While I was in the altered state, I sensed not only the physical bulk of the book, but the actual contents within it. Those contents were immediately available. I can’t tell you how frustrated — how blocked — this made me feel at the time.

(As quickly as she could once she became aware of what was happening that Sunday morning, Jane typed a 3-page summary or outline of the contents for The Way Toward Health, including chapter headings, then wrote a very condensed statement about how the whole thing came to her. We’re presenting the statement below, and a few examples from the outline, in order to show some of her other activities while producing “Unknown” Reality. Thus, everything she’s received so far on the health book is on file, ready to be used should she choose to follow this new idea any further.

(In this appendix the emphasis is more on the circumstances surrounding Jane’s reception of the outline for the new possible book, than on its contents. In reverse order, therefore, I’ll present first the statement she wrote describing that process of reception once it was completed, then return to the outline itself.)

All of this reminds me of my old idea of a projected book: The Contents of the Mind, or the Unofficial Contents of the Mind. After reading this first page of notes about Peg G. and the paintings, I remember my old ideas … that we organize the contents of our minds along certain lines that then become habitual.

The idea is to be alert for psychological contents of the mind that we usually ignore, that science can’t prove or disprove … where we take experience over theory.

This is another classic example of an event that science would label simply “coincidental” without being able to give any objective proof to back up its contention.

[...] It can view outward reality or turn inward, observing its own contents.

[...] Once you understand that you form your reality, then you must begin to examine these beliefs by letting the conscious mind freely examine its own contents.

[...] You simply had not examined its contents with the realization that your beliefs were not necessarily reality, but often your conceptions of it.

[...] Now were I a kind and well-known beloved uncle who has passed over, you could perchance see me, but for now you must be content with the little of me that I am able to portray through Ruburt’s personality. There should be occasions when Ruburt’s features will change to some considerable extent when I speak to you, but you will have to be content for now with that part of me you can sense. [...]

[...] (Florence tried to smother a cough and Seth boomed out.) You may cough to your heart’s content. [...]

As you apprehend them through association you come quite close to examining the contents of your mind in a free fashion. But if you drop the time concept and then view the conscious content of your mind through other core ideas, you are still structuring. I am not saying that you should never organize those contents. [...]

[...] They become invisible, therefore, unless you become aware of the contents of your conscious mind.

[...] But there isn’t any one psychedelic experience for all, either in terms of time or content — the whole thing is too intensely personal. [...]

(“The content? [...] These impressions resulted from my second and third questions, concerning the content of the lettering on the envelope object. [...]

(“Can you give the content of the lettering?”)

The content?

(A note by RFB: Jane’s punctuation in her copies of Seth’s Gallagher materials varies at times from the originals—but only in small ways, and not at all in content.)

[...] Then during supper, a lot of motion right foot and very pleasant relaxation feelings—or at least, of contentment. [...]

[...] Alae (spelled out), now that was the name of a particular type of cargo, perhaps algae, that was a part of the ships contents. [...] In this case it meant taking the contents of the hold by force. [...]

[...] However, you were lucky enough to escape and spend your finer years as a contented potbellied old gentleman near Oslo. [...]

[...] But if you treat her as a woman primarily, it must be as a desirable woman, or she will find no content as a woman or as an individual.

She will be much more content and pliable to reason if you can manage, regardless of your intellectual tendencies, to approach her in that light. [...]

Those statements should not go underground, again, but he should sympathetically address his doubts and the various points of their contentions can then be quite adequately settled—or at least resolved, reconciled. [...]

[...] If we ever meet we could ask you a lot of questions, but we have learned it’s tough to do much of a job by letter, so we’ll content ourselves with what’s been said above.

[...] I am absolutely delighted with their contents. [...]

[...] Such individuals usually choose deaths with a high dramatic content, because regardless of appearances they have not been able to express the dramatic contents of their psyches in the world as it seems to be to them. [...]

[...] To some extent you realize that the world has physical contents, existing at one time yet varying in their characteristics. [...]

Psychically, your world is composed of the contents of its consciousness. [...]

If you could orbit your planet in a different kind of craft, you could view the psychic contents of the world, seeing the world consciousness shining far more brilliantly than any lighted city. [...]

[...] You may look at it to your heart’s content. [...]

[...] And you may change to your heart’s content. [...]

[...] The issue at Prentice, then, has been charged, not simply because of the errors made there, or abroad, but because of what those errors and stupidities represented to you—their symbolic content. [...]

(9:47.) The idea of a simple job attracts you because it separates your ideas of art from money—but in order to content you it could not involve money at all, for even commercial art brings you to the matter of the artistic ideal and its practical presentation. [...]

[...] It does not matter which of you handles the business end, as long as you have as much peace of mind as possible, and as long as you judge events as clearly as possible, according to their actual proportion as apart from their emotionally charged symbolic content. [...]

(To Arnold.) Also heed that the ordinary happiness and pursuits within society as you know it are not enough for you, and that you realized that the seemingly contented people were indeed imprisoned. Now that is also an important element of the dream, you were not content, you see, to stay within the environment and you did feel an inner terror to be so imprisoned. [...]

[...] It also represented the water or fountainhead of spiritual creativity so that both ages merged and you felt that this had been drawn out from you in order to keep you contented within this artificial framework. [...]

[...] He was also quite content to remain a child at heart. [...]

[...] There are many painters who are quite satisfied with themselves—fairly content. [...]

[...] Today I felt almost as good, but reminded of the session content, which always helped. [...]