The Early Sessions: Book 3 of The Seth Material

386 Pages·2016·1.63 MB·English

by  Jane Roberts

THE
EARLY SESSIONS
Book 3 of The Seth Material
SESSIONS 86-148
9/9/64–4/21/65
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THE EARLY SESSIONS
The Early Sessions consist of the first 510 sessions dictated by Seth
through Jane Roberts. There are 9 books in The Early Sessions series.
THE PERSONAL SESSIONS
The Personal Sessions, often referred to as “the deleted sessions,” are Seth
sessions that Jane Roberts and Rob Butts considered to be of a highly personal
nature and were therefore kept in separate notebooks from the main body of the
Seth material. There are 7 books in The Personal Sessions series.
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they have the potential to help others, just as they helped Jane and me over the
years. I feel that it’s very important to have these sessions added to Jane’s fine
creative body of work for all to see.” –Rob Butts
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THE
EARLY SESSIONS
Book 3 of The Seth Material
SESSIONS 86-148
9/9/64–4/21/65
I dedicate The Early Sessions
to my wife, Jane Roberts,
who lived her 55 years
with the greatest creativity
and the most valiant courage.
-Rob
SESSION 86
SEPTEMBER 9, 1964 9 PM WEDNESDAY AS SCHEDULED
(While trying psychological time on Wednesday, September 9, 8:15 PM, I
had, after reaching a pleasant state, the rather strange sensation of having my
legs pulled or stretched, as though some force was trying to elongate them. I felt
rather strongly a sensation of gripping on the inside of each ankle, coupled with
a downward pull, or stretching. It had some duration also; I had plenty of time
to lightly explore the sensation.
(Bill Macdonnel arrived to witness the session. With him he brought some
rolls of copper sheeting for our table, and incense and a burner. Both of these
items, Jane had read recently, had been shown to be useful in psychic states by
adding negative ions to the air. A negatively charged atmosphere has been
shown to effectively increase one’s psychic abilities.
(I thought the copper insufficient in quantity, but we unrolled it upon the
table, and lit the incense. Its pleasant musty smell filled the room. I thought the
trappings might bring forth some rather pungent comments from Seth, but kept
my own counsel. Jane was not nervous before the session. She began dictating in
a quiet and amused voice, quite slowly. Her pacing was also slow, her eyes dark
as usual.)
Good evening.
(“Good evening, Seth.”)
I appreciate the many and varied preparations made this evening for my
expected arrival.
Next you will undoubtedly suggest that I pose, contemplate what might
pass for my navel, carve a likeness, and set it up in the middle of your table.
I do not seriously imagine that you would entertain such a ludicrous idea,
but the situation certainly contains humorous overtones, and it would not be like
me to let anything like this pass without comment.
My welcome to Mark, with his enthusiastic good intentions. Nor indeed is
the idea behind all this ridiculous in any manner. Good intentions are highly
important, and what you think will work, will work.
(It might be added that this evening it had rained, and now the night was
very hot and humid. The windows were open; from a neighbor’s house some
distance away, we could hear a phonograph playing, the sound carrying clearly
on the heavy air. Traffic noise also seemed much louder than usual. Jane,
dictating, seemed to carry her head at an unusual angle, as though listening.
Her delivery was by now very slow.)
I would like to discuss some material that we have left unfinished, making
certain that you understand that there are chemical and electrical reactions
resulting from mental enzymes, that are also present in the process of
constructing psychic energy into physical construction.
There are interactions here of utmost importance. For simplicity’s sake
you may say that ideas are electric, in that they spark enzymes within the
mechanism, that then automatically begin the work of physical construction, in
line with inner expectations as outlined earlier.
I have spoken of mental enclosures. Theoretically there is no such thing as
a closed system. However for all practical purposes a closed mental system is
one which allows the least amount of camouflage data to come through. It is not
closed entirely but nevertheless it could be said to approximate in psychic terms
the enclosure within which your so-called mediums work; that is, with a
minimum of camouflage communication at hand.
(Seth began referring to mental enclosures, mental enzymes, etc., many
many sessions ago, at the same time he began to give the information on the
inner senses. By the time the 20th session was held these discussions of such
material were in full swing.)
The system or the mental enclosure, again, is only closed comparatively
speaking. An endeavor is made to close one opening from one plane, and keep
the alternate or inner communication channel open. As an analogy here, the
conscious ego could be said to exist within this copper tube, located at
approximately its center.
(Jane had picked up a roll of copper tubing that we had not used on the
table. Now she touched the left end of the tube as she held it before me.)
This end would then represent the extension of the self outward toward the
physical universe. This extension, as I have mentioned, is theoretically endless.
The world of inner reality would then be imagined as existing at the other end of
this tube. And in the same manner that one end of the tube would represent the
extension of the self into the world of physical reality, then so too would the
other end of this tube represent the extension of the self into the inner world of
reality.
(Again, as it has done quite often in recent sessions, Jane’s voice turned
abruptly deeper, and retained some of this heavier timbre for a while.)
Now using the analogy again, in our mental enclosure we attempt to close
off this channel of communication with the outer universe. So. This end we
leave open.
Now this is what you attempt when you experiment with psychological
time, when your communication comes through the inner rather than the outer
senses. And all living consciousnesses initially enter your plane of awareness by
route of such a mental enclosure.
All psychic energy comes through such a mental enclosure. Now, we are
leading up to a point. You remember, I am sure, that I spoke of extension and
contraction, along with other discussions on the inner senses. Communication
with the inner self, communication with entities on another level can be
approached from one or the other of two methods. The approaches are different,
and one is more often tried than the other.
I suggest your first break.
(Break at 9:26. Jane was dissociated, she said, but not to much of a
degree. The neighbor’s phonograph bothered her, she said, and so did the traffic
noise. It was the first time she could remember that any outside influences had
made themselves felt while she was dictating.
(Jane resumed in a voice a little deeper, but still with her very slow
delivery, at 9:31.)
Now, it is only the initial approach which varies.
Extension of energy must have contraction as an after effect, and
contraction will lead to extension. Therefore, if you begin in an attempt to
contract your consciousness and energy, in the hopes of attaining
communication with inner reality, then indeed will your consciousness, closed
and contracted like a tight fist, open and expand. And if you seek to
communicate by expansion of consciousness, then will this expansion come
crushing and closing upon itself.
The end can be achieved in either manner. Concentration upon one
minute, limited, contracted object will result in consciousness expansion, for
have I not said that within even the molecule and atom there exists capsule
comprehension?
A mental enclosure cannot be seen or touched, yet no man is ever within a
mental enclosure but that he is alone. Here you seek not equalization of pressure,
but a delicate, even precarious instability of pressures. No, no creativity arises
from an evenness of pressure, but in constantly changing, new instabilities, ever
seeking to achieve a balance.
This mental enclosure can be thought of as somewhat of a manufacturing
plant, from which all material manifestations must come. The products that
make up the form come through another entrance.
I am going to make this a short session.
There are some good reasons for this. The outside distractions from the
street, for the first time it seems, are keeping Ruburt at a level of consciousness
which is not quite adequate for my delivery of the discussion that I had in mind.
It may be significant that such distractions did not bother him until he read
that they were supposed to. There is a reason also in that a deeper state of
consciousness is sometimes needed when the upper level of his subconscious is
concerned, as it still is since he gave notice at the gallery.
Usually we have little difficulty in achieving a deeper state in
compensation. Tonight however a really satisfactory state was not reached,
considering the rather difficult material I had planned to give you. A note here:
Of course experimentation on your own will benefit.
I will now bring the session to a close regretfully, and despite the incense
and copper so thoughtfully presented. Indeed, under most circumstances they
could prove beneficial, although with all good respects for what you have in
mind, you would have to literally line the walls with copper in this room.
The negative ions are of help, but you could not produce such conditions.
But the attempt to produce advantageous conditions is in itself of help in any
case.
A most fond and regretfully early good evening.
(“Good evening, Seth.”
(End at 9:55. Jane was dissociated to some degree. The music from across
the way had stopped sometime during the last delivery, but Jane said the traffic
noise continued to bother her. She had been reading that exterior stimuli should
be excluded during such sessions as we conduct, and supposed Seth was right in
stating that she may have allowed herself to be bothered. Jane said she would
try to avoid this pitfall in the future.
(Seth’s reference to experimentation on our part involved a discussion re
holding another “seance” involving Jane, Bill and I. We had meant to set a date
for such an effort but neglected to do so.)
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(This material is included here because it is rather lengthy, and is not
dealt with in the next session.
(Thursday evening, September 10, John Bradley visited us while on a
selling trip to Elmira for his company, Searle Drug. It will be remembered that
in the 63rd session, June 17,1964, Volume 2, page 159, Seth gave a date of
September 2 for John, stating that on that day “plans may be born at that date
which will affect his participation in his professional field.” John was a witness
to that session.
(Tonight John told us that on September 2 he was meeting at his home in
Williamsport, PA, with his district manager, and that of course business was
discussed. John has in the past applied for a transfer to the West. The company