Jane Roberts - The Early Sessions: Book 6 of The Seth Material

THE

EARLY SESSIONS

Book 6 of The Seth Material

Sessions 240-280

3/9/668/24/66

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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.

The great value I see now in the many deleted or private sessions is that they have the potential to help others, just as they helped Jane and me over the years. I feel that its very important to have these sessions added to Janes fine creative body of work for all to see. Rob Butts

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THE

EARLY SESSIONS

Book 6 of The Seth Material

Sessions 240-280

3/9/668/24/66

1999 by Robert Butts

2013 Laurel Davies Butts

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Seth (Spirit)

The early sessions: volume 6 of the seth material / [channeled] by Jane Roberts ; notes by Robert F. Butts.

p. cm.(A Seth book)

1. Spirit writings. 2. SelfMiscellanea

I. Roberts, Jane 19291984. II. Butts, Robert F. III. Title

IV. Series: Seth (Spirit), 19291984 Seth book.

Library of Congress Catalog Number: 96-69349

EBook ISBN 978-0-9894058-1-2

Printed Book ISBN 0-9652855-6-8

Printed in U.S.A. on acid-free paper

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

Please note that in a few instances, page numbers are mentioned in the text for the purpose of cross-referencing material. These page numbers apply only to the page numbers in the trade paperback version.

(Tracing of the front and back of the AAA membership card used as the object in the 39th envelope experiment, in the 240th session for March 9,1966.)

SESSION 240

MARCH 9, 1966 9 PM WEDNESDAY AS SCHEDULED

(The 39th envelope experiment was held during the session; see the tracing of the AAA membership card used as the object on page 1. Some interesting and hilarious results were obtained in the connections made by Seth/Jane.

(Before this evenings session I was at work typing up the envelope data for last Mondays session. I stopped at 8:30 PM to get ready for this session at 9 PM. I began to be aware of a rather stiff pain growing in the back of my neck. By 8:45 it was quite bothersome, so I returned to the studio in the back of the apartment, to use the pendulum for a quick check to see if I could learn the cause. I did not think it physical.

(I became absorbed in the task, and had just obtained the answer when Jane called me from the front room at 8:55. I hadnt mentioned the pain to her, deciding on the spur of the moment to see if Seth could also pinpoint the trouble during the session. Nor did Jane know I was using the pendulum. When I took my seat at our table in the living room just before 9 PM Jane told me she had felt surprisingly nervous at my absence so close to the session; hence her calling to me. She also felt a definite irritation, but did not know its source, or who or what the target was.

(The session was held in our front room. Jane began speaking while sitting down. She was not smoking and her eyes were closed. Once again her pace was quite slow, and broken by some long pauses.)

Good evening.

(Good evening, Seth.)

Now. Sooner or later we are going to have to discuss the ways in which what would appear to be sensual perception is made available to an individual when the physical body, with its senses, perceives an event at which it cannot be said to be present.

Unfortunately this will be somewhat complicated. More so than is at first apparent.

I have told you that each individual creates physical matter, including objects, that he constructs his own physical image. Coherence, the illusion of permanency, placement in space, color and mass, all these are arrived at and agreed upon, in ways that I have clearly explained.

(In Volume 2, see the 60th to 73rd sessions, given during the summer of 1964, plus many others.)

Telepathic communication is one of the methods by which such agreement is reached. Long ago, primary and secondary constructions were explained. I emphasized that each individual only perceives his own physical constructions.

Basically there is no difference between precognition and telepathy. The apparent difference is the result of an inadequate understanding of the nature of time. The important fact is, in both cases, that information is received by an individual that does not come through recognized sense systems.

This main issue is frequently overlooked, while emphasis is placed instead upon whether or not the information seems to be perceived from the present or future. When an individualin quotesclairvoyantly seesend quotesan event, this is what happens.

First of all, he forgets the concept of continual moments, which usually hampers his perception. His perception changes focus so that he is aware of an event that would otherwise be future for him. He constructs subconsciously, as always , material objects in line with the data that is available to him. It goes without saying then that he helps to construct the clairvoyantly perceived physical event, just as he helps to construct any physical event in the present.

The agreement as to physical dimensions and so forth is reached precisely in the same manner that it usually is. The only unusual issue, to you, should not be that the event has not yet occurred, but that John Jones for example, from his chair, has been sensually aware of a situation that is obviously beyond the reaches of his physical senses.