Jane Roberts [Roberts - Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul (A Seth Book)

The Seth books present an alternate map of reality with a new diagram of the psyche useful to all explorers of consciousness.

Deepak Chopra, author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

Seth was one of my first metaphysical teachers. He remains a constant source of knowledge and inspiration in my life.

Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love

I would like to see the Seth books as required reading for anyone on their spiritual pathway. The amazing in-depth information in the Seth books is as relevant today as it was in the early 70s when Jane Roberts first channeled this material.

Louise Hay, author of You Can Heal Your Life

Seths teachings had an important influence on my life and work, and provided one of the initial inspirations for writing Creative Visualization.

Shakti Gawain, author of Creative Visualization

The Seth books were of great benefit to me on my spiritual journey and helped me to see another way of looking at the world.

Gerald G. Jampolsky, author of Love is Letting Go of Fear

As you read Seths words, you will gain more than just new ideas. Seths energy comes through every page energy that expands your consciousness and changes your thoughts about the nature of reality.

Sanaya Roman, author of Living with Joy

To my great surprise and slight annoyance I found that Seth eloquently and lucidly articulated a view of reality that I had arrived at only after great effort and an extensive study of both paranormal phenomena and quantum physics.

Michael Talbot, author of The Holographic Universe

The Rebellers (1963)

The Coming of Seth (How to Develop Your ESP Power) (1966)

The Seth Material (1970)

Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul, A Seth Book (1972)

The Education of Oversoul Seven (1973)

The Nature of Personal Reality, A Seth Book (1974)

Adventures in Consciousness (1975)

Dialogues of The Soul and Mortal Self in Time (1975)

Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book (1976)

The World View of Paul Czanne: A Psychic Interpretation (1977)

The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View of William James (1978)

The Unknown Reality: Vol. 1, A Seth Book (1977)

The Unknown Reality: Vol. 2, A Seth Book (1979)

The Further Education of Oversoul Seven (1979)

Emirs Education in the Proper Use of Magical Powers (1979)

The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression, A Seth Book (1979)

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, A Seth Book (1981)

The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981)

If We Live Again: Or, Public Magic and Private Love (1982)

Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time (1984)

Dreams, Evolution, & Value Fulfillment: Vol. 1, A Seth Book (1986)

Dreams, Evolution, & Value Fulfillment: Vol. 2, A Seth Book (1986)

Seth, Dreams, and Projection of Consciousness (1986)

The Magical Approach, A Seth Book (1995)

The Way Toward Health, A Seth Book (1997)

I f you believe firmly that your consciousness is locked up somewhere inside your skull and is powerless to escape it, if you feel that your consciousness ends at the boundary of your body, then you sell yourself short, and you will think that I am a delusion. I am no more a delusion than you are.

I can say this to each of my readers honestly: I am older than you are, at least in terms of age as you think of it.

If a writer can qualify as any kind of authority on the basis of age, therefore, then I should get a medal. I am an energy personality essence, no longer focused in physical matter. As such, I am aware of some truths that many of you seem to have forgotten.

I hope to remind you of these.

Copyright 1972 Jane Roberts
Copyright 1994 Robert F. Butts
Copyright 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts

Published by Amber-Allen Publishing, Inc.
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San Rafael, CA 94903

Cover Art: Robert F. Butts
Cover Design: Beth Hansen
Editorial: Janet Mills

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T his book was written by a personality called Seth, who speaks of himself as an energy personality essence no longer focused in physical form. He has been speaking through me for over seven years now, in twice weekly trance sessions.

My psychic initiation really began one evening in September, 1963, however, as I sat writing poetry. Suddenly my consciousness left my body, and my mind was barraged by ideas that were astonishing and new to me at the time. On return to my body, I discovered that my hands had produced an automatic script, explaining many of the concepts that Id been given. The notes were even titled The Physical Universe as Idea Construction.

Because of that experience, I began doing research into psychic activity, and planned a book on the project. In line with this, my husband, Rob, and I experimented with a Ouija board late in 1963. After the first few sessions, the pointer spelled out messages that claimed to come from a personality called Seth.

Neither Rob or I had any psychic background, and when I began to anticipate the boards replies, I took it for granted that they were coming from my subconscious. Not long after, however, I felt impelled to say the words aloud, and within a month I was speaking for Seth while in a trance state.

The messages seemed to begin where Idea Construction left off, and later Seth said that my expansion of consciousness experience had represented his first attempt at contact. Since then, Seth has delivered a continuing manuscript that now totals over six thousand typewritten pages. We call it the Seth material, and it deals with such topics as the nature of physical matter, time, and reality, the god concept, probable universes, health, and reincarnation. From the beginning, the obvious quality of the material intrigued us, and it was for this reason that we continued.

Following the publication of my first book in this field, letters came from strangers asking for Seths help. We held sessions for those most in need. Many of the people involved couldnt attend, since they lived in other parts of the country, yet Seths advice helped them, and the information he gave by mail concerning individual backgrounds was correct.

Rob has always taken verbatim notes of the Seth sessions, using his own shorthand system. Later in the week he types them and adds them to our collection of Seth material. Robs excellent notes point up the living framework in which the sessions take place. His support and encouragement have been invaluable.

To our way of thinking, we have kept over six hundred appointments with the universe though Rob would never describe it that way himself. These appointments are kept in our well-lighted, large living room, but in deeper terms they take place within the spaceless area of human personality.

I do not mean to imply that we have any cornerstone on truth, or give the impression that we wait breathlessly for the undistorted secrets of the ages to gush forth. I do know that each individual has access to intuitional knowledge and can gain glimpses of inner reality. The universe speaks to each of us in this regard. In our case, the Seth sessions are the framework in which this kind of communication takes place.