Jane Roberts - The Early Sessions: Book 1 of The Seth Material

THE

EARLY SESSIONS

Book 1 of The Seth Material

Sessions 1-42

11/26/634/8/64

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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 Early 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

THE SETH AUDIO COLLECTION

Recordings of Seth speaking through Jane Roberts are available on CD. (Further information is supplied at the back of this book.)

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THE

EARLY SESSIONS

Book 1 of The Seth Material

Sessions 1-42

11/26/634/8/64

1997 by Robert Butts

2012 Laurel Davies Butts

Published by New Awareness Network Inc.

New Awareness Network Inc.

P.O. Box 192

Manhasset, New York 11030

Opinions and statements on health and medical matters expressed in this book are those of the author and are not necessarily those of or endorsed by the publisher. Those opinions and statements should not be taken as a substitute for consultation with a duly licensed physician.

Cover Design: Michael Goode

Photography: Cover photos by Rich Conz and Robert F. Butts, Sr.

Editorial: Rick Stack

Typography: Juan Schoch, Joan Thomas, Michael Goode

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Seth (Spirit)

The early sessions: volume 1 of the seth material / [channeled] by Jane Roberts ; notes by Robert F. Butts.p. cm.(A Seth book)ISBN 0-9652855-0-21. Spirit writings. 2. SelfMiscellaneaI. Roberts, Jane 19291984. II. Butts, Robert F. III. TitleIV. Series: Seth (Spirit), 19291984 Seth book.Library of Congress Catalog Number: 96-69349

E-book ISBN 978-09-8492-843-8

Printed Book ISBN 0-9652855-0-2

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

I dedicate The Early Sessionsto my wife, Jane Roberts, who lived her 55 years with the greatest creativity and the most valiant courage .-Rob

PREFACE

Im tremendously pleased that Rick Stack, the proprietor of New Awareness Network Inc., is publishing the eight-to-ten-volume set of The Early Sessions . These books consist of the first 510 sessions that my wife, Jane Roberts, delivered for that well-known energy personality essence, Seth, after she began speaking in a trance or dissociated state in December 1963. They cover a six-year period between November 20,1963 and January 19,1970.

Having this set published for the record is something Ive long wanted to see take place, and Ricks dedicated interest and time make it possible. (I told him more than once along the way that hed better think twiceand more! before taking on the job of publishing eight-to-ten books.) Jane died on September 5,1984, at the age of 55. When she was close to death she asked me to publish all of her work. In my grief and shock I agreed, without understanding what a challenge that labor of love was to entail. Im still working at it 12 years later!

With the loving help of others I made several attempts over the years to publish various portions of Janes work, but with little success, for a variety of reasons. Also, even though Id been so intimately involved with the Seth material from the very beginning, for example, I didnt fully comprehend the volume of just the session material that wed accumulated over a total of 21 years. Let alone the bulk of Janes other work: her poetry, novels both published and unpublished, her other published books, an unfinished autobiography, the records of her ESP class sessions, her journals and paintings, her singing in musical trance language, Sumari, her never-ending correspondence. My wife wasand is, I know, for Im sure that she still livesthe most creative person Ive ever met, and through her extraordinary abilities shes left a body of work that I regard as a legacy of inquiry about our understanding of ourselves and our reality. In my opinion its true value is only now coming to be better acknowledged. Ricks publication of The Early Sessions , then, is a very important advance in the marvelous journey of discovery that, I think, each one of us is inevitably involved in, that each one of us has chosen to create, in whatever way and for whatever purposes.

These eight to ten volumes are meant to show Janes and my growthin the most literal waybut always that of my wife, above all else. From the start we felt that if our psychic work had value it should be presented as is, within all of its human connotations; not only its great successes, but with its gropings and mistakes, its questions and learnings along the way. Not edited or prettied up, but as is. Real. I still feel that way. These 510 sessions, then, are exact copies from the verbatim transcripts I made in my homemade shorthand while Jane spoke for Seth; I added notes and comments while typing the material after each session. Over half a dozen years we filed the typed sessions in 44 three-ring binders. The sessions in one of the volumes published by Rick are accompanied by my drawings of the objects used in the series of envelope tests we conducted, both for ourselves and long-range with a well-known scientist, over some 11 months.

I asked Rick to correct spelling, to delete the few notes I inserted in succeeding years, and to keep the presentation of the sessions uniform in the use of roman and italic types, punctuation, parentheses and brackets, dashes and hyphens, and so forth. This framework matches that in the already-published Seth books like Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality .

The Early Sessions are also very important for the sheer preservation and distribution of the Seth material. Many have asked about this, and Im always conscious of it. The set is one more way to bypass the fragility of a lifework thats so vulnerable on its brittle dimestore paper in those old binders. The Seth material is a long way from being on computerif that ever happensand relatively few readers will make the journey to Yale University Library, to study the collection of Janes and my papers thats available there for anyone to see.

I often thinklike every daythat from where she is now in her larger reality, Jane must watch our all-too-human manipulations in this physical reality with great compassion and understanding, and probably with some amusement, too, as in our frantic days of living we try to get everything done. To do what were supposed to do as well as what we want to do, to finally get it all just right for our individual purposes.

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