Jane Roberts - The Early Sessions: Book 8 of The Seth Material

THE

EARLY SESSIONS

Book 8 of The Seth Material

Sessions 334-421

4/12/677/8/68

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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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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 8 of The Seth Material

Sessions 334-421

4/12/677/8/68

2000 by Robert Butts

2014 Laurel Davies Butts

Published by New Awareness Network Inc.

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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.

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

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Seth (Spirit)

The early sessions: volume 8 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 978-0-9894058-3-6

Printed Book ISBN 0-9652855-8-8

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: Within this ebook, Rob Butts sometimes refers the reader to review material on specific pages. These page references apply only to the page numbers of the regular trade paperback version of this book.

FORWARD BY ROB BUTTS

CONCERNING THE PRIVATE OR DELETED SESSIONS

July 6, 2000. Its with much feeling indeed that I try to write briefly about the 16 private or deleted Seth sessions, ranging from numbers 367 to 387, that arent included in this Volume 8 of The Early Sessions . This is the first group of full-length sessions to be omitted in all of the volumes of The Early Sessions so far. Jane held only five regular or public sessions while delivering this large group, and those five are presented in Volume 8.

For the most part over the six years and 510 sessions covered in The Early Sessions , from December 2, 1963 to January19, 1970, Jane spoke for Seth in her own creative yet also objective manner. A way that, although still very emotional at times, allowed us the freedom to encompass this most unusual and continuing adventure in as easy and conventional a manner as possible. Unusual? Yes. Surely her intuitively-chosen manner helped us acclimate to the highly original and creative fact that Jane was learning to speak in a dissociated (or trance) state for Seth, a disembodied worthy who called himself an energy personality essence. (Ill bet that he still does, 16 of our time-bound years after Janes death!) Janes method was her very individualistic way of developing her great, yet consciously unsuspected powers.

My wife died in September 1984, and given her reincarnational relationship with Seth, as described by him, I strongly suspect that the two of them are together now. In what kind of a relationship? I have no idea: I can only speculate that many kinds are possiblewhile keeping in mind that yes, they may have chosen to go their separate psychic and psychological ways.

In 10 of the sessions between the numbers 314 and 325 in Volume 7 we see how, with Janes need and consent, Seth was reaching into deeper, more penetrating material involving her conscious and unconscious lives. And mine, too! (Im correcting the page proofs for Volume 7 now.) We had never called those sessions in Volume 7 deleted, though, and Im happy now to trust that they may help readers gain insight into some of their own challenges. We deeply appreciated Seths insights and suggestions about Janes and my visible and invisible psyches, the challenges we had chosen to create for ourselves in our present lifetimes. With the publication of Volumes 7 and 8 Id like to hear from readers about benefits they may have derived from experimenting with Seths ideas. The two volumes are to be published at the same time in 2001 by Rick Stack, the proprietor of New Awareness Network, Inc. Rick has of course published the first six volumes of The Early Sessions .

Not that those personal sessions in Volume 7 represent the beginnings of Seths effortsalways with Janes and my permission, indeed encouragementto offer his understandings of our challenges. Such material began to come through the Ouija board as mostly reincarnational data way back in the second session, for December 4, 1963. See Volume I of The Early Sessions . (Only then a personality fragment of Seths, named Frank Watts, was speaking to us. Seth himself didnt announce his presence to us most definitely until December 8, in the fourth session. I deleted some of his early information for us from Volume I.)

Seths personal material was startling in its unexpected clarity, although always quite brief. We didnt push for details. How could we? We didnt know enough to do so, for in ordinary terms we had no way to anticipate the breadth, the depth, of the material Jane and Seth were to produce. Sometimes in those early sessions Seth would mention a current relative or friend of one or the other of usor both of usas being involved in our personal material. Sometimes he mentioned reincarnational relationships or heritagesagain, briefly.

As the personal material began to unfold we started calling it the deleted material because we kept it separate from the more general regular or public sessions. After all, in the conventional sense what was one to do with personal material from whatever source but keep it personal? As the years passed after 1963 we acquired two sets of Seth material, then, one public, one private. It wasnt until after Janes death in 1984 that I took the time to understand that Janes Seth materialher great passionate body of workreally didnt need to be categorized as public or privatethat all of it was simply one multifaceted creative entity.