Jane Roberts - Dreams and Projections of Consciousness

SETH, DREAMS
& PROJECTIONS
OF CONSCIOUSNESS

NEWLY RELEASED
Never before published Seth Material

THE EARLY SESSIONS

The Early Sessions consist of the first 510 sessions dictated by Seth through Jane Roberts, and are expected to be published in a total of 8-10 volumes. For information on expected publication dates and how to order, write to New Awareness Network at the following address and request the latest catalogue.

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THE SETH
AUDIO COLLECTION

Rare recordings of Seth speaking through Jane Roberts are now available on CD and audiocassette. For a complete description of The Seth Audio Collection, request our free catalog. (Further information is supplied at the back of this book)

1986 by Robert Butts
2011 by Laurel Davies-Butts

Published in 1998 by New Awareness Network Inc.

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Editorial: Rick Stack

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Roberts, Jane 1929-1984

Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness

/ by Jane Roberts

p. cm.

Originally published:Walpole, New Hampshire:Stillpoint Publishing

ISBN 0-9652855-4-5

1. Spirit writings. 2. Self-Miscellanea

I. Roberts, Jane 1929-1984. II. Butts, Robert F. III. Title

IV. Series: Seth (Spirit), 1929-1984 Seth book.

Library of Congress Catalog Number:98-67219

ISBN 0-9652855-4-5
Printed in U.S.A. on acid-free paper

SETH

T he television camera lights were warm on my face. My husband, Rob, and I sat with Sonja Carlson and Jack Cole, who were interviewing us on the Boston Todays Woman Show on television station WBZ. It was 10 A.M. on the last day of our first tour to promote my book, The Seth Material. This was our fifth television show. I tried to look composed and confident, though I still found it difficult to face strangers so early in the day, much less the world at large particularly when I was expected to explain my own psychic experiences and the philosophical concepts of The Seth Material.

As he began the interview, Jack Cole told the unseen audience that I was a medium who spoke for a personality called Seth. He emphasized that my presence on the show didnt necessarily mean that he or Sonja accepted Seths independent existence. I smiled, somewhat ruefully. Many people feel duty-bound to express skepticism as if it were an automatic badge of honor and intellectual superiority. Id done the same thing in the past, so I could understand the attitude.

During the interview Jack asked me if Seth would come through. I replied that it was up to Seth. Actually, since I hadnt gone into trance on any other programs, I doubted I would now. Instead, Jack began to play a taped Seth session. As I heard those deep resonant tones of his, I knew that Seth was present.

For a moment I was appalled. All kinds of doubts filled my mind. I hadnt held a regular Seth session since the tour. Suppose the lights bothered me or the trance wasnt deep enough? I had a horror, too, of putting on any kind of display. Regular Seth sessions in the privacy of our living room were one thing. Going into trance on television was something else again. Oh, Seth, I said mentally, in consternation.

Just then I felt an enormous sense of reassurance, good will and confidence. At a level beneath words, I knew that Seth was right: this was the time. Wholeheartedly I gave assent. I reached over for Robs hand. Its Seth, I muttered quickly. My face must have begun to change even then, the muscles rearranging themselves into Seths characteristic expressions, because in that last moment I saw what seemed to be a gigantic camera lens coming in for a close-up.

When I came out of trance, Rob was smiling, Jack and Sonja looked dazed, the camera crew were staring at me and the program was over. Seth was great, Rob said to me. I was overwhelmed with relief. It was over, then; Seth had come through on television. Hadnt I alternately hoped that he would and been reluctant at the same time?

Are you okay? Can I get you anything? Jack asked. He looked so concerned that I laughed automatically.

No. I feel fine. I always come out of trance easily. Id love a bun and some coffee, though. Now Im starved.

A small group surrounded us the producer and assistant producer, Jack, Sonja and the camera men. I looked at Rob with a touch of dismay because while Id reassured Jack that everything was quite normal, actually something was different this time: I felt as if Id been in a plane going incredibly fast, only to be yanked suddenly to a halt. Such a tremendous amount of energy surged through me that I didnt know what to do. For a moment it sent me reeling, and Jack caught my arm. This only embarrassed me further. I could feel my cheeks flush. I always tried to behave very sensibly to show that a trance was not a strange but a very natural phenomenon, and so my momentary stagger caught me by surprise. Rob was beside me in a moment, and I explained how I felt. A taxi was already waiting to take us to our next show, a radio program. I grabbed my bun and coffee and took them with me.

What actually happened while I was in trance? Jack and Sonja described some of the session to me in our brief conversation afterward, and Rob filled me in as we rushed to the next program.

First of all, as always, my face changed expression drastically, and I began to speak in a deep male-like voice. My own characteristic gestures vanished, to be replaced by Seths. He turned toward the camera, speaking directly to the viewers for perhaps ten minutes. By then, Sonja and Jack recovered from their surprise, and Jack asked Seth if he would speak about reincarnation.

Immediately Seth launched into a discussion of Sonjas past life experiences. In the time available, he dwelt on one life in particular, during which he said Sonja had a cleft palate that impeded verbal communication. According to Seth, this partially accounted for her interest in the field of communications now. He also said that Sonja loved color and fabric and that she used these as a method of communication in the past life as well as in this one. Some names and places in fourteenth-century England were given, and these are being checked out.

After the program, Sonja said that the character analysis given along with the reading described her beautifully. She also told us that she had used both color and fabric to communicate with children on an educational television program a fact unknown to us.

A few days later, I received a long distance call at home from a woman who told me that Seths appearance on the Todays Woman Show convinced her of life after death, though she had never believed in it before. She also said that listening to Seth had been the most profound religious experience of her life, although Seth had not talked in specific religious terms. Since then, we have received many calls, letters and visits from people who saw that show. They were astonished by the program, yet in a strange way, so was I. It taught me several things.