The Seth Material
by Jane Roberts
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Author: Jane RobertsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2010-01-01
ISBN: 0971119805
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: New Awareness Network
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Book Review: Just because an Ouiji Board says it - doesn't mean it is true
Summary: 3 Stars
Seth was one of Marianne Williamson's first spiritual teachers in the notion of conscious creation. Seth was not a physical being but a spirit entity channeled by Jane Roberts. The Nature of Physical Reality introduces the concepts of reality, perception, thoughts becoming matter, and all other theories on what is real within a multi-dimensional Universe. Seth contacted Roberts during an Ouiji Board session and overtime took over her body and wrote many books on metaphysical topics.
So ... consider the source - an Ouiji board and spirit entity from the other side on life and all its complexities. Would you trust this source to help you make wise financial investments? Or maybe Roberts was making the whole thing up in the spirit of JZ Knight and her Ramtha spirit teacher.
The following info on Seth and Roberts is from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Jane Roberts (1929-1984) was an American author who was known primarily as a psychic and trance medium or spirit medium who "channeled" a personality named Seth. She also purportedly channeled other personalities, including the deceased philosopher William James and the deceased painter Paul Cézanne. The publication of the Seth texts established her as one of the preeminent figures in the world of paranormal phenomena. In addition to metaphysical texts, she was an author of short stories, novels, children's literature, and various philosophical and/or religious texts.
Roberts was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, where she attended Skidmore College.
In late 1963, Jane Roberts and her husband, Robert Butts, experimented with a Ouija board as part of Roberts' research for a book on extra-sensory perception. According to Roberts and Butts, on December 2, 1963 they began to receive coherent messages from a male personality who eventually identified himself as Seth. Soon after, Roberts reported that she was hearing the messages in her head. She began to dictate the messages instead of utilizing the Ouija board, and the board was eventually abandoned. For 21 years until Roberts' death in 1984 (with a one-year hiatus due to her final illness), Roberts held regular sessions in which she went into a trance and purportedly channeled messages from Seth (hereinafter referred to as "the Seth personality" or simply "Seth"). Butts served as stenographer, taking the messages down in homemade shorthand, although some sessions were recorded. These messages from the Seth personality, consisting mostly of monologues on a wide variety of topics, are collectively known as "the Seth Material" (sometimes referred to herein as "the Material"). The Material through 1969 was published in summary form in The Seth Material, which was written by Roberts with substantial excerpts from the Seth personality. Beginning with the 511th session in January, 1970, the Seth personality began to dictate his own books. Roberts claimed no authorship of these books beyond her role as medium, and according to Roberts and Butts, these "channelled" books were published verbatim with only minor editorial corrections. This series of "Seth books" eventually totalled ten volumes, although the last two books appear to be incomplete due to Roberts' illness. The list of titles includes Seth Speaks; The Nature of Personal Reality; The Nature of the Psyche, Its Human Expression; The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events; The Unknown Reality; and Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment. Robert Butts contributed notes and comments to all the Seth books, and thus was a co-author on all of them.
The Seth personality described himself as an "energy personality essence no longer focused in physical form" who was independent of Roberts' subconscious, although Roberts herself expressed skepticism as to Seth's origins. The Seth personality said that he had completed his earthly reincarnations and that he was speaking from an adjacent plane of existence (or "system of reality" or "universe", all terms which Seth used). He described himself as an educator whose task was to impart the Material to the current generation of human beings. The Seth personality's demeanor was notably different from Roberts', as reported by witnesses who included Robert Butts, friends, acquaintances and students. He was at times stern, jovial or professorial, and he frequently assumed a distinct accent which was not identifiable. Unlike the psychic Edgar Cayce, whose syntax when speaking in trance was antiquated and convoluted, Roberts' syntax and sentence structures were modern and clear when speaking as Seth.
Sessions were held at regular intervals, usually three per week lasting two or three hours. Roberts asserted that she maintained control of the sessions and was not coerced by Seth. With the exception of a weekly ESP class in which the Seth personality spoke to class members, Roberts gave few readings to the public and was mostly focused on publishing the Material in printed form.
Summary of The Seth Material
Seth is the acclaimed non-physical teacher whose collected works are the most dynamic, brilliant and undistorted map of inner reality and human potential available today. His articulation of the furthest reaches of human potential, the eternal validity of the soul, and the concept that we create our own reality according to our beliefs, has been presented in books that have sold over 8 million copies and been translated into over a dozen languages. Seth's empowering voice clearly stands out as one of the major forces which led to the current New Age philosophical movement. This book chronicles Seth's first contact with author and medium Jane Roberts. It is a mixture of great Seth excerpts, selected by topic, and further explained by Jane.Topics covered include: afterdeath & between lives, how to get rid of llness,reincarnation, why people are born into different circumstances, God, All That Is, Dreams, exercises to develop the inner senses, and much more.Self-Help Books
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