![]() ![]() The whole Seth material is there, in fetal form, as it were. She wrote it down only half-conscious of what was happening. It began without warning in September of 1963, when a lengthy message, "The Physical Universe as Idea Construction” more or less “came” to her out of the blue. But it wasn’t until her own remarkable “psychic initiation” that she began, by degrees to experience herself as the conduit, or channel (but so much more than those words might imply) for perhaps the most detailed, extensive, and remarkable body of spiritual wisdom ever communicated to one human being. In a deeper way, however, they may be the most remarkable pair of the twentieth century, and their influence continues to grow.Īs a girl and a young woman, Jane found herself pondering-and writing about-some of the great mysteries of life. ![]() ![]() They lived in a small city in a not-very-fashionable part of New York state, never got rich or very famous, never had children. As an artist, Rob achieved at best-limited acclaim, and Jane’s poetry and science-fiction works never set the literary world on fire. Jane Roberts and Rob Butts, the married couple through whom the Seth material has come to us, were, in some ways, an unremarkable couple. ![]()
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