THE EARLY SESSIONS Book 1 of The Seth Material Sessions 1-42 11/26/63–4/8/64 Visit our website www.sethcenter.com The exclusive source for the complete collection of Seth books and recordings by Jane Roberts 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 it’s very important to have these sessions added to Jane’s 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.) For complete information on Seth Books, Online Seth Classes, Seth Conferences, Seth CD’s, Jane Roberts’ books and The Art of Robert Butts (Jane Robert’s husband and co-author of the Seth Books) write to New Awareness Network and request the latest catalogue or visit our website at www.sethcenter.com New Awareness Network Inc. P.O. BOX 192 Manhasset, N.Y. 11030 www.sethcenter.com THE EARLY SESSIONS Book 1 of The Seth Material Sessions 1-42 11/26/63–4/8/64 © 1997 by Robert Butts © 2012 Laurel Davies Butts Published by New Awareness Network Inc. New Awareness Network Inc. P.O. 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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 0-9652855-0-2 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: 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 Sessions to my wife, Jane Roberts, who lived her 55 years with the greatest creativity and the most valiant courage. -Rob PREFACE I’m 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 I’ve long wanted to see take place, and Rick’s dedicated interest and time make it possible. (I told him more than once along the way that he’d better think twice—and 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. I’m 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 Jane’s work, but with little success, for a variety of reasons. Also, even though I’d been so intimately involved with the Seth material from the very beginning, for example, I didn’t fully comprehend the volume of just the session material that we’d accumulated over a total of 21 years. Let alone the bulk of Jane’s 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 was—and is, I know, for I’m sure that she still lives—the most creative person I’ve ever met, and through her extraordinary abilities she’s 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. Rick’s 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.