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Essene material seems to suggest that we're subject to an information turnover, as if spiritual truths and "eternal verities" showed the newshour brand of transience on their bovine flanks as they lumbered past our post toward the stockyards of instant antiquation. This is indeed all—too—true of much channeled material which frankly seems designed by an otherworldly Madison Avenue only interested in fashioning the latest catchphrase. What made the Seth material so noticeable, and what allows it to stand up well today, has much to do with the channelerJane Roberts herself who—along with the channeled text—narrated a continuous chronicle of her own internal struggle with the whole phenomenon of channeling, as well as the content of the material. The uniform quality, consistency and integrity of the Seth teachings which spanned many years (compared to various one-shot sources today) was largely due to the strangeness and unfamiliarity of such a mode visited upon any consciousness at that "early" time meeting head on a rational and intelligent—if critical and initially quite skeptical—personality. As Roberts herself states from the perspective of experience, it was indeed the initial dubiety, the deep reservations accompanying her reluctant participation in so extreme a phenomenon that kept the keel even, and helped therefore to keep the communication steadily aligned along the potential shoals of egoism on the one hand and reductive rationalization on the other. There is, as anyone should be able to tell, a universe of difference between these carefully monitored, combed and curried sessions and the modern immoderate opus cavalierly compiled across the familiarizing interval of time since the Summons of Seth wherein the chief feature of the inevitable book seems to be the channeler Herself, lavishly displayed on the pages of the photo insert coyly captioned from "childhood" to the "mature adult present" (in which, having donned a pyramidal duncecap in a moment of pure caprice the subject became so suddenly Serendipitous Host to some materializing entity, quite helpfully clarifying things at the outset by announcing Its Enlightenment). In considering the Seth material as a whole, we can recommend it on the great virtue alone—taken for granted by now, but quite unique for its initiating time—that it introduced the important key of probability to the field of psychological reality, thereby freeing the idea from its exclusivity as an abstruse phenomenon of physics (occurring— to any significant degree only at the Heisenberg—indeter—minacy level, fit for the "position and velocity of electrons" but unsuited to strip the material mind from its fixation upon rigid causal conditioning and deterministic hypotheses of action). The Seth discussion of multidimensionality and the branching 10 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm