Chill Insights from Session 116: The Couch Experiment

Session 116 of The Early Sessions, recorded on the night of December 21, 1964, was a total game-changer for Jane Roberts (aka Ruburt) and Robert Butts (aka Joseph). Usually, Jane spent her sessions pacing around like a caffeinated professor, but tonight, things got a little more "horizontal."

The Vibe Shift: No More Pacing

In this session, Jane decided to experiment with a deeper trance by actually sitting down and closing her eyes—a wild departure from her usual routine. While she was a bit panicked about losing her sense of time (we’ve all been there), the results were pretty heavy.

• The Telepathic Sync: While Jane was getting the "vibe" to try a new trance method, Rob was in another room working on an index for an old session where Seth suggested—you guessed it—experiments with inner senses. Talk about being on the same wavelength.
• The Safety Switch: Seth, being the responsible multidimensional teacher he is, gave Rob an "emergency exit" phrase. If things got too weird or Jane stayed "under" too long, Rob just had to say: "All right Jane, you’re back now." It’s basically the psychic version of "unplugging it and plugging it back in."
• Ditching the Props: Seth explained that Jane’s usual pacing was actually a "prop"—a way for her to feel in control and stay on her feet (partly due to some baggage regarding her invalid mother). By sitting still, she was finally letting go of the "fences of minutes" we call clock time.
• Ego Censorship: The whole point of this couch-potato experiment was to bypass the "ego’s censorship." Apparently, our conscious minds are like overzealous bouncers at a club, blocking out cool information from the personal subconscious.

The Heavy Stuff: Energy and Dreams

When Seth finally got talking, he dropped some knowledge about how the universe actually reloads its batteries.

• Mental Energy: Seth was very clear: "All energy is what you may call mental energy." It doesn’t just sit there; it constantly recharges itself as it moves through different fields of activity.
• The Twin Fires: He described the dream universe and the physical universe as "twin fires" burning in different worlds. They look different, but they’re fueled by the same inner action.
• No Energy is Lost: In the Seth-verse, nothing is meaningless and nothing is wasted. Every action affects every other action. It’s all connected, man.

Words from the Source

To give you a taste of the actual session without spoiling the whole vibe, here are a few choice nuggets of wisdom:

• "Clock time is one prop that even in our usual sessions Ruburt is accustomed to rely upon, though not of course to the extent that he relies upon it in the periods of more ordinary consciousness."
• "All energy is what you may call mental energy. It creates itself in multitudinous forms, which then re-create fields, replenish each other. No energy is lost. No energy is meaningless."
• "As no action is meaningless, so the dream universe and the physical universe constantly replenish each other, and mental actions are performed in both universes, being camouflage acting symbols for inner action."

The Wrap-Up

Jane ended the session feeling "way out," totally unaware of the darkness in the room or even the fact that she was using her own voice. It was a successful first step into a deeper level of communication.

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