The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto
About This Book
The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto is Jane Roberts' most personal and autobiographical work — her account of her own inner life, her relationship with Seth, the challenges and contradictions of her specific situation as a vehicle for a non-physical teacher, and her developing understanding of the nature of consciousness, creativity, and identity that the Seth work had opened. Where the Seth books present the teaching in Seth's voice and from Seth's perspective, The God of Jane presents Roberts' own perspective — the experience from the inside of being a person through whom an apparently non-physical intelligence was speaking, and the philosophical, psychological, and personal challenges that this experience generated.
The book is organised around Roberts' concept of the 'God of Jane' — her personal metaphor for the creative source of her own being, the 'source self' from which both she and Seth expressed themselves, and the ultimate ground of the consciousness that was speaking through both of them. This concept allowed Roberts to claim her own authority and her own perspective rather than always deferring to Seth — to speak from her own understanding rather than always redirecting the reader to the more authoritative voice of the entity. The result is one of the most honest and searching accounts of the experience of channelling (and of its personal costs) in the literature.
What You'll Learn
• Understand Roberts' own perspective on the Seth experience: how she experienced the channelling from the inside — the specific quality of altered state, the relationship between her own awareness and Seth's during sessions, the ways in which the Seth work both enriched and complicated her personal life
• Grasp the 'God of Jane' concept: what Roberts means by this metaphor — the specific understanding of the creative source she had developed through years of the Seth work — and how it allowed her to claim her own authority and wisdom rather than always referencing Seth as the source
• Recognise the personal challenges: how Roberts addresses the specific difficulties her situation created — the dependence others developed on Seth, the way her own work as a poet was overshadowed by the Seth books, the physical health challenges that accumulated over the years of the Seth work, and her evolving understanding of the relationship between these challenges and the demands of the work
• Learn Roberts' independent philosophical contributions: how The God of Jane demonstrates that Roberts' own philosophical understanding — developed through but distinct from the Seth material — constituted a genuine and original contribution to the understanding of consciousness and creativity in its own right
• Appreciate the honesty and vulnerability of this text: how Roberts' willingness to examine the contradictions and difficulties of her situation with complete candour — including her doubts, her frustrations, and her ambivalences about the Seth work — makes The God of Jane the most humanly authentic document in the entire Roberts-Seth corpus, and one of the most searingly honest accounts of the inner life of a genuine spiritual experience
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