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Carol Funk, a long time contributor to the Seth Community, passed away on January 3rd. She was loved by many, and will be missed in the days ahead. We have posted a PDF file to honor Carol's memory and celebrate her life: 
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Paul's new book Seth: The Ultimate Guide will be available in Fall, 2010. He also had an article published in the Fall Issue of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice called 
Meet birds of a feather, explore conscious creation by visiting our list of workshops, conferences, and group sessions: Featured Article
A Decentralized God and An American Vision (Abridged)
By Jane Roberts
A Decentralized God
Jane wrote this chapter in October 1979, almost 22 years before the events of September 11, 2001, yet the work feels incredibly resonant with these times. I’ve summarized the beginning of the chapter in order to focus on the content identified (with added subtitle) as Jane’s “An American Vision.” - JH
Jane was completing The God of Jane when autumn was in the air—and word of a psychic fair. “In rather typical American fashion, I thought, they were taking their wares to the marketplace, displaying products out in the open, forsaking the old séance rooms and spooky cubbyholes for the bright malls at noon.” But the fair was almost canceled when “a group of local religious fundamentalists began an impassioned campaign to intimidate the merchants at the mall,” and when the fair was moved to a community spot, people there “were handed pamphlets proclaiming that the psychic readings were satanic, inspired by the devil to deceive people and steal souls away from God.” Soon afterward, another religious group held a rally in the local park to protest against homosexuals.
Jane says she found herself “thinking, ‘Thank God we have a constitution and separation of church and state’.” Her mind turned to public and national events as they were “related to religion and psychic activity. I could feel myself trying to make certain important connections that had so far escaped me.”
“At the same time something else made me consider the public or sociological implications of trance material—my own in particular.” Jane was reviewing Sue Watkins’ book, Conversations with Seth: The Story of Jane Roberts’s ESP Class, and found it “unsettling” to view the class, Seth, and herself from another person’s viewpoint. “It seemed certain that some interaction between public affairs and the events of my private life must have caused a particular kind of tension that generated my psychic intuition, and that that tension must happen only when certain types of persons encounter particular kinds of historical events,” citing her “concerns back in late 1963 when JFK had just been assassinated and there had been talk about a big showdown with Cuba. (Rob and I had stocked survival food, a rifle, and other supplies in a closet.) These national events made deep impression on our private lives. And surely the Seth sessions provide a new framework or platform from which we could consider what was going on in our own lives and in the world.”
“It was quite possible then, I thought, that when the problems of the species became too great for its framework of understanding a new psychological acceleration began in response to the tension, until one way or another we broke free to a larger context. And surely now was the time.
“We’d become exteriorized to an alarming degree, I mused, acting as if we were, indeed, science’s living machines: manufactured by some automatic, brilliant mechanics that ran itself without cause or reason—mindless survival machines. Or we acted as if we were a god’s sinful creatures, tainted with evil since birth. Our thoughts became so identified with exterior organizations that we’d invested them with parts of ourselves, then lost sight of those portions. We stopped asking the important questions for ourselves. Instead we turned over the questions to science or religion, and largely accepted their prepackaged answers and explanations.
“So no wonder, I thought, there were psychic fairs in village malls. No wonder historic heroes, wisemen, spacemen, and saints were all communicating through automatic writing or Ouija boards. No wonder there were new cults springing up everywhere. And no wonder that the prophets of doom were taking over the television screens and the ancient religions were trying a new revival The psychological acceleration had begun. The mass psyche was pushing at its boundaries, reaching, searching, using all of its energy to pull free. The old dogmas might blaze with new fire for a moment but the people were busy: in their own ways, they were again ready to approach the universe and their experience directly. What did it all mean, I wondered, and what were they—what were we—really up to?
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