Jane Roberts began channeling the Seth material in the 60s and her books remain some of the finest channeled material in existence but sadly few people in today’s world even know about her. Some even believe that almost single handedly she was the force that started the New Age.
Books such as “The Unknown Reality”; “The Education of Oversoul Seven”; “The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events”; “The Nature of the Psyche: its Human Expression” all explored such concepts as parallel lives, how the past, present and future all exist in ever changing creativity, and how parts of us are living other lives in other times and places right now in the ever present moment.
You didn’t sit down and read a book by Jane Roberts. You read a few pages and then put it down to absorb and reflect upon what you just read. Each one of her books (over twenty) was 100% pure catalyst! You could feel yourself start to go into an altered state just reading her stuff!
Dick Sutphen was another great pioneer who people have forgotten. He was the first to explore past lives through hypnotic regression on a mass scale. He had self programming tapes for just about anything and explored the cutting edge of hypnosis, self-programming and self-empowerment. I probably spent over $1,000 on his books, tapes and even went to a seminar.
Organic Gnosticism in indebted to him for many of its most powerful concepts.
Speaking of hypnosis, Dick Sutphen introduced me to the ideas of Milton Erickson who is perhaps the leading innovator of hypnosis therapy today. His work influenced in turn the remarkable discoveries of Bandler and Grinder in NLP or Neuro Linguistics Programming. This very powerful material was also highly influential in the development of Organic Gnosticism.
NLP is one of the most powerful technologies available in today’s world and needs to be respected for what it is. It can be a powerful force for transformation and self-empowerment and it can also be abused.
These masters helped me to understand the true nature of hypnosis and altered states as the art of capturing someone’s attention and directing it where you wanted it to go. This is a natural skill made use of by every good story teller and beautiful woman!
Famed occultist Dion Fortune wrote about the importance of altered states in the process of soul development and magickal work. In essence there needed to be two people, one to produce an altered state and act as a guide for the initiate. In pathworking for example someone needed to lead the pathworking for those in meditation.
Dick Sutphen and NLP taught how we can produce our own meditations to guide us. Today I create extremely powerful meditations for my own use and exploration and have shared many of them as part of Organic Gnosticism. These include basic energy ball meditations; group portal meditations and shifting the point of awareness meditations among others. But the roots of these meditations lie in this technology.
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I was first introduced to Jane Roberts at age 13. I read her work because some of the concepts in her books were things I had thought about before finding that resource. I don’t know that I would have paid as much attention to her work because of that. I have and continue to be skeptical of trance channeling but Jane’s work has really held up.
And then Dick Sutphen—I had an OOBE cassette he put out in the 80’s when I was in college—someone in my dorm turned me on to him. It’s interesting that both people would show up on my dash this morning!
So many young people these days don’t really understand the quality or resources that were available in the 70s & 80s! Some of the material is timeless! Thank you for your comment!