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The ''Seth Material'' is a collection of writing dictated by Jane Roberts to her husband from late 1963 until her death in 1984. Roberts claimed the words were spoken by a discarnate entity named Seth.〔Roberts, Jane. ''ESP Power''. 2000; Stack, Rick. ''Out-Of-Body Adventures''. 1988; Hathaway, Michael R. ''The Complete Idiot's Guide to Past Life Regression''. 2003, p. 208; Watkins, Susan. ''Conversations With Seth, Book 2: 25th Anniversary Edition''. 2006.〕 The material is regarded as one of the cornerstones of New Age philosophy, and the most influential channelled text of the post-World War II "New Age" movement, other than the Edgar Cayce books and ''A Course in Miracles''.〔Talbot, Michael. ''The Holographic Universe'', 1991; Hanegraff, Wouter J. ''New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought'', SUNY Press, 1998, pp. 122–126; Hammer, Olav. ''Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age''. BRILL, 2004, p. 342; Upton, Charles. ''The System of Antichrist: Truth and Falsehood in Postmodernism and the New Age''. Sophia Perennis, 2005, pp. 169–173.〕 Jon Klimo writes that the Seth books were instrumental in bringing the idea of channeling to a broad public audience.〔Klimo, Jon. ''Channeling: Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources''. North Atlantic Books 1998, p. 22.〕 Other authors have written material they claimed was channeled from Seth, especially after Roberts' death. These included Thomas Massari, who founded the Seth-Hermes Foundation and said he had channeled Seth as early as 1972, and Jean Loomis, director of the Aquarian Center in Connecticut〔Fuller, Robert C. ''Spiritual, But Not Religious: Understanding Unchurched America''. Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 187; Newport, John P. ''The New Age Movement and the Biblical Worldview: Conflict and Dialogue''. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing 1998, p. 165; Klimo, Jon. ''Channeling: Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources''. North Atlantic Books 1998, p. 62〕 and others to date. However, in the introduction to the first book written about Seth, Seth says "communications will come exclusively through Ruburt (name for Jane ) at all times, to protect the integrity of the material". In ''The Seth Material'', Jane Roberts wrote: "Several people have told me that Seth communicated with them through automatic writing, but Seth denies any such contacts." Catherine L. Albanese said in the 1970s that the ''Seth Material'' launched an era of nationwide awareness of the channeling trend and contributed to the self-identity of an emergent New Age movement.〔Albanese, Catherine L. ''A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion''. Yale University Press 2007, p. 501.〕 Study groups formed in the United States to work with the ''Seth Material''.〔Larson, Bob. ''Larson's Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality''. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2004, p. 484.〕 and now are found around the world, as well as numerous websites and online groups, including in other languages as various titles have been translated into Chinese, Spanish, German, French, Dutch and Arabic. John P. Newport, in his study of the impact of New Age beliefs, described the central focus of the ''Seth Material'' as the idea that each individual creates his or her own reality, a foundational concept of the New Age movement first articulated in the ''Seth Material''.〔Newport, John P. ''The New Age Movement and the Biblical Worldview: Conflict and Dialogue''. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing 1998, p. 165.〕 ==History== In late 1963, Jane Roberts and her husband, Robert Butts, experimented with a Ouija board as part of Roberts' research for a book on extra-sensory perception.〔''ESP Power'', by Jane Roberts (2000) (introductory essay by Lynda Dahl). ISBN 0-88391-016-0〕 Roberts and Butts claimed that they began to receive coherent messages from a male personality on December 2, 1963, who later identified himself as Seth. Soon after, Roberts reported that she was hearing the messages in her head. She began to dictate the messages instead of using the Ouija board, and the board was eventually abandoned. For 21 years until Roberts' death in 1984 (with a one-year hiatus due to her final illness), Roberts held regular sessions in which she went into a trance and purportedly spoke on behalf of Seth.〔''Other Lives, Other Selves: A Jungian Psychotherapist Discovers Past Lives'', by Roger Woolger (1988). ISBN 978-0-553-34595-7〕 According to Roberts, Seth described himself as an "energy personality essence no longer focused in physical matter"〔Chapter 1, Session 511, ''Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul'', by Jane Roberts (1972).〕 who was independent of Roberts' subconscious, although Roberts expressed skepticism as to Seth's origins, frequently referring to Seth's statements as "theories".〔Chapter 10, ''The Seth Material, by Jane Roberts (1970).〕 Roberts claimed that Seth indicated he had completed his earthly reincarnations and was speaking from an adjacent plane of existence. The Seth personality described himself as a "teacher",〔Chapter 1, Session 511, and Chapter 2, Session 514, ''Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul'', by Jane Roberts (1972).〕 and said: "this material has been given by himself and others in other times and places, but that it is given again, in new ways, for each succeeding generation through the centuries." Unlike the psychic Edgar Cayce, whose syntax when speaking in trance was antiquated and convoluted, Roberts' syntax and sentence structures were modern and clear when speaking as Seth. Roberts often sat in a rocking chair during sessions, and she would occasionally smoke cigarettes and sip beer or wine. Afterwards, she claimed to not remember the contents of the session, and she would often read the transcript or ask what Seth had said. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seth Material」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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