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Roberts would go into trance and dictate text channeled from a non-physical entity named Seth (that she believed might be a part of herself). Roberts and her husband, who transcribed what she dictated, published these books as a series. The list of titles includes The Seth Material, Seth Speaks, The Nature of Personal Reality, The Nature of the Psyche, Its Human Expression, The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, The Unknown Reality, and Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment. The books attributed to Seth discuss the nature of physical reality, the origins of the universe, the theory of evolution, the many worlds hypothesis, the Christ story, the purpose of life, among other subjects. Jane Roberts, also wrote, during this period, a number of books not dictated by Seth, which discuss the same ideas and how they affected her life. These are, among others, Adventures in Consciousness, Psychic Politics and The God of Jane.
In many ways Seth's arguments are radical. For example he argued that time and space are illusions and that both the past and future are accessible from the present. He said that each person lives many lives simultaneously (rather than several re-incarnated lives consecutively). He argued that each person creates their own experience within the reality that we all share, similar to the doctrine of responsibility assumption. In an argument reminiscent of the " many worlds hypothesis ", Seth said there are multiple realities, each as valid as any of the others.
Whereas Edgar Cayce, another psychic who also spoke about the nature of reality, re-incarnation etc, founded a school (now known as the Association for Research and Enlightenment), Seth argued that he did not wish to do so since reality is an individual experience, in his view there are no closed systems (that is, in a sense all things are possible) and he did not want to constrain the nature of anyone else's experience.