Jane Roberts lived from 1929 to 1984. In 1963, Jane and her husband Robert Butts began to explore the realm of metaphysics and considered writing a book that would investigate ESP powers. Wanting to gain first hand knowledge for the book, Jane and Rob tried using the Ouija board. During their session, a being presented itself through the board with the name Seth. Both of them felt the experience was real, and soon Jane began to receive messages from Seth directly in her mind rather than through the slow process of the Ouija board. Jane decided to really open herself to Seth, and began speaking the words that appeared in her mind. Rob began to transcribe what Seth dictated, and soon, enough material was complied to put into book form. Over 25 books have been published as "The Seth Material." Jane conducted channeling sessions with Seth twice a week and eventually recorded over 1500 sessions.

Seth described himself as a personality no longer focused in the physical reality. Yet, he maintained the ability to contact this realm and give guidance from another realm. One of Seth's main teachings was that we create our own reality. The Seth Material (1970) has gained wide appeal and Jane is acclaimed as one of the most important channelers of our time. The following are examples of Seth's teachings through Jane:

"The responsibility for your life and your world is indeed yours... You form your own dreams and you form your own physical reality. The world is...the physical materialization of the inner selves which you have formed."

"You are not any of those past selves, even though they are a part of the history of your being. They are themselves in their own space and time. You are as different from those reincarnational selves, therefore, as you are from your parents, though you share certain backgrounds and characteristics. So you can theoretically expand your consciousness to include the knowledge of your past lives, though those lives were yours and not yours. The next step is taken when identity is able to include within itself the intimate knowledge of all incarnations. Yet in this state, the independence of the various reincarnated selves is not diminished as each separate identity then seeks to know and experience its other portions, then All That Is learns Who and What It Is. Action never ceases its exploration of itself."

"If you could but perceive the miraculous nature of your own reality in this particular moment that you call the present, how dazzled you would be, and how little you would think in terms of purposes. Your reality is purpose and knows itself. What a rich, undefined miracle exists in each of your beings now! You look at painting—or a poem—and call them great. If you could feel the miraculous structure of your own being now, and appreciate it, how you would wonder! be a medium.