Seth and The Telepathy Tapes: Hearing Seth’s Voice – An Inner Phenomenon

Jane had already begun to hear the pointer’s responses in her head a few days before Seth announced himself, but over time, the experience deepened. At first, the impressions came as fleeting anticipations – a single word or a sense of what was coming next. But soon, entire phrases began to appear in her mind a moment before the planchette arrived at the same letters.

This inner voice was not her own. It had a distinct cadence, a kind of old-fashioned, elegant firmness that was both impersonal and intimate. Jane was astonished – and disoriented. Was she imagining it? Was she projecting her own subconscious thoughts onto the board? The possibility unnerved her. At the time, she had no framework for understanding such phenomena, and her intellect, always sharp and questioning, recoiled from easy explanations. Yet she couldn’t deny what was happening. The sentences were arriving faster than the pointer could spell them. She was, unmistakably, hearing Seth before the board caught up.

Jane’s experience closely mirrors that of Casey, a teacher in episode 5 of The Telepathy Tapes, who recounted how, during a typing session with her communication partner, she began to hear what he was writing in real time: “I don’t know how this happened,” she reported. “I just know that we were at school. He was typing and I started hearing what he was typing before he would type it. I don’t remember exactly what the sentence was, but he was typing it and I was hearing it before I saw it on the screen.”

This description, uncanny in its resemblance to Jane’s experience, suggests an internal synchronization with another mind – an overlap of consciousness in which information arrives through a joining of minds rather than just a transmission of data. At first, Jane was unsure what to make of it. The novelty of the experience was tinged with fear. Was she losing control? Losing her mind? Was she communicating with something real or fabricating it all subconsciously?

These early questions haunted her. But the growing consistency of the phenomenon – and the clear distinction between Seth’s thoughts and her own – eventually began to erode her doubts. She realized she was not inventing Seth’s voice; she was receiving it, and the act of hearing it internally was the first stage in a transition away from the mechanical Ouija board and toward direct telepathic communion.

Jane had reached a profound psychological turning point, but to continue further, she would have to surrender the intellectual safety and emotional distancing of the tool they had been using – the Ouija board – and open herself to the far more vulnerable act of internal listening. This precisely matches the experience of the teachers and parents of the non-speaking children, who were torn between the laborious and time-consuming practice of typing on the letter boards and giving in to the much more rapid and fluent flow of information they received telepathically.

As the voice of Seth grew clearer, so too did the feeling that Jane’s mind was overlapping or comingling with Seth’s – that her own consciousness was making room for another’s. This too resembles the experiences of teachers, like Maryanne, who described moments of psychic fusion with the non-speaking children she worked with. She said that she could hear their words in her head and, in a compelling image, noted that “we’re just like one person when we’re doing it,” as though two minds were temporarily joined and sharing in the same stream of thought.

This phenomenon – a sort of co-consciousness – was precisely what Jane was beginning to experience. She and Seth were not simply conversing; they were intertwining. Jane’s inner world became a kind of amphitheatre where another intelligence could speak, not by overtaking her, but by to some extent merging with her. The voice she heard was not whispering from beyond – it was emerging from within, using her consciousness as a medium in which to construct a working, living psychological structure that Seth termed a bridge personality, composed of elements of both himself and Jane. More on that later.

Over time, Jane learned to trust this inner phenomenon. What had once been disorienting became familiar. Her fear gave way to fascination, and her doubt softened into conviction. Seth’s voice became more than an intrusion – it became a partner in a shared exploration of reality. What had begun as letters on a board evolved into one of the most profound dialogues of co-consciousness ever recorded.