“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It was easy to tell that Jane was happy working on Seth’s latest. [...] She’s been picking up from Seth on Dreams quite often. [...] At other times she may forget to mention it for a while, or the session material itself may remind her that she already knew what Seth was going to talk about.)

3. Now what, I wondered, as I typed this session from my notes, does Seth mean here, and in the paragraph above? [...] His material usually generates more questions than answers, but this time he’d outdone himself. I try to avoid reading too much into such brief passages, but I felt that if Seth answered all of the questions I could ask based upon this session, a book would result. [...] (I could also see correlations here between Seth’s ideas about the primary nature of All That Is and the inflationary model of the universe. [...]

[...] Keep in mind that according to the Seth material the merest particle is basically conscious in its own way. [...]

At this point in my speculations I’m usually led back to Seth’s EE (or electromagnetic energy) units, and his CU’s (or units of consciousness). [...] According to Seth, each unit of consciousness “contains within itself innately infinite properties of expansion, development and organization; yet within itself always maintains the kernel of its own individuality…. [...]

(“In these passages on hate, and elsewhere in this book, Seth goes more deeply into the nature of our emotional life than he has before. [...] One such instance is mentioned on page 248 of The Seth Material, when, in response to a declaration by a student in my ESP class, Seth took the conventional idea of hate for granted on the part of the student. [...] Seth’s main concern was to refute that concept.

(A note added later: After comparing the information in this session with some of Seth’s material of previous years, Jane wrote a statement for insertion here:

(“In using the word ‘curse,’ Seth is not referring to swearing, but to directing hatred against another. [...] Also important in this context is Seth’s frequent reminder that the expression of normal aggression prevents the buildup of anger into hatred.”)

[...] (Jane, as Seth, patted her midriff.) The remark was meant symbolically. [...]

[...] Naturally, Seth’s material about a physical regeneration makes me think about other parts of the body regenerating itself—and Jane’s too. [...]

[...] It had been Leonard’s illness that had triggered a set of symptoms of my own, which Seth has been treating in these recent deleted sessions. [...] Seth also comments.

(The following material is from the 901st session.

(“Thank you, Seth.”)

[...] He seemed to be so taken with the Seth material that he’d stopped reading everything else, he said, yet when I said he shouldn’t do that, he said he read widely of other material — that sort of thing. [...]

[...] It made me wonder, as I drove home, what some people did before they came across the Seth material, or my own thinking. [...]

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”)

[...] Small portions of three of them contain Seth material for herself.

[...] We’ve been quite discouraged at times lately, yet Seth has had a different story to tell. Our struggle, our challenge, and one that’s most difficult for us, is to understand his material as much as possible.

[...] After expressing a couple of reassuring thoughts for Jane, in line with his private material for Monday night’s session, Seth said good night at 10:15 P.M. “Listen, I came so close to not having this session,” Jane said. [...]

On October 30 Sue Watkins called to tell us that she’s finished writing Volume 2 of Conversations With Seth. [...]

[...] Jane had also been doing very well on God of Jane, and chose not to be distracted by working on anything else—even Seth material. [...]

[...] I was most interested tonight as Seth discussed the implications of the letter, along with two thoughts Jane had picked up from him a week ago Monday, on the day she held the 915th session: “Alone, reason finally becomes unreasonable. [...] I wrote in the closing note for the session that I was disappointed because Seth hadn’t brought up those two points in the session itself.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Now Jane delivered some material for us, then ended the session at 9:57 P.M.)

[...] I’ve often had the feeling that Seth’s material parallels Jane’s own situation, whatever that may be at that moment. [...] Large portions of it could be Seth’s material for her alone.)

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”)

(4:41 p.m. Jane said, “I have the feeling that whenever Seth gives exercises like that, that he’s giving them just when I need them, and the reader too. [...]

[...] Bill has been acting as custodian of the second carbon of the Seth material. Jane and I have always made it a policy to have a carbon of any written material—prose, poetry, etc., in separate hands outside of our house, as a protection against loss by accident, fire, etc.

(We had not asked that Bill follow the material from session to session, feeling that it was for him to decide whether to pay any attention to it or not. Jane and I were therefore pleasantly surprised to learn that Bill and Ida had read some of the material; and while not hostile to it, they still expressed a healthy skepticism—an attitude Jane and I much prefer to any gullible, overenthusiastic belief blindly undertaken.

(Ida’s brother, Louie, had also been following the material somewhat more thoroughly, and he visited the four of us at Bill’s home Saturday night. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, I did feel a legitimate welcome in advance; and since I feel already as if I know very well two of the present gathering, and since furthermore we have dealt with them in our material, I am more than willing to greet both of them personally.

[...] Seth’s material had reminded Jane that several times in the past she’d had the experience of hearing music when none was to be heard—that is, no radios were playing within range, etc. [...]

[...] Jane reports that when she pauses for Seth, during a delivery, that she can sense the whole concept of whatever subject is being discussed. It appears to hang over her, but since it is too much to handle at once, she feels Seth withdrawing it, to release it to her a little at a time in the form of connected words.

[...] We sat at the board; as soon as our fingers touched the pointer it spelled out Seth’s greeting.

(“Good evening, Seth. [...]

In The Seth Material, I included only a few brief quotes from “The Physical Universe As Idea Construction,” but here I will go into that manuscript somewhat more thoroughly, since it is so close to the “raw form” that erupted from that experience and represents, in embryo, I believe, the material that Seth would later be giving us. [...]

I described that experience in The Seth Material, but because it rose from the world of dreams and is so connected with unconscious activity, I want to examine it from a different viewpoint here. [...]

[...] The third occurred in February 1964, shortly after the Seth sessions had begun. [...]

The physical body is the material construction of the entity’s idea of itself under the properties of matter.

[...] So far, then, events have fallen into line with Seth’s material yesterday—about the probable lack of a lawsuit, an early resolving of the insurance question, and with Jane’s own feelings about same, at the end of yesterday’s session. [...]

(I didn’t have time to go into it today, but Seth’s material reminded me anew that I know my own mother had managed to make me afraid of certain areas of life—that as I grew up, then left home and had to manipulate in the world, I became quite aware that I’d acquired certain fears or inhibitions. [...]

[...] Her Seth voice was quite good. [...]

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”)

[...] Here Seth refers to my being called Mr. Roberts on occasion during the tour. Part of this was caused by an error on the jacket copy of The Seth Material. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] I wanted as little surplus material here as possible, thinking it would be easier to take our time moving items from Sayre to the new location, wherever it might be.

[...] I suppose it’s not a good idea to keep the third carbon of this material there, either. [...]

[...] I took all of this activity as an example of Seth’s material, above, and mentioned it to her at the time. [...]

[...] “Boy, I want a session from Seth so bad,” Jane said at 8:11. [...]

(Jane’s Seth voice was pretty steady for the most part. [...]

[...] I feel like Seth was here for five minutes, and then I was back. [...]

(I told Jane that I think Seth’s material on the animals’ sense equivalents of human civilizations is the best of its kind I’ve ever heard — most evocative indeed. I hope Seth comes through with more on the subject before he finishes Mass Events.)

(This evening’s session was of average length for recent ones — lasting about an hour and a half, including break — but Seth devoted only the first short portion of it to Mass Events.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Those “notes,” however, dealing with other matters, ran for several more pages before Seth said good night at 10:38 P.M.

[...] (Long pause.) This book however, written by me, will therefore be entirely Seth material. [...]

[...] Not that she thought Seth was there to be seen, but she did sense something out of the ordinary. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Seth finished dictating his last book, The “Unknown” Reality: A Seth Book, three months ago, in the 744th session for April 23. [...] As soon as I realized why she was holding off, I decided to put her back to work on the Seth material, even though she hasn’t yet finished her own Psychic Politics.

(At supper time this evening I told Jane that tonight she was going to  start dictating a new book for Seth, the “energy personality essence” for whom she speaks while she’s in trance — and that she was going to do the notes also. I’d record the “sessions,” adding times, dates, and the barest sort of other material, so that Jane could build up her own notes around those ingredients. [...]

(So it seemed that we were about to get underway with another excellent production from Seth, with Jane’s considerable — indeed vital — help. I understood that she might be a little concerned about his starting a new book on such short notice; but on the other hand, I had no doubt at all that Seth — and Jane — could do it. [...]

[...] And I’m not ready for either of the books Seth has mentioned doing — the Christ book, or the one he talked about last month, on cultural reality. [...]

The Seth Material hardcover did not financially change the situation that much, but his classes began to bring in money. [...]

[...] “Boy, Seth, you better come up with some answers,” she said. [...] Seth finally interrupted us.)

(This was a real reaction from Seth. [...] I also thought that this might stem from Jane’s expressed feelings of anger and resentment before the session, and her demands that Seth help. [...]

[...] We were very disappointed that all of our recent efforts, in line with Seth’s suggestions, hadn’t resulted in any improvement.

[...] I hadn’t actually asked any questions of Seth; his material after break came through following my joking remark that I was half afraid to ask any, my reaction stemming from his discussion in the last deleted session, regarding Jane’s dislike of details, etc.

(At break tonight I’d explained to Jane that I still thought the 14th session contained some excellent material on Seth’s awareness of “something resembling time” to him—and that it was “still a reality of some kind” to him. [...]

(Seth’s material offers some new insights, I think, as I type this session, concerning his reality. [...]

(We had no questions for Seth in particular, hoping that he would just continue where he’d left off last session. [...]

[...] It clearly foreshadows certain ideas in the Seth material, which she was to begin delivering 19 months later. [...]

[...] Seth’s material, especially that given around 9:34, was quite apropos in light of an amusing incident involving Jane shortly before the session. [...]

(During break, I wondered aloud if she might have selected the book because she intuitively knew Seth was going to discuss its kind tonight — or did Seth use the incident, once it transpired, to make his points in a fresh way? [...]

(Lately I’ve been asking Jane if she thought Seth would give at least a short dissertation on probabilities for this book. [...] [A note added later: Seth kept his word. [...]

(Resume in the same fast material at 10:05.)