“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now I want you to do something if you wish. If you do not wish, then you can sit and observe. Now I want you simply to follow along, to listen to the sounds, to let whatever images come into your mind come. Do not attempt to translate the words that you hear into words that you know. Do not get hung up on semantics. Do not get hung up on personality. In other words, simply accept an experience. Let yourselves go with it, whatever happens. If you feel like setting up barriers, then set up barriers. If you feel like letting barriers go then let them go, but do whatever you feel like doing and whatever you feel like doing, do. If you feel like getting up and standing in front of someone else and relating with them, do it. If you feel like singing, sing. If you see images, enjoy them. If your muscles cramp, then sit and feel them cramp. If you feel like examining what is going on, then examine what is going on. If you feel like joining in with what is going on, then join in. So feel free, in other words, to do whatever you feel like doing. Now give us a moment.

In the meantime, trust your sense and your feelings. Listen to what your body wants to do. Listen to what your mind and your feelings want to do. Do not look to whoever is speaking for directions, but follow through. If you do not feel like doing what seems to be suggested, do not do it. If you feel, however, as if you would like to do it, but do not have the guts to do it, then trust yourself and go ahead. If instructions seem to be given, follow them if you want to. If you feel like standing and looking out the window and turning your back to the whole thing, then do it, but at least know what your feelings are.

Now all of you try again not to try. Right off is better than right on, so try not to try. Try, in other words, to feel what you want to do at a given time. To give you a sense of freedom, if you do not want to do anything, do not do anything, and the others should not be offended. A sense of privacy is always respected here, but also realize the sacred nature of spontaneity and of your own feelings, and do not make logical deductions now. You can make logical deductions when you discuss what happened, and you can be as critical as you want to be.

Now I will tell you briefly that you were involved with last week although I have already told Ruburt and Joseph in their session. You realize that nothing happens in this class that you do not want to happen. That no impetus arises that does not come from you. I do not say, “Aha, my friends need to know this and so I will stuff it down their throats.” The impetus comes from you and therefore what happened last week came from you. You were indeed involved in a variation of an ancient ceremony in which you were all, in your terms, at one time involved. This was your translation of it in terms that you can understand. As what you are now is a translation of yourself in terms that you can understand. I made some comments last week. You do not have them now, but you will have them shortly for the session is not yet typed, but that will help clear up some of the questions that you have in your mind.

[...] It takes a while to understand who and what you are, and while you are learning it is often very handy to have someone else tell you and say you are this and so, you can do this and this and this and this is good and this is bad, as you indeed tell children. And so you do not have to ask yourself questions and you do not, yourself, have to probe the nature of good and evil because you accept what has been told you. And when you are in such a state you do not develop. Sometimes you are safe, but you do not develop and often you are not even safe. [...]

Now, since in the dream state you are able, quite easily, to perceive the future, why do you find it such a frightening thing to do when you are awake? [...] Because another man is blind you do not close your eyes so that you can agree. That is what you are doing when you limit your own idea of reality. [...]

You are going to have a lot to do. Now, you have a lot to do now, but consciously you are not aware of what you do, and little by little you must learn to accept greater and greater portions of your own reality in this life and future lives. [...]

Do not forget, when I speak to you I am not speaking symbolically. [...] You do quite literally form your own reality and there is no symbolism in that statement. If you do not like the reality that you are forming then you can change it, and honesty is extremely important in this regard. [...]

[...] You do not need the words. You do not need me to sit here and speak to you but physically you think that you do and so I am here. [...] They are only to make you happy because the words, times and places, have a meaning to you but in your basic reality you do not know times nor places. [...]

[...] You do not understand. Our friend here can tell you (to Sue), you can be determined to write such an experience down and forget to do so. You must do it immediately. [...]

[...] And there are journeys that each of you embark upon, and you do not know in words the nature of the destination, and you do not know when you arrive at this destination, and you do not know when the destination is no longer a destination but a way. [...]

[...] They are the children of our dreams and so, also, do you seed other realities and other systems. [...] Therefore, also do we remember you and your system. Consciousness releases its abilities in ways that you do not understand and yet from your own mind, springing from your own dreams, other systems of reality emerge as you have emerged from our dreams. [...]

(To Dennis and Giselle.) Now, you two will be around here for some time and as we have done with the other students here, we will do you in depth. [...] Ruburt’s muscles do not do what I want them to do, but then they are all I have to work with and so I cannot complain. [...]

[...] Do not try desperately to let go. Do you see the difference, because it is important that you do. [...] Do not keep checking against the physical reality that you know to see whether or not it has changed, for particularly in the beginning, this can lead you astray or make you feel you are getting nowhere; but if you change the situation in your own mind you will change it in physical reality. [...]

[...] You do well when you do not realize what you are doing, but I want you to become aware and to use your intellect when you are out of your body, and you cannot do it when you are scared stiff. [...]

(To Jason.) And also because of a deep feeling of goodness and strength and courage over here, but I do not want you to distort what you are getting either. I do not want you to interpret it so strongly along certain lines. [...] I believe you know this and now I will interpret your dream for it has to do with religion. [...]

—as a rock bottom answer, that both of you can use to escape doing what you do not want to do. So the answer would be simply that you do not feel the show would be advantageous at this time.

[...] That is, do not inhibit your own feelings. You do not help either of you when you do.

If you do not want to do these things, and you are sure you do not, then admit it, without relying upon the symptoms as a handy excuse.

(A note: Publicity at Prentice-Hall also told Jane that Newsweek Magazine might do a story or review re Seth, and that this might take place within two or three weeks, etc. Jane evidently wouldn’t have anything to do with this venture.

[...] You do not need to accept the implication, but if you do not, then why do you not? [...] Why do you find it far safer to show love to an animal and pet it, than to a person? [...] The secrets do not bother you half as much as you imagine that they do. [...]

[...] Do not pretend they do not exist, or you will run into trouble. But when you shove one black cloud against another black cloud you can have one hell of a storm so you do not have to retaliate, therefore. [...] Why do they behave in such and such a manner? [...] Do you see the difference? [...]

(To Bette.) Now you do not have to fear your secrets or anyone else’s, and you do not have to fear that when you open yourselves up you are only going to find dark terrors, frightening thoughts and horrendous sins of the flesh. [...] The vitality of life is far greater than anything you can do to wound it. [...]

Concepts are extremely important and we will never leave them aside in class, but you must learn to experience a concept, and in order to do so, you must realize the importance of your own inner experience. And since many of you are not doing too well out of class in this regard, you can do it in class. [...]

[...] With others you can get an idea for things in class that you can do on your own. But if you don’t spend the time to do it on your own, you won’t get results. [...] And how curious you are to use your abilities to find out what you can do with your own consciousness. ‘Cause each of you can do different things with your consciousness than I can do with mine, because your consciousness is your own. [...] I think that what you’re doing in the dream state, with what some of us are doing, is really great. [...] That you should allow yourself every ability you can to see what you can do with it. [...]

[...] But you can work through them, and I’d really like all of you to do this. [...] And try, ‘cause I know you can all do it, to take your conscious awareness into the dream state. [...] And really see what you can do, ‘cause you can do stuff in the dream state with your consciousness just like you can here. You just have to realize you can do it. [...]

[...] That it represent the best things I hope to do. [...] Okay about sending it out to Sue and showing it how to do things or telling it how to do things and it learns as it goes along. That it’s like an appendage, a psychic appendage that is highly beneficial that you build up and can use and so I’ve been trying to do this. [...]

Anyway, we do different things in that class and one of the things that we did, you know how we in this class use the pyramid at the top of the head to contact other probable selves? [...] And they did get the feeling that we do get when we’re doing it here. [...]

[...] You worry and all of you worry at one time or another about that which you do not know consciously. Yet you do not know consciously how you breathe and if you did you would be dead, because you could not consciously handle the millions of manipulations that must take place in order to assure one breath. [...] These are the energies that allow you to sit as you do upright in the chair when you do not consciously know how your muscles hold you up; and when you begin to speak you do not know consciously with what word your sentence will end; nor do you consciously know how you speak nor indeed from where the thought comes. [...]

I do not wish to make that kind of impression upon young ladies. [...] A gentleman without a body must be harmless, so why do I meet such fear as I always do in this class. [...] Now when I make such efforts to be jolly, then I do not understand how I can possibly frighten you. Young women always frighten me, but you do not see me quaking in terror. [...]

[...] But then you do not need words either. [...] I should tell you that while I use the word telepathy we do not communicate in mental words. We do not need words, mental or otherwise. Thoughts in your terms suggest words and we do not need words. [...]

[...] However, since I have nowhere made any statement on such a weighty problem, I shall here do so for the statements are needed regardless of humor. Simply on a physical level the animals have sometimes more sense than you do. They listen to the inner voice, and they do not overproduce. [...]

A mistake is when you do not know what you are doing, when momentarily, you lose sight of your goals or when you do not live up to them. [...] If, on the other hand, you believe an accident happens to you that you had nothing to do with, you can learn nothing from it except to duck. [...]

[...] You are doing very well, as you know, in your dream work. You are doing well in your creative work also, and in your writing. [...] If you are satisfied with less, then you do not search further. [...] Your way you can pay, do you see the difference? [...]

[...] Do not think of yourself as an adult relating to him. [...] I want you to be spontaneously happy with him and to allow his spontaneous happiness to come across to you, and do not be a bitchy old dog. Do you follow me? [...]

[...] First of all, there were some elements of fear combined with fear having to do with underlying fears that you are having difficulty—in the physical universe, and you acted this out with the hand. This also had to do something with the leg and the foot difficulties earlier, both being limbs and objects of manipulation in physical reality. [...] Do you follow me? [...]

[...] If you were allowing full expression of your inner ideas outward along certain lines having to do with your oldest son, you would not have a cold. It is easier, however, to use honey and vinegar; but using honey and vinegar you simply get rid of the cold and do not find out why you have it. You do not learn something about yourself that you should know and so when the cough is gone, when the issue comes up again, you get a different ailment and so you find a different remedy. [...] Such inner remedies and such real remedies do not come in packages and you cannot pick them up at the supermarket, and they are not herbs to be eaten for breakfast though these will serve as an in-between measure and there is nothing wrong with in-between measures. But if you want to get at the real knowledge of yourself and at the real reason for symptoms, then there are ways of doing so and I have given them to you. [...]

I am glad to see so many friends here this evening and as usual, I have a message for you and, as usual, I want you to do something. [...] You do not realize what you are thinking. [...] You do not stop and check your own thoughts. [...]

[...] Do you see the distinction? Do not, therefore, be afraid of emotional feelings, accept them. [...] Do not put your hand through walls, it is bad on the wall and bad on the hand. [...]

(To Theodore.) Now, our Dean is also doing well and given what you have and what you are doing, you can do better. [...]

[...] Do not press. Do not press inward. [...]

Do not press. [...] Do not press. [...]

[...] But before we are finished you will feel the power of your own energy and learn what to do with it. [...] You will have to learn what to do with it. [...]

Do not be so frantic to get them. Do not grab hold so strongly, or you strangle the information that you receive. [...]

[...] You do not need to enforce discipline upon it. [...] Do not say, “I will accept this and I will deny this.” [...] You do not have to fear the spontaneous. You do not need to fear that if you allow yourselves freedom you will travel into evil ways. [...] But the inner selves, knowing their position within All That Is, do not fear denial. [...]

[...] You do not need words. You do not need my words—but I speak them. I speak the words so you will realize you do not need them. And looking at you now, it is not that I see through you—it is that I see the yous that you do not realize you are. [...]

[...] There are joys and vitalities within you which you do not perceive, that you must learn not to understand intellectually but to feel. [...] Now to others that you do not perceive, you are as magical, you are as nebulous as a shadow falling upon a floor in midafternoon. They do not perceive you. And as they may not see your magic and your consciousness, so there are other magic shadows and other realities that you think beneath you that you do not perceive. [...]

[...] And when they are not honest questions, I do not answer them. And I do not give you credit for easy answers. I do not give you multiple choices—I want essays. [...] But you do not like them as well as you like me. [...]

Release them, do it again, release them. Now do it again without my telling you to do it. Do it again, quicker. [...]

[...] I laugh more than you do. [...] Now you show somewhat more of yourselves in class than you do in your usual life situations. [...]

Now many of you still do not realize what I say. [...] You do not lose, but gain. [...]

[...] It has to do simply with your own society and cultural ideas that are inherent within it. In your terms, the woman has done her thing and therefore, what else can she do to better herself? [...]

Now, in all of your minds there is still this conception that what you want to do automatically, because you want to do it, must be wrong because it is too easy. [...] You see how well I do with your vocabulary. [...]

Many of you would have questioned yourselves for an hour, “Why do I want to go back to bed? [...] How will the world do without me if I am not up and about? [...] They do not stop, first of all, to decide whether it is right or wrong. [...]

[...] Do not say, “I will not feel in such and such a way, or worse, I do not feel this way.” Do not say, “God bless his soul,” when you hate his guts. [...]

[...] They do not require any darker rooms than you do. [...]

Yours can be a nourishing element within the family, when you do not allow impatience to upset you. [...] But do not shield him too well. [...] Do not accept without some critical analysis however, though I do not believe that you will. [...]

[...] You do have an ability with animals, and you will do well working with them. Now I will tell you something, dear friend, and I hope sincerely that in later years you thank me, though I do not believe you will thank me now.

[...] You have strength and ability that you do not realize you possess, and it will withstand you. You do not have to be afraid of testing yourself against attainable goals. You do not have to look for windfalls.

[...] Live every day to its fullest, and do not be a slave to your hopes for the future. If you do not learn to enjoy today you will not enjoy the future no matter what it may bring.

In many ways you do not understand what you are doing. And you do not understand that in which you are involved here. You do not comprehend its true meaning to you or to others. It may be as well for now that you do not. [...]

[...] Do you realize the implications if you make no effort to realize your own reality and to probe into it and to explore it and understand it? Then how do you think you can understand the nature of reality if you do not make an attempt to see the truths that are within yourself? Then why do you expect other truths to be given to you? [...]

[...] And because you do not understand the truths and have not reached or understood the connections, it does not mean that the truths do not exist. And you must work towards them and use your mind to do so. [...]

Do you want to know what freedom is? [...] That you do create your reality, that you do have the freedom and the joy and the responsibility of forming the physical reality in which you live. [...]

[...] Now, in doing so you will find that the personality is as different as, say, this table viewed from different angles and discover all facets of identity with which three-dimensional reality is by nature ignorant. Now, in the dream state you do this, but you can do it in the waking state, and you can do it in times of reverie. You can catch glimpses of your own multidimensional reality, but you must escape three-dimensional existence momentarily in order to do so. [...]

([Derek:] “Earlier today I was working on some clay work I was doing for someone else. I had already done one and found I could not do it again because I had spent all of my creative energy on the first and could not do another one like it. Is this what you mean by betraying my own ability to do it again?”)

(After break, to Sharon.) Now, your parents do not want you to grieve, they have been trying to tell you that they are as alive as you are. I do not want to hurt your feelings but they are more alive than you are. [...]

[...] And when you act you do not deceive yourselves, you know quite clearly I am acting for thus and thus reasons. [...] You think you are acting for a particular reason but the action is for an entirely different reason, and therefore, you must learn why you act as you do. [...]

[...] Do not overplay your hand. The dream experience that our friend (Sue) had was legitimate, and you were involved in it though you do not remember. [...] Do not overplay your hand. Do not cry wolf, wolf, unless you mean it. If you mean it, you do not need to yell wolf. [...]

(After break, to Bette.) Now for a cousin of Richelieu in the 18th-century France you put up some struggle pretending that you do not understand what you like to think of as intellectual discussions, and you make a great fight against what you like to think of as verbalization, and you pretend to yourself that you do not understand what I am saying when I am saying it. Now you are putting artificial limitations upon yourself that you partially understand and partially do not understand. [...]

[...] You think: “I am frank, I am earthy, I am one of the common stock; I do not understand this high verbalized chatter. [...] But I do not care for the words are meaningless and in me there is a frankness and vitality that these others do not have.”

Now that is one level, and on another level you think, “I am of the earth and strong and vital, and those who rely upon such thin, high, intellectual matter do not know what they are talking about. I can be brutal in my honesty but at least I am honest and I do not play with words.” [...] You are quite able to follow any discussion in this room and it is about time that you realized it and used those intellectual abilities that are your own, and it is about time that you stopped telling yourself that you do not understand that which you well understand. [...]

You would do much better if your attitude followed thusly: I am in such a position that my seriousness has given me no benefits. [...] I do not care, for I am playing, which game I try first. [...] And I will think of all those students that I do not know yet and how I can help them and what fun it shall be! [...] And it does not make any great difference whether I get this particular job or not—for if I do not get it, tomorrow I shall be an artist. And I shall call up and make an appointment as an artist—but I shall be free in whatever I do—and spontaneous. [...]

[...] And I would tell you where to go and what to do. [...] Instead, I would be quite happy to tell you what to do and to sit here and receive your thanks. [...]

[...] What I am trying to do is to awaken within each of you knowledge, intuition, abilities that are a portion of your entire personality. [...] Then, in the morning, it seems to you that they are fresh and new for you do not recall their origin. [...]

[...] And each time you accept answers from others you reinforce the attitude that you do not have the knowledge within yourself to find the answers. And, therefore, such answers easily given do not help you in the long run. [...]

Regardless of your farm, you, in your own mind, feel “scattered”—that you are not doing enough in other directions, and you are not sure what those directions are. [...] You are doing two things with the ears, of course. [...] The other part of you is saying: “I do not want to hear!” “I do not want to hear what you have to say.” [...]

[...] But if you do not care what they think, then, again, you will not listen. [...] I do not mean to watch yourself so closely that you cannot think, but observe your own reactions and your thoughts. Honestly ask yourself in situations: “Do I want to hear? And if I do not, why don’t I?”

There are several things that I will ask you to do. [...] You must take at least an hour a day during which you do not think of loss of hearing, and I will give you some hints as to how to do this.

[...] And you do not realize that you do this. [...] You use sound as a barrier, therefore, and when you become doubly threatened, then you do not hear the sounds that come from without, but retreat from them. [...]