“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

True spirituality is a thing of joy and of the earth, and has nothing to do with fake adult dignity. It has nothing to do with long words and sorrowful faces. It has to do with the dance of consciousness that is within you, and with the sense of spiritual adventure that is within your hearts.

So do not think you are being spiritual when you are being long-faced, and do not think you are being spiritual when you berate yourself for your sins. [...]

That is the meaning of spirituality; and as I have told you before, if I could I would do a merry dance about the room to show you that your vitality is not dependent upon a physical image. [...]

You know very well what you are doing, in other words. [...] (Pause.) You are not to avoid contact, and to do us full justice this would be impossible. [...]

Ruburt will do much better on his own in a program, but should definitely not shunt Jim Crosson aside, for he is very vulnerable to slights. He will also do very well, lecturing on that occasion of the 20th. [...]

A legal document having to do with a house or estate, within the last three months, or to come within three months, that may have to do with family.

[...] Ruburt would take the program away from Crosson quite without meaning to do so. Do you follow me?

In the beginning it will be up to Ruburt to aid you, and with concentration and application he can do so. I do not want this suggestion to go by the board, as it will if you simply file the session and ignore it. [...]

Some of this has to do with my intentions, some with my relative availability. [...] Do you follow me?

[...] There is no reason, again, why you can’t achieve out-of-body proficiency, and when you do, you will be able to experiment with thought creations, trying out, forming, using or discarding, thought paintings. [...]

[...] Do you follow me here?

Do not simply say that the ant has a right to existence as you do. Either feel it and understand the reality of the ant or understand that you do not understand the reality of the ant. Do not play around with the concepts. [...]

The first question is, “How relevant is life?” And the second question is, “How relevant do you think you are?” And I do not expect beautiful sounding generalizations. Not only do I not expect them, but I will not stand for them. [...]

[...] Now I do not expect the question to be answered in a general manner, that is far too safe, and we are not dealing with philosophies. [...] The first may seem general, but it will be highly personal, and I do not ask you to dispense with any great personal secret this evening. [...]

[...] I am not asking you to relate to the word life, but to life itself and to do this you must experience the life within yourself and feel it. [...]

[...] You hear the words and yet you do not understand what they really mean, but basically, you do violence to no one. [...] Now, in that reality, as you understand it now, there are reasons that you do not as yet perceive. I am not saying that you cannot perceive them, I am saying that you do not perceive them. [...] And there are interconnections between you that you do not understand and that can be misinterpreted and these, also, I go lightly with in class and for the same reasons. [...]

[...] And if you will excuse me, in so doing you are taking on the guise of the devil. [...] You can do the same thing without realizing it by projecting into the idea of violence, all powers, and then it seems to you that life itself has no ability to protect itself and that any stray thought of violence or disaster will immediately zoom home and that the recipient has no way to protect himself. [...]

([Arnold]“Do the animals that we know have a creativity in their actions as we do?”)

There is a sacrament here that you do not understand, and when you gobble down food indiscriminately, and when you do not give silent recognition to the fact that what you eat once lived, then you lose contact with a certain sacred heritage and deny yourself a certain part of a cycle in which you rightly, as physical creatures and as spiritual creatures, have a part. [...]

[...] All you have to do to please me is work a reasonable amount of hours daily; then I do not care what you do, but I expect that purpose to govern and direct your lives to be the focus about which all other events happen, not a sideline.

[...] Show me you do not need a policeman, that if I let go you will not slide away from your goals. [...] I do not accept compromises. I do accept solid work and firm intent.

I do not want you to go hungry, or to be unhappy. I do not want you to be in want, but outside of that nothing else concerns me but your work.

[...] I do not care if both of you die poor, but I do demand that you live using your abilities.

[...] You have not allowed yourselves the leeway, or the excuses either, that people do with families or a large number of interests. If you do not find emotional satisfaction with each other you do not find it, in other words. [...]

You do not look at each other freshly. You cannot examine your feelings, though you think you do, because you do not honestly come to grips with them nor express them. [...]

[...] This should help you do so, by present, current action. Often you are so involved with feelings you had in the past that you do not know what you are feeling in the present. [...]

You are both indeed lucky, for you do have a firm basis from which to work. It is not that you do not have an “ideal” in quotes relationship; but you had lost that feeling of the potentials within you. [...]

[...] Do not buy a house with a dirt cellar. Do not buy a house heated by oil. [...] Use your psychic abilities to ascertain the house’s atmosphere, by all means, and no matter how fine it seems, if you do not feel comfortable inside, do not buy it. [...] This also has to do with the ways you use energy, so these are no general precepts for others to follow. [...]

[...] You do not like to be out with him, on a certain level now, because he is so noticeable, so obvious. [...] I do not mean that you are not sympathetic. [...]

[...] You do have equal contemporaries, unknown to you, but you are working at a different level. [...] They do need people like you who are not so involved, who work in other areas, to help them.

[...] People do their own thing, and point to others as authorities to take their responsibility for them. [...] You do not need to protect yourselves against the world. [...]

[...] They do not have any other kind of time to contend with in the same way that you do.

[...] You do know, however, that your mind can have such material on hand. It can deliver it to you in the same way as your crossword puzzle exercises, but you have not thoroughly understood, in that regard, that the point of power is in the present, and that you do there also create your own reality.

I do not want to go into the complicated reasons why your civilization chose such beliefs, but you are everywhere presented with their effects. [...]

[...] You can indeed change that, but you must realize it, and want actively to do so. [...]

Now, I cannot sing along with Mitch, but I do have something to say to this one (Sue) and that one (Joel) and, to some extent, to all of you and it is this. [...] You do not need to write or preach to justify your existence. [...] You do not have to knock your gut out, in other words, either of you and this also applies to our friend, Ruburt. [...]

[...] I have not said that you will necessarily escape and conquer them, but it is within your ability to do so. [...] You cannot be hounded from one level of reality to another by a fear that you do not understand. [...] Each of your personalities are free to develop, to accept, from the miraculous bank of reality those experiences and emotions that you want and to reject those that you do not want. [...]

[...] You do not set them for yourselves like millstones about your neck hoping ahead of time that you will drown. All you have to do is realize your own freedom. [...]

[...] You create from nothing the experience that is your own, and if you do not like your experience then look within yourself and then you can change your experience, but realize also, that you are responsible for your joys and triumphs. [...] The energy, but what you do with it is up to the individual personality. [...]

(“Out of curiosity, Seth, what do you do between these sessions?”)

What do you do?

[...] Now why do we sometimes feel that we know someone we are introduced to, when consciously we know we’ve never met them before?”)

Yes, but the conscious mind should know what the unconscious is doing. [...]

([Seth II:]) You do not understand multidimensional personality structures. This does not mean that they do not exist. [...] And we do care in a way that you cannot now understand. [...] And through the mirror of physical reality do you see materialized the inner selves. [...]

[...] Do not answer yourself. [...] You cut yourselves off from such nourishment—as if a flower said, “I will not accept the rain because I do not understand it—and, intellectually I do not know what makes it rain and, therefore, I will not accept the rain.” Or, “I do not know what the sun is; therefore, I will not accept its rays.” [...]

[...] And because you consider yourselves above a plant, and do not realize what a fine consciousness they possess. [...]

[...] And it would do you all well to listen! [...]

As you read this session, however, try to see how those attitudes that I mentioned do clutter up your minds to some extent. [...] In larger terms, however, your goals are not temporal, so do not become overly concerned—overly—with temporal considerations. They impede your private psychic experiences, for they add stresses you do not need.

You must do what you want because you want to do it, and if the authorities listen, well and good, and if not it is their loss. [...]

[...] They are doing the best that they can in their framework, but you do not fit into their framework.

[...] Jane has asked Sheri Perl for the names and addresses to do this, and plans to write a letter. [...] At the same time, it all sounds familiar, as if we heard about someone doing the same thing last year, say.

[...] It can do anything that you do now in your dreams. [...]

If you wonder what Aunt Sally is doing in, say, Poughkeepsie, New York, then you will find yourself there. [...] It is interwound with your physical body now, but you do not perceive it. [...]

These after-death environments do not exist necessarily on other planets. They do not take up space, so the question, “Where does all this happen?” is meaningless in basic terms.

[...] I hope you will forgive me if I do some dictation on my book. [...]

(“Do you have a message for us?”)

(“Again, do you have a message for us?”)

(“What do you want us to study and learn?”)

(“Frank Watts, do you recall all of your previous lives, where you are now?”)

Something they intended to do today and did not do. [...]

I do not understand. [...] I do not know to what this refers. [...]

[...] Do they bring a loaf of bread to their room?

[...] I do not know to what this refers just now.

(Early in the morning, Jane said, she had successfully managed to imagine herself back at 458 West Water Street, cleaning the place, washing the windows inside and out, very agilely climbing about—doing all of those things she’d loved to do, even to hosing down the house from the outside. But when she tried to picture herself doing the same things at 1730 Pinnacle, she didn’t do nearly as well. [...]

(“He didn’t seem to do too well with the suggestions you gave in the last session—that he try imagining others commenting on how well he looked and was doing—”)

[...] Truly, her body wanted to do things in its own way. [...] “The body doesn’t want to do that right now....” [...]

[...] “Actually, I don’t know what I’m doing.” [...]

[...] You either take the time and the effort to look into yourself or you do not. [...] While you do not take the time you must put up with it, and depend on your doctors...

[...] My friend Ruburt always knows what he is doing. (Humor.) Do not fall for that line... [...]

Now, I like you (to Bill), but I do not intrude when I am not invited, and as a rule I do not offer advice when I am not asked...

Then you shall get it, and if you do not follow it that is up to you. [...] and you can do it. [...]

The fact that you would say “I am giving you the opportunity to do this by my job” entrapped him further, for he felt basically that underneath this was another reason: that if you wanted badly enough to paint all the time that you would do so, that you should have done so, that you should do so, that you would and could have managed without jobs, particularly in the later years, and that you were betraying yourself and therefore him. [...] It was a reversal of the leadership for him to tell you what to do.

You still do not encourage, now, lovingly (underlined) Ruburt to discuss his fears. The two of you do not consistently bring them out into the open. [...]

All of this should be kept in mind, and I tell you so that you do not concentrate upon the difficulties, and find no merit in your lives. [...] You do not know these people, that have read the books and benefitted.

They are so a part of you that you do not recognize their relative uniqueness, and it is important that you do. [...]

How many distractions do you honestly feel are automatically cut out because of Ruburt’s condition? How much isolation do those symptoms provide you? How do they automatically cut down on ordinary give-and-take with neighbors and friends that Ruburt might otherwise engage in?

7. With the symptoms Rob does lots of chores I think he wouldn’t do otherwise, freeing me to work? Keeps me from wasting my time with housework; think it’s degrading for R. as a male to do chores so much so the symptoms give us both an excuse; also gives him an excuse for not knowing for sure what he wants to do, paint or whatever, he can blame it on lack of concentration because of me.

(A quick, and probably partial answer: I do not know how much I may have counted upon Jane’s symptoms in the past to furnish a private world in which I could work. [...] I do think that the point of no return there was passed some time ago—several years, in fact. [...]

[...] Do I really want to keep it up and how can I keep good results and get rid of method? Do I really want to end up as an invalid with R. devoting time to me and anything left over to his work, what would this get either of us?