“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He was quite correct in assuming as he did that his upset had little to do with a lack of chairs, since he knew perfectly well that a sufficiency was available. [...]

[...] There was also some other problem here, in that Ruburt feels, as you do, and quite rightly, that Mark is in over his head, psychologically speaking.

[...] That is, they do not contain a precise picture of any particular incident that occurred. [...]

[...] But do not regard this hopping from moment to moment, as from stone to stone, as the approximation of time as it actually exists. [...]

[...] To help your wife you can do so. [...] I am dealing with your end of the stick this evening because I had been blocked in the past from doing so, and the information is so pertinent.

Part of the stronger hand also had to do with his attempts to help you with your family, to shut you off from too much distracting emotion, when for example you moved back to Sayre after New York. [...]

At a completely different level of course Nebene and Sharabena—do not ask for spelling now—understood each other quite well, and she would taunt him. [...]

In the beginning it was you who mentioned the rest of the page to Tam—do you follow me?

Do you want a break, or do you want to end the session?

[...] Before a child was baptized it was considered to be the property of its parents, who could do with it as they wished, with no stigma attached.

You do not dissect a pet cat or dog, so when man began to dissect the universe in those terms he had already lost his sense of love for it. [...]

Do you want a break?

[...] “Well, it’s true that I have ambiguous feelings about doing a book on religion,” Jane said as we discussed this note. “But for all that, if Seth started dictating it tomorrow, I’d do it. [...]

Now: The animals do have imagination, regardless of your current thought. [...]

You do not understand this point clearly at all, but your social organizations, your governments — these are based upon imaginative principles. [...]

All of those religious and political structures that you certainly recognize as valid, arising from the “event” of Christ’s ascension, existed — and do exist — because of an idea. [...]

[...] I told her to refuse to go if she thinks she’s going to have to wait long periods, but I can’t see her doing that, I guess.

[...] I added that if I had the time I’d like to do some jogging now, since I have an ability and love for running.

[...] Jane spent a lot of time waiting for people to do her vitals, then finally decided on a session.)

[...] Maybe we can do better tomorrow.

(“But what do you do when you’re faced with that kind of treatment in a place where you can’t walk out if you disagree with it?” I asked. “That’s when you’re stuck … We’re a long ways from having any medical profession think about the body like Seth does, or even like we do.”

[...] She wanted to know what the latest news was, and I told her we were doing the best we could. [...]

There are simple stories that can be told, symbolically true enough, but they do not begin to explain the reality, and so I do not use them. [...]

[...] Any perception is action, and it changes that upon which it acts, and in so doing it is itself changed (underlined.) This applies to any perception.

[...] They are not concerned over joyful events, you see, and do not therefore as easily perceive these clairvoyantly.

I do this for him in many instances. [...]

(To me:) You spoke today, or this evening, about some [world] statesmen who are not young at all, and men and women who do not only achieve (pause), but who open new horizons in their later years. They do so because of their private capacities, and also because they are answering the world’s needs, and in ways that in many cases a younger person could not.

[...] Now Tam has just forwarded to us correspondence showing that Ankh-Hermes will do this—the new publishing date for Seth Spreekt is still uncertain, however.

[...] There were many unfortunate misuses of the old system of having a son follow in his father’s footsteps, yet the son at a young age was given meaningful work to do, and felt a part of life’s mainstream. [...]

[...] But in your society many people never reach that point—or those who do are not recognized for their achievements in the proper way, or for the proper reasons….

[...] As she puts it: “Just off to the right of my cheek there’s this little figure, this tiny little me that I can send places and do things with.” [...]

(Jane’s interest in these possibilities began to grow after I described the 570th session in Chapter Seventeen to her — it will be remembered that Seth suggested I do this — and my progress was accelerated through Patty Middleton’s visit a week later, with her information about alpha states.)

You can request that the thought content of your mind be translated into an intense image, symbolically representing individual thoughts and the overall mental landscape, then take out what you do not like and replace it with more positive images. [...]

[...] This state can be extremely advantageous when you are trying to solve problems having to do with future arrangements, decisions that will affect the future, and any matters, in fact, in which important decisions for the future must be made. [...]

When you paint the land, do so thinking in terms having to do with its past as well as present and future. [...]

[...] A few preliminary remarks are in order, and then I shall do my best to answer your questions.

[...] He sees he has changed his ways, and now wants to do so with a vengeance, you see. [...]

[...] But do not impose (underlined)a form upon it. [...]

11:30–11:45: Do dishes, make coffee, get coffee cake, feed cat & go to john before sitting down. [...] And doing well with James.

(“and some people you do not know, and some you do know.” [...] I do not know the people who operate John’s Bargain Store, but neither do I know many other of Artistic’s clients. Obviously there were people around the art room whom I do know.

A connection with a machine, and locomotion, and some people you do not know, and some you do know.

[...] When I remarked that I often woke up to notice that Jane was sleeping without a pillow, having pushed it aside in her sleep, Seth said this was an indication that her subconscious knew what it was doing. [...]

[...] The comments run the gamut from scorn to approval, and tell us as much about their author as they do about Jane’s book. [...]

[...] You do not simply react to the weather. [...] The brain is a nest of electromagnetic relationships that you do not understand. [...]

(Pause at 11:38.) You do not need a self-conscious mind to feel, and in the “past,” earthquakes represented the feeling-patterns of species in the same way — unstable conditions of consciousness that in themselves initiated natural phenomena, further altering the state of consciousness and the conditions of species as well.

[...] You know that many events occur that you do not consciously perceive, but take on the word of others. [...]

Many additional issues operate, however, that have to do with any given personal reaction. [...]

[...] Quite literally again, all he has to do is demand that the energy is available, and it shall be. [...] When he does not do this he lets himself down.

[...] You have been slower in your projection attempts, yet you will do very well when these twin currents are in harmony. [...] I do not mean literally two currents.

[...] Whether it will be developed I do not know. The child will have a son who will be a professor in a subject having to do with dirt or the earth.

This is nothing you do not know, but he should be reminded.

[...] A twist on an old quote, I believe—but the fact is, you are physical creatures because you do like to live on earth, you do like the conditions, you do enjoy overall the particular kind of challenge and the particular kind of perception, knowledge and understanding that the earthly environment provides.

[...] In your time scheme, for example, you could never move as quickly as you do if you had to consciously work all the muscles involved in motion—or in speech, or in any such bodily performance. [...]

Now as you will see, all creatures, regardless of their degree, can and do choose, within their spheres of reality, those sensations that they will experience—but to one extent or another (underlined) all sensations are felt. [...]

That will do it.

[...] We’d spent a rather enjoyable day, sleeping a bit later than usual, shopping, doing various chores, roasting a chicken, making a cornbread and watching TV, etc. [...]

[...] I thought Jane would be able to see the doctor and do her own thing without conflict. [...]

[...] In the back of your mind you questioned whether giving him a new, more comfortable chair to work in was or was not a smart thing to do: would it encourage him to retreat to his room and his writing, and simply serve to intensify old conditions? [...]

Furthermore, in the back of your mind, and somewhat at least as a result of the Gallaghers’ well-meaning query, you also wondered if you were doing your duty should you not insist that Ruburt receive conventional but definite help? [...]

You always know what you are doing, even when you do not realize it. [...]

(I’ll indicate Jane’s various states of consciousness as I usually do in these sessions, but the notes can only be hints from an interested observer. [...]

[...] I do not mean to be facetious, but you were not born yesterday. [...]

(10:27.) You do not have the same ego now that you had five years ago, but you are not aware of the change. [...]

Because you do not understand that your thoughts create illness you will continue to undergo it, however, and new symptoms will appear. [...] When you are in the process of changing beliefs — when you are beginning to realize that your thoughts and feelings cause illness — then for a while you may not know what to do.

[...] Others, we saw, were impressed too: men doing flood repair work in a downstairs apartment came outside to stand in the driveway, staring skyward. [...]

[...] The deeper portions of the self do not have to take the ego’s idea of time into consideration, so these portions of the self also deal with data that would ordinarily escape the ego’s perception, perhaps until a certain “point” of ego time was reached.

[...] The incidents do not even have to involve you. [...]

[...] And what does it have to do with the unknown reality? More, what does it have to do with the practical world? [...]

[...] No god in a giant ivory tower says ‘This will happen February 15 at 8:05.’; and if no god predicts, then I do not see the point of doing so myself.”

[...] You do have free will, and in a certain fashion it can be said to be dependent upon the nature of probabilities and the multidimensional behavior of electrons.¹

[...] You do not know. [...]

[...] The invisible [vault of] Framework 2 contains endless patterns that change as, say, clouds do — that mix and merge to form your psychological climate. [...]

[...] The inner ego does not exist in time as you do, however, so it relies upon your assessment of situations with which your reasoning is equipped to cope.

[...] Those whose experiences do not merge with nature’s in that regard will not be part of that mass event. [...]

[...] Some of these emerge as physical events, and some do not.