“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The determination and energy necessary to do this will be an indication of improvement. [...]

[...] Yet he must trust it, and when he does not do so the difficulties build.

[...] You can do much by using very simple words to reassure him. [...]

His problem is precisely this: the need and ability to throw himself whole-heartedly and spontaneously into a creative endeavor, and the fear of doing so.

[...] The ghostly qualities in that event fit in with what I was trying to do in the painting: By leaving the thick gray and white underpainting of my “portrait” of “Jane” without color, I realized, I could express not only a probable interpretation of her, but the colorless qualities of the Saratoga experience itself. [...] I intend to do more work in this manner.

Give us a moment … In the body certain cells “kill” others, and in so doing the body’s living integrity is maintained. The cells do each other that service (with gestures). [...]

The CU’s, following that analogy, serve as source points or “holes” through which energy falls into your system, or is attracted to it — and in so doing, forms it. [...]

(Intently:) I am trying to tell you something about the greater reality of your species, yet to do so with any justice, I must divest you, if possible, of certain concepts about the beginning of time, or “man’s early history.”

[...] These outings will be of benefit here, not only because they allow for spontaneous interaction, but because they serve to break the schedules in ways that do not disturb working hours. [...]

[...] Improvements come as the personality learns intuitively, you see, having nothing to do with time in a basic manner. [...]

You have been doing well with the pendulum, and the exercise has successively opened up communication with deeper layers of the self. [...]

(“How do you allow for this release?”)

[...] They eat or talk with a man (voice very faint) whose name has to do with grip, you see, as bag or valise. Do you see? [...]

[...] A native who is dressed in clothes that do not belong to him: he is performing. [...]

[...] Now one place they stay: has water on one side and foliage on the other with large square openings in the front; and I do not believe here by the large square openings there is any glass. [...]

[...] It is ringed in by trees and the historical and psychic connections there are not good, having to do with sacrifices. [...]

[...] Do you follow me?

[...] Messages do not leap instantaneously through the nervous system. [...]

There are points of correlation between the two of which the conscious brain is not aware, and perceptions that do not consciously register. [...]

Oversoul Seven and Cyprus do exist, though in different terms than he may imagine them, and the whole episode allows him to work creatively with fiction, and creatively with his psychic abilities.

(“Do you have a message for us?”)

(“Frank Watts, what do you think of the sum of your previous existences here on earth?”)

(“Well then, do we have the spelling correct on Ruburt?”)

(“Seth, why do human beings eat animals?”)

[...] What else could consciousness do? What could mine do? [...]

Because of the Miss Cunningham dream and the “Idea Construction” experience, Rob suggested that I try some experiments in ESP and expansion of consciousness and do a book on the results — negative or positive. [...]

[...] I tried to laugh.
“I’m not doing it,” Rob said.

[...] “Do you want some now?”
Rob shook his head.
“There’s something that wants you back at the board.
You’d better sit down again.”

[...] It didn’t occur to me that these two manuscripts could have anything to do with the dream interpretation because they were in the present rather than in the future. [...]

[...] So, while I had the chance, I decided to do some more experimenting and went out the hall door, downstairs and outside.

[...] This involved work that I really didn’t want to do, until the proposed book was begun. [...]

On May 14, I dreamed that I was doing something wrong about the prospectus. [...]

Now you do the same thing when you sit in your living room, but you do not realize what you are doing; and presently you are somewhat restricted. [...]

[...] But I still can’t tell you just how I do it.”)

[...] You do not realize that you create your larger environment and the physical world as you know it by propelling your thoughts and emotions into matter — a breakthrough into three-dimensional life. [...]

[...] When I think emotionally of someone else, I do the same thing, except that a portion of my consciousness is within the image, and can communicate.

[...] You do not perceive the atoms or molecules that compose them; so in the same way, but in a different manner of speaking, events seem “solid” as tables do.

[...] This kind of therapy happens quite frequently on a spontaneous basis when people rid themselves of diseases they do not even know they possess.

[...] “Seth was doing it slow so that I got it right,” Jane said. [...]

[...] If you do so consistently, using your imagination and will, then those abilities will become prominent in your present. [...]

[...] It is far more extensive even in physical terms, and its reality exists in dimensions which do not exist within the physical system. [...] You gloss over what you do not understand.

[...] Using the root agreements just mentioned as a basis for reality, an observer would insist that the objects were not real, for they do not behave as he knows objects must behave.

Because dream objects appear and disappear, this does not mean they do not exist. [...]

In a given dream projection for example you may experience an episode that is obviously in the physical past, yet within it there may be elements that do not fit. [...]

[...] Many others had obviously thought the typefaces chosen for Volume 2 were okay, I said, so what was I doing, worrying about something like that, wanting to tell others how to do their jobs? [...]

[...] They are individuals, doing their best to develop their abilities and their lives—but your indignation was moral in narrow terms, rather than in quite acceptable artistic ones. You do this often.

[...] You are both saddled with old habits of thought that you really do not examine, and that is why the overly conscientious self still rules the roost.

[...] I might add that I don’t think I for one believe any longer that worrying is the answer to very much, as Seth says Jane and I still believe, nor do I think that fear is going to act as a stimulus to positive action. [...]

[...] I am not satisfied with the leap, so move “backward through the air” to my original spot, and do the whole thing over. [...]

[...] I certainly seemed to do so.

[...] You intended to project yourself into one of the small insects in the room, you see, but you were unable to do so.

[...] The amount of work necessary is literally astounding, but I tell you that you can both do this; and you can make general, through your work, a knowledge of the true potential of the dream state.

[...] In the event that Seth might do this, and also discuss our dreams, as he has mentioned doing by way of illustrating the material, I read to Jane just before the session began two very vivid dreams that I have had within the last two weeks, involving my father and other members of my family. [...]

But the legs do walk, and the dream universe does exist. As the entity expands and originates new personalities, and these personalities then become independent individuals, so do the individuals create dream or so-called dream realities and individuals of the dream universe, which are independent.

(As session time neared I lay my dream notebook on the table, as Seth had suggested we do. [...]

I do not care if this idea now appears impossible or farfetched, either to you and Ruburt or to others. [...]

(“Do you have a message for us?”)

What wonders do you request of me tonight? [...]

[...] before doing this, she had begun speaking the answers aloud in advance of the board.

[...] I do not know the significance of the spoon or what kind of shop he had, though I may be able to tell you at a later date.

[...] I suggested that she do so, and that we ask Seth to comment on the moving prospects. [...] “I do sort of feel Seth around,” Jane said a little later. [...]

Do not fret. (Pause.) I do not believe that Ruburt will be moved, as I read probabilities thus far. [...]

I do not mean to imply that it is always detrimental to make such queries as “Are you ill?” or “Are you tired?” Such questions do indeed predict their own answers. [...] But constant questions of such a nature do not help an individual who is having difficulties — and in fact too frequent expressions of compassion can also worsen a person’s state of mind, stressing the idea that he or she must be very ill indeed to attract such feelings of compassion. [...]

[...] Children play naturally, and so do animals. [...]

[...] We do tend to discourage it since [at] full strength it is very…strange and causes comments among our neighbors.

[...] No one asked Seth to do so and, of course, all this time he was speaking through me in this voice of his. [...]

[...] One possibility here is that I do the projecting while Seth controls the physical body and uses the vocal cords to speak and to give verbal expression. [...]

[...] I had thought when the session was over of suggesting we do this, but I was exhausted even though I knew I was having trouble snapping out of the trance.

[...] There seems to be a disastrous event connected with the family’s past, and having to do with death. [...] Something to do with a priest or monk, something of that order: a member of the family or confidant.

([Bill:] “Hum de do.”)

[...] It appears to be a garage, a private garage, but I do not believe that it is. [...]

“I had all kinds of sudden flashes about this when I was doing the dishes (less than half an hour ago) — about Seth’s book, and that in a strange way it was difficult for me to get this book material. [...] No scientific language would be used — not that I know any — but that would structure what I’m trying to do; and unwittingly, perhaps, it might lead me into a scientific dogma without recognizing it. [...]

[...] By altering our consciousness in the way I’m learning to do now, though, we can line up our focuses with these other ‘ghostly’ messages, that are quite as real as the neurological validity we usually accept.”

(She laughed again.) “I also have an awful feeling that I’m going to get some kind of instructions from Seth about what I’m to do physically in order to get this material, and so compensate for this new way of receiving things … but don’t put that in the notes …