“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] (I have yet to paint those particular images, but still plan to do so.)

[...] What else was I to do?

[...] Enough there to do for the rest of my life, certainly, and perhaps for others to carry on after I join my wife.

[...] They still do.

(Lately I’ve really been working with ideas of safety, saying and believing that I am safe, secure and supported and that I do trust my natural spontaneous motion.... [...] And I do see that I’m offering something far better.

[...] My eye troubles started the same spring that Seth started dictating it; I was doing James; Frank L. was building the porches; and the Gallery of Silence people were bugging us. [...]

I do not really waken however but continue dreaming. [...]

[...] I begin to mimic him then realize that she is the one who is doing this, and talking about Untermeyer, not I, and I become confused and embarrassed and excuse myself for butting in.

[...] I said to some of them, “Do you know how to work the pendulum?" As I said this I knew that they did before they answered, yes. [...]

[...] (See sessions 714, 716 for instance.) Your own creativity emerges, and will not only in your sketches of your experiences—those you have done and those that you will do—but in the paintings also that you will indeed do from them. [...]

[...] Ideally—but you do not live in an ideal world—this could happen overnight, and with only a feeling of release. [...]

6. Do the library together at least three times a week.

[...] Do not think in terms of absolutes.

[...] I do also. [...] Don Wilbur wears his all the time, as I do.

[...] They will take us a bit away from our main lines of discussion, and they have to do with communication between essence personalities and those still within the physical system.

[...] One of my main purposes is to instruct, and to do so with all the available equipment operating at least to some degree. [...]

Do you have a test for me, Joseph?

[...] In your terms, you exist in physical life before your children do. Now: In other terms, your own greater personhood exists before you do in the same way. [...]

[...] Well, it’s easier to let Seth do it, so I guess I’ll light a cigarette and go into the session….”)

A person in time, then, can only do so much, and in your terms the great sources of the psyche are barely tapped in a given lifetime. [...]

[...] If you want a “Victorian room,” you do not plank it down in the middle of a Spanish arrangement. [...]

[...] You can indeed learn to perceive reality in other terms, and you are both doing so.

[...] This does not mean that it cannot and should not do more.

[...] She does not usually do this. [...]

Do you have an envelope for me?

[...] Do you want to say a few words for Jane?)

[...] Ruburt’s exercises are important because of his intent in doing them; a vital, beneficial change of attitude there, and because of that his body is responding.

(I’m doing my best to stay out of interfering with Jane’s dealings with Tam and Prentice-Hall. Tam has requested that we send him a letter outlining our position re a competent professional translator of the French Seth Speaks. I was going to do the letter this weekend, but didn’t. I asked Jane if she would write the letter, and she agreed to. [...]

(So we know she has the ability to do that sort of psychic sleuthing, but it turns her off. I’d say that it would do so even if she had no hassles of her own. [...]

[...] She didn’t want to do such psychic detective work, she said, because it reminded her of her own difficulties—an obvious point we both mentioned. [...]

(Long pause at 9:14.) Now how do you practically interpret such an intention? [...]

In normal terms in life, while the conditions for life are given, the nature of physical time means that practically speaking life will be full of surprises, for in usual terms you do not know what will happen tomorrow. [...] They do not usually concentrate with the same intensity in all areas of their lives, so there is seldom what you might think of as any ideal balance. [...] If you are lonely enough you may go mad, as people do in isolation cells.

Ruburt is doing well with the point of power exercise, and I suggest he take the same amount of time to open himself up to intuitive material from the library, or otherwise. [...] He must also remember Sumari time, for the creative imagination works no matter what you are doing.

[...] But primarily, my original question had to do with Jane’s own case, and at this time that was the one we were still interested in gaining insight into.)

[...] As mentioned, when bodybuilders build up certain muscles, they do indeed experience great distress at times. [...]

[...] To actually carry out her way, as she’s doing, is something I cannot do. [...] Jane used to say to me: “I told myself that if I let myself do that, then I’ll do this in return,” One can say that that kind of equation hardly represents a mystical view, yet I know that in her case it does. [...]

“But you’re doing great, hon,” I told Jane after I’d read her journal entry. [...] If she has hassles, I added, they’re quite understandable: Not only is she offering our world creative new ways by which to understand reality, but in her uncertainty about what she’s doing, she feels that she must prove her ideas to the world all by herself—something that few people have to do in such an all-encompassing manner. [...] Obviously Jane thinks her contemporaries often reject her—and sometimes I also think they do. [...]

While she contended with her physical difficulties and related questions, having to do with who and what Seth may or may not be, Jane continued to paint for relief. [...] She could read and write, paint, have sessions, watch television, do a little simple housework, call or see a few close friends, and answer some of the mail. [...] She did do some cooking on a hot plate I placed on the kitchen table, where we often ate lunch and supper, but I also cautioned her to be careful while using that appliance.

[...] “I paint like I do because I don’t have any depth perception. I can’t do anything else….”

[...] 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 here are not good, having to do with sacrifices. [...]

[...] Do you want a break first?

[...] The suggestion is beautifully implied: you do exercises because you expect to succeed at them.

[...] Do not overdo. [...]

Ruburt’s list about what he will do when he is completely well is a good idea. [...]

Because you do not accept them all as physical events, you do not perceive their strength or durability. [...]

Now these facts do not deny the validity of the soul, but instead add to it immeasurably.

[...] So what you do is also reflected to some degree in the experience of your probable selves, and vice versa.

[...] Quite spontaneously, again, you often do this in the dream state, and often what seems to you to be an inspiration is a thought experienced but not actualized on the part of another self. [...]

[...] There were, however, other reasons also—to do the church some small justice (amused). [...]

[...] Yet as the approach of the scientific age appeared, before its blossoming, so new tendencies are now showing that do indeed signal a new era, in which the emotions and intellect are no longer regarded as opposing tendencies in man.

Do you have any questions?

[...] Do you?” This was the first time I’d ever asked Seth if he had any questions we could answer. [...]

Often, of course, those who try the hardest to be “good” do so because they fear for their basic worth, and those who speak of having youthful minds and bodies do so because they are so terrified of age. [...]

[...] Andrea is then supposed to ask, “Why do I feel so inferior?” If you deny the validity of the emotion itself and pretend it away, then you will never be led to question the beliefs behind it.

[...] They do not know a Ruburt, but they can learn through this book. [...]

(10:45.) Since your feelings follow your beliefs, various groups of them will appear to be senseless at times if you do not allow them free connection with opposing ideas that you may also hold.

Friday, or Saturday, were poor evenings for various reasons, having to do with weather, emotional climate, and also having to do with Mark’s physical and emotional state. [...]

As in many other instances I do not try to push you, for you must learn many things by yourselves, and your own subconscious will pace you. [...]

[...] Any personalities, any entities, that do enter your physical plane must use some camouflage material if they are to be physically perceived. [...]

[...] You will learn by doing.

“Man thinks of acts, for example, and acting and doing, but he does not identify himself with those inner processes that make acting and doing possible. [...] These seem to suggest that he possesses an elegant, cool separation from nature, that the animals for example do not. [...]

Do you have questions?

To some extent (underlined) — a qualified statement, now — the scientists have become somewhat contemptuous of all who do not understand their language: the non-elite. [...]

None of them want any disaster, and yet some of them think it would serve the people right — for then the people might realize that politicians do not understand science, and that the scientists should after all be put in control: “We must have enough money, or who knows what can go wrong?”

One remark: As far as your participation as of now in our books, it might be better, Joseph (as Seth calls me), if you do not think in terms of notes so much, but instead in terms of your writing contribution. Do you follow me?

[...] [Nor do we know what fate awaits the plant’s undamaged Unit No. [...]

[...] Somehow, after supper, we got on the subject of Seth doing a “quick book” about Jonestown and Three Mile Island, something that could be offered to the public very soon, instead of material that would show up in a regular Seth book a couple of years from now. [...]

[...] I do try to give hints and clues to some of it in this book, though, as I’ve done recently in sessions 841 and 844–45.