“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You do this by accepting the rightness of your own personhood. You do this by discarding ideas of unworthiness and powerlessness, no matter what their sources. You do this by beginning to observe your own impulses, by trusting your own direction. [...]

(9:42.) You do not dwell upon the unfortunate conditions in your environment, but you do take steps in your own life to express your ideals in whatever way is given. [...]

[...] If you do not trust the nature of your impulses, then you do not trust the nature of your life, the nature of the universe, or the nature of your own being.

(Long pause at 10:10.) Natural attributes show themselves quite clearly in early childhood, for example, when you are allowed greater freedom to do what you want to do. [...]

You chose to do what you did, individually and jointly. [...] Do you follow me?

[...] You felt that there was nothing you could do about the situation, that there was no reason to worry about it, but the anxiety was displaced then, draining your energies.

[...] You will feel personally that you are solving problems that you are meant to solve, problems that are nevertheless created challenges having to do with the nature of painting, problems then and challenges that you consider quite worthwhile.

[...] It does help for example if elephants do not try to build anthills. [...]

You do not approve of yourself because you think you should be making money “on your own.” You do not approve of yourself because you think you should be a better artist, or a better writer—but in any case, you do not let yourself appreciate the self that you are. [...]

[...] The best answer I got was when I laid Through My Eyes aside to work on Mass Events I felt bad about doing that. [...] I wanted to do both at the same time, and figured I couldn’t manage that. [...]

(“Do you want to wait for a minute, and get something on it?” Jane asked. [...]

(“Well, taxes come up this week,” Jane told me, “and every time they do your stomach starts up. [...]

If he thinks in terms of doing what he wants to do, even if he assigns time to the pursuits, he is better off than labeling anything work. Out-of-bodies, writing and spontaneous impressions are all things he likes to do, but some fell inside his work category and some did not. [...] But do not overdo it, as is his inclination at times when he thinks in terms of absolutes.

[...] The confusion about it has to do with his interpretation of work and creativity. [...]

His attitude in its own way is the same as you mentioned earlier this evening, in that he believes he is lucky not to have to work out, and so must make what he is doing pay. [...]

[...] If you were working out, Ruburt thought, you could not do this.

[...] A three-piece outfit… I pick up one two five here again and I believe our friend, the cat lover, enters the shop and that the ensemble is in the window… La Rue… I do not know, a street or does she rue entering the shop? The street having to do with flowers, this street, flowers in the name perhaps. [...]

[...] I do not know.

[...] 18 shrubs, I do not know to what this refers.

The name of one establishment has to do with twin, or two.

Now, we will see to it that you live very adventurous nights, and those of you who do psychological time and take the physical time necessary to do the experiments, will find the mobility of consciousness—I am using that term because Ruburt likes it so well—that is necessary. You can extend your own conscious knowledge of reality if you are willing to do so. [...]

There are also reincarnational relationships, not necessarily with those involved, that had to do with your acquaintanceship with them in this existence, and some- time I will tell you what they are if you do not find out for yourself and I would rather you found out for yourself. [...]

This is a do-it-yourself class. [...] I have told you all what I want you to do and I expect you also to keep up with your psy-time experiments. [...]

(To Arnold.) You are doing well, you have simply been resting. [...] You will do so at your own rate and that is good, and when you begin to progress further your own experiences will take a rather specialized line, I believe, as you will see. [...]

[...] You do not see your ego in the mirror. You do not see your subconscious in the mirror. You do not see your inner self in the mirror. [...]

Now while you dream, you do have contact with other portions of yourselves. But while you are awake this communication also goes on continually but you are not aware of it, for your ego is so focused upon physical reality and upon survival within it, that you do not allow yourself to listen to the inner voice. [...]

[...] Current feelings regarding personality, however, do not take into consideration the existence of telepathy or clairvoyance, nor the fact of reincarnation. [...]

[...] I do not represent any restrained or any inhibited portions of Ruburt’s own being. [...]

[...] I want to tell you what you can do with your own consciousness and encourage you to use it. I do not expect you to jump ropes around your consciousness, but I do expect you to realize that you can use it in many ways. I do not expect you to play tricks with it, but I do hope you will realize that you can use it as a flashlight—that you can turn it in different directions. [...]

[...] The information has to do with the nature of your own consciousness and with these personalities of which you have been speaking. There is some vital information that you do not have—information that has not been discussed in class, and it is time that you had it. [...]

[...] It will take some doing on my part, if not yours. [...]

[...] He felt the impulse to do the floors with your sweeper (while I was mowing grass) and because of our Saturday session he ignored the arm difficulty enough to do the kitchen. That stimulus naturally led him to do the bathroom, and to plan to do the bedroom. [...]

[...] and we plan to do the best we can with it. Above all, it appears to be vital that we have faith and confidence that the body knows what it’s doing, and that Jane’s healing processes continue. [...]

[...] That is what Ruburt was trying to do, say, several days ago. [...] One was to avoid distractions, as you know—distractions often being things he would otherwise like to do.

[...] If you do not believe that, then you must deal alone with the set of Framework 1 facts. At the end of a week, say, as you look over Ruburt’s feelings, you will find that they do fall in several categories, and then I will discuss those categories. [...]

[...] And you dreamed a great dream and the dream had to do with an instrument called the piano, and you wondered how you could bring this instrument about and how it could be made and how it would work. [...] So you tried to make the flute do things that the flute could never do. [...]

[...] And if you believe that you have a bad gall bladder, for example, and if you do not discover the reasons behind the difficulty you will faithfully reproduce that faulty gall bladder with every new formation of your physical image. [...] You can, indeed, heal yourselves but you must realize that you can do so in order to do it yourself effectively. [...]

(To Louise.) Now, if you want to cough have a good one and do not feel embarrassed. [...] I did not mean to give the suggestion if you do not have to cough. [...]

I will have you know I would not do such a thing and my performance right now proves I would never do such a thing as you can all tell. [...]

I do not know how long our session will be. We will have to discover what we can do here. [...]

[...] It, if followed, would do him good however. It would be most beneficial for him to do some sketching at the riverbanks. [...]

[...] Maybe something to do with a man, woman and a child. There is something to do with a child somehow involved.

[...] I have learned I can do without it, but taking the drug removes the last of the lingering traces. [...]

Now, in somewhat the same way must you meet your own aliveness and encounter yourselves, and you cannot do it by digging around the bush. You do it by realizing emotionally two things: your relationship with everything else that exists and your miraculous uniqueness; and the meeting place between the two is where the self is and you think of the self. The words I speak are meaningless if you do not put them to use and if they do not arouse in you a spark of activity. [...]

[...] You do not need to shoot them down. [...]

Now, I wish you all a good evening and I am going to be here to see how you do. [...]

[...] I am waiting to see how you do, and Ruburt will be mad at me because he will say that you will not be spontaneous if you know I am around and, you see, you must prove him wrong. [...]

[...] He enjoys doing it, for that matter. Thoughts of work, however, do not work. You are not to compare yourselves with people who have jobs, or to say “They put in so many hours”—for you set up comparisons that do not apply, and that hamper your creativity.

[...] Almost immediately after your chair suggestion, and with the work you are both doing, Ruburt’s mind and body began to respond. Mentally he began to think of doing things that previously he had simply put aside. [...]

[...] Ruburt is doing the point of power exercise well. I do suggest the pillow pounding, for it encourages the expression of normally aggressive feelings through bodily release, rather than repression through bodily tension.

[...] You both decided to do what you wanted to do regardless of any “psychic field” of endeavor. [...]

“OUR PARENTS DO NOT BETRAY US”
JULY 23, 1974

Our parents do not betray us

Our parents do not betray us

but our parents do not betray us

You can return a badly wrought piece of furniture and get your money back—but what do you do when you understand that you form your own reality, and also decide that you aren’t pleased with large segments, at least, of the product?

[...] Ruburt tricked you quite cleverly into doing the sketches for Dialogues—for your own good, he felt, and you did not enjoy the experience, allowing your beliefs to contaminate your creativity. You do not feel the world deserves creative work. [...]

[...] Except for lip service, you do not encourage Ruburt in physical pursuits at all, or reward him for any accomplishments in that area when they do show. [...]

[...] If you relax and do psy-time for example, your reality will automatically change, for the intent that allows you to do this will automatically begin to produce results. [...]

[...] I am here to see what you are doing and how you are doing. [...]

[...] Now do not, and this is for you over there (student) and you over there (another student) do not, in Ruburt’s terms, get hung up over what words mean. [...]

You were right when you said that we are getting into more meaningful material and so I would like you all to listen so I do not have to give it twice. [...]

Now you can all verbalize better in the language you know than you are doing right now, and it is good for you to put what you know into verbalized terms, so I will be around here. [...]

Bega is doing well in his classes, and you are doing well in these classes. You are all developing and growing, whether or not you are consciously aware of it, and when you gather together there are beneficial developments that you do not understand, and that I am not prepared to explain to you this evening, for it would take too much of your time. [...] I do not expect you to drown in that pool, for I have taught you how to swim, you see. [...]

So do not feel that you are powerless, do not feel that you are at the mercy of events, for you form events not only in this reality, but in these other realities which you do not consciously understand. [...]

[...] So also at this moment in other realities do you sit, replicas of yourselves in other rooms and in other classes. [...] As you go out and speak to others now, and change them, so on other levels do you do the same, and so indeed are you also changed and affected. [...]

I did not say good evening to you, and so I now do so. [...] And often when you do not expect me. [...]

All you have to do is swing the flashlight in other directions. [...] And when you learn what you are doing, when you learn what you are doing—then you will learn how to hold the flashlight stationary and still illuminate all these other areas. [...]

I do not approve of what has been said so far. [...] What we want you to do is something quite different. [...]

Other portions of your consciousness may have as much difficulty seeing through the windows as you do. [...] Do you follow me? [...]

Now that I have pointed out what I do not like about the recording, if you still choose to go ahead with it, you may indeed, but I shall interrupt again if I do not like what you are listening to. [...]

[...] It will be easier for Ruburt to do his walking routine. [...] To some degree, however, you do not see that while you encourage him physically toward activity, you do very little in comparison to what you could do.

[...] Do not be so afraid of failure or of making mistakes. [...] If you do or do not like television programs, it makes little difference, as long as you understand your attitudes.

[...] Those people, for example, do not represent the world or any fundamentalists in particular. They do not represent New York City. [...]

[...] Regardless of appearances at sometimes, fanatics do not rule the world. [...]

[...] They do not fit in with your ideas of work (underlined), or with your idea of what you think you ought (underlined) to do, or because you are being too ponderous, and hence shove away many spontaneously playful ideas.

[...] You are both doing well in following what I told you. Continue to do so.

[...] The framework, learning the form first, was adopted for several reasons, having to do with other existences, to some extent given.

[...] Do not harness yourself with the idea that you had (underlined) “so much” (in quotes) ability, and that you have not used it. [...]