“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He is more consciously aware of what he is doing, so that he does not fall, for example, into self-pity so often, or feelings of hopelessness, but instead stops. [...]

[...] Your suggestions help, as I always say they do.

[...] I have the feeling that another such experience happened right after this one, but I fell asleep and do not remember. [...]

[...] I do not recall a storm, or high winds.

[...] This gray-brown leaf had been taped to the shade on my lamp at work for well over a year; originally I had used it as a model in doing some artwork for a Christmas card. [...]

Ruburt is of course much more familiar with sense impressions than he is with internal data, or with impressions that do not come to him through the physical senses. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s associations may go for example from C, D, E, and F, but precisely where he would say G, we must insert X or Y, and do it so smoothly that he is quite unaware.

[...] Nevertheless there is a small sense of alienation when the associations do not follow through, but are diverted to the desired end.

[...] You do not need to be so worried for your energy. [...] Do as you will.”

So in one century you were Nebene, and Ruburt was indeed the “prostitute” priestess,³ and so did you challenge each other, as in different ways you do now, with tendencies that appear to be opposites, but are instead different ways of approaching the same kind of challenge. If you could understand, it would help in many areas you do not as yet suspect.

[...] “I don’t know why, but I’ve been doing things that way lately. [...]

[...] “I do think we’re going to lose readers along the way, though — this book’s getting too hard to follow. [...]

[...] When he feels it shout at him it is good to lessen the pace during the rest of the session, as he attempted to do. [...]

[...] So far Ruburt is doing well, and will learn as he progresses how to operate inner acceleration and flow, or rush of energy, so that he is comfortable. [...]

[...] If any should develop, not really develop, for we will pull back before then, but if any give evidence of causing any unwarranted or really uncomfortable turns, then we will do either or both of two things for an interval.

[...] I do not foresee difficulty.

[...] To do this particular kind of experiment, it was necessary that physical manipulation be concentrated upon. [...] Do you want to rest your hand?

(“Do you mean in all areas of the planet, for instance?”)

[...] You cannot kick an “enemy” who does not live in your village or country; an enemy, furthermore, whom you do not even know personally. [...]

(Louder:) Now I do not think you can reasonably be expected to take any more notes without a break, and so I give you one.

I do not consider these small helpful hints of future events to be the sort of demonstration which in certain circumstances could annoy me. And any annoyance that I do feel is merely with the impatience that requests for demonstrations may hide.

[...] Such data, such other reference points, come into your perceptions however as you are ready for them, and they change the horizons and whole conception of your universe as they do so.

(I remember Doc Kiley best from my grade school days, just as I do his sister Helen. [...]

(Nan also said Playboy was a good magazine; I agreed, saying that if one was to read uncritically, as most do, then Playboy would hurt you least of all. [...]

“While doing it, I felt mildly exhilarated. [...] Yet I was also aware of the same kind of reluctance I’d felt in the sleep state last night; as if I was trying to do something … difficult, or translate information that was more distant than usual from our ordinary concepts. I almost felt stubborn, like a reluctant child, wanting to do the thing but not wanting to make the effort at the same time. [...]

“Now I do recall something: I was getting a whole bunch of material and it was multidimensional. [...]

[...] So the last time I said: ‘Now, look, Seth, if you want to take me to some of these probabilities, great; with you leading the way; but my consciousness is having a hell of a time handling whatever it is we’re doing.’ Then I fell asleep and the material stopped.”

[...] I do not want to oversimplify here, and certainly I am nowhere justifying the cruelties the Jews encountered in Germany. You do each create your own reality, however (intently), and en masse you create the realities of your nationalities and your countries — so at that time the Germans saw themselves as victors, and the Jews saw themselves as victims.

[...] Since they do not believe that the individual is ever effective, their groups are not assemblies of private individuals come reasonably together, pooling individual resources. [...]

True individuals can do much through social action, and the species is a social one, but people who are afraid of their individuality will never find it in a group, but only a caricature of their own powerlessness.

[...] Anthropologists do not assign any validity to “Aryan” as a racial term. [...]

[...] Now, at 83, I walk or run just about every day over the streets I knew so well as a child—only I do it in the daytime. It’s a treat, a privilege, to be able to do it each day. Then I do some painting. [...]

[...] Sometimes I think I’m a slow learner: It took me a while to realize, for example, that the responses to the Seth material by mail and in person—and now electronically—are actually myriad extensions of that work, showing in all of their varieties the questions and answers it’s raised and the beneficial effects it’s had on the many who have communicated since Jane held her first real session on December 2, 1963—and on those who still do. [...] I’m glad to do it, even when I fall far behind.

[...] I preferred the small-town life, but had about exhausted my professional options after doing medical illustrations for the local but well-known Robert Packer Hospital (some drawings won prizes in traveling exhibitions), working briefly in radio, painting signs, and so forth. Then I went back to doing comic-book art by mail for various New York City publishers. [...]

[...] I don’t recall that worthy ever suggesting to my wife outright that she seek medical help, let alone insisting that she do so. [...] Or—yes—even religion: a subject I would like to explore in depth if ever I can create the several years of camouflage time necessary to do so. [...]

[...] There is no magic connected with suggestions — but repeated often enough, and believed in fervently, such suggestions do indeed take on a deeply habitual nature. [...]

[...] When they are young, the offspring will accept some such suggestions uncritically, coming as they do from a revered adult, so that the suggestions are almost interpreted as commands.

[...] Obviously, children who go into the water right after eating do not all drown. [...]

[...] The two of you do not understand thus far, out of fear. I do not know if this is the evening to attempt such a discussion. [...]

[...] In a mood of self-pity there is indeed an almost perverted luxury, the luxury of despair, for despair says: There is nothing I can do, and relieves you of any responsibility for change. [...]

And I will have more to say to you concerning this evening, and the earlier circumstances, which you do not understand.

[...] Many individuals reacting to a given event may do so by combining their energy to produce one major action-event in response.

Now: conversely, if you do not accept the idea of reincarnation, this does not mean that reincarnation is not a fact. [...]

[...] Take a break and we shall see what we can do. [...]

[...] Jane said Seth was thinking of something having to do with moment points; she had some images, “like star shapes, only layered thick..”

[...] You do not imagine the existence of blocks or impediments in your way, in the form of additional furniture placed in your path by accident, fate, or design. [...] The act has meaning because it is something you want to do.

[...] When you want to find a mate you take it for granted that a potential mate exists, though where in space and time you do not know. [...]

[...] There are also mass statements of the same kind for people come together to die, however, to seek company in death as they do in life. [...]

[...] I do not speak alone to Ruburt and Joseph, for example, but my words go out to the world that you know. [...] To do this, however, he has to alter his own consciousness, withdraw momentarily from the official station to bring in this one. [...]

If an inhabitant from another reality outside of your own physical system entirely were to visit it, and if “his” intelligence was roughly of the same degree as your own, he would still have to learn to focus his consciousness in the same way that you do, more or less, in order to perceive your world. [...]

[...] You move through other frequencies, but to do this you must alter your own consciousness.*

[...] These do not come through with sound alone, but with all the living paraphernalia of the world. [...]

[...] If, in a dream, you experience a period of three days, physically you do not age for these days. Do you see?

[...] That is what you are supposed to do in these frequent breaks from the material. [...] Do please get comfortable.

At this stage you will do what you can to encourage it, without my telling you, just as you initiated the event to begin with. [...] I suggest a brief break, and this time my dear Joseph, do copy your strolling wife and move about.

“Is there anything I can do to encourage such a flow of data again?” Rob asked.

[...] For the problem already has to do with the fact that he plunges into both dilemmas and solutions, with a desperation that is born from anxiety, if not pure panic.

Nor do we want to rid him of one illness so quickly that he still feels a need for it, for in such a case he would indeed very promptly develop another. [...]

[...] We have also discussed the ego, and our friend would do well to read the sessions dealing with the ego, and the ego’s relationship to action. [...]

I will now suggest your first break, and as I have said many times, do not break up, for then I should have to pick up the pieces.

[...] Then a little later she picked up some more material while doing her exercises. [...]

[...] They’d been touched off by an article we’d just read in the March Esquire, having to do with the supposed difficulty the male and the female have adjusting to each other. [...]

[...] I plan to do a small oil painting or two of the sketch I’ve done of Mrs. Johnson, plus another image of her that I hadn’t drawn at the time, but retain well.

[...] The [name] Johnson brings in the woman’s sense of strength, and yet says that she is of ordinary heritage—a person of the earth, a powerful person in her way—and the connections with your associations have to do with the late President Johnson. [...]

[...] After I got up, the pendulum told me the feelings came because I resented having to do the yard work without Jane being able to help me. The fact of doing the work itself was innocent, I learned. Nor do I have heart trouble. [...]

(Watching her struggle to do this reminded me of the fix we both face, and that must be resolved. [...] I didn’t mention any of this to Jane, since she had done so well today, but do want to make note of my feelings here. [...]

Of course, the experience represents an important point of progress, as do the dream intentions. [...]

[...] It does him no good to let him avoid them, and it may do him severe harm.

[...] The letters S C R E W, having to do with a name or street name. [...]

[...] 1521, perhaps a house number, I do not know. [...]

Someone who sees him, a male, is not doing him good at this time. [...]