“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The body, again, does possess such a natural faith, and it has nothing to do with esoteric methods and so forth—but again deals with a kind of self-evident biological knowledge. [...]

[...] The Sinful Self material is doing its work, opening the necessary doorways of desire and intent. [...]

What do you have? [...]

[...] Of course [a species] must survive to do so, but it will, however, purposefully avoid survival if the conditions are not practically favorable to maintain the quality of life or existence that is considered basic.

[...] They do not anticipate death before it happens, however. [...]

I do not intend to give a treatise upon the biological structures of the body and their interworkings, but only to add such information in that line that is not currently known, and is otherwise important to the ideas I have in mind. [...]

[...] On one occasion I lay down and closed my eyes simply because it was easier to do this than anything else. [...]

I hope I do not shatter your peace.

[...] In sleep when (whene) you often presume yourself to be unconscious (unconsious) you may be far more conscious than you are now, but simply using abilities of consciousness that you do not accept as real or valid (valed) in waking (waping) life. [...]

Since they do, of course, you can discover them now and learn to use them. [...]

You think in terms of linear time, and the best you can do to imagine your deeper reality is to consider reincarnation in time. [...] You do not, for example, usually identify with the inside of your body, with its organs, much less its cells or atoms — yet in that direction lies a certain kind of infinity (intently).

[...] I don’t know what it is, or what it has to do with the session, if anything.” [...]

[...] You might live in a city and a state and a country at one time, yet you do not think that your presence in one of these categories contradicts either of the other two. [...]

So the psychic families, or the families of consciousness, can be thought of as natives of inner countries of the mind, sharing heritages, purposes, and intents that may have little to do with the physical countries in which you live your surface lives. [...]

[...] “The funny thing is,” Jane said, “I thought that that was coming from Seth—that is, he was speaking the words, though he usually doesn’t do things like that.... [...] I had the feeling that that was being read loudly and clearly and richly by Seth—I could hear him doing it.”

[...] Jane was doing well. [...]

[...] In so doing he quite purposefully detached himself, in your terms now, from the body of his planet in a new way. [...]

[...] In your friend’s case, the realization that he can eat those foods means that he understands that he can encounter those beliefs in himself, as he is now beginning to do.

The reflexes mentioned do exist. [...]

[...] They follow patterns, then, and obey certain laws even as more strictly physical phenomena do. [...] As you come into your body with all of its physical surroundings, so at birth do you emerge into a rich natural psychological environment in which beliefs and ideas are every bit as real.

[...] That question, often asked unconsciously — if not consciously — brings you back to beliefs in punishment that have nothing to do with the concept of natural guilt, but with those distortions placed upon it. [...]

[...] We will have more to say about such issues later on in the book — for I hope to show you how certain feelings and beliefs do indeed promote health, while others promote an unfortunate extension or exaggeration of perfectly normal bodily processes, or viral activity.

This means, of course, that you do not fall victim to a disease, or catch a virus, but that for one reason or another your own feelings, thoughts, and beliefs lead you to seek bouts of illness. [...]

[...] Ill or not, I do still feel full of life, and I’m still kicking — at least symbolically!

[...] For a long time now I’ve been doing it all in the outside world. [...]

[...] There are dimensions of activity, then, that do not appear within time’s structure, and developments that happen quite naturally, following different laws of development than those you recognize. [...]

There are “durations,” then, that have nothing to do with time as you understand it: psychological motions that manipulate time but are apart from it. [...]

Such master events cause (underlined) physical events, but they do not emerge originally from them (all repeated as given, and once more very intently.

[...] More, it would have involved altering dates, and changing or eliminating some of the copy to make the rest of it fit—all things I dislike doing. After Jane came through with her dictation I told myself I’d know what to do with it, and awoke the next morning with the clear understanding that her session should be presented just as is, and when we received it. [...]

As I wrote in the first essay, “the trouble with having something diagnosed as rheumatoid arthritis is that not only do you have it when you go into the hospital, but when you leave it.” [...] “Do you want to spend the rest of your life inside, in a wheelchair? [...]

[...] What does one do when the insert begins to wobble? [...]

[...] But by that same reasoning—to which, of course, I do not subscribe—you should also add that man can take no credit either for his intellect, since man must think, and cannot help doing so.

[...] Some, had they lived in your century, would have been able to outperform computers (just as some are outperforming computers these days!). In most cases where such accomplishments show themselves, they do so in a child far too young to have learned scientific mathematical procedures to begin with, and often such feats are displayed by people who are otherwise classified as idiots (idiot savants), and who are incapable of intellectual reasoning.

[...] Your impulses have shadings as your colors do. [...]

[...] I now think that spontaneously starting to do that reflected my own intuitive understanding of her direct cognition, long before either one of us knew how to describe it. [...]

[...] Surely it may seem that such a children’s tale has little to do with any serious adult discussion concerning anything so profound as the creation of the known world. [...]

[...] Do you want to rest your hand?

[...] They also realize that they do not possess full freedom, either, for certain pretended situations will later happen in less faithful versions than the imagined ones. [...]

I do not want to oversimplify, and throughout this book we will add other elaborations upon such behavior. [...]

(I’ve finished typing last Monday’s session, and have 5 pages done on Tuesday’s, so were in good shape now with only Wednesday’s to do. [...]

[...] While you do not possess it in the same fashion, you are also tainted by it, picking up such beliefs from early background, and primarily from your father in that regard. [...]

(Long pause.) I do not want to give you too much charged material in a concentrated period of time. [...]

[...] While having at the same time the freedom to choose those beliefs—to choose your mental state in a way that the animals for example do not. [...]

While the speaker, or speaker-system, necessarily loses many meanings, the very distortions that do occur make the messages decipherable. [...]

[...] It is that (eyes open occasionally, slitted again) you have not learned to recognize the extent of the reality in which you do exist. [...]

The speaker at your end must necessarily do the translating, and the purity of the translation, relatively speaking, is determined by the speaker’s own development. [...]

[...] I neglected to ask Jane if she was aware of this movement, but do not believe she is because she hasn’t mentioned it.)

[...] I felt it offered hope, simple as it really is, and I couldn’t figure out what she was going to do without hope—without the sessions, without using her own abilities, without accepting some kind of reinforcement from anyone else. [...]

[...] If prolonged it meant the hospital, or God knows what, but we had to do something. [...]

[...] I really believed what I said, and still do. [...]

[...] That we didn’t do so is part of the problem, of course. [...]

[...] A few days ago Jane learned that the woman for whom the session was intended had never listened to the tape, refusing to do so even though she had requested the session.)

Now, when you are weary you do not have sessions in any case, and this sense of dedication can be better maintained with alternate periods of work and rest.

[...] Do you have any questions for me? [...]

[...] (Pause.) Since you do appear less bouncy than usual, you may end the session; but I may stay a while now that I am here. [...]

There are so many other elements involved in human nature that I do not really want to point out any culprits, yet male-segregated communities are obviously notorious for encouraging that kind of behavior. Every individual in such institutions or societies is not affected in the same fashion, of course — yet you do have these kinds of closed societies, relatively speaking, and they can indeed serve as cradles for fanaticism and rigid stereotypes of behavior. [...]

[...] You affect your world through your dreams, then, as much as you do through your waking activities. [...]

[...] To do this, however, it latches upon certain significances and ignores others. [...]

[...] Rocks give forth sounds that you do not hear, for example, yet your language automatically limits your perception of what any rock is. [...]

[...] Do this with many objects, following the same procedure. [...]

[...] Using the root assumptions just mentioned as a basis for judging reality, an observer would insist that the objects were not real, for they do not behave as he believes objects must. Because dream images may appear and disappear, then, do not take it for granted that they do not really exist.

While we may “come awake” spontaneously within a dream, certain procedures do help, and these can induce projections from the dream state. [...]

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

[...] They do not apply elsewhere. [...]

No matter how depressed you may feel, you do still want to live, or you would be dead by now — so there is a part of you that seeks life and vitality, and that portion also deserves expression. [...] After all, if you do choose suicide, you can always kill yourself. [...]

If you are in such a situation, do remind yourself that it is far more natural and probable for any problem to be solved, and that every problem has a solution. [...]