“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Some definite clear-cut divisions within yourself have to do with this life when you were one of two... [...] in what he was doing... [...]

(Smiling:) Now do you want to know why you stayed (in our living quarters) during the flood?

All of this had to do with past conscious decisions and responses to situations that, in your terms, no longer existed at the time of the flood. [...]

[...] For one thing, of course, they lived (and still do) on the second floor. [...]

[...] The fact is that your society often involves you in petty annoyances and problems that do not bring out your full strengths; disasters often serve as encounters with nature, in which you can experience the great power and range of your own identities in a situation in which you are pushed to the utmost.

[...] We will do more. [...] And in your position Ruburt would not do as well as you do.

[...] Overall our schedule will be maintained, but we do not want rigidity, merely the spontaneity that comes, and the freedom that is achieved within discipline.

And do not fall, either of you, into winter doldrums. [...]

(Jane had a pretty good day today—until we read over some of the late sessions this afternoon, those having to do with her relationship with her mother. [...]

[...] This afternoon I’d also said that I wouldn’t let her do that any more. [...]

(Long pause at 9:56.) He spent a good deal of time on his knees, then, doing penance when he did not fit into that structure. [...]

[...] Now you go out and see what you can do to change it.” [...]

[...] He does not realize however, nor do your other psychologists, what I have told you often—that there is an inner ego; and it is this inner ego that organizes what Jung would call unconscious material.

[...] I do have the reincarnational backgrounds, but would prefer to continue with our present discussion.

[...] I do not know whether I have met the two men mentioned by Seth or not; I am inclined to think I haven’t. On the other hand Tom Hartley told Jane the party was primarily for newspaper people, and I have met some of this local group... [...]

Now it is obvious that the body grows up about the inner self, and that trees grow out of the ground, whereas buildings do not ordinarily spring up like flowers of their own accord; so the inner self has various methods of creation, and uses the EE units in different ways, as you shall see as we continue with this discussion.

[...] I said that the truth of the matter is that no one paid the slightest attention to the pendulum lying on her belly, nor even understood what she was doing. I added that she had to be true to herself, that her troubles came from her not being so, and that if she wanted to use the pendulum then she should do so.

[...] She realized that as a youngster she had loved her mother, and tried hard to do things for her, even when Marie had rejected her efforts say, in buying a nightgown of the “wrong” color.

(After her lunch and reading of the free-association material, Jane said she didn’t really know what to do with herself. [...]

[...] This was delivered April 6. The 44th session includes much on the basic laws of the inner universe also, as do the other sessions received during this period. [...]

Width, height, length have no meaning in dimensions that do not have existence in space as you know it. [...]

[...] I have told you many times that planes or fields, or dimensions of activity, whatever you prefer to call them, move through each other often, and do not collide. [...]

I would suggest Joseph, that when you find the time, or if you can coerce Ruburt into doing it for you, insert here for any reader’s convenience a copy of the early material, in which I set up the imagined structure of mazes.

You had a brief life as twins—some definite clear-cut divisions within yourself, have to do with this life when you were one of two—one going one way, and one going the other—one twin had a strong leaning toward military things—a soldier—the organization of the church now serves the same purpose, I believe—security within the organization—the twin who was in the military found his sense of identity as a soldier within the system, but he had great faith in the system—in what he was doing—the other twin was more given to a statesman-like sort of thing—and was in fact an orator, although he had another profession—it included oration to people—the two of you had a very strong telepathic relationship—and this time the church has provided the same kind of organization—you sort of resented the fact that this twin brother of yours had this organization in which he found support and in which he felt so a part because he was absolutely certain of the aims and goals of the organization and he was a good soldier within it—and at that time you envied him that security and that sense of identity within the system in which he believed. [...]

[...] In the deleted session for October 2, 1972, Seth told us the “paperback will do very well, however.” [...]

He suspects that others have some difficulty, that they do not understand themselves sufficiently, and add to their own problems through putting to use the methods in his first such book. [...]

Each minute variation of physical matter that you perceive is caused by inner minute variations that you do not perceive. [...]

[...] In psychic terms also there is something that can be loosely explained in terms of spatial relationships, but having to do with intensities. [...]

The physical body itself however has much more to do with the maintenance of environment than is realized, for you use it so that your environment becomes almost like a second body, extending outward from the first, through which you express your inclinations and characteristics. [...]

In the same way you form events, often without being aware that you do so. [...]

[...] In sleep and dream states you do this often, correlating the newly perceived data with usual sense information, and organizing it all without a qualm. [...]

[...] The atoms and molecules within your vocal cords, and lungs and lips, do not understand one word of the language they allow you to speak so liquidly. [...]

Ideas form reality, so the body is used to reacting to some “imaginary” situations in which, for example, the mind conjures up dire circumstances which do not physically exist; but these still force the organism into an over-activation, setting up a state of stress. In massive drug therapy the body feels in greatest threat, for it is forced to use all of its resources while its own signals tell it that the messages it is getting do not have a correlation — and yet they are of the most urgent nature.

But when the conscious mind is forced to face far less pleasant encounters, and is robbed of its power to reason at the same time, then you do indeed insult the basis of its being.

[...] The old organizations of the self have fallen, and the new structures do indeed rejoice in their oneness and vitality.

[...] What you think of as the self dies and is reborn constantly, as the cells of your body do. [...]

[...] I do not dream of Ruburt because I do not dream at all, in the same terms that you do. [...]

I visit you therefore, but I do not dream of you in the way that you might think. [...]

[...] You may if you wish suggest that you will remember some of these conversations, and then you may be able to do so, to some degree. [...]

[...] We will do this in our own way. [...]

[...] What part do I play, and have yet to play, in Jane’s redemption—as well as my own—and on what level or levels? [...] But it’s even possible that all together Marie, Jane, her grandfather, and I set up the original situation before the physical births of any of us—and in some probable reality (if not in this one) we did do just that! [...]

[...] (Some physicists, however, have implied that subatomic particles—photons—communicate with each other as they take their separate but “sympathetic” paths.) Pardon my irony here, but Seth has always dealt with the ramifications of consciousness and maintained also that we do not inhabit just one probable world, but constantly move among them by choice—and by the microsecond, if one chooses.

[...] Any discussion of this in our books is strictly my own doing, my own speculation: I think it fun to play creatively with a theory that is, after all, there for anyone to consider, from whatever standpoint. [...]

[...] I didn’t urge her to do so, either. [...]

[...] On several instances, however, both of us have remembered and recorded our experiences which were similar but not identical. We hope to do much more work here. Rob is now becoming much more familiar with projection, so he and I plan to do some extensive work on our own. [...]

[...] “How can I tell if I do have a legitimate projection from sleep? [...]

[...] I felt fully awake, aware of what I was doing and quite free and weightless. [...]

[...] I thought this was a fine time to do something, anything while I was at it — a visit someplace else, a trip down the street. [...]

There are some things that I do not believe you clearly understand. [...]

[...] I do not begin with the item and reach outward. [...]

[...] Here you see—but try this: do you see a connection between the color red and the word quick?

[...] Do you see?

[...] The fact that such ideas do not occur to entities like the legal—or even the editorial—departments at Prentice-Hall shows, I think, the great gap that exists between our own views of life and theirs. [...]

(Long pause.) It is as if bits and pieces of any and all probable events exist in a jigsaw-like fashion throughout the minds of men, throughout the consciousnesses of plants and all natural things, wanting to be put together—and each individual consciousness has its part to play in directing which of those events occur or do not occur—but the processes involved in the formation of those events are hidden from the conscious mind. [...]

[...] When you think that you are in such a position, you react in threatened fashions, of course, and give them power that they do not naturally possess. [...]

[...] Once again after a session, Jane laughed: “I ought to do this more often. [...]

First of all you must understand, again, that now you do not realize your true identity. [...]

Instead of paints, pigments, words, musical notes, the creators begin to experiment with dimensions of actuality, imparting knowledge in as many forms as possible — and I do not mean physical forms. [...]

(I sneezed three times.) Do you want a break?

I do not want to discuss the purpose of consciousness’s continuous existence or development in this chapter, however. [...]

(Pause.) You must understand, I know, that the terms “male” and “female” here are being used as they are generally understood, and have nothing to do with the basic characteristics of either sex. [...]

[...] It is a source of revelation and inspiration — yet initially revelation and inspiration do not deal with power, but with knowing. [...]

[...] In Ruburt’s case the fear was greater, until it seemed sometimes that if he succeeded in his work he would do so at some peril: You might be put in an unpleasant light, or he might become a fanatic, displaying those despicable, feminine hysterical qualities.

[...] You’re very close-mouthed: You don’t blab our personal business, but you’d do that…. [...]

[...] The rich do not have purer water than the poor. [...]

[...] There is no doubt that the very wealthy abuse the system, and yet all in all it is a good one, couching the young while they learn, and is so doing, providing a basis from which new beliefs can indeed emerge.

[...] This was the time of caution and danger, when a man could retire, settle for security, give in to complacency—or even become a gentleman farmer—as he was at times tempted to do (with amusement).

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