“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] There is little worry that either of you will do that (emphatically). Yet there can be danger that you forget that creative time can produce in an hour magic creations that ten hours of frightened, enforced time can never do—and that a moment’s inspiration in a bar, or with company, or on a walk in the park can bring forth world-changing theories that no amount of fearful economy of time will ever deliver.

When you worked in an art department, even though you knew you were doing “commercial work,” society referred to you as an artist. [...]

[...] Only from exuberant impracticality do any so-called practical inventions come. [...]

[...] This has nothing to do with tartar.

[...] If you ask on the one hand, however, and do not believe in the therapeutic nature of dreams on the other, you will short-circuit any such activity. [...] Instead you are saying, “I will have a dream to help me, and yet I do not believe I can have such a dream.”

[...] Your thoughts direct the overall functioning of your body’s cells, even though you do not consciously know how those cells operate. [...]

[...] Past events do not intrude in this manner unless they are beckoned by the conscious expectations and thoughts that exist within your mind. [...]

This is merely an analogy but it will explain your body’s concept of itself; for as a whole it knows it “dies,” as now its portions do, but is also aware of its “future” transformation. [...]

[...] Do not be afraid of change, for you are change, and you change as you sit before me. [...]

“If you are to be my stenographer, you must do better than that. [...]

[...] “I do speak in trance for a personality who claims to have survived death. [...]

[...] The reader will have to make his own judgments, but personally I do accept his theories as valid and significant.

[...] I do not recall whether I had such a list on the day I bought the canvas which furnished tonight’s object, but the chances are that I did have. Very seldom do I make a trip there for just one object.

[...] The morning symptoms incidentally have to do with this life however, bringing back earlier fears of facing the day, you see.

The knees, incidentally, I can help him here: in Saint Vincent’s punishment took the form of having the child kneel straight upward, and doing so Ruburt’s knees often became sore. [...]

Now do you have an envelope for me?

[...] And how many times do we do this, invisibly winding such data into the fabric of our perceptions, reacting to it without even realizing it?

[...] When we knew Ed Robinson — over 20 years ago — he was doing Mike Hammer comic strip for Micky Spillane. Rob joined him and that’s what he was doing when I met him (Rob).

[...] What kinds of data do we pick up on — and why?

[...] Ed Robinson’s voice — the Ed of the Alaskan letter now received thirty years later, (the Ed who was then doing the detective comic strip referred to in the day’s predictions) and a stranger’s voice.

[...] This does not mean that you are dreaming someone else’s dream, any more than it means that twins, for example, do. [...] The multistructured nature of the dream state allows for dream dramas in which probable selves do appear. [...]

[...] Those birds, I thought, knew where they were going — they knew what they were doing, in ways man could barely comprehend. [...]

[...] To do this you must understand, again, that man must move beyond the concepts of one god, one self, one body, one world, as these ideas are currently understood.⁵ You are now poised, in your terms, upon a threshold from which the race can go many ways. [...]

[...] Still, some of the experiments do give hints of certain aspects of one of the species’ probable developments.

[...] This has nothing to do with that company as it is related to other people.

[...] In your world and experience, where your interests are paramount, and do rule, they form your reality.

[...] What do you have to say about this?” We don’t feel like justifying ourselves.

I do not want you to think that the answers to your questions lie prepackaged in the dream state, either, relatively inaccessible except to those (long pause) who possess unique talents or some secretive knowledge of the world of the occult. [...]

(9:30.) I do not, therefore, want you to concentrate your efforts in memorizing methods of perceiving other realities, but to realize that such insights are everywhere within your grasp. [...]

As you do, you will discover yourself reacting to the desired beliefs as easily and automatically as you did to the undesirable ones. As you do, keep the idea of child’s play in mind, however. [...]

[...] It is important, however, that you do not strain too hard to achieve results, but allow yourself some leeway. [...]

[...] They must, therefore, be used in exciting creative ways having to do with his intuitions, intellect, and creative work.

This has nothing to do with time, but with the intensity of any suggestion, and any countering suggestions. [...]

[...] Work for work’s sake will not do for him.

It would do Carter well on one level to question this God more thoroughly. Yet on another level he is doing very well, for he is bringing about a situation in which men must question the nationalistic intent of this “one God.”

At various times this one God of Carter’s seems to have said, on more unearthly subjects, that the Jews would be saved, while our infidels languished in the deepest hell, or that the Mohammedans would be saved—and throughout history as you know it, and as you do not know it, the stories have thrived. [...]

[...] Last night it hadn’t seemed to do any good. [...]

(Jane, too, was doing better today. [...]

[...] Such philosophies do not give man a stake in nature, or in the universe.

[...] There was much that he and Ruburt could do; there was also much they could not do. [...]

[...] The Gallaghers’ questions were of a more general nature usually; and many of them had to do with Bill’s family history. [...]

[...] Yet Walter has learned much and is doing very well.

(Toward the end of the session Seth said he thought the object Peggy has been carrying in her handbag has “something to do with rock,” and that a man had somehow been connected with it, or its origin. [...]

(Jane well remembers the evening when she first consciously conceived Idea Construction, and so do I. Checking her manuscripts yields the date of September 10,1963, as when she made her first notes. [...] Checking with her while writing this up, she said that she never did do any poetry that night; the idea came to her as she sat down to write poetry after supper, and she spent the evening on it.

[...] This having to do with the disappearance of early youth, and having superficial meaning to the surface female personality.

(Usually I would be willing to continue in such instances, but seldom do because it keeps Jane working longer.)

[...] And if your poor Professor Von Jamesson appears at your door, do not be surprised. [...]

Do you follow me?

(“Yes — if I can do it.”

(At 3:43 she began reading the session for December 27, 1983, doing better than she had earlier. [...]

[...] “At least it shows your body you want to do something,” I said. [...]

(11:49.) Briefly: as circulation is improved certain tissues do feel fuller. [...]

It would do him better to cry when he feels like it, fully. [...]

[...] Rather a strange thing to realize that in these hospital sessions she’s giving trance material while laying down—something I recall her doing only a couple of times in all the years previous.)

[...] We’ll see how the two work together to solve the challenge—if we do solve it. [...]

(Before the session I explained that I didn’t think feelings of hopelessness had much to do with it, since if the background fears were dispensed with the body would automatically right itself, and those feelings would vanish. [...] I said I needed reinforcement myself over my fears about her condition, and she answered that she might have to initiate a program of walking with the table, soon, if she didn’t spontaneously start doing more walking.

[...] She likes them better, she said, and so do I; at this time they seem to fit our situation. [...]

[...] Jane received from Oversoul Seven last February 20th a page of material about techniques, methods, and concentrating on doing “what’s right,” that I think is the best information we could possibly get, no matter what the source. [...]

[...] Quite simply, these values have to do with increasing the quality of whatever life the being feels at its center. The quality of that life is not simply to be handed down or experienced, for example, but is to be creatively added to, multiplied, in a way that has nothing to do with quantity.

[...] Jane and I suggested then, as we do now, that when possible the two Seth letters be read together, since they compliment each other so well.

[...] If you believe that your life has no meaning, then you will do anything to provide meaning, all the while acting like a mouse in one of science’s mazes — for your prime directive, so to speak, has been tampered with.

[...] He will not have the energy to seek bread, nor trust his impulse to do so.