“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I do seem to be slowly learning that Seth may be avoiding being pinned down to material that’s too specific at this time. Perhaps he feels that it isn’t needed at this time, that it’s simply better to just let Jane’s natural healing abilities do their work, now that that “corner in probabilities” has been turned.... [...]

(10:39.) Now: when you work through such an episode as this weekend’s bout, then you gain an individual but also joint confidence in your ability to do so—a very important point, a very intimate and vital way of dealing with your joint reactions. Some such feelings could be expected, naturally enough, since you do not live in a perfect world. [...]

There is no doubt, however, that the bedsores with their problems will dissolve, and almost go unnoticed as they do, if you play down their prominence. You do not have to pretend they are not there, but know that the increased motion, and new psychic motion, will take care of the situation. [...]

[...] Encourage thoughts or daydreams that have to do with the simple enjoyment of life, and of your abilities. [...]

[...] Creation is playful and full of joy but do not in your own heart set up any kind of social barrier. For when you do unknowingly, you do what has already been done to you and therefore perpetuate, to some extent, those stereotypes that so upset and annoy you. I understand your feeling and your sense of accomplishment but also remember in your heart that the most stereotyped unoriginal suburbanite, in your terms, has within him all the capabilities of which we speak so that you do not, in your own mind, set him down as a caste system for that is what has been done to you. [...]

[...] I do not know. [...] When I follow through with such demonstrations, I will do so not in the confines of this room and not under conditions set by you, but in a situation in which the claims are clearly recorded with the results in which there is no possibility that anyone will say suggestion is involved; in which no one will be able to say that scientific principles were not clearly set upon and not to satisfy your curiosity! [...] I do not have the doubts, you do. [...]

(To Bette.) You are doing this to some extent with your reincarnational dramas, and when you do this you see you are bringing others up to date, in those terms, also. [...]

[...] If you are able to do what you know even to a limited extent what you claim that you are able to do, I would be completely dumbfounded. [...]

[...] I do have a memory of physical existence however, and this automatically helps me in translating your mental data into physical form. I do perceive objects, for example. [...] At times I see the room and the people as he, or rather his perceptive mechanisms, do.

(We sat for the session at 9:00, as we almost always do, but Seth didn’t appear with his usual promptness. [...]

[...] Also, do we need to know more about the other two personalities belonging to the Christ entity: Christ Himself, and John the Baptist?”)

The greatest Speakers do not only translate and communicate inner data, but also go much further into these inner realms of reality than others connected with your physical system. [...]

[...] I do not think you believe what I tell you, and you do not believe me because you do not really believe that the point of power is in the present.

[...] I know that she is very upset by the time element involved here, and now I’m not at all sure that I know what I’m doing on the project any more. I do know it’ll be done some day—and never again.... [...]

[...] It does not matter if you think that any given contacts are “useless,” or that you do not reap intellectual benefits. [...] Ruburt needs solitude, as you do, but also a format of an informal nature, for the emotions of others stimulate his abilities.

[...] She’s been worse as far as symptoms go since we stopped the sessions, so doing that didn’t help either. [...]

The creative abilities, of course, do not think of bodies-of-work. They create out of the joy and natural necessity to do so, and their productions also exist in a realm far too large to be so easily categorized.

I do not expect either of you to be saints, so certainly do not expect it of yourselves. [...]

Let him do his walking or whatever so that he is free to just sit and write before or afterward—you follow me. You are doing well, though, and also any change of routine or pattern in your lives within the general context is good, for you need the variety.

(Today Jane did well, walking about the house quite a bit more often than she has been doing lately.

The speakers generally do not fall into any particular group. Do you follow me? [...]

It has to do with his physical sensations at the time and also the weakness of the voice. The weakness, however, did not have to do with the weakness of power, but to his inability to translate the strange material that he was receiving.

Now, I will be doing that. I do not want to involve you with an esoteric language that can be used to close others out as well as to unite you. [...]

(“Oh?” I said—Rob and I were both laughing—“What do they do?” Seth stared at me in that penetrating way of his for several moments.)

Your reactions the other night, Joseph, had to do with two things; this sense of unjustified inferiority with your own ability to deal with the outside world, hence your physical immobility and back spasm; and with a superficial, rationalizing and false protective measure that operates intellectually in your case, making you think that outside conditions are so stupid that you refuse to do anything to alleviate them, feeling that the situation is so ridiculous that nothing you could do would change it. [...]

[...] Many of his Florida contortions had to do with a simple need, basic for him, having to do with space, orderliness and privacy. He does not speak of these as you do, but nevertheless woe if you ignore them, because he will react in an emotional explosion at best and a psychic explosion at worst.

[...] It was a necessity for you both in the beginning, however, and do not let it go—that is, do not return it. [...]

(By 8:50 Jane felt definite stirrings from Seth, which pleased her because she didn’t have to wonder about how she would do this evening. [...]

2. As far as possible, without pressing the point, make an effort to do what he would do if he were physically satisfactory. That is, write normal hours without taking time out as today, unless he is hit by inspiration to do so.

[...] Ruburt’s exercise today however represented exactly what I spoke of, and in that way should be avoided—the paper that you read this afternoon, that he wrote—and when each of you review your joint past, do so looking for your accomplishments. [...]

1. Do the five minutes as suggested.

3. In one way or another, once a day have him do something to act upon the new beliefs. [...]

[...] Now see what you can do, play with what you can do. Do not strain to understand what will be said or sung. [...]

[...] It is only important because you have cherished it so as one can cherish a great pain and be afraid of letting it go and think “this pain sets me apart” and all you have to do is let go of it. [...]  It will be of great benefit to you in fact, to face the entire issue for it will make your relationship with one of your children in particular much easier when you do. [...]

Concepts, however, must be put into living knowledge and into practice or they are not meaningful and so the concepts that are received will also be translated in such a way that you can use them and put them into daily practice so you will at sometime be able to speak your body with more effectiveness than you do now. [...]

[...] Now give us a moment and remember do not strain. [...]

[...] Even the word “peace” will do. [...] If the negative mood persists a while he should not think “Oh now this will be reflected in symptoms, what can I do?” This adds more negative connotations.

[...] In the overall with your methods, he is doing well. The specifics showed their results, and as more specifics arise, if they do, I will mention them.

[...] (Pause.) One point, not having to do with the sale: he feels that you and Ruburt have no time for him, since he moved away. [...] This is why he plies you with food and drink when you do see him there. [...]

[...] He sold the house on the one hand to make money, and on the other hand he sold it to do penance because in his own way he loved it. He talked of selling the land and tearing down the terrace as a projected act of self-mutilation, mutilating something that he loved, to do penance for his sins, in his light.

[...] It is not always an easy matter of saying no, and I do see both of you handling your situations well. Do not feel hopeless, and do not feel that you are failures. [...] You do have the abilities to solve these issues. Remind yourselves therefore of that fact, and do not tell yourselves that your situation in any case is a hopeless one.

[...] You will have to face yourselves individually no matter what you do, and you will have to do this before you can see each other with any clearness.

[...] To some extent because of this you distrust your wife when she analyzes emotion or when she says to you why do you feel thus and thus a way. You do not want to know a good deal of the time.

(Humorously:) I am not done with you yet, but I do not want him (Carl) to feel left out over here, and while you are recovering I will speak to him: for you were also in your own isolated universe, and if hers had fears in it, then yours was a valley of desolation in which your emotions were like unruly animals galloping around in there; and you were so frightened and worried about your own worth that you could not consider hers, and you were so insecure that her sensing insecurity, when you were aware of it, drove you to anger.

(I told her in turn, and believe she agreed, that all phases of our lives were changing, that it was vital that they do so, since the way of life we had worked out was doing so poorly. [...] I strongly suspected my days at Artistic were numbered; especially so since we now planned a long trip early next year, after taking care of checking the copyreading Prentice-Hall is now doing on Seth Speaks; we are due to get the script back in January.

You want to do anything with the emotions but feel them. [...] Do you see the difference now?

I simply want to clue you into what I am doing as I do it.

We may do this presently for some sessions. [...]

(“Well, we can do something about that,” I said. “Do you want to have a session?”

[...] Do the dishes and check the mail, then I’ll try.... I’m awful glad I said something about them,” she added, “but when I do the feelings start to come up also....” [...]

[...] I might have to go in and go to the bathroom, which I don’t want to do—then come back out here and see what I can do—maybe have a session....” [...]

[...] Although I feel very scary about doing something like yelling or pulling my hair or something like that—I don’t know—losing control, and yet when I look around our room I never fail to take note of the room and the red couch cover, and how beautiful it is.” [...]

[...] The situation triggered many fears, about you and Ruburt being alone, your age, the age of your brothers, who would come to your aid, or Ruburt’s. If necessary, Leonard at least had a knowledge of the medical world, while you and Ruburt do not. [...] This noon, for example, after going downtown, leaving your painting, you found that Ruburt wanted a few more windows done, and the innocent window became a symbol, combining the idea of chores with your fear: if anything happened to you, who would do the chores for Ruburt? [...]

Also ask the natural man is he feels the same way you do. [...] I do want to emphasize that in many, many civilizations men were expected to improve almost all of their abilities with age, as per for example Bill Gallagher’s story of the old Indian who taught the young boys how to track animals in the forest. [...]

Ruburt has been doing very well. [...] The two of you can do that. [...]

[...] All of those other things seemed to get in the way of the few things I really wanted to do, including writing. [...]

[...] When you do not know what to do, relax and tell yourself that other portions of yourself do know; they will take over. [...] Success does not necessarily involve great intellect or great position or great wealth; it has to do with inner integrity. [...]

You certainly understand that I am doing with your case the same thing that I have done with others, so please do not be offended. I do not want any of you, you see, to use these ideas as superficial bandages for your bleeding psyches…. [...]

One small note: In some respects these pulsations represent what happens in some of your flying saucer incidents, for you do not have a vehicle such as the one you think you perceive. [...]

[...] This is not practical in your terms, yet many of you do it to gain refreshment while you are sleeping. [...]

(However, I do keep much of what Seth has said on such troubles in mind, even if it doesn’t show too well, often. [...] Yet she can respond deeply to my remarks, which I do curb much more than I used to; then she ends up blue and depressed, which I suppose is the last thing she should do.

How do you solve the problems? [...] And many who do not believe in religion per se certainly believe in man’s sinful nature—though perhaps giving it a more scientific name. [...]

[...] The children, not realizing how dumb their poor mothers really are, often do just that—and discover that their problems do indeed disappear. [...]

You might each secretly believe that such worrying will frighten Ruburt enough “to make him do something,” and that is hardly the case—for worrying always increases stress. [...] Now Ruburt has started doing that. [...]

[...] It is as though I am remembering physical life as a dream, and yet I have the feeling that Carl and I have done this cycle bit before, that we are doing it still in another place and that we will do it even as we are doing it now. [...]

[...] Simply tell yourself that you are doing well in this reality, using your abilities, helping your husband and caring for your child. You do not need to feel guilty over the creation of any probable selves. [...]

Many do. [...] You do not set these personalities adrift without hope or potential.

If you would have some idea of what the probable universe is like, then examine your own dreams, looking for those events which do not have any strong resemblance to the physical events of waking existence. [...] They do not exist in the space that you know but neither are they nonexistent, mere imaginative toys of the dreaming mind, without substance.

I do not approve of a whole day being given over to the sort of experimentation carried on by Ruburt last week in the Father Trainor sessions. In one respect I do agree with Ruburt, in that any future experiments with friends would be of better advantage carried out using chairs at a table, and actually making as few suggestions as possible.

[...] I do believe that Ruburt has learned an important lesson. As his abilities do develop, it is even more important that he take walks, and that some frequency in daily contact with others is maintained.

I do not mean daily social hours. [...] Spontaneous short humorous plays, such as you sometimes do with your recorder, is an enjoyable relaxation.

[...] Too many attempts at this time do not permit this brief but excellent intensification, and can lead to that peculiar semitrance state in which Ruburt found himself last week.

(“Do you have a message for us?”)

(“Do you have a last name?”)

(“Do you mean just mentally?”)

(“Do you think you might have tried, had you been aware that such a thing was possible?”)

[...] It is much easier if your theories fit reality, but if they do not, then you do not change reality one iota. [...]

And I am aware of many things that you think and do not say. Do not be afraid of old age, you who are so young, for you have been old many times before. [...]

[...] She seldom asked me to do this, since after supper on any Thursday I’d be busy in my studio at the back of the apartment, typing up my crude homemade shorthand notes of the session she’d given the evening before for just the two of us.

[...] I was glad to do it—and note that Jane’s class sessions usually are in marked contrast to those we hold for ourselves, for books or whatever in the future. [...]