“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Those portions of my entity that have not had physical experience, however, do not operate within that time system, at any time(smile), if you will excuse the pun. [...]

[...] Those who have survived physical death in your terms, must use words in their communications, for you do not understand wordless communications. [...]

[...] They do not need the spoken word. [...]

[...] Those who have left and survive, use thoughtwords but do not need to speak, though they may (underlined). [...]

[...] The mental exercises he has been doing are excellent in that regard. Do not worry about the insurance situation. [...]

[...] Jane began reading yesterday’s session, and doing quite well. [...]

[...] We’d forgotten about it, but an older retired individual had contacted Jane years ago about doing such a project. [...]

[...] A feeling of self-approval is absolutely necessary for any true sense of well-being; it is not (underlined) virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time.

It also serves by giving you another message—that you do want to leave, and that your desire to do so has been affecting your work. [...]

[...] Do you understand?

[...] He had not lived up to your mother’s plans for him, and would now obviously not do so.

[...] Do you follow me?

This is the same sort of thing you do when you designate certain portions of matter as blades of grass. Lawns do not come from grass. [...] Do you follow me here?

[...] Acorns do not grow into trees. Children do not grow into adults.

[...] Pointing to the drawing, Mother asked Jane: “Did you do this?” “Yes,” Jane said. [...] Maybe Dad can do it better.” [...]

The only matter that matters to your Ruburt right now, is the new house, although I am sure I do not have to tell you this.

[...] When you finally left to prepare breakfast for yourself, he immediately got up, and barefooted, carrying his shoes and other paraphernalia with him—something you usually do not see him do.

Your creature feelings toward night, dawn and dusk, have much more to do with inspiration, though a painting, once inspired, may then take so many hours to execute. But your idea of specific work time automatically divides that time according to your beliefs from other times when you may be shopping, or doing something else far divorced from work.

[...] In the material he wrote there was information applied to himself, incomplete, but I will put it in order; and it has to do with the nature of creativity and his beliefs.

Each day became a battle in which what he loved to do had to be transformed into work, with all of its unnatural connotations—to him. [...]

[...] He measures what he does daily against what you do daily, and feels automatically guilty if you do more than he, or even if he is doing watercolors while you are typing a session.

[...] He is saying “I may not have to go out to work like you do, but I am punishing myself for it, so do not blame me.”

[...] I hadn’t tried to do any in-depth probing with the pendulum.)

[...] Do you follow me?

[...] There is much that you can do, and indeed that you must do if you wish the situation to continue and improve.

[...] You have been doing very well. [...] If you are willing then you shall do well, for the abilities are indeed there, and you can learn to use them.

(A puzzled gesture.) There is something connected with the town that has to do with the word west. [...] I do not know, but the connection is there. [...]

[...] You do not have to set about converting others for example, but you do need to devote some large measure of mental and emotional intensity inward. [...]

Ruburt has some inclinations in that direction, as do many creative people, but these rhythms are often nearly completely overlaid by culturally-learned ones. [...] I believe there are ancient fairy tales and myths still surviving that speak of these underworlds, or worlds of darkness — but they do not mean worlds of death, as is usually interpreted.

[...] “I can’t have a session on it because I’m too involved — you have to calm down before you can do that. [...]

[...] It would help, of course, if he reminded himself that his creative mind is at work whether or not he is aware of it, and regardless of what he is doing, and that such periods have the potential, at least, of accelerating creativity, if he allows his intellect to go into a kind of free drive at such times. [...]

(9:44 in a fast delivery.) Give us a moment… .(Long pause.) To some extent Ruburt’s dissatisfaction with laying down after dinner also means that he is learning more about his own natural rhythms, for he does feel accelerated at that time, and by the evening, as you do. [...]

[...] I do not know if this is a symbolic impression or not.” [...] We do not know if Seth would call this a symbolic connection. [...]

[...] Jane said the question brought her mother to her mind; Seth however did not want to give her mother’s name, which is Marie Roberts, or those initials; and Jane did not do so. But A or G as far as we know do not apply to Miss Callahan either, whose first name is Florence.

(We do not know whether the chain interpretation is correct. [...] Nor did she know the paper chain existed; she is quite sure I did not tell her of this, and I have no memory of doing so.

[...] It would be best indeed if Ruburt imagined that you were working out of the house, and he should be able to do this.

[...] I can quite literally be called a ghost writer, though I do not approve of the term “ghost.” [...] I do not like the word “spirit,” either; and yet if your definition of that word implies the idea of a personality without a physical body, then I would have to agree that the description fits me.

[...] Personalities who do not exist do not write books. [...]

[...] I do not speak so much to the part of you that you think of as yourself as to that part of you that you do not know, that you have to some extent denied and to some extent forgotten. [...]

I speak to those who believe in a god, and those who do not, to those who believe that science will find all answers as to the nature of reality, and to those who do not. [...]

[...] The past as you think of it, and the subconscious, again as you think of it, have little to do with your present experience outside of your beliefs about them. [...] You will choose from your previous experience all of those events that reinforce your conscious beliefs, and so ignore those that do not; the latter may even seem to be nonexistent.

[...] Do not be intimidated therefore by the past or the future. There is no need at all for undesirable aspects of your contemporary reality to be projected into the future, unless you use the power of the present to do so.

[...] They have no beliefs in old age that automatically shut down their abilities; so left alone, while they do physically die as all creatures must in those terms, they do not deteriorate in the same way.

[...] If you have anything worth losing, you are then automatically convinced that someone else will take it from you, or try their hardest to do so. [...]

I do not imagine that this information will save the world. [...] I do however insist that in my not too humble way, I can do something to set you right. And by right and by you I do not refer to you, Doctor Instream, but to humanity at large. I do not pretend, either, to know definitely what is right and what is wrong for your universe.

For though we do have the same interests there are many areas in which we do not now agree. [...] There is nothing of what I have said that you do not understand, your comments to the contrary. [...] You do not want the world mad at you.

[...] There are some things that I can indeed do, and I will do what I can. [...]

[...] The ordinary trees outside of his window do not exist for him. [...] Highly difficult indeed, for such objects do not exist for our dreamer.

Now because your conscious mind, as you think of it, is not aware of these activities, you do not identify with this inner portion of yourselves. You prefer to identify with the part of you who watches television or cooks or works — the part you think knows what it is doing. [...]

[...] It is you, so focused in physical reality, who do not listen to its voice, who do not understand that it is the great psychological strength from which your physically oriented self springs.

Since we have mentioned animals, let me say here that they do possess a kind of consciousness that does not allow them as many freedoms as your own. [...]

[...] You would not think of identifying with one portion of your body and ignoring all other parts, and yet you are doing the same thing (smile) when you imagine that the egotistical self carries the burden of your identity.

The conditions do not originate with you personally, though they are at your end rather than at my end, and they have to do with electromagnetic disturbances that are, to some degree, cyclic, and to which you react.

[...] Do these conditions have anything to do with that?”)

[...] It is sometimes difficult to give specific time limits, since basically I do not perceive time as you do.

[...] The reasons have nothing particularly to do with any of the three of us, and occur very seldom. [...]

It is because you have yourselves reached a certain point in your own development that I speak to you tonight, and when I do so I am between systems. [...] I am separated from you in a way that has nothing to do with space. May I say that I do indeed enjoy this situation, now being indeed the only gentleman present. [...] If you do not like the one you may prefer the other. [...]

Now, your toy does not do you justice but we shall put up with it. [...]

[...] However, I shall not do so. [...]

[...] Your hour has little to do with me however and I merely defer to your wishes. [...]

(Pause.) The rigidity that was a general characteristic is breaking up, you see, so that by contrast portions of his body do feel vulnerable to him—soft, unprotected—but those feelings were to a large degree covered over before. [...] They can be encountered far more directly then, and as they are the body will feel more and more able to respond more, and let go the other stops that still do operate. [...]

[...] Suddenly it came to me that she had it backwards—that her body didn’t need any additional trust, that it was perfectly willing to do her bidding at any time, including healing itself. [...]

[...] I also wanted him to talk about the subject we’d mentioned for Monday night’s session, but which hadn’t been covered: the reasons for her sore backside, and what she could do to help ease her hip and leg discomfort. [...]

(“The insight also reminds me of one of my questions for Seth: I plan to ask him for hints about what sort of ideas he would advance if he’s given the freedom to do so by Jane. [...]

As he matures and learns, and studies and works, he will then be able to do this when he wishes to do so. [...]

[...] There is one question however that I will indeed answer now, and it has to do with the delight with which he views fire.

[...] But any warmth or flickering light will do the same.

[...] They will have to do with our new friend. [...]

[...] As long as you are not bothered, as long as you do not have to mix with fools—the same fools who compose the various psychological, scientific, or medical societies—the same fools whom you sometimes say do not bother contacting you as long as the Enquirer, that rag, does not annoy you for interviews, and as long as people are not personally affected enough to bother you in any immediate fashion.

[...] I do not expect all people to be wise. I do expect all people to be different, to display abilities and characteristics of a highly diverse nature, and to be highly creative. [...]

[...] (Humorously:) When you are picketed (in NYC) by fanatics, you must be doing something right.

[...] Do not always compare them against any ideals—ideals superimposed by you, or anyone, upon others.

[...] I do intend to explain their structure to you; now give us a moment.

[...] They do give off thermal qualities, and these are the only hint that your scientists have received of them so far.

[...] Ruburt has been using his energy in his book, and I do not begrudge it.

(“What do you think of the book?” Jane sent the first 13 chapters of The Seth Material to the publisher Monday, October 13.)

[...] She said that she wanted “to do book stuff, but I’m spending all my time trying to find out about my health.” [...] I can’t think of anything else to do.

(Long pause at 4:25.) You do not “catch” a drought. You do not catch a cold, either. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) In this book, we do want our readers to look at body and mind in a different fashion.

Do not think of the mind as a purely mental entity, and of the body as a purely physical one. [...]