“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The permanency and the timeless quality do not belong to the shapes of the mountains and the trees, but to the conscious energy that forms them.

[...] Do this until you can feel that energy pulsate within the form of the object, so that the form itself is ever mobile while it retains the semblance, as in a stone, of immobility.

[...] Do you follow me here?

Now again, much of this has to do with your own interest. [...]

[...] “Interactions with others do occur, of course,” Seth told us long ago, “yet there are none that you do not accept or draw to you by your thoughts, attitudes, or emotions.” [...]

Throughout these essays I’ve been unable to go very far into most of the subjects Jane and I wanted to discuss, to do much more than approximate in words a welter of feelings and actions. [...] Perhaps if Jane and I could do that, a great metamorphosis would take place: The closer we moved through probabilities toward All That Is, the more the tensions associated with the subject in question would transform themselves into profoundly joyous answers and challenges.

[...] She’s made no effort to learn to write with her better-functioning left hand, as I suggested she do a couple of months ago, so I’ve dropped that idea. “But I could start another book tomorrow,” she said, “only I don’t know what good it would do….”

[...] For if the information arouses such mixed emotions in Jane and me, surely it will do so in others too, serving as an impetus or goad to learn more even while it highlights one’s strengths and weaknesses. [...] I won’t claim that residues of it may not be buried within my psyche (and within Jane’s), but it’s very difficult to stay mad when one agrees with the simple but most basic and profound idea that you do create your own reality.

Many, as I have said, do. That is, many fragment personalities do become entities. We are dealing here with a psychic tree however, and the seeds or personalities that do not develop into entities, do not because they do not choose to do so.

As the physical atoms and molecules combine to form cells, and the cells to form physical organs, and as they do not lose their individuality in so doing, and as the atoms and molecules themselves actually gain and share in higher perceptions because of this gestalt, so do the basic components or fragments of an entity constantly form new and varied personalities; and these in turn form entities of their own.

I will go further and shock you thoroughly, by mentioning that your regular seeds that do not develop, do not fail as a rule because of a lack of the necessary environmental ingredients, but simply because, for various reasons during a particular arbitrary point, they do not choose to so develop.

There is a truth behind your cause and effect theory but it is far from what you imagine, and has nothing to do with continuity. This may be difficult at this point to imagine, but a durability such as that of the spacious present has nothing to do with your idea of continuity in terms of a present, past and future.

(My own position may be too simple, but I do not believe a body can be coaxed to good health by others, or sessions, or whatever. [...] I think this is what she has chosen to do so far in life. [...] I concluded that my asking questions was a waste of time, and stopped doing so. [...]

[...] Both of you do indeed think in terms of impediments that do indeed seem all too real: the responsibility of maintaining good health, the financial question — and on Ruburt’s part, at least, the fear that he would not recover fully enough, but become ill again and require hospital attention once more.

[...] Her body has not been given permission to heal itself, otherwise it would be doing so. [...]

[...] I am doing my best, giving what information I can, at any rate. [...]

He must regain that determination to return, and so should you make every effort to do the same; your feelings that the affair is hopeless do not mean that the affair is hopeless — and this must be as clearly understood as possible.

[...] This at once compressed her ideas of the time in which to do anything, although I didn’t feel any pressure. [...]

[...] It is indeed possible for you two to do this — that vital move of creative, imaginative motion.

[...] As soon as I said I’d do it — the session — I got scared. [...]

[...] Do not automatically comb his hair for him in the back, in the mornings. Have him try to do it himself. If he cannot, he should feel free to ask you to do so.

Do you want to help him?

[...] Do not think you are helping him when you take it for granted he does not want to. [...]

[...] These as you know will have to do with primary and secondary reality. [...]

[...] What you do with it will be up to you.

Now I will give you a short break, and again my welcome to our friends, and I do not mean to ignore them. [...]

[...] As a rule when you are awake you do not know your sleeping self; you know your neighbors far better, so your sleeping self appears mysterious indeed. [...]

[...] “All right, I’ll see what I can do this time.... I do it every morning—I’ll try to do it now,” she said, restlessly shifting from side to side in the chair. [...]

[...] He does seem to have it well within his head, however, that the time to change is now, and he is determined to do so. [...] Do remember this. [...]

[...] “I’m going to have to start crying, or do something.... I don’t know what to do. [...]

[...] I can tell that she’s appalled at my wife’s condition, and said outright that she’s not doing Jane any good at all any more. [...]

[...] Actually they do not parallel the outer senses, and this will sound appalling to you I’m afraid, simply because there is nothing to be seen, smelled, heard or touched in the manner in which you are accustomed. This is extremely hard to explain, since I do not want to give you the idea that existence without your particular set of camouflage patterns is bland and innocuous, because this is not the case.

[...] She is doing very well with the cigarette habit, as I predicted that she would.

[...] I do hope to go into detail however, now or later. [...]

[...] Unless the hand itself presses upon a surface in some manner then you do not feel that you have touched it. [...]

The dimensions of action itself have nothing to do, basically, with your conception of time. Instead the dimensions of action have to do with intensities; not only the intensities of the electromagnetic components that compose them, but with intensities as they are translated into psychological terms. Therefore the psychological experience of a particular event or action has little to do with clock time.

Something to do with a federation. [...] Directions to a northeast location perhaps, though I do not know, for tomorrow’s lecture.

[...] You will meet a man you do not like... [...]

(A somewhat similar question arises concerning a dream Jane had on November 30th, and a few lines of the data given for the 22nd Dr. Instream test; see the following lines on page 104 of the 213th session: “He received a book by mail today, a biography sort of book, having to do with a personality of the late 1800’s. A medium.” [...]

[...] We can do much, much we cannot do. But since we do understand both the potentialities and the limitations, then we can indeed make the best of what we have.

[...] There are other ways to get inside the egg, and they are not too difficult to do... [...] We do not need a hammer to crack the eggshell. I am an egghead, but I do not need a hammer to be cracked.

I will seriously endeavor to do what I can do, considering our circumstances. [...]

[...] I do not overtly speak out against men who have no imagination, and little concept of any reality but their own. [...]

Now I do not mean this to be merely a symbolic exercise, for though it may begin with imagination, it is based upon fact, and emanations from your consciousness and the creativity of your soul do indeed reach outward in that manner. [...]

[...] When you do not understand the nature of the soul, and do not realize that your thoughts and feelings form physical reality, then you feel powerless to change it. [...]

[...] You do not understand as yet the true nature of perception, even as far as the mortal self is concerned, and therefore you can hardly understand the perceptions of the soul. [...]

[...] There are methods that will enable you to do this, and I will give you some toward the end of this book.

[...] I suggest you do it now. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you, and you will never be satisfied. You will always be asking others what to do, and at the same time resenting those from whom you seek such aid. [...]

[...] (Long pause, eyes closed.) Do not follow those who tell you that you must do penance, in whatever form. [...] If you do not like where you are, then examine those beliefs that you have. [...]

[...] But many people look to those outside themselves — psychics, doctors, psychiatrists, priests, ministers, friends — for the answers to overall life situations, and in so doing they deny their own abilities of self-understanding and growth.

[...] You are not jealous of talents you do not possess, and so you can openheartedly encourage them in others. [...]

(On Saturday January 8 Jane and I received a letter from Dr. Instream, asking that Seth do his best to give data on but one object during tests. [...]

[...] It is extremely difficult for a psychological structure to view itself, for in order to do so it must lift itself from the limitations and abilities of its own nature. [...]

Gradually psychological structures are able to focus upon vaster areas, and in order to achieve proficiency in this manner you do indeed begin to build up layered selves that have been independent identities. [...]

[...] It is the result of your ability to step out of your own system to some small extent, for you cannot do this until you are ready. [...]

Again, you even do this in your sleep. If you do not do it in the waking state, it is because you have held your consciousness in too tight a rein. [...]

(9:35.) The symbols or images may change as you do so, so that you perceive little similarity between, say, the initial image and the next one. [...] A single image may suddenly open up into an entire mental landscape, but you will know none of this if you do not acknowledge the first clues that are just beneath present awareness, and almost transparent if you are only willing to look.

[...] This is something she’s wanted to do for a long time. [...]

[...] He can do as he likes. [...]

They do not suppose any given time system to have any reality of its own. Such systems do not use the consecutive structure of your own however. In much the same manner materializations of a kind may be utilized, but the personalities do not give the materializations any reality outside of themselves. [...]

[...] All of this does not mean that personalities within other systems do not construct their own kind of time structures, but in all of these cases the personalities realize quite well that the structures are adapted for the sake of organization of experience.

[...] Time has nothing to do with form, however.

I have told you that there is much that I do not know, and for practical purposes there is much that is not known. [...]

[...] If Ruburt tries to do physical things the ability to do them will come. [...] You must walk in the driveway, showing your body your intent to do so, and it will respond by walking easily. And it will respond because you do want it to walk.

[...] He struggled, for example, against the old ingrained pattern, to get himself up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, or to stop what he was doing in the day, to go every hour, yet he did so. [...]

[...] Now, though you no longer do so, the new habit has largely replaced the old, though in times of nervousness he might forget.

[...] I do not know precisely how to explain this: the atoms of their matter weigh more than yours do.

[...] You can trick normal consciousness quite easily with baubles, take its attention into other areas so that the inner self is left alone to do its work. [...]

[...] An inclination to project a local symptom on the body in general—do you follow me?—is very poor, and takes focus away from very definite advances which go unnoticed.

When Ruburt is in good spirits and physical condition, at the end of the day let him note down, briefly, what he has been doing and thinking about. [...]

[...] “I do not know. [...] The Coluccis for instance do not come from Akron, nor do we. We do not know anything about the history of Dr. Lodico or his family.

[...] I do not know, perhaps 16 people, or a 16 date. [...] I do not know what we want here. [...]

(7th Question: Do you want to name the object? [...] There is a strong connection with a photograph, but I do not know whether the object itself is a photograph. [...]

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

[...] Enjoy the privilege, the ability, and the rewards, for the books do sell. People do listen.

[...] I do not believe so. [...] Do you have questions?

(Today Jane had been very upset because her control of time seemed so faulty that she wasn’t getting all the things done through the day that she wanted to accomplish—writing, exercises, seeing an occasional visitor, using the phone—whatever she might have wanted to do on any particular day. [...]

[...] Basically, however, creative acts, the acts of insight, intuition, of revelation, do not take time in the same fashion. [...]