“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Following those items, I wanted Seth to comment on question 2, having to do with the good things we’ve accomplished over the years.

[...] Last Saturday I bought over $30.00 worth of flower seeds, and I’m slowly trying them out in a variety of pots and containers to see which flowers do best under what circumstances—artificial light, natural light, etc. [...]

Such images have little to do with your own basic or natural personalities, or with your own individual backgrounds, but you apply such images upon yourselves like overlays. [...]

[...] I do admire that intense focus, that wholehearted commitment, and history offers plenty of examples—famous, too, if you will —of gifted individuals who lived their lives that way and made great contributions....

Ruburt is doing well under these circumstances—I am referring to the last few days—with the help from you that he did indeed so need. [...] Again, remember the two of you have very strong do-it-yourself qualities, exhibited long before the sessions began. [...]

[...] In the meantime Eleanor will try to place Emir with some house; she’s talked with Tam about doing this. [...]

(After Rusty and Hal left we napped, changed dressings, etc., and before we knew it I was hurrying to get supper and do other chores so that we’d have time for a session. [...]

[...] She said she was doing the same thing she did last night before that session: getting scared, lapsing, while at the same time she tried to get comfortable on her backside. [...]

[...] I think that consciousness congregates just as atoms and molecules do; that there are clumps of consciousness just as there are clumps of matter; and that we are a part of these clumps, whether we know it or not. [...] In doing so, I’m convinced that we will discover a greater individuality, uniqueness, and sense of identity. [...]

[...] I do think that some kind of blending must take place in sessions between his personality and mine, and that this “psychological bridge”’ itself is a legitimate structure that must take place in any such communication. [...] I do think that Seth is part of another entity, and that he is something quite different from, say, a friend who has “survived” death.

Naturally I do not claim that the material represents pure, undistorted knowledge. [...] After I signed the contract for this book, our friend Peg Gallagher was doing a story about Seth for the local paper, and she attended a session to get material. [...]

[...] But animals, as far as we know, do not anticipate their own death, or wonder about their status before birth. [...]

[...] For one thing, while I realize the importance of specific terms, I do not want you as a reader to become so dependent upon terms that coming across one you have read before, you instantly categorize it. For another thing, each time I reintroduce such information I do so from another direction, so to speak, so that you as a reader are meant to approach it from a different angle also. [...]

[...] Then I’ll need another week to go over the manuscript, with colored pens marking instructions of each page as to what copy we want set in roman [upright] type, and in italics; while doing that I’ll also check spelling, punctuation, references, dates, times—all of those mundane details so necessary in helping our publisher produce a finished, good-looking book for the marketplace.¹

[...] In order to help Jane feel better, I speculated that he must have had his reasons for doing this, and that of course a certain amount of repetition is necessary in each book in a series: The restatements not only furnish a foundation for new material, but enable each book to be complete in itself. [...]

[...] Even with her unease, however, she wanted to begin the session early, as she’s been doing lately. [...]

In the first place you must understand that in your own uniqueness it is futile to compare yourself to others, for in so doing you try to emulate qualities that are theirs, and to that extent deny your own miraculous being and vision. [...] Do not deride yourself because you have not reached some great ideal, but start to use those talents that you have to the best of your ability, knowing that in them lies your own individual fulfillment.

(10:01.) Any help that you give to others will come through the creative utilization of your own characteristics and no one else’s. Do not get upset with yourself when you find yourself dwelling on negative issues in your life. Instead, constructively ask yourself why you are doing so. [...]

[...] If you do this honestly, feelings of self-worthlessness or despondency will go through and vanish, changing of their own accord. [...] Do not tell yourself automatically that they are wrong, however, and then try to apply a “positive” belief like a bandaid.

[...] If you discover that you feel unworthy, then do not simply try to apply a more positive belief over that one. [...]

“Uh, do you have friendships on your plane as we do here?”

[...] As you write letters to friends in strange countries and do not forget them, so we do not forget.”

[...] I do not have the voice of an angel by any means, but neither do I sound like an asexual eunuch, which is all I’ve been able to make her sound like tonight … and Ruburt, if you want a cigarette, get one. [...]

[...] If you want to talk for a few moments without the necessity of taking notes, do so. [...] And if ever your wife’s features change some night as we talk, I suggest you do not mention it to her until the end of the session.”

(“Jane then wanted to do the Seth books and not do them. [...] Jane could have ended up in as much trouble by not doing the Seth books as she did by doing them, then. [...]

He took it for granted that, ideally speaking, he should do such public work, that it was his responsibility, but also that it represented a natural expression of abilities that he was denying because of his fears. So often he told himself that if he got better he would only be too glad to go on television or whatever, or to do whatever he was supposed to do. [...]

The important point is that he has felt that he should perform publicly, to promote our ideas, and also because he felt he should do so, since he obviously could do so (all intently). [...]

(“Well, I guess I’m about ready,” Jane finally said, “but I do really think this will be short.” [...]

[...] He could do far more with it. Now he emphasizes its strictly analytical nature, and in so doing puts limitations upon the ways in which he uses it.

You do not paint the faces of females as a rule, because of the ideas of which I have just told you. [...] This also has something to do with your feelings toward oils under certain conditions (underlined).

Some of this has to do with the cultural climate that colored his attitudes. [...]

[...] In his environment this however was an intellectual thing to do. [...]

You told Timothy what I told the Petries, about the importance of telepathy and ideas on Peg, yet often you do not realize those implications with Ruburt. [...] Do you see?

[...] I believe Jane forgot to do this the next day.)

Tomorrow for example let him without guilt let the day be used to putter in the bedroom, play with poetry, do what comes naturally without a sense of guilt.

[...] Do you follow me?

[...] He may worry about prices in the grocery store—and he does—but you do think in terms of financial limitations. [...]

[...] You are not blind to your gains but you do not emphasize them.

[...] When he feels financially threatened, however, that is when he pulls in his horns, cuts down on creativity, and tries to do his “job.’’

[...] Then he feels unappreciated and hurt, feeling he is not doing enough, and then resentful and angry.

[...] You do not listen to me. [...]

Until you know what your feelings are you do not know where you stand, and you cannot know where you want to go or how to make changes. [...]

(To Theodore.) Now do not escape through platitudes. [...]

[...] We will be doing more work—labor, hard labor, in which you look into yourselves and discover what you really feel and from then on we can proceed. [...]

[...] I recognized it as mine, or one I will do, of Bill Gallagher. I have been thinking over ways to do portraits of both Bill Gallagher and Bill Macdonnel.

[...] The paintings that you will paint do exist, because you have in one sense the potential to create them. [...] Do you understand here?

The vision that you saw was of a future painting that you will do.

(Rewritten November/2000: The vision grew out of Seth’s saying in the deleted 382nd session, on November 27/67, that I’d do well-known painting of Bill Gallagher. [...]

If the dream world and the mind and the inner universe do exist, and if they do not exist in space, and if they do not exist basically in time, though they may be glimpsed through time, then your question will be: in what medium or in what manner do they exist; and without time how can they be said to exist in duration?

Now the so-called laws of your camouflage universe do not apply to the inner universe. They do not even apply to other camouflage planes. [...]

On one level they could be said not to exist, and yet they do exist. [...]

[...] In other words expansion, occurring in terms of value quality, or gradations of intensity, has nothing to do with expansion in space. [...]

[...] “I don’t know what the hell I was doing, but I used the [right] knee a lot more, I know that....” She was afraid people would start coming in to do her vitals, and see her moving; she feared that once she started a series of movements, she couldn’t cut them off right away if someone entered 330. [...]

[...] “It’s contrary to say that the body can exceed it’s capacity—how can it do that? [...] Otherwise the body couldn’t do it.” [...]

[...] “I didn’t know what the hell I was doing,” she said again. [...]

[...] “I can do a lot more with that knee.”

He protects his children and dies in so doing, and is born again in France in 1826, Bordeaux, a merchant. [...] It will have to do with graphics, and a combination of mathematics and graphics, and if pursued will lead to an affiliation with a company beginning with a C.

[...] For as tables move so indeed do souls fly. [...]

I do not see until 1978 a marriage for him (Curt). [...]

[...] A severe crisis will develop by 1970, involving a woman with the initials A L, an extremely difficult situation,and one involving someone with the initials F W, having to do with a past association awakened.

[...] How do I know how to dream, when I have never been taught to do so? How do I speak without understanding the mechanisms? Why do I feel that I have an eternal reality, when it is obvious that I was physically born and will physically die?”

[...] My chance to show how independent I am about doing just that arose much sooner than I’d expected it to — in tonight’s session, in fact. [...]

[...] Nor do I want to wait an indefinite time before he may incorporate similar information in a book — even this one. [...]

[...] By objective I refer to the use of language, the English language, that automatically sets up its own screens of perception — as of course any language must do to some extent.

Because you have that knowledge, you do not realize the frustration felt by those whose words have little if any—overall, now—impact, practically speaking. Your mental and emotional horizons have broadened, so that you now take for granted a mental world that others do indeed, and properly, look upon with wonder.

When you do, however, you see results. [...] The eye problem has to do, physically, with his present stance—the lack of balance between the two sides of his body, causing pressure on one side of the jaw, and the ear canal, which further aggravates the fullness in the sinus, hence affecting the eyes.

All of Ruburt’s concerns about that book have to do with his impatience in time terms. That has to do with his misunderstanding for he has not seen, really, that he is producing work for two personalities that cannot be squeezed into conventional publishing rhythms.

[...] We’ve had a number of discussions about the whole business, and what we can do about any of it. [...]

[...] They will help you, not only to do the excellent painting that you desire, but to do so in such a way that others will be benefited, and you be financially rewarded.

[...] Do not forget however that you are not even aware of many portions of the self that you know intellectually do exist. [...]

[...] You do not experience it, or perceive it. In the same manner you do not perceive or experience physically the actuality of probable events.

[...] Now much of it would, and is, theoretically available to each human being; but practically of course things simply do not work that way. [...]

[...] He will have the energy to do whatever else he should do. [...]

[...] Now, I do not believe they will be necessary. Both of you do believe them necessary. [...]

[...] I do not know if this refers to a child who attends school, to a teacher, or to someone such as your friends downstairs who have such an object.” [...] Merle and Lois Cratsley also live in the apartment house, on the first floor, and do own such a chair. [...]

[...] It’s growth has nothing to do with your physical time, but with inner value fulfillments of which you may not be consciously aware. [...]

He tried to do a narrative, and use for example descriptive abilities—a valiant attempt to do two different things in one book. [...]

[...] He was not doing something he did not want to do. [...]

[...] This had to do with your apartment, which actually suited him fine for some time. But other dissatisfactions not faced were projected there also, and exaggerated, while there seemed to be nothing he could do about it.

[...] I saw at once that if valid they also meant Jane must shelve her projected book, Adventures in Consciousness, and concentrate on things like Rich Bed, the Dialogues (poetry), and, perhaps, let Seth do his own thing in sessions. [...]