“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I do not see any point in informing him, because of the suggestions involved. Probabilities do operate, but I do sense this rather strongly, as if many probabilities pointed in this direction. [...]

[...] A strange connection in this respect, not at all clear; having to do with bricks or the laying of bricks, and a prior incident leading up to this that happened in 1963. [...]

[...] You may then add it at the end of your own copies, but I suggest that you do not add it to the session that is sent, you see.

[...] I believe that the wife’s mother will die first, but I do not want this sent to the son-in-law. [...]

[...] There is motion that has nothing to do with time and nothing to do with movement through space. [...]

[...] And do not try, at this point, to intellectually understand the concepts for it will seem contradictory. In your language it is indeed, and yet the inner self and the intuitive self will be able to leap that seeming gap but you cannot force it to do so. [...]

[...] And again, it is a story, and though I have never used this term before, in class or in our sessions, and though I do not want our friend over here in the elegant outfit to become angry with me (to Sue), I will tell you that reincarnation, in its own way, is also a parable. [...]

[...] Jane told me that at times she felt a distinct yearning for understanding by the others involved in the affair; yet, because of her participation in it, her confidence in knowing what she can do was strengthened significantly. And Seth, very briefly commenting upon the search while it was still in progress, remarked to an out-of-town group of visitors that Jane was endeavoring to use her psychic abilities on her own; and that the assurance she was gaining through her efforts would be much more valuable to her than any she might derive from Seth himself “doing all the work.”

[...] I do think I’m a lot more aware of this than they are, because of the very nature of what I can do — but I can’t explain that to every person I speak to. [...]

He (Ruburt) was bound and determined to explore the nature of reality.¹ … He wanted to protect himself until he had enough knowledge to know what he was doing. [...]

[...] I want all the exercises done that he tells others to do, and I want both of you to consider your beliefs about the world as beliefs. Do not accept them uncritically, as there you do. [...]

[...] We have never told anyone to do anything, except to face up to the abilities of consciousness. [...] The ideas, for example, in Personal Reality are exactly those that will resolve his doubts and remove his fears, and the techniques given do work.

[...] At the same time, I do think we’ve made some progress through our own work with the pendulum.)

[...] No particular episodes alone, though they may seem to do so, ever cause a particular condition, say, of illness, though such episodes may be used as catalysts. [...]

[...] I do not remember her face at all. I do recall that our bookcase, behind her, showed up well; its cream color was clear although the rest of the room was dark. [...]

(Jane said she knew she was going astray in the data when I asked about the family group, although the envelope objects do mention family groups. [...] Jane said she had an image of a “round object”, that had to do with motion, but had no idea as to what it represented.

[...] After doing my daily yoga exercises for about half an hour, I lay relaxed and in a drowsy state. [...]

(I have long been aware that the yoga exercises have a powerful effect on me personally, and that I evidently end up in a dissociated state at times after doing them. [...]

(Long pause, then with much subdued irony:) In exasperation some of you see nature as good and enduring, filled with an innocence and joy, while on the other hand you envision man as a bastard species, a blight upon the face of the earth, a creature bound to do everything wrong regardless of any strong good intent. Therefore you do not trust man’s nature either.

(Long pause at 11:21.) I do not mean to assign any hint of accusation against those so involved, but mainly to state some of the reasons for such behavior. If you do not trust your nature, then any illness or indisposition will be interpreted as an onslaught against health. [...]

As I occasionally do in my notes, I’m anthropomorphosizing “science” by casting a multifaceted discipline in simple human or individual terms. [...] Even the biologists (and other scientists) who insist upon our mechanistic bases do so with feeling!

[...] Actually, she had converted my original typed sessions making up Psyche into standard manuscript form for the publisher; I still have to do many of the notes for the book after I finish my work on Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality several months from now.

(I told Jane that the variety of opinions we’d received on the anti-amoebic treatment left us hanging in limbo as far as knowing what to do. I don’t think I have the nerve to give her prescription drugs on the sly, in the hospital, as Dr. Blount had suggested I do. [...]

[...] All afternoon she’d complained that she wasn’t doing anything: no Seven, no session.... [...]

[...] The answers, as you know, do not lie in drugs, although some, like your aspirin, may be helpful at times because of your belief in their worth. [...]

Now: By all means, continue with the prayer, as you have been doing, for it has been of definite value. [...]

[...] The reason has more to do with the flexibility of consciousness than you presently understand. It has to do with the real nature of aggression and passivity,¹ which you have allowed yourselves to forget … Birth is an aggressive experience. [...]

[...] But you always know what you are doing, and there are cycles in the earth, and in your being and your soul. [...]

[...] And now, before you, what do you see? [...]

[...] Try to be honest with yourselves as to those early experiences in which you forced yourselves to behave differently than you were, because adults told you that you must … You had better understand the beautiful, unique quality of your own individuality lest you project upon the other sex — whichever sex you are — those abilities and qualities that you are afraid are your own, or project upon them those abilities and qualities that you wish you possessed and fear you do not.

[...] Open your minds to such dreams, for when you do you do not close your imaginations. [...] You do not even have to decide that Ruburt is completely recovered—but the very plans for motion will definitely have beneficial effects on his condition and on the shape of your daily life.

[...] You are still largely in Framework 1, so I do not want you to think in terms of absolutes. I do not want you to suddenly expect in Framework 1 sudden, normal activity on Ruburt’s part, or to compare his present behavior against that standard. [...]

[...] What I was actually doing was trying to point you toward Framework 2, where you do each have faith in the nature of ideas, suggestions, and achievement. [...]

[...] When he voiced some of these you immediately told him that he was doing so. [...]

(As of now: I’m practically through with the appendixes for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality — which means I still have a number of notes to write for the book’s sessions per se, as well as much work to do for the Introductory Notes and the Epilogue. Soon after Tam Mossman suggested in early October that she do a book on her dream about Emir,² Jane began work on that project with her usual enthusiasm. [...] Besides doing all of her own writing and newspaper work, Sue Watkins is close to finishing her part of the typing on the final manuscript for Seth’s Psyche; I still have to spend more time on some of the notes for it. [...]

[...] We do not plan to ask Seth when the book will be done. We have asked him to discuss his Framework 1 and 2 concepts for it, though, and he’s promised to do so; he’s had a good deal to say about those structures in the nonbook material Jane has delivered since the 814th session was held.

[...] As you do not know what happens in the television studio before you observe a program, however, so you do not know what happens in the creative framework of reality before you experience physical events. [...]

[...] I do not want to shock you, but dictation — continuation of our last chapter (2: “Mass Meditations,” etc.).

[...] (Pause.) The book (Psycho-Cybernetics) will do you every bit as much good as it will do Ruburt, and I recommend it heartily, with some variations, as a basis upon which to build the rest of your days. [...]

Now, do you have questions, or do you want me to end the session?

Your recommendation to him earlier was excellent, having to do with his exercises, and the book. [...]

[...] Do you understand?

[...] You often use tools, instruments, and paraphernalia instead — but they do not feel time, in those terms. You do. [...]

[...] Very forcefully all through here:) But most physicists do not trust felt answers. [...] It seems you could not operate your world on feelings — but you are not doing very well trying to operate with diagrams, either!

Suppose that you stood in one spot all of your physical life, and that you had to do this because you had been told that you must. [...]

Give us a moment … There are shapes and formations that appear when your eyes are closed that are perfect replicas of atoms, molecules, and cells, but you do not recognize them as such. [...]

The reasons do indeed have to do with electromagnetic realities which we have mentioned earlier. I have in mind some experiments that can be done in the future, but I do not suggest them now as you are busy enough. The suggestions have to do with the growing of plants under various conditions.

I do believe it is a male however. [...] A conversation having to do with history, particularly eighteenth- century England.

(Seth made this statement well over a year ago, saying I believe that the reasons had to do with earthly magnetic fields.)

[...] They are sensitive to other realities which fall within their particular range, and they repel actions which do not.

[...] In many cases however you do not ask, but have a tendency to command her. [...] You can do much to change this.

(Jane was not feeling at her best, and did not do as well as she wanted to on the experiment. [...]

[...] The subconscious however is so aware, and the associative processes of the mind can, and do, react to a future event, while the ego is closed off to it. [...]

[...] During break John gave us some information; briefly, it has to do with his restlessness in his job, his wife’s reactions, his wife’s parents, his own strong need to assert his independence, etc. [...]

It is highly important that you do keep up your communications with each other, and that you begin each day in one way or another by stating your faith in the body’s processes. [...] Since you are doing this alone, more or less, it is natural to be upset at times, but when your confidence is greater than your doubts, Ruburt always improves.

Because you do not rely upon mass suggestions and mass frameworks, it is then highly vital that you learn to set up your own alternate patterns. You do this from scratch, where of course most people have not set themselves such challenges or opportunities for creativity.

When you do not trust your own feelings, however, and do not have specific rules governing such issues either, then few decisions are clearly made, or are even halfway agreeable. [...]

[...] You want to do it. [...]

[...] If you do not do this, then you destroy what you touch. [...]

“If you remember what I said about the way in which the universe expands, that it has nothing to do with space, then you may perhaps dimly perceive the existence of a psychic pyramid of interrelated, ever-expanding consciousness that creates, simultaneously and instantaneously, universes and individuals that are given—through the gifts of personal perspective—duration, psychic comprehension, intelligence, and eternal validity.

As mentioned earlier, however, the Seth Material does not ignore deeper questions having to do with the “beginning” of consciousness and of reality. [...]

[...] Many other personality structures do not need a materialized perceptive framework such as this, but an inner psychic organization is always present.

[...] It strikes you as being physical, though you can do things with it that you cannot do with your physical body. [...] As a rule you do not go through walls with this body. [...]

[...] You do the best you can, in other words. [...] The forms do merely represent various stages of consciousness.

[...] There are indeed others who can help you in such experiences, and who often do while you are in the dream state, whether or not you know it. [...]

[...] For this is a motion of consciousness, a motion that has little to do with the motion of the physical body.

The number 12; whether or not this is a street I do not know. [...] Now by stout I do not mean monstrous, but overweight. [...]

[...] As far as the effect of weather upon the moods of individuals, we do have something else. [...] You do indeed react, but you have already created the conditions, you see, and you then react to these in both psychic and physical ways.

[...] Give me a brief moment here, and let us see what we can do for our so-fatigued friend. [...]

[...] It could however refer to something as simple as riding; but in connection with the account I do not mean the obvious trip, of course.

[...] Seth had recently said the hospital experience had been a traumatic one for Jane—so why was she doing again the very things that could lead to a return to that situation? [...] You should be telling me what to do—not the other way around.... [...]

[...] I now think it would do her little good to do so. [...]

[...] Whatever we do, it will be together, regardless of Jane’s fears of abandonment. I am as committed to her as I am to breathing, and whatever we do comes after that. [...]

[...] “What are you trying to do?” my wife cried out, “shock me into getting better?”

[...] Doing so will prove him wrong, and break up still another annoying mental image. At the same time—I do not mean simultaneously—in spare moments, playfully and not seriously, he should see himself performing any number of activities on the floor—from painting as he used to, to talking or reading. [...]

[...] He felt like running, and made a halfway respectable attempt to do so.

[...] Do you follow me?

[...] Do you see?