“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(As I was doing mail today she said she’d put off having sessions lately because she’d picked up from me that I wanted the time off to catch up on other things. [...]

[...] Again, all of a person’s reincarnational existences are, indeed, connected — but the events in one life do not cause the events in the next one.

(Long pause.) You may have overall reasons for a particular illness, however, that have nothing to do with crime or punishment, but may instead involve an extraordinary sense of curiosity, and the desire for experience that is somewhat unconventional — usually not sought for — exotic, or in certain terms even grotesque.

If you do have health problems, it is much better to look for their reasons in your immediate experience, rather than assigning them a cause in the distant past. [...]

(Jane tried to read yesterday’s session, but couldn’t do it very well, so she laid it aside for a smoke. [...]

[...] I tried doing mail, without getting anywhere. [...]

[...] Rita came in to do something — what I don’t recall, since I didn’t note it down. [...]

You and Ruburt have had the feeling many times — but what we are trying to do is change over completely from one mode of operation to another, and to construct, say, new inner blocks of meaning that will give rise to the next era.

[...] It results from priestly existences where you were both highly involved with calculations having to do with the movement of planets. This also has something to do with the hour of his birth and death, for he had a sense of neatness, and it pleased him to time his arrival and departure.

Do not accept compromises, for you personally cannot live with them for any length of time. [...] You simply do not see him.

[...] Do not go looking willy-nilly. [...]

[...] You do not know each other, our guests, and you have come a long way. [...]

[...] It was necessary that he learn how to do this. Do you follow me?

[...] He also felt that you had adopted symptoms earlier, somewhat that as a system of controls—that you were so emotionally upset you didn’t know what to do, and therefore put yourself in a position where you could do little of importance: you could not make errors.

[...] There is too much unrecognized free brooding, when he sits doing nothing consciously, waiting perhaps for inspiration but not in a positive way. [...] He should have a painting in progress as a hobby, or several for such times, or do household activities. [...]

In so doing he learned to understand his own emotional nature, how to direct its energies, and how to use it as a source of creativity and psychic and spiritual accomplishment.

[...] This was a subtle but important change in my knowledge—for I saw that I wasn’t so much concerned about the amount of work I had to do on the books, as that I felt guilty about doing other things. [...]

[...] Your painting time, I tell you—listen to me—had basically nothing to do with clock time. [...] This has to do with Ruburt’s symptoms, for he felt that he must be at his desk so many hours, whatever the number, and you became so obsessed with the amount of physical hours that you had to devote to painting that you began to divide up your psyche in terms of time.

[...] I have, in regard to the latter, solved several challenges with painting—from the time we moved to Pinnacle Road—and now feel that I have a clear road there as to how I want to do things into the indefinite future, etc. [...]

[...] Nothing was much fun, although I went through the motions of doing everything. [...]

[...] If you are concerned with such matters as covers that do not live up to your ideals of what covers should be, then you must begin your definitions. [...] (Pause.) He was willing to put up with a good deal to do so, to overlook lacks of taste in presentation, say.

[...] “I couldn’t do it, but I have the feeling that he could go on all night. [...] The law, Prentice, health, the poor and nationalized medicine, our ideals—and start doing it from any point you wanted him to.”

[...] An ideal represents events that do not as yet exist in fact. [...]

Do not think in terms of a generalized ideal situation, but in terms of better covers, better communication with Prentice in both friendly terms as per Ruburt’s calls to Tam, and in the definitive terms of clearly stating specific requests. [...]

Other fields do allow for greater complexity of psychic organization, and let me remind you again that such psychic organizations do not involve a blurring of individuality in some undefinable whole, as for example any drowning of consciousness in some gigantic, benign superconsciousness. [...]

[...] However she has been somewhat unsettled because of the changes at the gallery and was not in a mood for a session: “If Seth can get anything out of me tonight he’s doing good.”

[...] You do not see this cooperation. [...]

Your cat and the birds on your rooftop all do their part. [...]

Make sure that you do not project any negative attitudes toward other issues into the situation. You can see when Ruburt does this, so do not do it yourself. [...]

The drug may have the effect of coloring his image, so do not be surprised at such an occurrence—a yellow or purplish tinge. [...] This has to do however with the conductivity of cell structures and your particular atmosphere during these periods.

[...] But the guests are so engrossed by the wonders of their own quarters within this strange hotel that many of them do little investigating.

Sometimes in their sleep they sleepwalk and come upon the passageways, and meet, but in the morning they do not remember. [...]

[...] They do not require all of the effort and psychological technology of a nuclear war (with humor). They do not require then the full artillery of your defenses—a great waste of your time and effort that could, of course, be devoted to your work.

Regardless of your attitudes, perhaps, those men do not think you both strange for working at home. [...] Ruburt’s room, in which he hopes to be highly creative, is being built by such people who do know their own kind of creativity, and salute creativity in others. [...]

[...] All of these processes, and the increased overall bodily activity, do increase Ruburt’s temperature at times. [...]

[...] One of the primary attitudes, however, had to do with trying “to fight all battles at once” —a good many of them imaginary. [...]

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

[...] I have told you that if you look around you and do not like the world that you see, then it is yourselves individually and en masse that you must change. [...]

[...] Do not fall into the old ways that will lead you precisely into the world that you fear. [...]

[...] You do not defend any idea with violence. [...]

[...] 23 Tam Mossman wrote us that Hans Holzer would consider doing the introduction for the Seth Material, provided he was listed as co-author. [...] We had known Mossman might ask Holzer to do an intro, but Holzer’s demand to co-author the book was not suspected by us.

(Last week in one of her ESP classes, Jane found herself speaking as Ruburt, knowing she was doing so. [...]

[...] The other two personalities (Ruburt and Seth’s entity) have been involved at my request, for purposes having to do with our material and purposes.

[...] Do you understand the difference?

[...] “Because you’re going to do all the work on the book. [...] I’ve always known you were going to do the book. I’ll do an intro if you want, and you can too, or you-know-who can also — but you’re going to be the one who does that book.”

[...] There’s something you have when you’re doing it that you don’t have when you read it afterward, when you’re outside of it. When you’re doing it you’re inside of it.”

[...] She’d decided not to wait for people to do her vitals. [...]

[...] It is almost as if your thoughts punched the keys of some massive computer, for your thoughts do indeed have a force. [...]

[...] According to what you have been taught, I do not exist, and yet I can assure you that I do exist. [...]

Do you think that when you grow old you will become shriveled and come to nothing? [...] There are certain rules that my friend Ruburt places upon me, one that I hold my voice under control, and so I will endeavor to do so. [...]

[...] The camouflage world is beautiful, but more exists that you do not see. [...] I do indeed give you the blessings that are mine to give. [...]

Do not be afraid but change with the seasons, for you are more than the seasons and you form the seasons, as they are the reflections of your psychic climate. [...]

[...] Yet even so, as the years passed I began to better see that recovery from Jane’s death was going to take the rest of my life; and that within the framework of simultaneous time uncounted millions of others had experienced that truth, were doing so now, and would be doing so. [...]

[...] (I still do, although at this writing I’m far behind. [...]

[...] At the same time, I wondered often if it was of any use to try publishing Seth books, old or new — why do so, if sales were falling? [...]

[...] And added that she was already getting requests to do just that.

[...] What most artists do not realize is that the self is the first creation. They do not think of themselves as products of their own creativity. [...]

He is very worried that you will not find success, recognition that is, or money of a large nature, and does not feel that he should if you do not. [...] He is hurt when people do not buy your paintings off the walls, and angry at anyone who mentions liking a painting without offering to buy it.

[...] On the other hand he was afraid of it for the reasons given earlier, having to do with yourself.

[...] This also means that you show your devotion more obviously, gallantly offering him assistance, thus always showing the world that what he is doing has your blessing.

He functions in a nightly dream world in the same fashion, and only when or if you begin to distrust dreams do you hesitate or falter, or feel afraid to move, and also feel as if you are caught in a nightmare. [...] You do not trust your own spontaneity of motion—but spontaneity of motion is a true order of all life, in whatever form. [...]

(I also suggested to Jane that if she began another Seth book, we do it without notes—straight Seth, with her writing her own introduction, say. [...] Any other writing I might do could be on my own. [...]

[...] Jane started reading yesterday’s session, but didn’t do very well. [...]

[...] I said to Jane, that in my hand I held the best man could do about understanding his origins at this time. [...]

[...] They do not have the energy capacity to form either. [...] Do you follow me?

[...] Jane and I now are free, we feel, to do our own thing.)

[...] First I have some personal notes, if you do not mind.

[...] Very positive ones, initially set into motion by Ruburt’s desire to help others, and attempts to do so. [...]

An impression here, having to do with distance to the west of you, possibly California, a letter or communication—I do not know its relative importance.

On other levels Ruburt is doing well, and should experience more conscious projections on other levels also. There was something he did not catch last night, but he will have an opportunity to do so shortly.

To do so would give them actuality. [...]

[...] Now in this same way do you give freedom to the personality fragments within your own dreams, and for the same reason. [...]

[...] As I mentioned, when you look into a mirror you do not see your ego. [...] You experience it directly, and so do you experience directly this sort of distance of which I speak.

[...] I do not speak in any of these matters as far as definite times and places are concerned, nor do I intend to. [...]

It is difficult here to do more than simply give you the statement. [...]

I do not, and I have said this before, want any of you to break up into pieces, for I am not sure that I could put you back together again.

— but do not forget that you in your ways, and that corporate entity, do indeed share an educational intent.

[...] Jane has been doing well, though, and yesterday walked three times — the most in one day that I can remember offhand. [...]

(All week we’ve been doing additional medical notes for the copy-edited manuscript of Mass Events. [...]

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