“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Many people do not trust themselves, of course. When you are building self-trust, and your body is in any way impaired, then you are learning to do something that you did not do when your body was operating beautifully.

[...] I suggested you do the library together again for that reason—and your dream contest is good for that reason.

Your ideas (about seeing people), mentioned earlier, should definitely be acted upon—that is, you do both need some personal communication with others. [...]

(Louder:)I think you are doing beautifully on “Unknown”—but then I always have.

[...] Do you want to be a poet or a furniture mover? I do suggest strongly now that you desist. [...]

[...] Had you had the opportunity to do more work with psychological time you would have been able to attain greater perception than you did. [...] Do you have any more questions in particular?

[...] I certainly do not like to go into household matters. [...] Not only do you have lack of privacy, one of Ruburt’s squawks, and not only should various biological functions be separated on your plane as I have suggested, but the room itself, while excellent for some purposes involving use of the intellect, is simply not good for sleeping.

[...] The small room will do as a sleeping room, but the head of the bed should be at the north. And in the use of psychological time exercises you would do well if your head was at the north.

[...] Certainly our comprehensions have deepened as a result—yet in the face of that great promise, what was I doing barely able to leave my chair? And if spontaneous order was such a vital ingredient in the workings of the universe, then what was I doing trying to shut it down in my own daily life?

[...] Jane said she’d like to do some more dictation of her own, so I agreed to take down that instead. [...]

[...] Jane was nodding in her chair as I finished, and I thought she wouldn’t be doing any work this evening after all. [...]

[...] You can do a prologue or whatever else you want, too….”

[...] I do not want to attempt information on the friends in California until conditions are better. [...]

Do you have other questions? [...]

Put down here, F A M. These may be considered separately… I do not know. [...]

[...] I will be available whenever you may want to speak to me, if you do, during your absence from here.

If you do not have copies of your own letters, perhaps you can tell us what you said in them, and the dates you mailed them. [...] We’re so busy now I shrink from even thinking of trying to do that any more. [...]

[...] Be that as it may, we do need accurate records. [...]

[...] However, we do want names and addresses, etc. [...]

Do not forget however that you are a portion of the inner self. [...] Now physical illnesses that are not critical but observable, that do not involve the loss of say of a limb or of an organ, generally (underlined) represent problems that are in the process of being solved, problems that are in quotes “out in the open.” [...]

[...] Very definite portions of the nervous system that you do not understand are the receptors of impulses that go outward from you to form events.

[...] There are areas of activity to which you do not react simply because you have not activated sympathetic pathways within yourself. [...]

[...] Ruburt for example has found out what certain mental patterns will do to his image, and he is now attempting to undo the damage that became apparent. [...]

You paint because you want to paint, and you set aside certain hours for your painting to insure that you will have sufficient time to do what you want to do; and this should be the reason for the regularity of our sessions.

[...] It took him some time to accept the fact of the sessions, and when he did so nothing would do but that he overdo, and accept them as a task rather than a joyful creative endeavor.

Do you have any comments or questions?

(“No, except that I’d like to know what we’re going to do now in the sessions.”)

[...] They may think that poverty is demeaning or humiliating or threatening, yet want it despite those conditions for other reasons that may or may not have anything to do with money, per se. So the question in such a case is, of course, “Why do I want to be poor?”

[...] Since she seemed to be at loose ends, I suggested we have a session tonight, to “give her something to do.” [...]

However scandalous or unrealistic this proposition sounds, the fact is that people do not “will” a specific outcome of events while their imaginations vividly portray the opposing outcome.

[...] This sounds quite simplistic, and yet it is quite practically true, but you have people professing to desire wealth while obviously doing everything possible to insure the continuance of poverty. [...]

(“Honestly,” Jane said the morning after last Wednesday’s session, “I think I was doing book work in my sleep the whole night — only I kept hearing my own voice instead of Seth’s. I even thought of getting up and trying to write down the material, except that I didn’t think it would really work that way. I just hope we’ll get all that great stuff when we do have sessions….” [...]

[...] You are not underweight because you do not eat enough food, or utilize it properly. Instead, you do not eat enough because you believe that you are underweight.

(I reminded her of a couple of subjects I hoped Seth would discuss, as he’d promised to do some time ago: 1. The great flood of June, 1972, in this area, and our roles in it; see the notes for the 613th session in Chapter One. [...]

But behind that there is far more; for if you do not believe in your own worth as a human being, then you will simply get other symptoms that have to be removed in the same manner, using other “past” events as the excuse for the condition — if you are lucky. [...]

(To my surprise, when she resumed dictation she remained seated–something I do not recall her doing before. [...]

(However, I then succeeded in doing something I had wanted to do for a long time. [...]

I do not intend to give you any personal reincarnational information this evening, as we did run into some distortions the other evening, as you probably know by now. [...]

[...] You are both expected to keep up intellectually, and I am pleased that you are doing so.

[...] If I am not a guardian angel, I do a fairly good job of approximating one’s duties, with little thanks, though I do hear vague glimmerings of appreciation. [...]

[...] And it will do you no good to ask me what they are.

[...] The twinges that he feels are indeed warnings, or nudges rather, from his own subconscious mind, that he do this and thus bring the plans for it into actual reality.

[...] I do not know whose kitchen. [...]

You are doing so now. Ruburt is doing so now. [...]

[...] Conversely, the boundaries do exist when they are thought to exist.

[...] Your vacation will help, and you should really be carefree and relax if possible as children do.

[...] You do not know precisely in a conscious manner how to achieve this state when you are working. [...]

You can help by encouraging him to remember that his body does have the capacity to do better now. [...] I do recommend both morning and evening suggestions with the pendulum.

[...] Ruburt’s books are doing well. Financially he is doing well. [...]

[...] They rose in this life at least in response to events that do not now exist. [...]

[...] In so doing he reinforces a sense of power over both inner habits and the physical environment.

(Smiling): I do not know what to do with you. We learned what spices would do long before the present generation got hung-up on grass. [...]

[...] And if no god predicts, then I do not see the point of doing so myself.

In our own sessions I have explained something that I haven’t mentioned in class, and it is this: For every moment of time that you seem to exist in this universe, you do not exist in it. The atoms and molecules have a pulsating nature that you do not usually perceive, so what seems to you to be a continuous atom or molecule is, instead, a series of pulsations that you cannot keep track of.

[...] (Smiling.) You must realize that you do not form events alone. [...]

[...] This he proceeded to do, at a good pace and in a voice somewhat stronger than usual.)

[...] The various egos of any personality do not think of themselves as having existed one before the other.

[...] When any contact is attempted in so-called mediumistic situations, then it is expected that the survival personality will “remember,” in quotes, events as you do; but events no longer exist in that way.

[...] Do you follow me?

[...] “It’s got to do with understanding that one must protect or encourage personal integrity before anything else,” I said, “even if it means projecting one’s troubles out onto an entity like Prentice, the church, or whatever. Even though we can’t blame those entities, really, for doing much that we hadn’t allowed them to do....” [...] As Seth says, we each do create our own reality.

[...] She now amazed me by saying that she now thought she understood that if she turned her focus away from her symptoms toward Prentice, say, or any other “outside” entity or situation, that she could improve physically by giving her body the freedom to do so. [...]

(That event, as well as the launching of the shuttle Sunday morning, had been very emotional doings for me, somewhat to my surprise. [...]

For Ruburt: you do not lead people anywhere. [...]

You do not even perceive sense data with a third of the vividness of which you are capable. This has to do again with the self-protection used. [...]

Practically speaking you see, if you were aware of the constant barrage of telepathic communications that do impinge upon you, it would be most difficult to retain identity. [...]

[...] This is what you are doing of course in self-hypnosis: But, used for therapy, you are still trying to affect or change something physical.

[...] This has nothing to do with the nature of their own reality, for you cannot perceive that in any direct manner.

[...] Later Sue laughingly admitted that she’d been nervous at first, imagining all kinds of adverse reactions either Jane or I might have—but she’s doing a fine job. She has complete freedom to do Conversations in her own way. [...]

Aside from anything Seth has said or ever may say about other probable realities, or even about human origins here on earth, I think it most risky at this stage in history for anyone—scientist or not—to dogmatically state that life has no meaning, or is a farce, or that attributes of our reality of which we can only mentally conceive at this time do not really exist. [...] Human beings do know their own worth, as Seth stated in this session.

Today, Jane wrote three more excellent little poems, all of which I hope to eventually see published.² I think she grumbled the whole time she was doing them, though, since she kept at herself because she wasn’t working on God of Jane.

[...] For any answers that do not fit the construct are simply thrown away and never appear. [...]

There are perspectives of reality which you yet do not understand. You should understand clearly the ways in which you create these physical images, for they need not imprison you as they often do.

You create, as you know, physical matter on a subconscious basis, without knowing egotistically that you do so. [...]

[...] You can see however how such a temporary distortion could become, under certain conditions (that do not operate in your case) permanent.

As you create physical matter constantly without knowing that you do so, so also you create constantly a dream universe, and this dream universe is as individual as your environment in the physical world. [...]

[...] I do not mean to imply that exercise is detrimental to good health. It is true, however, that the reason that you exercise is actually more important than the exercises that you do perform. [...]

[...] Jane also read a couple of recent sessions herself, and marched right along through them for the most part — better than she has been doing by quite a bit.

[...] I do not recall the date of the dream without checking.

I bid you now a fond good afternoon, and I do indeed activate those coordinates that quicken healing and exuberance.