“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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[...] This has to do mainly with the necessary distortions arising from your time concept and the idea of duration; for duration to you presupposes existence continued within a time framework — predisposing to beginnings and endings.

[...] Number twenty-one: How do you account for the pain and suffering in the world?” Many people have asked us this question.)

The artist who paints such a scene may do so for several reasons: because he hopes through portraying such inhumanity to awaken people to its consequences, to make them quail and change their ways; because he is himself in such a state of disease and turmoil that he directs his abilities in that particular manner; or because he is fascinated with the problem of destruction and creativity, and of using creativity to portray destruction.

[...] I saw him do this, and wished him good luck. I do not know what he was to do on the street, or ground level, with the notebooks. [...]

(Jane had been waiting for staff to do vitals before trying a session, but then she determined to go ahead anyhow. [...]

[...] A new nurse came in to do Jane’s vitals—temperature 98, etc. [...]

[...] I do not mean by the term “rarefied atmosphere” that you live in a world superior to other people’s—only that our work is, in those terms, uncommon, highly original, and in many ways mysterious—for it confounds many of the conventionalized concepts of the daily world in which you live.

[...] My answer was that I’d gladly do the sitting around if she wanted to, on the chance that we might get some helpful material—especially about her own condition.

[...] She has been doing this since suppertime, and has repeated it at other times. [...]

[...] We do think Jane may be a little better off with the reduced Synthroid dose, although this may be hard to prove. [...]

[...] But I do have the feeling that Seth will give us considerable help once we get going. [...]

[...] The goals of the species do not exist apart from individual goals. [...]

[...] There are tiny innocuous instances that come up daily: “Shall I go to the movies, or bowling?” “Shall I brush my teeth now or later?” “Should I write to my friend today or tomorrow?” There are also more pertinent questions having to do with careers, ways of life, or other deeper involvements. [...]

[...] You can cause a cell, or a group of cells, to change their self-image, for example; and again, you do this often — as you healed yourselves of diseases because of your intent to become well. [...]

[...] Your private psyche is intimately concerned with your earthly existence, and in your dream state you deal with probable actions, and often work out in that condition the solutions to problems or questions that arise having to do with probable sequences of events.⁴

“The gurus say: ‘Give it all up.’ One of those we read about today counsels: ‘When you want to do one thing, do another instead. Do not do what you want to do, but what you should do.’ Never trust the self that you are, the gurus say, but the self that you should be. [...]

[...] A good general question, we think, and one we’d like to see discussed with our own ideas of the inviolate nature of the individual in mind, has to do with the prevalence of ordinary, daily, conscious-mind thinking and perception throughout much of the world. [...]

“You cannot do less,” said Seth. “You can hardly do more.”

[...] Seth can do what he wants. I doubt he’ll do anything.”

[...] How did Seth help me do this? [...] I do much better that way, because I don’t feel that I’m being tested, and I don’t have time to fret about results. [...]

I was really excited to think that a psychologist would do his own experimentation with projection, and I wrote him. [...]

[...] Jane and I see him more often when out dancing that I do on the job. [...] Early Saturday evening, we saw Hack Rice and his wife dancing, and said hello as we usually do. [...]

Ruburt, you see, does not perceive shapes as I do. Also he does not deal with details, as far as his overall perceptive patterns are concerned, and I am teaching him to do so psychically in these tests.

[...] If you would have some idea of what the probable universe system is like, then examine your own dreams, looking for those events which do not have any strong (underline) resemblance to physical events in your own conscious existence. [...]

[...] They do not exist in the space which you know, but neither are they nonexistent, merely imaginative toys of the dreaming mind, without substance.

(I told Jane that if she wanted to do anything about a session, now was the time before people started coming in to do her vitals. [...]

(Then I looked up to see Jane reaching up to her left ear with her left hand—in a spontaneous gesture I haven’t seen her do in I don’t know when. It looked unnatural to see her do this. [...]

[...] And what are you gonna do? [...]

[...] He is doing much better than the doctor thought that he would, while often refusing to follow the conventional course of action that the good doctor advised. [...]

Your own attitude now (underlined) is most beneficial, and you are doing him a service that no one else can do; partially of course to help make up for harm that you did unwittingly. He let you (smile) do the harm, but he would have let no one else do it at the time. [...]

[...] He must believe completely in what he is doing, in what he is teaching, or he feels himself deceitful.

He could not do this in one area, and not in others. [...]

[...] He is not lying, as the child is accused of doing when he describes something his parents consider outlandish.

[...] Some possess certain qualities that do not find a counterpart within human experience. [...] Others find this difficult, and yet these same individuals may do much better in other levels of reality.

[...] Very close friends from past lives, who are in a position to do so, often communicate with you when you are in the dream state, and the relationships are continued though you do not realize it consciously.

[...] The perfectly happy life for example, on the surface, may appear splendid, but it may also be basically shallow and do little to develop the personality.

[...] This is not easy to do, but it is within the grasp of each individual. [...]

I do not know if it is a slipper or a shoe, because while it has laces it appears somehow different from a shoe.

[...] The events having to do with a doctor of some sort.

I pick up the initial D, but do not know unfortunately whether the D applies to doctor, or if the D is a name initial. [...]

[...] Harvard shoes or oxfords, I do not know. [...]

[...] He tells me that I am to do something else and gives me a long, friendly lecture. The content is lost now, but I think it had to do with my own psychic development. [...]

‘In that probability, you, Rob, painted constantly and Jane had published a bunch of short stories, a novel and poetry even before this got started. Do you do this now?’

[...] It took great effort for me to withdraw that much energy away from what I was doing. [...]

[...] It seemed now that we were separated by a great distance that had nothing to do with space. [...]

[...] You do this now without knowing that you do so, but a body can be made from the camouflage of any system, constructed easily when you know how to do it.

[...] With this goes my questions concerning the ability of sculptors to do the marvelously intricate carving adorning all of these buildings, on such an enormous scale. I have always wondered just how it was possible, with the few tools then available, according to our history, to do this work. [...]

[...] They do not behave as you think they do, however. [...]

[...] The instrument “sort of looked like —I can’t really do it—the shape I’m getting is of a very rough pistol shape.... All you had to do was aim it. [...]

We are doing certain kinds of work that can be done by no others, as others are doing work we cannot do—but rest assured that you are adding your voices to those of history, making your contributions. [...]

[...] As I told Jane after the session, I realized that Prentice-Hall’s treatment of our books reflects our own ambiguous attitudes-—we want her books to be well known, but don’t want to get involved in the process personally—but, perversely, that doesn’t stop me from getting mad at Prentice-Hall, even if they are doing what we want them to. [...]

[...] The nuclear reality is instead a practical example of what can happen when the elements of the intellect do not understand their secure basis in nature, but see themselves as apart from it —alienated. [...]

[...] Ruburt is doing a complete turnabout. [...]

[...] He would never ask you to do anything for him, for he felt he had no right to do so, or to your love. He needed a strong excuse therefore in order to ask you to do anything. One excuse was that he could not do it himself.

[...] It may seem that you need not do this—that he should do it alone, but because your relationship is so involved this is by far the procedure that will rouse his own desire for health. Do you follow me?

[...] He meant obviously that it must be replaced, but would never directly ask you to do so, feeling he had no right.

[...] He was operating to a large degree according to the code long set down by his grandfather: be quiet, do not argue, be aloof, and above all never raise your voice.

(9:34.) Now: it is easy to live—so easy that although you live, rest, create, respond, feel, touch, see, sleep and wake, you do not really have to try to do any of those things. [...]

But your beliefs do not stop there; because of both scientific and religious ones you believe in western civilization that there are threats from within also. [...]

[...] Whenever you can, again, honestly comment upon an improvement, now upon his appearance, or on a physical accomplishment, do so, for he needs the reinforcement there. [...]

[...] A fine Frenchman said that if you had to do a thing, think of it as easy, and it would become so. [...]

The pointer replied: ASIA WAS WHERE YOU SAW HIM, THOUGH HE WAS IN MANY OTHER PLACES, TRAVELING IN HIS MIDDLE YEARS, DOING PENANCE FOR HIS SINS ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOMS OF THE AGE.

[...] I hope to make this clearer to you, but it involves part of a larger concept for which you do not now have the proper background. [...]

This also has to do with feeling, which is also a mover. [...]

[...] And if I am not to be compared to a symphony, Joseph, you must admit that I do well with a figurative baton.

If many of the inner senses behave as if your conception of time and space do not exist, then the obvious reason is of course that they do not. [...]

[...] The inner senses are inherently equipped to do this, but for many reasons they do not. [...]

These sessions represent quite an accomplishment on both of your parts, and you do use your inner senses to some important degree. [...] To some degree I am able to reinforce your energies, and I do as you may have suspected.

[...] Since Ruburt seems to have such limited use of his regular eyes we shall have to see what we can do with his inner sight.

Nothing in the universe is ever lost, or mislaid, or wasted, so the energy of your own thoughts, while they are still your own thoughts, helps to form the natural attributes of physical realities that you do not perceive. [...] Its natural elements are the glistening remnants of other units of consciousness that you do not perceive. [...]

[...] “I’ve got that thing again where when I stop doing the exercises my eyes work better,” she said. [...]

[...] I turned Jane on her left side, and the move went well; she’s been doing the turning a good deal better. [...]

[...] I’d made a note of it, and asked that Seth comment if we had a session yesterday: “Units of consciousness also form other kinds of matter that you do not perceive.” [...]

[...] I do suggest that on session nights Ruburt find some time to relax. Also that whenever possible you both read our material, and that you do continue now with psychological time, following the directions which I have given you.

If it did not do so it would not exist for long. [...]

[...] At break she said she had not been aware that she was doing so. [...]

Do not think, either, that I have forgotten to discuss your previous experiences, for I have not. [...]