“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In a fashion (underlined), you could almost say that he used language before he consciously understood it (quietly). It is not just that he learned by doing, but that the doing did the teaching. [...]

The inner and outer egos do not have a cementlike relationship, but can interrelate with each other in almost infinite fashions, still preserving the reality of physical experience, but varying the accents put upon it by the inner areas of subjective life. [...]

[...] In order to do so he has taken on many challenges.

[...] All of your dreams somewhere waken, but when they do they waken with the desire for creativity themselves, and they are born of an innocent new intent. [...]

[...] You cannot of course limit your world to the world of facts at any given time, though you may try to do so. That little girl’s experience with the earthquake, and her beliefs about it, have little to do with the bare facts involved. [...]

[...] I will say nothing about the “fact” that you have not together studied the last session, or that Ruburt has not used the hot towels, for I do not need to. I do want you to approve of yourselves as natural creatures, for that approval automatically brings you in contact with nature’s greater source, and your own.

[...] Fact alone could never do that.

Historically speaking, the ancients understood man’s psychology, his psyche, far better than you do now, for they were far more aware of its context. [...]

[...] Anything you do as partners excites him. [...] When you do not continue it he is afraid that you are not willing to take the consequences, while you interpret the discontinuation to mean he does not want to improve.

Ruburt is not a child, but you often do think that your concern automatically expresses your love, and take it for granted that to Ruburt that is clear. [...]

[...] With the same directness he does not want anything to do with people he dislikes, for whatever reason.

[...] When he feels that this is impossible and tries to do otherwise, he runs into difficulty. [...]

[...] You have indeed other forms that you do not perceive, and you also create various kinds of forms for various purposes, although you do not perceive these physically either.

[...] Some more sophisticated scientific instruments than you now have would clearly show not only the existence of these forms, but also vibrations in varying waves of intensity surrounding those physical objects that you do perceive.

Now anything that appears in physical terms also exists in other terms that you do not perceive. [...]

Other portions of yourself, therefore, of which you are not consciously aware, do inhabit what you could call a supersystem of reality in which consciousness learns to handle and perceive much stronger concentrations of energy, and to construct “forms” of a different nature indeed.

There are many other conditions to be taken into consideration, for such diseases certainly do have strong social connections. [...] This does not mean that they are necessarily contagious at all, but that they do bear an overall relationship to the give-and-take between individuals and their social and natural frameworks.

[...] She’d thought of death, but didn’t want to do that to me. [...]

[...] This usually helps cheer up Jane, though she gets nervous if they don’t keep their minds on what they’re doing when they lift her, say.

When civilized children are medically inoculated against such diseases, however, they usually do not show the same symptoms, and to an important extent the natural protective processes are impeded. [...]

[...] First, we’d moved back to 458 W. Water — which I seem to do several times a week — and looking out my old studio windows, I saw my father cutting hair like a barber out in the driveway in front of the garage. [...] In the dream I was drawing foot-high oval letters in black ink, but was worried about doing a good job because my hand was shaky. [...]

[...] Jane began reading yesterday’s session, which I think is an excellent one, but she didn’t do well at all. [...] She tried again at 3:20, doing just a little better. [...]

[...] To that extent they do indeed represent a new way. [...]

[...] Shawn came in to do all of Jane’s vitals. [...]

[...] Jane is perfectly able to work a daily quota of time without overseeing, just like anybody else, and to do all the other normal things people do, like take vacations, etc. [...]

[...] Later that morning I asked the man and his wife to not do that. [...] [This morning we slept undisturbed.] But when I came inside after speaking to them, Jane said, “I wouldn’t dare do that.” [...]

[...] Some of his attitudes have to do with his parents, in that he fears he could become like his father—undisciplined and slack, loose and amoral.

[...] For his own benefit and mine, two or three times a week he should sit down and write out his feelings, as he began to do last summer. [...]

[...] I do recall being awakened by Rob later Friday than usual. [...] I didn’t want to be bothered; now that I’d recently agreed to do some such shows, everyone it seemed would start calling. [...]

I hemmed and hawed, decided after talking with Rob that I really didn’t want to do any shows at all, so I wrote one letter so informing Prentice. [...]

I thought of the many other people who must do the same thing if not with body sensations perhaps with events of other kinds. [...]

[...] I call Tam, saying I won’t do any shows. [...]

[...] At your end there are strong chemical and electromagnetic connections that you do not understand. [...]

[...] This has to do as I have said with electromagnetic properties.

[...] You do this now automatically.

Until you learn this you learn little, and until you learn this you do not know what it means to be practical. [...]

You do have a good memory indeed. [...] We do at times visit you, your system, by sending projections of ourselves in such innocent manners.

(I thought excitement from receiving the letter had as much to do with Jane’s feelings, as the beer.

[...] You do operate simultaneously within all levels of reality and if you become familiar with various coordinates, the self that you know could become aware of your own other existences.

[...] These areas have to do with the storage of information that is usually available to unconscious layers of the present personality, and we hope to make them more consciously available.

[...] To do with musical scores of some kind.

(“How do you spell that?”)

([Barbara:] “Do you mean alto, a l t o?”)

That has something to do with words.

Now there is something you do not understand, and so I will set you straight. It has been given in our material—I do not want to upset any of you. [...] Do you follow me? [...]

[...] I do try to take it into consideration. And yet those issues that might bring me to you in a session, have nothing to do with time as you consider it. [...]

[...] I do not harp to you about theory simply because I want you to spout theory, but because I want you to put these theories into practice for yourselves and discover the selves that are within you. [...]

I do not mean to infer that our dear friend Ruburt is simply a channel on a TV screen. [...]

If you do not understand that in periods of sleep your consciousness actually does leave your body, then what I have said will be meaningless. [...] But the largely creative portions of the self do leave the body, and for large periods of time when you sleep.

[...] For other reasons having to do with the chemical reactions during the dream state, bodily health would be improved; and this particular schedule would also be of help in schizophrenia, and generally aid persons with problems of depression, or those with mental instability.

(10:04.) He did not sleep in long blocks as you do. [...]

[...] In doing so you divide your intuitive, creative, and psychic abilities quite neatly from your physical, manipulative, objective abilities. [...]

[...] Do you follow me?

(Pause.) He is doing well with the book. [...]

The units (electromagnetic) about which I have been speaking do not have any specific, regular, preordained “life,” in quotes. [...]

[...] But the rhythms have to do with the nature of emotional energy itself, and not with the laws of physical matter.

[...] For a while when he feels tired, or when he feels a definite resistance against work, he should do something that he enjoys doing. [...]

[...] Do not press overly, for sexual response. [...]

[...] The overly conscientious self however tells him that you do not want to be bothered, and so he hesitates and interprets your words, sometimes, in that light.

(“Do you think he should continue with the book he’s reading?”—a self-help book on auto-analysis.)

[...] The psychiatrist’s letter (Dr. Beahrs) represents but one communication, but many others read the material and use it, and do not write you, any more than you write to other authors. And again, a book may sell in the millions, and still go in one mental ear and out the other while our books literally do change lives—and to that extent the world—for the better.

[...] When you do this, you can indeed see the overall purpose of your life—but you cannot do so until you approve of yourself, and recognize that you as an individual are unique, and uniquely a part of all reality.

(As I mentioned doing at the close of last Saturday night’s deleted session, today I paid our NY State and Federal income taxes a few days ahead of time, hoping the action would contribute to my sense of freedom, and perhaps Jane’s too. [...]

[...] Your purpose is in what you are, and when you do not approve of what you are, you cannot see it. [...]

[...] My own reaction, after doing a lot of work on them, was that it would be best to cut most of them out. [...]

[...] Do not worry.

Do not see the man from macrobiotics—this is suggestion of course. [...]

[...] I may be a slow learner but once I DO learn—I do.

[...] and I’m doing this James thing about leaving melancholy’s castle; surely there’s a connection. [...]

[...] I went into the writing room to do some filing. [...] When I went back into the living room I told her that we must be doing something wrong, or that we’d have achieved much better results over the years regarding her symptoms. [...]

(I began to get a fresh insight to the symptom situation as we talked, hardly realizing that I was doing so. [...] “They show that you’re not ensconced on high, telling everyone else what to do through Seth, telling them how to handle all of their problems while you live a life of wealth, talent, and happiness, free of all worldly cares and responsibilities,” I added. [...]

(Jane said that the reasons she didn’t have a session for Tom and friends were that her own feelings were against her doing so even though she’d had the spontaneous urge, and that she was also tired because of her symptoms and sitting on the couch for so long. [...] She said she was also afraid that she’d keep the group here at the house for hours if she let herself go and did what she wanted to do, on the spur of the moment. [...]

[...] Although she says it’s incomplete, it still summarizes her activities better than I can do second-handedly. [...]

(Returning home from a drive on Sunday, we were surprised to see Miss Callahan and her companion sitting on the front porch; this was something we had never seen her do in the four years we have lived here; Jane said that Miss Callahan appeared to be very restless, and that the last time she had visited her Miss Callahan had doodled and written constantly on a pad without seeming to be aware that she was doing so.

The moments will reoccur, as Ruburt noticed Miss Callahan doodled upon a pad without any conscious knowledge of so doing, and without knowledge of what was written. [...]

[...] We feel that we can do little to speed up this process of eliminating distortions, as they occur. [...]

[...] The particles of air being themselves composed of molecular structures having, as all molecules do, a generalized subconsciousness, and in condensed form a comprehension of the inner laws of the universe, are also then psychic as well as physical structures, as you should by now understand.