“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Through the inner senses, and using a very simple analogy, you would not only see the street as you do or hear the few sounds that drift to your ears. [...] That is, not only would you be able to feel the air though you were not out in it, not only would you pick up the odors, though ordinarily you cannot do this while you look out through closed windows, but you would literally feel the unitary essences of the trees and branches and hidden birds and insects. [...]

[...] They were strong positive suggestions and as such they do sometimes serve a good purpose. [...]

When I speak of the terms electronically and chemically I do so for simplification, since electronics and chemicals are two facets of the same thing, merely manifestations of something else as heat and cold or fire and ice are manifestations of something else. [...]

[...] On some other planes the mental enzymes are unnecessary, since the personality on a conscious level can work such transformations; and here again we run into an apparent contradiction, because while these transformations occur consciously on certain levels it is also true that the personalities concerned do not have to be conscious of the transformations. [...]

[...] Like she’s been doing recently, she started a bit slowly, then began reading faster and faster as she went along. [...] She said she still wasn’t up to normal speed—maybe 80%—but I certainly thought she was doing a lot better than that. [...]

[...] In hydro, the therapist, Wendy, who checks both Jane and her chart weekly, told her that she was doing well, that the knee was coming along great. [...]

[...] Jane said she often imagines herself here at our house, doing various things. [...]

[...] Simply allow that mental flexibility, overall suggestions for motion and healing are of course excellent, since they leave it up to the body to do the inner work involved. [...]

[...] (Long pause, then intently but with a touch of humor:) I know you know this, but do not concentrate upon the problem. You undo half of your good work when you do. [...]

(“Bob, all I want to do is get better.” [...]

(“Incredible,” I said to myself, thinking about the daily struggle she now had to contend with just to do a few basic things like using the bathroom. [...]

(“It seems Jane can do little else.” [...]

(Long pause.) I do not want you to concentrate upon the situation any more, certainly, than you are doing, however. [...]

(This afternoon while I was out doing errands, Jane had a rather strong if not lengthy experience that seemed to encompass an emotional understanding of Seth’s material in the last session [for Monday]. [...]

[...] I do want to stress the advantage of examining such events as your visit of the other evening, and the ways in which either or both of you use the framework of Ruburt’s symptoms, while urging you again not to overly concentrate upon such matters. [...]

Do you have a question? [...]

[...] Do you see?

[...] Do you understand me here?

[...] Do you see?

The swelling has to do with a chemical that encouraged in certain parts of the body only a retention of fluid, and this was aggravated by beer consumption, and also by the drinking of whole milk.

[...] What you do not know is that all consciousnesses dream. [...] Now, as in the physical field individual atoms combine for their own benefit into more complicated structure gestalts, so do they also combine to form such gestalts, though of a somewhat different nature, in the dream world.

[...] Ruburt has been exploring the reality of dream levels,³ and in so doing he is beginning to glimpse their significance. [...]

[...] The particular string of probable actions that you call your official experience does not just dangle, then, out in space and time — it interweaves with other such strands that you do not recognize. [...]

[...] The [recent] dreams also provide additional assurance; and while dreaming, body states are altered — something physicians do not recognize.”

[...] They are afraid of anything they do not consciously control. [...] You will recall them more easily, and as you do you will be able to maintain a sense of continuity between the waking and dream states.

[...] Now seldom do we go in or out of the driveway without glancing at the group of rocks I placed upon his grave.

[...] The difference is that you are not consciously aware of what you are doing, but I am. [...]

[...] If entities like myself form the background of your own existence, so do entities like yourselves act as the background psychological structures in which other such organizations exist. [...]

2. Seth mentioned a “correspondence” among my dreams, painting, and writing because just lately I’ve been doing small oil paintings of a few of my more vivid dream images. [...] Now, futilely, I wonder why I didn’t try painting images from my dreams at a much earlier age; and why one so seldom hears about other artists doing the same thing. [...]

[...] I remarked tonight that it would be nice if Seth would discuss the subject, and Jane replied that she thought he’d do so.

[...] When you are an old person, you do not identify yourself as a child. [...]

If you do not trust your private self, you will be afraid of power, for you will fear that you are bound to misuse it. [...]

[...] It would do no harm to invite the man for a drink in your home, though I admit that to either of you the suggestion amounts to a treason of sorts. It would do you, Joseph, no harm to allow him in your house, where you could size him up for yourself. [...]

I do not mean, of course, that he will automatically turn into a jellyfish when a good fight may be called for. [...]

It is extremely difficult for Ruburt not to throw himself wholeheartedly and completely into whatever it is he is doing; and so it is no wonder that now and again he loses his fairly adequate detachment on a job. [...]

Do take your break.

[...] You can do things with it that you cannot do with the physical body, for example.

A few days earlier, knowing he had progressed, he ceased doing the psycho-cybernetics exercises however, and these are an excellent and enjoyable way of focusing conscious energy in constructive directions. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Do you have questions on our present discussion?

(“How do you spell it?”)

A-4 brings you to a level that is beneath matter formations, a level in which ideas and concepts can be perceived, although their representations do not appear in the present physical reality that you know.

[...] The thoughts do not appear as pseudoimages for example, or assume any pseudomaterialization, yet they are felt vividly, perceived and picked up by portions of the brain — those seemingly unused portions for which science has found no answer.

[...] The characteristic interest and abilities of the personality involved will have much to do with his recognition of the realities within this layer of consciousness.

Since past, present, and future do not exist, this is a level of crystal clear communication of consciousness. [...]

Developments of that nature do not come to the young. Other kinds of artistic expression do, of course. Creative people do have more than most an inner sense of their life’s direction, even if they are taught to ignore it. [...]

When you think “I should be thus-and-so along the way,” and so forth, or when you look back into the past and think that those abilities you had then should have matured far earlier in your life, you are doing so of course from a structure of your present. [...] Certain portions of that person, as you know, would have been satisfied with drawing comics, or doing certain kinds of commercial work. [...]

[...] In a fashion it makes no difference how many other children have drawn circles or triangles with great curious glee, quite astonished at their own power to do so. [...]

Your artistic abilities know what they are doing. [...]

[...] You do not accept them willy-nilly. [...] You are only half conscious when you do not examine the information that comes to you from without, and when you ignore the data that comes to you from within.

[...] While she was doing the dishes and thinking about this she received an amusing flash from Seth: She was to stop worrying about such things and “adopt a position of divine nonchalance.”

[...] They do not examine them. [...]

[...] Your joy, vitality and accomplishment do not come from the outside to you as the result of events that “happen to you.” [...]

(With amusement:) I cannot bear such a gloomy face, so I will tell you that “Unknown” will do very well indeed, and that you are doing better than it seems that you are. [...]

(“How do you mean?”)

You struck out at yourself because in the past you found pleasure in doing something, and you were well paid to do it. [...]

[...] Having to do with a disturbance. [...]

[...] Since we do not have a phone, she called a neighbor who relayed the information that Peggy could not come because “something urgent” had developed.

[...] Now do not rush me.

[...] If you do not mind, after the break I will continue for a short while. [...] I always feel when I speak along these lines as if I must say over and over that I do not intend any shortening of your working hours, only that you have more energy than you realize and that associations, as certainly you must see with your landlord, are often practical. [...]

[...] What do you think of my performance last night?”)

[...] You have been doing very well, for you, in allowing yourself psychic freedom. [...]

[...] You simply behave somewhat differently, not bestirring yourself in any direction unless the suggestion to do so be given you.

[...] We are able to do this, or I am able to do this, precisely because I am from beyond Priestley’s time one, two and three, and therefore free of the distortions which even he is unable to avoid.

These times do not go on indefinitely in the precise manner that Dunne thought. Neither do they stop as Priestley believes, at time three. [...]

[...] I do not know to what it refers. (Pause.) Unless it has to do perhaps with the farewell earlier mentioned.

(When I lit our test candle at 8:55 PM, the flame at once shot up to an estimated height of three inches; I had not seen it do this before. [...]

(From my own notes as the afternoon progressed: Seth’s material on Jane’s dreams was just what I hoped it would be—another sign that her body is awakening, and that it knows what to do and how to do it. [...] “If I get improvements this time, I’ll never let them go like I used to do,” Jane said vehemently. [...]

(Yet she could rotate her arms, one hand circling the other above her belly, in a way that she hadn’t been able to do for, literally, months—years perhaps—certainly since she began going into hospitals. [...]

[...] The flexing of the joints in her shoulders was especially noticeable—they moved like they were made of rubber, I told her, and she agreed that they felt fine doing this. [...]

[...] We may return briefly, but if not, do not be discouraged. [...]

[...] If circumstances warrant it, however, such information may be switched over to other channels of communication, so that it appears in the form of, say, an impulse to do a certain thing, to call a certain person, or whatever. [...]

Ruburt actually followed through for you—not realizing this consciously, by finally calling Leonard this morning, when he discovered that Leonard had been feeling poorly, off and on during the same time that you had your difficulties, and that Leonard was looking for someone to do an errand (buy a thermometer). [...]

[...] Leonard is doing well, and it was indeed his own exaggerated fears about his condition that led to the rather frenzied message to begin with. [...]

Do you have any questions? [...]

[...] To do this you have, hopefully, begun to examine your beliefs. [...] In doing so you begin with yourself. [...] As you do so, see yourself affecting others in the new fashion.

[...] When visitors enter your home, they do not see it exactly as you do because they also view it through the screen of their beliefs. [...]

You must therefore understand and examine your beliefs, realize that they form your experience, and consciously change those that do not give the effects you want. [...]