“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Now, I will particularly mention that he has been concerned over various problems having to do with your own father, and with your Miss Callahan.

He left you things to do in your own way. [...]

[...] There is no law that says that a personality must fully materialize within a given system, though it is usually wiser to do so.

[...] I do not believe the boy will live to old age. [...]

[...] “Rob and Seth started us on a new program and though we’ve hardly begun, I do feel some relieved more peaceful,” she typed in part on the morning of the 5th as she sat at her new low table, “yesterday i felt the place clicking about me. [...] My typing is still pretty poor but do know this will improve. I don’t feel any flow in these notes but I do feel a submerged flow rising and i do feel… centered, more content… as I get this far I feel a definite block of expression and some mild enough panic but recognize the fact that a feeling of repression came as I decided to do my notes… writing down at once and will tell rob.”

[...] A long cone of ash fell into her lap as she woke up with a start: “I never never do that when I’m here alone!” she exclaimed, chagrined. [...] He can do better for us only if Jane allows him to, but after we’ve struggled for so many years I’m no longer sure that she can.

[...] I know I’ve said that before, but this time I don’t know what else to do. [...] I can’t stop you from speaking for Seth by yourself, or doing it with someone else, but I can refuse to encourage you myself.

(Long pause at 9:03.) “You do not have to worry in an overly strained way about putting the new principles of life into practical experience at once. You do not need to worry or deride yourselves for stupidity if it appears (very long pause, eyes closed), looking over the long annals of work that we have done together, that it should have been obvious that our ideas were leading in certain directions—for not only have I been trying to divest you of official ideas, but to prepare you for the acceptance of a new version of reality: a version that could be described in many fashions. [...]

They do not “worry.” They do not anticipate disaster when no signs of it are apparent in their immediate environment. On their own they do not need preventative medicine. [...] There are stages of physical existence, and in those terms nature knows what it is doing. [...]

[...] [Those] plagues took rich and poor alike, however, so the complacent well-to-do could see quite clearly, for example, that to some extent sanitary conditions, privacy, peace of mind, had to be granted to the poor alike, for the results of their dissatisfaction would have quite practical results. [...]

Not only do such states of mind lower the defenses, however, but they activate and change the body’s chemistries, alter its balances, and initiate disease conditions. [...]

[...] I do not mean to undermine them, since they are undermining themselves. [...]

[...] But you do not expect music to come from a camera. You do not expect a phonograph to take pictures, yet while you are listening to music from a phonograph this does not mean, even to you, that cameras do not record sight. You are expecting the outer senses to do something they are not capable of doing, of receiving or performing in a way that is alien to them. [...]

[...] As she wondered how she would do this evening, she received the following:)

Studies will show that this duality is not a natural state of man, since even today many so-called primitive societies do not experience this duality to anything like the degree with which it affects more civilized communities. [...]

[...] You must take the inner data at its face value, and this is what you will not do. [...]

[...] I think that if parts of her psyche “fear those fears,” other parts do not—or that at least they chose to confront them, and actually began doing so many years ago. [...]

[...] Our independence relative to reincarnation may represent just conscious cussedness on our parts, but we believe that each of us (meaning anyone, that is) always has the freedom to accept or reject any such choice or causality —whatever we choose to do. No, instead we think of our current challenges as contributing to the knowledge of our whole selves in most specific ways, rather than our being swayed that much by our reincarnational and/or counterpart associations. [...] I do know that regardless of local variations an acceptance of reincarnation has encircled the earth for millennia, and that in our country recent polls show a quarter of the population believing in it.

[...] The genes in each cell have their individual jobs to do in furnishing the quivering templates for the manufacture (via the nucleic acids DNA and messenger RNA) of all of our bodily proteins. [...] What we choose to do with those possibilities that we present ourselves with at each temporal birth may be another matter entirely.

But if the interactions between or among frameworks exist for everybody, in our terms, then as far as I’m concerned they exist for each thing as well—and I do mean the so-called “inanimate.” [...] So, “probably,” do most of the far-out probable realities one can imagine—for I won’t go so far as to deny that some probable realities may exist without such framework structures. [...]

(On February 1 I began to make a list of daily predictions, as Jane has been doing for some time now.

This has to do, again, with intensities, which are decoded in many and complicated fashions. [...]

The experience of emotions and thoughts and other psychological realities that do not take up space physically within your universe, all represent portions of, small portions of, what I will for now term initial experience. [...]

[...] This, as I have explained, also has something to do with your idea of physical time.

Thoughts have their own kind of structure, as cells do, and they seek their own fulfillment. [...] As the cells respond at certain levels to ever-changing streams of probabilities, so do your thoughts. Your body responds as you think it should, however, and so your conscious beliefs about reality have much to do with those probable experiences that you accept as a part of your intimate living.

[...] Because you do not really fully accept the fact that you can so react, you may block this unofficial information on the one hand, even while on the other you take it into consideration. [...] If your purposes do not involve illness, for instance, and yet if you believe in contagion, you will automatically avoid circumstances that can lead to epidemics. [...]

In other terms, however — social terms — you have yet to achieve the same kind of spiritual brotherhood possessed by your cells; and so you do not understand that the experience of your world is intimately connected with your own private experience. [...] The healing will take place far quicker if you do. [...]

([John:] “By elements do you mean persons?”)

There were others who did not want the man promoted, and these men do not want you promoted. [...]

[...] Now when I say a league I do not necessarily mean in conspiracy. [...]

On other issues you do not agree. [...]

You will do very well financially in the next few years—so well in fact that you, Joseph, will feel yourself compelled to sell your paintings in order to hold your own. [...]

A 4 and a 6, with a block between, the block having to do with a period of time. [...]

[...] The street in Boston had to do with the word bleak.

[...] Do you follow me?

[...] I’ll do it if I can.”

[...] Gradually you can change events that once led to “negative behavior” so that they then stand for small graduation exercises, and you are in the process of doing so. [...]

Do you have questions? [...]

I referred to that, I thought, in my preliminary statement about time references—that you recognize yourself in a dream even if the other references do not agree with known reality. [...]

[...] “Just think of the number of people who have dreams like that,” I said, “but who either don’t remember them, or pay any attention to them if they do. [...]

[...] You are both doing well indeed. Do his energy exercises again once or twice a day, and the two of you in the morning. [...]

(My own moods have been poor lately, and it’s been a struggle to revive myself at times and to try to keep them from influencing Jane, for I can see that they do. [...]

While taking advantage of the good points of the medical profession in whatever ways you can, by all means do not allow that to become the framework of your lives, either. [...]

[...] Do not check to see how well it is working. [...] Behave physically, then, at least once a day in a way that shows that you have faith in what you are doing. [...] If you are poor, it can involve such a simple thing as buying an item you want that costs two cents more than the one you would usually buy — acting on the faith, even that feebly, that the two cents will somehow be given you or come into your experience; but acting as if you had more than you do.

[...] It is only natural to contrast what you want with what you have, and it is very easy to become discouraged in so doing, but looking for errors in the past will not help you. [...] Use visualization or verbal thought — whatever comes most naturally to you; but for that period do not concentrate upon any lacks, just upon your desire.

The question, “What is wrong with me?” will only lead you to create further limitations, and to reinforce those that you do have, through exaggerating such activities in the present and projecting them into the future.

Do you want a break?

[...] How do they react? [...] Do they care what they used to think? Are they shocked, do they have feelings of regret or embarrassment, or what? [...] And how do such people react after death when they start to get glimmerings about the workings of reincarnation,³ for example?”

[...] There are different historical periods, in your terms, where the species has showed what it can do—and what is possible in certain specific directions when the genetic and reincarnational triggers are touched and opened full blast, so that certain characteristics appear in their clearest, most spectacular light, to serve as individual models and as models for the species as a whole.

Do you have any questions otherwise?

[...] “I got something about genetic dreams while I was doing the dishes tonight—just the phrase,” she said. [...]

If you think the paper will give you tomorrow’s weather, and only an issue of whether or not to carry an umbrella is involved, then you do not feel the same impetus, or a precognitive dream about the weather. [...] So do those who travel by air or water.

[...] I said that I thought the implications here, that Jane’s “own” books didn’t do well, were pretty poor for anyone trying to build a career. [...]

[...] Only from legends do you receive any knowledge of the way in which past civilizations received their news broadcasts (quietly). [...]

[...] You see whether or not others perceive what you do. [...]

As I have said that the walls of your house do not actually exist as such, so the divisions that you have placed within the spacious present do not exist. But as the walls of your house are experienced by your outer senses, and serve to protect you against other camouflage materializations, even those of wind and rain and cold, so do the walls of past, present and future, erected by you as a different kind of camouflage pattern, protect you from inner forces and realities with which you are not as yet equipped to deal.

[...] You might look over the little material that I gave you earlier, concerning my own entry into your plane, as a preliminary to a later discussion on the two other inner senses having to do with transportation. At Wednesday’s session I will go into the next sense having to do with what you will call teleportation and levitation.

In the spacious present as it exists in actuality beyond shadow, all things that have existed still exist, and all things that shall exist in your tomorrow already do exist. [...]

There are however many other camouflage patterns which do not exist as solid structures, but exist as ideas.

[...] Ruburt’s readiness to do the kind of book he will now do was signaled by those episodes having to do with me in the dream book.

[...] Jane was tired this evening, and said, “If Seth can get anything out of me tonight he’ll be doing good.” [...]

[...] I add to make him feel better (smile), and you also, that he could not have done —I am going slowly here so as not to offend his sensibilities—he could not have done earlier the kind of book he will do now. [...]

On a limited scale, very limited, this process is hinted at in the material having to do with moment points, action and personality.

[...] I would also like to do some painting, but this seems impossible at this time.

[...] I may or may not return, but I do activate those coordinates that accelerate your own healing processes and well-being.

I do not mean that ill children should not be treated with kindness, and perhaps a bit of special attention — but the reward should be given for the child’s recovery, and efforts should be made to keep the youngster’s routine as normal as possible. [...]

[...] Since they have no idea that they themselves caused the problem to begin with, then they do not realize that they themselves possess the power to right the situation. [...]

(Long pause at 4:20.) They do not come into life with feelings of rage, or anger, and basically they do not experience doubts or fears. [...]

[...] My questions had to do with the consciousness that must reside within, or make up, radiation, and why that type of consciousness was so virulent that we humans couldn’t tolerate it. [...]

[...] She finished at 3:20, doing better at the end. [...]

3. It is good, natural, and safe for me to grow and develop and use my abilities, and by so doing I also enrich all other portions of life.

I do not mean to idealize him either, or others of his kind, but to point out that you can use your imaginations and intellects in other fashions than you do. [...]

[...] Jane had also been doing very well on God of Jane, and chose not to be distracted by working on anything else—even Seth material. [...]

They are the smallest imaginable “packages” of consciousness that you can imagine, and despite any ideas to the contrary, basically consciousness has nothing to do with size. [...]

[...] I do, however, want to make the point that your prized psychological norm as a species means that you must also be allowed a great leeway in the use of the imagination and the intellect. [...]