“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(A remark she made yesterday probably had helped crystallize my own new determination to do something about what seemed to be a badly eroding situation: She said that Tam had recently told her that Mass Events was due to be published on the 13th—today—with God of Jane due out early in May. [...] I knew they were due out soon, but slipped up in my own awareness that their publication could—would cause her additional problems; my opinion was based on her paper of last December, in which she wrote that from its very inception she had been concerned about the reception Mass Events would be accorded by various elements of the public.

(Several times during recent weeks I’ve said that I wished we’d withdrawn Mass Events from publication, using the disclaimer controversy as a ready-made excuse. [...]

[...] Especially important here was Mass Events, which I regard as the main trigger of the moment.

(As soon as I’d finished reading my list of points to her, this morning, Jane called Tam about the publication of Mass Events. [...]

[...] Some of them even bring themselves to their own destruction through what you would call suicide, and en masse. [...]

[...] In a natural situation, this might involve a mass migration from one territory to another. [...]

In order for consciousness to develop in your terms, there must be freedom for the exploration of all ideas individually and en masse. [...]

[...] (See the 619th session in Chapter Four, as well as the first session in this chapter.) You accepted those ideas for a reason, individually and en masse, for mankind at any given “time” has a strong idea of the particular sort of world experience it will create.

[...] Sometimes mass alterations of mood and the exhaustion of energies.

[...] The weather, at any given time, is a direct physical interpretation of the inner mass mind. [...]

[...] Very definite and unique electrical changes occur in the skin, which change on a mass level the atmosphere at any given unit.

[...] That you form the universe as you know it en masse and individually from the focal point of this moment, from the focus of this moment that all of your selves exist now and are not done and finished anymore than you are done and finished. [...] En masse and individually, as you know, you form the room, the funiture, the time, the setting in which it now seems to you, you exist. [...]

[...] Pendulum tells me the side bothers because I’m not working on Mass Reality, which will get us money, whereas Through My Eyes is a less-certain project, would take longer, and the time I spend on it is time lost on Mass Reality. [...]

[...] I do want to work on Mass Reality, so as soon as I finish my filing for Through My Eyes, I’ll start in on Mass Reality.

(“Tonight the pendulum says just what it did yesterday—that I feel poorly because I estimated a high income when we don’t have it in sight; that I think I should be working on Mass Reality instead of Through My Eyes because the former will bring in sure money; that I think I don’t contribute enough financially; that I feel lousy because I want something definite to work on —that at this time I’m not contributing enough. [...]

Because you do not rely upon mass suggestions and mass frameworks, it is then highly vital that you learn to set up your own alternate patterns. [...]

[...] They run directly counter to the many beliefs by which the masses live their lives. Our ideas will filter through the masses. [...]

Part of the book will deal with mass suggestions and their effects, and benefits. [...]

[...] Finally I decided that I’d just have to go along with the mass belief that the events were happening now and act as if they were, even if I knew better....

[...] I told her I was primarily interested in but two things, both personal: her reactions to Mass Events and God of Jane in connection with her symptoms, and what was going on in her backside and hips. [...]

[...] My book and his—that is, Mass Events and God of Jane—both do take public stands. [...]

[...] The telling itself makes the affair seem complex—but whether or not you are dealing with private behavior, with the treatment of one person in regard to his or her own impulses, or whether you are dealing with a mass event of political nature, involving the enforced blockage of impulses on the part of one group toward another, you are necessarily cutting down on the exercise of free will. [...]

The information in Mass Events and in our sessions helped him use impulses to a far better degree than he had before, and helped him keep some balance, let him advance in understanding despite the period of difficulty. [...]

[...] When it did, Seth followed the nonbook portion of the last session so well that we want to include it in Mass Events. [...]

[...] And all of these portraits are alive and interacting, and as they interact they form the planetary, mass social and political events of your world.

[...] As soon as you did, I felt a circle of information open up — a lot of it — about when ancient man had a series of mass dreams in which he learned how to speak. [...]

[...] They move toward like thoughts, and you have as a species an inner mass body of thought. [...]

Give us a moment … All of this applies en masse in terms of diseases, for example, that run rampant through a species.

I will have more to say concerning illnesses, epidemics, and mass disorders in this book.

Mass and form may seem synonymous, but they are not. Mass is not dependent upon weight. [...]

[...] You simply have form without mass, to all practical purposes, and there is no contradiction in that statement.

The impression of several items, of various shape and diverted mass, with separations. [...]

[...] The earthquake is a mass natural catastrophe, seeming then to be perpetrated upon man and his cities by an earth that certainly does not take man or his civilization into consideration.

[...] The world with its wars or disasters, its illnesses or poverty, its mass or private tragedies, seems to be thrust upon man or to happen—again without his consent.

[...] Man then understood that he did form his own reality in all of its aspects, both privately and en masse, and in terms of natural earth events, as well as for example the events of his society. [...]

You have a mass psychological environment that forms your worldly culture, and corresponds to a worldly stage set in which experience then occurs. [...]

Therefore, at levels that would appear chaotic to you, there is a great mixing and merging of consciousness, a continual exchange of information, so to speak; an open-ended exploration of possibilities, from which in your terms events privately and en masse emerge.

In such ways each individual maintains a picture of the everchanging physical and psychological mass environment. [...]

Practically speaking, some soreness was to be expected, because of mass and private beliefs about the body. [...]

[...] Your beliefs about age, like everything else, will form your experience, and your mass beliefs will affect your civilization. [...]

[...] Those following mass beliefs will find that their own image of themselves has changed. [...]

An attempt must be made to correlate seemingly diverse aspects of experience, to combine ideas of light and dark, consciousness and unconsciousness, and so forth, not only in private but mass experience.

[...] The child who gets the mumps with a large number of his classmates, however, knows he has his private reasons for joining into such a mass biological reality, and usually the adult who “falls prey” to a flu epidemic has little conscious awareness of his own reasons for such a situation. He does not understand the mass suggestions involved, or his own reasons for accepting them. [...]

They experiment very often, and quite secretly, since their elders are at the same time trying to make the children conform to a given concrete reality that is more or less already mass-produced for them.

(Although Seth didn’t call this session book dictation, Jane and I decided to show portions of it in Mass Events for two reasons: 1. The material in Note 1 can be taken as an extension of the discussion on reasoning and the intuitions that Seth gave in the 825th session. [...] This thinking also applies to anything Jane and I may want to add on either of those two mass events.

[...] Hardly a coincidence, for the mass minds of the people are able to make certain joint statements, and those statements are heard.

[...] Those books are for the mass market, and (louder) they touch certain elements in the mass mind that yearn for miracles—looking for the wrong reasons for the wrong things, displayed it seems for the wrong reasons.

[...] His condition was his individual reaction to general mass beliefs of a negative nature. [...]

[...] There are mass dreams “attended by many.” There are themes, both mass and private, that serve as a basis or framework. [...]

[...] On this level individual dreams help form mass reality, yet also to some extent arise from it in the same way that local weather conditions contribute to world weather conditions, while they are formed by them at the same time.

[...] You can see how your own creativity is emerging in the notes for Mass Events. [...]