“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The quality of the air seemed to aggravate the noise, and quite often during the session Jane appeared to pause until the noise abated temporarily. [...]

[...] She used many pauses, some of them quite long.)

(Another long pause, until the traffic noise subsided. [...]

[...] She used many pauses other than those indicated, and said she was aware of the traffic noise at times. [...]

(Long pause at 8:50.) You are bound to have, then, many larger dream formations that can only be called group dreams—subjective events in which your own dreams happen, and in which your own dreams take part. [...] They are as important to the operation of that reality as electrons are to your physical one (long pause), providing inner pathways for the accumulation of wisdom and pleasure.

[...] (Long pause.) Dreams serve as backup systems also, for example, in the important communications between various peoples or nations—and, particularly when physical communication is cut off between such groups, dreams provide the continuation of information’s flow from one part of the species to another.

Those sequences follow the pursuits of value fulfillment so smoothly that they can be reactivated whenever the conditions are fortunate—for even the animals are not concerned with simple survival alone, nor the plants, but with what I can only call (long pause) emotional qualities: qualities that seek a full appreciation and creative extension of those conditions of consciousness that stamp each species as itself and yet join it with all others.

(Long pause at 9:10, then all intently:) In a fashion your own dreams operate or appear as electrons in other realities. [...]

He is in his room (pause), a photograph of his wife on a dresser. [...] (Pause.) Is he dressing to go out at this hour? [...] (Long pause at 10:04.)

[...] Her pace was rather slow, with many pauses, yet her voice was somewhat stronger than usual. [...]

[...] She maintained the heavier, emphatic voice, even with the pauses.

(Jane now sat with her eyes closed and spoke in a slow voice with many pauses, most of them short. [...]

[...] I do not want to hurt either of your feelings (pause), but in your cases the creation of a crisis period is not beneficial. This does not mean there cannot be discussion, or decisions made about seeking help from others, or whatever, but that the idea of a crisis situation aggravates the very natural feelings (long pause) that are present and unfortunately exaggerated in the entire situation. [...]

(Long pause.) Expression should be encouraged on both of your parts, so that that nonspecific directive is freer to find its own specific utterance. [...] (Long pause.) Your conflict personally about doing the lawn, or having it done for you, is by the way a minor example of your do-it-yourself tendencies coming in conflict with other ideas—a point I wanted to mention. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Love-making is extremely important in that regard, for of itself it brings about an overall betterment in body and mind. [...]

[...] Because of Ruburt’s background (long pause), he feared abandonment often. [...]

[...] (Pause.) I also believe that Dr. Instream had a drink of a liquor which he is not accustomed to drinking as a rule. (Pause.) That he would not ordinarily choose, for example.

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(Long pause.) Your father and two brothers were originally part of the same entity. [...] (Pause.) The main energy of the man you call your father left long ago, as I told you. He (pause) gathered his energies together and is waiting, but part of his energies were given to the son of Ruth (my first cousin).

(Pause. Jane’s pace had slowed considerably with the start of this material, and she began to take many pauses, some of them quite long. [...]

(Long pause.) He could not materialize. [...]

(Long pause.) Are you tired?

[...] The lights were my thoughts (pause), in their electromagnetic form. [...] (Long pause.)

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[...] (Pause.) And now he will not. [...]

[...] I wanted to make clear the fact that illness can be a method of learning (long pause), and to tell you that Ruburt’s subjective feelings this evening were legitimate. [...]

(Jane paused at 10:07. [...] Her voice was quiet and she used pauses, a few of them long.)

A blue vase (long pause) of glass on a stand or table in a smallish room. [...] (Pause.)

[...] Her voice was quiet, her pace slow at the beginning, with pauses.)

[...] Perhaps the initials B. M. (Pause.)

[...] (Pause.) The switch of course, again, can never become total, but science—and medical science in particular—almost managed to divorce man from his natural feeling of trust in his own capacities, so that it seems for example that medical science per se knows more about any given individual’s body than the individual does himself. (Pause.) This is because of the projection of the entire idea of body mechanisms, per se, as opposed to inner spontaneous bodily workings. [...]

(Pause at 9:50.) I also want to stress the fact that the entire psychic area of expression belongs to the natural person. [...]

(Long pause at 9:56.) The entire dynamics of civilization to a large extent is related directly to man’s individual and mass psychic experience, and he ever receives fresh information from those inner sources. [...]

(Pause.) Our material was precisely the kind that would directly threaten old beliefs, so in that regard there were bound to be points of conflict. [...]

(Pause.) They help the individual impress the world — that is, to act upon it and within it effectively. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Impulses are spontaneous, and you have been taught not to trust the spontaneous portions of your being, but to rely upon your reason and your intellect — which (amused) both operate, incidentally, quite spontaneously, by the way.

(Pause at 10:04.) I am using the term “impulses” for the understanding of the general public, and in those terms molecules and protons have impulses. [...]

I am not speaking of anything (pause) like “repression,” as it is used by psychologists, but a far deeper issue: one in which the very self is so distrusted that natural impulses of any kind become suspect. [...]

(Pause at 10:30.) Think again about this form that you sent to the oceanside. [...] (Pause.) The image then follows its own laws of reality, and to some extent, and to a lesser degree than you, has a consciousness. (Pause.)

(Long pause at 11:01. Jane was now pausing very noticeably between many phrases as she delivered this material.)

(10:02 to 10:20.) There are also realities (pause), that are “relatively more valid” than your own; in comparison, strictly for an analogy, for example, your physical table would appear as shadowy in contrast, as [like] those very shadowy tables we imagine. [...]

[...] It is obviously filled with all kinds of phenomena (pause), that make no impression at all upon your perceptive mechanisms. [...]

(Pause, one of many.) Light can be defined as a wave or as a particle,² and the same is true in many other instances. [...]

[...] (Pause.) When you ask how old is the universe, or how old is the world, then you are taking it for granted that time and space are somehow or other almost absolute qualities. [...]

(Pause at 9:23.) The physical world as you know it is unique, vital to the importance of the universe itself. [...]

(Long pause.) When you are dreaming you cannot pinpoint your dream location in the same way that you can determine, say, the chair or the bureau that may sit on the floor by the bed in which you dream. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The practical idealist (pause)…. [...]

(Pause.) Life at all levels of activity is propelled to seek ideals, whether of a biological or mental nature. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You may begin to concentrate your attention on such activities. [...]

(Long pause at 9:48.) Any new law always follows the change in belief. [...]

(Pause at 9:04, one of many.) Each “particleized” unit, however, rides the continual thrust set up by fields of consciousness, in which wave and particle both belong. [...] (Pause.) These units can be considered, again, as entities or as forces, and they can operate as either. [...]

I want you to try and imagine a situation in which (long pause) there exists a psychological force that includes within its capabilities the ability to act simultaneously on the most microscopic and the most macroscopic levels; that can form within itself (long pause, eyes closed) a million separate inviolate unique identities, and that can still operate as a part of those identities, and as a larger unit that is their source—in which case it is a wave from which the particles emerge. [...]

(Long pause.) They take certain forms, then, when they operate as particles, and experience their reality from “the center of” those forms. [...]

[...] However (pause), in its purest form a unit of consciousness can be in all places at the same time (forcefully). It becomes beside the point, then, to say that when it operates as a wave a unit of consciousness is precognitive, or clairvoyant, since it has the capacity to be in all places and all times simultaneously.

[...] The “sinful-self syndrome” (long pause) was activated or heightened or highlighted in the last year or so in particular as you saw yourselves in a crisis situation (long pause), and to one extent or another Ruburt felt that he would be forced to ask for medical help if he did not further help himself. [...]

(Very long pause at 8:13, one of many.) I have most of the material we need now, but must also organize it so that it has the most therapeutic effect possible, and so that it clears Ruburt’s understanding in emotional, intuitive as well as intellectual ways. [...] While this material is being delivered, and while you and Ruburt are dealing with it (long pause), certain emotional aspects should come to the fore to make the affair more beneficial. [...]

(Then in a much stronger voice, with little tremor, and eyes dark and closed often, and with many long pauses:)

Its organization, however, must be its own, coming from many angles of experience, involving Ruburt’s own expression as well as yours—and this material will bring us to a reactivation (long pause), back to certain points of reference you were involved in last summer.

(Pause at 10:01.) A sudden or intense belief in health can indeed “reverse” a disease, but in a very practical way it is a reversal in terms of time. [...]

(Pause.) The biological structure as it existed in the past is therefore affected. [...]

[...] (Pause.) In your terms, this action is in the process of automatically changing the nature of rational consciousness — which is, as you think of it, in a state of evolution.

(Long pause at 10:59.) Give us time….

[...] (Long pause, head down, eyes closed.) Whether or not projections are conscious, they occur in any case, and the personality learns from them. [...] (Long pause.)

(Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed, in a voice a bit deeper than usual and with pauses.)

[...] Jane stared at me, then took a long pause with her eyes closed.)

[...] She had spoken with many short pauses, sipped iced tea and smoked. [...]

(Long pause at 9:48.) Give us a moment.... (Long pause.) The strain of trying to live up to such images causes tension, of course. [...]

(Pause.) Now you have always from childhood drawn or painted, and in that regard there has been that constant interest. [...]

(Pause at 9:35.) Such ideas, then, prevent you from enjoying your own accomplishments, as you should more properly do, and from enjoying their growth through time, from the background that was your own. [...]

(Pause.) Today’s mail shows of course the better side of your readership, letters from people in many walks of life who are not fanatics, but who are normal individuals who recognize quality and who are seeking it. [...]

(Long pause.) The feet are connected with the overall situation itself. [...] You used this period, however, yourselves, as a time to critically aggravate the symptoms (long pause), almost as if you were looking over a body of work to see what you thought of it, and what you wanted to do next. [...]

(Slowly, with many pauses at times:)

[...] You suspected that you were not as “mired” (long pause) as other people were, and also that in some fashion you were not as committed to usual (underlined) physical experience. [...]

(Long pause at 9:30.) It might be fairly easy, Ruburt suspected, to become even contemptuous of others. [...]

[...] Our object is a small framework (pause), small as if made of matchsticks. It is light(pause), and miniature, and formed of squares. [...]

[...] Light in color (pause), mainly vertical in form; that is, taller than it is wide. It may have a connection with an L P. (Long pause at 10:12.)

[...] Remember that the above material was delivered with many pauses interspersed. [...]

[...] She used many pauses. [...]