“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Pause.) New chapter (10): “The Good, the Better, and the Best. [...]

(Pause.) Very few people really act, again, from an evil intent. [...]

[...] (Pause.) On the surface level, such methods appear sometimes regrettable but necessary, but the deeper implications far outdo any temporary benefits, for through such methods men lose sight of life’s sacredness, and begin to treat it contemptuously.

(Long pause at 9:32.) That is why fanatics feel justified in their (underlined) actions. [...]

[...] (Pause.) When you see yourselves as being primarily in direct opposition to the ideas of the world (pause), then Ruburt feels the need also to overprotect himself from it. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The symptoms have served, then, as a framework. [...]

(Pause.) Painting should be enough, you may think sometimes, but you chose to be the kind of person who wanted to explore the greater reaches of reality, from which art itself emerges. [...]

(Long pause.) So far, there has been an overreliance upon, say, objectified science, and a repudiation of the intuitive portions of the self. [...]

(Pause.) Another difficult question. (Long pause.) I would have to give a “no” answer in the light in which you asked the question. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Other portions of Ruburt’s personality do utilize our material also, of course, and we deal with a certain kind of natural pacing. [...]

(Pause.) With the God of Jane Ruburt beautifully and expertly described his own experiences with beliefs, and at least hinted of his background. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Some of that material is now being used by the so-called Sinful Self itself—which is now open to new information. [...]

(Long pause.) You have settled upon a system that seems to be naturally based, the exclusive results of your historic past, one in which your main activities are daytime ones. [...] (Pause.) As a matter of fact, however, early man was a natural night dweller, and early developed the uses of fire for illumination, carrying on many activities after dark, when many natural predators slept. [...]

[...] Cultures that were night-oriented (pause) appreciated the night in a different fashion, of course, and actually utilized their consciousnesses (pause) in ways that are almost nearly forgotten. [...]

This meant, of course, a language (pause) that was in its way more precise than your own, for concepts were routinely expressed that described the vast complexity of subjective as well as objective events. (Pause.) There were myriad relationships, for example, impossible now to describe, between a person and his or her dream selves, and between the dream selves of all the members of the tribe. [...]

(9:44 in a fast delivery.) Give us a moment… .(Long pause.) To some extent Ruburt’s dissatisfaction with laying down after dinner also means that he is learning more about his own natural rhythms, for he does feel accelerated at that time, and by the evening, as you do. [...]

(With many pauses to start:) Dictation: During this period that we have labeled as belonging to the dreamers, certain subjective actions took place as the “structure” of earthly tuned consciousness formed the phenomena of “the self.”

(Long pause.) In one way or another, that inner information had to connect each consciousness on the face of the planet. [...]

(Pause at 9:23.) As the body became physical, however, the inner self formed the body consciousness so that the physical body became more aware of itself, of the environment, and of its relationship within the environment. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The body consciousness is not “unconscious,” but for working purposes in your terms, [the body] possesses its own system of consciousness that to some extent, now (underlined), is separated from what you think of as your own normal consciousness. [...]

(Long pause at 9:25.) In the first place, reality is primarily a mental phenomenon, in which the perceptions of the senses are organized and put together in ways that perfectly “mimic” in physical terms a primary (long pause) nonphysical experience. [...]

(Pause.) Communications between various scattered portions of the self often appear, again, in such situations as automatic writing, speaking, the hearing of voices, or through what the person believes to be telepathic messages from others.

Such (pause) “communications” with the gods or demons, St. Pauls or Hitlers, represent in such instances dramatized, exaggerated personifications of the portion of the personality that is at the head of the chain of command at the moment.

(A one-minute pause at 9:29.) Devils and demons have no objective existence. [...]

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[...] (Pause.) By changing the names of objects you automatically look at them in a new fashion, yet certainly all objects will not be given names, for this would defeat our purpose. [...]

[...] Pause.) As I have said often, language is used as often to distort as it is to clearly communicate. [...]

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(Long pause at 8:58.) The Sinful Self obviously is not a burden that Ruburt carries alone, but one inherent in your civilization. [...] (Long pause.) In terms of goodness, you can certainly tell the Sinful Self that health and vitality are indeed not only good, but in their way they represent the spiritual attributes. [...]

(Long pause.) It should be made a party to the process, then, very definitely, for it is its transformation and understanding that you seek. [...]

(Pause.) Ruburt might have one or two imaginary conversations with the Sinful Self. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) One small note: again, the Sinful Self should be assured it is good, it is not sinful. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) The feelings of panic represent any child’s fear of being abandoned by its parents or community if it is too rebellious. (Long pause.) Those feelings of panic are the ones that he has repressed, of course. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) He is not temperamentally trapped. (Long pause.) You have each of late allowed yourselves to see the situation in its poorest light—and that of course is part of the problem. [...]

(Long pause.) It did not feel it was being given any satisfactory recognition, however. [...]

[...] (Long pause, then intently but with a touch of humor:) I know you know this, but do not concentrate upon the problem. [...]

(Long pause.) Despite himself, and despite his followers, Hitler brought to flower (long pause) a very important idea, and one that changed your history. (Pause.) All of the most morbid of nationalistic fantasies that had been growing for centuries, all of the most grandiose celebrations of war as a nation’s inalienable right to seek domination, focused finally in Hitler’s Germany.

[...] (Pause.) Germany became the new Egypt, in which their people were set upon. [...]

(Pause at 10:00.) Both reacted as groups, rather than as individuals, generally speaking now. [...]

[...] In the same way (pause), Germany did not have the [atomic] bomb for the same reasons.

[...] (Long pause, over one minute.) This particular body type has not vanished entirely by any means. [...] (Long pause.)

[...] (Long pause.) You will learn to maintain stability and identity in the midst of a bewildering number of strange and previously unknown situations. [...] (Long pause.)

[...] Her pace was slow and she used many pauses, some of them long. [...]

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[...] (Long pause.) The affair with the school psychologist, and the class here, infuriated him, and he hid his reaction. [...]

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(Pause). [...] (Long pause.) In a way the material that Ruburt is receiving will also open new doorways even as far as our sessions are concerned. [...]

Deeply (pause) therapeutic elements are operating at all levels of Ruburt’s experience. [...]

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[...] (Pause.) There seems to be another younger woman connected with the older woman and in the background. [...]

[...] It is not just that highly accelerated versions of time can occur at other levels of actuality (long pause), but that there are dimensions in which those [versions] are no impediments to the natural “flow” (pause) of events into expression.

[...] She used many pauses in her delivery.)

(A one-minute pause at 9:34.) Give us a moment…. [...]

[...] Time itself emerges from idea, which is itself timeless (long pause), so in those terms there was no point where time began, though such a reference becomes necessary from your own viewpoint.

[...] (Pause.) There is some confusion regarding wheat products. [...] (Pause.)

(Jane paused while I sneezed.)

[...] (Pause.)Mints, not chocolate covered, will be of benefit. [...]

(Jane took a long pause, sitting with her eyes closed.)

[...] One was a painting purchased by Carl and Sue Watkins (which, half jokingly, we had called Moses); one, the portrait of me (pause); and one that you have not completed — that the Dean (Seth’s friendly title for Tom M., one of the members of ESP class) asked about recently, of a woman. [...] (Pause.) That is your answer.

[...] (Pause.) Also the state of Florida, near a small town beginning with a P, but a long enough name.

[...] (Pause.) He had one job, in what seems to be a factory location, in a rather dark environment, with rows of what I assume to be machinery and large windows, treated so that the sunlight did not shine through brightly.

[...] (Long pause.) The mother will hear from him, however. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Nevertheless there is an interaction here also which gives the chlorophyll its properties. (Pause.) This is one of the most difficult terms to explain. [...]

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[...] (Pause.) And really Jane, you’re giving your subconscious an awful lot of credit. [...]

(Long pause.) Such beliefs serve to limit your comprehension, until it seems often that physical life consists of a frantic struggle for survival at every level of consciousness. [...]

[...] (Pause.) All portions of the environment contain their own kinds of consciousness. [...]

[...] Seth had used many pauses. [...]

[...] (Long pause, then quite slowly:) All creatures are also born, then, with a keen sense of self-approval.

I am mentioning this only to stress the fact that self-delight and self-approval (long pause) are natural characteristics — characteristics that actually make your entire physical world, and world of experience, possible.

(Long pause at 4:16.) All creatures are basically of good intent; even when they commit the most dubious of acts, these are usually caused by a misdirected good intent. [...]

(“It’s me,” Jane said after a pause.