“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] (Pause.) Those movements follow mental patterns, of course. [...]

(Long pause, dozing.) I bid you then a fond good evening, stressing once more, however, that additional material that you want will be given, and we will know when the time is right. [...]

[...] Jane sat dozing so long I didn’t know whether it was a pause or the end of the session. [...]

(Long pause.) That will be enough for now. [...]

[...] (Pause.) He has indeed of late made a decision to let go of a good deal of his bodily armor. [...]

[...] (Pause.) At the same time there are feelings that to relax would be to let go too much (louder)—slide into overly spontaneous behavior, to lack control over one’s life, to lose the observer’s fine focus. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Anything that I may say in a session is relatively agreeable to him, though its publication in book form may at times cause difficulty as he wonders how the material will be interpreted by others. [...]

(Pause.) The rigidity that was a general characteristic is breaking up, you see, so that by contrast portions of his body do feel vulnerable to him—soft, unprotected—but those feelings were to a large degree covered over before. [...]

(Pause.) Each species is endowed with emotional feelings, immersed in an interior system of value fulfillment. [...]

(Pause.) Your brains are not empty, but well-oiled machines ready to whirl into activity at your births. [...]

(Pause at 9:46.) The child feels that it is not safe to interact with the world, however. [...]

(Pause.) I will explain as best I can, though some of what I say will certainly seem contradictory to scientific knowledge.

(Long pause.) One particular experiment in consciousness may be pursued by one species, for example, and that knowledge given to another, or transferred to another, where it appears as “instinct.” [...]

(Long pause.) In a larger sense the same applies to any given species. [...]

[...] (Pause.) A people’s recognized god represents such a psychic plan, projected out as an ideal. [...]

[...] Give us a moment … (Long pause at 10:19.) I will have much more to say concerning this later in the book. [...]

[...] (Pause, eyes closed.) There is a circumstance happening in another place that will concern you both. (Pause.) I do not know if it refers to Ruburt’s father, but it is to the south of you, and there are papers involved. [...] The late 1800’s, or that is…(pause)…18 (pause) 76 or 86.

(During the session, Jane’s eyes had opened often, her pace had been mostly average with pauses, her voice average.)

[...] Slow at the start, but she did better as she went along, amid pauses. [...]

(Long pause.) They end up actually threatening their children, though usually they do not of course understand what they are doing. [...]

It is important that adults (pause) uncover such instances from their own childhood. [...]

[...] (Pause.) People who are exuberant are healthy. [...]

— to be called (pause): “The Private Probable Man, the Private Probable Woman, the Species in Probabilities, and Blueprints for Realities.”

(Pause.) In your terms, think of those ancestors in your family history. [...]

[...] (Pause, then humorously:) Mama and Papa, back at the homestead, know where their children have gone, in other words; they read with amusement, amazement, and wonder the communications from their offspring. [...]

(A pause lasting almost two minutes, starting at 11:12.) Give us a moment … There are alternate realities, and these exist only because of the nature of probabilities. [...]

(Pause at 9:16.) Your physical body … give us time … is, as an entity, the fleshed-out version — the physically alive version — of the body of your thoughts. [...] Their vitality automatically triggers (long pause, eyes open) all of the body’s inner responses. [...]

[...] Had the same number of people been found dead (pause) of a vicious disease — smallpox or whatever — the virus involved would have been the villain. [...]

[...] You have a natural immunity against all thoughts that do not fit in with your own purposes and beliefs, and naturally (pause, groping), you are “inoculated” with a wholesome trust and belief in your own thoughts above others. [...]

(Pause.) It is not unnatural. It is an eccentric (pause) behavior pattern. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) They want to sift their characteristics through a certain cast. [...] In almost all such cases (pause), such people will be embarked upon subjective issues and questions also that might not be considered otherwise. [...]

(Long pause.) The most important aspects of individuality are those subjective characteristics that on the one hand distinguish each person from the other, and that on the other hand are each like sparkling psychological mosaics, giving separate, exquisite individual versions of that larger pattern from which mankind emerges. [...]

(Long pause at 9:13.) I am also stating that the species is itself aware of those conditions that lead to its own value fulfillment, and that of its members. [...]

[...] While the Roman Catholic Church gave him a powerful, cohesive belief system (pause), for many reasons those beliefs shifted so that the division between man and God became too great. (Pause.) Man the sinner took over from man the child of God. [...] (Pause.) The curiosity that had been directed toward divinity became directed toward nature. [...]

(With many pauses to start:) Dictation. [...]

In highly complicated cellular structures like yourselves (pause), with your unique mental properties, you end up with a vital inborn sense of shape and form. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) The art of drawing or painting to one extent or another always involves those two processes. [...]

[...] She used some pauses; I will try a new method of indicating them where they occur in the text. [...]

[...] (Pause.) He is becoming fairly proficient now in the use of the trance state, and in its controls. [...]

[...] (Pause.)

[...] (Pause.) This transitionary stage is rather difficult to perceive. [...]

(Long pause.) All of nature demonstrates this almost miraculous seeming simplicity. [...] (Long pause.) It may be true that animals do not need to know tomorrow’s weather, since they do not plant seeds or collect the harvest. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) The way toward health is simplicity itself.

(Long pause.) Ruburt had a dream with excellent connotations, in which he looked through a beautiful old house of lovely carved wood and spacious rooms, and decided to move into the house, even though it was in an area that had previously nearly been condemned — signifying that he was indeed rising from beliefs that he condemned into a larger, spacious area of expression.

(“Well, I guess that’s it,” Jane said after a pause.

[...] With many long pauses:)

(Long pause at 7:46, one of many.) If Ruburt once found himself imagining that he must be strong and perfect enough to help solve everyone else’s problems, now he found himself relatively helpless, and “undefended” —that is, his physical condition put him in a situation certainly where he felt helpless. [...]

(Very long pause at 7:50.) So contrary to its own beliefs, and helpless or not, Ruburt was holding his own. [...]

(Long pause at 8:00.) In a manner of speaking, the Sinful Self created the superhuman self-image that demanded so much, and it encased Ruburt’s body as if in concrete. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Some time ago¹ I suddenly appeared within your space and time. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Historically speaking, mankind chose a certain line of development. [...]

[...] (Pause at 11:35.) Your concepts of personhood are now limiting you personally and en masse, and yet your religions, metaphysics, histories, and even your sciences are hinged upon your ideas of who and what you are. [...]

(Long pause.) The self is multidimensional when it is physically alive. [...]

[...] The subjective experience of these personalities, the psychological existence of these personalities (long pause), is composed of (pause, frown) dimensions of value fulfillment, as considering your time, hours are composed of moments.

[...] (Pause.) Do you want an explanation concerning the sepia episode, or do you want, now, some material concerning the entity and time?

[...] (Pause.)

[...] (Pause.) Its own nature regulates its intensity, rather than any rules inherent in the nature of intensity itself. [...]

[...] Considering her sleepy state of a few minutes ago, her Seth voice was very good, her eyes open and dark, pauses as usual.)

[...] (Pause.) You have been most helpful in your reassurances, and they are indeed paramount, and he is holding himself well under those conditions. [...]

(Long pause at 8:22.) Greater energy and motion is also being generated. [...]

[...] The body at times needs certain kinds of fats, and at other times does not—so when you make too many food laws (pause), then there are at least indications of the old Jewish dietary habits. [...]

[...] (Pause.) A stretch of road leading to the city, on the outskirts... (Pause.) The woman, the older woman, is in a state of inner emotional turmoil, that should be resolved by the end of May.

[...] (Pause.) There are, as mentioned earlier, other roads that he could take. [...]

[...] (Pause.)

[...] (Long pause.) If Eve does not drive with her she will not be involved.

(Pause.) Not an invitation precisely at all, but reference to an occasion or visit. (Pause.)

(Jane began speaking while sitting down, in an average voice and with pauses at the beginning. [...]

[...] We resumed in about the same fashion, with a few pauses interspersed, at 9:45.)

[...] Without pausing, her eyes open and dark, Jane rose and went to the door and let the cat in. [...]

(A two-minute pause followed, ending at 10:04.)

[...] (Pause.)

[...] She said the two-minute pause at the start of the delivery took place because she was consciously “hung up” over how Seth was going to begin Chapter Five. [...]

(Long pause at 11:01.) You have heard the expression before, I am sure, that the environment expresses a particular individual’s personality. [...]

[...] (Pause.) All of this talk about exuberance, health and vitality may seem quite beside the point to many of you. (Long pause.) It may seem instead that the world is filled with unhappiness and disease.

[...] (Long pause.) You are not one thing and illness another, for your thoughts and emotions are the triggers that lead to bouts of poor health. [...]

(Long pause.) People have been taught that their bodies are a kind of battleground, and that they must be in a constant state of readiness lest they be attacked or invaded by alien germs or viruses or diseases that can strike without warning.