“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Once again Jane used many very long pauses as she spoke for Seth. [...]

(Long pause.) The entire picture of physical life as you understand it must be of course experienced from your own viewpoint, but its complexity, its order and magnificence of structure and design should be understood as composing but one example of the infinite number of realities, each constructed by the propensities and characteristics of its own nature and the nature of its own consciousness.

[...] It seems to you, then, that the world began—or must have begun—at some point in the past¹ (a one-minute pause at 9:18), but that is like supposing that one piece of a cake is the whole cake, which was baked in one oven and consumed perhaps in an afternoon.

[...] Those inner fields of reference in which you have your existence are completely changing themselves as your experience is added to them, and your own (long pause) identity was couched in those references before birth as you understand it.

(Long pause.) Whenever man believes that life is meaningless, whenever he feels that value fulfillment is impossible, or indeed nonexistent, then he undermines his genetic heritage. [...] (Pause.) The animals are quite as familiar with faith, hope, and charity as you are, and often exemplify it in their own frameworks of existence to a better extent. [...]

[...] Such dreams provide (pause) the subjective understanding from which thoughts are developed, and in those terms complete thoughts are possible before the brain itself is fully formed. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) The ability to conceptualize is present in the fetus, and the fetus does conceptualize. [...]

(Long pause at 9:22.) Give us a moment…. [...]

(Jane took a long pause in trance at 9:10.) Give us a moment…. (Long pause.) They provide the power that allows you to form a belief system to begin with.

[...] Quietly, with many pauses, a few of which are indicated:)

[...] (Pause.) I do claim an independent reality at another level of existence. [...]

(Pause.) Now: While you believe that consciousness somehow emerges from dead matter, you will never understand yourselves, and you will always be looking for the point at which life took on form. [...]

(Jane’s pace was quite slow, with many long pauses. [...]

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(Quietly): I may pause now and then to give you a rest.

(Jane paused frequently here as she spoke for Seth. [...]

[...] (Pause.) There has been a dabbling in occult matters and some chicanery. [...] (Pause.) The nearest approximation here: C, H, A, R... [...] (Pause. [...]

M, A, N, A, U, P, (pause) A, U, L, T the last name. [...] (Pause) Some connection here with the first historical personality whom we have run across: a very far distant connection to Joan of Arc, on the mystic’s father’s side, twice removed. [...]

[...] (Pause.) And here we do find abilities shown, ignored and misused through a succession of lives. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Therefore Ruburt’s idea of a new program is a quite natural therapeutic one. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) The nature of creativity, regardless of any given specific manifestation, is shown in an overall generalized fashion that automatically increases the quality of life, and such benefits are definite regardless of what other conditions also become apparent. [...]

(Long pause at 8:48.) If the apparent trigger of a difficulty is a creative accomplishment, then the difficulty itself is “loaded” also with its own natural therapeutic solutions. [...]

(Long pause at 8:51.) Give us a moment.... [...]

(Jane paused at 10:10. [...] Her pace was now slower, with many brief pauses.)

[...] (40-second pause.) Upholstery. [...] This is our object. (Pause.)

[...] She didn’t have to pause while giving the regular material to get this message, but seemed to receive it on another level simultaneously with the material she gave voice to. [...]

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[...] (Long pause.) Church records kept in a vault in the basement. (Long pause.) Later, much later, a track of some kind was built very near by the church property. [...]

[...] Her voice was quiet and she paused frequently.)

[...] (Long pause, eyes closed.)

[...] (Long pause.) A Gaylor family was connected with the church. [...]

[...] (Pause.) He fears he will die in his sleep and face eternal damnation. [...] (Pause.) He feels freer under all circumstances in this room (the living room) because he could run out onto the roof.

[...] No one in his neighborhood did, you see. (Pause.) He denies himself then out of fear. [...]

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[...] (Jane paused. [...]

(Long pause at 9:56.) So controls were needed lest the conscious mind, denied full use of the animals’ innate taboos, run away with itself. [...]

[...] Without that pause — in which man can remember past in the present, and envisage a future — natural guilt would have no meaning. [...]

(Long pause at 10:08.) We are taking this slow….

Presently you have a condition in which overpopulation is compensated for by wars (pause), and if not by wars then by diseases. [...]

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[...] (Pause at 10:13.) There is a crash, audible from the table, but it comes from another room.

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She will now (pause) give him full attention, you see, that he has craved. (Pause.) What was your next question?

[...] (Pause.) AA (the personality inhabiting the table) is also learning. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The book (Psycho-Cybernetics) will do you every bit as much good as it will do Ruburt, and I recommend it heartily, with some variations, as a basis upon which to build the rest of your days. [...]

[...] Because of his background with his mother he had built up in defense a strong dislike, not merely for illness, for this (Jane, eyes open wide, pointed at me for emphasis), is beneficial, but a strong dislike (pause) that amounted almost (underlined) to hatred, for anyone who was sick, particularly crippled in any way, or hampered in motion.

[...] (Pause.) In a strange fashion he does not feel a responsibility to write poetry—he doesn’t use the ability because he thinks that he should. [...]

[...] (Pause.) He would see to it that as many persons as possible had the opportunity to see a session, and he would furthermore also be developing his own psychic experience at a far greater rate. [...]

(Pause.) You had some time ago an old newspaper article you had saved, on the dangers of using the words “should” or “would” too often—and there is perhaps nothing else you could do that is as detrimental to the true development of the natural self. [...]

(Pause.) Most people work so many hours, then relatively speaking follow their pleasures to whatever extent possible. [...]

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[...] (Pause.) A bedroom with two windows would be of help but is not feasible now. [...]

[...] (Pause.) I am letting him do a good bit of his own work, however, rather than doing this for him. [...]

[...] (Pause.) I found the affair amusing.

[...] (Pause.) Implied questions were also asked hidden within the formulas. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) It pierces, opening up dimensions through which the consciousness can then perceive events or on occasion travel through the dimension to experience the events more directly.

(Very long pause at 8:31.) It was in its way a more controlled experience for Ruburt than even the weekend before. [...]

I am obviously not saying (pause) that you cut off Ruburt’s thyroid medication. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) “A way” of dealing far more effectively with your problems will automatically present itself, and you must believe that you are making manipulations at all levels of actuality, whether or not they show—because they will be showing (intently). [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Your massage today, for example (after Hal Williams), was an excellent translation of love and comfort, felt directly at one level of your own being, to the level within Ruburt where it was most needed. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) You are a part of the world, and yet you are yourself. [...]

(Long pause at 10:01.) You take your breathing, your moving, for granted, though they are unconsciously produced. [...]

I said that languages gain their meaning largely from the pauses and hesitations between sounds. [...]

[...] You take your particular “language” so for granted, and use it so effortlessly, that you give no thought at all to the fact that it implies other languages also, or that it gains its meaning because of inner assumptions that are never spoken, or by the use of pauses in which no sounds are made. [...]

[...] (Pause.) While men had their dream bodies alone they enjoyed a remarkable freedom, of course, for those bodies did not have to be fed or clothed. [...]

[...] Those affiliations fell into being as all of the consciousnesses that were embarked upon physical reality divided up (long pause) the almost unimaginable creative achievements that would be responsible for the physically effective world.

(Pause.) What was it like when man awakened from the dream world?

(Jane began speaking with many pauses, some of them quite long.)

[...] Jane’s pace had remained quite slow with many pauses. [...]

The beginning of your physical universe occurred when conscious energy directed enough of its attention (long pause) in what was generalized dimension, to spark the formation of physical properties. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Consciousness then formed out of itself a new dimension which was the physical one. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You should not be involved now or in the near future in any communications endeavor that involves a taking on of other roles in any sort of acting. [...] (Pause.)

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