“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Dictation: The state of grace is a condition in which all growth is effortless, a transparent (pause), joyful acquiescence that is a ground requirement of all existence. [...]

[...] His connections will be of a more biological nature and will not provide the leeway (pause), that your own mental conditions allow you.

(Pause at 10:34.) The animal has no such need. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Why was your home ransacked, and not your neighbor’s? [...]

(Long pause.) The same sort of thing operates in the actualization of any event in which you are involved. [...]

(Pause at 11:15.) In many “native” cultures an individual is not considered in terms of his age at all, and the numbering of years is regarded as insignificant. [...]

[...] She spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed, in a quiet voice, and with pauses. [...]

(Jane now took a very long pause.)

[...] She resumed in a very slow manner, taking many pauses, at 10:30.)

(A one-minute pause at 9:49.) No one forces you to think in any particular manner. [...]

[...] Pause. [...]

(Still in trance, Jane took a long pause at 10:37. [...]

(Seth-Jane paused often while delivering the last sentence, obviously searching for just the right words.)

[...] (Pause.) Those unconscious memories will be activated according to your current beliefs. [...]

(Long pause at 10:01, eyes closed.) The living flesh is quite aware of certain facts that escape you on a conscious level. [...]

[...] Pause at 9:25.)

[...] In these terms, what you call death is simply the insertion of a longer duration of that pulsation of which you are not aware, a long pause in that other dimension, so to speak.

(Pause at 10:11.) In many cases of senility, for example, the strongly organized portions of personality have already left the body, and are meeting the new circumstances. [...]

The President at the time, and through all of his life before (pause), was at heart a stern, repressed idealist of a rather conventionally religious kind. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Your President at that time, however, had at his command vast information, so that he was aware of many groups and organizations that did not agree with his policies. [...]

(Pause.) No one is as fanatical, and no one can be more cruel, than the self-righteous. [...]

(Long pause, one of many, at 10:04.) Your sense apparatus determines what form that something will take, however. [...]

(Long pause.) Natural disasters represent an understandably prejudiced concept, in which the vast creative and rejuvenating elements important to planetary life, and therefore to mankind, are ignored. [...]

[...] (Pause.) If there were no death, you would have to invent it (smile) — for the context of that selfhood would be as limited as the experience of a great sculptor given but one hunk of stone (with quiet dramatic emphasis).¹

(Long pause.) In that regard also, the activities of the inner environment are too fast for you to follow intellectually. [...]

[...] Using many pauses, Jane began speaking very softly for Seth.³)

[...] As I speak he is experiencing certain sensations, in which his body feels drastically elongated (pause), the head reaching out beyond the stars, the whole form straddling realities.

(Pause at 9:59.) At one time these postcards represented initial original visions and individual interpretations. [...]

(Long pause.) Once individual travelers took those snapshots, and they represented original interpretations of other realities. [...]

(Pause.) Our books are read also more often that it seems, for they are borrowed from others, and from libraries, by people who would not buy them in a store—not for financial reasons necessarily. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The connection he did not get had to do with the television commercials on the Carson show; the pressure applied by the medical profession, telling you not to trust the body, and the man, Doc [Severinsen], who is the master of ceremonies in a big show—signifying nothing as per your joint overall interpretation of the show in particular. [...]

[...] (Voice slow, slurred, long pauses.)

(Voice very slow and slurred all through here, and many pauses.)

[...] (Long pause.)

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[...] There was no doubt as far as I was concerned that every one of our standard explanations for life (pause) were relatively useless now, regardless of how much they might have helped or hindered us in the past.

(Long pause at 7:51.) It began to strike me that even my own physical incapacities were indeed creative ventures that appeared in my experience as bad, or limiting, or even tragic. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Maybe its actually when I feel most ambitious that I begin to feel most helpless, since I began to realize how little I’m actually doing. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) I tried to understand but felt half-doped—indeed. [...]

[...] (Pause.)I can stay longer. [...]

[...] (Pause.) She is looking for direction.

[...] (Long pause.) The feelings of abandonment are being expressed. [...]

(Very long pause at 4:20.) In many, even most upsetting experiences, there has been a resourceful power. [...]

[...] Then after a pause: “I’m getting stuff but I don’t know how I’m supposed to give it — through Seth Two, or what. [...]

[...] Pause. [...]

(Pause at 10:26. [...]

(Pause at 10:27. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Perhaps within an eight-month period, though I am not certain here of the time element. [...]

[...] (Pause.)

I give you then my very best wishes (pause), and my warm affection. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Give us time. (Pause.) When he goes to see your father he feels guilty because he is not seeing his mother, who is also in a home. [...]

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[...] (Pause.) You trust the extrerior sense of order you perceive in objects, and when they are distorted this brings a sense of alarm—again, in paintings, not sketches.

(Seth had paused, so I asked a question I hadn’t particularly planned on. [...]