“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] By all means express your emotions to each other as they naturally occur. Ruburt was not taught to love himself as a child, and thought of his talents as a way of justifying his existence — an existence of somewhat suspicious nature, he felt, since his mother told him often that he was responsible for her own poor health.

[...] I said that was a total misconception on her part, that I’d never had such ideas, nor wanted to do any such thing. It had never entered my head. [...]

[...] I’d never once questioned her loyalty or love, and I’d taken it that she felt the same way. [...]

[...] In the deepest of terms, if you understand my meaning, nothing is wrong. [...]

[...] Yet you may open the door on any given day to a probable world from your immediate standpoint, and never know the difference. This happens all the time, and I mean all the time.

[...] When I speak of atoms and molecules having consciousness, I mean that they possess a consciousness of themselves as identities. I do not mean that they love or hate, in your terms, but that they are aware of their own separateness, and aware of the ways in which that separateness cooperates to form other organizations.

I do not mean to overemphasize the point that this particular material is most difficult to explain, yet I can hardly stress the issue too strongly.

[...] This is not anywhere meant to justify the cruel slaughtering of animals by man under many circumstances.

(“As I came to the end of the long poem in mid-afternoon, I had more and more difficulty describing my feelings, and even in typing. [...]

to grasp these meanings,

(“This is never a complete process, but the transformation of inner data outward is a splendid — though sometimes disquieting — experience.

[...] We were NEVER externalized!’ These words do little to explain my emotional, subjective feelings of participation in this idea. [...]

[...] But these are words that you use easily without ever thinking what they mean, or more important, without feeling what you think they mean, and then separating that from your inner feelings about the words involved. [...]

[...] You realize when you avoid the verbal terms you are also avoiding coming to face with what the terms mean, not only to yourself, but what the terms mean to other people. [...]

[...] Your feelings will never betray you. Your instinctive self will never betray you. [...]

Now you may all take your break, and I will welcome you at the end of my merry monologue. [...]

[...] Because one seems so compliant and docile and one is so violent and unruly, you may never see the connections between their behavior, thinking them so obviously different. [...] Such unreconciled patterns of activity also mean that love is not being freely expressed.

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

[...] When a man kills another, regardless of his other beliefs a certain portion of his conscious mind is always aware of the violation involved, justify it though he may.

[...] (Pause.) End of chapter.

Now those beliefs separate man from his own nature.¹ He cannot trust himself — for who can rely upon the accidental bubblings of hormones and chemicals that somehow form a stew called consciousness (louder and quite ironic) — an unsavory brew at best, so the field of science will forever escape opening up into any great vision of the meaning of life. (Long pause.) It cannot value life, and so in its search for the ideal it can indeed justify in its philosophy the possibility of an accident that might kill many many people through direct or indirect means, and kill the unborn as well.²

[...] Some government officials say that the reactor may never see service again, that it may end up junked, or as a sealed mausoleum, a mute symbol of our nuclear age. [...]

[...] They search for beginnings and endings. [...]

[...] Their “truth” is to be found by studying the objective world, the world of objects, including animals and stars, galaxies and mice — but by viewing these objects as if they are themselves without intrinsic value, as if their existences have no meaning (intently).

Religious ecstasy does not need physical suffering as a stimulus, and such a means in the overall (underlined) will work against religious understanding. Those episodes, however, represent one of the ways in which man can actively seek suffering as a means to another end, and it is beside the point to say that such activity is not natural, since it exists within nature’s framework.

I feel sometimes as if I am expected to justify life’s conditions, when of course they do not need any such justification.

(Heartily:) End of session. [...]

[...] Maybe he’ll keep on with it like this, and it’ll end up in a book of its own someday. [...]

The end does not justify the means. [...]

(“I always feel funny when he ends a book,” Jane couldn’t help saying. “I can never believe it. [...]

End of session. End of chapter. [...]

End of book. End of session (louder).

You are extraordinarily gifted, and you certainly should be subconsciously aware of this, as well as take a conscious justified pride in it. [...] You will never be broke—I believe that is the term—again, at least not to any severe degree.

[...] But then we had never told him these sessions began on a borrowed board. [...]

[...] As break ended I was asking Jane if it would be possible for her, when her ability to receive these concepts was more developed, to then write out what the concept consisted of. [...]

Ruburt will never sit down and deliver the material in that fashion. [...]

[...] This does not mean they may not be of some service to those people. [...]

You want to show some tangible means of support, however, in that same literal fashion, to your brothers, since you feel they cannot understand what (underlined) you do. [...]

[...] There is a great history of masculinity that expressed itself through the development of thought, quiet meditation—and I do not necessarily mean of the mystical kind—of communion of the mind with nature. [...]

[...] When you paint, you feel you cannot justify your art, and in our books you wonder what percentage your notes and contributions might make in the overall royalties, say. [...]

[...] As far as I know Jane never did see this specific item among the papers. [...]

[...] The present exists as a series of electromagnetic connections in both the brain and the mind, and this is the only reality which you are justified in giving to your present.

[...] Once more, the past was never an independent, concrete object existing apart from the perceiving participator; for he made his past, and its only reality exists in the electromagnetic connections within his own organic and psychic structure.

[...] Suffice it to say that it is more than possible for an individual to react in the past to an event in the future which may never occur.

[...] However, not only was the end of this chapter not so imminent; Seth never did use Jane’s suggested chapter heading.)

[...] Now I do not mean to stress the negative by any means, so I suggest that you look to those areas of your life in which you are pleased and have done well. [...]

[...] In an ambiguous fashion, while concentrating upon nature’s exterior aspects in a very conscious manner, he still ended up denying the conscious powers of his own mind. [...]

[...] To this end drugs are utilized, cults set up, and there are methods and training manuals galore. [...]

I said before that no man acts out of the desire to be evil, but has always justified to himself his actions precisely by his own “good” intent. [...]

[...] Otherwise there would be none—meaning no world. [...]

[...] If you try to retire from the world in whatever fashion, then it is easy to exaggerate such threats, while never encountering one, or giving yourself the opportunity of easily conquering it.

The entire question brings out, however, those more important issues of self-righteousness, for in its name crimes are perpetrated that the self-confessed “sinner” would never attempt.

This obviously does not mean that the time of the body’s death would not come. It does mean that the seasons of the body would be understood as following those of the mind, ever-changing and flowing, with conditions coming and going but always maintaining the splendid unity within the body’s form. [...]

(Pause.) What is usually forgotten is the real nature of aggressiveness, which in its truest sense simply means forceful action. [...]

[...] Later in this book we will deal specifically with methods to that end. [...]

[...] When I use the word “repressed” I do not mean forgotten, or shoved into the unconscious, or beyond reach. [...]

[...] The author may know the book’s end, or allow the characters themselves to work out their own solutions. [...] The plot is left open, but in the deepest terms the whole self, through its personalities, probes deeply into the meaning of life in all of its manifestations. [...]

[...] I never heard Jane give better advice, though I doubted if an interview was going to do much about changing what seemed to be a lifetime’s habits.

I mentioned the Cinderella myth—and there, everything will come out all right in the end, somehow. [...]

Any purpose is better than none, and any intended personalized threat is better than an existence in which no life is important enough to be individually threatened, so these imagined threats serve to convince our young man that his life must have meaning or purpose—otherwise others would not be so intent on destroying him. [...]

A man’s purpose seemed to be no more than to put bolts together to make an automobile, to spend hours in a factory, working on an end product that he might never see—and because many such people felt that there was little intrinsic value to their lives, spent in such a fashion, they began to demand greater and greater compensation. [...]

[...] Men in one section of a continent dreamed of animals they had never physically seen, that inhabited other geographical areas. [...]

(10:12.) If men were considered equal, however, the ideas of Darwin and Freud came along to alter the meaning of equality, for men were not equal in honor and integrity and creativity—or heroism: —they were equal in dishonor (louder), selfishness, greed, and equally endowed with a killer instinct that now was seen to be a natural characteristic from man’s biological past. [...]

[...] All meaningful work means in the meaningful and productive relationship between oneself and the natural world, that contributes to both one’s own survival and fulfillment, and to the survival and fulfillment of the natural world. [...]

(Pause at 10:40.) Put together beliefs in a hostile world and an untrustworthy self, and you end up in difficulty if you are working with other concepts that tell you that spontaneity is good and that the self is to be trusted. [...] If you do not challenge them then you never come to the point of conflict. [...] It never occurs to you to trust it! [...]

(9:58.) For a while, though he would not admit it, he felt that he would be welcomed with open arms by someone, meaning some system. [...]

[...] Some of them you both dismissed for the very simple reason that they never temperamentally suited you to begin with. [...]

Now only a belief in hostility would justify such behavior. [...]

(End at 11:44. [...] No sooner had the session ended than I noticed that my hands felt “fat.” [...]

It should be obvious that although an idea is born in time, after its conception it is free from time in a way that a spider’s web can never be free from time. [...]

[...] The whole self is never completely constructed on your plane. [...]

[...] For a particular interval you must be taught as if there were cause and effect, so that the result of spontaneity would not end up as chaos. [...]

The idea of financial abundance and of an abundance of the good things in life will not limit you, nor limit the means possible by which they will come to you. In your imagination therefore do not limit the means. [...]

[...] This does not mean any change of careers, it simply means that you should keep yourselves open. [...]

[...] You had the means and did not use it.

[...] The feeling of expectancy is all important, that in the end all good can come today.

(11:02.) End of dictation. Now, you may ask me any questions that you have, or end the session as you prefer.

I do not mean to imply, however, that only the great share in this communication of consciousness. [...]

[...] This does not mean that the phenomenon is not real. [...]

[...] In the next level, for example, communication is possible with various kinds of consciousness that have never been physically manifested, in your terms — personalities who do not have a physical reality in either your present or future, yet who are connected with your system of reality both as guardians and custodians.