“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Here Seth refers to Bill, who leaves for Syracuse tomorrow on a business trip for the Elmira newspaper.)

[...] A stout man who either wears glasses, or has worn them, with pale eyes; or the lenses of his glasses are extremely pale. [...]

[...] An attempt to minimize or steer away from a main issue here, on the part of two gentlemen, who seem to offer instead a grab bag of tricks. [...]

There will be other people who leave in the meantime, and autocratic behavior. [...]

Someone here this evening mentioned that it seemed that you only learn what life is and who you are and then your life is over; the time is brief. [...] Those of you who have parents living see them daily grow older, and the scorn of youth turns to the compassion that comes with years, and the bravado changes to understanding. [...]

Now I want those of you who can to follow still further, for we will travel beyond these fields of probabilities in which all times are born. [...]

You are teaching yourselves the value of consciousness and vitality and strength and life, by pretending to yourselves that death is death and that your consciousness will not continue and that your parents who die are forever still, by pretending that the voices you have heard in childhood will be heard no more. [...]

[...] Those among you who can follow, then hold onto these sounds and let them carry you with our trying an experiment at your Seth’s suggestion. [...]

(Interestingly, my informant about Fred, who was probably connected with the Mansfield College in some way, had been in the town only since 1971. [...] My informant also mentioned the Jupenlasz harness shop in Mansfield, which I recall well, and talked of a Jupenlasz cousin, who runs it now; and there are still customers....

(As referred to in the last deleted session, Saturday evening we were visited for a half hour or so by Scott and Helen Nearing, who were participating in homesteading workshops at Mansfield State Teachers College for several days. [...]

[...] And Tam was interviewed today by Jim Poett who is still tracking down witnesses relative to the article he’s doing on Seth and us for the Village Voice. [...]

Emerson, Whitman, to some extent Thoreau—these were men who spoke of self-reliance, either in the natural or the spiritual world, or both. [...]

[...] It is you who choose among the probabilities, and from these you form the given collection that compose any particular event.

[...] They are massive energy sources, (pause), cosmic energy banks, who make possible the whole reality of probabilities.

[...] The other personality who speaks is on the edge of such a system. [...]

[...] They are always at his disposal, and those who have had connections with one another are always free to renew them, or to ignore them.

[...] The people coming in from the left represented later generations, in your terms, who had not yet arrived at the plain. The people to the right were those who had already passed beyond it. [...] The ideas had been put there by those who had already left.

[...] You are able to see for yourself not only the experiments that are being tried, but often to come into contact with other portions of yourself, who are involved in those experiments. [...]

[...] In your terms those people will be drastically different than those who have gone before. [...]

The people represent those who still have past and future lives in your terms. [...]

[...] During that session Seth suggested Jane and I do all we can to inform others who are interested in matters psychic. [...]

(As it happened many people who live in the house were away for various reasons, so Seth was well aware that neighbors wouldn’t be a hindrance to voice effects—at least as much as usual. [...]

(As he stated in the 68th and 170th sessions, Seth said that should he materialize in full view in the middle of the room it would not be considered as evidence by those who did not wish to believe it possible; they would ascribe it to mass hallucination, etc. [...]

(Ann Diebler asked Seth to give some information on a friend who lives in Norfolk, Virginia. [...]

[...] A brother who is a soldier. [...] A brother who is unsure as to his sex. [...]

[...] When that point is reached, you will be able, if you prefer, to experience any “Reality-Illusion" at your will, but the self who experiences these “reality-illusions" will know itself as reality. [...]

[...] We say that Shiva is playing a game and who is Shiva besides yourself?”)

(Shirley said this described her husband who has married again. [...]

[...] The doctor who tended her was an old family friend, knew both the father and son, both doctors.)

A mother who… Dropped dead at 35, or something happened drastically to change her, no, died at number 35, or had a psychological tragedy. [...]

(Sally said this described her husband who has married again. [...]

[...] The doctor who tended her was an old family friend, knew both the father and son, both doctors.) Two brothers. [...]

A mother who... [...]

(Also after supper it developed that Miss Callahan, the retired school teacher who lives in the front apartment on our floor, had evidently had an attack of some kind and was in urgent need of help. [...] Jane went to see Miss Callahan, who had difficulty answering the door, was suffering from lapses of memory, and was indeed in poor condition. [...]

[...] It finally ended when Jane and Leonard secured the help of another doctor, who arrived by midnight and stated that Miss Callahan should be in the hospital.

[...] The figure is a person you have known who will help you in your own endeavors... [...]

[...] In a life just previous to that one however, you were a woman with a bitter tongue, who spoke too often and too harshly, and so you set yourself among other things the task, in the Irish life, of speaking only to music. [...]

[...] Therefore you took on a helper, who played for you while you sang.

[...] When you work with tables, work with those who are experienced in such things...

(To me:) You spoke today, or this evening, about some [world] statesmen who are not young at all, and men and women who do not only achieve (pause), but who open new horizons in their later years. [...]

[...] (Why isn’t Eve’s age given in the Bible?) Enoch, the fifth elder listed after Seth, lived for a mere 365 years, but sired Methuselah, who at 969 years is the oldest individual recorded in the Bible. Methuselah was the father of Lamech (777 years), who was the father of Noah (950 years).

[...] But in your society many people never reach that point—or those who do are not recognized for their achievements in the proper way, or for the proper reasons….

For those who reach this state and utilize it, communication is clearest. [...] There are great men and women who go unknown. [...]

[...] 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.

Often they are incipient forms given activity by the personality who encounters them. [...]

[...] The stages are there for those who know what they are and how to use them. [...]

[...] He delivered a name and phone number from a woman in Alberta, Canada, who wanted Jane to call her. This was the same officer who’d brought us the message from Julia Bade two or three weeks ago. [...]

There is no human being alive who does not have creative abilities in his or her own way, achievements and excellent characteristics, so if you follow these instructions you will find out that you are indeed a worthy individual.

[...] Grown into adolescent years, the same offspring are then shocked to discover their parents to be quite human and fallible, and another conviction often takes over: a belief in the inadequacy and inferiority of the older generations, and in the rigidity and callousness of those who run the world.

[...] A belief that has positive results for a woman of twenty will not necessarily have the same effect for a woman of forty, who, for example, may still pay far more attention to her children than her husband.

[...] It is up to you as an adult to get on top of your beliefs, to realize that a mother who hates her child is already in difficulties, and that such a hate says far more about the mother than it does about her offspring. [...]

[...] Again, the male who was intuitive or artistically gifted in certain ways often therefore considered himself homosexual, whether or not he was, because his emotional and mental characteristics seem to fit the female rather than the male sex.

The woman who had interests beyond those acceptable as feminine was often in the same position. [...]

[...] Yet the nunneries also served as refuges for many women, who managed to educate themselves even under those conditions.

A good number of nuns were of course carrying the seed of those priests, and bearing children who acted as servants in monasteries, sometimes, as well as in convents. [...]

[...] Two serious notes: Alice Butts, who died last week, has already visited my father. And Dr. Instream, who would say “There is no Seth,” has not much longer to live. [...]

[...] He identified the short man who would be out as Jim Brady. [...]

There were others who did not want the man promoted, and these men do not want you promoted. [...]

I spoke of two other men who will be in league with you and the man from California. [...]

[...] John is also an indefatigable worker at finding people who are willing to devote free time to typing up extra copies of the material, and he had news for us on this score also. [...]

(It will be remembered that in the 63rd session, June 17, 1964, Seth stated that he could “also see a sort of trouble in September for a woman neighbor who lives three doors down the street from him” in Williamsport, PA, “the difficulty here somehow involving two children... [...]

[...] As there is no contact between the entity and the ordinary conscious ego, so there is no contact on a conscious level between the self who dreams and the dream world which has its own independent existence.

[...] The adult who commits suicide has still gained experience to some degree within your plane. [...]

[...] They do need people like you who are not so involved, who work in other areas, to help them.

Anyone who starts out to do so knows there are some risks. [...]

[...] Of people, who have the power to hurt you. [...]

Ruburt is correct: you would not have been happy in your mother’s old home, with beliefs and situations as they are; but on your part as well as Ruburt’s. The people who moved there did so for a reason, and they will bring “new blood” to the neighborhood.

[...] I will say more about this later in the book, but it explains for example why a diet-watcher, suddenly determined to lose weight, may meet with veiled or even open resistance from family or friends; why the person who makes new resolutions may find himself baffled by associates’ ridicule; why the alcoholic trying not to drink finds others tempting him quite openly, or teasing him into indulgence by hidden tactics.

When someone who has been ill starts on the road to recovery through changing his beliefs, he may be quite surprised to find even his dearest allies suddenly upset, reminding him of the “reality” of his dire state for the same reasons.

[...] There may be those who need the old framework, and someone, if not you, to play the part you played before. [...]

[...] You must realize that you are the one who produced that “physical evidence” that still faces you, and you did so through your beliefs.