“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Today — just in time — we’d received a letter from a young lady who played a supporting role in the film. [...]

[...] On the other hand, many who speak most glowingly, in the most idealistic fashions, underneath are filled with the darkest aspects of pessimism and despair. [...]

[...] They are unfulfilled idealists who are not content to express idealism in steps, one at a time, or indeed to wait for the practical workings of active expression. [...]

In the meantime, he looks with horror and disgust at the older men who have worked there for years, “getting drunk on Saturday nights, thinking only of the narrow world of their families,” and he is determined that the same thing will not happen to him. [...]

Give us a moment … The complete physician would be a person who learned to understand the dynamics of being, the soul-body relationship — one who was healthy in his or her own body. [...]

[...] The person who is healthy understands the dynamics of health. [...] It would seek out people who were healthy and learn from them how to promote health, and not how to diagram disease.

[...] (Emphatically:) A person who wants to live will seize upon the tiniest hope, and respond. [...]

[...] When you seem to suffer in contrast to the development or situation of any other specific or generalized persons, it is when you are trying to live up to artificial pictures of yourselves—of people who should have been as knowledgeable years ago as they are now, and who therefore now should be at much greater stages of development. [...]

[...] She’d been waiting impatiently for some time for you-know-who to put in an appearance.)

When you ask why you did not understand when you were young what you know now, you are ignoring the validity of your own past to some extent, and denying the accomplishments that have resulted—because it seems that you should now be much further on, so that you create a kind of artificial self who began where you are now, and with whom it seems you can never catch up. [...]

[...] There is, for example, a part of you who is very aware of these pulsations, and who is aware of pulse sense of memory. [...]

What so many want is a god who walks down the street and says “Happy Sunday, I am I, follow Me.” [...]

[...] It is you who do not realize this. [...]

[...] There is, for example, a part of you who is very aware of the pulsations you have just been discussing, and who is aware of the pulse-like nature of memory. [...]

[...] What so many want is a God who walks down the street and says, “Happy Sunday, I am I, follow me.” [...]

[...] It is you who do not realize this. [...]

[...] I ask those of you who are ready to follow with me as we have observed you then in your own way as you are able follow us. We are trying to not observe, as much as appreciate, the nature of your present existence; so those of you who are curious and willing about the nature of nonphysical reality then follow as far as you can, using the voice as a guideline into existence that has no reality in physical terms, that knows neither blood nor tissue, that knows not hand or finger or arm. [...]

To those of you who are not regular students I bid you welcome and both of you have hitchhiked through time also. [...]

[...] This is true of individuals, but it also applies to many so-called survival groups, who congregate in one or another portion of the country, collecting supplies to carry them over the holocaust and to defend their families from those who might steal their provisions.

[...] There are instead most beneficial groups in this country and abroad, who actually, actively, yet peacefully join together to work for worldwide nuclear disarmament, and also to tackle such questions as nuclear waste. [...]

[...] Those who stood in the positions of King (Martin Luther) and of both Kennedys bring the inner psychic problems to a head. In one way they act as physicians, but they are also the patient who dies.

[...] Those who point the finger now however know, in one respect, that they have the right to do so since you are the ones who have set forth the ideals of peace and brotherhood. [...]

[...] These concerned John’s uneasy feeling about his wife Peg, last week; the strange loss of feeling in his legs in hot weather; and an effort to learn something from Seth about a pilot who disappeared some four years ago in a light plane near John’s hometown, Franklin, LA, which is close to the Gulf of Mexico.

(Note that here Seth implies that Senator Kennedy, who was alive at the time of this session, would die. [...]

(Also, Jane said, the term stirred up could refer to Dick, who was angry or stirred up, and to the fact that it was Dick who stirred the drink.

(2nd Question: Who is the woman referred to in the card and portrait? [...] At break she said this data was an attempt by Seth to get her away from the D’Andreano family, the members of whom we know relatively well, back to Barbara, the newcomer to our apartment house, who is a relative stranger to us.

(“Who is the woman referred to in the card and portrait?”)

(“Who are the three people involved?”

[...] Someone is bringing this book to the man or men who live there. [...] The man who is given the book startles the man who gives it to him by quoting a line from Dante having to do with (his?) not appointing God. [...]

[...] A friend of ours who lives in our apartment house knows the two dancers, who live together in the neighborhood. [...]

[...] The last three named are from the group of young people who witnessed the unscheduled session of November 5,1965. [...]

A particular man with a camera slung over his shoulder, who gets our friend’s attention. [...]

At the time of the reorganization those who have spoken out will be sought out, and those who did not speak out will be on the firing line. [...]

[...] They will want a man who is sincere. They will also want a man who can lead. [...]

[...] From what Seth said in the above delivery, John now believes he knows who the individual is who might be passing along information about him.)

[...] It is others in higher positions who are watching him.

[...] In the meantime I was impatiently waiting Frank Longwell who promised the Tuesday earlier that he’d be here before Sunday with the final plans for extending the living room. [...]

[...] No sooner did they leave, and we began dessert, though, than Debbie arrived at the door to tell us about a pretty nutty character who had just called her, looking for our address. [...]

I thought of the many other people who must do the same thing if not with body sensations perhaps with events of other kinds. [...]

(Long pause at 3:20.) Again, people who have such views of the inner self usually project the same ideas upon nature at large, so that the natural world appears equally mysterious, dangerous, and threatening.

[...] Such persons often find it extremely difficult to express love, joy, or gratitude, for example, and this lack of expression is taken for granted by others, who do not see it in its true light, but think instead that the person is simply reticent.

[...] Women with such beliefs and conflicts often wind up having hysterectomies, performed incidentally by male doctors, who hold the very same beliefs.

You were afraid, however, that those who tried to leave would be forced to return, that they would seek you out and bring you back and that your fellows would greatly resent any knowledge you had achieved. [...]

[...] It is a good point of housewifery prudence and spiritual prudence as well, but you would not have given had not this authority figure of the Pope done so ahead of you which means that presently you are looking for direction and hoping to find it and also that you are not going to give to any red-hooded beggars who knock at your side door. [...]

It seems to have a dim connection for you having to do with a young woman who received on that date, a letter of an emotional import. [...]

I want you to get on with your own discussion, however, the hungry man knows that he is hungry and in India it is not the hungry man who is filled up either with food or with spiritual ideas. [...]

[...] Jane’s father, who addressed the envelope, can be “A connection with another individual, a male.” Jane’s father is of course “someone who visited here,” but we do not know what “A photograph” means, particularly, in the test data, since Seth did not elaborate.

[...] He is trying to get definite answers from a man who does not seem able to give them. [...]

A photograph, and a connection with someone who visited here.

[...] The self who prays listens, and makes necessary adjustments and improvements. [...]

[...] There have been people throughout history who mentally performed mathematical feats that appear most astounding, and almost in a matter of moments. Some, had they lived in your century, would have been able to outperform computers (just as some are outperforming computers these days!). In most cases where such accomplishments show themselves, they do so in a child far too young to have learned scientific mathematical procedures to begin with, and often such feats are displayed by people who are otherwise classified as idiots (idiot savants), and who are incapable of intellectual reasoning.

[...] Others, children [or adults] who would be classified as mentally deficient, can tell, or have been able to tell, the day of the week that any given date, past or present, would fall upon. [...]

Regardless of who or what he is, then, with Jane’s permission Seth adds his material to the information possessed by her reasoning mind—and thus offers it to the reasoning minds of others.

[...] By far the greater questions, however, are those pertaining to the unknown reality of the psyche, and those that relate to the kind of being who perceives in one way or another an Atlantis, a Bermuda Triangle, a UFO — for in greater terms, until you ask deeper questions about yourselves, these other experiences will remain mysterious. You cannot understand perceived events unless you understand who perceives them. [...]

[...] At the same time, I was thinking as I wrote that Seth’s sentence, above: “You cannot understand perceived events unless you understand who perceives them,” embodied one of his best ideas in “Unknown” Reality.)

There are many who will give you answers to such questions. [...]

[...] Do not overlay the personal daily aspects of your life with preconceived ideas about who you are, what you are, where you are, why you are. [...]

To some extent (underlined) — a qualified statement, now — the scientists have become somewhat contemptuous of all who do not understand their language: the non-elite. They resent having to get money from the government, from men who are not scientists, and they build up a false sense of comparative omnipotence in response — and that makes them less careful than they should be. [...]

[...] The same applies to the scientists, who now feel that the cultural climate is turning against them, that people no longer trust them, so that they fear they will be pulled from high estate.

None of them want any disaster, and yet some of them think it would serve the people right — for then the people might realize that politicians do not understand science, and that the scientists should after all be put in control: “We must have enough money, or who knows what can go wrong?”

2. Jane and I try to understand both the advocates of nuclear power and those who are against it. [...]

[...] Our good friend Leonard Yaudes, who lives directly below us on the first floor, would sometimes leave the house on class nights. [...]

I have said this before, and I will indeed say it many times again: Those of you who come here, come here for a reason.

[...] Miranda Charbeau, from a French side of the family, who married into an English branch, into the Franklin Bacon family of Boston.

[...] Do not be afraid of old age, you who are so young, for you have been old many times before. [...]

The only person who was more or less entirely neutral in the whole affair was the woman above, who had little to do with any decision. [...]

(“Who are you talking about here?”)

You will say later: “If the rent hadn’t been raised we might have been in that place the rest of our days—who knows?” and laugh, but at times you still feared that that might indeed be the case.