“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your visitor believes that these children who can also move objects (and who work with AP) are unique, and a new breed—but any children of past generations who realized that such feats were possible, and desirable, could do the same thing. [...]

[...] Those who consistently choose negative patterns program themselves in those areas, gradually alter the chemical balances within the body. [...]

The gentleman who wrote you from Canada (Vincent Vycinas)—the writer—is living out his cultural agony. [...]

Now those of you who have families, within that framework if you watch and listen, and you do, there are moments of unbearable and unspeakable agony as you recognize the aloneness of the human spirit in what seems to be an unfeeling universe. [...] In your terms, those who are grown are always taken away, and the voice spoke in those terms, and you made your choice. [...]

[...] And those of you who were not present at that session may then divulge their initial secrets. [...]

Now, regardless of those who come and go within this class we shall achieve a state of trust and this is one of the ways that we shall achieve it. [...]

(Wally told of the person who spoke to him when he was young.)

[...] The people who put up the tree might experience one Christmas Eve, while other consciousnesses, tuned in to the different series, could experience endless generations¹³ — and their perceptions would be quite as legitimate as those of the light-watchers who had erected the tree.

[...] The house connection is still unique, however, considering that in the hill house Jane and I found ourselves bracketed east and west by people who knew one of her early students — who had in turn mentioned Jane to them. [...]

[...] He’s walking away, out of the chute and into this great big Seth who’s like a statue.

There are, of course, close relationships concerning this delivery of Seth’s for the 740th session, the material in this note, and the musical analogies Seth presented in the 735th session, when he discoursed upon the inaudible variations inherent in the compositions played by the young classical guitarist who’d visited us over the weekend of February 2. (I’ve been saving this reference for this particular note.) At 9:45, for instance, in that 735th session: “An infinite number of other ‘alternate’ compositions were also latent within the [first] note, however … They were quite as legitimate as the compositions that were played … and … added silent structure and pacing to the physically actualized music.”

[...] You feel that the experiences are at least your own, with no Bega who must speak through you as in your writings. [...]

[...] Then to Tom, who laughed:) Now. [...]

[...] And to our lady (Virginia), who prefers to stay in one place. [...]

It seems you have either read of, or met, or heard of, someone else who tried this, with mixed reaction. [...]

2. The “real estate people” who showed Jane and me through the Markle place last Thursday, April 25, are a husband-and-wife team who operate a small real estate and insurance agency in Sayre. [...] From my grade-school days I thought I remembered the house’s large living room especially; for the Markles had raised two children who were contemporary with my next youngest brother and me; sometimes the four of us met at the house, then went to school together.

[...] His artistic leanings caused him to choose real estate people who had latent artistic abilities of their own.

[...] (Later I found several old photographs of it in one of our family albums, and was reminded that in those days the streets had no curbs.) Even today I can recall most of the families, and their children, who’d lived in the immediate area. [...]

[...] When the Johnsons told us who the owners were, I could only reply that I’d heard the name while living in Sayre; the old couple would be contemporary with my mother. [...]

(Bill’s mother, who was also an arthritic cripple like Jane’s mother, was a very aggressive personality, a masculine one, who developed arthritis in order to lose her mobility and thus avoid harming Bill’s father and the children. [...]

(Speaking of the fact that civilized man should not kill, Seth said the whole idea of killing is fallacious to begin with: an enemy who is “dead” is far more harmful than one who is still alive. [...]

(Seth dwelt upon the Tibetan monks who use astral projection, and follow their strict religion, while the peasantry live miserable practical daily lives, without hope for the most part. [...]

[...] Indeed, it was she who initiated it during our casual conversation, after the Gallaghers had been here for a while. [...]

[...] He quite forgot that he shouldn’t project his own feelings upon someone else who could be quite different. [...] Who did they emulate then — how did they fill their lives, with what heroes and heroines? [...]

[...] It turned out that the Helen Park who had written had read Maude’s article in Reality Change, and sent the check to Sue to forward to us, to make sure we’d get it safely. [...]

[...] Otherwise will your consciousness as mentioned earlier into the image, then ask yourself: Who am I? [...]

Those who try the exercises with wrong purposes will not succeed, for they will not have the proper equation, and it is the one part that cannot be given to them. [...]

[...] As things stand now we also try to help those few who personally appeal to us. [...]

[...] In the dream also were an Oriental-looking mother, not too old, with a nice-looking daughter who had beautiful slanting eyes and a very quiet demeanor. [...]

[...] I also thought it might involve John, who is around 40 and unmarried. [...]

[...] I did meet Steve, the attendant who takes care of her in hydro. [...]

(Just before she took a nap this noon, Jane received a letter from a man who explained that he’d married a woman with genetic deformities of her hands. [...] Yet he still expressed sorrow, and asked: “Why?” He’s troubled by the challenges of one who has to live with a so-called deformed wife—and now a child—each day. [...]

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[...] The son has two children, boys, who look like the son, who looked like his father.

(Malba was highly amused at the plight of the clergy of different faiths, who had died. [...]

The boy (David, who has quit school) had an automobile accident. [...]

[...] He feels some affinity to Ruburt for the same reason, but Ruburt also upsets him, because he disapproves of women who think, and is very frightened because Ida in later years has started to criticize some of their joint beliefs.

There are people who work in art departments as a living, gifted certainly more than most with an ability to visually portray an idea. [...]

[...] Those who have followed old beliefs do not have it easy either, and they do not know where to turn. [...]

[...] Countries emphasizing like beliefs send missionaries to “convert” those who are pagan, and therefore inferior.

[...] (Intently:) A black man who accepts the same system is indeed in difficulty. [...]

[...] The people who follow these belief systems think that they are right. [...]

As mentioned earlier in this book (in the 644th session in Chapter Eleven), many who follow such beliefs try to hide them from themselves, desperately attempting to be young. [...]

Let me quickly add that all of the doctors who examined her advanced their suggestions while trying to be helpful, and in the name of “truth” as they saw it—with individual variations, of course. [...] As it happened, he was the one who’d had her admitted to the hospital to begin with. [...]

So last night, less than two days after she’d held her last session, I asked Jane for some material about the central theme of her days in the hospital, both from her own viewpoint and that of the doctors who probed, examined, and discussed her and her problems. [...]

[...] Somebody at the hospital —I forget who—told us that joint replacements for the fingers and/or knuckles usually weren’t all that successful: The bones in the hands were pretty small and delicate. [...]

[...] Always ask yourself: “Do I want to be the one who’s trying to do something, or the one who criticizes the efforts of others?”)

[...] In other words, the uncommunicative male, who was afraid of open sentiment. [...]

[...] Those fears of your father’s were given a less frightening, more conventionalized and safer image in John Wayne, who escapes such situations by refusing intimate entanglements, and is “free to roam the range.”

[...] Some of it is perceived by “nonphysical entities” who organize it into their system of reality, where it does have meaning, but we will not be concerned with it here.

[...] Your body is an artistic creation, formed and constantly maintained at unconscious levels, but quite in line with your beliefs about what and who you are.

[...] As you should know, the body’s inner environment changes constantly, and it is you who change it. [...]

[...] In reincarnational terms, the Speakers are teaching personalities who reach across the centuries. [...]

(Emphatically:) There is great energy, however, in those who have persevered enough to become generally known in their time, and the great impetus of that psychic and mental energy does not cease at death, but continues. In their way others may tune in to that continuing world view; and, picking it up, can be convinced that they are in contact with the physical personality who held it.

In Volume I, see Session 680, with notes 1–3. My father, Robert Sr., who died in 1971, was very gifted mechanically. According to Seth, a still-living probable self of Robert Butts, Sr., is “a well-known inventor, who never married but used his mechanically creative abilities to the fullest while avoiding emotional commitment.” [...]

[...] Another is my own longtime interest in the American psychologist and philosopher, William James [1842–1910]; he wrote the classic The Varieties of Religious Experience.³ A third is a letter received last week from a Jungian psychologist who had been inspired by Seth’s material on the Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist, Carl Jung [1875–1961], in Chapter 13 of Seth Speaks. [...]

[...] Each god or goddess had a poet who went in company, and the poets sang that they gave reason voice. [...]

“An energy personality who wishes to become a part of your system does so using this sense. [...]

[...] It may also have a part to play in some mediumistic activities on the part of the surviving personality who wishes to communicate, and it may be used in out-of-body experiences that involve other than physical reality.

[...] I worked on Dreams this morning, and also did some quick rough work on a first draft of my own letter to be sent to those who give us money.

[...] She was interrupted at 4:05 by Diana, who took her blood pressure — 102/64 — “just fine.” [...]

[...] Jane remembered the name of the retired newspaperman who’d written about us in his history of Chemung County — “Burs.”And this triggered my own memory: Tom Byrne.

(4:21 p.m. Jane told me that yesterday Mary Jean, who had changed her dressings, had remarked upon how well the remaining bedsores are healing.