“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] “Just think of the number of people who have dreams like that,” I said, “but who either don’t remember them, or pay any attention to them if they do. [...]

We also have the impression of N A R or N A I R. Also the impression of a woman who was a widow.

There seems to be someone in that class, or connected with our teacher, whose initials are LBJ, or who has the name of a president. [...]

[...] Both of you have a tendency to concentrate upon the ills of the world—and so that applies also to the mail, for you remember the letters of those who are in difficulty far more than other letters—and Ruburt thinks that he is simply one more person with a problem that seemingly cannot be solved. [...]

He is himself a person who brought about a vital breakthrough in his own knowledge, an acceleration of creativity quite extraordinary, that led to these sessions, and these sessions have literally expanded the realities of many, many people. [...]

[...] He does not like people to speak of the book in that way because it arouses, of course, thoughts of those who followed any dogmas without using common sense—dogmas that blindly led people into further feelings of powerlessness. [...]

[...] It is Ruburt who must walk down the street.

(Pause.) There are no fu-tile acts, for all of them are val-id, and con-trib-ute to banks of ex-peri-ence and to the birth of cells who are en-dowed with your ex-peri-ence as knowledge.

[...] Certainly a connection with all of this is the call Jane received from Andrija Puharich a few days ago; he wanted her to see what she could get about physics; he’d been to a meeting of physicists at Princeton University, Wheeler’s home base; he’d given Jane the names of some well-known physicists who were interested in what psychics could get, but she hadn’t remembered any names.)

Now, to some extent, you and Ruburt felt enough the same way to make the analogy feasible, only Ruburt was the one who constructed the edifice that would protect his own abilities, first of all, and yours as well. [...] Just like our millionaire, who everywhere imagines in the most innocent face the gluttonous look of the thief-to-be.

Now: some people who are very wealthy cannot truly enjoy their wealth in their need to protect it.

[...] I will also add that this session is then itself action, and since it is action, it changes both those who attend it, Ruburt who delivers it, and I who give it.

(For the session we had three witnesses: Lorraine Shafer, who witnessed the 144th session, and Bill and Peg Gallagher, who have witnessed the 158th and the last session. [...]

We have here this evening, also, Marleno, who when she arrived was troubled with a stiff neck. [...]

My thought here was merely that in perhaps four or five sessions we could deliver a basic, if not thoroughly adequate, explanation that would then serve as a basis for those who attended the four or five sessions, so that any problems could then be discussed in such a manner that the witnesses would be familiar with basic precepts and terminology.

[...] Many of the people who read my books are also disillusioned with the world’s beliefs. [...]

[...] You think my books require much effort, and people often say so—yet you get letters from people who are nearly illiterate. [...]

(With much humor and irony:) What comic book reader wants to bother with a Clark Kent who, before his transformation, distracts the reader with such beside-the-point questions as “What am I doing? [...]

Ruburt’s performance is in direct opposition to the “spiritualistic tradition” of women as mediums, who simply took down or spoke “the sacred words.”

[...] Christ’s “father” was, however, the God who was indeed aware of every sparrow that fell, who knew of every creature’s existence, whatever its species or kind. [...]

(Long pause.) Those who “lose” their lives in natural disasters become victims of nature. [...]

[...] According to Seth, the man we call Jesus Christ was actually composed of three individuals who were the physical manifestations of the same nonphysical entity: John the Baptist, St. Paul, and a man historically known as Christ. [...]

[...] Even the biologists (and other scientists) who insist upon our mechanistic bases do so with feeling!

[...] The affair that evening will affect others who were not in the room. [...]

[...] Because of his background with his mother he had built up in defense a strong dislike, not merely for illness, for this (Jane, eyes open wide, pointed at me for emphasis), is beneficial, but a strong dislike (pause) that amounted almost (underlined) to hatred, for anyone who was sick, particularly crippled in any way, or hampered in motion.

[...] It is not good to imagine yourself ill, but it is not good to condemn the person who is ill, for that reason.

[...] I am also getting advice before I hold these sessions, from someone who is much more of an artist than me.

(It seems that last night John, while eating in a restaurant with a friend we do not know, was informed by this friend that the Elmira police had taken into custody a man who had been making the rounds of the Elmira pharmacies with a forged prescription for narcotics. [...]

You will find those who will help. [...]

[...] During break, I jokingly remarked that it would be a great help to us if we knew who would be interested in publishing the material. [...]

If you do not have faith in them, who else shall be expected to? [...]

In other portions of the Seth material these processes will be made very clear for those of you who desire to pursue the question further, or those who may be interested from a scientific point of view. [...]

[...] I am only addressing those here now who have effects in their lives with which they are dissatisfied. [...]

[...] Many who make a practice of “denying” negative suggestions from others, asserting positive affirmations instead, actually do so because they are so fully convinced that the power of negative beliefs is stronger than that of beneficial ones.

(Just as I turned Jane on her side after the session, our neighbor Joe Bumbalo — who is very ill with cancer — called to invite me to share Chinese food and rhubarb pie with him and his wife, Margaret. [...] Margaret, who had been a school nurse, used the Heimlich maneuver: she wrapped her strong arms around me from the back and squeezed. [...]

(Notes: Last night, Sunday, March 16, a rather long session was held for Dr. Subadh Roy, who is a professor of philosophy and comparative religion at Mansfield State Teacher’s College [PA]. Dr. Roy, who is blind, was driven to Elmira by his friend and student, Mike. [...]

[...] (Smile.) Look at your own dream notes more carefully, and perhaps you will find who I have been in them.

[...] Any of you who are ready to have a good projection can have some help from me if you request it. [...] But those of you who are more adventurous can count on me in the meantime. [...]

Now I will let our friend continue with his class, and I welcome those of you who are here for the first time in all of your new revelance. [...]

(11:51.) You have had in the past to some extent a disdain, because of your beliefs about yourself, for people perhaps met on the streets during business or working hours, or for people who did not have jobs, or who did not punch a time clock or whatever, and it is by those attitudes that you judge yourself (intently), and find yourself wanting in the eyes, say, of your brothers. [...]

[...] Americans have had a fine and often understandable disdain for what was thought of as the European gentleman, or even the literary gentleman, or the man who somehow or other did not have to “rub elbows with the masses.” [...]

[...] Now, she being uniquely herself, is more than pleased with your situation: a good house in a fine neighborhood, and who cares where the money comes from (with more than a little humor)? [...]

[...] There is no one who can tell you how many dollars per hour you receive for your work, or what value it has. [...]

[...] “I’m the one who’s asking for it, not you.” What I wondered, of course, was why she wasn’t the one who demanded the help.

[...] Generally speaking, however, the kind of person who performs as a public figure is not the kind of person who could produce highly creative material of an original nature. [...]

For some years, to varying extents, Ruburt and you also to a lesser degree became motivated by ideas of who you should (underlined) be, what you should (underlined) be doing, and what your responsibilities were. [...]

[...] He meets a woman who was a close friend of a male friend of his, who has since died. [...]

[...] In that session Ezra is dealt with in the envelope data with the same type of data; Seth gave Jane the grave data, signifying Ezra’s death, but at that time Jane, who did not like the idea of graves, did not use the word. [...] We believe the grave data was to refer to Ezra, who worked at Artistic before he died, and that this in turn was to lead Jane to identify Artistic as the source of the envelope object.

The initial grave association was meant to lead Ruburt to your place of work, since in another experiment the test item was connected with a man who had died.

In this life Ruburt chose poverty as a background, a mother who was not physically fit, a broken family. You chose parents who in their way were culturally deprived, ignorant of fine music or literature, and temperamentally poles apart. [...]

In any case, in the context of this discussion, had you not married Ruburt, you would have remained single, or possibly married to a woman who also would not want children. [...]

[...] People of solitary nature born in medieval times had to make their own structures, and if they were not hermits or monks, they were outlaws of one kind or another, frequenting the woods, which were often full of semi-permanent but isolated communities—men and women who preyed upon travelers, for example.

(11:30.) Ruburt became the spontaneous one to both of you, therefore the one who must use controls. [...]

[...] He was a man of the strongest purpose, high dedication, a severe perfectionist who drove himself and his students. [...]

[...] Ruburt, who had led him astray in the past, would now lead you into high purpose and dedication. [...]

In the beginning it was you who mentioned the rest of the page to Tam—do you follow me?

[...] You cannot reason with the part of him who felt hurt deeply, or to the part that felt he was rejected. [...]