“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

We are back to self-disapproval, of course, but I want you to understand that while self-disapproval is a problem for most people in your society, it is a problem for the artist particularly, because it is the artist who must trust himself or herself most of all, and it is the artist who must often have no other approval to count upon. [...]

[...] (With amusement:) There is someone I know who tells Ruburt to trust his abilities. [...]

[...] There are many painters who are quite satisfied with themselves—fairly content. [...]

[...] It is you who open these channels through your thoughts, a sort of psychic contagion in which you are the agent. [...]

Those of you who are negative, therefore, will find this reflected not only in your waking life but in your dreams. [...]

[...] It sounds simple and it is simple if you apply it, but it is you who has to know the nature of your own thoughts. [...]

(To Ned.) I am now speaking to someone who is directly behind me, but I have eyes in the back of Ruburt’s head. [...]

Violence, in your level, is the other face of creativity, but you do not realize it and it is you who have set up the separation. [...]

[...] Many of them, in their own environment, knew that those who were not eaten by them, for example other warriors, would die of hunger in any case. [...]

[...] It takes a lot of courage and a lot of determination, and the desire to let go and let yourself have some fun, in order to find out who you are and why you are here, and I expect you to put forth the effort. [...]

([Florence:] “Can you tell me who was trying to hypnotize me?”)

There is something in here also having to do with your feelings about yourself as a rebel—as one who does not conform, who stands apart. [...]

[...] It is you who have been blocking sensations that are there and do exist.

There is also, within, that you do not want to be one of the masses of men and women who experience the same phenomena, in other words, the orgasm—that you want to be apart, and different, and indeed spontaneous and a rebel and walk along in your own way. [...]

There is a difference between wanting more, which is legitimate, and envying those who have more, for in such cases you harm not only yourself but those whom you envy.

[...] Because of your past existence as a landowner, you particularly are resentful of those who own land. [...]

[...] His loyalty, once captured as you have captured it, is unbelievably enduring, but he is never sure basically of the loyalty of someone who supports him, which is regrettable.

[...] One, that it is little enough; and two, because of your own envy of others who have more, that perhaps Ruburt means that you should have bought these things, while he means nothing of the sort.

[...] And even some of you who have not before entered in will now do so. [...]

[...] Now for those of you who may not follow the word acquiescent, let me say there is then a great acceptance. [...]

And for those of you who are following me, you are at the threshold of Alpha III. [...]

And for all of you who are able to follow me now, you can follow to the threshold of Alpha IV. [...]

[...] You are the self who experiences them. [...] You would behave instead like a mad artist who says, “My paints are a part of me. [...]

[...] If you are poor you may feel quite self-righteous in your financial condition, looking with scorn upon those who are wealthy, telling yourself that money is wrong and so reinforcing the condition of poverty. If you are ill you may find yourself dwelling upon the misery of your condition, and bitterly envying those who are healthy, bemoaning your state — and therefore perpetuating it through your thoughts.

The “you” that you presently conceive yourself to be represents the emergence into physical experience of but one probable state of your being, who then directs corporeal life and “frames” and defines all sense data. [...]

[...] She thought Seth was “trying to couch the stuff in terms that would make sense to someone who didn’t know much about such things, while keeping it of interest to a physicist, say — which wasn’t easy to do. [...]

(Those who are interested in probabilities can also see chapters Fifteen, Sixteen, and Seventeen in Seth Speaks.)

(Bill Macdonnel, who has witnessed several sessions, was at the door. [...]

I give my greetings here to Mark, who has lately entered, and you may now take your break.

[...] Miss Callahan is an elderly retired teacher who lives in the front apartment of our second floor here. [...]

An organization is obviously not characteristic of two people who are very largely loners. Any kind of extensive public life cannot be reasonably expected from two people who value privacy to the extent that you both do. [...]

[...] It is to present a larger thematic framework, which then can be used to put the world together in a different fashion for those who want to do so. [...]

Ruburt’s idea for the future is a good one—seeing those who officiate at such groups (Seth classes). [...] Even those people, therefore, who deny the validity of anything but the most materialistic philosophy, sometimes dream unmaterialistic dreams, and in their unguarded moments they sense the greater source from which their materialistic world springs. [...]

Men and women who insist that emotions are simply psychological mechanisms cannot stop themselves now and then from a soaring of emotional comprehension that later makes their materialistic philosophy quite dull, dreary, and uncreative. [...]

[...] He called a colleague of his who was in Ithaca, and described Jane’s finger condition to him, but if memory serves he received ambiguous information again. [...]

[...] Peggy Jowett is on vacation for a couple of weeks, and we don’t know who will be showing up today. [...]

That was, of course, no coincidence, and helped provide you at least with a feeling of extra support, by reminding you that there are doctors who were not blindfolded completely, but were quite open to new beliefs. [...]

[...] The “personality” who originated the paragraphs you have just read is such a one.

There is no need to create a separate god who exists outside of your universe and separate from it, nor is there any need to think of a soul as some distant entity. [...]

[...] Many who shared those conditions with me learned little. [...]

[...] Connected with it is the consciousness of all those who understand it, perceive it, or originate it. [...] It is not something you grab for, it is also something that wants to be grabbed, and so it gravitates to those who seek it. [...]

[...] In the same way all members of the species are benefited by the happiness, health, and fulfillment of any of those individuals who compose it. [...]

[...] Your encounters with others alter the fabrics of their lives, and the lives of those who come in contact with them.

In certain very definite terms the existence of one person implies the existence of all others who have lived or will live. [...]

[...] You are like a living language spoken by someone who did not originate it — the language was there for you to use. [...]

(It is difficult to get good perceivers in any case, people who notice many things and remember them clearly. [...]

Still, her work has met with a great deal of understanding from many people, if hardly from everyone who’s heard of it. It’s interesting to ask how even extensive accepted credentials would help her respond to the extremes of feeling with which she and Seth are sometimes greeted: the outright rejection or the sheer adulation — or the threats she receives on occasion from those who say they’ll commit suicide if Seth doesn’t come through with a session for them immediately.

[...] Your concepts of personhood are now limiting you personally and en masse, and yet your religions, metaphysics, histories, and even your sciences are hinged upon your ideas of who and what you are. [...]

[...] They may appear esoteric or complicated, yet they are not beyond the reach of any person who is determined to understand the nature of the unknown elements of the self, and its greater world.”

[...] She doesn’t enjoy the protection a scientist does, who probes into a particular subject in depth, then makes a learned report on it from an “objective” position that’s safely outside the field of study. [...]

The road referred to your neighbor, the male, who is a salesman, and who travels on the road often. It was he and his wife who were referred to here in the unpleasant episode. [...]

[...] Her husband is a salesman who travels at irregular intervals, but quite often.

(Bill and Peggy Gallagher, who have witnessed several sessions, visited us this evening, Friday, September 3. Our conversation touched upon many subjects. [...]

[...] “See,” Seth/Jane said, “Your pussy doesn’t know who his mistress is right now....” [...]

(I told Jane that last night I’d had another long, torturous dream in which I’d been pursued through rooms by unknown men who were after me for some unexplained reason. [...]

[...] People who are afraid that their nation will be invaded by an enemy will often also consider viruses or diseases to be enemies, ever about to threaten their personal survival. [...]

[...] To do this he felt he needed to exert caution, to emphasize his own doubts in order to make a bridge to those intellectuals who doubted, and yet maintain some freedom and spontaneity in order to reach those at the other end.

[...] Those who were led by their hopes into gullibility could relate to his experiences—yet he would pull them back to “sanity” by his doubts. [...]