“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You have various gradations of intellectuals; you have various gradations of those who are willing to express some emotions; you have some of those who are willing to disappear at the drop of a hat, and I am looking at no one in particular. I am the only one who expresses any emotions and I am supposed to be dead. [...]

Now our friend, Ruburt, is not about to go for all this sexual hanky-panky that is described in this precious book, but the man who wrote the book picked up his information from the inner self and then he made a story about it. [...]

([Ned:] “You have to be sensitive, like you say you don’t have to be sad to be happy, but when you’re happy you have to be sensitive enough to realize that someone who is sad, that that is sadness. [...]

([Ned:] “But for the majority, the people who aren’t that sensitive, they have to be sad before they are happy.”)

(Last night, Jane spent an exhausting couple of hours trying to get through to a young man, Stuart, who called on us unannounced at about 9 PM. He suffered from the attacks of “magicians” who were stealing his energy: “Plates” of energy were being stripped away from his chest in layers, until he feared his inner self would be exposed. [...]

Now: we have a young man who felt himself to be unimportant, lacking in stature or ability—the kind of a person who would be lost in a crowd.

[...] He lived off a government social-security supplemental program for those who can’t fend for themselves—pretty shrewd, I thought. [...]

We now have a young man who is quite important. [...]

[...] Yet AIDS can be acquired by those who are not homosexuals, but who have similar problems. [...]

[...] There are many techniques apart from medically conventional ones, such as acupuncture, the laying on of hands, or the work of people who may be known as healers. [...]

[...] There are people who undergo a series of highly unsatisfactory relationships, for example, while another person might experience a series of recurrent diseases instead. [...]

(Carla, the aide who used to help Jane call me late at night, has been on vacation. [...]

[...] It is only you who are presently aware of but one portion of it; and this portion you insist upon calling yourself. You are the self who makes these decisions.

(Bernice M.: “Regardless of who chose, it was destined that he die.”)

(Jim H.: “Didn’t you say earlier, referring to the woman who was born in a minority race, that her challenges had been set up by a previous personality, in our terms?”)

(Bert C.: “What recourse would the poor individual who was born with all of these seemingly insurmountable handicaps have, were she to say consciously, at the ego level, ‘I just don’t want any of this. [...]

[...] Women who had no stronger purpose than playing bridge ended up struggling for survival beside their more destitute sisters. Many of the poor who lost their living quarters discovered qualities of leadership in themselves that astonished them.

There were old people, laden with negative beliefs about age, who discovered great vitality and further purpose under the stimuli of survival. There were people blinded and lost by a belief in the supreme importance of things, who found themselves with nothing left. [...]

[...] No one dies under any circumstances who is not prepared to die. [...]

[...] They know and yet pretend they do not know, but those who die in catastrophes choose the experience — the drama, even the terror when that occurs. [...]

[...] First had come her reactions to a group of upsetting letters she’d received this noon: One is a 20-page missive from a mental patient who wants returned to him all of the notes, objects, manuscripts, and books of poetry he’s sent her over the years: another is from a woman who informed us that she’s writing a book dictated by Seth: a third is a long letter from a man who’s claiming us as his counterparts, for reasons we can’t agree with. [...]

The control panels of the nuclear plants, many of them, were designed as if consciousness did not enter into the picture at all, as if the plants were [to be] run by other machines, not men—with controls that are not handily within reach, or physically inaccessible, as if the men who drew up the plans had completely forgotten what the species [is] like mentally or physically.

A scientist who would threaten the very survival of life on the planet in order to increase life’s conveniences (underlined) is, however, truly displaying ludicrous behavior (with irony).

[...] Such ideas have much to do with the way you think of yourselves, and what you consider human characteristics, and the light in which you view those who vary in one way or another from those norms.

[...] At the same time, because of the child’s defect, she managed to produce a child who was relatively free of those pressures against which she reacted. She produced in other words an idiot, who was in his own way supremely invulnerable to the realization of misfortune, a child who would not grow mentally into an adult, and a child who would remain secure in a relatively eternal childhood.

[...] I remember Wilbur as a small gentle man who was a tailor and who smoked strong cigars. [...]

[...] Seth is correct in stating that my father’s older brother, my Uncle Jay, who is also dead, was connected with Ella in this life; he was very protective toward her, and after he died eight years ago his wife continued to watch over Ella.

[...] Basically she considered that she had indeed produced a human being who would remain in a sort of summer garden, secure from deep hurts and vain regret.

[...] On our rather bulky analogy the guests are all portions of the inner self, who is the unseen attendant who maintains the building.

[...] It is easier however if you have the help of one of the guests in another room who is more used to the passageways, someone who has been investigating a while longer.

[...] This is possible, feasible, since you are all portions, in our analogy, of this same inner self who maintains all of the rooms. [...]

[...] I mentioned earlier that in one probability system you were a doctor who painted as a hobby. [...]

This is the same person who on the other hand used to put up barriers of bookcases at one end of the living room to protect himself from any neighbors or miscellaneous callers; who objected when Mr. Gottlieb dared to cross into his private working area and glance at a paper. In the face of those fears, Ruburt did progress from someone who was afraid to read poetry to friends, to someone who ran an excellent class of nearly 50 people—all of the time denying that any fears existed. [...]

[...] Seth didn’t go into the first two, but the following material did have to do with reactions to those who wrote us. [...]

Ruburt became frightened, for example, of out-of-body travel when he began to get it in his head that “all the nuts” were doing it too, and that out-of-body activity involved him in an inner public environment, in which he might meet “all those fools” who were then not bound by physical restraints. [...]

Your interests place you in a position in which you question the theories of your times, and the people who uphold those theories are not about to seek you out. [...]

[...] For example, there is an initial stage for those who are still focused strongly in physical reality, and for those who need a period of recuperation and rest. [...]

[...] Those who have not identified their consciousness with the body completely, find it much easier to leave it. Those who have hated the body find, strangely enough, that immediately after death they are quite drawn to it.

[...] They are often, in fact, maintained en masse by the guides who carry out the necessary plans. [...]

[...] In these centers there are certain classes in which instruction is given for the benefit of those who chose to return to the physical environment.

[...] The suggestion that smoking will give you cancer is far more dangerous than the physical effects of smoking, and can give cancer to who people who might otherwise not be so affected (very intently).

[...] Now: For an example, take a woman who feels compelled to wash her hands twenty or thirty times a day. [...]

[...] Unfortunately, again, within the framework of your beliefs this also becomes almost a necessity for many — especially for those who, because of previous experience of one kind or another with the disease, are almost irrational in their fear of it. [...]

In your society particularly, given over so thoroughly to the pursuit of money, such beliefs bring about the most humiliating situations, especially for the male, who has often been told to equate his virility with his earning power. [...]

[...] There are personalities who come together for certain reasons, varying reasons, whose individual inclinations are somewhat the same, and purposes. [...] In their own way, and according to their capacity and purpose, they change and alter the nature of the universe, sometimes by being born within your historical time, and sometimes by trying to reach those who are within your historical time. [...]

Now, who is taking the record this evening and who has been taking records for class? [...]

[...] But they are not those who continually nourish that camouflage system. There are groups who do that.

[...] They are, however, comparatively speaking, like those who create and then are satisfied to go on to other creations. [...] But those who mow the grass could not create it.

[...] Imagine an onion, and if there is someone here who does not like onions, imagine anything you please. [...] You see, I am not using a flower, and the onion comes up and it insists that it must know who God is and where He is that makes him grow. [...]

[...] You have our Lady of Florence to thank that there are classes here, for Ruburt would not think of them in the beginning, and it was our friend, who you think is too intellectual and not intuitional, who suggested the classes in the first place to Ruburt and opened his mind so that he would follow my suggestions. [...]

It was you who projected them into the future. [...]

Because there are millions of people upon the earth who would rather have someone speak and tell them what to do, rather than do it for themselves, that is why. [...]

The same beliefs often spread to economic areas in which (long pause) people who met pleasure in God’s eyes were therefore gifted with wealth and prosperity, as well as good health. Therefore God was seen to be on the side of those who competed most strenuously, so that to be poor or sick was almost seen as a sign of God’s disfavor. [...]

[...] Some schools of thought, then, have it that only the genetically superior should be allowed to reproduce, and there are scientists who believe that all defects can be eradicated through judicious genetic planning.

All necessary explanations are given to those who are disoriented. Those who do not realize that they are dead are here told of their true condition, and all efforts are made to refresh the energies and spirits. [...]

[...] This cannot be done, however, until the reincarnational cycle, once chosen, is completed, so the last choice exists for those who have developed their abilities through reincarnation as far as possible within that system.

[...] (Long pause.) Ruburt is not responsible for other people’s conceptions of who or what I am, or who or what he is. [...]

[...] I went back to working on taxes while Jane talked to him, and at the same time found myself wondering whether his unexpected visit might symbolize one of the very facets of Jane’s dilemma about privacy versus the public life—at least as I understand it: Her vulnerability and availability to anyone who chooses to come here. [...]

[...] He therefore expressed an attitude typical of many visitors or those who write—attitudes that really bother Jane. [...]

Public interviews involve him, therefore, in far more than the selling of books, you see, connected with the tours of people who are merely writers. [...]

[...] And with a group show of some note in 1935, in which I believe this person participated, who now owns, or runs, or is connected with this gallery in this neighborhood.

[...] He may be the uncle of the man who runs the gallery, per se, but he has a strong voice in the gallery. [...]

[...] They do not have anyone in their stable who can do good work with figures, or of an objective nature.

Now listen: do not take it for granted that those who do not show your type of art are against it, or will not want it. [...]

There are also a core of individual thinkers who straddle all social or academic categories, who follow our books. [...] Cézanne, for example, will reach some people who have not read the other books, and some historians will read James, and hence be led where otherwise they would not go. Psyche will mention my ideas about sex, for example, and will be bought by some people because of that subject alone, who will be again led to the other books. [...]

(Yesterday we also had two unexpected visitors, as well as a brief call from a young man who had called on us unannounced with a friend, last week. [...]

Those who come here often are questioners of it. [...]

[...] There are more people than you know, relying upon the best medical knowledge of the society, who are in far worse shape, whether or not the condition is observable—millions, incidentally, with false teeth.

([Bette:] “All we knew was who was on the warpath and when.”

([Bette:] “Well, who started it? [...]

([Joel:] “Who killed the first human being?”

([Bette:] “Well, who did then?”

I told you once (to Florence)—and I tell you all—in your quiet moments to say “Who am I?” And listen—listen then. [...]

[...] It is you who have placed the plant in the particular circumstances in which it is now. [...]

[...] But again, the answers are there—and they are within yourself—and for your own development, it is you who must seek them from yourself and find them. [...]

[...] I admit that I sound old and ponderous—and yet, I would go tip-toeing through the tulips—and not feel a loss of dignity—nor worry about who saw me. [...]