“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Remember always that what you are seeking is also seeking you, and whenever you want to sell a property of any kind, there is always someone who wants what you have to offer. [...]

(9:13.) Various old religions picked up the idea of the Lumanians’ fierce god figure for example, in whom they managed to project their concepts of force, power, and violence, this god who had meant to protect them when nonviolence would not allow them to protect themselves.

[...] And despite our anxious Ruburt’s furious attempts to block me, I will indeed say that the person who was once betrayed by the personality involved was the present father of the personality, and he knows it—

(“Who knows it?”)

[...] But there are too few who can, either, look within themselves with candor, and if this material does anything, it must be oriented toward knowledge; and knowledge must be applied in your case in human terms.

(To a student:) Now last week, when Ruburt [Jane] was speaking about the natives who are such expert dreamers, you asked: “But why are they not more progressive?” Yet I know you realize that your own progress as a civilization will, in your terms, come to a halt unless you advance in other directions. [...]

(I think it more than a coincidence that in these excerpts from Seth Speaks, Seth mentions Darwin’s theory of evolution and the Biblical story of creation in the same sentence, for those systems of belief represent the two poles of the controversy over origins in our modern Western societies: the strictly Darwinistic, mechanistic view of evolution, in which the weakest of any species are ruthlessly eliminated through natural, predatory selection, and the views of the creationists, who hold that God made the earth and all of its creatures just as described in the Bible.

(Ironically, Charles Darwin’s natural selection, “the survival of the fittest,” [a phrase that Darwin himself did not originate, by the way], allows for all sorts of pain and suffering in the process — the same unhappy facts of life, in Darwin’s view, that finally turned him into an agnostic, away from a God who could allow such things to exist! [...]

[...] Jane and I think its implications are often missed by many who write us with questions about the pain and suffering in the world. [...]

You may think of your soul or entity — though only briefly and for the sake of this analogy — as some conscious and living, divinely inspired computer who programs its own existences and lifetimes. [...]

Now some of you who read this book will immediately and intuitively grasp what I am saying, for you will have already suspected that you are viewing experience through highly distorted, though colorful, figurative lenses. [...]

[...] Each of us has a strong sense of responsibility toward those who read our books. [...]

[...] With more than a little wry humor over what I considered to be a failure of belief on my part, I took action: Late in July I had a contractor, who is a friend of ours and well acquainted with Jane’s situation, install a heavy outside door in a bedroom wall, and construct the necessary step to the ground. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Who can say when determination ends up in stubbornness? [...] They may not be pleasant, but they are expressions, often enough of valid-enough questions and fears that were overlooked or pooh-poohed as insignificant or foolish in the light of this superself image, who was expected to have no doubts, no fears, only flawless performance. [...]

(The same reader also sent us a copy of a chapter out of a book by a Dr. Ariola, who I think writes for New Realities magazine also on health foods and related topics. [...]

An understanding of the issues as I just explained them automatically alters the nature of what is left of those old bondings, thereby releasing the natural, magical properties of the child or natural person within, who possesses its own built-in matrix of safety and trust.

[...] (The Gallaghers, who have been on vacation.)

(Sunday evening, October 30, I was approached by a friend who expressed interest in buying a small painting, and I promised to show it to him. [...]

[...] Who closes those doors does so at some peril.

He also identified with his grandfather as a child, seeking protection from his mother in someone who seemed to love him more. [...]

[...] It became his version of the soul, and there seemed to be a duality—a self who acted in the physical universe, and a separate spiritlike soul that acted in an immaterial world.

[...] Some of you have physical children as well—but you will all “one day” also be the mental parents of dream children who also waken in a new world, and look about them for the first time, feeling isolated and frightened and triumphant all at once. [...]

[...] Those fears are then not admitted, for he thinks that they must indeed be beneath a person whose entire life work is devoted to a search for the nature of reality, and therefore a person who must possess, or try to possess, the answers to all of the questions.

The truth, as he interprets it, is no longer the joyful, curious, creative, free search for truth, let it lead where it will; but the idea of a life’s work makes him think “Who’s following me? [...]

[...] You were, and to some extent are, resentful of women, and would not have married a woman who bore you children.

[...] You would not be forced to work as he did, and waste his creativity, so you chose a wife who would make no such demands—apart from other reasons. [...]

[...] There were other elements that you have forgotten; a young man who was your younger brother, seen at the age of 12. [...]

[...] She was the only one who could ever help him find his way. [...]

[...] You projected your own negative patterns of thought upon those who gave joyfully. [...]

[...] Those with whom you work, and those who come here. [...]

(The session was witnessed by Patty Middleton, who drove down to Elmira from Ottawa, Canada, yesterday to attend Jane’s ESP class. [...]

[...] They also represent areas of no resistance for those mind-travelers who are probing inner realities. [...]

[...] There are some such people who are quite unrecognized by your societies, because the particular gifts involved are given zero priority. [...]

[...] For material on the classes held at after-death training centers, see in particular the 537th session in Chapter 9. While out of body during the sleep state, some people from our reality, Jane among them, assist those who have just died in adjusting to their various new environments. [...]

[...] For example, in many cases the gentle “homosexual” father has a better innate idea of manliness than a heterosexual male who believes that men must be cruel, insensitive, and competitive. [...]

[...] Many of the traditions do come from the Greeks, from the great Greek play-writers, who quite beautifully and tragically presented the quality of the psyche as it showed itself in the light of Grecian traditions.

[...] Jane was the one who took most of the calls, for she was usually the one people wanted to talk to. [...]

Then I will return you to your pussycat — who is doing exactly what you want him to do — both of you.

… Those who survive physical death are individuals, as they have always been. [...]