“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(7:20.) It is impossible in our time scheme to intellectually know our own potentials without trying them out, without testing them against the world’s edges. [...] In the development of each individual we act and reenact the startling events that brought our own universe into existence. The universe was not created in some dim past, but is newly recreated by our own thoughts, dreams, and desires—so that reality happens at all possible levels at once. [...]

In Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment Seth outlines the great cosmic and private energies that in our terms once brought into existence the reality of the universe and the birth of those private, cohesive realities in which our own individual daily lives are couched.

Lest I give an inaccurate picture of my wife, however, let me add that she combines instances of that seeming intransigence with a profound intuitive innocence before nature (and thus All That Is), and with a great literal acceptance of nature’s manifestations and of her own being and creations within that framework. [...] For now, though, I present what I have to work with from the saddest, most mournful Sumari song she’s ever created and sung. [...]

[...] For its own reasons it didn’t want to, and that was it. [...]

Until you are honest with yourself and know yourself and become consciously aware of yourself you cannot honestly relate with others for you project upon them your own fears and your own prejudice, and you cannot afford to help them because you have too many insecurities within yourself. Now, you form the physical reality that you know, individually and en masse, and to change the world that you know you must change your thoughts and to change them you must become consciously aware of what you tell yourself is true every moment of the day for that is your reality, and that is what you project outward. [...]

[...] Ideas have no reality unless you yourselves make them your own. [...]

[...] They also imply the feelings of love and acceptance that are buried beneath your own fears, and those that you are terrified of expressing in physical reality. [...]

[...] According to your terms, God never would have created any creature or any reality or any universe. [...]

To move an object in one universe, in one field of reality, from another field of reality, is hardly child’s play. [...]

Your own psychic development came to some comparative (underlined) standstill, as did Ruburt’s, for a while during the darkest periods last winter. You shut your own down, partially feeling guilty at your part in Ruburt’s dilemma. [...]

[...] For his own development therefore he needed to face this on his own and conquer it. [...]

[...] You had your own time of it, partially for the same reason, but he had to face the depths of his own terror, and rise and walk away from it, if he were ever to help others do the same.

[...] If five people were in this room, then they would each construct, in their own personal perspective, their own image of Ruburt, which would be composed of definite, material, atoms and molecules. You would have five actual physical constructions, plus Ruburt’s own. Do all five constructions, plus Ruburt’s own, contain Ruburt’s consciousness?

[...] I purposely short-circuited them very nicely, for my own reasons. Now even though individuals only see their own constructions, as a rule, with the other factors in operation you will appear to see others’ constructions because there will be such a similarity in the various constructions of what appears to be one physical object.

[...] You would, of course, have each instead constructed your own apparition, in your own space perspective; and because of the other clues usually given the three apparitions would have seemed to be one, agreeing for all intents and purposes to be similar in terms of appearance, and approximate location.

[...] You did not see it, Ruburt did not see it, because an individual only sees his own constructions; and in this case the idea data was only given to Mark.

[...] “I am more, however, than this portion of me that you contact, for it is only one portion of me that experienced that reality. It is highly important, then, that this material not be distorted, for most communications take place on far different levels than this—[levels] so closely connected with your own system that even the most ‘undistorted’ data is highly distorted because the communicators themselves do not realize that they create the realities which they then describe.

“The inner portions of your own identity and reality are not known to you, for you cannot objectify them, and therefore you do not perceive them. So much of your energy is used in these physical productions that you cannot afford to perceive any reality but your own. [...]

[...] If I ever had any doubts … what-ever’s going on, it’s not coming from me, not from my own personality.” Later in my own notes I wrote, “… tremendous energy seemed to flow through me, with the definite certainty—thank God—that this was coming from beyond me, and was automatically translated into words at my end. [...] The feeling I had was that I really was in touch with some all encompassing reality.”

[...] We adopt whatever personality characteristics seem pertinent, for in our own reality we have a bank of complete inner selves, and we are all Seth. We attempt to translate realities into terms that you can comprehend. [...]

[...] For each observer quite literally created from his own subconscious energy an approximation of a house, a general shape then perceived as a house, and further embellished by personal judgments.

[...] It is extremely difficult for a psychological structure to view itself, for in order to do so it must lift itself from the limitations and abilities of its own nature. In many realities such scrutiny is simply impossible, while the structure operates in a given fashion.

[...] First of all, I advise Ruburt along these lines: it is best if he not work at his own writing or records up until the last moment or so before a session.

[...] Inversion in terms of value interwound upon value, energy compressed, contained, working upon itself, contained but with momentum—this comes much closer to reality.

[...] As Seth says, we each do create our own reality.

[...] You make your own reality. The people use the materials of the world as they come into contact with them, in their own ways and for their own reasons. [...]

If you believe that your own great energy can lead others astray, you are actually saying that others have no power of their own. [...] He did not feel the same way about his poetry, which largely in its way states the same messages that our own books do. [...]

(Long pause at 9:54.) Ideas of using considerable caution have been with him for that matter before the sessions began, when he recognized his own energy, the ease with which he could encounter people. [...] He learned to fear his own energy to some extent—or rather, he believed that he must be very cautious in its use. [...]

[...] Action must, therefore, of its very nature, of itself and from its own workings, create identities. [...]

These three dilemmas represent three areas of reality within which inner reality, or inner vitality, can experience itself. [...]

[...] These are natural unfoldings, and such developments will occur according to their own nature, and in their own time. [...]

The reality of such an identity then exists within the action. [...]

[...] His own interpretation of the communication attempt is correct, so I shall not waste time discussing it.

[...] Your own ability as a draftsman, if the term is the correct one—your technical ability—was adopted for two reasons.

The precise delineation helped create the subject of the painting beautifully, with almost “supernatural” in quotes, precision. [...]

[...] As a youngster you felt that recreating portions of physical reality gave you a mastery and control over them. [...]

[...] The contrast represented his own interpretation of his private reality, of course—yet they also represent the main issues involved right now in your society at large. [...]

[...] That is (pause), it arouses memories from your own most intimate moments in the past, and therefore in its own way records the development of ideas and attitudes that you might otherwise completely overlook. [...] Your own relationship is itself quite extraordinary, precisely in the light of your own backgrounds—not as you think those backgrounds should have been, but as they were. [...]

When you ask why you did not understand when you were young what you know now, you are ignoring the validity of your own past to some extent, and denying the accomplishments that have resulted—because it seems that you should now be much further on, so that you create a kind of artificial self who began where you are now, and with whom it seems you can never catch up. [...]

(Long pause.) Love-making reunites you with your own pasts, and unconscious bodily memory carries you backward to your earliest responses to your own body and that of others. To some extent then the child with all of his wonder about his own body is aroused in each act of love-making, whatever its variety. [...]

[...] You are creating the reality. [...]

There is a definite time period involved, and your own remark only shows that what I said earlier is correct. [...]

[...] Ruburt has had his own negative attitudes about his illness to contend with, and often yours as well. [...]

(“He just created it for himself, didn’t he?”)

I am far more however than this portion of me that you contact, for it is only one portion of me that experienced that reality. (Pause.) It is highly important that the material not be distorted then, for most communications take place on far different levels than this, so closely connected with your own system that even the most undistorted material is highly distorted, because the communicators themselves are so closely involved with camouflages, and do not realize that they create the realities which they then describe.

As words would tell little, or give small hint of the reality of sound or color to someone who did not experience these, so the words used can only give insight into the nature of reality. [...]

[...] They are attempts to explain in words the nature of the inner reality that forms All That Is. [...]

The inner senses to some extent will allow you to perceive the reality of inner existence, and Ruburt incidentally in this new development is involved with the use of these inner senses in a more effective manner than before. [...]

Your work is protected, not only because it is one of your projects, but also because in a fashion it becomes its own kind of entity—a well-intended one that exists in a rather concentrated form, distilled from your own best aspirations. [...]

(9:40.) That k-n-o-w-e-r (spelled) is instantly aware of all your needs, and is the portion of the universe that is personally disposed in your direction, because its energies form your own person. [...] Value fulfillment means that each individual, each entity, of whatever nature, spontaneously, automatically seeks those conditions that are suited to its own fulfillment, and to the fulfillment of others.

He also realized that at least to some extent this energy had accumulated as a result of his own good intentions, and his desire to help others. [...]

[...] It was not necessary for Ruburt to see the form again—merely to sense the reality of that powerful energy, and realize that it worked on his behalf. [...]

[...] These challenges aren’t just national, of course, but worldwide: The scientific rationale embodied in TMI runs headlong into the western world’s reliance upon energy supplies — mainly oil — from nations that are largely religiously oriented, and that profess all kinds of antipathy for social orders other than their own. In our lifetimes Jane and I look forward to our species at least making a start at grappling with such large areas of its own activity as science and religion. We must come to terms with those challenges we’ve created — and are creating.

(“As you learn to trust your natural impulses, they introduce you to your individual sense of power, so that you realize that your own actions do have meaning, that you do affect events, and that you can see some definite signs that you are achieving good ends. [...] Previously we distrusted our own impulses to such an extent that they often appeared in very distorted form.”

[...] The President felt threatened — and not only personally threatened, for he felt that the good for which he stood in his own mind was in peril (intently). [...]

[...] The vast reality of probabilities makes the existence of free will possible. [...]

[...] And that trust always reflects, I’m sure, Seth’s own larger view of reality, as I just quoted him from Session 915. Our challenges echo throughout all of our probable realities simultaneously, and through all of them together the largest picture of Jane and myself is presented. In this probable reality we work with what we can pick up from that great whole. [...]

[...] To me those dreams were messages of encouragement not only from her own psyche, but from that certain other version of herself that I referred to in Note 2 for this session. In that reality [as well as in some others], she did have all of her motive powers. [...] Early in February she wrote an essay on Seth as a “master event.”⁴ That piece was inspired by her material in an old journal; Jane elaborated upon it in an effort to fit events from our own lives into our national consciousness. [...]

[...] She doesn’t use the word in connection with herself, yet I think that Jane’s mystical nature, which is so at odds with the realities most people create for themselves, actually offers the only real framework for understanding her physical condition, her choices, in our probable reality.

[...] Jane’s own sinful-self revelations certainly complemented Seth’s, which in turn, we thought, were the other side of his material on the magical approach to reality.

It dwells in the physical universe, but it can indeed also perceive and appreciate other realities. The ego is part of the personality, and as such it can partake of sturdier, heartier, more vivid realities. [...]

(It will be remembered that it was at York Beach, in August 1963, that Jane and I saw the fragments we had ourselves created, according to Seth, in the dancing establishment called the Driftwood Lounge. [...]

Your own abilities, Joseph, have been at a plateau level, from which they will begin to rise, at which time another plateau will be reached, and the process continued. [...]

We will see now what we can do with your own little test, and with our friend Ruburt.

[...] On that level they are studying the ways in which beliefs and feelings are translated into living reality. [...] Ruburt was trying to do double duty—protecting his abilities and your own. [...]

Your own paintings served a husbandly purpose. [...]

[...] It possesses its own drive, as that flower does. [...]

[...] Giving yourselves time in which to create is excellent. [...]

[...] It will also help him to understand and appreciate my own unique reality, and this now-growing belief should result in a greater familiarity. [...]

[...] They are doorways into inner realities, and other realities, as are these sessions. [...]

(At 8:55 as we sat for the session Jane got another flash, concerning time, that it is “intensely personal, that we create it,” from Seth. [...]

[...] Because I have also followed this particular reality, it is meaningful, for me, and I can understand it.

[...] Most individuals therefore do not contend with larger portions of their own reality. [...]

[...] At this time, in view of our own experiences, I seriously doubted that very many individuals in our reality were truly ready or equipped to handle such developments without a great struggle—chosen or no. [...]

Ruburt had to understand his own creative necessities as a person, and accept the mobility of his own consciousness and those changes that it would involve. You also have to be free enough, and will be, to stand on your own position, and you must be free enough to cast aside the shackles that invisibly surround the field of painting, and even your own interpretation of it.

Holding back from your own expansion of consciousness impedes energy through the body. When your own relationship was rocky, Ruburt therefore was twice as frightened as you were. [...]

[...] Many of the early prints created in Europe illustrate religious subjects. [...] Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) experimented with his own method of copper engraving. [...]

To some important degree, cells possess curiosity, an impetus toward action, a sense of their own balance, and a sense of being individual while being, for example, a part of a tissue or an organ. The cell’s identification biologically is highly connected with this [very] precise knowledge of its own shape, or sometimes shapes. Cells, then, know their own forms.

2. For a brief description of Jane’s encounter with Mrs. Steffans, see Note 13 for Session 744, in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. Seth, and Jane and I, described a number of our house-hunting adventures in the two volumes of that work. [...] We think that the events surrounding our purchase of the hill house furnish many clues to the spontaneous and creative workings of individual consciousnesses in our chosen physical reality.

I was curious as to how often such a “negative psychology” operated—when, simply because of his or her own hang-ups, an individual [or more than one person] is attracted to a site where strongly negative events had taken place. [...]