“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The psychic reading was correct, I think, in saying that Jane had the creative potential to create a spectacular success, and recover. [...] Specifics are vital, however, so once again we are on our own. I still think Jane carries within her her own solutions. [...] I told Jane part of that value lay in the fact that we waited until now to play it, when she has decided to try to uncover her own causes and effects. [...]

[...] Also, one not only has to penetrate the reality of the person being read, but that of the medium doing the reading. [...]

We will not abandon book dictation, but the concentration for now will be largely devoted to bettering Ruburt’s condition by releasing his own energies, health, and flexibility.

The endeavor itself will also activate his own dream mechanisms, and you will find that both of you bring new creative understandings to the task.

Any action that affects the physical individual also has its reality within many other fields, and its effects and its nature are felt within them. A manuscript, or indeed any art form, contains action and sets up its own climate, either of psychological acceptance or rejection. [...]

Smoking represents among other things, to him, a blanket of insulation, not only between himself and exterior reality, but a blanket between himself and interior reality. [...]

[...] One of the experiments she listed in the book for the reader to try led, of course, to the development of the Seth material in her own case. [...]

[...] Indeed, the need for the habits creates the exterior habit. [...]

(Pause at 10:17, eyes closed.) Conclusion: You are individuals, yet each of you forms a part of the world’s reality. Consciously, you are usually aware only of your own thoughts, but those thoughts merge with the thoughts of all others in the world. [...] When you have an impulse to act, it is your own impulse, yet it is also a part of the world’s action. [...] If you accept the fact that man is basically a good creature, then you allow free, natural motions of your own psychic nature — and that nature springs from your impulses, and not in opposition to them.

[...] Each other individual is just as focused in his or her own unique reality, also. [...]

[...] Of course: The change of seasons meant that while I would be doing my own work on the book, the geese would be flying south. [...] To me, without getting into questions about the magnificent overall originality embodied in All That Is, nature is the basic physical environment which all “living” species jointly create and manipulate within. [...]

[...] When you give lip service to ideas with which you do not agree, you are betraying your own ideals, harming yourself to some extent, and society as well, insofar as you are denying yourself and society the benefit of your own understanding. [...]

He was, of course, a despot, and he did indeed set up his own alienated kingdom. [...] You make your own lessons, so that these mass suicides and murders are an objective culmination, on those peoples’ part, of other, lesser psychological suicides committed on the part of millions who abdicate their personal responsibility in such a way.

(Jane wanted Seth to discuss her own progress—which continues, if too slowly for her. [...]

[...] The sect, called the People’s Temple, had been created by Jim Jones, a charismatic fundamentalist who had eventually been hounded out of the U.S. for many reasons, to then set up his town for his devoted religious followers in Guyana. [...]

[...] We expect to receive the copyedited Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality by December 7, and this is to keep us occupied until Christmas. [...]

[...] As events worked out, Seth was halfway through Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality before I realized that these supplementary notes would work well as the first appendix in the first volume. The notes may have their own kind of order, but unlike most appendix material aren’t presented in a chronological sequence. As in the Introductory Notes, I want to stress Jane’s role as the creative artist, disseminating her personal view of a larger inner reality, and her intuitive and conscious comprehension of at least some aspects of that reality; for such understanding can easily elude our Western-oriented, materialistic, technological outlook.

2. The mystical way is one of the natural feedback systems that operate between the body and the psyche, as Seth reminds us in Chapter 10 of Personal Reality. See the 640th session for February 14, 1973: “Natural ‘mystical’ experience, unclothed in dogma, is the original religious therapy that is so often distorted in ecclesiastical organizations, but it represents man’s innate recognition of his oneness with the source of his own being, and of his experience.”

(My own point in all of this is that Jane was different from her contemporaries in more ways than she realized. It was obvious to her in her youth that none of her friends wrote poetry, or talked about the subject matter of much of her own poetry.³ Jane intuitively felt her own nature, without trying to define it. [...]

He never forgave his own children for growing up … Yet he related his own body, at least until the very end, very well with nature. [...]

[...] That pattern is not divorced from your reality, not thrust upon you, not apart from your experience. It often only seems to be because you so compartmentalize your own experience that you automatically separate yourself from such knowledge.

It is not as if that vaster reality were utterly closed to your perception, for it is not. [...] The religions, in one way or another, have always perceived it, although the attempt to interpret that reality in terms of the recognized facts of the world is bound to distort it.

[...] When you are creating a product or a work of art, the results will have much to do with your ideas of what the product is, or what the work of art is — so your ideas about your life, or life itself, will also have much to do with your experience of it as a living art.

(10:13.) Now and then people have such moments, and yet each private reality has its existence in an eternal creativity from which, again, your world springs.

[...] Of course my feelings, while being unique in that they’re my own, are intimately bound up with those of everyone else. [...] Each one of us is an immortal portion, a spark of endless perception and beauty and feeling — and yes, of conflict and denial at times — within this probable reality that we’re all creating together, even when we don’t know we’re doing it! I watch with awe as within this reality each one of us expresses as best we can our creative understanding of this wonderful mystery.

[...] Later, she helped me proofread the new editions of Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality that Amber-Allen/New World Library has published. [...]

In 1993, I saw the culmination of three ventures that I’d been involved in for varying periods of time: Lynda Dahl and Stan Ulkowski, of Seth Network International, published the first quarterly issue of the newly expanded Seth-oriented magazine, Reality Change. [...]

[...] Jane doesn’t create a reality in which the event is absent from her memory, or never happened, that I know of.

[...] Language is not developed to any great degree, for their sensual ordinary equipment is so pure and swift that it almost becomes a language of its own, and does not need any elaboration. Those senses possess their own variances, so that without any word such as “now” or “then,” the creatures are able to know quite accurately how many living creatures are in the vicinity, how long they have been there (pause) — and their experience with time is one that follows the seasons in such a way that they have formed a wordless, fairly accurate picture of the world, including navigational direction.

[...] There are indeed two different kinds of upward-walking mammals, much like your own species, but much larger, and with infinitely keener senses. [...]

[...] She did her own thing about creating her own reality. [...]

[...] It is, of course, unfortunate that Ruburt is in that environment, but these are definitely indications of the body’s own healing processes. [...]

[...] Your beliefs become self-evident realities. [...] Ideas are transmitted from generation to generation—and those ideas are the carriers of all of your reality, its joys and its agonies. [...] The church’s concepts at least gave suffering a kind of dignity: It did (underlined) come from God—an unwelcome gift, perhaps—but after all it was punishment handed out from a firm father for a child’s own good.

Each time someone we know gets in serious trouble, Jane and I start questioning anew our own values, and those of the society we live in, for such challenges seem to come unbidden and unwanted from way out in some far corner of each person’s reality. [...]

[...] You create from those conditions the experiences of your days. [...] I hope to give you along the way a picture of reality that puts suffering in its proper perspective, but it is a most difficult subject to cover because it touches most deeply upon your hopes for yourselves and for mankind, and your fears for yourselves and for mankind.

In March 1975 Jane and I purchased the hill house just outside Elmira, and within a few weeks David acquired his own place not far from us in the valley below. [...]

[...] The ingredients of matter are first of all intangible ingredients, and the study of the mind and a study of the processes by which the mind creates its dream images could lead to a basic understanding of the manner in which man subconsciously produces the physical images of his own material universe.

As inner energy forms more complicated gestalts through the processes that I have earlier explained, then inner energy continues its communication with the physical matter that it creates about it. [...] The ego, you see, has one definition for the self, and its own idea of the limitations of itself.

To study the human body from only the physical standpoint, or to consider it as exclusively a physical phenomenon, is to severely limit your perception of it, and of reality as a whole. [...]

[...] You projected to her system of reality and the environment was pseudophysical, the projection of her own thoughts made real in objective terms within the system.

Ruburt, on one occasion, created a window thought-form on the blank wall through which he actually flew, simply because he held fears and could not imagine going through a solid wall. [...]

[...] In some cases according to your own level of projection, some will be going about their normal lives within other planes or systems. [...]

Now it is true that two individuals in particular who have left physical reality have been trying to help Ruburt, particularly in the dream state. [...]

[...] They also give directions for him to his own supraconscious, so that suitable physical adjustments may follow. [...]

[...] He should create the feeling within himself, and it will be physically materialized.

[...] Your landlord is extremely suggestible, and your own feelings fell on fertile ground, the ground of his misgivings.

I have my own existence, that is quite different from Ruburt’s, and yet I also have a reality that is connected to his psyche.⁶ Each of you also have the same kind of connection with other “more knowledgeable” portions of yourself, or your greater identity, that are independently themselves and yet also alive in your psyches. They are portions of the “unknown” reality.

(A one-minute pause at 11:20.) While you were so concerned with protecting what you thought of as the boundaries and integrity of one selfhood, as a race you actually arrived at a point where you were beginning to deny your own greater reality. [...]

[...] She also talked about possible confusions or conflicts between Seth doing “Unknown” Reality while she was writing her own Adventures in Consciousness. [...]

[...] Jane was very intrigued by the material she produced “on her own” after the session, both in the sleep state that night and in the statements she wrote the next day. [...]

Now: in The Nature of Personal Reality we discussed the nature of private beliefs. Some day there can be a book called The Nature of Cultural Reality.

Your own natural feelings toward him, your own natural sexual feelings, with their naturally allowed sexual gallantry, would clear that point. [...]

[...] Once you are born into a particular time and country, you do grow up in an almost invisible but definite environment of concepts, assumptions, and predetermined ideas that serve as a basis from which your own individual beliefs spring. [...]

These previous cozy hopes of such acceptance were quite necessary to couch him as he went about his own searches, because he did not want to admit that he was, in a way, now, alone. [...]

[...] You make your own camouflage universe as I have told you. The growth of a disability, say the appearance of an ulcer, is the introduction of another camouflage reality to the physical body. [...]

I want to show you how form can be changed, even on your own plane, and give you clear examples here so that you will see how in the inner reality universe, vitality can and does change its form at will. [...]

It is formed by the unconscious will for reasons of its own. [...] I intend to tie this in for you later with a clearer explanation as to how you on your plane form your own camouflage universe, and to elucidate on the fact that form is not rigid, though it appears to be in many cases on your own plane.

[...] The material will make its own friends, and I suppose, its own enemies.

They are closed enough to retain identity and separateness of characteristic natures, but because they are all formed from inner vitality, they are actually interrelated; and when I describe fields or systems I describe many portions of one reality, many faces of one reality.

[...] In other words, though the ego was adopted originally by the inner self, and was a product of physical heredity and environment, it does not die; but its existence is changed from physical reality into electrical reality. [...]

[...] In the same manner do thoughts and emotions have the electric reality of which I have spoken. [...]

[...] Thoughts then appear in many guises within many systems, and once created cannot be withdrawn, and once set into motion cannot be stopped. [...]

For many people, a natural calamity provides their first personal experience with the realities of creaturehood’s connection with the planet. Under such conditions men who feel a part of nothing, of no structure or family or country, can understand in a flash their comradeship with the earth, their place upon it and its energy; through suddenly recognizing that relationship they feel their own power for action.

[...] Each individual involved had his or her own reasons for participating, and through the mass-created framework, worked out private purposes and dilemmas.

This recognition can lead them — and often does — to seize their own energy and use it in a strong creative manner. [...] The inciters of riots are often searching for the manifestation of energy which they do not believe they possess on their own. [...]

[...] You will react individually with your own purposes in mind. Your own unique and highly private beliefs help bring about the overall emotional condition. [...]

[...] You will interpret the private events of your lives, and the spectacular range of history, in the light of those assumptions about reality. They not only color your experience, but you create those events that more or less conform to those assumptions.

You form your own reality. [...]

[...] The exquisite play of your own inner nature in general — and that identification leads you into the deeper knowledge of your own part in nature’s source.

[...] Actually, she had converted my original typed sessions making up Psyche into standard manuscript form for the publisher; I still have to do many of the notes for the book after I finish my work on Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality several months from now.

[...] (To me:) Generally, your attitude is that you want your own subconscious relatively clear. [...]

(To me:) Your own creativity has also had a psychic basis, and often you have translated such information into your paintings without ever having been aware you have done so. [...]

[...] Your young brother (William, 9 years younger) never set up adequate defenses, so that his own mood swung, willy-nilly, as the psychic climate varied.

(During break Jane began to get further impressions on her own, and they are noted below. [...]