“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I only suggest that you watch Ruburt as he moves; and I must remind you that upon other occasions when results had been achieved, your minds had been focused along these directions for a long period of time, comparatively speaking, and whether you realized it or not your psychic energies had been so focused. Whether you are consciously aware of it or not, the subconscious focus at all times must be achieved first. Even when you did not realize that such a focus had been achieved it had been achieved.

More matters than you know enter into such achievements. All of your forces are relatively scattered this evening, Mark’s in particular. Ruburt’s insistence upon darkness was an attempt to increase your inner concentration. At times during regular sessions, I have introduced effects, but for various reasons you have either failed to observe them, or have not been able to.

[...] Make whatever suitable necessary adjustments in terms of providing nursing care, but all in all it will work out much better to Ruburt’s advantage, and your own, to get him home, with whatever promptness is achievable. [...]

[...] The necessary medical help you might need can be achieved at home, but in any case your best solution lies in that immediate direction and in that necessary move. [...]

You are otherwise in the middle of a syndrome, which can take considerable time to unravel, and in the home environment this can be achieved quicker than it might appear—that is, this advice is not as arbitrary as it might appear. [...]

In the exercises both will, faith and assertion, come into play in coordinated effort that is met by performance, and by achievement. He gives himself then physical achievement, and for the first time can say “I did this or that, that I set my mind on, and am succeeding.”

It places his mind on physical performance, and leads automatically into the future in a positive way as he achieves in simpler exercises and then goes on. [...]

The emphasis in these should always be upon the achievement, and the exercises follow his growing capacities. [...]

[...] They must be consistently carried through however, as a time of day set aside for physical achievement.

The fact remains that when you assess your fellows, you put a far greater stress upon intellectual achievement than emotional achievement. Some of you may even question what emotional achievement is, but it is highly important spiritually and biologically. Some people, who would rate quite high on any hypothetical emotional-achievement test, might very possibly under certain conditions be labeled as retarded, according to the dictates of your society. The species is at least embarked upon its journey toward emotional achievement, as it is upon the development of its intellectual capacities, and ultimately the two must go hand in hand.

[...] Your greatest achievements have been produced by civilizations during those times when man had the greatest faith in the meaningfulness of life in general, and in the meaningfulness of the individual within life’s framework.

[...] In your society, however, the capacities of the reasoning mind have been considered in opposition to the intuitive abilities, so that your ideas of what a person is or should be largely ignore the idea of emotional achievement, emotional understanding.

[...] You believed that together you could achieve what had not been achieved earlier—that you could somehow or other offer meaningful and real solutions to the world’s problems.

In our dream experiments therefore, this is one of the purposes that we hope to achieve. [...]

[...] Physical reality is a rock to which the ego must cling, and from which it achieves its power, energy, position, and reason for existence.

This will then allow us to proceed into the relationship between the waking and sleeping personality, and discover the many ways in which the personality’s aims and goals are not only reflected but sometimes achieved in and through the dream condition.

In our final discussions we will, in a practical manner, discuss the ways in which conscious goals can be achieved with the help of the sleeping personality. [...]

[...] The entire idea involves a process in which you try and not try at the same time, in which you do not strain to achieve results, but instead gently begin to allow yourself to follow the contours of your own subjective feelings, to uncover those spiritual and biologically valid beliefs of early childhood, and to bring to them the very best wisdom that you have acquired throughout your life so far.

[...] It may even achieve an allure in some people’s minds.

[...] Some youngsters are so overly provided for by their families that it seems that there is no way for them to achieve any more than they have.

[...] On the other hand, some upper-middle-class families stress competition to such a degree that it seems to the children that they are only valued for their achievements, rather than being loved for simply being the people they are.

[...] There is at least a possibility that you and Ruburt, using your own individual inner senses, may at times perceive different aspects of a given situation, and that the individual perceptions will enable you to achieve a greater knowledge of a specific, or any specific, happening than either of you separately could achieve. [...]

[...] You will find that there are peaks of relatively high achievement, and as you acquire practice the peaks will not be so separated and results will be more predictable.

(On November 4, 1964, Jane unwittingly achieved a trance state, during psychological time, that lasted for several hours. [...]

(Today Jane again achieved a prolonged state that was begun during a psy-time experiment. [...]

[...] She had also achieved a good state yesterday, Sunday; indeed, this was the first weekend during which she had tried psy-time, and she speculated that she had overdone it by experimenting for ten days in a row. [...]

(This reminded me that Jane recently remarked that when she tries psychological time now, it is the usual thing for her to achieve what she calls an “excellent” state.)

[...] The state which he has achieved this evening, with your help Joseph, allowed us to achieve that informality to some small degree.

If it were [done] differently we would never have achieved the results that we have achieved.

[...] We achieved this earlier but the conditions were different.

(February 8, Monday, 11:30 AM: Good state achieved. [...]

(December 8, Tuesday, 11:30 AM: A very good state achieved.

(December 10, Thursday, 11:30 AM: An excellent state achieved.

[...] After achieving a good state I began to feel or sense various small “ripples” or movements while lying prone. [...]

(December 10, Thursday, 8:30 PM: Good state achieved.

[...] When you have achieved reachable goals then you will have the strength and freedom to follow through, and ability to achieve goals that are more difficult. There is a dangerous tendency here that should be mentioned, and it is this: you must not blame others when you do not achieve your goals.

[...] But in working toward a goal that is very distant, a goal that will be extremely difficult for you to achieve, you feel subconsciously that you will be excused from failure; if you fail you can then say that it was because so many obstacles were in your way.

[...] But this causes you to avoid goals that you have a good possibility of achieving. [...]

—there is now hope for your success, for you can now take the necessary steps to achieve it.

[...] If solitude is achieved through living alone, then the personality should so be able to relate itself outward.

[...] I do want to caution him that first steps must be taken first if his inner goals in this direction are ever to be achieved, without unnecessary difficulties for the ego.

With such a firm foundation he will indeed be most successful, and he can achieve such a foundation. [...]

If this sounds difficult then indeed it is, because I will not deal in platitudes, and the exercise of the inner abilities demand, as a bulwark, the sometimes difficult achievement of an ego that can adapt itself in the outer environment, and so hold its own while the inner self is then freed to go its way.

You cannot try to go and stop at the same time, to be driven to achieve and not achieve, without some consequences. [...]

As things turned out, the psychic phenomena was a way to achieve success, and because he loves you he will be sure it is not at your expense. [...]

A side point here, but with some reference: his mother always told him that he would destroy those he loved, and he feared that any success of his might show you up if you had not achieved your own. [...]

Now understand that the same thing applies in the case of unusual achievements. In those instances the achiever’s beliefs predominate, and yet apart from this he may also be acting out the unrealized aspirations of his family members, or of the group in which he is intimately involved. [...]

A person with several existences stressing intellectual achievement might purposely then decide upon a life in which mental abilities are beyond him, and the emotions allowed a full play that he had denied them “earlier.”

[...] Usually, though not always, a peculiar personal achievement results precisely because of the given difficulty (intently).

Someone else may choose to focus upon intellectual achievement to such a degree that he shuts out all true closeness, and though he can accept a permanent relationship, he will not experience the emotional richness that others may derive from a much briefer encounter. [...]

[...] Behind all this is the belief that spontaneously the ideal will never be achieved, and that, indeed, on his own man is getting worse and worse in every aspect: How can flawed selves ever hope to spontaneously achieve any good?

[...] A democratic society offers the greatest challenges and possibilities of achievement for the individual and the species, for it allows for the free intercourse of ideas. [...]

[...] And there are always fanatics there to stand for ultimate truth, and to lift from the individual the challenge and “burden” of personal achievement and responsibility. [...]

It is foolish to say “Why does it take so much time to learn?” For each learning process is highly unique, and contains within it particular achievements that you yourself want; and these achievements not only rise above the difficulties, but in the greater view the steps are seen as steps “upward”—the individualized problems understood as the same kind of challenges you might set for yourself to conquer in a painting, or as part of the entire creative process.

[...] Left alone, the abilities will see to it that economic survival is achieved. [...]

[...] There are balances that you achieve. [...]

[...] If you have a purpose and you want to achieve it badly enough, then everything else must be sacrificed for it—because “time marches on.” [...]

[...] The unusual thing achieved this time was that my left heel came to feel that there was nothing beneath it, as though it hung off the edge of the bed. [...] She achieved a much greater degree, however, as when she attempted to travel psychically and ended up in her trance of November 4, 1964. [...]

(Trying psychological time for fifteen minutes on Tuesday, November 17, and Wednesday, November 18, Jane achieved an excellent state on each day.

(I have little to report concerning my recent psy-time experiences, achieving little beyond a moderate sensation. [...]

[...] There is no energy that is not to some extent aware of itself; having sought and achieved expression through physical form in one way or another, it is not satisfied but forever seeks more complicated gestalts.

There is a level of understanding that you achieve now and then, and lose when you achieve it; you work wonders—and those wonders appear so ordinary to you, so natural, that they almost escape your notice. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s physical condition is so noticeable and so has your joint attention, because it stands out alone as the one large negative in a period of positive growing achievement, abundance, and understanding.

[...] You each managed for a time to achieve that level of intuitive understanding necessary. [...]

[...] Try as hard as you can to consider this a challenge that rouses both of you to your greatest achievement, rather than as a condition that must be put up with—and do not concentrate upon it. [...]

[...] You are not healthy, for example, no matter how robust your physical condition, if your relationships are unhealthy, unsatisfying, frustrating, or hard to achieve. [...] On examination of her own thoughts and beliefs, she might well discover that she was so frightened of not achieving her own goals that she actually encouraged her husband’s alcoholism, so that she would not have to face her own “failure.”