“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The sense data is important, you see; the new balances that your separate personalities achieve lead you both to new expansions. [...] For from this inner isolation, you achieve the strength to expand psychically outward. [...]

Now for many reasons your success, both yours and Ruburt’s, will come later in your lives than those who achieve it in their young adult years. [...] The nature of your particular achievements has something to do with the period in your life in which they are accomplished.

[...] The quality of your achievement demands unusual understanding. [...]

[...] They can only help however when the “patient” has made the decision to achieve health. [...]

[...] He is being healed, but with conscious cooperation, and relying upon the fact that you form your reality—not, for example, by simply accepting another framework of belief—but his dealing with the nature of beliefs themselves, and this is an achievement. [...]

[...] Any physical gain, as badminton, physical achievement, should be stressed, and the movement that he does have encouraged.

[...] In certain terms it was tragic and painful but it was not Ruburt’s fault, and within it his mother achieved a different kind of knowledge and even triumphant experience.

[...] What I mean is that there is no human motivation that may not at some time be involved with illness, for often it is a means to a desired end—a method of achieving something a person thinks may not be achieved otherwise.

One man might use it to achieve success. One might use it to achieve failure. [...]

[...] Man’s involvement in sports is an instant example, of course, where society’s rewards and the promise of spectacular bodily achievement lead athletes into activities that would be considered most painful by the ordinary individual. [...]

[...] After the session tonight we tried a few experiments but achieved nothing, with the exception that at one point when Jane announced she might achieve a certain result, I felt my old familiar thrilling sensation wash over me quite strongly. [...]

[...] Miss Callahan and her illness, and her connection with Frank Watts, who purportedly was the first psychic contact Jane actually achieved, have been dealt with at length in various sessions. [...]

(During that session Jane achieved outstanding voice effects, a very deep trance, and a projection to the Boston classroom of Pat’s special high-school class. [...]

I am fairly certain that I achieved excellent emotional contact with the students I addressed; for the projection was not only of Ruburt’s perceptive mechanisms, there was a strong psychic projection on my part.

[...] I told her I hoped it was an early sign of the new healing and freedom Seth has been saying she’s on her way to achieving through her latest bouts of fever, her cold, and so forth.

[...] Perhaps any improvements she can achieve can come about better if we simply leave the whole business alone and quit focusing on it. [...]

[...] Whether or not you can achieve such purposeful visits at this time, I do not know. [...] At all such occasions, try to establish some kind of contact if possible, but do not be discouraged if this is not achieved at once.

[...] Journey of your own essence must be achieved first, of course. [...]

[...] You must be convinced, deeply, not only that such feats are possible, but that you can achieve them; and then you must also train yourself to perfect your own abilities.

[...] Not enough to make a beach of your own, perhaps, but a handful in the middle of your living room table would be quite an achievement.

[...] Here, in that area excellent achievements have been made, and old beliefs overrode, that were important, concerning both art, society, and finances. [...]

[...] Unthinking statement, for many people—in fact, most—have in their own ways far more difficult problems, and far less achievement, joy or understanding. [...]

In order to sell your paintings in any important way, or to achieve a reputation, you must want to achieve a reputation, and want to sell the paintings. [...]

[...] I have had awareness of this occurrence a few times, and puzzled over it, seeing effects in finished work that I wanted, without knowing how I had achieved them. [...]

Now here; this end, seemingly, to his mind could be achieved in no other more ordinary way. Whether the end could have been achieved in another way makes no difference. [...]

I will also cover your achievement, as when you actually increased your car’s efficiency on your return trip. This was somewhat different, though basically the same as Ruburt’s achievement. [...]

Conscious desire to achieve a given end may represent only a superficial, culturally-adopted wish, that may even be directly opposed to the emotionally-charged desires and expectations of the inner self.

[...] Discoveries in this realm will be fully as magnificent as those like discoveries in the world of physical matter; and again, because ideas and psychic energy form the basis of the physical universe, an expansion and thrust in the realm of idea will serve to actually expand and change the nature, scope and dimension of your physical universe, and in a way that could be achieved in no other manner.

(November 16, Monday, 11:45 AM: Good state achieved.)

[...] Good state achieved. [...]

“Complete disentanglement from camouflage comes rarely within your system, although it is possible to achieve it, particularly in connection with Psychological Time. [...]

[...] I for one haven’t had any such feelings, since from the very beginning of our relationship I’ve always felt certain that in Jane I’d found the ideal mate—an achievement I’ve considered most fortunate, one I’d hardly dared dream I’d manage to do. [...] I’ve always been intensely proud of Jane’s achievements and abilities, and glad to be able to participate in them to whatever degree. [...] No wonder I say to her that we’ve paid too high a price for our achievements. I want to see her able to manipulate like other people, of course, and to have her achievements also; that things haven’t worked out that way so far can’t but help have a profound effect upon my feelings, hers, and our relationship, which I’ve always taken absolutely as being as solid and enduring as the elements.)

It is difficult to know where to begin, but we will start with your joint beliefs: (a) that you need solitude a good deal of the day in which to work; (b) your definite belief jointly that this solitude is almost impossible to achieve. [...]

[...] These attitudes cause you to try to maintain some solitude while believing it is almost impossible to achieve, and so this of course is your experience.

[...] Your beliefs make it very difficult for you to achieve your solitude. [...]

You cannot separate achievements from personality. [...]

[...] For example, your ideal may be — for ideals differ — the production of endless energy for the uses of mankind, and you may believe so fervently in that ideal — this added convenience to life — that you considered the hypothetical possibility of that convenience being achieved at the risk of losing some lives along the way. [...]

(10:53.) It means that you are not willing to take the actual steps in physical reality to achieve the ideal, but that you believe that the end justifies the means: “Certainly some lives may be lost along the way, but overall, mankind will benefit.” [...]

1. On April 20, technicians managed to lower below the boiling point the temperature of the cooling water in the damaged nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island; this success was achieved just 24 days after the accident began to unfold on March 28. [...]

[...] We speculated about the inevitable contradictions that would emerge should man ever manage to achieve such an “ideal” state, or society — for, given, his always restless and creative nature, he’d immediately start changing his supposed utopia. [...]

[...] Very briefly, for your edification: Ruburt’s eyes are achieving normal motion, the muscles and so forth being released to normal capacity in the last few days. [...]

[...] She took some little while to come out of the trance at the end, a fact attesting to the depth and effectiveness achieved. She achieved a legitimate projection to the classroom in Boston, and Seth deals with this to some extent in the next session. [...]

[...] The presence of witnesses encouraged her; strong voice effects began to show themselves, the best in many sessions and toward the end of the Pat’s delivery, Jane achieved a projection to the Boston classroom of Pat’s special class. [...]

I mention this here simply because in the overall development of an individual, an illness may also be used as a method to achieve another, constructive, end. [...]

Other means would seem closed to him because of various personal beliefs that would form a vacuum in his experience — that is, he would see no other way, perhaps, to achieve the same end. [...]