“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He pulls out part of the thorn but not all of it, working with the pendulum, in some cases. [...]

It may seem that response to a particular episode is out of all proportion in intensity, but attached to it may be past material which does carry a heavy charge. [...]

He is aware of this, but you are real to him in all of your Robert Butts time periods. [...]

[...] “I could go to bed right now,” she said, “but it’s too early — I’d be getting up all night. Right now I don’t feel Seth around, though, but we’ll see … My spine’s got all kinds of feelings in it that I’m not used to, but they’re good ones. [...]

Your educational systems, however, for all of their idealism, have largely ended up (pause) smothering the natural individual bents and leanings of children, and overemphasized instead the cultural organization. [...]

After all, you did (underlined) disapprove. [...]

Now all of this can be remedied by interaction on both of your parts, and the willingness on both of your parts to give-and-take and not be afraid. [...]

I am not telling you that dedication to work is not good, as you know, but it cannot take the place of all other human interest and communication.

The desire to go places and do things, or buy things, or see people—all of these things are good because they imply physical action. [...]

[...] Then re-imagine the circumstances, seeing himself performing adequately, but without telling himself that he must be therefore perfectly all right on the next occasion. [...]

[...] Now I do expect all of this to be followed. [...]

[...] It becomes a part of that which contains it, and therefore a part of the consciousness, in your case, of the cells and all of your structures. [...] They share the consciousness of the material upon which they are printed and the various individual letters themselves, by their position and reality, make each unique piece of paper upon which they are written original from all others.

[...] All symbols have a meaning therefore in themselves also, and a reality apart from that which they are meant to display. [...]

[...] The whole test was very interesting; and all the more so because it was Jane’s first before witnesses.

[...] Through it all Jane had been dissociated as usual. [...]

[...] Seth said I could have information concerning my parents and my hay fever at any time during a regular session, so I could get it all in writing. [...]

[...] Earlier, it was all that you knew—that is, both of you more and more in young years began to identify with what you thought of as your artistic selves, more or less to the exclusion of other portions of the self.

[...] That focus has prevented you each from seeing what you have, from using it fully in all areas, and from recognizing your achievements, creatively, financially, and otherwise.

[...] First of all, you must realize it is futile to say “Why does understanding take so much time?” Or “Why have we been so opaque?” Or in your case “Why has it taken me so long to be a good painter?”

(Jane has finished her ESP book for all practical purposes, and has been looking through the Seth material for a suitable quote to end the final chapter. [...]

[...] She began the reading all right but soon felt a sense of strain. [...]

[...] All of these matters will be thoroughly covered.

That is all for this evening. [...]

[...] Imagine many other such paths, all converging; again, imaginatively take one of them in your mind and follow it. [...] (Half humorously:) Of course, you are not “altering” it at all. [...]

Suppose that you stood in one spot all of your physical life, and that you had to do this because you had been told that you must. [...]

[...] Very forcefully all through here:) But most physicists do not trust felt answers. [...]

[...] He waits and I find him up there, where before he [meaning Seth] came all the way down to me.”

[...] In this it’s all going higher—the voice, the distance, etc. [...]

You had signs of its potential strength, but that is all.

[...] This would represent a personal belief or interpretation of the events—not any scientific evidence at all—but personal conviction cannot be ignored—personality can’t be scientifically established with living personalities. [...]

What magicians we all are,
turning darkness into light,
transforming invisible atoms
into the dazzling theater
of the world,
pulling objects,
(people as well
as rabbits)
out of secret
microscopic closets,
turning winter into summer,
making a palmful of moments
disappear through time’s trap door.

[...] If you happen to live in an area where the coordinate environment is strong, one of those areas I have spoken of as unusually conducive, then it will seem that you are deluged by illnesses or disasters, if these are the nature of your thoughts, because all thought is so fertile in this environment. [...]

[...] Before I leave the subject, however, let me remind you that these emanations in varying degrees rise from all consciousness, not simply your own. [...]

[...] Then I thought that perhaps I wasn’t amazed at all — that such things could be old stuff to therapists following various psychological disciplines. [...]

[...] In a flash I’d been prepared for Margaret to use all force necessary, even to the point of one or more broken ribs, as I’d read could happen. [...]

In actuality all of the seemingly erratic genetic variances that often crop up in human development are vital to the elasticity of the entire genetic system.

This is not to say that all such children should be cared for at home, or that parents should feel guilty if they are forced through circumstances to place their offspring in an institution. [...]

[...] (Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment.) Your beliefs often tell you that life is hard, however, that living is difficult, that the universe, again, is unsafe, and that you must use all of your resources—not to meet the world with anything like joyful abandon, of course, but to protect yourself against its implied threats; threats that you have been taught to expect. [...]

[...] Hips, knees, legs and feet are all involved, and to a lesser extent the upper portions of his body. [...]

[...] She tried to read yesterday’s session, but couldn’t at all. [...]

[...] “It would be nice to know,” I said when she expressed concern, and she replied that she was doing all she could. [...]

His psychic experience has grown and expanded, yet all the while controls were used. [...] In his terms he felt alone, in that he felt he was upsetting all known knowledge, and without training working in the unknown. [...]

In your enthusiasm (meaning table-play) you issue a blanket invitation to all. [...]

I should emphasize that it would be better for you not to play with tables at all, except here or in the company of others who are already familiar with such work.