“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

And for all of you who are able to follow me now, you can follow to the threshold of Alpha IV. Beyond this, at this stage, you cannot go; but recognize that you have touched your toes there, at least, and feel the acquiescence that is its basis, for that acquiescence is the foundation of all life as you know it, and all reality in whatever terms you will ever know it. And within that reality there is no negation, and all questions are answered. [...]

[...] It will help all of you if you imagine it as a platform and see yourselves throwing all your fears off one by one, and it would help if you do this before you begin working on anyone else. [...]

And now you are all in Alpha II. Now I would like you all to sense the feeling of your consciousness, realizing as you do so, that there is within your tissues, and within the atoms and molecules that compose you, a great acquiescence. [...]

[...] Measuring and recording brain waves is a complicated task, however; not only is it important which areas or lobes of the brain are monitored — if not all of them — but because of the mechanical limitations of the EEG itself much that goes on in the brain is necessarily missed. [...] Presumably, however, when speaking for Seth, Jane would show definite changes in all frequency areas in both hemispheres, with the theta and delta ranges altered the most. [...]

[...] You would go to sleep to solve certain problems … There is an overall general difference, nationally speaking — that is, people of various nations do differ to some extent in their prevalent brain frequencies … All in all, however, the beta has predominated, and has been expected to solve many problems unsuited to its own characteristics.

[...] All of us experience such altered states of consciousness often throughout each day, so the phrase itself should hardly mean anything mysterious — even though others usually look at Jane or me questioningly if either of us uses it in conversation.

Now I will let you all take a break. You especially over there (Sue) and you (Maria) and you (Joel), and you all know to what I am referring. [...]

I bid you all a fond good evening, and I do indeed have something to say. [...]

[...] Now in your position, you of all people, should recognize feelings within yourself, the effects of others upon you and be even more vigilant of the effect of what you say upon others. [...]

[...] To top off our activities of the moment, we’re having the front porch of the hill house rebuilt — with a new raised floor and screening all around, so that Jane can write there in the summertime. The workmen swarming around all day, and the noise involved, are both exciting and distracting. [...] After all, she commented recently, the porch would protect our back door, too, especially from all of that winter weather….

[...] Consciousness creates all, or all that we know reflects the particularized creations of consciousness, then, and potentially those sublime mental and physical achievements are without end. The idea of infinity is implied here — a concept whose implications make us uneasy, for although Seth’s material can be said to imply infinities of creation upon the part of each of us, still we realize the conscious mind’s inability to truly grasp all of the qualities inherent within such a notion.

[...] The two of you — for you are both involved — have not only initiated a new framework from which you and others can view the nature of reality more clearly, but you also had to start from scratch, so to speak, to get the material, learn to trust it, and then to apply it to your own lives — even while ‘the facts were not all in yet.’ At no point did you have all of the material to draw upon, as for example, your readers do at any given point. So tell Ruburt not to judge himself too harshly, and in all of this have him try to remember his sense of play….”

[...] That meaningfulness is not only of good intent, but of superlative intent, seeking the greatest possible development and fulfillment of all of its parts. Each creature has its own meaning within it, and that personal meaning fits in with the greatest good of all others.

Scientists look for the objective most of all, and clear-cut cause and effect. [...] The universe is however personal most of all. [...]

All of your exterior communication, your physical events, national affairs, and private gatherings, are the result of the interrelationship of subjective realities, whose very basis is not physical at all. [...]

(Slower now): All of this material now given must be considered along with the fact that beneath these developments there are the eternal aspects and creative characteristics of a force that is both undeniable and intimate. All That Is, in other words, represents the reality from which all of us spring. (Pause, one of several.) All That Is, by its nature, transcends all dimensions of activity, consciousness, or reality, while being a part of each.

[...] Many ancient religions held the belief of one god above all others. This god above all others was a far more lenient god, however, than the one the Hebrews followed. [...] All worked together harmoniously.

Before, the environment was effortlessly created and perceived by man and all other living things, knowing the nature of their inner unity. [...] So it seemed that all bridges must be cut, while of course it was only a game because the inner reality always remained. [...]

(Jane told me she was a little surprised that Maude Cardwell hadn’t answered my letter of a couple of weeks ago by now — but I said I thought things were proceeding as all of us wanted them to, really. After all, I hadn’t given Maude our phone number — though I plan to — and we’ve maintained a distance from her and others who have offered help. [...]

And next: All of my imperfections, and all of the imperfections of other creatures, are redeemed in the greater scheme of the universe in which I have my being.

[...] Wouldn’t you know it — the spring mechanism that governs the travel of the garage door broke as I was lowering the door, so that I couldn’t close it all the way. So when I got to 330 one of my first acts was to call Overhead Door and ask them to have someone check the garage door this afternoon, if possible. [...]

Individually, you exist physically because of the unsurpassed cooperation that exists just biologically between your species and all others, and on deeper levels because of the cellular affiliations that exist among the cells of all species. [...] It operates above as well, but I am here concerned with the cooperative nature with which value fulfillment endows all units of consciousness within your physical world.

(Pause, then all intently:) Religion and science alike denied other species any real consciousness. [...] If that were the case you would have no world at all.

[...] I’d written a detailed account of it upon arising, as I do with all dreams I recall, and Jane had read it as we ate breakfast. [...]

[...] In your terms the magnetic fields themselves fluctuated—but all of the species were there at the beginning, though in the same fashion, for as the dream world broke through into physical reality there was all of the tumultuous excitement and confusion with which a mass creative event is achieved. [...] The species and environment together formed themselves in concert, in glorious combination, so that each fulfilled the requirements of its own existence while adding to the fulfillment of all other portions of physical reality (all very intently, and with many gestures).

[...] God, or All That Is, is in the deepest sense completed, and yet uncompleted. [...] All That is, or God, in a certain fashion, now (underlined)—and this is qualified—learns as you learn, and makes adjustments according to your knowledge. We must be very careful here, for delusions of divinity come sometimes too easily, but in a basic sense you all carry within yourselves the undeniable mark of All That Is—and an inbuilt capacity—capacity—to glimpse in your own terms undeniable evidence of your own greater existence. [...]

This may hardly be original thinking here, but these proliferations of consciousness imply some pretty fantastic abilities on the part of we humans—for such developments show that even though we live as small creatures within the incredible richness of an overall consciousness, or All That Is, still our actions can result in that great consciousness exploring new areas of itself. [...] We do this all of the time, of course, individually and collectively.

As you all know, you can become as conscious sleeping, and you do, as you are in the normal state, or now when you listen to me. [...] And you can all  (to Sheila), all  succeed to some extent or another in this experiment, and anything you learn or remember, or take back with you, will be more than worth your while. [...]

[...] And yet, this is all a portion of your own identity. [...] The innermost portions of yourself that is indeed a part of all energy, must be sifted through the self that you now recognize, and your job is to learn how to receive the information and how to open and use the inner self. But these are all evidences in your own experience of the multidimensionality of your own personality. [...]

Now, you have all been changing your relationships, not only because of what has gone on in class physically, but because of what you have been doing in the dream states. [...] I ask you to do things  (to Gert) in a minute I will be with you—all of you, and some of you do these things and some do not. [...]

[...] I am touched by those events and so are you; so even while I sit in trance, dictating books as Seth, I can’t after all stray too far from our joint reality. [...] The glass of wine on the coffee table before me, the cigarettes, and the mass-produced table itself, are all reminders that my most adventuresome journeys into other realities are rooted, for now at least, in the physical world of events that we all share together.

[...] Those theories, along with religion’s belief in the flawed self, have left their marks on all of our lives. [...] The answers are not all in. [...]

[...] It’s all a matter of focus. [...] The point of all of this is the exploration of human consciousness, its ranges and scopes. [...]

(Jane continues:) In a sense the present individual in any given life could be called a fragment of his entire entity, having all the properties of the original entity, though they remain latent or unused. [...] It contained all the abilities of your friend, whether latent or not I do not know. [...] Usually it cannot operate on all levels of your physical plane.

In a sense all things could be called fragments, but there are different kinds. [...] Pacing back and forth, she began to dictate:) that a tree cannot, personality fragments form other fragments having all the properties of the parent fragment—emotional life and so forth.

As for others all fragments have (pause) are throwoffs or projections. [...] A personality fragment has all the properties of its parents inherent, though it may not know how to use them. [...]

(To April.) Now over here  until you have been here longer, I do not have too much to say to you for there is much that you must learn, and you might misinterpret what I might say—only that I am aware of your motives, and that there are reasons behind all behavior and all events, though they seem to you quite tragic. That there is meaning, therefore, in your child’s life and existence and even in your attitudes toward the child; and that in your terms, regardless of what happens, the child has a future, and that all endings are new beginnings. [...]

[...] To deny creativity is to deny All That Is, is to deny the vitality that was born itself out of its own desire. To deny individuality or to speak in terms of nirvana is to deny the vitality from which all originally came, in your terms. [...]

([Ron.:] “That doesn’t contradict Buddhism or Hinduism, if you say that God is All That Is and is all personalities...”)

Philip should read the sessions dealing particularly with the laws of the universe, that is with the inner laws of the universe, appreciating then the facts that this universe within all universes is spontaneous while having durability. It would be backtracking to repeat that long discussion, but as the inner universe has as its attributes spontaneity and durability, and as the spacious present is simultaneous while containing within it all pasts and all presents and all futures, and as Philip understands the meaning of expansion in terms not of time or of space but of value fulfillment, so will he intuitively then grasp that no contradiction occurs with actual reality when I say that there is no beginning and no end.

[...] This strains the intellect, and so I will say that in your practical terms, of which we have somewhat spoken in the past, there was what you may all refer to as a beginning, when strife and striving and a wish to be formed itself and gathered itself sufficiently together to form a contracted whole in which all possibilities were latent.

[...] The pyramids of psychic gestalts of which I have spoken represent in your terms all beginnings and all endings, which again expand into new beginnings and new forms.

In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect. [...]

These ideas are translations of the emotional attitudes of all portions of nature and of life itself. They are better than any medicine, and they promote the expression of value fulfillment of all kinds of life, whatever its form.

(Long pause.) Large numbers of the population do indeed live unsatisfactory lives, with many individuals seeking goals that are nearly unattainable because of the conglomeration of conflicting beliefs that all vie for their attention. [...]

[...] With that in mind, then, it is impossible to imagine the multidimensional creativities that can be attributed to All That Is. The term ‘All That Is’ can be used as a designation to include all of those probable gods in all of their manifestations.

[...] Now, however, I am concerned with the multidimensional aspects of All That Is. [...] There are no facts that can be given that can portray with any faithfulness the attributes of All That Is.

All personal contact with the multidimensional God, all legitimate moments of mystic consciousness, will always have a unifying effect. [...]

All of this may seem to have little to do with your daily personal experience, and yet it is intimately connected, for personally and en masse you can indeed create “the best” of all possible worlds.

[...] Within the experience of your race as you know it lie all the patterns that would point to some fully developed human being, in which all inherent tendencies were given full play and came to fruition.

You would have an individual who displayed within himself [or herself] all of those great abilities known to the race, fulfilled according to his own unique temper — the artist, mathematician, athlete, the inventor — all the extraordinary qualities of creaturedom; the emotional realities would be used to their capacity, and any of the racial qualities or characteristics of the species would be given their complete freedom.

If you look outward, then you see what you have created, all of you. [...]

Now all of this correlates ever since we began the experiment, and you do indeed have a purpose this evening. [...]

Now, I would like all of you to try this with me. [...]

You are not fated to dissolve into All That Is. [...] All That Is is the creator of individuality, not the means of its destruction.

[...] All are living and vital. All go their own way. [...]

Since all lives are simultaneous, all happening at once, then any separation is a psychological one. [...]

You were right when you said that we are getting into more meaningful material and so I would like you all to listen so I do not have to give it twice. You are getting into some material where we compare cordellas and alphabets and that material will also tell you why we are interested in using this language at all. [...]

Any time at all. [...]

Now you can all verbalize better in the language you know than you are doing right now, and it is good for you to put what you know into verbalized terms, so I will be around here. [...]