“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I am not sure here now. [...]

[...] I am one with what reality I create. [...]

([Gene]: “But I can’t leave the system because I am in all systems simultaneously.”)

I am speaking in physical terms. [...]

I will here end our session, and am pleased to note that Ruburt feels much better. [...] We are all in the same pie together, save that I am the baker and the crust both. [...]

(October 8, 1964, Thursday, 11 AM: Fleeting images; couldn’t retain them.

(October 13, Tuesday, 11:15 AM: Fleeting, forgotten images. [...]

(October 14, Wednesday, 11:15 AM: No results.

[...] You have various gradations of intellectuals; you have various gradations of those who are willing to express some emotions; you have some of those who are willing to disappear at the drop of a hat, and I am looking at no one in particular. I am the only one who expresses any emotions and I am supposed to be dead. [...]

(To Ned.) And what I am saying to you, I am saying telepathically, and you know what I mean. [...]

[...] I am not worried about being dignified and adult. [...]

([Joel:] “I am wondering if as we continue to get ourselves into the emotional level if we will experience less distortion at the communicational level, or if rather dealing extensively at the communicational level, if we will be able to communicate intuitively or telepathically?”)

One aside here: while I am myself as you know me, I am also the other personality that sometimes speaks. This does not mean that what I am as you know me, ends, or is finished, in what he is.

I am speaking now in terms of evolution. [...]

(At break I told Jane I also had a teacher named Miss Prince, but am unsure now of the grade she taught.

Life and consciousness, without the means to express them, are not meaningless, for life and consciousness have their own purposes; and of these purposes I am not prepared now to tell you.

[...] I am helping you in this … You are both (meaning Jane and me) peculiarly suited for such a pursuit, with a combination of intuitiveness, basic psychic facility, and yet integrated inner identities … I also want to add that I am not a control, as mediums speak of controls. I am not, as I believe I have mentioned, a secondary or split personality of Ruburt’s. For example, I am not a conglomeration of male tendencies that have collected themselves into a subsidiary personality that struggles for recognition or release. I say that I am an energy personality essence, since that is what I am … My name for him is Ruburt,¹⁵ which happens to be a male name simply because it is the closest translation, in your terms, for the name of the whole self or entity of which he is now a self-conscious part.

[...] For one thing, I am an extremely sensitive but disciplined, and sensible if somewhat irascible, gentleman, if you will forgive the term. [...] (Smiling:) I may make bold to remark that I am more stable than you or Ruburt, or your fine psychologist [who just wrote to you].¹¹

[...] You cannot stop them in time … I am Seth today. [...] I am another.

Now and then with Ruburt, when I am allowed to manifest myself to a smaller or lesser degree, my own habits therefore show through, for I manipulate his muscles in a different way than he does. [...] (With humor:) I am glad to see that it has been bothering you. [...]

(12:29 AM.) Very quickly: Ruburt, again, is at a point where he can be on his way. [...]

(12:35 AM.)

Wednesday—late morning; situation more or less the same; am having some trouble concentrating on writing though as I did yesterday; yesterday I did two fairly nice ink sketches by the way. Am working on preface though. [...]

(This is really weird, and though it is now 11:00 AM as I write this I am still shaky. [...] As 10:00 AM approached I did decide I would have to rest for half an hour; I then got the idea of putting myself into a light trance and suggesting that my subconscious would consider any problems I might [...]

I have said more than once that I am no spooky spirit indeed. Nor am I dead. [...]

I am more than amused. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, energy enters your plane which is not materialized into mass, and I am energy which is not transformed into mass.

Having read Priestley’s ideas about Dunne, Ruburt now wonders if I am not a future self of his own, according to Dunne’s ideas; that is, if I am not one of those future selves of which Dunne speaks, or if I am not consciousness number two, or three even, of Priestley’s concept.

I am glad that you did not encounter these ideas earlier, since we cannot therefore be justly accused of having borrowed any of them. Ruburt is amazed at some of the similarities that exist in the concept of time as I am giving it to you, and the concepts held by Dunne and Priestley.

[...] We are able to do this, or I am able to do this, precisely because I am from beyond Priestley’s time one, two and three, and therefore free of the distortions which even he is unable to avoid.

[...] It is simply because I am outside of these times that I can see through them more clearly, and there is no particular reason why I should be considered wiser in this respect than they. I am simply in a better position to observe. [...]

(12:02 AM.) A personal note before we close. [...]

There are some things to happen that I am not telling you about along those lines, but you must both take it for granted that freedoms exist now to be expressed.

[...] It is a highly simplified version of the truth to say that I am a spirit, in those terms, though in those terms I am indeed. [...]

[...] I am not the oak that the seed will become. By then, in your terms, I will be far different than I am in your now.

I am far more than Ruburt’s “best self,” in quotes. [...]

I am utterly independent of Jane in any terms that have practical meaning in generally held concepts of personality. [...]

[...] It was after 1 AM before I got to bed. At 3 AM I was in to check up on her. At 6 AM she called me to get her up, and I rushed through the morning’s usual chores so that I could get started on typing this material. I put her in bed at about 11:30 AM, and got her up at noon. [...]

(Just last night Jane sat up in her chair all night—literally—letting me put her on the commode at about 2 AM. I did so again at 7 AM, and she then sat up until Peggy arrived at 2 PM. [...]

The session is apt to go off and on, but for a fairly long period—I am not sure—as we deal with the nature of action and expression. [...]

[...] Boy, am I scared.” [...]

[...] I am not saying that you should not allow certain specific individuals at times to attend private sessions. I am now stressing, however, that the two regular sessions should be held, and I am saying this now knowing that Ruburt is able and willing to follow my suggestions.

[...] Now, however, I am concerned with the multidimensional aspects of All That Is. [...]

[...] Sometimes I am very directly concerned in a session, and sometimes you get a session that has been programmed. [...]

[...] Now to go into a trance is simply to focus intensely in a highly specific area of reality and, therefore, I throw or project a part of what I am here because I am able to utilize greater areas of my personality than those with which you are now acquainted in yourself. I can do this in a conscious manner and yet still, as I am here and as I have mentioned, I find a difficulty in looking at you and relating to the selves that you think you are within your given moment of time for I see the composites, so it takes some training on my part to pinpoint you in the time and space with which you are acquainted. [...]

You are aware of the selves that sit in this room on a particular evening of a snowstorm with certain members of the class present, certain members of the class absent, and some new people here, but I am familiar with the inner portions of yourselves that you also know but that the egotistical self has hidden from you. And so I must think constantly to myself, oh, yes, our Lady from Florence thinks that she sits in this specific room at this specific hour and is wearing a blue outfit but I am aware of a Lady of Florence you see, in several different manifestations in various existences all occurring at once. [...]

[...] That you can be aware of your own greater identity even as I am aware of it. [...]

Now when I said in the last class session that I preferred, if you must project your thoughts and images upon me that, instead of thinking of me as a wise old man, you thought of me as a lark in the morning, I meant because I am such an old bird. [...]

[...] I am going to let our friend return, I am not a camera hound. [...]

([Arnold:] “Does this mean subconsciously then I am afraid to go into these changes by developing my psychic ability?”)

[...] Now I am used to speaking to the whole Northeast, this is what you get here in the living room. [...]

(To Valerie.) This one was here last night and I was here and I spoke to you because I am such a friendly fellow and you do not remember. [...]

If you follow your thoughts further you may find yourself thinking, “I am proud of my sensitivity. It sets me apart from the mob,” or, “I am too good for this world.” [...]

[...] It enjoys playing with its own contents, so I am not here recommending a type of stern mental discipline in which you examine yourself at every moment. I am telling you about countering measures that you can take in areas in which you are not pleased with your experience.

[...] I am poor. [...]

[...] Finding the thought you may say, “But it is true; I am. [...]

It is true I am in some ways no beauty on your terms, and yet you will attest I am not altogether ugly. [...]

I am going to tie this in with material dealing with the differences that you seem to see in one particular object. [...]

—I am a much more cheerful-looking fellow than here portrayed. [...]

[...] I am pleased that I have been perceived, and I have been observing you from my own vantage point.

Now, we will see to it that you live very adventurous nights, and those of you who do psychological time and take the physical time necessary to do the experiments, will find the mobility of consciousness—I am using that term because Ruburt likes it so well—that is necessary. [...]

(To Giselle.) Now, I am aware of the problems of which Ruburt knows, and we will discuss them at a later time whenever you can get up here and discuss it. [...]

[...] I am not going to keep you. [...]

Now, Ruburt had some other things planned for class this evening and remember you are not to come here and listen to me as if I were some Sunday preacher for I make every effort to show you that I am not. [...]

(I am right—meaning in accord with my own nature—when I “forget” each book as it is done... [...] I am“lucky” that the books sell, and that does mean that the world does accept “my work” to a certain important degree. [...]

(It was: distinguish between the natural and cultural or social world and assure myself I am safe in the natural world.

([Gert:] “Jane says I am quite guilt-ridden. My question is, as I am able to find out what I am guilty about and I find that guilt, do I then project that into another probable self?”)

Now, I am not going to keep you. [...] In other words, consciousness without camouflage, for the characteristics that I use are camouflage, beloved camouflage perhaps; but without them you would not understand what I am saying, and without them in yourselves, you would not learn to recognize the self that you can be. [...]

[...] I have had some time with it through past lives, and found it very handy, indeed, so I am not prejudiced. [...]

[...] And when you act you do not deceive yourselves, you know quite clearly I am acting for thus and thus reasons. [...]