“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He wants to know where the words are coming from and still wonders if I am a part of his subconscious; and I must admit that I find such an idea appalling. [...] This is our twenty-fourth session, and I am still trying to give you the answers.

[...] Surely, I should not have to remind you of the practicality of camouflage patterns with which I am no longer concerned. [...]

[...] This was a projection of your inability and should not be taken as any condition of helplessness existing in the inner world, as I am afraid you interpreted the image.

[...] He congratulated us on our “twenty-fifth anniversary,” and said jokingly, You will be much older by the time I am through with you. Most of the session was a discussion of ordinary subjective states emphasizing the fact that these could not be pinpointed in a laboratory or understood simply by the use of the ordinary scientific method. [...]

[...] I am doing this simply as a good and kind gesture. [...]

I am giving you the rules by which accomplishment can truly be achieved. [...]

I am not clear here. [...]

(Question: “What’s that about the oval shape?” “I am not clear here. [...]

[...] For one thing I am a sensitive but disciplined and sensible—if somewhat irascible—gentleman. [...] I may make bold to remark that I am more stable than you or Ruburt or the fine psychologist.

[...] But as a fish swims through water, but the fish is not the water, I am not Ruburt’s subconscious.

After break Seth said, “Again, I am not Ruburt’s subconscious, though I speak through it. [...]

[...] I am referring now to your own terms of reference. [...]

[...] Shortly we shall consider various psychological frameworks, for there are endless varieties; though we shall discuss only a few, the few with which I am familiar.

[...] Now, in our sessions I am sure that by now you are at least to some extent aware of what would seem to be something quite strange: the emergence of a self that observes the self of which you have been ordinarily aware; a self with a slightly different time system, a slightly different viewpoint of reality, a self with greater control over the physical material that composes your physical image, a self with some quite effective control over your personal future.

I am speaking now of course of both of you. [...]

I am going to give you some more material concerning our discussion of matter, but first I would like to make one comment.

[...] I am not the nervous one. [...]

I am going to suggest your break. [...]

[...] 7/25, 1:00 AM: Upon retiring a series of brief flashes of people and places. [...]

There is nothing wrong with the concept of an egotistically based individual being, colon: I am not suggesting, therefore, that your individuality is something to be lost, thrown aside, or superseded. Nor am I saying that it should be buried, submerged, or dissolved in a superself. I am not suggesting that its edges be blurred by a powerful unconscious.

(Intently:) I am saying that the individual self must become consciously aware of far more reality; that it must allow its recognition of identity to expand so that it includes previously unconscious knowledge. [...]

I make these analogies because they are pertinent, yet I am aware that they can make you feel small or fear for your identity. [...]

[...] I am not telling you that you do not have a soul to call your own. [...]

[...] She seemed to pop out of it quickly; yet: “I am so far out….” [...]

[...] She had me dig out her notes for this idea yesterday —I believe before the mail, but am not sure. [...]

[...] I am filing all of the information discussed here. [...]

[...] It is very important that you understand what I am saying in this session. [...]

Nevertheless I am not only thinking of Ruburt, but also I wanted to give you some rest Joseph, in typing the material, and I was concerned with giving you more time to assimilate material as you get it. [...] I am indeed flattered. [...]

[...] I am endeavoring to end our sessions, for a while at least, at an earlier hour for several reasons, which will not concern you; and I will here end the session, I should imagine with your approval.

I am aware of Karder’s visit, and your own conversations about Ruburt’s walking, and so forth — and I intend to answer your questions, but I wanted to give you the preceding material as a necessary preliminary. I am also aware of the time limitations.

[...] I may or may not return, et cetera (with humor), and I am present and approachable.

[...] I am telling you that the number of distractions in your life is laughable, though in your experience they appear quite threatening. “I am free to do my painting.” [...]

I am telling you this as simply as possible, knowing that one day I will get through. [...]

[...] The universe and everything within it is composed of “information,” but this information is aware-ized containing — I am sorry: information concerning the entire universe is always latent within each and any part of it.

(Pause at 10:04.) I am using the term “impulses” for the understanding of the general public, and in those terms molecules and protons have impulses. [...]

I am not speaking of anything (pause) like “repression,” as it is used by psychologists, but a far deeper issue: one in which the very self is so distrusted that natural impulses of any kind become suspect. [...]

I am trying to make a point without overstressing it. [...]

[...] I am not saying that he has a fever, but that there are accelerations of energy that often bring local rushes of circulation and heat. [...]

I am not going into the reasons, again, for Ruburt’s condition. [...]

[...] I believe I have solved some of them, or at least am embarked on the right course after a very long period of trial and error. [...]

[...] The painting I am working on now features a cadmium red shirt on the subject, and has given me some trouble because of its tendency to turn purplish if not watched; since Jane has seen me at work on this portrait often, she may have picked this up, although I haven’t mentioned it to her. [...]

[...] I am going to give you a shorter session this evening, and unless you have questions I will end it.

[...] I am only giving certain aspects now, that are important.

[...] I am not just speaking physically, but you are seeing with growing understanding, and what you see will help others.

The reasons for the intensified difficulty for the past two months are not as important this evening as the material I am giving you. [...]

I am sorry, I do not have it here, and I will not make any suitable comments that Ruburt might make, following your statement. [...]

I had two illegitimate children (laughter), a mistress that sneaked into my private studies, a magician that I kept in case I did not do too well on my own, a housekeeper who was pregnant every year that I had her, and three daughters who joined a nunnery because I would not have them, and I am referred to in barely three paltry lines, for my reign did not last very long. [...]

[...] But as I now recall them, without directly checking on our friend the pope, who has, you must understand, gone his own way, I am coming as close as I can. [...]

You say: “I must maintain my individuality after death,” as if after the play the actor playing Hamlet stayed in that role, refused to study other parts or go on in his career, and said: “I am Hamlet, forever bound to follow the dilemmas and the challenges of my way. [...]

Any section of the land has an identity, so to speak, and I am not talking symbolically. [...]

I am simply explaining the characteristics, aptitudes, abilities, and tendencies of Nature, with a capital N. There are so many different levels in what you call the dream state that they are impossible to list, except in stereotyped ways. [...]

There is an enchanting suggestion, solemnly repeated many times, particularly after the turn of the century: “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.”¹

We often have in your society the opposite suggestion, however, given quite regularly: “Every day, in every way, I am growing worse, and so is the world.” [...]

[...] He should have said: “Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” [...]

[...] These purposes cannot be fully explained here, and I am not aware of all of them.

[...] I am already, in quotes, “Big Brother,” you see.

[...] I am glad you are back on a regular schedule; and if you do not get your typing done, then I shall see to it that Ruburt assists you. [...]

I am giving you a brief session since you have both been so busy. [...]

[...] I am speaking now of survival situations.