“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I am leaving your past, that is immediate-past lives, for future reference because I’ll have such fun with you when the time comes. And I am not just making promises about our little party, either.

[...] Incidentally, I am not fonder of you, Joseph, than I am of Ruburt, though I hope this doesn’t hurt your feelings.

I am not so dumb, either. I am equally fond of you both. [...]

I am not necessarily in favor of sessions outside a regular schedule, for reasons having to do with your natures rather than mine.

From Tuesday AM through Friday late afternoon—it seems that more or less constant softening and loosening of all moveable parts went on, particularly the gradual releasing of heavy ligament group in neck, right side. [...] Friday AM in particular. [...] Felt quite ambitious Friday AM. [...]

[...] Saturday AM the parts of my body that had felt softer, were quite sore; knees and arms. [...]

I am indeed glad to see that you are all in such high spirits. For a spirit I am indeed in a rather high mood myself.

[...] Do I not try to explain things clearly, and am I not grossly misunderstood? I have been saying for some time now that I am myself, and that Ruburt is someone else. [...]

My own answer is that I am an energy personality essence, momentarily in contact with your physical system, and that I am allowed to operate through Ruburt.

I am particularly interested myself in these projected experiments, and as a preliminary for them we shall have you work with suggestion alone before you attempt to begin with your recordings.

[...] And I hope that when I am finished with you all, you will taste some of that joy and freedom. [...] You will not get it by saying: “I am the exception to the rule!” You will not get it by running away from yourself. [...]

[...] I am sorry that you came in on a night when I am not at my jovial best. [...]

[...] I come complete with human characteristics to which you can relate and you can smile usually when I am here and smile when I am gone. [...]

[...] And in many ways I am a vehicle, for I am the means by which information is given to you. [...]

(12:20 AM.) A few remarks—they are very simple and to the point: examine your beliefs jointly and individually. [...]

(12:30 AM.) Since you are talking to Ruburt from your outside, and telling him what to do, when you are not personally saddled in the same way that he is, then how often have you ever reassured him that he could indeed walk properly, get up easily, or joyfully tried to reinforce his confidence?

One particular summer you each made joint effort at the kind of encouragement of which I am speaking, and you got definite results. [...]

(12:38 AM.)

I am no Volkswagen, that I am waiting for you. [...]

[...] These meetings occur in this room, but they also occur in other realities, and when you come here to this class you are also attending a class on another level, and you are not aware of those classes, though I am aware of them. I am very aware of them, for while our friend Ruburt gives this class, I have been giving other classes and you have all been there. [...]

[...] Now, all you need do is imagine I am speaking to you and you will go to sleep nights, since I seem to have that effect upon you in class. I am not a sandman. [...]

[...] You are fairly decent students on all levels, though I have not given you an A—that is because I am a difficult teacher. [...]

“I am, however, automatically a part of the message that I bring to you. At times I am ‘here’ more completely than in other sessions. [...]

“Again: the medium is the message in the Spacious Present,” Seth said, smiling, “and whenever the time for the program arrives, I am here in your present, regardless of where I am in what you would term my present. [...]

[...] Your question stems from the feeling that if I am here, I cannot be someplace else at the same time, or that all of my energies must be focused here if I am here. [...]

[...] I am not saying that Seth is just a psychological structure allowing me to tune into revelational knowledge, nor denying that he has an independent existence. [...] Seth is at his end, I am at mine. [...]

I am not telling you that individuality does not exist, that it is an illusion, and that therefore I do not perceive it. I am telling you that you do not perceive your own individuality as a whole identity.

[...] Although you do not find me as warmly personal as the Seth with whom (staring directly at me) you have been acquainted, I am a personality. [...]

[...] Since I am not here that immediately, then Ruburt must go further. [...]

(Pause.) Your own world, from my perspective, does not exist in the way I am sure it exists for you. [...]

[...] I am pleased with your letter. [...]

[...] I am not ruling out for now any foreknowledge on Ruburt’s part.

[...] I am saying that I do not want Ruburt’s consciousness involved beforehand, and the nervous strain on Ruburt’s part of wondering how such events will come to pass must also be avoided.

I may make this a short session, since Ruburt is somewhat indisposed, and after all I am not that much of a taskmaster. [...]

[...] Just now, reading a letter from the editor of an occult journal I found myself mentally responding in James vein, saying: I am somewhat judicious, and therefore waited before responding”—and suddenly I saw—that I WAS SOMEWHAT JUDICIOUS—I AM SOMEWHAT JUDICIOUS and in my mind I’ve thought that I was if anything overly spontaneous and therefore to be watched lest my spontaneity contradict my “reason” as if on my own I had no “judiciousness”—and not seeing in fact that the symptoms were the result of —over-judiciousness. I am... [...]

I also want to add that I am not a control, as mediums speak of having a control. 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.

I am not some creepy spirit, to wiggle my ears at the first suggestion for applause, for parties or for your pleasure. [...] I am not a spirit in those sentimental terms spoken by some well-meaning but poorly balanced mentalities.

[...] It is this flexibility, in both of your personality patterns, that gives us needed strength and balance, and I am speaking now of a subconscious flexibility, basic to your personalities.

[...] I am pleased to meet you both. [...] He is a part of who he says he is, as indeed I am. [...] I am coming in softly, you see. I am coming in very quietly indeed, so that I do not startle or frighten Ruburt. [...]

I am speaking now for your convenience simply. [...]

[...] I am broken up into highly energized personality fragments of my own accord, you see. [...]

[...] I would prefer some lively conversation and I am indeed open to any questions that you might have.

(Pause at 11:25.) I am generally aware, therefore, of your condition. [...] I am aware, within the limitations mentioned, of future events in your lives. (Pause.) I am much more concerned with your overall spiritual vitality than I am with what you had for breakfast.

[...] I say for example that I am aware of their past and future actions and thoughts; and yet what I am aware of, actually, are ever-shifting and changing patterns, both in the future and in the past.

[...] We are connected, however, in our psychological gestalt, and so I am aware of any intense feelings on your part, or strong reactions of any kind. This does not mean that I am necessarily aware of all events within your lives, or that I always break down the feelings I receive from you into specifics.

I am indeed. [...]

5. I am helpless because I am at the mercy of events from past lives in other incarnations, over which I now have no control. I must be punished, or I am punishing myself for unkindnesses done to others in past lives. [...]

[...] Am I doing it correctly? Am I feeling what I should feel?” This is the book’s first exercise for you. [...]

4. I am helpless because my personality and character were formed in infancy, and I am at the mercy of my past.

[...] I am telling you that you form your own reality once again, and this includes the physical weather — which is the result, en masse, of your individual reactions.

I am taking the opportunity to speak concerning these matters, since I had already decided not to cover any complicated material for our session. I am also giving you more frequent breaks, since I am again aware that your energies will be needed. [...]

I here suggest your break, for I am not going to give you a preview. [...] And you will see, Joseph, that I am not overworking your fingers.

I am pleased with our group. [...]

[...] I will also, if I may, congratulate the writer of the newspaper article, even though my own name was nowhere mentioned, for it goes without saying that I am indeed truly humble.

AUGUST 16, 1967 11 AM WEDNESDAY

I am very pleased that we did not appear on the TV program, but I knew, you see, that we would not do so.

I am, and have indeed always been, an educator. [...]

I am very pleased to meet you (to F. Fell), and since you are the one who published Ruburt’s book, I thank you. [...]

[...] In your terms only, I could be referred to — and I have told Ruburt this — as a sixth self of his in his future; but this is only to get the idea across, for he will not become what I am. [...] I am myself.

I am not cautious, I am simply realistic. [...]

[...] Now, I am speaking to our friend over here (Art O., an engineer) because he may perhaps have a comprehension of what I am trying to explain, because of his background.

[...] If this were not the case, then I would not be speaking here, for I am not Ruburt’s past self. [...]

I am keeping my mental eyes on you both. [...] Otherwise I am not saying anything else, for certain events will occur as a result of those recommendations—even as you have begun to sense changes with the altered morning hours. [...]

—and I am looking forward to the monthly class whenever it begins.

I am not saying that you should not believe the evidence of your senses; I am waiting for you to say that. [...]

[...] What I am trying to point out to you here is this supreme egotistical presumption that self-consciousness must of necessity involve humanity per se. [...]

If I am answering your friend’s question in a roundabout manner it is only because, my dear Joseph—and I still call you my dear Joseph, although you scarcely deserve it—then it is only because there are things that I feel it is necessary that I clear up before the question can be answered with even a hint of correctness.

[...] Our poor maligned friend, the ape, did not suddenly beat his hairy chest in exaltation and cry “I am a man.” [...]

[...] “I am the Seth that I say that I am, but I am also more. [...]

[...] I am also a friend. In many ways I am the same friend. Other portions of me are concerned elsewhere, for I am aware of my own existence in other dimensions and keep track of them and direct my many selves.”

[...] Seth is what I am, yet I am more than Seth is. [...]

“In the most important way, and in the only basic way, I am Seth, dispensing with certain characteristics which are mine, which I used to contact you. [...] Seth is learning as I am.