“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Here Jane, who had begun to hear the answers within before the board spelled them out, once again began to dictate the rest of the answer.)

[...] Until otherwise noted, the answers came through the board.)

(This answer came through the board.)

Part of this involves making yourself available intuitively so that the answers may come. The way you phrase any question to some extent colors its answer. Seeking for the questions behind the questions will often give you the initial answer that you wanted. [...]

[...] In future sessions you will receive answers; answers, for by then you will know the proper questions.

[...] When you are considering the sort of questions of which you spoke earlier this evening, remember not to push too hard for answers on an intellectual basis.

[...] We’re glad to try to answer questions like that, but our correspondents cover many topics and express many viewpoints—and some are hard for us to handle. [...] To answer one letter would draw its author to our doorstep at once: “I am your Seth,” and: “I will visit you as soon as I hear from you.” [...]

I do not want you to think that the answers to your questions lie prepackaged in the dream state, either, relatively inaccessible except to those (long pause) who possess unique talents or some secretive knowledge of the world of the occult. [...] The answers, therefore, lie as close as your own back-door steps, for at the thresholds of your beings you automatically stand in the center of knowledge. [...]

[...] Jane’s vocal difficulties have been minimal, but her handwriting hasn’t been too steady as she answered mail and worked on some poetry. [...]

My answer is that the myths in their own way try to hint at answers that are basically nonverbal, and at concepts that are themselves the fountainhead from which the earth and all existence springs.

It is only because you tell yourself that you do not know the answers that they seem unavailable. This is very briefly the beginning of an answer to a question that of itself initiates other questions, and should in your own mind.

The child accepts the Santa Claus answer for some years, and then becomes disillusioned, realizing that the Santa Claus of Christmas tales is a myth. [...]

[...] Please pardon our delay in answering it. [...] When I get a free minute I answer the next one on the list.

In view of what you say about the material we sent you, we see why a paragraph-by-paragraph rundown isn’t necessary; this is perfectly all right, and we thank you for your effort in going over the material, and the time you spent answering. [...]

Whenever you seek from others the answers to problems, then you take it for granted that within yourself there is no greater strength. And each time you accept answers from others you reinforce the attitude that you do not have the knowledge within yourself to find the answers. And, therefore, such answers easily given do not help you in the long run. [...]

Now, you said that you would still like the answer given to you as to which road you would travel. And to me this means that you still do not realize that the answer is within yourself, and that you are the one to answer it. [...]

(Again, during the break the point that “the answers are within us” was being discussed and the further point that these answers were evolved emotionally rather than wholly rationally. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) If on page 2, say, the pendulum says that it feels the symptoms are no longer necessary, then in following questions for that day take that answer as given, and do not ask questions that would undermine the given answer, as if you do not trust it. [...]

I will answer it, and at our next session, when you remind Ruburt of the great creative climate in which it can be “answered.” [...]

[...] Those fears are then not admitted, for he thinks that they must indeed be beneath a person whose entire life work is devoted to a search for the nature of reality, and therefore a person who must possess, or try to possess, the answers to all of the questions.

[...] You may take the rest of the session to make up an excellent — underlined twice (humorously), list of questions that will appear in the next, question-and-answer chapter.

Then present these to me at our next session, or one at a time, or two, as you prefer, and I will answer them. [...]

[...] One answer may take some time.

[...] A.J. replied on November 22, stating that before he could answer Jane’s questions he would like Seth’s answers to three questions: “When was the last time you grew up?”, “What do you love?”, and “When is the self born?”

And I answer them, also, out of politeness, and also because parts of the answers will add to some of our own discussions.

As to the third question, I suggest your break and I will answer it. I am, incidentally, giving fairly brief and spontaneous answers, as requested.

[...] And when you have real questions, as you know, I answer them. And when they are not honest questions, I do not answer them. And I do not give you credit for easy answers. [...] And look up Lady of Florence—I will not let you settle for easy answers. [...] And I will not give you easy answers. [...] You have known many who have offered you easy answers and answered your easy questions. [...]

[...] Within you are answers and questions. The questions are to lead you to your own answers and the answers will not be the same. Each of you will read the answers in your own way. [...]

[...] Jane then came out of trance and instructed the students to stand in various areas of the room, in answer to significant feelings she had about these positions. [...]

Now I told you that each day provides the answers to your problems, and each night. Ruburt’s answer therefore is to go ahead with his own nature freely, practically. [...]

[...] Seth replied several times that “the answer has already been given in the early part of tonight’s session, by inference. That is the best answer I can give at this time. [...]

[...] If you have questions I will answer them later this evening, and if you want you can have an extra session for book dictation.

(To Theodore.) And I expect over here, for our Dean, a return to the Great Hall and there you should receive your own answer to the question that you asked earlier, but if for any reason you do not, then I will answer it for you. I am interested in helping you develop your own abilities—therefore, I answer those questions that I think you will not be able to answer for yourselves for a while and those answers that you will receive yourselves I leave open. [...]

The answer is so simple that you will not admit it to yourself. [...]

[...] You all dwell in dimensions that know no place and no time, and so Ruburt is correct for when you ask me of places and times I answer you in terms of places and times, and when you know enough to ask me questions that do not have to do with places and times then you will understand more of your own identity, the nature of your existence and the abilities that are inherent within you. [...]

“I saw last week as Bill started to speak, the class swerved, and everybody looked and listened to the new teacher, hoping that he would have the new answers; that if you couched your questions differently he would give you the answers. That somebody would say, here the answers are, this is it. [...]

[...] In what I am saying there are answers for you if you have the wits to catch on. In the power that you sense there are answers if you have the wits to sense within yourself that same power. [...]

[...] I think in that simple drama that went on between Bette and Joel, see, there’s all kinds of answers that we haven’t even begun to reach yet. [...]

[...] You should not be dependent upon the board for your answer. You should allow the answer to spontaneously come from within, otherwise the board becomes a symbol in this particular case now alone, so that you demand the answer of it and that is not how to go about it. [...]

And now you may all take a Seth break except, of course, I will answer our friend here from Richelieu’s time. [...]

[...] You need ways to make the answers plain to you so that you can understand them. [...]

[...] There is one question however that I will indeed answer now, and it has to do with the delight with which he views fire.

[...] I shall indeed answer some of your questions myself. [...]

(To Venice:) Does that answer your question?

(“How about answering the letter from Mrs. R. first?” As Seth, Jane reached out for the letter.)

[...] (Amused.) That should answer your question.

[...] As I told Jane at our first break, the knowledge that time is actually simultaneous is sometimes confounding when one asks certain types of questions; this knowledge half answers the question, yet we want the rest of the question considered.)

[...] Now I do not want to tell you all the answers to the Sumari development, for some of the answers you are to find out for yourselves and some of the answers cannot happen unless you discover them for yourselves. [...]

[...] And suspense is the spice of life, so do not go looking for all the answers in one moment. [...] You may forget what you had but you will know that you knew the answers for a split second, and the tiniest cells in your fingernails will remember. [...]

(A pause while Rob answered the door.)

(10:17.) The answers to the origins of the universe and of the species lie, I’m afraid, in realms that you have largely ignored — precisely in those domains that you have considered least scientific, and in those that it appeared would yield the least practical results.

Your present methods will simply bring you pat, manufactured results and answers. [...]

[...] You may say: “Granted,” yet persist, saying: “In our terms, however, when did the world begin, and in what manner?” Yet the very attempt to place such an origin in time makes almost any answer distorted.

Now, when it seems to you that you are powerless, it is because you are denying the authority that lies within yourself, closing our mind to the answers that are as free as air. When you do not believe that the answers are within you, you cannot act upon them. [...]

[...] But the answers do not come to you soberly. [...] The answers come to you when you accept them. [...]

Now, when you spoke of your friend last time, I told you to distrust easy answers. [...]