“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Earlier that evening, class members had been discussing some of the letters they’d been answering for Jane.¹ One young man mentioned “feeling like shit” in connection with another matter — a remark that Seth must have overheard. He began the session by telling the students that they also learned as they attempted to answer the questions asked by correspondents. [...]

[...] When you ask you expect an answer, or at least a reply of a kind. [...] Ruburt was asking for flexibility but he did not fully want it, and so halfhearted questions bring halfhearted answers. Lately he asked wholeheartedly, and there will be a wholehearted answer and reply—from the psyche itself, which understands its parts. [...]

[...] We wondered about how much time to allot to getting answers, etc., versus keeping up with the current theoretical data. [...]

[...] The question of time and entities then, you see, cannot be truly answered in the manner in which you asked it.

[...] I did not mean to put off an answer. [...]

[...] First we took answers from my pendulum. [...]

(Jane became so excercised by those answers that she scribbled her own notes and doodles [some of which are presented here], then pounded out on her typewriter, misspellings and all, her further reactions before tonight’s session.)

[...] Your questions will be answered, but let me go about it in my own way, and not start out necessarily with question A.

[...] Jane said she didn’t want to continue the session if it made me feel that way, but I answered that I did want the session continued, etc. [...]

Concentration in other areas, as you suggested, is the answer now while you made definite efforts in the moving direction. [...]

[...] The answer is still your beliefs, and in your joint attitudes.

[...] I had quite a few questions to ask, but since my anger had still been building up I now did not write them down, or Seth’s answers—which were very good, incidentally. [...] Seth insisted that the answers re Jane’s symptoms, and my own contributing attitudes, had already been given in past sessions, but were not being followed.

[...] Some change within a stable framework is really your answer, with adequate and emotional communication.

[...] Those sessions followed, and the advice heeded, provide you with your answer.

Now running away from problems, literally in space, had always been his answer to everything. [...]

[...] He’d sent some home-canned jars of fruits and vegetables at Christmas time; for the past year he’d also written a string of long letters signed “me,” meaning I couldn’t answer him to say thanks for the stuff. [...]

[...] In the meantime I’d put his address downstairs in storage among many others, and hadn’t taken the time to find it so I could answer — another of the mail hassles that crop up often.

[...] She answered on the second ring, and we had a fine talk. [...]

(“I’ve got that damned question-and-answer thing going on inside my head,” she remarked now with some exasperation. She’d just spoken a phrase I didn’t understand as I worked on these notes—something in answer to a question she’d thought I’d asked. [...]

[...] My answer was that I’d gladly do the sitting around if she wanted to, on the chance that we might get some helpful material—especially about her own condition.

[...] And so the why would take too long this evening but I will answer it for you as circumstances permit. There is, in other words, an answer to the why. [...]

[...] And I want to thank you for the questions that you asked in class and that Ruburt used in the book for those sessions will help others more than you know, and the questions that you ask will be asked by others, and they will be looking for answers, so in your way you have done your thing and the doubts and questions that you have, have helped others. [...]

[...] I said before the session that if we got house material I really wanted good answers, that I’d stay out of it as much as possible. …” Jane went into the kitchen, looking for matches. [...] Every so often someone wants to know about the extent to which we follow Seth’s advice or information, and I suppose a good answer is that we may decide to go along with it if it suits our conscious purposes to do so. [...]

(“You got what you wanted: answers.”

(“No, I think you’ve already answered them all for now.”)

Now, he cannot answer you. [...]

[...] That, you see, is impossible because I am myself and so verbally there are certain answers that cannot be given but must be intuitively understood. [...]

Now, the question cannot be answered simply for there are many ramifications, but from this instant of reality, you form and change not only the future but the past. [...]

Now the question cannot be answered simply in one evening, but each living consciousness has its own defense system and its own vitality, and you should trust your own. [...]

[...] I tried hard to answer each one of them. [...] I’ve let answering any but immediate business mail go while Laurel and I worked on the manuscript for The Magical Approach.)

[...] She answered mail, and put together a mailing list. [...]

[...] She’d written us several times and I stopped answering after a while.

[...] I said I’d probably received her latest letter, but hadn’t answered mail for some time.

[...] It forms another life situation and discovers the answer. [...] It is quite necessary that all of these questions be answered, for the inner self is composed of energy, and in other fields of activity thoughts and emotions are instantaneously translated, their results instantly seen. [...]

[...] I will not give him ready answers, and I have told him this.

Ready answers for he or his son would only betray them. [...]

[...] Travel through your own reactions to each other, and you will find the answers that seem to elude you. [...] The answers never lie outside of yourselves. [...] The answers lie within Sue and Bette and Mary Ellen and Natalie and Joel. [...]

[...] And it got a good answer. [...]

(This session was held to obtains answers to two questions we had for Seth. [...]

[...] But it can be seen that Seth doesn’t directly answer the question.)

I believe that the answer is implied in an earlier statement I made this evening.

[...] After pictures were over, Seth also returned several times to answer some of Rich’s questions. The session itself, between parries at Rich, Seth addressed to Rich and to Diane, answering questions they had asked before its beginning.

(During break both Rich and Diane asked questions that Seth undertook to answer to some extent. [...]

[...] In another, he presents some new material on the “original planetary system,” and in answer to a friend’s question, he begins an explanation of the perception of a fetus. [...]

[...] Scientists have long wondered what physical matter “disappeared into,” and Seth’s EE units may well be the answer.

[...] Naturally, Seth’s data gave rise to many questions, but tonight wouldn’t see them answered.)

[...] I wasn’t sure of the word Seth or Jane used and didn’t press the point beyond one question which wasn’t answered …)

[...] I asked myself the same questions with my own pendulum, and received the same answers. [...]

Ruburt may trust the pendulum, although care should be taken as far as predictions are concerned, though with training the pendulum will give valid answers to predictions.

[...] If you have any questions, however, I will answer them.

A very difficult question to answer. [...]

(And here we have an excellent capsule answer as to why Jane has grown progressively worse since beginning Mass Events—see her paper of last December about her unease over that book and God of Jane—and why her symptoms have become even worse as the publication date of Mass Events draws near. [...]

(Long pause.) That is at least a partial answer to your question. [...]