“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He could not be satisfied with an answer like, “That is what life is,” or with a simplistic denouncement of man’s basic nature. [...]

(A most revealing and damaging answer. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) I would have to give a “no” answer in the light in which you asked the question. [...]

I cannot answer the question as you gave it. [...]

(By this time, Jane was usually getting the answers to the questions mentally, before the board had time to spell them out. She did not trust this method, however, and insisted that we continue to receive the answers also through the board.

[...] Jane thought that in the previous session she had quite often received the answer to my questions mentally, before the board had a chance to spell them out. [...]

(This answer was both indicated on board and spelled out.

[...] I worked on mail, reading several great letters and answering a couple. [...]

(“Do you want to answer my question from the session yesterday, about the reason for the kitten in Jane’s experience?”)

[...] Also, it seems that Seth has answered all of the questions I’d thought of in connection with her experience of the afternoon before last. [...]

(11:27.) Now: I will answer your questions on Wednesday; but I have a few remarks.

I will give you more material that will be of good practical use when I have answered your questions.

[...] If a particular question is asked, we attempt to answer it. The answer of course will be picked up in the same manner, through emotional force. The other evening, you answered your own question in your mind, and we picked up that location. [...]

[...] Your emotional answer however did prevent me from searching further for the answer.

[...] Think, however, of feeling, for this is your best clue, and it will bring you some answers.

[...] I read it last night; Seth answered my questions about what he sees when he looks at me, both as himself, and through Jane’s eyes. [...]

Indirectly, I have answered several of your questions. [...]

The answer to that is simple. [...]

[...] I will not give you answers. I will show you the questions, and I will attempt to lead you to answers. [...]

[...] There are questions that you would ask me, and I shall answer them in time and as the opportunity presents itself. [...]

[...] I anticipate a most enjoyable time and indeed if you have questions then you can receive the answers from the horse’s mouth. [...]

[...] Answer me, will you? [...]

[...] I don’t want togive you any suggestions, so you’ll have to answer me honestly. [...]

[...] If you remember that you have no problem, then that is the answer. [...]

[...] This does involve you practically in periods of discontent, a discontent that is in its way a constant reminder that prevents you from being satisfied with lesser answers along the way. Ruburt is being led to discover that the answers to his intellectual questions about his abilities, my existence, life after death, the solution to his physical problems, can only be discovered through the appreciation and use of his intuitive and psychic abilities. [...]

Now in answer to your question about impressions.

Then the mind, the intellect, alters its focus, using its abilities automatically for intuitive ends, and its questioning abilities are freed from endless queries from the outside, so to speak, and it joins with the intuitions, seeking its answers freely in that greater realm.

[...] Ruburt is now coming to that kind of realization, and that kind of development—which is of course the only possible answer. [...]

[...] I called him at the office this afternoon, but there was no answer. [...]

Had your goals previous to your psychic experiences been adequate to your natures, and sufficient to you, nothing else would have developed—nor would you have been seeking so avidly answers to the kinds of questions that then and now concern you.

(After I received no answer at Paul’s office, I thought of waiting to call him at home after supper tonight, with Jane’s agreement. [...]

(9:50.) The pendulum was correct, in that it was answering the questions Ruburt asked. [...]

(It might be added here that although question and answer passages are entertaining, they are difficult for me to conduct. [...] I usually note a few words giving the meaning of the question itself, then concentrate on taking down the answer verbatim. Short answers from Seth interrupt the rhythmic flow of the material, as far as recording it goes. [...]

(Note that Seth did not answer this question directly; and I was so busy thinking up questions, writing them down, then taking down the answers, that I did not realize the question went unanswered.

(I gave this answer on the spur of the moment.)

I rather enjoy question and answer periods. [...]

That, I am afraid, you will have to answer for yourself. I would, for myself, answer in the affirmative. [...]

Now, there is one very cozy answer that is quite handy at times and it neatly relieves you of all sense of responsibility. [...]

[...] The answers, you see, are within yourselves. [...]

(In answer to a question:) ... [...]

It recognizes the answers given in the sessions as legitimate, and also that these answers involve intellectual as well as intuitional effort. [...]

[...] The search for answers, and this passionate yearning toward truth, has driven Ruburt’s personality, and he became ill only when he was afraid to continue the search, because it led him into byways that he had not planned upon; or rather, upon which the ego had not planned.

[...] It did not see that then previous questions that it had set, that it had asked, led inevitably to intuitive answers and to psychic experience, and for some time it refused to see this, in quotes “quite logical” consistency. [...]

[...] He recognized this, feeling that while he highly enjoyed science fiction it was a dead end, for the answers he sought could not be worked out even through philosophical fiction.

[...] (We prepared such a list in answer to many requests, and it’s being continually updated, of course.) Yet the form letters aren’t really a satisfactory answer for the correspondent who’d like a personal response from Jane and/or Seth; given our characteristics, they merely represent the best we can do within the time we have available. [...] With this system she acknowledges more letters than ever before, yet it’s ironic that there are still more to answer simply because of the greater number received.

[...] Some of you have written to tell of answers you have found, and some of you have written requesting answers. [...]

[...] It will put you in touch with the ground of your being — from which, eventually, all exultation and answers spring. [...] My purpose is not to come between you and your own freedom by giving you “answers,” even to the most tragic of problems. [...]

[...] He referred to it as one unit until the very last session, the 744th, when he said in answer to a question I asked “The Seth material is endless. [...]

[...] The fact is that you were at the point where you were seeking answers to questions, and you were seeking new questions. You were led by your inner selves to any place where these questions might be answered. [...]

[...] I am here this evening to tell you that when conditions are to our satisfaction, I will speak to you and answer your questions. [...]

[...] You know more than you realize, and your own inner knowledge will always propel you to find the answers that you seek... [...]

Some answers come when you are ready for them. [...] The question of life’s tragedies still cannot be answered satisfactorily at the level at which either of you — or anyone else — is currently asking it. [...]

The reason for the problem is a philosophical concern of Ruburt’s, and of yours, but it is one whose answer — or answers — will gradually unfold. [...]

As a matter of fact, the kind of literal answers that you may think you want can indeed lead you somewhat astray in terms of the larger picture, so Ruburt must say: “That is not my province,” send energy, a note now and then; but the particular problem, the specific problem is the woman’s, not Ruburt’s.

[...] Answered 35 letters over the weekend … my mood seems again magically improved at least. [...]

—as a rock bottom answer, that both of you can use to escape doing what you do not want to do. So the answer would be simply that you do not feel the show would be advantageous at this time.

[...] During break I mentioned two questions to Jane, without insisting upon getting answers this afternoon. [...]

[...] But you must understand that in your mind—now, you, Joseph—have thought of the symptoms as the reason why the answer (in the negative) would be given—and that is using the symptoms as an excuse. [...]

Rob asked the questions, then we paused while he wrote out the answers the pointer spelled. [...] Now the answers became longer, and their character seemed to change. [...]

Somewhat to my surprise he answered quickly, and he was quite enthusiastic. [...]

[...] The pointer spelled out the answers.

The pointer began to spell out the answer to Rob’s question.

Rob asked Seth once if he was always available to us for a session, and Seth’s answer shows clearly that we have more than a simple one-to-one relationship. I trust the answers that we received and think that they are honest statements about a very complicated psychological connection.

[...] In sticking so close to the confines of egotistical physically oriented awareness, we may be closing ourselves off from answers to our deepest questions, knowledge that can help us deal more intelligently with physical life.

As to who or what Seth is, his term “energy essence personality” seems as close to the answer as anyone can get. I don’t believe he is a part of my subconscious, as that term is used by psychologists, or a secondary personality. [...]

[...] The question can’t be answered easily. [...]

It is extremely difficult to pinpoint an answer. [...]

[...] We would like to create a sort of school—a very simple kind of school—to help anyone who seeks for it, without presuming that we have any answers, but going on the assumption that the way which has been proclaimed by many men is a good way—namely the simple way of love. [...]

[...] And if I have ever given a double-tongued answer, I have given it now. [...]

I have merely answered the questions as you gave them.