“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(A note: I haven’t answered fan mail since bringing Jane home from the hospital on March 28, and already it is beginning to pile up. [...] Since returning to the house, though, I’ve had absolutely no time at all for the mail, and have stopped answering it except for business and an occasional exceptional letter, or a request for a visit, etc. [...] Now the mail has retreated way into the background, even though I don’t forget what it means, that we get such a response from what we do, and that each of those writers is sincere, and in my opinion deserving of an answer. [...]

[...] One option we’ve considered is having a temporary postcard printed up referring to our hassles with Jane’s illness, that we can’t answer mail at this time except to say thanks, and that later we may be able to. [...]

Now: The questions on religion and reincarnation will be answered in due time, as mentioned. [...]

[...] It looks outward for answers because this is its nature: to manipulate within physical reality. [...]

[...] I finally ended up giving her a copy of the material, in order to answer all of her questions. [...]

(At the end of the 852nd session I mentioned a letter Jane had received last month from a professor of physics, and that in a recent nonbook session Seth had come through with a partial answer to some of the professor’s questions. [...] In general, then, tonight Seth discusses questions many correspondents have asked; but specifically, his material is a continuation of an answer to some of the professor’s questions. [...]

It is not to say that you cannot understand the nature of the universe to some extent, but the answers lie in the natures of your own minds, in the processes of individual creativity, in studies that ask questions like: “Where did this thought come from? [...]

(During this session, Jane received the answers to many of the questions before the board spelled them out. Nevertheless she insisted on letting the pointer go to each letter of the answer, as a means of checking.)

(“Will the answer be yes or no?”)

[...] Nor, because you ask specific questions at a specific session, and I answer them, does it necessarily mean that the program has not been prepared, in your terms, earlier; for on many occasions I will see the questions within your mind, or the minds of your witnesses, and will therefore answer them, in your terms ahead of time.

[...] This does not necessarily mean, on either of our parts, that such a call will always be met by an affirmative answer, or that contact will be made.

[...] (Pause.) If you study this material closely, you will see that I have answered your question more clearly than you realize, and indeed in the only way that would make any sense at all.

You used to wonder what there was about her that so captivated your father, since he had an obvious preference for her, and you would watch her secretly, trying to find the answer. [...]

[...] When you find yourself worrying about this matter, tell yourself, instead, that there is nothing to worry about, that the answer is within you. See your mind within your mind as a clear sky or a blank board upon which the answers will come. Now be assured that the answers will show themselves there for they are there now. [...] The answer has been there, in your terms, long before you requested it. [...] Simply allow yourself to see the answer and freely accept it. [...]

[...] And to solve it for you says to you that you cannot do it by yourself and encourages you to look for others rather than to yourself for the answer. [...]

(At a quick scan I thought the ideas answered all the questions we’d had about the symptoms over the years—explaining, for instance, their onset before the psychic developments, etc. [...] If I had, perhaps I hadn’t understood the answers, I thought; because certainly no action had been taken because of them, along the lines now contemplated....

[...] Seven was the answer. [...]

Seven was the answer, but only if Seven led where it was supposed to lead. [...]

[...] No one can be adequately (underlined) helped in one or two sessions, and it is not his responsibility, or mine, to answer personally the millions of people who need help, or even the relatively few who write him.

Now: Ruburt cannot answer you as easily as I can. [...]

There are certain answers that cannot be given verbally, but must be intuitively understood. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

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

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[...] Only You Can Answer. [...]

(My subconscious knows the answer to this problem. [...] I give thanks because I know the infinite intelligence of my subconscious knows all things and is revealing the perfect answer to me now. [...]

Those who seek answers desperately want to find them, both for their own sakes and for the sakes of others. They care deeply and emotionally, and it is because they find little sense in the world as they understand it that they are driven to look elsewhere for answers.

Now if you have no questions I will end the session, but I will be glad to answer any that you have.

(“You seem to be answering them as you go along.”

(For the last couple of pages it had been quite noticeable to me that Seth was anticipating my questions and then answering them. [...]

[...] I believe that thick, sprawling works like “Unknown” Reality offer some important answers, but beyond that it’s up to the multidimensional, multitudinous, over four billion multinational individuals on this planet to follow their own intuitions and seek answers in their personal ways. [...]

The two volumes of “Unknown” Reality hardly tie truth up in neat packages, though, so that after completing them the reader can claim to know all of the answers. [...]

The luxurious creativity displayed by Seth’s and Jane’s work raises more questions about the abilities of the psyche than it seems we can ever hope to answer. [...]

[...] If the question could he answered, would all of reality in its unending mystery lie revealed before us?

(At one point I remarked to Bill Gallagher that I used to have two favorite questions for Seth: “What do you do between sessions?” and “How’s my old friend Frank Watts?” Seth’s answer to my first question was “What do you do?” He now gave essentially that answer when Peggy asked my old question tonight. [...]

(When Peggy asked him if the records pertained to Frank Watts being a teacher, Seth gave an answer I do not recall, except that I am sure it was not a direct yes or no. [...]

(This was simply to determine if Jane herself, as Jane, could ask Seth a question, then go into trance and deliver the answer as Seth. [...]

(She then closed her eyes, went into trance, and delivered the answer. [...]

Ruburt, indeed, should give his own answers. Far be it from me to answer for him. [...]

(Since Seth paused after giving voice to the question, I answered, since I had been writing at a fast pace. [...]

I want you to ask questions along these lines, and attempt to answer them through your records and experience.

[...] We can end our session, I can continue with the material that I have been giving you, or I will be glad to answer questions.

[...] There are some very important intuitions available to you because of your background if in psy-time you will begin to contemplate what you know of science and where it falls short in answering your questions. Because of your background, you will be able to intuitively pick up answers along those lines where many others cannot. [...]

[...] The only answer is to realize that you form physical events, individually and en masse. [...]

[...] You must learn to find out the answer for yourself from yourself for this sets up communication between various layers of the self, and this is highly important for your own development. [...]

[...] And in the dream state and in psy-time the answers will be given to you. [...]

(Note that Seth didn’t continue with his material on the mail, which he began in answer to my question on July 26. [...] In that last session I meant to add the thought that we may have to dispense with answering much of the mail. [...] She’s been very rigorous in answering the mail for a number of years, and my thought at the moment at least is that it—the mail—might be more of a time bomb than we realized in that respect.

[...] “No,” I answered, “but it would be nice to have it in order to learn that your only responsibility is to get rid of the idea of responsibility. [...]

[...] It is very important that you read and study the material and that you not be satisfied by superficial answers and that you question, for by questioning you will learn. [...]

[...] Yet the answers are within you and you can bring them out. [...]

[...] There are many answers in the material that will solve or help you solve many problems that seem so difficult, but you must solve your own problems. [...]

[...] And all the answers that have been given, and all those answers you have told yourself, will be as nothing. [...]

Now the answers and the meaning are within yourself. [...]

[...] I answered one of your questions in our ordinary sessions, so Ruburt should have it for you. [...]

[...] And when you find your intellect, alone, cannot give you the answers, and that it cannot bring you joy and that it brings you no closer to the fountain of existence, then you begin asking the proper questions. [...]

[...] As I snapped to I was answering it aloud, but cannot remember what I was saying. [...] I had the feeling that I could have asked more and that it would have been answered, but this was right after I came to. I regretted coming to, as the answer I received was the kind that makes you want to ask more questions.

(Then again, later yet, I heard myself asking: “What’s your name, little girl?” This time a voice, it could have been my own, answered from offstage to my right: “I’m Bonnie Lou Ryerson.” [...] The same voice answered: “I’m seven years old.” [...]

[...] The answer was yes. [...]

(In answer to the little girl’s question, I said, “Here’s your ball, little girl.” [...]

(I’ve received various answers from the pendulum on the background causes for my upset; not really contradictory, by and large, but signifying to me that in spite of my concern I hadn’t been willing to buckle down and really work at uncovering the beliefs causing the unrest. [...]

I believe I have answered all of your questions. [...]