“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I took it for reference for a future painting, and consists mainly of a mass of tangled marsh grass in the foreground; in the background rise a couple of average-looking houses, a telephone pole and some wires. [...]

[...] A “framework of thin lines” is an apt description of the patterns formed by the high marsh grasses in the foreground of the photo, with the houses rising in the background as “cube formations... [...]

(While she was giving Seth’s data, Jane said she had images of a childhood playground in Saratoga Springs, NY, with houses nearby, but recognized this as her own data and did not give it as Seth’s. She felt sure the test object had a northern, as versus a southern, background, but did not say so because Seth did not say so.

Some vital improvements today—this is the background. [...]

[...] Realized yesterday also, going over old notes, that my original ‘cosmic consciousness’ (borrowed phrases again) experience was with The Physical Universe as Idea Construction which turned into and developed into the sessions and Seth Material; the natural, intuitive, and logical development; which to a large extent I relegated to the background and sometimes even distrusted. [...]

[...] The notes, added later, are intended to give a minimum of “ordinary” background material, and to explore a few of the questions referred to above.)

[...] Like an echo in the background lingered a woman, but I couldn’t get anything about her.

13. Early in this appendix I wrote that I added these notes later, to give “ordinary background material” for my fourth Roman. [...]

To me, this fact alone lends a credence to his visions that bolsters my own in the most meaningful way: I think our tower experiences of so long ago (in terms of linear time), plus our mutual artistic backgrounds now, with their corresponding social implications, are too closely allied to be explained as “coincidence” in the objective fact world. [...]

[...] Certain individuals are peculiarly suited for this function, because of their own inner background, the aggregate result of strong challenges they have set for themselves.

[...] In the background of this incident, and connected with the slayer, a woman, a sister or like a sister to him. [...]

[...] N I. (Spelled.) The woman in the background mentioned earlier. [...]

[...] As I told you, I was present, though in the background; Ruburt’s tutor—and it was I—who showed him how to return when he felt it desirable. [...]

I was following Ruburt’s performance, knowing full well that the person who gave the information would not be willing to stay in the background. [...]

[...] The background has largely been given of those times.

On the same level: With Ruburt’s background he felt no man would support him, yet wanted to be supported. [...]

[...] Jane has no paleontological background.)

[...] In what would appear to be a drawing of an animal, then, the entire history or background of the animal might also be given. [...]

(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. [...]

[...] The religious background was there. [...]

Ruburt chose a background in which he was poor, as did the mother. [...]

[...] In the background, as a child under the organization of the Welfare Department, self-indulgence, small luxuries or too-unconventional behavior, were all dangerous in the framework chosen — the neighbors could report any transgressions to Welfare. [...]

The mystical went underground, reappearing as science fiction.⁶ Again, in the social and religious background of the child, unconventional mental or physical actions could bring penalties. [...]

[...] He feels pressured, therefore, to become a public person, forgetting his own background and temperament. [...]

He thinks that that background and temperament should no longer apply. [...]

For some time, in your terms, the sleepwalkers remained more or less at that level of activity, and for many centuries they used the surface of the earth as a kind of background for other activity.Their real life was what you would now call the dreaming one. [...]

(9:47.) You “timed” yourselves—but greater perceptions always appeared in the background of your consciousnesses and in the dream state. [...]

[...] There is an old religious hangover here from the Catholic background. [...]

[...] In the early background of each individual, in each life, you will find the material for development. [...]

I told you that you would be faced consciously with many attitudes that you had put into the background, when you decided to move, so Ruburt has been meeting some of his own. [...]

Each would be inherently aware of its own potentials and “background,” but each would tune in to a particular point of that so-called background.

[...] But in some way the Seth thing in this is in the background. [...]

13. In retrospect we can see how the mystical Jane has always tried to intuitively penetrate the nature of reality through her art; I’ve illustrated that learning process by presenting selections from her early poetry at apropos times throughout the two volumes of “Unknown” Reality. I also gave some background information on Jane’s nature (with a poem) in Appendix 1 for Volume 1.

(Seth began talking about quasars and related background material in the last session. [...]

[...] I felt Seth was on the track with his data, yet because I had so little background concerning it myself the data seemed opaque to me. [...]

(I used the ribbon as object not only because I wanted to get its background for myself, but because this lack of at least conscious knowledge on my part would simulate the circumstances surrounding an object furnished by someone else.

[...] The painting was rather abstract, but hinted at a Middle East background, and the head was in a turban of sorts.

[...] The painting always struck the personality deeply, reminding him, because of the face portrait and the background, of the bare and ancient land from which he had once come, and to which he returned.

[...] It is merely that the questions you may think simple often require a complicated background in an answer.

Without going into background information again, and regardless of the reasons, people in your time have been taught to regard their natures with suspicion. [...]

[...] Wayne represented feelings about the male that you received in your background from your father, and through boyhood movies, in which the male could afford affectionate behavior or conversation—only with his horse (with amusement). [...]

Now because of your particular backgrounds, your overall development would come later rather than in your early years.

[...] You are more a part of each other than you realize, and this common background of sexual knowledge is always latent within you both.

[...] We do not have the time tonight to go into your father’s background which is highly interesting from several viewpoints and has something to do with his attitude toward his daughters. We do not have time to go into too much background on your Dick literature.

[...] At the same time you are also terrified because of this background. [...]

[...] There seems to have been a male teacher in your background also.

([Rob:] “Well, a lot of it depends on background knowledge. [...]