“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Other background material may be necessary to fill in the relationship between Wendell, myself and our friends discussed in the letter, and this will be included in our interpretations of the envelope experiment data. [...]

You needed this background, for I want to build up the atmosphere in which this magical approach can be comprehended. [...]

[...] Underneath this is material dealing with the species as a whole, with its background, evolution and inner knowledge.

[...] Ruburt, with a different appearance and with different personal background, particularly involving his mother, has been fearful of displaying characteristics that he would consider emotional because the emotional is such a part of his personality, and there has been a distrust here of the strong parts of his personality.

[...] Before he went into the reincarnational background, which was important in this case, he emphasized the importance played by suggestion and telepathy in the sickroom. [...]

Instead, I think Seth knew that even though he was—and I’m sure still is—in certain senses a portion of Jane’s psyche, brilliant counterpart that he was and is, he too had in his own way and for his own reasons desires to contend with Jane’s chosen background this time, with her frightened and restricted upbringing and with his obvious advantage of a much more detailed overall knowledge of the life experiences—past, present, and future—involving the three of us. [...]

[...] Walt gave me background information about Jane’s history, and his own, and the welcome news that he had married again and fathered several children. [...]

[...] Our considerable daily charges were mounting, but we had emotionally pushed their import into the background. [...]

[...] (To me:) While you do not possess it in the same fashion, you are also tainted by it, picking up such beliefs from early background, and primarily from your father in that regard….”

[...] In the next session, Seth explained it and showed how reincarnational background, present problems and personal symbolism were all used in the dream drama. [...]

[...] Jane has only the sketchiest of scientific backgrounds, but a very strong intuitive grasp of the qualities involved. [...]

(Bill Macdonnel said that the dark bath doorway turned into a foggy white; he then saw the form of Seth’s apparition stand out against this lighter background. [...]

[...] [I’m sure others have had similar experiences: Once a subject is focused upon, data relative to it seem to leap out from the background welter of daily events and “facts” surrounding one’s life.] Almost automatically, many of the notes for this appendix came to deal with the scientific thinking about evolution, and I realized that I wanted them to show the differences [as well as any similarities that might emerge] between Seth’s concepts and those “official” views prevailing in our physical reality.

[...] (When Seth came through with this 44th session, neither Jane nor I had enough background information about theories of evolution to ask him to be more specific. [...]

[...] Seth discusses Jane’s early religious background, her “deeply mystical nature,” in the first session of this volume (the 679th), and I add some material on mysticism in an appendix to that session. [...]

Another purpose is involved in presenting Mass Events in context, though: I plan to use current professional and personal events from our lives as a sort of background or framework for the book as Jane delivers it for Seth. [...]

“You needed this background, for I want to build up the atmosphere in which this magical approach can be comprehended.”

There is always an overall order to the personality, even though it is in the background, so that in any given case all of the separate “selves,” or other sources with whom the individual feels in contact, would together point toward the totality, or unity, that lies beneath. [...]

[...] The symbol is of course in dark color against the white background.)

[...] As mentioned earlier, because of Ruburt’s background he feared abandonment often. [...]