“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Even when I wrote The Seth Material, I didn’t clearly understand why it happened or connect it in any way with my previous life or beliefs. [...] The poetry itself provides a clear record of subjective thoughts and emotions. [...]

I suppose that the “Idea Construction” experience could have gradually faded from memory, losing much of its vitality if the manuscript did not exist as a constant reminder; but this is difficult to imagine. [...]

Now: An artist does the same thing in different terms, when he or she imagines the probable versions that a painting, or a book or a sculpture, for example, might take. [...]

[...] Obviously he is in the middle of a learning adventure, trying to do far more with his ordinary consciousness than most people, and trying to solve his problems and encounter his challenges without relying upon old structures of belief … He has done this even though he has been working in relatively untried areas, where there seem to be few certainties.⁹

[...] They will try out the ideas, many of them, to the best of their ability, and learn and gain much — all the time (much more forcefully.) hanging on safely to the banners of conventional beliefs. [...]

[...] Jane and I have now accumulated more than 60 such interrelationships, and they range all the way from color and architectural similarities among the various houses we’ve either lived in, or felt strong emotional and psychic attachments for, to human connections like the following one. [...]

This material will take its place in the conceptual and emotional life of Western civilization, and finally will make its way throughout the world. [...]

[...] Faith and belief in an idea implies some commitment. [...]

[...] The expectations, and the acts of expectation that will generate the necessary emotional and psychic energy must come from you, and wholeheartedly. [...]

[...] I imagine he will feel rather shocked. [...]

[...] A possible qualification of that belief can be that the material is interwound with data Valerie picked up from Jane’s world view, where Jane wouldn’t have necessarily been involved — only the body of her personalized and emotional experience in physical life. [...]

[...] I think it quite psychologically and psychically limiting to believe otherwise, for such beliefs can only impede or postpone our further conscious understanding of the individual and mass realities — the overall “nature” — we’re creating. [...]

[...] Each time I may feel my own ignorance about even our own physical reality, let alone other realities, I fall back upon my own feelings and beliefs. [...]

[...] A world view is the body of an individual’s personalized interpretation of the physical universe; emotions are necessarily involved. [...]

[...] You might imagine it, if you want to, as a station indicator on your own radio or television set, but your subjective recognition of it is your own cue.

[...] I do not suggest that you use “higher” or “lower” as directions, because of the interpretations that you may have placed upon them through your beliefs.

[...] You might do such a good job of organizing your physical data about your ideal that you shut out any emotions that involve fear, violence, or hatred. [...]

[...] You form your home station according to your beliefs. [...]

[...] You do not accept your dreams as real, for example, but as a rule you consider them fantasies — imaginative happenings. [...] It was impossible to imagine civilizations built upon data that were mentally received, consciously accepted, and creatively used.⁷ Under such circumstances scientists could hardly look for precognition in cells.⁸ They did not believe it existed to begin with.

[...] Only your beliefs, training, and neurological indoctrination prevent you from recognizing the true nature of your consciousness while you sleep. [...]

A note: Just as he periodically reminds us of his material-to-come on physical aging and out-of-body states (see Note 4, above), Seth mentions that there are more inner senses he’ll tell us about someday — then adds that many of them are so far removed from reality as we understand it that our comprehension will be intellectual at best; in such cases we won’t be able to identify with them emotionally. [...]

[...] He has been trying to reconcile intellectual and emotional knowledge. [...] Once that belief is annihilated, the other quite-as-legitimate views of reality can appear to your consciousness, and worlds just as valid as your own swim into view.

[...] Because that view necessarily involved emotions, Ruburt felt some sense of emotional contact — but only with the validity of the emotions. [...]

He felt that the soul chooses states of emotion as you would choose, say, a state to live in. He felt that the chosen emotional state was then used as a framework through which to view experience. [...]

[...] The words just came to her along with strong emotional feelings that she connected with Jung.

The image is tied up with certain emotions usually connected with the institution of marriage, and with being a respectable breadwinner and a father. You have not completely introduced your inner image, but only hinted at it, so that to her it is secondary and unreal, when she is faced by actual events in which you behave as the inner image, she is bewildered, confused, and imagines that you are demented.

If he does not follow through with his beliefs, then the meeting will result in failure as far as his hopes are concerned.

[...] You are further along than even I had imagined, and so it is possible that such purposeful visits are within your abilities now. [...]

The reason that these things are done so infrequently is because the personality-essence finds itself so unable to give up belief in camouflage time and space. [...]

[...] You must make an emotional and psychic leap, and then you can look backward and see your connective bridges.

[...] The methods, the ways, the beliefs, the modes of travel to a destination create the destination itself. (A one-minute pause.) It is impossible for you to operate without beliefs in your present mode of existence (another minute), ‘for beyond’ those glittering packages of beliefs, however, there exists the vast reservoir of sensation itself, the land that does indeed exist ‘beyond beliefs.’

[...] As I’ve shown in various notes in the Seth books, through the art of her first love, poetry, Jane presents her beliefs with an amazingly simple clarity, combining her mystical innocence and knowledge with her literal-minded acceptance of physical life.

[...] I took comfort in remembering her excellent vocal power when delivering the private session for December 3.¹² Her voice is a powerful and dramatic connective among realities for her, charged with energy and emotion whether she’s speaking for herself, for Seth, or speaking or singing in her trance language, Sumari.¹³ That vocal steadiness and power, coming out of someone whose weight hovers around 100 pounds, has always been most reassuring to us. [...]

[...] Such understanding is often experienced or sensed, however, sometimes as you are listening to music or when you are deeply stirred by emotion, and when you do not place a great distance between it and yourself.

[...] Through all of his recorded history, man has created that fear, that belief, with the greatest tenacity imaginable.

All elements of the interior invisible environment work together, and they form the temporal weather patterns that are exteriorized mental states, presenting you locally and en masse, then, with a physical version of man’s emotional states. [...]

[...] He could not imagine civilization without it, hence many of his later predictions should be read with this in mind.

[...] As a result of all this the social and governmental structures will change, for they are based upon your current beliefs.

[...] There will be room for emotional interactions within the family that are now impossible. [...]

[...] The children have brilliant minds, healthy bodies, and strong clear emotions.

While many people are working in specific areas, developing the intellect, for example, or the emotions or the body, these parents and their children produce offspring in which a fine balance is maintained. [...]

[...] These are a lively, talkative, imaginative, usually likable group of people. [...]

[...] They may be emotional rather than intellectual, as you understand those terms (pause), but they are restless, usually on the move. [...]

[...] This difference is deeper than you imagine. [...]

Your emotional feelings are, as you know, the inner senses as they appear close to the physical plane. [...]

[...] He has expressed neither belief nor disbelief; he has also listened to part of the tape recording we made of Jane when delivering the 25th session. [...]

[...] Our considerable daily charges were mounting, but we had emotionally pushed their import into the background. [...] Imagine, then, our great surprise when the readers of Reality Change began to contribute: small checks; medium checks; the occasional larger check. [...]

The kindnesses of others became especially helpful in all of those years that we went through the phases of Jane’s physical “symptoms,” as we called them—from our growing emotional questions and torment about them to success and relief and then through torment again and again. [...]

[...] Indeed, each one of us had particular qualities of life—memories, emotions, events—to explore “this time around.” [...]

[...] At the time, however, I wasn’t ready to consciously understand such interlocking emotional relationships even though I was playing a part in one of them. [...]