“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane paused, eyes closed, often seeming to grope for words while in trance.) This is, again, difficult to explain, but free will operates in all units of consciousness, regardless of their degree—but (whispering) it operates within the framework of that degree. Man possesses free will, but that free will operates only within man’s degree—that is, his free will is somewhat contained by the frameworks of time and space.

(Jane called me at 8:15 for the session, but it was 8:50 before we actually sat for it. [...] “But I feel him around….”)

[...] They still exist now, but they have become like ghostly signals in the background of neurological activity.

[...] You can’t believe the time when you get back, sometimes, but you couldn’t have gotten the information any other way. [...]

This bit of data is usually extremely specialized but very complete within its scope. [...] That is, the inner self has at its command complete knowledge, but only portions of it are used by an organism at any given instance.

[...] We did not really feel like holding a session, but tried anyhow because we did not want to break the routine.

I had planned to go into some material concerning this particular portrait, as a camouflage construction, but here for now I will merely mention this in passing and go into it at our next session.

[...] Now, the strange sensation experienced by Ruburt just before this session was a taste of our seventh inner sense, but only a small portion. [...]

[...] An animal feels but it does not believe. [...] But your bodies must rid themselves of chemical excesses in the same way that land must clear itself of excess water. [...]

First sentence: Your reality exists independently of your physically oriented consciousness, but while you are a creature your awareness must be interpreted through your neurological structure and your corporeal aliveness. [...]

[...] As far back as the 613th session in Chapter One, Seth was making statements like this: “Your feelings have electromagnetic realities that rise outward, affecting the atmosphere itself,” but at the time we paid little attention to the implications behind such ideas. [...]

[...] Obviously there have been earthquakes where there are no people, but in all cases the origins are to be found in mental properties rather than exterior ones. [...]

[...] The session might have continued but was interrupted by the visit of a friend who does not know of them. [...]

[...] I told him the lighting was flattering, but Bill insisted there was a different quality in the work, and that he did not believe it was due solely to suggestion.

(The surprise, Seth went on, would embarrass scientific personnel, but would also lead to clearer understanding of the Seth phenomenon. [...]

[...] He was not disapproving, but neither did he approve.

[...] In those terms, his interests are now the same, but he no longer looks upon his historically known works, but considers them as background pieces, so to speak. [...]

(“But keep your fingers crossed,” I told Jane, “until we get next month’s bill.” [...]

The man not only walks, but he walks on fire—to most, a seeming impossibility. [...]

[...] The response has not been complete, but it has been immediate.

At the same “time” his body kept trying to assert its privileges and natural life, but he saw it as a tool to work. He understands now a good deal of this, but I want to put it in form for him. [...]

(During the past week Jane has made a spectacular improvement in the use of her right arm, with lesser but steady improvement in the left. [...]

It is obvious not only that Ruburt is improving but that one important area of the body has begun to clear itself to a large degree. [...]

[...] The body has its own patterns of behavior, connected with beliefs; but in this memory pattern there are tracings, and these are beginning to be erased in the order in which the condition was established. [...]

The shifting of belief may then open him to question his other beliefs, and he realizes that in the area of wealth, for example, he did very well because of his beliefs; but in those others, perhaps deeper experiences opened by his illness, he learns that human experience includes dimensions of reality that had earlier been closed to him, and that these are also easily within his reach — and without the illness that originally brought them forth. [...] In the meantime there was stress, but it was creative.

But here you become involved with one of the most meaningful aspects of the nature of personal reality, as you test your thoughts against what seems to be. There may be a time before you learn how to change your thoughts effectively, but you are engaged in a basic meaningful endeavor.

[...] Even the ego however realizes to some extent that clock time is a convention; but it does not like such conventions broken.

[...] On occasion, when the ego recognizes that such data can be highly practical, it then becomes more liberal in its recognition of it — but only when such information fits in with its concepts of what is possible and not possible.

[...] Blood pressure rises in whole populations — stress signals in terms of hormones are activated, but you are not taught to recognize these natural signals. [...] You are as natural as an animal, and as “tuned in” to the deep rhythms of the earth — those that you consciously perceive and those that are perceived by your body consciousness, but are screened out by the “official mind.”

[...] You may be cured of a particular disease, but unless you learn more about the dynamics of your being, you will simply “fall prey” to another. [...] You may discover how to be happy by association with a happy person, but you definitely will not discover that answer by associating with those who are miserable. [...]

[...] Not only that, but when the predictors fall flat on their faces it does not help ‘The Cause.’ Reality does not exist in that fashion. You can tune into certain probabilities and predict ‘that they will occur,’ but free will always operates. [...]

[...] This is not an impractical, but very practical, endeavor in all areas. [...]

(Jane was in a low mood for part of the day, but perked up before I took my nap. She wrote one verse of a poem this morning, but isn’t very pleased with it. We didn’t try the table today, but she did do the healing energy thing, and evidently with some success: She’s to write a description of it to insert in the pendulum notebook. I’m still carrying her in the john, but with increasing difficulty, I’m afraid. [...]

[...] [I’d changed the original, fancy rollers Frank had used, but the replacements were also too small.]. The new chair worked much better, but Jane had trouble keeping the cushion in place. [...]

[...] His attitudes toward the medical profession (pause) are indeed changing—not that he sees medical practices in any more favorable and overall light, but that he recognizes that absolutism is no answer either. [...]

[...] It worked—but barely, for it was too high for the john, and had no cushion for Jane’s backside comfort.

[...] But for a long time—months—I lived with tears just beneath the surface, you might say, as I wondered what was going to happen to us, why you were so sick, what we’d done wrong all those years, and so forth. I learned to live with those feelings, but it was a different kind of life than I’d ever known. [...]

[...] Jane began reading yesterday’s session—not too well to start, but better as she went along. [...]

[...] Not easily, but she did it—another first, I believe. [...]

[...] A couple of minutes later she said, “Every time I start to compose myself for a session my legs start moving—but I shouldn’t complain about that, should I? [...]

[...] But she knows from family experience, she said, about troubles with medical expenses, insurance, and so forth. She said something about hospital policy being to review cases after a six-month period, but I couldn’t elicit from her when Jane’s current six-month period might have begun. [...]

(No session was held yesterday, Friday, December 23, but here is a summary of the day’s events. [...]

[...] She went down to hydro this morning but never got into the tank; it malfunctioned and she was finally brought back to 330 where Georgia gave her a partial bath.

[...] But when I looked outside, I saw a rundown row of apartments next door, and in the first doorway stood a young mother in ragged clothing, with several ragged children sitting on the steps, staring at me. [...]

[...] Now were I a kind and well-known beloved uncle who has passed over, you could perchance see me, but for now you must be content with the little of me that I am able to portray through Ruburt’s personality. There should be occasions when Ruburt’s features will change to some considerable extent when I speak to you, but you will have to be content for now with that part of me you can sense. [...] But I tell you that you will perceive me more clearly than you do now. [...]

[...] You want to know but not too much too fast. [...]

[...] Freedom knows its own control, but not the kind you are thinking of. [...]

[...] Now, consciously you will not understand what I am telling you but unconsciously you will. [...]

[...] In the greater realm of activity—I am trying to put this simply—a poor marriage, for example, is on the same level as a chronic but not life-threatening disease. It is not simply that disease is disease, and relationships are relationships, but that the individual generally tries to achieve the best possible conditions for a satisfying spiritual, emotional and physical existence according to beliefs and intents.

[...] Jane said she was willing to continue, but.... [...] We also tried it after we went to bed, but as usual I fell asleep too quickly. [...]

[...] Nevertheless the suggestions you gave at that session allowed particular muscles a further but unnoticed relaxation—also contributing to the neck release Ruburt felt this evening.

[...] He might be too relaxed to get up for an hour or so, or need your help at the moment, but the body is simply not going to collapse if it relaxes, and those ideas could impede your progress. [...]

I have said this before: If you were able to focus your attention upon the dissimilarities, merely those that you can perceive but do not, then you would be amazed that mankind can form any idea of an organized reality. [...]

[...] But the fact is that physical matter is not solid except when you believe that it is, and that organization is transposed from within upon the without. [...]

[...] But when you leave your physical system and when physical perception is no longer the rule, then you must learn new root assumptions.

[...] Now the fact is that your consciousness is not imprisoned within your body; but as long as you believe that it is, again, you will not be caught dead outside of it. [...]

(The temperature was 5 below when I got up at 6:30, but it was up to 15 when I left for 330 at 12:30. [...]

(Jane said she’d have the session early, so I could watch the Super Bowl, which was to begin at 4:30, but I said it didn’t matter all that much. [...]

[...] They will indeed appear almost effortlessly — but he must let the burden of worry go.

Now I may or may not return, according to those rhythms of which I speak — but know that I am present and approachable.

i didn’t want to sleep
for fear the world would disappear
but new days kept coming and coming.
the old ones slipped away one
by one, but were always replenished.

[...] I can’t help but mourn as I write this piece; I tell myself that had I seen the poems as Jane produced them I might have learned a little more about her each time; I might have been able to help her more than I had over the years. [...]

In this deceptively simple but moving poem about her magical childhood responses to the world she lived in, Jane foreshadows from that viewpoint the innate knowledge she was to express a quarter of a century later in the Seth material. [...]

I was walking past the world
one day,
half deciding not to stay,
when I saw you standing there,
ten years ahead of me in time
but so close in space
that I reached out
and touched your arm.

[...] triggered a set of associations for me, but they proved to have their complications. I thought I remembered a statement he’d made long ago, but now I couldn’t locate it within the body of his material. [...]

[...] But this time, in spite of my system of indexing each session in at least a fairly adequate fashion, several days passed before I found the passage I wanted. [...]

[...] The inner self is aware of this integrity of identity, but the ego focused so securely in physical reality cannot afford this luxury.

(Jane did pick up some material on her own—“but I don’t think you want to hear it,” she told me. [...] I can’t see how or what the two of us can do to change things as they are—but....”)

(There was more, but of a similar nature. [...]

[...] This, I am sure, seems an invasion of privacy to you, and yet I assure you that even now none of your thoughts are hidden, but are known quite clearly to your family and friends — and I may add, unfortunately, to those you consider enemies as well. [...]

[...] There is no period of time, in your terms, that you can mention, but some of us have been from there, and carry within our memories the indelible experience that was gained in that particular context.

[...] We do not fritter it away, but utilize it for those unique and individual purposes that are a basic part of our psychological experience.

[...] We face many challenges of quite momentous nature, and we realize that our purposes are not only important in themselves, but for the surprising offshoots that develop in our efforts to pursue them. [...]

[...] It need not belong to you, but it should have some meaning for you, to get the best results. Keep the object in mind, but do not concentrate upon it so intensely that you block out your own emotional, (underlined) vitality.

[...] It involved a peculiar heavy sense of premonition of some kind, as of us personally, or our families, but might be related to John’s family. [...]

[...] The intellect can be used most handily in tabulating our results, but it will not help us to get our results, unless it is utilized as a means toward discovering how best to harness the emotions for communication purposes.

[...] I assume her eyes were at least slitted open for her to perform these tasks, but if so I could not tell. [...]