“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is fairly easy to insert the idea of water, but this may lead him personally to think of the Gulf of Mexico, or the ocean off of Marathon, or even of the Atlantic at York Beach. I will use his associations until I am certain that he has the concept of the word water, but precisely where he is about to say the ocean for example, and after having made use of his associations to get him to this point, I must suddenly make him say a glass of water.

(Last night Peggy Gallagher told us that she is following the suggestions given by Seth in the unscheduled 238th session, but hasn’t noticed any improvement yet in the “bursitis” in her neck and left shoulder and arm. [...]

[...] The psychological bridge can transmit, you see, and to some extent translate, but not interpret.

Often I give him an internal image, or experience, of a whole concept, but unless it could be vocalized it would have no meaning except to him.

Each person will have his or her own private experience here, but gradually certain kinds of physical data will seem to disappear while others may take prominence. [...] You may see nothing in your mind, or you may see images that seem to have no exterior correlation, but you may hear nothing. [...]

(Jane wanted to continue the session, but she was also hungry. [...] “I want a nice big snack but I feel all this stuff that Seth’s got ready, right on the line … Oh, to hell with it — let’s eat!”)

[...] “I think Seth’s going to start another section tonight — but I don’t think he’s quite finished with the last one….” [...]

[...] Often your daily program is not nearly as clear or well-focused as it should be, but full of static; and while this may annoy you, you often put up with it or even become so used to the lack of harmony that you forget what a clear reception is like. [...]

[...] Again, I am not speaking symbolically, but quite practically. Emotions, having their own reality within this system, do not affect physical matter indirectly, but cause specific electromagnetic changes within the physical organism.

[...] Jane and I can make some connection with some of the material, but in the light of what follows we decided to wait. [...] We do not know how much he can help, since he has owned our apartment house but a few years.

[...] This attraction may originate as an emotional one, but the emotional feeling has its own electromagnetism, and the attraction is in direct proportion to the force of the emotion itself, or to the charge that the emotion may carry.

These dreams go unrecognized by the conscious ego; but they do not go unrecorded by the inner self, and they therefore exist, and they form electromagnetic channels of their own to which—make that by which—the physical body itself is affected. [...]

[...] He does listen hopefully to each voice, but he is no fool. [...] He has not had (underlined) to fight for a book in strong terms, but his energy and belief helped it greatly at Prentice, and was transmitted to the salesmen. [...]

[...] You never directly questioned me about that, but Ruburt was not prepared for that book to sell in any great manner, and it was to his advantage that it appear, to give him a book, but also that it lie quietly for a while.

(I for one had never thought of Jane’s symptoms as having such a cause, but...I am still puzzled by the worsening of her symptoms when we got back home after being on tour to publicize The Seth Material, in September of 1970. [...]

[...] Ruburt will end up with another publisher, but he will also be with Aerofranz for some time. [...]

The true [mental] physicist² will be a bold explorer — not picking at the universe with small tools, but allowing his consciousness to flow into the many open doors that can be found with no instrument, but with the mind.

[...] Very forcefully all through here:) But most physicists do not trust felt answers. [...] It seems you could not operate your world on feelings — but you are not doing very well trying to operate with diagrams, either!

Now: Give us a moment … We are speaking quietly to keep Ruburt in a particular state — but (humorously, leaning forward), we will not whisper.

[...] You often use tools, instruments, and paraphernalia instead — but they do not feel time, in those terms. [...]

The volume in Ruburt’s case was caused by proximity, among other things, and if I set up a small sound very close to him, so that it has an explosive and loud effect; but it was directed in such a manner that it was in a large measure closed off. That is, I affected the physical system but only a small portion of it, but then directed the effect purposefully in one direction.

[...] I have in mind some experiments that can be done in the future, but I do not suggest them now as you are busy enough. [...]

[...] I have told you that all action is psychic action, but the terms used make little difference. [...]

This was the result of my attempt to give the voice an independence, to form sound within your physical system without working through Ruburt’s vocal cords, but to impress your physical system kinetically.

[...] But Jane said she felt like it, and the Gallaghers insisted that she try. I didn’t think Bill could be easily hypnotized, but he was quite pleased with his results for a first attempt. [...]

[...] These probabilities do occur somewhere, but they will occur to a self that Priestley nor Dunne ever imagined—a self who exists simultaneously with any given individual, and who is a part of him; but a self that he will never know while he is within your particular system.

[...] In such a system however, as in your own, the perceiver is also a participator and a creator, but he does not work with your conception of time, but with probabilities. [...]

[...] Peggy has been hypnotized twice—one of these times by Dr. Milton Erickson—but this was Bill’s first experience. [...]

[...] Jane and I know Leonard fairly well, but actually know little of his inner feelings, his friends, etc. [...] I had become concerned about attempting to warn Leonard in some fashion, but Seth said this could not be done.

[...] Her husband is a salesman who travels at irregular intervals, but quite often.

[...] We like our new neighbors a good deal and did not resent their calling, but we did dislike missing the session. [...]

[...] No session had been planned for this evening but as the four of us sat around our coffee table Seth came through at about 10:30 PM.

[...] I do not want to duplicate material, but Ruburt’s seeing you working without symptoms was of great benefit. [...] But quite rightly he recognizes the noise as your symbol for distraction. [...]

(We sat for the session at 9, but just then a neighbor began cutting his grass with a power mower. [...]

[...] His methods began to alarm him, but even when they did, and he realized that he was making a bargain of a sort, he still believed in the premise that made a bargain necessary.

[...] Spontaneity and energy used in his work was one thing, but allowed physical translation, he felt, could mean bizarre, unreasonable physical complications.

(I’ve picked up her new reading glasses at Jim Adams’s office, but she hasn’t been wearing them because they need adjusting. [...] Jane left a message that he should call her, but she hasn’t heard. [...]

[...] She is doing well in the bathroom with the new chair, but still feels momentary panic when she has to move from her chair onto the bed; I help her do this. [...]

[...] Therefore the session is extremely brief—but the energy within and behind it is also being used on your behalves at levels that may not at this point be presently apparent to you. [...]

[...] “But I do feel like things are going on.... [...]

[...] But I think this has to do with that other stuff so you should check it. [...] That its outlines for this would start to make sense and emerge, but thatthere would still be something else here. [...] Would look like one thing but two things would be involved, actually. [...]

[...] “What will happen, will happen,” but they do not physically struggle against their situation.

[...] Instant images may come to mind at once, but if success is not achieved immediately, have the patient try again, for in almost all cases some inner pictures will be perceived.

Again, we cannot generalize overmuch, but many persons know quite well that they are not sure whether they want to live or die. [...]

[...] There are endless exercises that can be used to advantage, but here I will only mention a few that appear most beneficial.

Your Sumari consciousness is that kind of consciousness, and so is mine, except that my boundaries are far less limited than your own, and I recognize them not as boundaries but as directions in which recognition of myself must grow. [...] This is not an undifferentiated consciousness, in other words, that addresses you now, but one that recognizes the nature of its own identity.

[...] The language is structured, but in such a way that it is loose enough to be highly flexible and elastic, and only tight enough to retain the sense or feeling of the kind of language you are used to.

[...] But the names signify an independent, unique kind of consciousness that makes use of certain boundaries.

[...] But they must not be limited by the nature of its stereotypes. [...]

[...] These exist all at once, but the perceiving mechanisms are tuned in to one characteristic channel, so to speak. [...] Otherwise it is impossible to understand how for example, an 18th-century town, a 20th-century town, and an ancient village can all exist not merely at once, but also on occasion in the same (in quotes) “location.”

[...] Not tonight, she said, but before long. [...]

(Jane’s pace this evening was rather fast, but quiet.)

[...] The inner core of the self has no difficulty in uniting and correlating the outward experience of its many personalities, but the subject of reincarnation cannot be understood without a knowledge of the nature of matter.

(After we talked for a few more minutes, Jane said, “I’ve got the feeling you’re going to get answers to your questions about psychology — but they’ll be presented as the Preface to this book. [...] I meant generally, but she replied, “The Preface.” [...] But as he came through at 10:57:)

[...] Wait — just now as I wrote this I picked up something [from a part of my consciousness other than Ruburt or Seth], to the effect that the projection environment is as focused as mine is, really, but that it’s a probability of mine. [...] But this was definitely a waking event, taking place just before my nap. [...]

[...] Not only can all cells respond to each other, but their mass activity triggers even higher centers of consciousness to respond to a given set of world conditions, rather than to other quite-as-legitimate world conditions that do not fit the accepted pattern. [...]

[...] I thought Jane’s trance had been a good one, even though she’d used many pauses, but she told me that she hadn’t been at her best. [...]

(I’d received a letter from Tam yesterday, but Jane had trouble reading it after lunch. [...] I’d wanted Seth to comment on my first art dream, the one involving greeting cards, but he hasn’t done so yet. [...]

[...] But she ate a good lunch nevertheless. [...]

[...] The dream also says that like a private eye you are on a search, but the private eye also stands for your own private eye, or your own world view, so that you are in a process of enlarging your own private way of viewing reality. [...]

[...] I bid you now a fond good evening; again, I may or may not return, according to those rhythms of which I speak, but I am present and available. [...]

[...] She’s been holding her own eating, but it’s been a struggle. [...]

not with venom but with honey. [...]

[...] While Cathy came in to take vitals, I went down the hall to see Susie in room 305—but found her asleep. [...]

[...] In its own fashion the poem states Ruburt’s purpose—the purpose that was his, and always will be—but here the physical and spiritual are reunited, and each is strengthened and aroused. [...]

Peg told me he was in his forties; he told her he’d written me but probably left before I could answer the letter. [...] But I thought of him, a stranger, in the newspaper office of a strange town.... [...]

[...] Still no Frank Longwell, but that afternoon I suddenly wrote one poem and began another that fascinated me. [...] So obvious once I realized it, but the insight made several issues clear at once.

I think it was that late morning that Margaret, our neighbor, dropped in late morning to tell us she and Joe would be heading for their cottage, but somewhere I got it in my head that it would be one of those summer weekends when people prowled around—found excuses to go to malls or visit strange towns or just wander the streets or through public buildings—or visit here, if there were any fans in the nearby locality. [...]

Most of the material disappeared instantly, like some dreams, but I did remember that Seth told me to stress pleasure over responsibility and that thought was in my mind as I fell to sleep Friday PM.

[...] There are no killer (underlined) viruses, then, but viruses that go beyond their usual bounds. [...]

This means, of course, that you do not fall victim to a disease, or catch a virus, but that for one reason or another your own feelings, thoughts, and beliefs lead you to seek bouts of illness. [...]

Certainly, such ideas will sound like medical heresy to many readers, but the sooner you begin to look at health and “disease” in these new terms, the healthier and happier you will become. [...]

[...] Jane said she thought that right away Seth was starting to answer my question of yesterday — not the portion about radiation and why that phenomenon is too strong for us to bear, but the part about the consciousness embodied in cancer, say, which is also too much for us much of the time. [...]

[...] He replaces the deceased Frank Edwards, I believe, but I do not recall his name at the moment. [...]

[...] “It’s been on my mind today,” she said, but she hadn’t mentioned it to me. [...]

Now: this may take us a moment (pause), but Ruburt’s spirits are definitely regaining themselves and their momentum. [...]

[...] Then rapidly:) I wanted to tell you this much at least, but have not forgotten the other material, which you will receive before too long. [...]