“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Not that she thought Seth was there to be seen, but she did sense something out of the ordinary. [...]

[...] You take it for granted that each individual has but one ego, and therefore perhaps understandably you ascribe to it more importance than it possesses.

To some extent it will also relate my own experiences, but in a larger sense I hope that it will be able to give a picture of the nature of reality as seen by someone who is not imprisoned within the three-dimensional structure. [...]

[...] Ruburt may make minor corrections if he feels them necessary, but the I in the book will be my own so interpretation will not be needed.

[...] Your projections do involve you in extensive levitations from the dream state, but you recall only a few. The most extensive traveling is done in nightly excursions, but it is easiest to remember those dream projections that occur during naps in the day, simply because the waking consciousness is more alert.

[...] It can hardly cover very many points, but it is generally legitimate as far as it goes.

The woman was quite real, but existed in another plane of activity. [...]

You had one brief experience before this one but did not remember, where you walked along the banks of a misty river landscape. [...]

[...] I would not even tell Ruburt ahead of time (humorously), but even I need the tape in the recorder.

Ruburt has made advances today, partially aided by the receipt of the contracts (for the dream book), but also for reasons given by me recently. [...]

[...] Reading this will remind him of that; but again here, when he is about to open something, or to grasp it, I want him to try to feel the impulse to do so, and then go along with it.

[...] But I expect five pages tomorrow.

[...] But at lunch she told me she wouldn’t be surprised if we had a short session this evening. I did not care for this idea but decided to see what developed, mainly for future reference.

I found you in certain physical circumstances, some of which were psychically unfavorable, but before a mutual trust was developed I could hardly make any such suggestions. [...]

[...] You do not understand pollution or growth well enough yet, but food simply should not be allowed in this room. [...]

[...] A tree is a living symbol to you Joseph, but I certainly do not insist that the tree be left uncovered though personally I see no reason why any other changes have to be made in the kitchen, except for the addition of the refrigerator. [...]

[...] So the inner self does not wash its hands, but his ego does not realize this most of the time. [...]

[...] But when I speak to you I speak to a part of you that the intellect does not know, and intellect can learn from that part of you to which I speak. [...]

[...] You should use the intellect you have and the intuition that you have, but I sneak through the cracks. [...]

[...] But there are no records, despite any of your readings. [...]

[...] “I felt a little strange before the session,” she said, “but it was no problem.... My hands have been better and better, especially eating, but they’re sore, you know?” She does have somewhat less trouble using a fork, say, but still does about all of her eating with her left hand. [...]

(After last Monday’s session, Jane told me that she’d try to hold private sessions when she could, but that at this time she’d rather be free of any expected routine, say of Monday and Wednesday nights. [...] But it’s a unique piece of work, and as I told her, we can use it to lay the foundation for much future work. [...]

(“Well, I guess I’ll do a Seth thing tonight,” Jane finally said, and rather to my surprise, “but it won’t be long at all....” [...]

[...] But it got rid of that image....” [...]

[...] Now you are both afraid of making a move, but it is much easier for Ruburt to adopt the physical symptoms of immobility, because of his own background. [...]

Now in your discussion you released some emotions, and this is beneficial, but you have not discussed such problems together in some time. [...]

[...] He has always thought that you were used, mainly by your mother, but he was afraid that his statements would be misinterpreted because of his own relationship with his parents.

All of the material given concerning Ruburt’s background and motives is highly legitimate, but it shows clearly why he was willing to take on this role. [...]

Now, again in those terms, he is an entity who appears time and time again within your physical system, but he has been recognized on only two occasions. [...] He was not one personality, as I have told you, but a highly developed entity, sometimes appearing as a fragment of himself.

[...] The messages were put into words and language and written down at the time of Atlantis, but after that they were handed down by word of mouth.

[...] But your people were gone, and you are only now finding them again.

[...] She had seen images while giving the material, she said, but couldn’t describe them to us now.

[...] “That may need some interpretation, but that is the impression.” [...] Also the A in the Art Shop monogram narrows somewhat but doesn’t come to a point. [...]

[...] But we did not go to check.)

[...] You form a temporary but very vivid image production.

[...] The possibilities are truly fascinating, but there are dangers that do not exist when the other two forms are used.

[...] “I sort of had images while that was going on,” she said, “but I couldn’t tell you what they were.” [...]

He is receiving larger doses of energy due to the season, and his own natural reactions to it, but he is not acting or reacting with the spontaneity that is natural to him in early springtime. [...]

He is doing as well as he did a month or so ago in his reactions, but now that is not good enough. [...]

[...] An idea he had earlier this week along those lines was intuitional, but he did not put it into practice.

[...] But she often used her wit like a sword. [...]

She was in her early thirties, with a good job, but she looked down on all of the other employees. [...]

[...] We played a sort of game: I liked her, but I wasn’t going to be besieged by a barrage of negative thoughts and pessimism for an hour, no matter how wittily presented—and she knew it. [...]

“These mass suggestions include not only those given to him by others, both verbally and telepathically, but also those he has given to himself, both in the waking and dream states. [...]

[...] He still needs encouragement as far as relaxation is concerned, but he has turned the corner. Do not let the improvements rearouse old fears, but remind yourselves that improvement is natural and spontaneous, and easy in the new system of beliefs. [...]

[...] The dream reflected your deep concern, and your fear that he might not make it, but get worse after all. [...]

[...] Mass Events was supposed to come out on March 13, but this date is evidently in error, since we’ve just learned we won’t see front-matter proofs until next week. [...] But we’re still uneasy over the whole Mass Events affair —the disclaimer question, Jane’s reaction to the book itself since Seth started giving it, etc.—and any delay only serves to make us more suspicious, I’m afraid. [...]

Such images have little to do with your own basic or natural personalities, or with your own individual backgrounds, but you apply such images upon yourselves like overlays. In such cases you are unable to really estimate your own progress of your own accomplishments, for you are not looking at them based upon your own capabilities and inclinations, but using the hypothetical idealized images instead. [...]

(As for myself, I’ve been trying to get in four hours of painting each day, without succeeding, by the way, but it’s still a real treat. [...]

[...] You will compare your own life and work often in a critical fashion to artists who were obsessed with one art from the beginning of their lives, or who pursued what is really a kind of straight and undeviating course—a brave courageous one, perhaps, and highly focused, but one that must be in certain respects (underlined) limited in scope and complexity, not crossing any barriers except those that seem to occur strictly within painting’s realm itself (all intently. [...]

[...] You put in time and effort in the past to sell your commercial work, but have refused to do the same to sell your paintings. [...]

[...] Not because you should, or feel you should, but because you want to. [...]

The man to whom I have referred is approximately 62, but filled with energy, and would have intuitive understanding of your work. [...]

You have had glimpses, but the two abilities will work hand in hand so that ideas for paintings will occur with greater vividness, and your hand itself will know how to get certain effects that you want, before you are consciously aware of how this is done.

[...] But now she’d laid Seven aside — for who knows how long?

[...] Joint action seems the only course, but a joint action in which each individual must actually be forced to act, driven by frenzy, or fear or hatred, incensed and provoked, for otherwise the fanatic fears that no action at all will be taken toward “the ideal.”

[...] I spoke rather thoroughly in my last book (The Nature of the Psyche) about the sexuality of your species, but here I want to mention how some of those sexual beliefs affect your behavior.

[...] (Pause.) They believe that their search for answers, however, justifies almost any means, or sacrifices, not only on their parts but on the parts of others. [...]

The ego is indeed but one part of the self that speaks for the other portions of the self, but when it tries to speak for itself only, then indeed its words become meaningless, and the words become threats to the rest of the self. [...]

But in its overzealous behavior we find that it is instead threatening the self. [...] Your ulcer is indeed the same sort of growth, but on a physical and not on a psychological level.

[...] But these periods were brief, and were quite a bit short of the almost deafening volume she obtained in the 158th session. Strangely enough, her eyes remained closed for most of this closing delivery, opening but once or twice.)

(Jane and I wondered whether Seth would mention the letter from Dr. Instream during this session, but he did not; just as he did not discuss my recent clairvoyant dream. [...]

[...] It was hard for her to verbalize her feelings, to even tell me about them, but she felt waves of panic and fear sweep through her—not hidden or covered up now, but faced and admitted, although with much difficulty. [...]

[...] But then after I decided to stay in bed when you got up, the panicky stuff started.... [...]

[...] “Nothing evil, but certainly a fear of letting go, of expression, maybe abandonment.” [...]

[...] I didn’t mention any of this to Jane, since she had done so well today, but do want to make note of my feelings here. [...]

[...] It may have surrounded you, but you did not experience it. [...] If you are honestly not greedy, yet you see greed, then perhaps you are serving as an example to others — but you form your own reality.

The petty wars, even those still to be fought, are but dim memories, once vital but lost as nightmares in greater awakenings. [...]

[...] To some extent the world copies itself, in that there are patterns.² But those patterns are always changed to one extent or another, so that no object is ever a copy of another — though it may appear to be the same.

[...] Why do your fellow beings sometimes seem like unfeeling monsters — (loudly:) Frankensteins not of body but of mind, spiritual idiots, ignorant of any heritage of love or truth or even graceful beasthood? [...]

(I stood on a narrow ledge at night, on a cliff side, with several men I knew well in the dream but not in waking life. [...]

[...] I realized now that the end of our ledge was held up now by only a thin column of stone, but didn’t feel alarmed at this. [...]

[...] There was a woman here in the dream but her role is beyond my accurate recall.

[...] Her eyes were closed to begin, but she was smoking and they soon began to open frequently.)

(She’s been sleeping much better, but with interspersed bouts of restlessness and discomfort in her backside and legs. [...] “I’d go if I had to,” she protested, but I answered that she’d simply trained her body to wait as long as possible for such natural acts; then she could avoid all the discomfort of getting into the bathroom and on the john, etc. [...] But right at this time she can barely get from her chair to sit on the john or the bed—literally.)

[...] It was a kind of concealed knowledge, apparent but not apparent. Later he tried straight novels, but when he let himself go his natural fiction fell into the form of fantasy, outside of the novel’s conventions into science fiction’s form—and at that time further away from the mainstream. [...]

[...] I said that most “successful?” poetry and fiction might not penetrate very deeply into the human condition, compared with the understanding her own psychic gifts offered, but it would have been safe and accepted by her peers. [...]

[...] It wasn’t that her psychic work, and the books, weren’t good, I said, or that they didn’t help people, but that they didn’t fit into the world as she saw it. [...]