“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] But we certainly didn’t expect Seth to continue the material he’d begun in his book relating to biblical times.)

I should frighten you by saying, “Chapter One,” but I will not. [...]

[...] At one time John attempted to join various divergent groups together as one brotherhood, but he failed. [...]

[...] They were not as violent as the other groups, but they were as shrewd.

(See the attached notes of Jane’s, concerning her experiences of April 30 and May 2. Actually, much else has taken place also, but I didn’t keep daily records and feel somewhat lost in trying to reconstruct events. [...]

[...] At the same time, for many reasons, he had the idea that he was expected to be not merely a well-adapted natural person, but a kind of superself, solving other people’s problems, being a public personality, a psychic performer, and so forth. [...]

[...] The creative work was expected not only to be creative, imaginative, intuitive, to contain the highest elements of conceptual thought, but must also be capable of solving the most concrete physical problem, tuned with some magical tuning fork so that it could serve almost any purpose required of it. [...]

He may not want to be a public personality, but he does enjoy expression. [...]

[...] When I got to 330 Jane told me that Shawn Peterson had been admitted to intensive care last night with chest pains, but that the tests so far have been negative. [...]

[...] Jane asked him why her right leg was shorter than the left one, and Jeff explained that the break had healed but that the bones were out of alignment, hence the shortness. [...]

(Jane said Jeff was plainly surprised at her improvements, but that at the same time he was condemning her to staying in bed. [...]

[...] She said she tried to explain to Jeff how she was uncomfortable and impatient in hydro, but got nowhere. [...]

[...] There are actually many other conditions of existence, but for now we will speak of a predream state, which is actually composed of several conditions of actuality. [...] It would seem to you that experience becomes broader but less specific, but such is not the case. Experience does become broader, but it changes in quality so that, for example, one moment in your terms of such experience would provide the working material for five years of dreams.

[...] But let us forget that term for a moment and consider association, with which you are already familiar, since your stream of consciousness operates in that fashion. [...]

[...] You experience reality through the cast of those abilities and characteristics, but you also stamp the universe with that particular imprint of individuality that is your own, and you attract those events that are suited to your nature and no other.

[...] The last lady might consider a vase, for example, but reject the idea. [...]

[...] But the children wondered: What about those other feelings that stirred in their consciousnesses? [...] They looked for values, but at the same time they felt that they were themselves sons and daughters of a species tainted, at loose ends, with no clear destinations.

[...] She hadn’t meant to be secretive, she added, but had simply accepted her attitudes as being based upon her own strong beliefs. The mass deaths at Jonestown (in November 1978) took place during our long layoff from book dictation, but Seth began discussing the affair almost at once in our private material, as Jane described in her own portion of the opening notes for Session 831. [...]

[...] They may be intelligent or stupid, gifted or mundane, but they are frightened of experiencing themselves as themselves, or of acting according to their own wishes. [...]

In the Guyana affair, you had “red-blooded Americans” dying on a foreign shore (in South America), but not under a banner of war, which under certain circumstances would have been acceptable. [...]

[...] Ideally—but you do not live in an ideal world—this could happen overnight, and with only a feeling of release. [...]

[...] But then its dependability is built up. [...]

[...] (See sessions 714, 716 for instance.) Your own creativity emerges, and will not only in your sketches of your experiences—those you have done and those that you will do—but in the paintings also that you will indeed do from them. [...]

[...] The value of the originals will be considerable, but this is also your own solution to work and its public notice. [...]

[...] You said “But he was walking,” meaning that Ruburt was not. [...] His walking is impaired, but the ability is there. [...]

[...] There were no formal sessions, but there were impediments, for at that time you were momentarily convinced of your own physical difficulties. [...] You had to convince yourself that you were not only capable, but physically capable enough to take over for Ruburt—and this at a time when he was carrying the heavy packages up the stairs.

[...] I used the word “heavy” several times also, meaning that she could be aware of the normal weight of her body, but later wondered if it was a good word to use. [...]

[...] Ruburt did not have to follow that suggestion either, but it also fitted in with his intents. [...]

[...] Now he can move, but he still cannot run, you see. [...] He is partially released but far from fully.

[...] You did indeed see your father (as my pendulum told me) not as a man who failed in several important areas, but as a failure in all areas: as a husband, breadwinner, father. (Pause.) You identified with him however out of fear of your mother’s emotionalism. [...]

Here are some general points, but I will fill these in and add to them at our next session.

[...] The passive qualities in him would have been far more predominant, overly so, but for the adversity he faced. [...]

(10:53.) It means that you are not willing to take the actual steps in physical reality to achieve the ideal, but that you believe that the end justifies the means: “Certainly some lives may be lost along the way, but overall, mankind will benefit.” [...] In the same manner, say, the ideal is to protect human life, and in the pursuit of that ideal you give generations of various animals deadly diseases, and sacrifice their lives.³ Your justification may be that people have souls and animals do not, or that the quality of life is less in the animals, but regardless of those arguments this is fanaticism — and the quality of human life itself suffers as a result, for those who sacrifice any kind of life along the way lose some respect for all life, human life included. [...]

[...] A lively discussion resulted, but no countering opinion could enter this man’s mind. Roger, let us call him, is an idealist at heart, but he believes that the individual has little power in the world, and so he did not pursue his personal idealism in the events of his own life. “Everyone is a slave to the system.” [...]

[...] If you want to change the world for the better, but you believe it cannot be changed one whit, then you are a pessimist, and your idealism will only haunt you. If you want to change the world for the better, but you believe that it will grow worse, despite everyone’s efforts, then you are a truly despondent, perhaps misguided idealist. [...]

[...] He had offers of other jobs that would have pleased him more, but he is so convinced of his lack of power that he did not dare take advantage of the opportunities. [...]

[...] You are involved in a living process—but one of such multidimensional activity that sometimes you see of course but one chapter in a saga whose full complexion is far different.

(10:30.) You always help those you see—and they present themselves to you not only for themselves, but for others. You are examining the human condition, but seeking answers from the highest reaches of its capabilities. [...]

[...] Not only because of the lost time and probably vain effort involved, but because as she talked, she knew she was saying things that applied to her as well. [...]

[...] The plot is left open, but in the deepest terms the whole self, through its personalities, probes deeply into the meaning of life in all of its manifestations. [...]

[...] For she’s been carrying that hand with all but the index finger turned under more than ever; indeed, she cannot straighten the fingers, and I’ve worried about that situation. [...]

[...] In other words, you are perturbed over what is the proper direction for you to take—not trusting yourself to make the proper decision automatically, but wanting to force a quick conscious decision so that you will know what to do, and have it over with.

I do not want to get into a long discussion on Ruburt this evening—but (with much humor) I will bring you an update shortly of a comprehensive nature.

[...] The work, however, would not have been right for you, but upside down in a fashion, because with your knowledge before, say, our sessions, your particular blend of psychic abilities and writing abilities would not have developed; your painting would have lacked, in a way that would be quite noticeable to you. [...]

[...] The tray was late also, but Jane ate a good lunch.

[...] She was obviously surprised at the thought, but then, why not? [...]

[...] I thought she was going to pass up having a session, it was getting so late, but finally she decided to have a short one as the time to turn her on her side arrived.)

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

[...] But Ruburt may as well now continue with this heroic endeavor, although I fear that it will cost us this session. It would perhaps have been more convenient if the effort had been started on other than a session night, but in any case I expect to see the endeavor succeed, and certainly do not mind missing a session for this purpose.

I am having some few difficulties here, with our balky Ruburt, but I presume we can handle it.

[...] A moment point basically consists not of any particular given time division, but is within your system a convenient term that expresses or represents the range of reality that can be conveniently embraced without undue strain.

[...] The personality hangs on to his small indulgences, but good sense will rule the day.

[...] I agreed to it, and told Jane, but we didn’t really want to go. [...]

[...] I will at a later date have more to say concerning the ways the body utilizes such drugs—very interesting material, but not for this moment. [...]

(Very long pause.) You use the hospital experience to press against, Ruburt even more than you because of his position physically, but you are both beginning to understand issues—or rather, you are beginning to accept issues—much more wholeheartedly than you were before, and that acceptance is the key. [...]

[...] but the inner disposition of these sessions, now, with their frequent startups, then lulls.... [...]

[...] You look outward at the world not only through your eyes, but also, to some extent at least, through the eyes of another. [...]

[...] Even in animal groups, individuals are not only concerned with personal survival, but with the survival of “family” members. [...]

[...] He did not identify as himself alone, but because of his love, he identified also with all those portions of nature with which he came into contact. [...]

[...] It is easy to say to you that such people could identify, say, with the trees, but an entirely different thing to try to explain what it would be like for a mother to become so a part of the tree underneath which her children played that she could keep track of them from the tree’s viewpoint, though she was herself far away.

[...] The house offered privacy but seemed to raise as many questions as it answered, one of them being that it was situated on a hillside and was accessible only by a very steep dirt road that was not maintained by either state or county.

I am avoiding a direct answer immediately, and talking around the bush for a few moments for my own reasons, but I will not put you off. [...]

Your reluctance to buy a home with actually adequate privacy but without large acreage stems from a sort of self spite. [...]

The child who lived in the house until recently was somewhat disturbed, and had he lived there longer the house would not have remained psychically beneficial, but it is psychically beneficial now. [...]

(“But don’t bother telling anyone—doctors or anybody else—about any of this,” I said. [...] I had a thousand questions and things to say—but all in good time. [...]

(At 2:45 PM Jane tried to read the typed session from yesterday, but couldn’t, in spite of her struggles. [...]

[...] Her Seth voice wasn’t loud, but it had a lot of quiet energy and a deeper tone that I could feel quite noticeably. [...]

[...] We may return briefly, but if not, do not be discouraged. [...]

(He had lots of energy, which I could sense, but seemed to me to be contradictory in many ways, and I took him up on several points. [...] I could tell he didn’t understand that to be a creative leader one didn’t follow others, but went out on his own. [...]

(I also thought the call might force a change in what I tell correspondents — but then, with the information about us that I furnished for Maude Cardwell’s article in Reality Change, what would be the point of changing my response to the mail? [...] But I can’t say that I didn’t know that.

[...] But I wasn’t pleased when Danny exclaimed, “Damn you, Rob, I want you to be as open with me as I am with you.” [...]

[...] She seems to have no heart trouble, but must wear a harness at home for 24 hours, to detect any heart abnormalities — a monitoring device that, I believe, somehow records electrical heart activity.

[...] I believe I also had some restless dreams about it last night, but couldn’t recall them today. [...]

[...] I had been a little nervous about the climb up the sheer wall, but had managed it okay. [...]

[...] I thought Seth could comment today, but I expected no detailed response there either at this time. [...]

[...] Jane began reading yesterday’s session, but soon started having difficulty. [...]

[...] This applies not only individually, so that the cell knows its future pattern, for example; but in the same way, an entire species will unconsciously have the knowledge of its own “ideal” fulfillment in its overall world environment.

[...] The various god concepts that have fallen by the wayside, so to speak, represent areas of development that were not chosen, in your terms, but they are still latent. [...]

[...] It is however highly specific, poised in the moment, but so completely that in your terms past and future are largely meaningless.

[...] Physical species that existed and flourished in those epochs then became probable to you, for they did not develop in your system but became extinct. [...]