“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Today’s question was simple enough—but I wanted to know what would be different at the house when she returned home this time, compared to the situation at the house before she went into the hospital. [...]

[...] With what he has learned, he can put much to advantage that he could not have earlier, but the base of operations should be from the home, where surely his spirits will be far more easily maintained and upheld. [...]

These are recommendations given yesterday, of course, but their life-giving qualities can be taken advantage of now. [...]

[...] But return home, where always the spirit finds its greatest succor. [...]

[...] “I can’t even explain what I mean sometimes, but I see what Seth means,” Jane said. [...] But, I said, I could, sometimes. [...]

[...] She said she still wasn’t up to normal speed—maybe 80%—but I certainly thought she was doing a lot better than that. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The body is improving itself overall, however, and some improvements that seem to appear suddenly are the manifestations of improvements that have been taking place for some time, but are only now showing themselves. [...]

Now, I may or may not return, according to those rhythms of which I speak, but I am indeed present in any case. [...]

[...] (Long pause, then intently but with a touch of humor:) I know you know this, but do not concentrate upon the problem. [...]

(We were fairly sure her reactions stemmed from the barrage of material Seth has given us since we began this series of “crash” sessions last week, but that knowledge didn’t help her much today. [...]

[...] A little suffering in life—okay, I thought, considering the session last night—but this? [...]

[...] It represents what is left over of Ruburt’s questioning and doubts, those unresolved areas that were emotionally charged not only because of, say, Church doctrine, but intensified because of emotional episodes with his mother, or other such issues. [...]

[...] I’m somewhat handicapped because I don’t have the Sinful Self material to compare anything to, but I’m sure there are many connections between the two. I’d planned to write down some questions for tonight, based on Monday’s session, but had so many actually that I decided to let that project go, trusting that Seth will cover them in his own way.

[...] At certain levels (underlined), your brother Loren once compared your art to his love of trains—an enjoyable hobby, but not something to which a man devoted his life. [...]

[...] Again, there were twists and turns through the years as the symptoms might serve one purpose more than another at any given time, but falling within the general category. [...]

[...] There will also be days when it is quite obvious that the framework provides only for your own inconvenience and discomfort—but the fact that it is a framework, created and maintained, is important. [...]

[...] “But I wasn’t necessarily thinking that the insurance probabilities wouldn’t work out.” I wanted to say more, but felt too constrained by time and my own groping questions to speak clearly.)

[...] I’d also spent time wandering around alone up there, but Jane and I were eventually reunited safe and sound. [...]

[...] She did much better than she has been doing lately, but still not too well. [...]

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

[...] But understand (smile) that others are forming their own clay of realities simultaneously. If they do not like what they have created often they throw it away; but always with the idea of learning from their errors, and forming another from the knowledge they have gained.

[...] Your system presents a rather abrupt, explosive entrance into largely organized consciousness, but on an individual basis.

[...] All of this is done on an unconscious basis, but as a teaching method the results must be seen physically.

[...] You become extremely engrossed in the activity, but you also know in deeper layers of your personality that your existence and the existence of the race will continue.

[...] He had some help from others in the group, but not enough for such sustained effort.

[...] When astral contact is made, some manipulations may be necessary in order to maintain them, but there is nothing to worry about if you go your separate ways.

[...] You will not need too many experiences before your own confidence will allow you to leave your body without Ruburt’s assistance, but the joint traveling is still important. [...]

I will help you if a need arises, but beyond that I will give you some instructions while you are in a projected state. [...]

[...] It is somewhat astonished to discover that the spontaneous self is no enemy, but a friend and ally. [...]

[...] You felt that your talent was giving you but a shaky foundation or basis within economic and social realities.

[...] But this is something different. [...]

[...] You could have become all but sexually your mother’s husband. [...]

[...] It’s educational to type up this material after such a long interval—but also somewhat discouraging, I’m afraid. [...] The term will crop up when she has some kind of related psychic experience occasionally, but that seems to be all. [...]

[...] The environment change has been of great benefit, but also because he was ready. [...]

This is simply poor communication and misunderstanding, but you should both clear it up.

[...] This sort of phenomena occurs in one way or another with those who have the capacity to draw upon great energies, but the manifestation, you see, can be beneficial or detrimental.

You dream, each of you, but there are few great dream artists. [...] The “future” of the species is being worked out in the private and mass dreams of its members, but this also is never considered. [...]

[...] Not a reflection, therefore, but a by-product involving not only a chemical reaction but the transformation of energy from one state to another.

[...] I had two questions prepared, both growing out of material in “Unknown” Reality, but had to lay them aside until next time.)

[...] Most of his material is deleted here, but I can write that her situation was tied in to her work with the challenges presented by her physical symptoms [as described in Note 8 for the 679th session, in Section 1]. [...]

It may form particles, but it would be itself whether or not particles existed. [...]

(10:02.) I can say precisely that pure energy is everywhere within itself conscious, but the very words themselves somewhat distort my meaning, for I am speaking of a consciousness most difficult to describe.

[...] For that matter, despite all appearances, the physical universe was not born through some explosion of energy which is being dispersed, but is everywhere being created at all of its points “at each moment.”

In that respect you cannot rip apart your events to find the reality behind them, for that reality is not so much a glue that holds events together, but is invisibly entwined within your own psychological being. [...]

[...] He felt that you would go along, but on your own would prefer no company. [...] The drinks did further aid in the relaxation—but there was a freedom of expression, a trust of the self, a concentration away from the body, and a self-acceptance.

[...] She’s written her own account of the event, so I’ll just note here that at the end of the visit, she spontaneously felt like standing up and walking normally—an impulse that she hasn’t been aware of for a number of years, but is so normal to most people.)

[...] He sees himself at such times in an inferior physical situation, so that it seems to him that physically “he is not a good specimen,” but obviously flawed. [...]

This does not mean of course that you must helter-skelter have a burst of interviews of visitors—but after three or four encounters with people of any supposed authority, Ruburt is then in a position to make new decisions on such matters, based on current knowledge and his own preferences: and he will no longer avoid such adventures out of fear.

[...] It’s far from finished, but she finally let me see what she had after supper. [...] At 8:15 PM my stomach bothers a bit, but the left side has subsided to vague feelings of discomfort in the groin and testicle. [...]

[...] He cares not a jot for position or for money, but only for the freedom. [...]

Now we have another man, who is also contemplative and determined—but this man is pursued by time. [...]

[...] There is nothing wrong, certainly, and much pleasure, in taking care of your establishment—but not because you must prove something to yourself or to others.

[...] For you would not be strengthened, but you would be relying upon me; and any errors, dear friend, would also be laid to me.

[...] But these defeats are always caused by inner spiritual or psychic problems that have not been faced or solved.

[...] But in working toward a goal that is very distant, a goal that will be extremely difficult for you to achieve, you feel subconsciously that you will be excused from failure; if you fail you can then say that it was because so many obstacles were in your way.

[...] But this causes you to avoid goals that you have a good possibility of achieving. [...]

[...] Now I sent Jane messages that she would leave me undistracted, but nothing developed. [...] Upon writing this, I now recall that immediately upon lying down I drifted into a rather complete, if brief, dreaming state—but I cannot recall the dream. But I went from the dream into the projection. [...]

[...] The floating-free sensation continued, but I wasn’t able to develop it further.

[...] I managed to hold the state while considering the kitchen interference, but was concerned lest any attempt at movement on my part would break the spell entirely.

[...] But we haven’t had time to reread the manuscript.)

[...] Perhaps — but after all, writing can be intuitively based, and art can be logically produced. At least the whole brain (its hemispheres are connected deep within by the corpus callosum) must contain that necessary basic creative ability that may then be apportioned out — but only to an extent, I think — between the hemispheres. [...]

(Including the 806th session, those two blocks of material mean that in the last 20 weeks [or 4½ months], Seth has held but one session for Mass Events, and 28 on other subjects. [...]

[...] Jane and I considered combining that hypothetical book with Mass Events, but figured out that the resulting volume would almost surely be too long; longer even than Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, which in our opinion is bulky enough.

[...] In other words, it’s somewhat ironic that during the break in dictating Mass Events Seth-Jane actually produced the equivalent of another book, but one that we can’t do much about, at least at this time.¹

[...] Jane had forgotten to tell me, but someone from downstairs had wanted to cut Jane’s hair this morning, but then couldn’t because of a clash of schedules with Jane going to hydro. [...]

[...] But I wanted her to know my impression just in case.^* She was about to have supper.

[...] “I don’t mean just lately,” I said, “but for thousands of years.” [...]

[...] She tried reading previous sessions, and after taking a break in-between, did manage to get through them, but it wasn’t easy. [...]

[...] The noises from the fireplace had been quite loud earlier, but now all was quiet. [...] I felt better: Squirrels at least would have a chance to get out—but fledgling birds? [...]

[...] I do not want to rehash his entire early background, but it is important that he become aware of its emotional content. [...] The truth of course is not intrinsically in the nature of the material itself, but in the very fact that it is almost exclusively translated in terms of Christian thought, however bizarre that interpretation might be. [...]

[...] There will be specific references that come to Ruburt, as today’s emotional connection did, which will again not only lessen what panic remains, but show that the panic itself has a more or less reasonable basis—not in some formless fear but in specific events. [...]

All in all, those results are considered by the Sinful Self, now, as regrettable but necessary, as perhaps the use of overly severe discipline, or the use of punishment “for the personality’s own good”—all of which makes perfect sense within the belief structure of the Sinful Self and the larger philosophical structure of Christianity itself. [...]

[...] The next day we were ready to get back to our writing and painting, but first I cleared the house of holiday paraphernalia—including our beautiful Christmas tree. [...]

[...] In the beginning of the world there were numberless groupings, however, and affiliations of consciousness, many other organizations of identity that were recognized, as well as the kind of psychological orientation you have now—but [your] kind of orientation was not the paramount one. [...]

[...] I said that these units could operate as entities, and as forces, so we are not speaking of a mental mechanics but of entities in the true meaning of the word: entities of unimaginable creative and psychic properties, purposeful fragments propelled from the infinite mind as that mind was filled with the inspiration that gave light to the world. [...]

(A one-minute pause at 9:13.) Those entities are in trance, in those terms, but their potency is not diminished, and there is constant communication among them always.

[...] I know it is difficult to comprehend, but every object that you perceive — grass or rock or stone — even ocean waves or clouds — any physical phenomenon — has its own invisible consciousness, its own intent and emotional coloration. Each is also endowed with patterns toward growth and fulfillment — not at the expense of the rest of nature, but to the contrary, so that every other element of nature may also be completed (all with much emphasis).

[...] Again, however, Framework 2 is not neutral, but automatically inclined toward what we will here term good or constructive developments. [...]

[...] Framework 2 combines order and spontaneity, but its order is of another kind. [...]

At birth, each person is automatically equipped with the capacity toward natural growth that will most completely satisfy its own abilities — not at the expense of others, but in an overall context in which the fulfillment of each individual assures the fulfillment of each other individual.