“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I have told him that concentration on his work will dissipate the rest of his symptoms, but he adopted a too-conscious (underlined) deliberation here. He should write his book the same way that he writes his poetry—not demand of himself, but simply and quietly and joyfully expect.

[...] They are usually studied almost in isolation, but wherever they appear their counterparts will be found to one extent or another, in all the activities in which a personality is involved. [...]

I will have more to say for him to read, but I suggest a short break. [...]

[...] They were not at all strong, but weak to an extreme at their worst, because they were denying the source of strength.

[...] I didn’t ask her to have a session tonight, but she volunteered. [...]

[...] The blueprints are actually more like inner working plans that can be changed with circumstances, but to some extent they are idea-lizations, with a hyphen.

[...] The information is knit into the genes and chromosomes, but it exists apart, and the physical structures merely represent the carriers of information.³ In the same fashion the species en masse holds within its vast inner mind such working plans or blueprints. [...]

Many have seen that inner world as the source for the physical one, but imagined that man’s purpose was merely to construct physically these perfect images to the best of his abilities. [...]

[...] Just so he allows the opportunity, for his own peace of mind, but do not force the body. [...] Now he tries to walk when you are in the kitchen so as not to bother you, but there will be times when he will want to, and can simply call.

[...] But the means were not those that would benefit all involved, for the mouse died no quick death.

In your system of reality, the other creatures cannot help but act with good intent—even if their intent is to kill their prey. [...]

[...] As to Ruburt: first of all, he is at another stage, and one in which motion should be gently—persistently but gently—encouraged. [...]

(Jane’s trance had been deep but she came out fairly easily. [...] She hesitated because she wasn’t sure about the data’s accuracy, but also because she didn’t want to unduly upset Callista by talking about her recently deceased husband, etc.

This was hardly the main reason for symptoms, but the habit caused annoying symptoms at times. [...]

[...] I do not believe Bill Macdonnel was injured, but he was either responsible for the accident or it was his car and the woman with whom he is involved. [...]

[...] It would be a minor accident, but in the Bill Macdonnel accident someone, not Bill, was severely injured.

[...] You are quite correct in saying nothing (to others), but keep your own counsel. [...]

Take a break, and I may or may not return—but in any case, again, the session continues at other levels. [...]

[...] Jane’s Seth voice had once more been a bit stronger and deeper, but not at all loud enough to attract any attention. [...]

[...] But for a session lasting only 11 minutes, he sure delivered a lot. [...]

In the distant past some ancient civilizations did indeed use animals in such a fashion, but in a far different framework. [...] Instead, they united in a cooperative venture, in which animals and man both understood that no consciousness truly died but only changed its form.

(It appears that the payments will be for 100% of the bill, rather than 80% — but here again I’m waiting to see, suspended in a kind of cocoon of inaction or non-reaction …

I am not condemning western medicine per se, however, but merely pointing out its many detrimental aspects. [...]

Animals have indeed often been quite helpful to man in various healing situations and encounters, but in all such cases these were cooperative ventures.

In fact, you may discover not just one you, but several you’s, so to speak, each pursuing certain purposes, and you may find out furthermore that some such purposes cancel others out, while some are diametrically opposed to each other. [...]

Such reasoning sounds quite outlandish, of course, to most individuals, but the person in question, say with a disease like arthritis, or some other motion-impairing ailment, might ask themselves the question: “What would I do if I were free of the condition?”

[...] Boys are still taught to “be cool,” unemotional, aggressive, and assertive — as opposed to being emotionally warm, cooperative, gregarious but without fake bravado. [...]

I may or may not return, but I do indeed again accelerate those coordinates that lead to peace of body and mind.

[...] I am not telling you to take responsibility for Ruburt’s progress at all, but saying that it is certainly to your advantage, and his, that you exert more energy there in terms of active encouragement. There will be times when you are discouraged, each of you, but when one has confidence at any time, the other can use it. [...]

[...] This is not an original statement, but the past only has the power that you give it.

(10:40.) You are doing fairly well, but you can do better by far.

[...] The massager is very beneficial now, for his body is pliable enough now to respond—but more, as he used it recently the intent to relax is there. [...]

[...] At times my onehanded approach slowed up the pointer’s transmission, but if I touched my right hand to it, it picked up speed. [...]

[...] For a time we needed the board to open and close the sessions, but now we do not require it at all. [...]

We borrowed the Ouija board from our landlord in the fall of 1963, when by chance he mentioned that he’d bought one but had never obtained any results with it. [...]

[...] Now she does not hear the material beforehand, but simply speaks it out, literally and consciously unaware of what she is going to say from one word to the next. [...]

One believes that the conscious mind and the intellect have all the answers, but to this school this means that the conscious mind is analytical above all, and that it can find all the answers through reason alone. [...] Intellect and feeling together make up your existence, but the fallacy is particularly in the belief that the aware mind must be analytical above all, as opposed to, for example, the understanding or assimilation of intuitive psychic knowledge.

[...] But to one extent or another such experiences are natural and a part of your heritage.

[...] There is a literal assault made not only upon the psyche, but upon the organizational framework that makes it possible for you to exist rationally in the world that you know. [...]

[...] But the experiences undergone by the patients — and all of this applies to massive doses — represent the enactment, through terrible encounter, of the species’ birth into consciousness, and its death as consciousness falls back annihilated; followed by its rebirth as the individual patient struggles to emerge again from dimensions not native under those conditions.

[...] You may journey within your own solar system using physical vehicles, but you will not make any effective breakthrough beyond your solar system unless psychic and mental resources are developed.

[...] Once more, remember in your dream experiments that you will be able to perceive not only your own constructions, but upon some occasions the constructions of others.

[...] Take advantage of them when they happen within the dream state, but at this time do not attempt any such endeavor from the trance state. [...]

[...] She pressed it to her forehead briefly, then lowered it to her lap but kept the other hand to her eyes.)

The very nature of the ego and of the personality is formed by the ability to choose between actions or stimuli; but life as it is not connected to a highly differentiated ego, rejoices in all stimuli, as sensation, whether it is pleasurable or painful, for these distinctions do not exist in your terms. In the beginning of our sessions I spoke in a general manner, for example, saying that trees and plant life had a consciousness, but not a developed ego system. [...]

(It was a very hot and humid night, but in order to avoid interruptions we held the session in our small back room. [...]

[...] The intellect may indeed grasp some of this understanding from the intuitions, but the intellect itself is aware of only minute portions of the whole personality. [...]

[...] It still fights for survival, of course; but the consciousness of plant life involves a consciousness of self as it operates within action. [...]

I am not speaking of usual, but fairly unusual events, when, in one fashion or another, reincarnational memory seems to bleed through to the present life. [...]

The individuals involved may then return to normal consciousness, but if they talked or muttered while the affair was happening, any observers might take it for granted that delirium was involved. [...]

This happens perhaps more frequently than the other cases mentioned, but usually such events are not repeated. [...]

(A light rain had begun just before I left 330, but it quickly turned into a downpour as I drove home. [...]

[...] I suggested that she forego the session, but once again she said she wanted to get something on Framework 2, etc. [...]

[...] It was brief, but enough to reawaken certain motor responses, which will then show themselves in normal rather than exaggerated activity.

Your doubts and fears have their effect, but they do not connect with Framework 2 as securely as faith does, for they do not fit in with the overall, curious and open, courageous elements characteristic of Framework 2’s activities. [...]

[...] Faith does not restrict itself to one area, but shows it effects in all portions of your life.

[...] All such ideas are not only beside the point, but lead you to use the symptoms or the result or hide the source.

I am to some extent oversimplifying to make my point, but the body is in the condition it is because you did not feel close enough together, et cetera. [...]

[...] It is not time for them to appear as yet in the book proper, but any material not handled in normal conscious life, not grappled with, if it becomes overcharged or lasts over a period of time, will be unconsciously expressed. [...]

[...] You held back in your work, and in selling it, feeling that you must make up—not for Ruburt’s symptoms, but because you felt you were not relating as emotionally as you could, and realizing that this same warmth was necessary to your work.

[...] The vocal sounds of the Sumari language and characteristics as they are presently apparent to you will, hopefully, lead toward these clearly understood but logically unstructured sounds that are recognized by the organism and by the inner self, but ignored by the reasoning conscious mind that focuses upon the logical language.

[...] In the Denmark life the love of the visual was still with you, but you were trying to allow yourself greater freedom with it, to feel the freedom of adding to what you saw, but you felt a great reluctance to do so. [...]

[...] Your interest in painting and your abilities do not only spring from the Denmark life, for example, but also arose out of your quite legitimate life as Nebene, when you were focused upon the visual symbols and their correct inscription. [...]

(9:50.) The memory of the old symbols is within you, but not until you were free enough to make them your own could they return. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Also the state of Florida, near a small town beginning with a P, but a long enough name.

[...] Your sense of identity, freedom, power, and love would be immeasurably enhanced if you could understand that what you are does not end at the boundaries of your skin, but continues outward through the physical environment that seems to be impersonal, or not-self.

You are biologically connected, chemically connected with the earth that you know; but since it is also formed naturally and spontaneously from your own projected psychic energy, since you and the seasons even have a psychic interaction, then the self must be understood in a far greater context. [...]

[...] Since I haven’t painted any self-portraits I wouldn’t have been included in the list anyhow, but Seth did neglect to mention my painting of Jane. [...]

[...] At first they seemed awkward, and wouldn’t stay down, but she seemed to quickly adjust. [...] In the beginning they clicked like the old ones had, but I noticed as the afternoon passed that this audible sound seemed to disappear. [...]

[...] She realizes that she lays tilted up at an angle in bed, and that if she lay flat she couldn’t reach as far down toward her legs, but even so, signs indicate that her elbows seem to be flexing more. [...]

I may or may not return, according to that rhythm of which I have spoken—but know that I am available. [...]

[...] For a moment I thought she was dozing—but she was merely lying quietly while her “body tried to calm down a bit” from the exercises. [...]

(The day was once again very hot — at least 90 degrees — but room 330 was pleasant once more. [...] Her delivery was on the slow side, but steady.)

[...] The entire idea involves a process in which you try and not try at the same time, in which you do not strain to achieve results, but instead gently begin to allow yourself to follow the contours of your own subjective feelings, to uncover those spiritual and biologically valid beliefs of early childhood, and to bring to them the very best wisdom that you have acquired throughout your life so far.

[...] Later we will discuss some special cases of reincarnational influence connected with suicide, but for now we will be concerned with the increasing numbers of suicides by young adults.

[...] I read the session so far to Jane, but it wasn’t easy: because of the lost tooth I had trouble enunciating clearly. [...]

[...] Largely due to its abilities are the creative processes used, but hardly understood by the ego. [...] It is, of course, aware of your reincarnations on the individual’s part, but these are not present nor future to the self.

You understood, when we were done, that you perceive but a very brief glimpse of a small part of action as it exists. [...]

You can within them often perceive both your past and present simultaneously, but this has always been a characteristic of the whole self in any case. [...]

The ego is the only part of the self that regards physical objects as anything but symbols. [...]