“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Physical offspring are originally projections, but these originate new acts despite the original idea behind them. That is, the parents wish to project themselves, you see, but instead are the participators of a new personality.

[...] What you see and experience physically represents but a small portion, a mere fraction of what reality is. [...]

The nature of action causes depths in terms of intensities that you do not understand, but these intensities build up to the appearance of physical matter within your system.

[...] They may not be perceived as physical objects, but as reality that conforms to the particular camouflage structure within.

[...] Jane began reading yesterday’s session, but couldn’t do it. [...] At 3:40 she started reading the session for October 9, 1983, but didn’t do quite as well — see the hospital and session chronology in my opening notes for the session of January 6, 1984. [...]

[...] Then Del left me for some reason, and alone I tried to continue — but wound up clinging motionless to a very steep slope lest I slide way down into a deep ravine that would be very difficult to get out of. [...]

I may or may not return, but know that I am present and approachable.

[...] “I don’t know why,” she said, “but as you read that I got the feeling that my father is looking out for me …” I said that was certainly implied in the session, and that I’d wondered about it as Seth spoke. [...]

[...] Things to do are well and good—very good indeed—but the feelings and attitudes are, shall we say, at least as important. I would not presume to make a list of resolutions for you, but in an imaginative endeavor this is what I pretend I would list if I were you—meaning you both. [...]

[...] Naturally this is brought about by my own reactions to whatever the trigger happens to be, but still “Unknown,” and other creative endeavors have often been involved, when conflicts between what I think of as useful creative work run into doing things like shoveling snow, or other household items that I seem to think of as “chores.” [...]

A certain Mr. Butts, I believe, spoke earlier today about his parents, and mentioned the accomplishments that were present but not appreciated. [...]

Do not be so severe in your dealings with yourselves, but be more indulgent. [...]

(Today I’m 65 years old, but certainly don’t feel it. I guess it’s supposed to mark a milestone in one’s life — especially that of the male of the species — but I have no plans to retire, quit working, or give up the creative life. [...]

(Margaret Bumbalo called before I left Jane and invited me to supper, but by then I was full. [...]

[...] Tell yourself you can worry another time if you want to — but for the moment you will not be concerned about the past or the future.

Concentrate upon the present moment — but more, concentrate upon the most pleasant aspects of the present moment. [...]

(I did no typing last night, but typed this session this morning after taking our cat, Billy, around the house on his morning jaunt. [...] “No big deal,” my wife said, “but I had a crappy night. [...]

[...] Very good, I said, but she couldn’t actually pin down the source or subject matter for her panic today. [...]

[...] I thought it important that she hear the notes, but had no choice except to wait.

[...] But it shows how far things have gone — that it’s time to back off from the point of death.”

[...] Jane and I asked many questions about this kind of material in the beginning sessions, but as the material began to unfold such questions were pushed aside. Seth has said at various times during the year that we can bring such information up to date, but it seems that we do not get around to it. [...]

[...] The eye sees but it cannot see itself. In like manner the self is, but is not consciously able to examine that which it is. [...]

I will also, though not necessarily at this session, but in this session or the next session, have some remarks concerning the man who asks for the answers.

[...] I say discipline because whenever, individualized inquiring consciousness expresses itself in form, it not only expresses its spontaneity; and this is not contradictory: But even while expressing its spontaneity, it disciplines it.

[...] It seemed like a strange idea to me, but I didn’t have time to think about it at the moment. I didn’t have time to really think about what I’d been saying myself, but I hoped there was something to it, and that discussing it would offer her some help in the form of improved health. [...]

[...] But also that discussion resulted in some later insights on Jane’s part, and I believe turned up in some of her poetry, which has been excellent lately.

[...] We’ve more or less decided to forgo the use of the drug temporarily because of those reactions, which aren’t serious but which leave her feeling somewhat disoriented, with a strange feeling in her stomach, and lower back discomfort.

[...] “I think it’s something we’re blind to, that’s right in front of us all the time, but we can’t see it,” I said. [...]

[...] Some of those sessions were devoted to our private beliefs, but usually Seth put such beliefs into the larger social context. [...] Since then, we’ve voiced our hopes often that Seth will go into the entire Jonestown affair in Mass Events; he can’t but help be aware of our wishes! [...]

Not only was he set against himself, but he saw himself as a part of an uncaring mechanistic universe, devoid of purpose, intent, and certainly a universe that cared not a whit for the individual, but only for the species. [...]

[...] It’s a project that Jane herself never figured she’d do, but wanted done — and Sue, who was a class member, is talented psychically herself, has a newspaper and reporting background, and is ideally qualified for the job.¹ (Conversations, we think, is sure to be published before Mass Events, since Tam is supposed to have Sue’s manuscript in hand by January 1980, for publication in the fall of that year. [...]

[...] In this large group of sessions, Seth addressed himself to several of our individual problems: Rob’s occasional bouts of indisposition when he felt ‘under the weather’ generally, or was bothered by a variety of minor but annoying symptoms; and my own long-standing troubles with severe stiffness. [...]

“The units of consciousness that organized to form his identity as you knew it, still form that pattern — but not physically. [...] Its organization — the cat’s — exists inviolately, but as a part of the greater psychic organization from which it came.

[...] On the next day, March 1, the page proofs for Seth’s Psyche arrived from the publisher, but we could see that going over that much shorter book would be easy compared to our protracted labors for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. [...]

(Seth also touched upon the question while dealing mainly with Billy’s death in the next three sessions, which are also private, but this evening he was more specific. [...]

[...] They are in many ways the basis of biological life, but you are aware of them only when they show “a deadly face.”

Then suddenly—I felt myself on bedroom floor, again not normally stretched but higher than in previous 2 episodes, trying to talk; felt support on floor. [...] I don’t shout, don’t want to startle myself, but determined to show R—and to walk, maybe half across room. [...]

[...] I know what they are but lose them when I awaken, left with feeling of anger (and energy) that I try to actively pursue.

(11:27.) Now: I will answer your questions on Wednesday; but I have a few remarks.

[...] I suggest now, however, that you have an unlisted number—but also follow the recommendations concerning mail.

[...] This does not mean that you are to isolate yourselves, but that your encounters with others be focused with greater meaning and intent. [...]

He is growing to new understanding, and he will, as my book progresses, make sure he does not concentrate upon what still needs to be done, but upon his successes and his recent physical improvements.

Now I expect your joint and individual exuberance to spread in all areas of your life now—freely—but you must begin those lists and you must take what I have said this afternoon to heart, not bury it in the records.

And now, again: I am not talking for my benefit, but yours.

[...] But do not use the symptoms as the reason for not going on the show.

[...] I told her I liked it, but in retrospect I see that it’s content is far more revealing than I’d first realized. [...]

[...] I was surprised that she said she’d have one: “I don’t know whether I can do this, Bob, or how far I’ll get, but I’m going to try …”

[...] Jane didn’t ask for these, but left it up to me to pick out something to read.

[...] When I asked her if she wanted to be buried or cremated, she expressed no strong wish for either mode, but finally chose cremation — maybe because I said what would I do if I wanted to move out of town a few years after she’d been buried. [...]

[...] Marian and her friend, Helen Dyer, both know of the sessions but have not witnessed any. [...] Helen told us she has dreamed of her husband many times, but felt this particular experience was something other than a dream; she stressed its clarity, its reassurance and simplicity.

[...] Once again she was smoking as the session began; this meant her eyes had to open at least narrowly to find the ashtray, but she was looking down in the act and I could not actually tell whether or not they did open. [...]

[...] Ruburt brought up a point, I believe; he observed that the experience of talking occurred in both the waking and the dreaming states, but did not think that these represented primaries.

[...] She gave no sign that she was aware of my action, other than a slight movement of her legs, but she picked up the envelope almost at once. [...]

[...] Perhaps a family resemblance, but a definite similarity in any case.” [...] The other male on the address line of the object, John, crossed out by Leonard, is a close friend of Leonard’s but not a relative. [...]

[...] He fights for what he believes in, but he also has strong docile tendencies, which are usually rather effectively controlled. [...]

[...] Not only would it represent the beginning of financial changes for the better, but it will affect your dealings with your fellow man, and put you in a different relationship with them. [...]

[...] It is not immediate, but it is inevitable with the publication of the book, and he fears having money, even though he wants it.

[...] (Jane dictates:) But I’m not going into so-called weather on my plane tonight. [...]

Consciously you didn’t know what you were up to but unconsciously you knew very well. [...]

[...] But without their previous experience you could not have entered such a state so quickly, with so little knowledge and preparation. [...]

[...] Schizophrenia is caused by a personality fragment that is broken off, so to speak, from the primary acting personality, operating often in direct opposition to the primary personality, but in any case operating as a secondary personality.

[...] She didn’t return to it, but sipped her wine for the rest of the session. I was tempted to ask Seth to explain his idea of what good milk was like, and in what life [or lives] he’d enjoyed such a potion, but I didn’t want to interrupt the flow of the material. [...]

[...] I saw short, almost wispy white hair, but I wasn’t bald. [...] I don’t believe I was bedridden, but that I was being cared for somehow.

[...] Many of them might work quite well “at home,” but when you begin to journey away from that home station you may find that those same ideas impede your progress.

[...] When it surfaces you may then project it outward from yourself again, but in a different fashion. [...]

(12:04 A.M. Jane was soon out of her trance, but it had been a very good one nevertheless. [...]

[...] But this time, she thought, she’d been alert: When she realized that the material was “running through her,” as she often puts it [meaning she isn’t aware of Seth’s presence], she sat up, turned on a night light, and began to record the data on the pad she keeps on her bedside table. [...]

But the dreams were what I wanted.

3. Speaking literally, because of their dissolution upon the death of their host, the man’s cells won’t become part of the animal’s structure — but at least some of the long-lived molecular components of those cells could do so, and with all their memories intact. [...]

Last night in bed all through the night off and on I had the following hard-to-explain but welcome experience. [...] Then sometime later I realized I’d been very comfortable, sleeping great, but was now getting sore again—hips in particular, and arms. [...]

The voice episode Seth mentioned in our last session was very brief, not too vivid, but definite. [...]

Beside at least walking around the house, Ruburt is to do five minutes of exercise a day, of his choice; but devote it to the idea of expressing freedom for his body—not absolute freedom, but to experience that feeling. [...]

[...] I tell you that the inner work is mental, and it need not be work—but if each of you believe he is beginning to attain normal flexibility, he will.