“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He has been doing very well, and he tried to approve, but since he lost work time yesterday his approval barely went skin deep (louder).

When you mentioned his ink sketches, he instantly wanted to play at painting again, but felt, guiltily, that he should not. [...]

[...] Granted, you need time to write physically, but the basic creativity has its own time.

[...] He sensed these cousins of consciousness in one way or another—these environments that seemed real but not real, these further extensions of possible experience, and he decided that he must be very cautious: he must be prudent (long pause), he must take his time, he must range but carefully—and certainly to some extent such feelings cut down upon his spontaneity. [...]

[...] These few statements, however, will help him, and help him enlarge on an inner circle of acquaintanceship with friendly colleagues that belong in those other categories, but are indeed friendly colleagues as well. [...]

[...] When these are followed, I will then outline further things for him to do, but these are to be utilized.

(The photo in question, in color, is not dated, but was taken in 1973. [...]

[...] I will again follow this with definite suggestions, but I expect compliance. [...]

[...] It is not of itself limiting in our work by any means, but there has been constant and deep misunderstanding that came to a head last winter, was somewhat resolved, but still continued. [...]

[...] Now a whole new uniting principle has been realized by the spontaneous self, but little attempt was made to enlarge the definitions of good on the part of the overly conscientious self.

[...] The supra-conscious self tried, but the overly conscientious self deepened a preliminary distrust for me, and would not allow me to speak out clearly.

The desire for punishment led him to contemplate doing the program, but under a guise to fool the spontaneous self. [...]

[...] I do not want to overstate, but it is as if, for example, the upper portion of his body had been held in a vice. [...] I have largely explained this before, but the position of the arms, trunk, neck, jaw, head, and ribs were all related. The arms were not just shortened, but only worked in certain restricted positions, where they were relatively reliable. [...]

[...] Presumably, muscles and ligaments are still stretching, but the process has been very painful for her, making many movements she used to enact very difficult. [...]

In some cases the individual’s money or jewels are not even available to them themselves, but hidden in the bank’s deep vaults, behind all kinds of barriers and hidden time locks that must be cared for by bank attendants. [...]

[...] Was it secure enough to keep you from accepting invitations, to allow you to avoid distractions, or emotional complications that might arise from any considerable contact with others in, say, “professional terms?” Ruburt built the edifice, but you looked on, for though you disliked the building blocks, say, the symptoms—you thought until very lately that it did serve its purpose very well.

The letting-go of effort should be also a mental and psychological stance applied not only to Ruburt’s physical dilemma, but to his—and your—relationships with the subjective and objective worlds. [...] This is not a statement of passivity in conventional terms, but a creative releasing of the basic personality from the restraints of hampering beliefs.

[...] In a curious fashion, such letting go of effort might well result in an increased abundance of creativity, for example, but the mental and psychological set allows an individual to become more aware of the basic motivations of the personality, that show themselves quite clearly through the impulses, and through desires—particularly when they are not overlain by layers of “I must,” “I should,” or “I must do this or that.” [...]

For example, Ruburt might think “I must make up my mind, go out into the world, do lectures and tours, state my case, be an excellent example of the material, not only in normal physical condition but in glowing health.” [...]

Ruburt did experience some fear, but overall has handled it well. [...]

[...] She’s tried once to locate the equipment, but failed. [...]

[...] Before the session began I tried to locate the remark, but couldn’t. I felt considerable frustration, and finally laid the book aside. [...]

(“But it’s the same old story,” I told Jane when I asked that she have a session tonight, to deal with her hands and arms, and Seth’s remark. [...]

[...] I will answer your main question this evening—but I will approach that material of course in my own way, and I will begin by reminding you of some important issues mentioned before. [...]

2. According to Jane and Seth, within our time scheme each physically-endowed consciousness, whatever its form or size or complexity, inherently seeks to fulfill its own highest potential — not only for itself, but for the benefit of each other such consciousness in our reality. There is no drifting through life, then, but a built-in search for the fulfillment of values, whatever possible successes, conflicts, or failures may be involved, and no matter how modest or great or complex any of those qualities may be. [...]

[...] Telepathy and clairvoyance, for example, are a part of natural effects, but they belong to a nature so much more expansive than science’s definitions that they have been made to appear as highly unnatural eccentricities of behavior, rather than as natural components of consciousness.

[...] Science perceived the spectacular complexity of exterior reality, but turned its sights completely away from any recognition — any at all — until it regarded subjectivity itself as a mere throw-away product, accidentally formed by a mindless matter.

All of this applies to your situation, for I want you to thoroughly understand, intellectually and emotionally, the errors of current thought, so that you can see that our material is indeed providing you not only with “creative material,” but with a more factual presentation of the framework in which you have your existence.

[...] I tried to divert her attention now but she read the words “without telling Jane beforehand.” She left the studio when I asked her to, but I now thought she had been alerted to something unusual, and might be anticipating a test of some sort. [...]

[...] I do not necessarily stand on ceremony, but I do feel that some friendly discussion would be seeming under the circumstances.

[...] The idea of tests somewhat upsets him, but this can be overcome without too much difficulty in time.

[...] It may be in the nature of a license, but it is of some legal nature rather than a personal note, blue or green and white, the handwritten material on printed lines. [...]

[...] There was of course but one object, the parking ticket, in the envelopes. Two of its corners are beveled but hardly round. [...]

(We visited the park three times during that week, but I kept the date for the ticket straight by attaching a penciled slip to it. [...]

[...] There is an interval in which the chair simply does not exist, but you do not perceive it. [...]

[...] You do exist during these intervals, but you do not exist in any physical terms. [...]

[...] It is not by or of itself a separate thing, but part of the whole, forever changing, to return to the whole and be tumbled under and emerge again in new form.

When it attempts to hold the upper position indefinitely, there is frozen motion and built-up pressures, but there will be the inevitable tumbling under. [...]

[...] An attempt to maintain the status quo is of course natural on the part of the ego, but when this becomes a stubborn effort to maintain dominancy then the difficulties arise. [...]

The situations had changed but the ego framework had grown rigid, rigid enough so that it could in a large degree dominate certain normally subconscious processes, bringing forth the physical symptoms. [...]

As mentioned, the far contact point is somewhat more manageable for you than for Ruburt, but affects you nevertheless. [...]

The spontaneity is considered safe along certain lines, but these lines become narrowed, and the further the situation continues the more narrowed the area of spontaneity allowed in your work. [...]

[...] You were aware of it but you did not understand, generally speaking, that your relationship must be actively and positively enjoyable on a daily basis, if both of you are to produce the work that you want.

[...] Now it is true that withheld sexual energy can be diverted to creative aims, but in your cases it was the feeling of daily emotional nourishment that was sometimes lacking.

[...] All molecular constructions exhibit that certain kind of introspective activity, as if the inner working of some giant computer was intimately in touch not only with its own programming and the probabilities connected with it, but with a deep psychological awareness of the activities of the electrons and various visible and invisible particles that form its own physical construction.

I can only hope to evoke some feeling within you that is reminiscent of your own actual behavior at those hidden levels of dreaming activity, but they have remained highly pertinent in the development of all species with their environments, keeping the intents and purposes of one alive in the other. [...]

Those sequences follow the pursuits of value fulfillment so smoothly that they can be reactivated whenever the conditions are fortunate—for even the animals are not concerned with simple survival alone, nor the plants, but with what I can only call (long pause) emotional qualities: qualities that seek a full appreciation and creative extension of those conditions of consciousness that stamp each species as itself and yet join it with all others.

[...] They do not become extinct either, but go on to serve other functions in the universe than those with which you are presently aware.

[...] Flowers are not just brightly colored for man’s enjoyment, for example, but because color is a part of the flowers’ own esthetic system. [...]

This sense of value fulfillment, once more, benefits not only the individual, but its species and all other species. [...]

(I said that the near-daily routine of sessions probably compensated for their brevity — but also that we let much time go by that we could use for sessions. [...]

[...] You cannot learn about yourself by studying what is expected of you by others — but only by asking yourself what you expect of yourself, and discovering for yourself in what direction your abilities lie.

[...] She had other good news—but first, she told me that last night she’d really been blue for a time. [...] But once again, a new motion and strength has been added. [...]

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

[...] But she couldn’t read it. [...]

[...] The motion still bothered her right knee, near the break, however, but not nearly as much as it used to. [...]

[...] It is not that your thoughts just trigger chemical reactions in the body, but that your thoughts have a chemical reality besides their recognizable mental aspects. [...] It is not the best, but I hope it will get the point across: It is as if your thoughts turned into the various appendages of your body. [...] Your body is composed not only of the stuff within it that, say, X-rays or autopsies can reveal, but it also involves profound relationships, alliances and affiliations that nowhere physically show. [...]

[...] It is not just that thoughts influence the body, as of course they do; but each one of them represents a triggering stimulus, bringing about hormonal changes and altering the entire physical situation at any given time.

[...] The old ideas of voodooism recognized some of these concepts, but complicated and distorted them with fears of evil, psychic invasion, psychic killing, and so forth. [...]

[...] The dream was quite long and involved but I can describe here only one small portion. [...] I not only owned the station which serviced cars, but did the actual work; my clothes were worn and greasy. [...]

[...] But when he pulled the shorts up around his waist the blue denim kept turning into a blue Turkish towel type of fabric that he tried to pin together so they’d cover him and wouldn’t fall down. [...]

[...] The houses were triangular A-type affairs, of multicolored pastels but also bright colors too, glass walls, the houses not crowded together, some above others on small knolls.

[...] Can’t remember how this worked out, but it was all right, they weren’t as sick as they looked or something.

[...] She thought it was a clairvoyant one, but I said no. [...]

[...] (I think I was in my astral body though.) I knew that I was dreaming, thought to myself that it was very difficult to read such material in the dream state but that I would try in any case. [...] The last name was something like Faulk, but it wasn’t, I don’t think. [...] They were friends of my mother but strangers to me and I thought that maybe they had read the ESP book.

[...] but at the same time while I felt this physically I didn’t feel it in my physical knees, but definitely in what I suppose you’d call my astral ones. [...] (don’t know how to explain this either but my ‘astral self’ was thinking this. [...]