“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

That is true, but that is saying that the whole is at the mercy of its parts. [...] It never looses but gains. [...]

[...] But in another sense you are already Joseph and Ruburt, since the blueprint exists. [...] Pattern is not imposed upon him but is the ents own outline.

[...] We sat with our hands on the pointer at the given hour, but asked no questions. [...]

Yes, but the conscious mind should know what the unconscious is doing. [...]

Now my friend Ruburt has been taking a well-earned vacation, but I never take vacations. But I am not retired (looking at Rose). [...]

[...] The same benefits could be achieved in many other ways, but in your cases they are connected with the class. [...] This applies to some of you more than to others, according to how thoroughly you are accepting and utilizing the ideas, for the inner youth and vitality is not primarily physical but only materialized in physical ways. [...]

[...] It is always there, and if you look for it, but gently, you will always find it. [...]

[...] And it will not lead you into weakness but into strength. [...]

[...] Initial instructions were given, though only preliminary, but I was ready to follow them. [...] I was really disappointed, but shook my consciousness to set it back to daily things, and with only a moment of reorientation attended to my guests.

[...] Her hair is fuller but quite gray. Rob looks extremely tired and is sitting in a slouch; his face is not fat but fleshy — almost dissipated. [...]

[...] The woman was much stouter than I but bore a striking resemblance to me. The man could have been Rob’s twin, but older, with a face marked by disillusion. [...]

[...] But from that night on, Rob began to improve. [...] We knew that something had happened very important to our lives, but we had no idea what was really involved.

It seems to you that you have, perhaps, but one chance as a species to solve your problems, or be destroyed by your own aggression, by your own lack of understanding and spirituality. [...] The reincarnational structure is but one facet in the whole picture of probabilities. [...]

(10:33.) The vitality of the civilization was therefore weak — not because violence did not exist, but because freedom of energy and expression was automatically blocked along specific lines, and from outside physically. They well understood the evils of violence in earthly terms, but they would have denied the individual’s right to learn this his own way, and thus prevented the individual from using his own methods, creatively, to turn the violence into constructive areas. [...]

[...] It’s more private there but it isn’t as warm, especially when doors are closed.)

[...] You think of physical history as beginning with the caveman and continuing up to the present, but there have been other great scientific civilizations; some spoken of in legend, some completely unknown — all in your terms now vanished.

[...] But Jane and I have seen the pattern demonstrated again and again: the visitor walks in the door, starts talking, usually about himself or herself, and seldom stops until leaving x-number of hours later. [...] But we don’t really feel like confronting guests. [...]

Authority, generally speaking, is necessary for society’s survival—but it does not exist of itself. [...] But overall authority is meant to insure continuity, the status quo. [...]

[...] Many of those people, however, in say businesses or professions, would automatically try to grasp the new ideas with one hand, while protecting themselves from any consequences with the other: “I know these ideas seem crazy, but -” or, in the case of your professor, “I collect my crazies, but those people are authentic.”

[...] He told us often that while he liked a good idea “no matter where it came from,” he wouldn’t use Seth’s name in conversations with others, but would try to work in Seth’s ideas under the guise of others’ works. [...]

(It was a piece of notepaper, not typewriter size but smaller. [...] The piece of paper was bright, as though there was light somewhere, but everything else was dark as it usually is when you have your eyes closed. I have the feeling that another such experience happened right after this one, but I fell asleep and do not remember. [...]

(Last night, April 10, 1964, just before I fell asleep, I had the following experience: My eyes were closed but I saw a sheet of paper filled with script that I recognized to be the handwriting of Dee Masters, my supervisor at the Arnot Art Gallery where I work in the afternoons.

(Last night, April 12, 1964, I had a brief but very vivid dream, in which I saw one of the big branches of the tree in front of Stamp’s house, around the corner from us, fall to the ground.

(This particular branch appears to be a solid one in the tree, but it grows out at a peculiar angle so that it looks weak and somehow out of place amid the rhythmic patterns of the other limbs and branches. [...]

There are such lights throughout the entire universe, but this one is at your own apex point, to which your consciousnesses are attuned. You can see but dimly but some vision is better than no vision at all. [...]

But we must still rely upon the mental structure of the person through whom we speak. This has disadvantages but without the method such communications would not be possible.

[...] She could say but little about what she had picked up: Since consciousness creates reality, reality is not independent of consciousness; but there was more here.

[...] This is simplified, but basically an adequate explanation. [...]

[...] Growth and challenge are provided not in terms of achievement or development in time, but instead in terms of intensities. Such a personality is able not only to react to and appreciate Event A, say, in your present time, but to experience and understand Event A in all of its ramifications and probabilities.

[...] Your own neurological system is physical, but it is based upon your own inner capabilities as of ‘now.’ It is the materialization of an inner psychic framework. Many other personality structures do not need a materialized perceptive framework such as this, but an inner psychic organization is always present.

“Now—and this will seem like a contradiction in terms—there is nonbeing. It is a state, not of nothingness, but a state in which probabilities and possibilities are known and anticipated but blocked from expression.

My class is small but students range in age from sixteen to sixty. [...] But sometimes it’s justified—”

[...] Begin with innocuous but annoying physical conditions, however, and try to work those out for yourself. [...] When you have a headache or a simple stomach upset, or if you have a chronic, annoying but not serious condition, such as trouble with your sinuses, or if you have hay fever — in those situations, remind yourself that your body does indeed have the capacity to heal itself.

[...] You have every right to question your impulses, to choose among them, to assess them, but you must be aware of them, acknowledge their existence, for they will lead you to your own true nature. [...] But your impulses reflect the basic impulse of your life. [...]

[...] But it is sometimes almost impossible to verbally describe civilizations of scent, civilizations built upon temperature variations, alphabets of color, pressure gradations — all of these highly intimate and organized, but quite outside of verbal representation. [...]

[...] I was getting stuff from Seth before the session, but I haven’t the slightest idea of what he said in the session itself — I don’t remember anything. But it was good, huh?”)

You share Framework 1 activity with others, for that world largely surrounds you, but remember, I am speaking in analogies to make certain points, for every person’s life has its Framework-2 orientations. Your creative endeavors have brought you good rewards (long pause) in more areas than you realize, but part of your account was in an ordinary savings structure so that you were, in those areas, somewhat restricted—and restricted by Framework 1’s largely trial-and-error framework. [...]

[...] He does enjoy many of the most necessary elements of health, but he would like a higher interest, greater rewards in terms of health. He does this by mentally changing over his account (emphatically) from Framework 1, where he is indeed improving through effort, trial and error and determination—but improving at a far slower rate than he would like. [...]

[...] You mentally change your account with Prentice from Framework 1 trial-and-error, a framework which has brought you some good rewards, but not as good interest as you would like. You do not concentrate upon the old, comparatively lesser returns, but you consider the account turned over, where for the same amount of effort your rewards will be far more than doubled. [...]

(I haven’t had a chance to talk it over with Jane yet—not until I get this session typed—but I’d like Seth to talk about the part others play when we, for example, do change over our accounts. [...] But what about what they want or are used to? [...]

I am a personified energy source — but so are you. I have had many lives, in your terms, yet in other terms I have not lived physically, but rather lent or loaned my energy to lives that rose from my reality but were not me. [...]

You may say if you wish that I am a dream image lacking even an image — but if so, then each individual whose life is changed by my words must question: “What is a dream?” In the same way that my personality exists without physical manifestation, so does your own. [...] The difference is that you are not consciously aware of what you are doing, but I am. [...]

[...] Yet I come to your reality by a strange route — one that does not involve roads or highways but psychological dramas that wind backward like paths into the “psychological history” of your species. [...]

I am not speaking here of gods, but of psychological structures different from the ones you know. [...]

[...] There is nothing in his physical makeup to prevent the physical journey, but the point, if you’ll excuse the pun, is pointless. [...] The dog’s legs could easily make the trip with planned or unplanned rests, but the animal is simply not aware that such a place or destination exists to begin with.

[...] Animals, many times using their own inner senses, have made such journeys, but their conscious apparatus alone would not permit it. In like manner such choice possibilities exist for human personalities, but to all intents and purposes they do not exist because the personality is too limited to take advantage of them.

[...] I want to make it plain that free will does exist, but that it is limited through use of a more extended free will on the part of the entity. Also, the inner ego is aware of so-called future decisions not because he forces such decisions upon the outer ego but simply because the future as such does not exist to the inner ego, and therefore he can perceive where the outer ego cannot.

I do not mean that Ruburt should not read the material, but he should not read it immediately before a session. [...] He is helping me very much as it is, but please, Ruburt, do not meddle. [...]

[...] Jane was telling me that an aide who took care of her this morning, and who is living apart from her husband and has three kids, looked at a second-hand washing machine this noon but couldn’t afford the $130 cost. [...] Predictably, she said no at first, but we talked her into it.

[...] She didn’t know whether to stay on her side or go on her back at first, but the shifting of her position helped, actually. [...] She made a note on a chart and left, very pleasant — but no action was taken during the day. [...]

I may or may not return — but again, the session itself will encourage more composure and faith. I may indeed possibly return, but I want you two to discuss the session.

[...] I talked to Jane: “I’m not dying or anything, but could you come down now? [...]

You understand that private experience, imperfect but creative, underlies the points in “Unknown” Reality. Creatively you see the photographs’ value, but they still caused a conflict between your ideas of perfection and self-disclosure, particularly as they were related to your mother’s attitudes.

[...] But my reluctance was based, I thought, on my resentment at Prentice-Hall over their handling of art work; I really didn’t want to let the photos in question out of the house, for fear they’d be lost, etc. [...] But I missed out on the connections involving my mother, disclosure, etc.

[...] That is, if an editor changed your copy you would be annoyed, but reproduction, you fear, can change the copy of a photograph or a painting if it is not done properly. [...]

[...] Use the model, but let it be a flexible one, in which your ideals work with the material at hand, molding it. [...]

[...] Within creaturehood there are wide ranges of abilities; these may be seldom used, but they are there as practical ideals that can be expressed within that system. [...] These too serve as practical ideals, but in a different kind of context, for you have other centuries to play with and many existences instead of one.

[...] These accomplishments still operate through the focus of your present, since you are physically aware of but one line of probable events, so the meaning of many dream events escapes you. But in dreams you often do work quite as valid as any performed in the day, and in the dream state you meet and interact with your own reincarnational selves.

In physical terms the tides and geographical aspects are involved, but these are “effects” having to do with curves of energy of which consciousness is composed. These rhythms are minutely but perfectly reflected in other ways. [...]

[...] But this particle is also deflected away from the earth in a rhythmic pattern. The same happens to other portions of your self at other points in the space-time continuum, but at certain intervals you meet, so to speak. [...]

Have a sense of humor about yourself — not a malicious one but a kindly humorous regard for yourself. [...] But it can become pompous if it is prolonged.

Many of your beliefs are of course cultural, but you have still accepted those that served your own purposes. [...] Women, now trying to assert their rights, often fall into the same trap, but backwards — trying to deny what they think of as inferior intuitive elements for what they think of as superior logical ones.

[...] We had our fan going, but at low speed so that it wasn’t too noisy; actually we seldom use it. [...]

[...] You may say, “But I know I have great abilities that I am not using. [...]

[...] You may include this information in my book, but it is not book dictation. Creativity as it is generally known represents but a small portion of far more extensive capacities. [...]

[...] The freedom of Seven was the first sign of release, but not accepted on all levels. (Pause at 10:15.) You understand, though imperfectly, what happens when you are between beliefs—sure that one is no longer adequate, unable to rely upon it as you once did, but not yet able to fully accept another.

[...] I agreed that it was but my interpretation of that significance wasn’t as positive as Seth’s, I’m afraid. [...] But at first glance I thought a good case could be made for not opening the doors to psychic developments to begin with, going by the contents of this session so far.

[...] Malted milk is all right, good, but never more than two glasses a day. [...] Some beef is all right, but not as a steady diet. [...]

[...] They will be charged with emotional energy according to the individual’s own experience, but they will form the base from which such a dream at that particular level is formed. [...] It will in this case be seen as the dream’s basic form, but it will be used in the dream drama according to the makeup of the dreamer.

[...] The predominating image for an individual is that of his own species, but the ancestral patterns are strongly supportive. You are not only male or female as you know, but both, with one temporarily predominating. [...]

[...] This would almost amount to a cellular thinking process, but it is actually a gestalt of relatedness in which cellular comprehension was, and is, passed throughout the physical organism.

[...] It is not dependent upon the ego, but predates it. [...]

(As we got ready for lunch I told Jane that this morning I’d awakened stewing again—about Jane, but mostly about the long delays involved in getting the Blue Cross—major medical insurance benefits straightened out. I’d tried to counter the worries while working this morning, and had succeeded at times, but the concerns bugged me; each day I look for word in the mail, but it never comes. [...] But I did go over the whole story with Jane to some extent, so she’d know what I was concerned about. [...]

[...] I’m not knocking those things, but trying to put them into perspective. We pursue them for many varied reasons—but they are not the end-all or be-all by any means, as we’re so used to regarding them. [...]

[...] The delay is due to bureaucratic slipshod work—but again, it will be settled to your satisfaction. [...]

[...] Again according to those rhythms of which I speak—but know that I am present nevertheless. [...]

[...] It is running quite wild now — not despite your ideas of guilt and punishment, but largely because of them. But we will have more to say about that later in the book.

(9:46.) Largely, but not completely, your imagination follows your beliefs, as do your emotions. [...] But if the child discovers that a prolonged cry after the event gets extra attention and consideration, then it will begin to extend the emotion.

[...] But the real work is done in the mind. If you do the work then you can rest assured of the results, but you must not check constantly for them. [...]

[...] You have a conscious mind whether you are in flesh or out of it, but when you are physically oriented, then it is connected to the physical brain.