“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The session began ordinarily enough, but before long an interaction between Rich and Seth began to show. [...] But more than this, words cannot really record the very humorous exchange that developed between Rich and Seth. [...]

[...] Tell him that I told him not to intellectualize in such instances, but to follow his original impulses.

[...] But with Seth returning several times to speak to Rich and Diane, it was close to midnight before the affair was wound up.

[...] But it represents the hope of the race at this time—that you need to use these abilities...

(Jane’s first thought was to skip the session, but as the party downstairs got under way in a quiet fashion, and we were not called upon as 9 PM approached, she decided to hold it as usual.

[...] They are not the same thing, but they are closely allied. [...]

[...] There is less density, but there is still observable form. [...]

[...] Dream images are nevertheless almost fibrous projections, almost a thinned-out composition, more plastic basically than physical matter, but composed of a number of the same properties. [...]

[...] There are portions of your consciousness that move faster than light also—but while you conceive of your consciousnesses as a kind of psychological particle, then your experience of it becomes limited to the world of matter in which you believe it must exist.

[...] Matter seems composed of mosaics of particles, interacting in electromagnetic fields, but the mosaics of consciousness interrelate in ways almost impossible to verbally describe.

You do not simply have, say, one past self, or one future self, but many— for your consciousness shoots out, so to speak, in all directions “faster than the speed of light.”

You should understand that we have been talking about Framework 1 and Framework 2. Ruburt felt, and so did you to some extent, that it was easier to experience Framework 2’s spontaneity in the mental realm of imagination—but you each felt that the physical body was tied somewhat more rigidly to the dictums of Framework 1, to cause and effect. [...]

[...] But these were unsatisfactory; so much could be said that, once again, answers to what seemed like simple questions could expand with a life of their own.

[...] There were direct hits, in other words, but these results could not be mathematically appraised in terms of the odds against them; and this is was what Dr. Instream was looking for.

[...] He will give you a statement to my benefit, but not the kind of a statement you may want to use. [...]

[...] The book on the Seth material is not yet an actuality, but the Seth material is, and it is upon the Seth material that the book will be based. [...]

(Her progress is excellent now, but home in two months? I said I thought it was okay to have such thoughts, but one didn’t need to fasten upon them. [...]

[...] Jane’s Seth voice was firm but not terribly loud.)

[...] “But at the same time I’ve been afraid to think such thoughts....” [...]

[...] I may or may not return—but I wanted you to know that I am indeed pleased—

[...] There are many dimensions that are as physical, so to speak, as your own world—but if you are not focused in them you would not at all be aware of their existence, but perceive only empty space. [...]

[...] But we were glad we’d done something about a long-standing problem. [...]

[...] When lunch came Jane couldn’t eat some of the food on the tray, but, surprisingly, did well with the pizza the kids had saved for me. [...]

[...] But her head started moving, and she started in on some stronger motions, head going from side to side, breathing much noisier, grunts and groans. [...]

The knowledge is usually hidden for many reasons, but the fact of death, personal death, is never forgotten. It seems obvious, but the full enjoyment of life would be impossible in the framework, now, of earthly reality without the knowledge of death.

In the entire fabric of your existence, this life is a brilliant, eternally unique and precious portion, but only a portion, from which you emerge with joy and understanding whether you die tomorrow or in years to come. [...]

Life and death are but two faces of your eternal, ever-changing existence, however. [...]

[...] But this wasn’t break after all. [...]

The attitude even of doctors and nurses toward the handling of such patients shows only too clearly not only their fear of the disease itself, but their fear of homosexuality, which has been considered evil and forbidden by many religions. [...] Yet AIDS can be acquired by those who are not homosexuals, but who have similar problems. [...]

Unfortunately, the entire picture surrounding health and disease is a largely negative one, in which even so-called preventative medicine can have severe drawbacks, since it often recommends drugs or techniques to attack a problem not only before the problems emerges, but simply in case it may emerge.

[...] But the individual, even as a patient, must always have a choice, and have the right to refuse any treatment being suggested.

We have been dealing with quite drastic diseases, but the same concepts are true in other areas also. [...]

[...] At first I put it out of my mind, but soon began to be bothered by a mild feeling of strain, especially when painting—without glasses, by the way. [...]

[...] You discovered instead that the so-called symptoms are signs that your glasses have become too strong because your eyesight has not simply held its own, but most remarkably improved, and in a way that is medically demonstrable. [...]

They have improved because you are indeed learning to relax about yourself more, and the improvement occurs first of all in that area of your main interest —your work—but it represents what is an overall time of regeneration. [...]

[...] When we got up this morning I told Jane that I’d had a dream that we’d been participating in group sex at a party, but that I couldn’t recall anything more than that. [...]

[...] There are genetic cultures operating, then, of literally infinite variety (intently), and they each have their place and their reason, and they each fit into the overall picture—not only of man’s reality but of the planet’s reality, including all of nature.

The species is also always in the process of keeping within its genetic bank millions of characteristics that might be needed in various contingencies, and in that regard there is a connection, of course, between, say, viruses of many strains and the health not only of man but of other species.

[...] You can make group predictions, and overall make certain judgments, but other elements are involved, so that any particular genetic element cannot be pinned down in terms of its development. [...]

[...] They also exercise their consciousnesses in the same fashion—doodle with their minds, relaxing themselves in such a fashion, wandering off to refresh themselves—and you were both doing that, but Ruburt caught himself in the act, so to speak.

[...] There was but little said about Jane’s progress in it, except for a footnote at the end. [...]

[...] These are following their own course, but some exterior improvement in that area should very shortly be showing.

The area of concentration now however should be not upon the body but upon daily living, his writing and your plans. [...]

In his twenties he could well combine the idea of little money with his writing because he realized it might be that kind of profession, but he became frightened as the years passed. [...]

[...] Part of this is personal, but part is also cultural, and shows the one area of cultural beliefs from which Ruburt has not freed himself. [...]

Ruburt has on several occasions, but each time let the physical data cow him. [...]

[...] But when he feels as if his efforts physically are getting nowhere, then he thinks “What is the use?” So your very early morning encouragement can be of value.

(I was angry at the time, I remember, but since I’m typing this material several days later I can’t accurately recall all of my mixed feelings at the time. [...]

[...] From me, dear Joseph, but on your behalf. [...] I would suggest that afternoons Joseph not be disturbed for any but the most unusual matters. [...]

(Jane’s eyes were closed when she began speaking but they opened almost at once. [...]

[...] He knows this of course, but forgets it. [...]

[...] He made an effort not to call on you, but emotionally you see he felt that the whole world should stop to help his bird. [...]

[...] “I feel like having a short session tonight,” she said, “but it won’t be for Dreams. [...]

[...] Some such encounters intersected in space and time, but some did not. [...]

[...] It flickers off and on—but because of the intervals of your attention, each “on” period seems to last for millions of years, of course, while at other levels the earth is like a firefly, flickering off and on.

[...] In May the group recommended scientifically acceptable alternatives, but it now appears unlikely that either the company owning TMI or the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission will adopt any of them—and so the arguments continue. [...]

[...] He hears while within the womb, sounds from the, physical environment, but also sounds within the available range of reality that are not accepted as such. When the infant is born he still hears these sounds and voices, but again they do not meet his physical needs nor bring him milk when he cries, and gradually he discards them, focusing upon that data which best serves his physical purposes.

This was merely your own subconscious symbolism, but you were unaware of it and therefore of its effect upon you, and so I mention it.

This was not a dream, but the first clear recognition on your father’s part that he was ready to leave the physical plane entirely. [...]

These are not sharp images, but he already begins to build up ideas of shape and form. [...]

[...] I thought also that Jane saw the object that evening, but as it developed she did not. [...]

You are as a rule aware of one system only and not generally conscious of yourself as anything but a creature of that system. [...]

[...] All of these do imply a whole, but the very term whole would again be meaningless if the whole, through self-conscious individual parts, were not conscious of itself.

[...] Of itself it will not lift you out of the framework of the physical system, but merely allow you to see that system as it is. [...]

(In the last deleted session Seth had promised us some data on early man, but I told Jane to forget that for now. [...]

[...] Any misconceptions, contradictions, seeming dilemmas, are resolved, for now you are not going against your own nature but with it, and from Framework 2 you draw out the greatest natural potentials that are uniquely yours.

[...] Your intent is specific, and should be stated as such, as Ruburt is doing, but that specific intent draws multitudinous areas into actualization, and Ruburt will feel himself more and more supported in both his physical and creative endeavors.

[...] There were men-animals, but they were not your stock. [...]

[...] But in your terms, Seth Two is far further divorced from my reality than I am from Ruburt’s. You can imagine Seth Two as a future portion of me if you prefer, and yet far more is involved.

[...] My reality includes, then, not only reincarnational identities but also other gestalts of being that do not necessarily have any physical connections.

[...] In the same terms now, only, Ruburt may become what I am, but then I will be something far different.

[...] It will not be found outside of yourselves, but through an inner journey into yourself, through yourself and through the world that you know.

[...] They can interact on psychic levels in the way that events do on physical levels, but without physical restrictions. [...] It follows its own focus, and knows itself as itself, even while its own existence as itself may be but a portion of another “identity.”

[...] “But I’ve done introductions for Seth’s books, so why shouldn’t he do one for mine?” And yes, the Cézanne material mentioned earlier — see Jane’s introduction for Psyche — had developed into a full-fledged book of its own.

[...] On the one hand, each of my readers is but one individual alive on the planet at any given “time.” [...]

You can read the world in a different way, while still maintaining your own identity, or you can move into a different country of yourself that speaks your native language but with a different slant. [...]

[...] Seth came through to say quite definitely that the material would be published verbatim—not all of it, literally, but certain large areas of it. [...]

[...] After a pause Seth said the verbatim material would be published also, but gave no hint of a date.

You may not dream of me, but I will be in your dreams, you see. [...]