“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] 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.” [...]

[...] She said she’d try to have a session, but wasn’t sure that she could manage it.

(“Well, Seth’s about ready,” she laughed at 9:01, “but I don’t know about me....” [...]

[...] It is not just, again, that man does not live by bread alone, but that his life is intimately bound up with his need for creative expression—his need to develop as an individual, and therefore to affect his world. [...]

[...] Creative people are not self-destructive, but if they sometimes appear so in the western world, it is because of that division, that artificial barrier. [...]

You are both quite in the habit of asking what is wrong—not only in terms of Ruburt’s difficulties, but generally speaking. [...]

[...] But the condition began when he began to believe that he should be different than he is.

The inherent rightness of your position cannot be underlined, but your appreciation of it, and your experience of that rightness can be underlined.

[...] But the material that I have just given should hopefully show him that he has been putting the cart before the horse.

[...] You have still been given but a sketchy outline, in truth, but we have time to fill it in. [...]

(The energy sweeping her along was so strong, Jane said, that she now wondered how she would have ended the session had not the voice suggested this; but I could reassure her that from observation now I could tell when her trance was very deep, and knew enough now to end it when necessary. [...] She hadn’t been as “cozily Seth” as usual; less cozily a personality in our terms; but she also didn’t know who or what was responsible, aside from the great energy.

[...] But once begun the trance was good, eyes opening as usual, pauses as usual.)

[...] The experiences will give you some small glimmering of unfortunate but necessary loss of meaning that occurs when any concept must be communicated in physical ways.

[...] But we learned something. [...]

[...] It helped, I could tell, but not enough, since by then I had her on her side. [...]

[...] But she said she hadn’t been asleep: “The start was because I hurt.” [...]

[...] When Seth came through her voice was a bit hoarse, but with good subdued power. [...]

[...] It is typed up from notes I made during and immediately after it, but is by no means complete. Memory, which Jane and I treat cautiously, also enters into it, but the hard facts are noted where we are sure.

[...] But we sat in a public place and she did not want a display. [...] There was a constant stream of people passing our table in the coffee shop, but no one paid us any attention.

[...] This new departure was not particularly easy for Jane, and none of us wanted her to overdo it, but it was quite successful. [...]

(This morning after breakfast I took the car to Ron Traver’s service station — but the noise, which I’d heard when I started it up — had disappeared by then. [...]

[...] It seemed that once again the body’s natural defense mechanisms were being interfered with, according to Seth — but then, why were we here to begin with? [...]

[...] It is, of course, unfortunate that Ruburt is in that environment, but these are definitely indications of the body’s own healing processes. [...]

Now I may or may not return, et cetera — but whether or not I do, I am in my fashion “in the vicinity.”

He could indeed press for better clauses now, but in one way he would lose a certain advantage. [...]

[...] But the work should be intensive during the week.

[...] But it was also the subject matter, to some degree, that made Mr. Fell cautious, and that finally caused the earlier publisher to turn it down.

[...] The coughing was not violent but it became persistent. [...]

[...] “It’s one of those things where you’re so relaxed you shouldn’t interrupt it—but if I don’t have a session then I’m afraid it’ll be a cop-out. [...]

[...] They’ve involved healing, however, and in one of them she even expected to wake up healed—but found herself moving slowly on the bed as usual. [...]

[...] “Prentice-Hall is a faceless entity out there that we come into contact with once in a while,” I said, “but I see and live with you every day. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s forgotten dream was a clear psychological statement in which all of the elements in his personality momentarily joined not only for a discussion, so to speak, but blended their forces, exerted their energies, and set up a firm intent to clarify the entire situation, and to exert all of their energies in a successful healing venture. [...]

[...] Her voice remained quiet; there were many people in the yard outside our windows but it was too warm to close ourselves in.)

[...] It contains a portion of your psychological feeling of identity, but only that.

[...] Of these this ego knows but little. [...]

[...] The outer ego no longer shows its outside face, so to speak, (again Jane struck the tabletop) but takes its place with the other aspects of the personality. [...]

[...] I hadn’t said so, but I’d suspected that she had more to say. [...]

[...] Later tonight I want to offer a little more about this overall development—but people speak for their Seths entirely without Jane’s permission. [...]

[...] If I’d felt I was suffering a heart attack, for example, I knew I would rush to the hospital, but this was a chronic condition. [...]

[...] In Chapter Nine of The Seth Material (1970) she wrote: “Several people have told me that Seth communicated with them through automatic writing, but Seth denies any such contacts, saying that his communications will be limited to his work with me, in order that the integrity of the Seth Material be preserved.” [...]

[...] Fears should not he inhibited, but encountered, and yet behind all of them, in your time at least, lies the feeling that the individual is powerless against the conditions of his body or the events of the world.

[...] It is difficult to verbalize, but your question “Why doesn’t the subconscious know when to stop, if its defenses actually become too dangerous?” is asked in too limited a framework, though I understand your concern and what you mean. [...]

(A true use of Personal Reality would be to use it like a bible – although not slavishly – but such use would unite the critical and intuitional faculties. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s fears, again, should not be buried, nor should they be emphasized, but the book will tell you how to handle this. [...]

[...] They won’t be listed here, but in the session as they arise. [...]

[...] There is instead not a working arrangement between various portions of one personality, but a working arrangement among many quite independent personalities. [...]

Now this is a more respectable theory than many, but in my case it is not the correct one. [...]

[...] But in larger terms, quite unacceptable at present to psychology, all of us are part of the same entity. [...]

[...] She’s still uncomfortable, but felt a little better today. [...]

[...] Her delivery was a bit on the slow side, but steady.)

[...] These ideas usually ride along with feelings that power is desirable but dangerous. [...]

I keep trying to clear up certain matters for you, in the manner of a teacher, without offending your sensibilities, spurring you onward, but not wanting you to become despairing or dissatisfied overall with the state of your progress. [...]

[...] But we will let it go for the moment, refresh ourselves and allow the energy of creativity to work upon the paragraph till we return to it.” [...]

[...] Dorothy will not be down from Harford Mills very often, especially in the wintertime, but she is to see Jane every few weeks to give her a haircut, etc.

When Rebellers was published your attitude was a poor one, but it was drastically received by our friend, who could not understand it and felt then and there that you no longer loved him as you had. [...] But not only gifts as much as reassurances, you see. [...]

[...] You end up with blockages therefore that may show some variation in intensity with surface moods, therapy or momentary good news, but then reassert themselves in the same areas.

[...] This has been mentioned before but it is a good point, that retaliation against his mother was felt to be impossible, for she would then have an attack for which Ruburt felt responsible. [...]

Ruburt’s deep love for you shocked him out of that pattern for some time, but he also idealized you to such an extent that some difficulties were bound to arise. [...]

[...] But it would be far more effective and efficient to divide the twenty-four-hour period in a different way.

[...] Some of the divisions between different portions of the self, therefore, are not basically necessary but are the result of custom and convenience.

[...] His sleeping periods were instead for two or three hours, stretched through the nighttime from dusk to dawn, but alternated by periods of high wakefulness and alert activity. [...]

[...] The inner dreaming portions of the personality seem strange to you not only because of a basic difference of focus, but because you clearly devote opposite portions of a twenty-four hour cycle to these areas of the self.

(At 11:11 I read the last two paragraphs of the material to her, but she couldn’t make any emotional connections that might explain the voice difficulty, nor could I. Jane is inordinately fond of animals. Perhaps Seth’s example had caused the reaction, I thought, but she didn’t seem to respond here either. Resume at 11:20, in a voice stronger but rougher than usual.)

[...] (As mentioned earlier, there is no precise point of death, but I am speaking as if there is for the sake of your convenience.)

[...] The intellect should go hand in hand with the emotions and intuitions, but if it pulls against these too strongly, difficulties can arise when the newly freed consciousness seizes upon its ideas about reality after death, rather than facing the particular reality in which it finds itself. [...]

[...] Guides will helpfully become a part of your hallucinations, in order to help you out of them, but they must first of all get your trust.

[...] I could still breathe, but with difficulty as my throat muscles kept trying to down the meat. I knew the situation could get very serious, but none of us panicked. [...]

[...] But she did very well reading a couple of sessions. [...]

[...] He may even refer to those feelings of distrust as a dear frightened part of himself, and then, again, address that part of the self sympathetically — telling it why it need no longer be frightened, and vocally and emotionally stressing the fact that the frightened portion of the self no longer needs defenses, but can now allow itself free and natural expression.

[...] But generally speaking, I have simply given you an outline which follows the characteristics of consciousness as it is embarked in physical form. I am not giving you these groups to set up divisions, but to help you understand that consciousness is diversified — that usually each of you falls, because you want to, into a certain family. [...]

[...] In greater terms you can “cut the pie” however you want to, but you will still share an emotional and psychic feeling of belonging with the family of which you are a part. [...]

[...] After Jane and I married a few years later we occasionally visited her father in various parts of the country — but still, we hadn’t seen him for several years before his death. [...]