“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] “No,” I answered, “but it would be nice to have it in order to learn that your only responsibility is to get rid of the idea of responsibility. [...]

[...] I explained that my idea was only to get more material on what Seth had begun yesterday—but that didn’t mean she couldn’t do material on other things too.

[...] I don’t think we’ve ever “abandoned” a session once we sat for it, but was willing to do it if need be. [...]

[...] You did so, however, in the light of that psychological climate, so that while you went your own ways you also reacted to the social environment: you tried to show other people that you were indeed responsible—more, that you worked (underlined) not only as hard as others, but often harder (underlined). [...]

[...] But surely we’ve accomplished some beneficial things too.

[...] That art may add to the richness of society, to culture—but art always possesses its own secretive inner nature, and with that nature each artist of whatever kind must always relate. [...]

There are manuals that are written primarily (underlined) as textbooks or as guides to help others, in which there is no attempt made to create an art, but to state a case. [...]

He had always enjoyed being somewhat disreputable—had seen himself and you prowling around the edges of society (as Jane had said earlier today)—not simply observers of it but to a large extent apart from its foibles, and certainly not mired in all of its conventional misunderstandings. [...]

[...] Joseph is facile enough, but he would not want to follow the vision of another. The information, however, is extremely valuable, and knowledge on any kind of subject is available in just such a manner — but it is attained through desire and through intent.

(“I feel half massive, but half relaxed, too,” Jane said as we waited for the session to begin. [...]

[...] We will use these latest episodes as an opportunity to discuss the presence of knowledge that appears to be “supernormal” — available, but usually untouched. [...]

[...] Without the triggering desire, the skill would not be developed; but even when you do learn a skill, you use it in your own unique way. [...]

[...] Such a wish is very seldom on a conscious level, but it is often emotionally charged, and it brings forth immediate results because of the charge it carries. [...]

[...] But regardless of those measures, the paintings will sell.

[...] You do this often without realizing that you do so, but a conscious knowledge will help you.

[...] Consciously I had made no such connection however, before Seth mentioned it, but had sensed something familiar about Pat Friday evening.

This book is Seth’s way of demonstrating that human personality is multidimensional, that we exist in many realities at once, that the soul or inner self is not something apart from us, but the very medium in which we exist. He emphasizes that “truth” is not found by going from teacher to teacher, church to church, or discipline to discipline, but by looking within the self. [...]

[...] These appointments are kept in our well-lighted, large living room, but in deeper terms they take place within the spaceless area of human personality.

[...] This chapter will contain some rather fascinating points, for not only do you form the physical reality that you know, but you are also forming other quite valid environments in other realities by your present thoughts, desires and emotions.

Now this is my outline for the book, but it contains merely a sketch of my intentions. [...]

These eight to ten volumes are meant to show Jane’s and my growth—in the most literal way—but always that of my wife, above all else. From the start we felt that if our “psychic” work had value it should be presented as is, within all of its human connotations; not only its great successes, but with its gropings and mistakes, its questions and learnings along the way. Not edited or prettied up, but as is. [...]

With the loving help of others I made several attempts over the years to publish various portions of Jane’s work, but with little success, for a variety of reasons. [...]

[...] He’s known many places on earth, and many loves as man and as woman, but I’ll bet that even now his experiences are still new, and that he reinforces Jane’s living feelings for each one of us. [...]

Always intelligent but often ruled by emotion, as now.

He basically good, but hidden aggressions a danger. [...]

No, but unwholesome.

[...] Do not dispense with board but begin trying other method also.

There should be sunbathing, but also activity, you see.

[...] There will be a return to Australia, but not for some time. [...]

[...] The father actually is not the uniting principle here, but the feeling against the mother, at this time.

[...] The session was very short, but very encouraging. [...] She has a long way to go, but evidently you and yours have helped, along with some things we are trying on our own, so we want you to know this, and so you can tell those you write on Jane’s behalf. [...]

[...] We know you know this, but still want to say so: Thank you! [...]

The abilities had been developing but he did not have sufficient energy to use his growing proficiency. [...]

[...] Seth gave us this prediction perhaps two years ago.) Unfortunate expectations and various projections operated here however, but the intuitive background was enough to wipe these out within an instant of your first meeting. [...]

(I wanted more data re the car’s trouble and cure, but wasn’t sure it was a good idea to ask Jane more specific questions at this time. [...]

[...] Not overnight, but in a relatively brief time. [...]

[...] The subject was the Driftwood Hotel, situated but a stone’s throw from the beach. [...]

[...] Her eyes were closed, her voice good but not loud, her pace a little fast. [...]

[...] But this is an illusion caused by the limitations of your outer senses. [...]

(Bill Gallagher voiced the thought that during delivery there is always a change in Jane’s face, but that he couldn’t articulate it. [...]

[...] He hears sounds from the physical environment, but also sounds within the available range of reality that you do not accept. When the infant is born, he still hears these sounds and voices, but again, they do not answer his physical needs, nor bring milk when he cries, and gradually he discards them.

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

[...] Cells are not just responsive to light because this is the order of things, but because an emotional desire to perceive light is present.

(It was rather quiet in the studio, though I could hear Jane’s typewriter, but through the closed doors the sound was muffled and rather steady, and the rest of the house was quiet. [...] I kept my eyes closed from the start, but midway in the session felt that I could not have opened them, at least very easily [re Jane’s suggestions when she is putting me under].

[...] I would have helped but you would not let me in.

You want to help but fear to move. [...]

[...] In that probable life I use a tent sometimes, but I cook and sleep outside as much as possible, except in the worst weather. [...] I’m still a painter, I often think, but perhaps not a writer. [...] Not that I want to copy Cézanne, for instance [I couldn’t even if I wanted to], but in that other reality I too chose to live the natural life in a more naive or clear-eyed manner—to sublimate myself before nature while at the same time trying to become master of whatever means of expression I can achieve.

Basically [many farmers love] animals for themselves, and delight in their ways—but by itself “delighting in animals” is not considered particularly virile enough. In your society, if you like animals you must not like them for themselves, but for other reasons. [...]

[...] [Mitzi didn’t watch me this time.] Much has taken place in Jane’s and my lives since 1979, as it has for everyone else, but here in the light of the corner streetlight the scene outside our place was just as magical and mysterious as ever. [...] I looked for rabbits or ‘coon or deer now, but didn’t see any of those creatures.

[...] But no matter what we may accomplish as a species, or how far we may travel, in those terms we started out utterly dependent upon our earth, with its fantastic variety of resources and life forms. [...] But we all have our dreams.

—for it has all kinds of implications that we cannot cover in an evening, but it will be more than worthwhile for us to pursue them. [...] The ego will simply be bypassed, but the other layers of the self, the neurological structures particularly, will continue to operate as always. [...]

Now all of this is not meant to apply to specific incidents mentioned by you earlier, but only to clear several matters that we have not discussed thoroughly enough, involving the normal psychological aspects involved in clairvoyant information. [...]

[...] Jane was quickly out of trance, but it had been a good one, fast and active and emphatic and humorous. [...]

(During break we discussed some of the aspects of precognition and telepathy, clairvoyance, etc., that would be called upon in cases where witnesses attended sessions, but the material for the session had been given to Jane by Seth in advance, in our terms.

[...] But spontaneously released aggressions are not only natural but beneficial.

[...] The illness is not to be regarded as a natural (underlined) event, but the reason for it sought. [...]

Now this is highly simplified, but the problems set are open problems. [...]

[...] A personality is born in a particular environment that is not clear and straight but crooked, as in a maze. [...]

[...] To them are assigned creative musical abilities, for example, but for a long time these were “underground” activities: They gave birth to acceptable musical productions but were not admitted themselves into the concert halls of the respectable nation.

[...] In so doing you will enhance not only yourself and your society, but the world at large. [...]

An attempt must be made to correlate seemingly diverse aspects of experience, to combine ideas of light and dark, consciousness and unconsciousness, and so forth, not only in private but mass experience.

Often in the aged you find such frameworks coming into being naturally, but those who awaken spontaneously after four hours consider themselves insomniacs because of their beliefs, and so cannot utilize their experience properly. [...]

[...] I must explain again that all lives are lived at once — but in different kinds of focuses. [...]

This is not an uncaring universe or nature operating, but portions of consciousness who choose at whatever levels certain experiences that nourish the living environment, and bring satisfactions that may never show on life’s surface.

It seems unnatural to some people to hear of animals’ mothers who refuse to nurse one offspring, or sometimes even attack it — but in those instances the animal mother is instinctively aware of the situation, and acts to save the offspring from future suffering.

I am not advising that malformed infants be killed, but I do want to point out that even in those most severe cases there is meaning in such conditions, and the consciousness involved then chooses another kind of experience.

[...] Jane spoke to Seth in a quiet voice for some little time, but no results were obtained; nothing out of the ordinary was noticed by either of us. [...]

[...] I felt that my speaking, steadily but not rapidly, gave Jane freedom and reassurance to do more than she might have otherwise, and she later agreed to this. [...]

(Jane’s head did not remain still however, but began to tip to one side at times; then she would right it again while seemingly making efforts to speak. [...]

(Jane later said she thought she said more, but actually we do not believe we missed recalling much. [...]

[...] He is not looking for an endless adolescent love affair, but in his terms (underlined) the simple emotional creature love, support, that he felt you must, because of your nature, largely withhold.

To compensate he realized that you gave all you could, that you were his partner in work, in seriousness and in important endeavors (underlined), but he wanted touches, and because of his nature reassurances.

He tried to show you his love, but finally he became ashamed of needing you, and felt even that you thought less of him because of it. [...]

[...] But again, my dear friend, this has been given in these same terms.