“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The responsibility of dealing with manipulation within the physical universe remains, but in some respects the nature of this manipulation changes. [...]

[...] This state has been called cosmic consciousness, but it is hardly that.

[...] In some she married but not the man you know as your father. [...]

In some probable systems, you and your mother would both exist, do both exist, but as complete strangers, you see. [...]

[...] When you are annoyed, if possible state your annoyance to the person involved, reasonably, (underlined) but at the time of the annoyance. [...]

[...] I am using the present case but it has general implications. [...]

[...] I am trying to get you both straightened out, but this material, directed to you, can still be of great general use. [...]

(Humorously:) I would stay longer, but out of the goodness of my heart—

[...] But culture throughout the ages was spread by more than physical means. Abilities and inventions were not dependent upon human migrations, but those migrations themselves were the result of information given in dreams, telling tribes of men the directions in which better homelands could be found.

1. With a little reflection it becomes obvious, but I think it important to note that Jane’s expression of the Seth material is certainly the result of her direct cognition. Because she has to deliver it linearly in words, which take “time,” she cannot produce her material almost at once, as the mathematical prodigy can his or her answers, but in their own way her communications with Seth are as psychologically clear and direct as the calculator’s objective products are with numbers, or the musician’s are with notes. [...]

[...] Later, fingers are dispensed with but the idea of counting remains. [...]

[...] But by that same reasoning—to which, of course, I do not subscribe—you should also add that man can take no credit either for his intellect, since man must think, and cannot help doing so.

But a child born to two parents is also an offspring of the earth, its tissues as surely a part of earth as any tree or flower, or burst of ocean spray. A human child, true; but an offspring in which the entire history of the earth is involved — a new creation arising not just from two parents, but from the entire gestalt of nature, from which the parents themselves once emerged; a private yet public affair in which the physical elements of earth become individualized; in which psyche and earth cooperate in a birth that is human, and in other terms, divine.

The psyche is male and female, female and male; but when I say this I realize that you put your own definitions upon those terms to begin with.

[...] The male was usually heavier, a handy physical advantage in some areas — but the woman was lighter and could run faster.

[...] But the women could hunt as well as the men. [...]

[...] Many beliefs, not negative in themselves but overemphasized, lead to what certainly appear to be negative results.

[...] Some of you may find yourselves concentrating upon the physical aspects of existence, which are themselves quite legitimate, but to the exclusion of other important elements. [...]

[...] The main point is not to concentrate upon the liabilities but to pursue those abilities that you have, for the great energies of your personality will be directed in those avenues.

(Jane went to hydro as usual this morning, but wasn’t too happy about the system. While she was eating a good lunch I thought of telling her the typewriter repair service had called this morning, citing a bill for $90.00 for the repair and a box of a dozen cartridges, but I forgot to mention it as we talked about other things. [...]

I may or may not return, again according to those rhythms of which I speak, but know I am present and approachable.

[...] This is not a lack of belief or optimism, but an honest response at a given moment, and one that allows the body a natural release from tension. He is afraid that such action would put you in a poor mood, but you must both understand that it is therapeutic, and also activates the body in beneficial ways. [...]

[...] Since it is late I will end our session—but I leave some energy with you. [...]

She should be assured that she is loved, but basically free. [...]

[...] Not a wishful thinking sort of thing, but a definite effort to understand that her form is indeed composed of this energy, and in this way he can help her use it to her advantage.

[...] (Forceful delivery.) On your part, do not manufacture hollow, false assurances, but honestly and persistently remind yourself that the physical matter of your wife’s image is formed from and filled with universal energy. [...]

There is something about a metal chain that is hers, but I cannot see more on this right now. [...]

[...] Controlled Environments, and Positive and Negative Mass Behavior.’” I told her I thought Seth would not only have plenty of time to cover our respective questions, but would come through with some book work too, and this was the case.

[...] You thought (underlined twice) that it should be your consuming passion, but you never felt that it was — for if it was you would have followed it undeviatingly. [...]

Your painting was meant to bring out from the recesses of your being the accumulation of your knowledge in the form of images — not of people you might meet now on the street, but portraits of the residents of the mind. [...]

[...] That’s why I wrote those notes — but I didn’t take the time to discuss them with Jane.”)

[...] Tam said he’d call back; no books had come yet but should, as far as he knew. [...] but that there were 10,000 back orders for Events, so I’d say that my dream probably gave me that indication, that something was held up. [...]

[...] The day was very warm—50 degrees—but rainy and gloomy. [...]

[...] Jane began reading yesterday’s session, but didn’t do very well. [...]

[...] It seemed weird not to have cranberry sauce with the Thanksgiving meal, but all in all things worked well enough. [...]

[...] Margaret Bumbalo had asked me over for a drink when I got home, but I was in no hurry. [...]

[...] This is directly caused by the fact that you suspect such ideas as these, beneficial on theoretical grounds, but quite impractical in your actuality.

It goes without saying that a full-time job would better the financial situation, but this is not the sort of thing to which I am referring. [...]

[...] I would continue the session, but though Ruburt feels no difficulty at his end, I am involved at my end. [...]

[...] But neither of us saw anything unusual.

But this is the only reality that can be granted to the present. [...] But the past, again, is continually changed by you, and by every individual. [...]

You have yourself doubtless thought of some, but we shall do our best to make these ideas clear and understandable, and to explain various complications that can be anticipated. There are for example certain limitations set here that must be clearly stated; but within these limitations you will find that events can be changed, and are constantly changed, regardless of the point or the apparent point of their original occurrence.

The past exists as a series of electromagnetic connections, held in the physical brain on the one hand, but it also consists of the same sort of realities retained in the nonphysical mind. [...]

[...] You take it for granted that present action can alter the future, but present actions can also alter the past.

(Jane was still not feeling tiptop, but thought she would rather have the session than miss it. [...]

[...] It is difficult to explain some of this in words, but connections are being formed, actually in terms of psychic structures, so that a much larger amount of inner data will become available to Ruburt on a conscious level.

Generally speaking the same sort of developments are taking place in you also, Joseph, but because of the peculiar and significant balances that exist between Ruburt and myself these developments are perhaps of a somewhat different nature as far as he is concerned.

[...] We considered that Jane was reacting to suggestion here, but were rather surprised since Jane knows how to guard against negative suggestion as a rule.

[...] This did arouse still more faith and determination, but he was then faced with that realization he had not encountered earlier, and he saw how long it had been since he had enjoyed anything like normal mobility.

[...] She later confirmed this — but she went back into trance and answered.)

[...] Seth has said a little about this in response to a question of mine, but we need much more. [...]

[...] The girl told me that one of the checks I’d deposited for Jane’s hospital fund wasn’t for $1000, as we’d both thought — but was instead for $1 million. [...]

[...] But many people fear that any change is detrimental, since they have been taught, after all, that left alone their bodies or their minds or their relationships are bound to deteriorate. [...] They live their lives as if they are indeed limited in experience not only to a brief lifetime, but a lifetime in which they are the victims of their chemistry — accidental members of a blighted species that is murderous to its very core.

[...] Finally, last night she made her intuitive connection: She had been working on the book the entire time. Heroics isn’t to be on how to reach some unattainable superself, but on the barriers that stand in the way of practical self-realization. [...]

[...] She was afraid that she might discover within herself the buried impulse to kill her husband, or to break up the marriage, but she was sure that her overweight condition hid some unfortunate impulse.

[...] I’d told Jane this morning that I knew the dream was quite significant in connection with the work we’re doing with the Seth material, but that I was unable to adequately decipher it. [...]

[...] Your misunderstandings, your crimes, and your atrocities, real as they are, are seldom committed out of any intent to be evil, but because of severe misinterpretations about the nature of good, and the means that can be taken toward its actualization. [...] Your individual beliefs become the beliefs of your society, but that is always a give-and-take.

[...] We’d expected both events, but not so soon. [...]

[...] “Not in the next couple of sessions, but he’s heading that way. [...]

[...] “But there’s also more there he didn’t get into yet.”)

[...] I do not want to shock you, but dictation — continuation of our last chapter (2: “Mass Meditations,” etc.).

Not only does television actually serve as a mass means of communal meditation, but it also presents you with highly detailed, manufactured dreams, in which each viewer shares to some extent. [...]

[...] The programming for Channel 9, for example, does not suddenly intrude on Channel 6. Even the actors themselves, taking part in such sagas, have but the remotest idea of events that are involved in order that their own images will appear on your television screen. [...]

Television interacts with your lives, but it does not cause your lives. [...]

[...] We’d also reread a group of sessions last night instead of having a session, but I didn’t want to pass up the opportunity for a session tonight, since it was getting later in the week.

[...] When I repeated the suggestion now she said it regenerated those feelings of panic and/or unease, “but we haven’t time to go into them now, with the session due and all.” [...]

[...] But she hasn’t had the shooting sensations to any degree like she had since I rubbed her legs in the middle of the night two nights ago. [...]

[...] It was also true that on other occasions his mother apologized for such statements—but the statements of course were highly charged and emotional, while the apologies were relatively prosaic. [...]

A remembered dream is a product of several things, but often it is your conscious interpretation of events that initially may have been quite different from your memory of them. [...] There are many kinds or varieties of dreams, some more and some less faithful to your memories of them — but as you remember a dream you automatically snatch certain portions of subjective events away from others, and try to “frame” these in space and time in ways that will make sense to your usual orientation. [...]

[...] I reminded Jane of the two questions I’d put off from Monday’s abbreviated session, but Seth made only a brief reference to them at the end of tonight’s material.)

[...] But the greater subjective reality of that moment does not appear physically in such a photograph. [...]

[...] You know what physical issue is (intently), because you see the children of your loins, but you do not experience the children of your dreams in the same physical way, nor understand that your dream life is continuous. [...]