“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Our President’s main challengers for his office haven’t publicly criticized him, but neither have they defended him from foreign and domestic censure—and today our Secretary of State resigned in protest of the rescue mission. [...] All details of the failed attempt may not be released for months, or even years, but already critics are questioning whether the excessive secrecy surrounding the operation led to basic errors in planning and judgment, as well as poor anticipation of the mechanical factors involved.

[...] Since six of them were considered vital for a successful rescue, the mission was canceled at that point—but eight crewmen were killed when one of the remaining helicopters collided with a transport plane during a refueling attempt. [...]

[...] They may appear as superior characteristics of one kind or another, but they must be biologically stated as the variations from the genetic norm.

[...] They will ask questions on their own parts that need to be raised, not only for themselves but for the society at large.

[...] Here we see that ego consciousness, in this attempt, strives to perceive action not only as separate, but to perceive it in such a fashion that it appears to ego that action is not only separate from itself, that is separate from the ego, but that action is initiated by the ego, and a result rather than a cause of ego’s own existence.

[...] She often feels herself to be partially “out” of her body, but as yet always exercises control to avoid going too far, too fast.

[...] Identity must seek stability while action must seek change, yet identity could not exist without change, without action, for it is the result of action, and not apart from it but a part of it.

[...] She used to be afraid that when she was “way out” she would be empty, but she has discovered the state is not like that at all.

(Jane is back to drinking cranberry juice after passing the bladder stone, but is feeling okay and no more stones have showed up. [...]

[...] “You can feel the right foot wanting to come up off the bed, but only the toes makes it....” [...]

[...] “I can feel Seth around, but every time I do, I start moving again.” [...]

(“The funny thing is,” I told Jane, “there’s a bowl of sunflower seeds in the garage, near the door where chipmunks can squeeze in, but they haven’t been touched for days....” [...]

[...] She then tried to read the fan letter about the “nightshade” diet, but didn’t do well even though it was typed. [...]

[...] She did report increased mobility in the hand—but has also been doing so for a little while now. [...]

Many times people at the point of desperation seize upon such ideas, and often they are valuable because they relieve people of hidden guilts; they are not “to blame” for their difficulties—but certain elements outside of their own selves are the culprits. [...]

Again, according to your belief structure, such diets can be extremely beneficial, particularly in the short run—but if the person involved forever places—

[...] I’d envisioned Jane getting back to her room around 11:00, after hydro, but when I got there she said she didn’t get back until almost noon. [...]

[...] Certainly without too much seriousness — but lightly.

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

[...] But this will pass.

[...] They are often food faddists of one kind or another, but because they do fear spontaneity to such a degree they will often become afflicted with diseases or maladies associated with the body’s unconscious processes.

These ideas do not only inflict severe difficulties upon older members of the population, but they also have a vital part to play in the behavior of many young people who commit suicide directly or indirectly. [...]

There are very definite, excellent side-effects of growing older, that we will also discuss in this book — but here I want to assure the reader that basically speaking there are no diseases brought about by old age alone (intently).

[...] Its expression may be impeded at any time, but the unique energy of each individual is not drained away because of age alone.

[...] This means that I sidetrack —but not try to repress—those cultural and learned beliefs I’ve let rule my life in large measure, instead of following the natural, creative dictates of my first, or primary man. [...]

[...] But now I’m turning more and more toward Framework 2, making a try at placing my faith and need for solutions there where they can generate their own, seemingly without effort. [...]

[...] If you understand what I am saying, then you will realize that basically your impulses will never betray you, but always add to your natural fulfillment, and that of your abilities; so have him, again, try to be more permissive in that regard. [...]

[...] There may be days when his impulses lead him to do housework, or—zounds!—to want to walk more, but that freer inner motion will also release him for the kind of inspiration he wants. [...]

Of course some restraint is necessary, but he has been leaning toward too much restraint in this respect, trying to be what he is not. His personality pattern is not quiet, nor aloof, but given to spontaneous inner motion that maintains its own individualistic balance. [...]

[...] He has a habit of ignoring his subconscious, trying to reach other centers, not by going through the subconscious but by attempting to bypass it completely.

[...] It is secondary but has had some effects.

But energy forms depend upon strong, very powerful concentrations of energy whether thought or emotion is involved. These are in your terms, excesses of energy that shoot out from you like stars  but coalesce into a shape and a form. [...]

[...] Now I am not going to interrupt until you are all finished but I could not keep out of that one. [...]

[...] Open your eyes to the room and to the time that you know but feel that vitality and know it is your own. [...]

[...] Now he did contribute, but no more than many others, and the main circumstances were chosen by the mother and the father.

[...] These facts have not been blocked, but withheld. [...]

[...] But every man has a strong, domineering and definite voice in his own destiny, and he accepts and reacts to those influences of his own choosing.

It is advisable that you not discuss Ruburt’s condition after a session of this nature, but turn your minds to some other interest before retiring.

[...] But to what end? [...]

[...] You are used to dealing with concepts, so that your thinking is not restricted, for example, to the mental naming of an object—but you also inquire as to its origin, its meaning, its class. [...]

[...] This is the most complex of systems, in which each detail has meaning—not only because of its unique individual nature, but because of the greater meaning that any one detail has in the larger mental structure of the universe.

Now: this basic mental system provides the infant’s natural mental environment, and nurtures it so that the infant is anything but strictly programmed mentally. [...]

[...] But even without Seth’s help, interesting results can flow from an awareness of the probable-self concept: The reader can begin to intuitively consider his or her own probable selves, or those of others who may be closely related psychically or physically. I’m not writing here about rationalizing the existence of one or more probable selves to account for personal shortcomings in this reality, however, but of simply using the idea to enlarge our basic notions of the human potential. [...]

[...] The sportsman, the writer or the artist — any of them would utilize that background differently, but well, and in such a way that it peculiarly suited each of them.

It is one thing to understand the imperfections of medicine, but quite another if you are not willing to take one to two hours a week to work with techniques that are highly important to improve your own health. I have said enough in my gentle fashion—but there are accelerations, and I want you to take advantage of them. [...]

[...] I don’t know just when she’ll make it, but when this session was held she already knew that a return to the house was planned. [...]

(A Note added later: Sessions between the one above and the one below contain no Seth Material, but are instead sessions in which Jane received book-length and world-view material on the artist Rembrandt. [...]

I do not know how to explain this—but there are connections with different portions of the body that are not physical in your terms: correspondences. [...]

(“Well, I was going to read Jane the page I wrote just before the session started, but I can do it next time.”)

In our terms, All That Is exists in Framework 2 as elsewhere, but Framework 2 represents the source of your known physical reality. [...] Christ well knew that that statement was indeed true, but men who condemned themselves, who considered themselves sinners, would not know what to ask for, except punishment to relieve their guilt. [...]

A man was crucified, but he was not one who made up the Christ entity. [...] People do not understand that their dreams become reality, and that the greater dramas of history and myth often bear little resemblance to the actual occurrences, but are greater than the physical events.

[...] He was not identified with his failures or limitations, but instead with his potential.

(“This is off the subject, but your material about Christ reminded me of a letter we received from a young woman not long ago. [...]

[...] We’ve had a succession of visitors, all but one of them unannounced, and have lost work time as a result. [...]

[...] In other words, the new changes do not meet with such resistance, but now the definite improvements can begin an overall acceleration.

[...] They are doing the best that they can in their framework, but you do not fit into their framework.

[...] There is nothing at all wrong with wanting, say, to become a millionaire, but if you simply concentrate upon the creative, personal elements in your lives—your writing in the notes, your painting, Ruburt’s writing and psychic freedom, then everything else will fall into place. [...]

In these and other cases, however, the innate individuality is not lost but remains indelibly imprinted. Consciousness must by its nature change, and so identities must also change — not one blotting out the other, but building upon it while each succeeding step is maintained and not discarded, you see.

(According to the theory of relativity, no particle can be accelerated to the speed of light because its mass would become infinitely large as it approached light’s velocity; but this barrier is bypassed by stating that the particles in question have an imaginary proper mass — not rest mass — that is never less than the speed of light. [...]

[...] These begin to slow down at a rhythmic rate toward the peripheries, in your terms over great distances, until actually the outside slower particles to some extent imprison the center masses even though they move much more quickly, but within a confined area.

[...] But the gradations of activity within such systems are as diverse.

[...] But beside that, the child uses the early years to explore — particularly in the dream state — other kinds of material that suit its own fancies and intents, and it constantly receives a stream of information that is not at all dependent upon its heredity or environment.

Your mental life deals with psychological events, obviously, but beneath so-called normal awareness the child grows toward the mental body of events that will compose his or her life. [...]

(The following isn’t dictation, of course, but concerns instead a very vivid dream Jane had the day before yesterday, and Seth’s interpretation of it this evening. [...]

[...] I returned to the room at once, but forget how or the circumstances.

[...] I would also like to do some painting, but this seems impossible at this time.

[...] I may or may not return, but I do activate those coordinates that accelerate your own healing processes and well-being.

For now we will speak of children who possess ordinary good health, but who may also have some of the usual childhood “diseases.” [...]

I do not mean that ill children should not be treated with kindness, and perhaps a bit of special attention — but the reward should be given for the child’s recovery, and efforts should be made to keep the youngster’s routine as normal as possible. [...]