“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] So will his “work” be enriched and fulfilled—but because he is joyfully himself. [...]

[...] I was tired, but this wasn’t the only reason. [...]

(Ordinarily this session would have been held yesterday, but Jane wanted to try it on a Thursday for variety. [...]

[...] Now from my own field of reality I focus my attention toward the woman, but the words that she speaks — these words upon the pages — are not initially verbal at all.

[...] But overall Jane’s pace was faster and more confident than in the first two sessions dealing with Seth’s book. [...]

(Her Seth voice was good, but with many pauses.)

[...] This is not always the case, by any means, but when such a person does recover fully, and maintains good health, it is because beliefs, attitudes, and feelings have changed for the better, and because the person “has a heart” again, comma, in other words, because the patient himself has regained the will to live.

(“I was also getting,” she said, “that he wasn’t saying that people didn’t need those operations sometimes, but that when they did, they needed those other things in order to make the operations work.”

[...] This did not apply to Venice, but to Ruth. Her present employer’s wife has white hair, but is young. [...]

[...] At the time he seems to be 34 but he is older now. [...]

[...] “But that’s all of it I remember.” [...]

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

[...] But I’d say that the most important thing in the whole business is that I now have a free mind about the affliction: I can forget it, by and large, and know that the benefits, the minor healing, will naturally flow. [...]

[...] This did not apply to Florence, but to Rachel. Her present employer’s wife has white hair, but is young. [...]

[...] At the time he seems to be 34 but he is older now. [...]

[...] But there are also fluctuations in normal waking consciousness, rhythms of intense activity followed by a much less active period of consciousness.

[...] But in the meantime they make the body sluggish and retard conscious concentration. [...]

Rest or sleep cures — very extended sleep periods — have been helpful for therapy in some cases, not because extended sleep is in itself beneficial, but because so many toxins had built up that such extended periods were required. [...]

[...] I’d asked her earlier if she wanted to have a session, but she said she wanted to. [...]

[...] You would share what you learned with the world —but he who seeks knowledge must first of all be himself or herself, for most members of the world cannot follow such a course.

[...] When you put the action of your mind in line with the knowledge I am giving you, you cannot help but solve your problems, because the solutions naturally arise.

[...] I was just too hot but did make an effort not to sit too long; to go out on back porch, etc. [...]

[...] But I had a good time Friday night with Gallaghers and slept well; and eyes did improve again. [...]

[...] The ankles have not suddenly been completely released, but the necessary motions have begun.

[...] Ruburt’s eyes felt better, but both of you discounted that also as insignificant. [...]

[...] In the body’s reality, for example, today’s improvements are quite momentous—but your joint attitudes in the past put the body’s efforts down.

You are constantly in the position of saying to the body “In the face of what we want, your improvement, whatever it might be, is not only not enough, but almost a parody in the light of normal walking.” [...]

[...] You are everywhere surrounded by photography of all kinds, but in those days images outside of those provided by nature’s objects were highly rare.

[...] The point is that the images the artists were trying to portray were initially mental and emotional ones, and the paintings were supposed to represent not only themselves but the great drama of divine and human interrelationship, and the tension between the two. [...]

The species uses those conditions, however, so that the paintings of the great masters can serve as models and impetuses, not simply for the extraordinary artwork involved, but to rearouse within man those emotions that brought the paintings into being.

[...] What you call abstract art tried to reverse that process, but even the abstract painters did not believe in the world of the imagination, in which there were any heroic dimensions, and the phase is largely transitory.

[...] I have some hints, I hope practical ones for both of you, but they will take your attention.

[...] Some of it would have no meaning for you, but much of this is accessible. [...]

[...] The apartment was quite cold tonight because of a strong wind that had blown all day, after a 14-inch snowfall yesterday; but Jane said that as Seth she was not cold, in fact comfortable for the first time today, etc.

I am going to give you a brief session, but if you have any questions I will answer them.

[...] I added that we expected the Dutch translation of the same book to be published later this year, but that we didn’t know just when this would happen — so Jane and I were understandably surprised last Thursday to receive a letter from a reader in Holland, informing us that he’d just purchased a copy of the Dutch edition of Seth Speaks! Usually we’re notified well in advance of a book’s publication, but not this time — if the event has actually taken place. [...]

[...] The mouse may die, and a cell might die as a result of the virus, but the connotations applied to such events are also the results of beliefs. [...]

[...] But all such instances escape you because you think of so-called evolution as finished.

[...] Jane had more to say, but I didn’t write it down at the time. [...]

[...] “I’m having it just because I want to,” she said, “But I don’t know how far I’ll get. [...]

[...] All of this involves direct experience—episodes, encountered by individuals, [that are] highly suggestive of the after death hypothesis; but the hypothesis is never taken seriously by your established sciences. [...]

[...] Throughout this book we will often be talking about experiences that are encountered in one way or another by most people, but are not given credence to on the part of the established fields of knowledge. [...]

In dreams you are so “insane” that you do not feel yourself locked in a closet of time and space, but feel instead as if all infinity but waited your beckoning.

[...] You still try to carry your own cultural versions of reality into the dream state, for example, but the natural heritage of both body and mind escapes such repression — and despite yourselves, in your dreams you come in touch with a greater picture of reality that will not be shunted aside.

In such dreams you tune in to other frequencies that are, indeed, closer to your biological integrity, but there is no reason why you cannot do so in the waking state. [...]

[...] But as I wrote in introducing Volume 1, whatever comments I make along the way will explain Jane’s trance performances from my view, as best I can offer them — her behavior while she’s “under,” the varied, powerful or muted use of her voice as she speaks for Seth, her stamina and humor in sessions, the speed or slowness of her delivery. But above all I try to help the reader appreciate the uncanny feeling of energy and/or intelligence — of personality — in the sessions, as exemplified by and through Seth; conscious energy, then, taking a guise that’s at least somewhat comprehensible to us, in our terms of reality, so that we can understand what’s happening.

[...] But the most important thing about those notes, I think, is Jane’s own account of her subjective relationship with Seth.

[...] But that recognition didn’t make me feel any better.

I used that information of Seth’s many times while working with “Unknown” Reality. Even so, I learned that on such a long-term project it’s easy to lose that acute sense of what one really wants to do and show — but I also learned how to constantly renew my focus. [...]

[...] I don’t have the heading for Chapter One yet, but I’ve got it for the next one….” [...]

[...] But she went on: “Now let me get a couple of paragraphs on the chapter… The heading is: ‘Your Dreaming Psyche Is Awake.’” Then Seth came through at once:)

[...] It gains tremendous power but this seems to happen when a certain volume is reached. [...] I had thought when the session was over of suggesting we do this, but I was exhausted even though I knew I was having trouble snapping out of the trance.

[...] The emotional projection at the very least was very strong—speaking out to those students—but some kind of out-of-body projection also occurred. [...]

[...] She was all ready to try for a session, but I didn’t push for it yet. [...]

[...] I rubbed her legs a bit and got more responses, but tried not to overdo it.

[...] Her voice was somewhat distressed, and with many pauses, but okay all in all. [...]

(Ordinarily this session would have been held next Saturday, but we have visitors scheduled for that evening.

[...] I am not saying that he has a fever, but that there are accelerations of energy that often bring local rushes of circulation and heat. [...]

You can have an overall plan for life as long as it is not too rigid, but you live your life a day at a time. [...]

[...] You must remember what I told you of your reactions during those years—but your situation, to him, meant that he must work twice as hard, and perhaps have to make it for both of you.