“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Christ tried to tell men that he was everywhere, but they could not understand. He did not want a church, but an inner brotherhood. [...]

[...] There were changes, but in general the religions of the Egyptians and the ancient Greeks are cases in point. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, again, there was no one Christ, historically speaking, but the personage of Christ, or the entity, was the reality from which the entire dramatic story emerged.

One of Christ’s purposes, meaning the entity, was to teach man to see beyond the so-called facts of existence; not to deny death’s physical event, but to show the greater dimensions of that event, and man’s emergence into a new reality.

[...] Each person will generally find it easier to operate as male or female, lesbian or homosexual, but each person is primarily bisexual. [...] Again, here, sexual encounters are a natural part of love’s expression, but they are not the limit of love’s expression.

The child is not born a sponge, however, empty but ready to soak up knowledge. [...]

[...] In times of overpopulation, so-called homosexual and lesbian tendencies come to the surface — but also there is the tendency to express love in other than physical ways, and the emergence of large social issues and challenges into which men and women can throw their energies. [...]

[...] He may at times be jealous of her attention, but this is not a sexual jealousy in conventionally understood terms. [...]

[...] Now (smiling:) You do not need to put in my first now’s. (But I had already done so.)

[...] Because of the multitudinous courses open to the species, not only did the highly specific nature of many kinds of animalistic instinct no longer apply, but a curious balance had to be maintained. [...]

When you do not embrace this conscious knowledge, but refuse it, you are not using one of the finest “tools” ever created by your species, and you are to a large extent denying your birthright and heritage.

Natural guilt, followed, is a wise guide that brings along with it not only biological integrity, but triggers within consciousness aspects of activity that must otherwise remain closed.

(This morning I made an attempt to reach our regular plumber, but when this failed I called another, who may be here later this week. [...] In 330 later, I left Jane to visit Medical Records again, but got nowhere because I missed seeing Janet Troutt, who’s getting Jane’s records for both ourselves and Blue Cross. [...]

I may or may not return, according to those rhythms of which I have spoken—but again, I am present whether or not I am speaking. [...]

[...] He will have to work for success, but this is the kind of success he is personally equipped to work for and achieve.

[...] This particular issue is being and has been faced squarely and seen through—a very difficult procedure indeed—but better now than later. [...]

It will take, perhaps, some work to maintain your relationship at this necessary level, but for your own health and Ruburt’s, such effort is more than worthwhile.

(Joe, John said, has been taken very ill — pains throughout his body, in the bones, but also in the heart area. [...] I may have tuned into the testing of the fluid around the heart, but I doubt if this can ever be confirmed. [...]

[...] It is not negative in itself, but instead is the beginning of a different kind of positive existence. [...]

[...] But then, isn’t that what we’re doing now, in a way? [...]

[...] She held it as usual, now, but read quite slowly and haltingly, no matter how close to or far from her eyes she held the papers. [...]

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

[...] But personally, I think the most important part of those notes is Jane’s contribution to them, wherein she discusses her subjective relationship with Seth.

[...] But as Jane enthusiastically put it when we were discussing where to divide the six sections of “Unknown” Reality, Volume One, provides the general background and information upon which the exercises and methods in Volume 2 depend.” [...]

[...] As Seth comments in the 742nd session for April 16, 1975, in Section 6: “It is obvious that when you move from one place to another you make an alteration in space — but you alter time as well, and you set into motion a certain psychological impetus that reaches out to affect everyone you know … Such messages are often encountered in the dream state. [...]

There is not the big swing now between depression and elation, but a steady growing sense of peace, and easy freedom. This does not mean that elation will not occur but that a balancing upswing of habitual emotion is being accomplished.

[...] In the past he was still afraid to touch those beliefs with any but the slightest of hands.

They were not only his private religious beliefs, but those of his contemporaries generally—(louder:) and the foundations upon which your present civilization was made. [...]

[...] But I no longer felt as I did as a child, that the universe was well-intended or cared for me particularly; and looking about the world saw personal threats. [...] I think Rob considers it embarrassing—but I don’t KNOW that he does.

[...] At the same time I want her to realize that her body is perfectly capable of taking care of itself, of healing itself, if she will but leave it alone so that it is free to do so.

You must take that into consideration, but the constant concentration upon the symptoms, and disapproval of self because of them, must cease. [...]

[...] Most of the wrong ones are not necessarily errors, but he has not made the proper connections, or gone far enough, but stopped short in processes of association. [...]

[...] These electromagnetic changes form their own kind of pattern, which has mass but no weight, or weight so slight as to be indistinguishable.

The electromagnetic reality within the human organism has considerable mass, but the entire physical weight amounts to 3 to 6 ounces at the very most. [...]

[...] They exist simultaneously with the present personality, but the present personality as a rule cannot pick them up, so to speak. [...]

(Driving home, I had misgivings about my actions in making the appointment without consulting Jane, but told myself I trusted my impulse and the working of Framework 2. I also felt that Jane would never see a doctor on her own. [...]

(Note: Strange to say, but at the same time I felt that Jane was more concerned about trying to make it into the doctor’s office—“Humiliating myself before all those people” —than she was about her symptoms themselves.

Furthermore, in the back of your mind, and somewhat at least as a result of the Gallaghers’ well-meaning query, you also wondered if you were doing your duty should you not insist that Ruburt receive conventional but definite help? [...]

You are taught to question your motives, your behavior, your feelings, and everything but your beliefs. [...]

[...] The exterior core of dreams is also blemished to that degree, but the inner core of dreams provides a constant new influx of material, feedback, and insight from the psyche, so that the personality is not at the mercy of its exterior experience only — not confined to environmental feedback only, but ever provided with fresh intuitive data and direction.

[...] The psyche, again, not only has no one sexual identification, but it is the larger psychic and psychological bank of potentials from which all gradations of sexuality emerge. [...]

[...] These are not only intuitively based, but formed with a logic far surpassing your ideas of that quality. [...]

[...] Too large a serving, of course, could simply waken you, but small amounts taken if you are already drowsy allow you to take your conscious mind into the dream state more readily, where it can act as an observer.

(There were questions, but it seemed the above data would give Jane what information she needed for her book, etc.

[...] But it can be seen that Seth doesn’t directly answer the question.)

[...] The basic inclinations can be extended, for example, but not completely redirected, unless there is an extraordinary impetus.(Long pause.)

[...] Jane’s trance had been good but she came out quickly. [...]

They will indeed be covered later in this book, but for now we will only be concerned with them in a general way. [...]

A person who has been cruel in one life may choose to experience conditions in the next life in which he or she understands the meaning of cruelty, but this does not mean that such a person would then necessarily experience an entire lifetime as a victim.

(Jane added that when she listens to me read a session to her, she’ll get glimpses from Seth sometimes of what he’s going to say next time: “The thoughts are mine, but also a mixture, they have a tinge of Seth’s ideas.” [...]

[...] But aim for the normal situation, both of you, in your expectations and in your mind.

[...] This is now possible—but he has not believed it, and to a lesser extent you have not.

You could not only copy sentences, but—important development—you could form your own sentences, and express your own thoughts in that form. [...]

I realize it is difficult to understand at times, but even your so-called mistakes have many far-reaching beneficial results that do not show in any isolated fashion. [...]

[...] There are multitudinous levels that can be plunged into, with various life forms, diverse and alien, but nevertheless interconnected and dependent one upon the other. [...]

[...] There are distortions because of the limitations of the outer senses, but the inner senses¹ do not distort. [...]