“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This afternoon, I gave myself suggestions that I have a projection experience when I lay down, but I did not succeed. [...] Once again she was concerned, but as usual I felt no alarm. [...]

(9:51.) But this is not a time of confusion, but of great illumination, and unbelievable challenge. [...]

[...] His name was Van Dyck, but not the famous one. You loved your land but blamed it also, thinking that perhaps you might have been well-known as an artist had you not obtained it.

[...] I hoped to see something really good this evening now that I was prepared, but nothing developed. [...]

The soul is not only dressed in chemical clothes, but wears the apparel woven from all of the elements of the earth. As physical creatures you will be partially changed by any chemical or element, or food or drug that becomes part of your living system, but those effects will follow the nature of your beliefs.

[...] But you peer out through your own eyes at the universe. (Pause.) You create not only the body, then, but its entire experience, the context in which it takes place. [...]

(11:44.) The features in a portrait are painted on canvas or board, but your soul is not painted on your body. [...] Again, you direct its form through your beliefs, but the unconscious part of you does the “work” of producing it.

[...] Intense focus is a characteristic of the conscious mind, and you can call it narrow because it includes only the physical dimension; but within the scope of that corporeal field it has great freedom to interpret the given dimension in any way it chooses.

(I told myself that this attitude was ridiculous; My stomach didn’t clear up immediately, but once again the pendulum informed me that I had no physical illness—ulcers, or anything else. I did believe this, as I had all week, but still the physical pressure of my discomfort made me question everything. [...]

[...] But I think this came about because I felt I’d already begun to figure things out. After the session I told her that my faith in the pendulum was reinforced; that in my own way I’d have eventually understood what I was up to, but that the session cut through many obscuring byways, etc., and went straight to the core of the problem. [...]

[...] I’d begun to drink a glass of milk, but couldn’t continue. [...] But this too passed, although she couldn’t eat before we went to bed even though she was hungry.

[...] Ruburt has struggled with that, but so have you. [...] Beyond that, the inspiration of your soul can speak in three minutes, and give you the inspirations of a lifetime (loudly)—but not while you insist that creative time and physical time coincide. [...]

[...] Two or three times Ruburt found himself getting up, not only easier but easily to a considerably higher position. [...] He had to bend over, but the elasticized back was simply holding itself in abeyance. [...]

[...] When you left yourselves alone, as you did generally speaking, during the week, you not only attained some peace of mind, but definite improvements in those areas that concerned you both. [...] Not only did he see better, but his hand and eye coordination considerably increased, as did the flexibility of his fingers. [...]

[...] I do not blame you for wishing that Ruburt’s table were not necessary, but he is showing signs that he will be able to dispense with it. I do not blame you for wishing he did not need a stool at the sink, but that area has no conflict now, and Thursday he had an impulse to do the dishes without it. [...]

His bathroom behavior is not only good, but even with the various rhythms mentioned, has shown improvement. [...] You are therefore to understand what I am saying, and not to further disapprove of yourselves or your reactions, but to be pleased with your additional knowledge—for that will enable you to look at events with clearer eyes.

He wanted to use his intuitive abilities fully, but felt that great caution must be used. [...] Much of this appears in your pendulum work of late, but you both then project those ideas upon the world, so that you think of your readers as overly credulous, or of critics who are overly critical. This leads of course to people who are for you, but dumb; or against you but intellectual.

[...] There are other ways, but the word has served its purpose. [...] There are endless other ways, but the change of focus as I have suggested will automatically bring a change in your questions. [...] The idea of those pendulum sessions should not be to find out what is wrong, but to discover Ruburt’s feelings and beliefs, and to ascertain how they can be changed to bring about more favorable conditions.

[...] I said that I understood his answer to my question all right, but yet that I felt there were still things there to be discussed; that in individual cases, for instance, the subconscious could go too far when there was no need to, and that in such cases it seemed to ignore the wishes and desires of the conscious personality involved. [...] But primarily, my original question had to do with Jane’s own case, and at this time that was the one we were still interested in gaining insight into.)

I would like you both to try a slightly different emphasis—but a highly important one, in the way in which you look at Ruburt’s situation.

The program I have outlined should allow you to take more advantage of Framework 2, but you must both remind yourselves of the good intent of the body, and the power of your own intent. [...] I said this before, and you have never really followed through, but if Ruburt would note down whatever feelings of release he has, or whatever improvements he senses, and if you would both recognize those as accomplishments, they would greatly improve in number and quality. You believe that or you don’t, but the fact remains.

I do not know how you want to handle this, but the two of you should go over that page of feelings together. According to the day, the situation, you may then want to work with the pendulum, considering some specific event or issue from that day—but this need not be a lengthy session at all. [...]

(We had attempted to find reasons for her rigidity this morning through using the pendulum, with some success, we thought, but as the day passed there was little response physically on Jane’s part.

Now: I know what I want to say, but sometimes with you two it is difficult to know the best starting place, so we will begin thusly—dealing with yesterday and the details you wanted. [...]

[...] (Smile.) I do not have birthdays now, but I have had many. I had many death days, but I do not have those now either.

(Aggrieved but smiling:) I had much more than a mere chapter in mind. [...]

The first book would of course introduce me, and it would involve a study of mediumship; not from the viewpoint of the medium, but from the viewpoint of the personality for which she speaks.

[...] But I would dedicate it—

[...] This frightened Jane, but she didn’t tell me until some hours later. Her feet are somewhat swollen—edema—but look much better than they did last year, say, and their color is normal. [...] But obviously, this leaving alone is often very difficult to achieve in that fashion. [...]

[...] I agreed that had something to do with it, but also felt other, psychological factors were involved. [...] But the entire afternoon had been an active, tiring one for Jane. [...]

(I’d planned to mow grass for a few minutes after the session—it was dusk by now—but I had to wait. [...] But I’d known she could do it. [...]

(“I’m in a sort of transitory state,” Jane said after a pause, “between my own level of consciousness and Seth’s. There will be far more said on such issues, but in the same way, any organization devoted primarily to one large system of beliefs will always highlight the effectiveness with which belief systems operate. But what you see is the end product.”

So Ruburt’s dream made possible a conscious emotional realization of fear — but more, it provided for that fear’s release, or gave the solution to a deep emotional equation. In this case it was the realization emotionally that life is not given by the parent, but through the parent — by LIFE (in capitals) itself, or All That Is, and “with no strings attached.”

This does not mean that those people are committing suicide in the same way that a person does who takes his life — but that in a unique psychological manipulation they no longer hold the same claim to life as they had before. They “throw their lives to the Fates,” so to speak, saying not as they did before: “I will live,” but: “I will live or die as the Fates decide.”

[...] That “breakthrough” cannot be logically explained, but only compared to, say, an illumination — that is, a light everywhere occurring at once, that became a medium for life in your terms. It had nothing to do with the propensity of certain kinds of cells to reproduce, but with an overall illumination that set the conditions in which life as you think of it was possible — and at that imaginary hypothetical point, all species became latent.

I hesitate in many instances to say what I might, because it is so easy to misinterpret meanings; but when you ask what is the purpose of consciousness you take it for granted there must be one purpose — where the greater truth and creativity must be that consciousness itself cannot be aware of all of its own purposes, but ever discovers its own nature through its own manifestations.

[...] Almost but not quite, you had a dialogue going. Often both of us gave information in some sessions, but I did not believe that you were ready for any deep explanations. [...]

[...] We not only give you information and help interpret it or translate it for you, but we also add to it our own experience with it. [...]

[...] He was afraid of Seth but not of the information.

[...] He could not go far enough into that concept, but he was briefly between physical existences as you know them.

[...] That is, I said, “I could ask 5,000 questions, but I haven’t planned any for tonight.” [...] “But the publisher would want it organized according to subject matter, or presented in some orderly way,” I replied, whereupon she wrinkled her face at the work this might involve: “But you could do all that after we got the material....”

[...] It is a source of revelation and inspiration—but revelation and inspiration do not initially deal with power, but with knowing. [...]

[...] He decided early to have no children—but more, to fight any evidence of femininity that might taint his work, or jumble up his dedication to it. He loved you deeply, and does, but he always felt he had to tread a slender line, so as to satisfy the various needs and beliefs that you both had to one extent or another, and those you felt society possessed.

[...] “Here you won’t go to the marketplace, but you think of saving all of these private sessions for posterity, to give them to the world. You’re very close-mouthed: you don’t blab our personal business, as you put it, but you’d do that.... [...]

[...] But there are emanations that are invisible to you. These are your thoughts and mental images and they spring out from you, as the petals spring out from a flower, but you can see the petals of a flower and you are not consciously aware of these other images. But these other images result in the world that you know and it is a garden... [...]

[...] but the inner truths that turn you on are not to be found in the exterior universe... but within yourself. [...]

[...] But again, the answers are there—and they are within yourself—and for your own development, it is you who must seek them from yourself and find them. (I am referring to “another” relationship, but the same applies to your present wife.)

[...] (Laughter from the class.) But I do beseech each of you to look within yourselves for that joy that is your own—and to accept it. It is not that the joy is not present, but that you refuse to acknowledge it. [...]

[...] Ruburt was frightened of going, had a very difficult time with the stairs, but made them. [...] He could have said, “Had it, shit,” but he did not. [...]

The belief is that if you frighten yourself badly enough through imagined projections and imagination, you will be frightened enough to change—but the nation or the individual following that method does not change for the better, but compounds the original condition, concentrates upon it until it looms larger than before. [...]

[...] You could have done conventionally well, with portraits, and with other kinds of paintings, with your technical knowledge, but as you learned more you kept trying to put more into your paintings, ever demanding more of yourself and of the art, and forcing upon yourself a kind of growth and development that in a way became larger than the art itself—so that the art, you felt, could never be adequate as an expression of the inner realities of which you became more and more certain.

Art was art, but it was also on your part a search for truth through the medium of painting. [...]

“Now I am going to say good evening shortly, but remember — you call this your universe and your reality, and it is indeed, for you form it. [...] I am speaking in your terms only, which means that to some extent I am hedging — but other civilizations have gone your route. Some have failed, but the inhabitants of some earths have succeeded very well.

(“I don’t know why, but I sometimes think that it’s a tremendous strain to do this — have these sessions, and so forth — but I’m determined to explore this reality as much as I can, to get all I can out of it. [...]

[...] Seth has connected himself with Atlantis only once, but he did so very definitely; from the 588th session for Chapter 22 of Seth Speaks: “I was … born in Atlantis.” Jane and I felt those same uneasy twinges then, too, but chose not to explore them at that time.

“Those species did not vie for domination of the earth, but simply shared the same general environment with the more sophisticated groupings beyond their own perimeters. There were many highly technical human cultures, but in your terms not on a global scale. [...]

[...] The man will still become involved, not in the location to which they will be presently situated, but in another within a period of a year. That is, he will be involved but not discovered. She will know, however, that he has been taking the drugs again but will not betray him.

[...] I knew very well that I’d turned the radio off, but I was tempted to get up and check, and under ordinary circumstances would have done so. [...] That time I had also turned the radio off, but then I kept on hearing music from it, in varying volume. I started to get up but remembered the click the switch made when I had turned it off, so, curious, I stayed on the couch and listened. [...]

[...] Many people appear to see an object, but the object that they see is not the same object, but only approximates an object.

(This is but the beginning. Today I listened for the noise again but heard nothing. [...]

[...] In the meantime you had learned so much, and so had he, but he still interpreted what he learned in the line of those old beliefs. [...] But he is now faced with body beliefs that have been built up as a result of the previous conflicts, and those are what you have to combat.

The vitamins do help combat the stress he places upon the body, but only while he works with these sessions and his beliefs. [...] Remind him that the ideas he reactivated about the body may have had some application to a child, but none to a woman.

[...] It was not really great wealth, but some acceptable framework of financial security he was after, and some assurance that his books would bring him this, along with the freedom of creativity as he understood it.

[...] So if you had a job he felt you were sacrificing, but if you did not then he expected you to paint your best, and make the world take it, and pay for it.

Intellectually you are certain enough of your worth as a person, but emotionally not nearly as certain as far as other abilities are concerned. [...] You wanted confirmation of your hopes and of your faith in yourself, but because of your fears these clouded the reality that you perceived.

[...] Some of your interpretations were legitimate, based upon his attitudes, but many more were the innermost doubts that you have not faced as to who you were, and deep questions involving the nature of your person as it is related to your particular sex in this life.

You were aggressively aware of the difference between your own attitude and some of society’s in that regard, but for the first time in your life you were closely involved with another person, day by day—who to some extent (underlined) then served as a moving picture onto which you projected these fears as to your own worth.

I am saying then that some of your interpretations of the relationship were based on what you would call factual reality, but part was also based on your own insecurity.

(12:32 AM.) I have a few beginning, small but pertinent remarks to make. [...] I am pointing out here a few considerations—not important in themselves, but for what they represent.

The tax episode threw Ruburt into a quandary—not only because of the situation, but because you, he felt, felt so threatened that there was no joy in his royalty check. You have not, either of you, begun to appreciate your physically apparent financial abundance; and you refuse, to some extent, to take comfort from it, but instead concentrate upon high prices without being really consciously aware of the fact that you are able to meet them.

[...] He may worry about prices in the grocery store—and he does—but you do think in terms of financial limitations. [...]

[...] It is growing and will continue to grow, but it will bring you no more comfort unless you learn to appreciate it. [...]

[...] I am still each of these selves, but the whole self that I am is dominant now. The psychological structure has changed, but it has changed not only in realignments but in quality. [...]

[...] But neatly squared off. [...] I was wondering if her use of the word script was a reference to the note sent in connection with the object, but Jane said no. [...] She had an image here, of small even words on a rectangular shape; but my questioning could not elicit whether she could distinguish, here, between type, script, etc., on this rectangular shape. [...]

[...] But they cannot be allowed to remain completely dormant, but must continually reassert their characteristics and abilities.

[...] This seemed to return to mind after our discussion; she didn’t mention it during the session, but when I was typing up these notes. [...] But in giving the above data, Jane had the image of a rectangular form and block of matter with neat borders.

[...] Now it is easy for me to say this, but you can be aware of it in your experience if you choose, but he has been watching out for you and many of the decisions you have made, including the purchase of your house, have been overseen by him though he encouraged you to make the decision on your own. [...]

Now, I will tell you a secret, but I will tell our regular students the great horror, the fear, that existed in the mind of our friend, Joseph, during the tour. He was afraid I would raise my voice and he did not know whether or not the microphones would shatter and so I spoke quietly and decorously but it is difficult to show the vitality of consciousness when I have so few methods available without using the vocal cords in joyful abandon. [...]

[...] The love which was awakened is to be directed in other areas, and you may speak when I am finished, but for this one time I will have my say. [...]

[...] Now I am not speaking in words of physical communication but you opened up its awareness. [...]