“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I will indeed speak concerning the inner ego, which is the organizing principle within the subconscious, but which looks into other worlds; toward worlds in which it has its origin, and does not have awareness of itself or possess self-consciousness within the physical universe. [...] But it is not.

[...] They are conscious of themselves, but they are not conscious of themselves in relation to other selves. [...] They are different from the inner ego or director in that the inner ego is conscious not only of itself, but of the outer ego, and is aware of the existence of the outer world, although not too much concerned with it unless the whole self becomes jeopardized through the actions of the outer ego.

[...] I am not certain it was Linda, but whoever it was was either very angry or frightened. Linda and Betts could have been arguing [although this is unlikely; as far as I know Linda is away at school.] All of this was a mental impression, more of a jumbled sense of sound and emotional clutter, with but vague images. [...]

[...] January 6, Wednesday, 11:30 AM: Achieved a light trance first, then felt as though my hands were crossed, but knew they weren’t. Extreme sensation of lightness and rising, as if from some pressure beneath me. [...]

[...] We knew that the voice change was significant, of course, but we didn’t realize that the power behind the voice was the more important issue. We saw that the sessions had a kind of order, but its significance escaped us. Actually, the structure provided continuity and stability, but also was flexible enough to nurture latent developments of which we were then completely unaware. [...]

[...] I’d like to mention here that by now we had read several books on extrasensory perception, but still hadn’t come across anything about voice communication. We’d read about the Patience Worth case, where a Mrs. Curren produced novels and poetry through the Ouija board and automatic writing, but we were completely unfamiliar with the idea of anyone’s speaking for another personality. [...]

Rob asked for a break, but then he urged me to end the session before my voice gave out. I knew that he was concerned about me, but also tremendously interested in the material Seth had been giving. [...]

[...] I could go on happily, you might say blithely, for hours, but I shall not. [...] I have not assimilated him completely, but you can believe me, I intend to.”

(Generalized body changes since the last session Saturday night: More loosening in neck, ligaments, chin and face area; walking is easier but still requires support – legs tremble and have trouble supporting weight, but knees move better. [...] Right foot looser and looser, but no help walking. [...]

[...] You have little idea, however, how sometimes the most natural-seeming reactions are not natural at all, but programmed. [...] It would not worry, but would exercise whatever new motions were possible. [...]

[...] But when an animal’s improving, he goes along with the improvement. [...] There are natural bodily reactions, however, and psychological reactions that may seem natural, but that often are contrary to the body’s knowledge, and that can block that knowledge with the sense of reassurance that it can bring. [...]

[...] They understand it differently, however, but it is taken into consideration in physical terms. [...] Yes, beliefs could save the rest of them—but both of your interpretations about teeth at this point hold you back. [...]

Again do not ignore them, but do not let your comments act as a negative suggestion that already might reinforce those that he has inadvertently given himself. Comfort him when this is necessary, but the comforting should follow the lines of constructive suggestions: “You will feel better soon.”

[...] It should not involve pity, for this reinforces the symptoms, but should involve a confident assurance, particularly when he is fearful—an encouragement on your part, of constructive activities, a comforting but not overindulgent attitude, you see.

[...] I am not suggesting that you pretend the symptom does not exist, but that you quite deliberately give yourself constructive suggestion, and turn your attention immediately away quickly to other matters.

[...] This will involve some work on his part, but all effort must be made. [...]

(We had two questions for Seth, since we’re trying to get into the habit of writing such down as they occur to us: 1. Jane wanted Seth to comment on why he’ll take off on something she’s read, and reinterpret it his own way, or carry it further; her question came up because he did this Monday while she’s reading Fred Hoyle’s book, Ten Faces of The Universe; 2. Jane wanted Seth to give information on her “significant” dream of last Saturday morning, July 1. She couldn’t remember any details from it, but has talked about it often; she thinks it had something to do with health.)

[...] The effect of events in Framework 2 is constant, but there are moments in your terms of particular acceleration, where “work” done there seems to quiver the edges of your reality in Framework 1. This is such a time.

[...] His dream did inform him of that, but this also means that the mental conditions of limitation are being released enough so that other areas of your experience are now ready to come together in newer fashions.

[...] Probabilities do not operate alone, isolated, but largely in terms of conglomerations, so that, say, like does attract like.

[...] In many cases, now, meaning not in all, such feelings set up quite invisible but definite alienations, or lacks of balance, between the heart and the brain, so that delicate relationships between them are upset. Those relationships affect physical organs, but the medical profession is not used to thinking in terms of relationships that cannot appear under a microscope.

[...] Feelings and emotion caused tensions under certain conditions that are not necessarily physically apparent, but that change the body. [...] His poor mobility did not exist alone, but reached back to an archaeology, say, of beliefs that affected his sinuses, jaw pressure, and so forth.

(2. Last Thursday night, kidding around with Frank Longwell, Jane said I could have all the reincarnational material on my own lives that I wanted, but that she wasn’t interested in her own. [...]

[...] Not that we wanted or needed conscious control—but why didn’t we have the conscious visual knowledge of the workings of our various bodily parts, be they heart, liver, or whatnot?

[...] Lest people decide that you were lax or lazy or irresponsible, you were determined to show that you not only worked as hard as they did, but harder. They might have vacations, but not you. They might quit at five, but not you. [...]

[...] It uses time, but is not used by it. [...] It takes time to paint or write, but the great inspirations of painting and writing transcend time, and the feeling of freedom and exuberance can give you in a few hours creative inspirations that have nothing to do with the time involved.

[...] He felt he needed financial freedom in order to work, but in those terms work was equated with the Protestant work ethics, where spontaneity was frowned upon. [...] It will find its own schedules, but your joint ideas of work hours were meant to fit in with a time-clock puncher’s mentality, and not your own.

Left alone, you would both work many hours, but under completely different mental conditions. [...] But you would have felt free to follow the inner scheduling.

You could imagine it for example as having a shape, but the shape would not be formed by matter, but by pattern masses; and all the multitudinous portions of it, the shapes on it, would be composed in terms of mass intensity. To bring this even clearer, you could even imagine that the whole inner universe was an organism, of which your universe represented but one small portion. [...]

But thoughts have shapes, as do dreams. I use the word shape for simplicity’s sake, but the electrical universe is composed of dimensions which are perceived by the inner self, for the inner self also has existence within the electrical universe. [...]

[...] It exists not only isolated for example, or detached, but it exists as a part of the electrical pattern of that personality who originally created it. It is still a part of his electrical pattern, but it does also exist independently of him.

[...] Her voice was pitched somewhat lower but not louder; she did not wear her glasses and she did not smoke while delivering material.)

(“Not on this date, but on October 23, we met a man originally from Detroit, Michigan. [...]

With a floor not of wood, perhaps of cement, but of a stone, definitely a stone or sand colored stone floor.

(“Outside there were huge flower pots resembling these, but not filled with sand for cigarettes. [...]

[...] A dark mark or bruise perhaps, or this could be a patch of dark freckles, but very noticeable: or a scar.

The ego’s false ideas prevent it from accepting this energy, but once the ego is aware of its position as a portion of the self, then it should not be shunted aside, but can take its place. [...]

The inner self or the whole personality consists of many such egos, as you know, but the inner self is also aware of itself as something more than the sum of its parts. Now this something more than the sum of its parts is a curious phrase, but within it lies a key that can give you some small understanding of what God may be.

Now there is even something like the idea of a personality god, but hardly in the terms used by theologians. [...]

[...] But this portion is only a part, itself, of All That Is.

[...] But, as I later discovered through one of his students, his attitude was anything but objective and hardly scientific. [...] Oddly enough, the results weren’t bad at all, but his attitude was so poor that only five girls took part in the experiment. I suggested that he try the experiment too, but he wouldn’t; and his attitude discouraged enough students so that he could say, later, that the low number participating made tests results impossible to evaluate. [...]

[...] But that is hardly a psychological crime. [...] Each of you exists in other realities and other dimensions, and the self that you call yourself is but a small portion of your entire identity.

[...] This communication goes on constantly, but your ego is so focused upon physical reality and survival within it that you do not hear the inner voice. [...] What you see in a mirror is but a dim reflection of your true reality.

[...] These are but terms to express the part of you that cannot be seen or touched. But within the selves that you know is the prime identity, the whole inner self. [...]

(I said I’ve been waiting for her legs to begin to move, so that she can move more, and get out of the bed into a chair of some sort, but since that hasn’t happened yet there isn’t much we can do. I’d expected leg movement before this, but we’ll have to wait.

(I didn’t realize it until I got home, but I forgot to read the session to Jane. [...] But her impatience is growing, no doubt about it, and if it continues to do so I’m sure it will bring about — even force — changes in her behavior and attitude. [...]

[...] Jane began reading yesterday’s session, but found it hard going. [...]

[...] It is simply felt to be an experience, a discovery, that went so far and no further — but the events in no way impede the vitality and strength of the inner consciousness so involved.

[...] Seth Two didn’t come through, but some very interesting effects developed later in the session. [...]

[...] You have directed it for example in health better, but you still need to get the feel of it. [...]

It has begun to work newly for you in the sale of your paintings as you dropped barriers against their sale; but feel it surround you and surround both of you. [...]

[...] There will also be money coming to you from an unexpected area, but as an offshoot of your creativity.

[...] Connected with the above material, but rather opaquely, I will continue along other but parallel lines. [...]

[...] Oftentimes information such as he has been receiving, is received but not correctly interpreted or understood, with the result that the physical and psychic organism is bound in nervous knots of apprehension, for which there seems to be no cause.

[...] Nor would the pleasant characteristics of night be ever known, but night would forever mean terror and chaos, since it would never be given the recognition due it, and never explored.

If this information comes from a personality no longer in physical form upon your earth, then surely this is an indication that death is but entrance into another dimension.

[...] But only when you try to understand what a leaf and a flower are. [...] But if you realize that a leaf is a portion of All That Is then you will realize what communion is. [...]

(To Arnold.) (Words lost) he gets confused, but I do not get confused. He is in a trance, but I am not in a trance. [...]

[...] But then you do not need words either. [...] But your own communication is telepathic. [...]

[...] But you are constantly being instructed and guided whether or not you realize it. But then you will also instruct and guide others and all of you in the sleep state do this. [...]

[...] You have at different times adopted different methods and adjustments, but your physical relationship has been structured not around mutual pleasure but instead about the fear of having children.

[...] Ruburt has strong seemingly contrasting personality characteristics, but seen in the light of the personality’s whole purpose, they are not contrasting but complementary, each one woven with the other toward the main goals. [...]

[...] Then it becomes something you want to do and feel you should do, and a strong part of your work, but the spontaneous fountainheads beneath do not have that easy flow. So that that flow does not dry up when it does not operate as fully as it ordinarily can in our own sessions, then it shoots up and appears in class sessions, as a precaution and simply because the fountainhead as such will not dry up, but seeks its natural release. [...]

[...] Some of this will seem very simple, but often you forget the pure simplicity of your motives when you concentrate upon tangles.

[...] A personality that you have set up for yourself, but the fact that you are coming to classes and using the intuitional abilities opens up a slight window in that artificial personality that you have adapted, for in your mind you think—  and if you will forgive me, I will speak for you, but you may make a rebuttal. [...] Those that have been to school understand these things, but I am left out. But I do not care for the words are meaningless and in me there is a frankness and vitality that these others do not have.”

[...] There was a relationship in the past but not a deep one. [...] You would have projected them upon a priest, but this frightened you even more because the male relationship held for you a feeling of terror. You did not, you see, project them upon a person who could immediately answer them in kind, with no strings attached; but a relationship could be easy, open, and immediate. [...]

[...] This seems to be a male—now we are speaking symbolically, in that he seems to be coming from the left, which means, I believe, he will not be coming from your family, or perhaps even from this area, but someone that you do not know now, who will bring you an onrush of feeling and an openness of emotion. [...] But the situation will serve to release your emotions and prepare you for other encounters. [...]

[...] Words cannot convey the message but working from the words you can obtain a portion of the reality behind them. [...]

[...] My energy has been silent but potent in this room, like that bottle of wine that sits upon the table. But Ruburt knew that I would be here before class was over, and I come to you with no great pronouncements. [...]

[...] But it is far more important to understand why you are creating a distortion in physical reality that concerns your own image. [...] But problems within a personality and [sic] itself will manifest itself in one way or another unless the problem itself is solved. [...]

But the other personality that you find so alien is also my own. And the familiarity and the very human characteristics by which you know me are mine, but they are only a small portion of my identity. [...]

I should not say this, but since I am with friends, I shall. [...]

[...] I was a young man and my hair was longer than yours, but I wore lace about mine. At other times my style was rather different but when my hair was worn somewhat in the style of yours, then I wore more sporty attire to go along with it. [...]

Now, our educated friend over here knows full well and better than any of you that the table is made of atoms and molecules, but it does not forbid him from using the table very nicely as a prop, and so you can still use the prop with which you are familiar, but you must realize that is all they are. [...]

[...] When you let your self go you do not lose your self, but you find your self. This is perhaps the hardest lesson, but it is one that you must learn. [...]

It is indeed, but what you do not understand is that your so-called subconscious is highly conscious, you simply are not aware of it consciously. [...] You have been told that you cannot know what happens to you when your body sleeps, but you can, indeed. [...]

(A one-minute pause at 11:21.) Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct. Your power as a rational consciousness focused in the present provides you with opportunities for creativity that you are but vaguely learning to understand. As you do learn, you will automatically begin to appreciate the multidimensional nature of not only your own species but of others as well. [...]

In such instances there is, as easily as I can explain it, a reaching into deep biological structures as they existed at one time; at that point the probabilities are altered, and the condition erased in your present — but also in your past.

(Pause at 10:01.) A sudden or intense belief in health can indeed “reverse” a disease, but in a very practical way it is a reversal in terms of time. [...]

Learning is not simply passed on from living tissue to living tissue — this your biologists have discovered — but it is also passed on through the body’s present corporeal reality, sometimes entirely changing the messages to past cells, that in your terms no longer exist.