“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] We have a lot of work still cut out for us, but you will find that it will be handled very easily—almost automatically, requiring little notes but ordinary transcription.

These will be caused by your beliefs and your feelings, but they will not be necessarily negative at all, but a demonstration of the body’s responsiveness. [...]

(A note for the record: I tried to use the pendulum to help me fathom the reasons for my illness—but with very little success. [...] But mainly, with hindsight I can see that I hadn’t asked the right questions to begin with. [...]

Your visitor believes that these children who can also move objects (and who work with AP) are unique, and a new breed—but any children of past generations who realized that such feats were possible, and desirable, could do the same thing. [...] But once one man had done it, many, many others have in recent years.)

(Dr K., being still concerned about Jane’s finger—which had improved somewhat, but was still markedly bluish in cast—decided to prescribe a drug to dilute the clotting ability of blood somewhat: Persantine, in tiny pill-like form, to be taken three times a day. [...] This at once set up barriers in our thinking, but especially in Jane’s. Jane had also learned that everyone at the hospital was against her smoking, and had been told that nicotine helped restrict the blood flow in the tiny capillaries. [...] When Jane said that Dr. K had said her lungs were okay while she was at the Arnot, Dr K. defended that analysis by reminding Jane that she’d said her heart was good, but that through the stethoscope she’d heard various “wheezings and gurglings” in Jane’s lungs. [...]

(As of now her finger is maintaining its somewhat improved look, but it’s obviously not cleared up. The blueness seems to vary in intensity, but never leaves entirely. [...] I suggested to Jane that she cut her cigarette consumption in half, but she refused, even if this would be a form of natural therapy.

[...] She’d been out of her office, but returned my call to her nurse almost at once. [...] She’d suspected vasculitis when Jane had been first admitted to Arnot Ogden early in February, but tests had ruled it out. [...]

[...] We noticed increased redness, also, around the nails of the other fingers on the left hand, but that situation had prevailed to varying degrees for a long time.

[...] You are given a natural protection but you weaken this protection when your conscious thoughts are negative. This not only happens in the waking state, but you also become more open in the dreaming state to telepathic communications from others of a negative pattern. [...] You not only attract negative conditions therefore in the physical world that you know, but you open yourselves up to these in the dream reality. [...]

[...] It is easier, however, to use honey and vinegar; but using honey and vinegar you simply get rid of the cold and do not find out why you have it. [...] Honey and vinegar are cheap; self-knowledge is dear but far more valuable. [...] But if you want to get at the real knowledge of yourself and at the real reason for symptoms, then there are ways of doing so and I have given them to you. [...]

[...] No one is responsible for your own conscious thought but yourself. Now, you may have built up poor habits of thought, but you can recognize this and change them. [...]

It need not be, but it may be. [...] You need not tell the other person or you may, but if you refuse to ignore the feeling, the feeling builds up until someday the poor man makes a simple, innocent mood [sic], you will beat him over the head, or worse, develop a knock in your knee because you want to hit him over the head and do not dare to do so. [...]

He is doing very well, but in the case of children, in most but not all, they are able to handle their fears. [...] But they are not afraid of their fears in the same manner that you are. [...] It is only when you fear you do not have this vitality that it betrays you, and then it does not betray you, but you betray it. [...]

[...] I do not want to hurt your feelings but they are more alive than you are. [...] They have their own business to attend to and their own reality to meet and their own challenges to accept, but, they are coming to you so that you will be aware of their continued existence; and also so that you will be aware of the nature of your own inner self which is as free of your physical body now as they are. [...]

And again, we will not look at anyone in particular but we can give clues, can we not? [...] You think you are acting for a particular reason but the action is for an entirely different reason, and therefore, you must learn why you act as you do. [...]

[...] They come into reality with problems, but all of you come into reality with challenges that you have set ahead of time, in your terms. You have given them the gift of existence, they will learn how to use it and develop their own abilities in their own way, for you have also given them individuality which means they are not yourselves, but variations on yourselves. [...]

(Jane didn’t feel particularly like having a session, but decided to anyway. I asked no questions before the session, nor did Jane, but we were still surprised at the subject matter.)

[...] But what power moves him, and is it the same power that moves you, and that moves those who will look at the painting? [...] Is he speaking words not only for himself but for every other individual?

You identify with the prophet, not only as yourself but as the representative of your kind. [...] But it is also every man’s question, and herein lies its strength.

And with implied words, for the words that are sensed but not spoken, will rush out with color rather than with sound, and behind the implied words those emotions upon which the painting must be based. [...]

[...] But I tell you and I tell you frankly that the personality by which I show myself to you is but a small aspect of my whole personality. [...] They are my characteristics as I am, but also as I was. [...]

[...] I sit in on all your sessions and I am deeply amused at times, but always pleased. [...] My friend here (Rachel) thought perhaps that I would be silent, but I cannot for long remain silent. [...]

I come here from a long way, but not too much is lost in the transition. [...] There are many answers in the material that will solve or help you solve many problems that seem so difficult, but you must solve your own problems. [...]

[...] I would give you if I could some idea to let you know that your problems are fleeting, but I can only tell you this. [...]

You know you have nothing to fear, but you do not know what you have to gain. [...] You (Rachel) have also the fear, but it is a superficial one and can be overcome. But these things require that you look inward. [...]

[...] It is fine and well for me to come here and talk to you, but you are not taking time from your daily activities to develop your own abilities, not to look inward, and you (Theodore) need not be included here. [...] For I am also some taskmaster, but you must be your own taskmasters also. [...]

[...] But you do not understand the fear, and therefore you do not know how to speak its language, and when it speaks to you, you do not understand it. You can conquer the fear, but you must understand it. [...]

[...] But there are no friends like old friends and no lights like lights that explode. [...]

[...] There is indeed a complication arising in part from past-life connections, but also in the early background of the woman involved. [...] She is not considering others but only herself, but from the torment within herself she is projecting the situation. [...]

[...] Dreams help form your personality, but they do not take up physical space. [...] I can take advantage of them to some degree to speak to you, but to me they are transparent and they do not basically exist. [...]

[...] And there is no man that hates but that hatred is reflected outward and made physical. And there is no man that loves but that that love is not reflected outward and made physical. [...]

[...] I can point the way to you but you must follow that way on your own. [...]

[...] But not only generally on a high level, but policy as it filtered down through the hierarchy; and a particular policy, a way of treatment.

[...] Perhaps a deathbed scene, but I do not hear music, and it would seem that music would be connected with an opera. But the scene is macabre.

[...] Jane and I have been there a few times, but not recently. [...] We did not enter the bar however, but stayed in the dancing room of the establishment; thus we have no knowledge of the bar, what decorations it might have had, etc.

But you have on a subconscious level all the knowledge and experience of your previous selves upon which to build. [...] This is a large subject; but though I can tell you some things about your future, the future is not predestined, and subconsciously you are well aware yourself of what will happen, and all human beings are.

[...] You are not free when you say: “The idea works for everyone but me—but my symptoms are caused by something else—and when I am violent, different rules apply. Everyone else forms their own physical reality but not me—my reality is caused by heredity or environment. Every other nation, every other people form their own violence and is responsible for their own miserable condition, but my people—they are right! [...]

[...] But you must understand that they are the characteristics that I show you—there are other realities of personality and identity that are mine—just as there are other realities within your own personalities and you cannot laugh these away. You are but symbols of yourselves. I can tell you how to meet your own identities, and I have told you, but no one can make you look into yourselves. [...]

[...] I cannot give it to you, but you can take it and I challenge you to do so. [...] It brings with it not only responsibility, but joy such as you have never known. [...]

[...] You are using your mind, but you are not using it correctly. [...]

[...] There are layers and layers and layers, but these layers all grow from the inside outward as though the inner identity forms layers and layers of personality. These personalities are part of the identity but not the entire identity. [...]

[...] But while you are awake this communication also goes on continually but you are not aware of it, for your ego is so focused upon physical reality and upon survival within it, that you do not allow yourself to listen to the inner voice. [...]

If you think of yourselves honestly and deeply when you are alone, then you must realize that what you are you can not see in a mirror, and the self that you see in a mirror is but a dim reflection of your true reality. [...] These are but terms. [...]

[...] Identity is not carried willy-nilly, but holds its own. [...]

You are indeed now playing a game with yourself, but it is not relevant, and it may be irrelevant. But you had better play it reverently.

You can experience the illusion, but when you experience the illusion as an illusion, you no longer experience it. [...]

([Gene]: “But there’s nowhere to go.”)

[...] When that point is reached, you will be able, if you prefer, to experience any “Reality-Illusion" at your will, but the self who experiences these “reality-illusions" will know itself as reality. [...]

[...] I have initiated the idea of motion, for true transparency is not the ability to see through but to move through. [...] Things behave as though the wires and cubes were there, but these were only constructions necessary even to those on my plane in order to make things comprehensible to our faculties, the faculties of any entity. [...] I have more senses, so to speak, in operating use that is, than you have, because not only am I aware of my own plane but of yours and other parallel planes, even though I myself have not existed in some of those parallel planes.

[...] The basis however is very strongly female, since without the giving quality the aggressiveness would be but a stationary closed fist, incapable of motion and incapable of unfolding into other lives, as it must. The aggressiveness is a thrust for life and action against inertia, but without the acquiescence of the female quality, life would not open.

[...] You will have to forgive me but I am not really irritated, dear friends, with this desire for demonstrations. [...] Your friend however really would have intruded, in a bumbling but quite domineering manner, had I so allowed him. [...]

I like him, but after all I insist on even mental manners. [...] Consciously he had no intention of trying to dominate the session, but underneath he really wanted so much, and I don’t know him very well. [...]

I would not like it, but it would be a good idea for them. [...] Tempermentally, however, I have never gone for such a framework, but I will have to think one up, it is a fine challenge. [...]

[...] You react to others, not only because of their position and relationship to you in this place and in this time, but because of memories from the past and, in your terms, because of memories from the future. For what you do today affects not only the future, in your terms, but also the past. [...]

[...] Not for new dogma but for new freedom. Not to substitute one authority for another, but to allow yourselves the freedom to recognize that the prime authority is All That Is that resides within you and that speaks with your own voice. [...]

[...] I have only a few comments to make, however, but everyone, including our visitors, everyone who comes here comes for a reason simply as you come together in any context for a reason. [...]

You did not act as a minister in the other location, but worked with lumber. When you returned to Boston you became minister of a church in the same denomination but in a different building. The other, or later location, was a socially better one by contrast, but you did not move in the best circles by any means. [...]

(“Something not done, but begun.” I asked Seth but one question, asking for elaboration on “An initiation not completed.” [...] Jane believes the bit of data above refers to the fact that she had begun the dream book, but hasn’t finished it yet.)

It is not there now, but perhaps records could prove its existence. [...] Ruburt is concerned lest this is distorted, because of Miss Callahan’s bad eye, but the information is quite legitimate. [...]

[...] The object is the first half page from the first draft of chapter five of Jane’s dream book, and thus would be something begun or initiated, but not completed. [...] Jane’s idea is that this data refers to the dream book itself being started but not completed.

[...] [I’d begun to mow the grass.] Jane was waking—but she was in a surprisingly uncomfortable, “sore” state involving her legs and hips. [...] It was clear something had happened: Jane said her legs were more relaxed than they’d been in years—but at the same time they were so sore she was appalled. I massaged them, and she said that action felt great but at the same time almost unendurable, so I soon stopped. [...]

[...] Jane loved it, but almost broke down crying as I came in at noon. [...] She began speaking, or dictating, to me in her own voice—not Seth’s, for instance—but it was wavering, choked with tears. [...]

(Long pause at 12:25.) But through the years the story itself lost its meaning for people. But the term Israel still stands for one individual, along with its multitudinous parts, and all of the colorful, feared, anguished or enticing heroes of the bible represent elements of each person’s soul, personified, set momentarily alive in myth. [...]

[...] She felt like passing out, she said, but I took this to mean she’d soon want to get up, as usual. [...]

[...] It means that you use your strengths however; it means not only that you refuse to be a doormat, but that you accept yourself as a worthy personality, willing to give and to take, willing even to be used at times as you use, but not willing to be a doormat. [...] It means that you say, “I come to this marriage as an individual, willing to give and take, with my own good points and failings—but, I do not come to this marriage as a worthless individual willing to take from you whatever you are willing to take and to give. But you must know yourself to do this, and you must be willing to look into yourself. [...]

[...] Some of you have been mothers but not fathers, or fathers but not mothers. [...] But your identity and your inner self is independent of these reincarnations. [...]

[...] But your inner problem does not have to do with work, but why you did not find work in the past. [...]

[...] But you will be free! [...] But the answers do not come to you soberly. [...]

[...] But he is beginning to understand, and is willing to enter that arena. [...] He is still frightened, and will be worried lest he become too involved in it, but he is willing to handle that on a conscious level now, which is another important change in beliefs.

[...] He has gone ahead despite, in this case, your negative interpretation, and seen himself under certain conditions traveling in a trailer, writing, granted, but in front of strangers in a bathing suit or shorts, and he does not want to look like a bony witch. So already in his mind he is gaining weight, seeing himself fairly agile—but he felt this was in spite of your attitudes, not with your enthusiasm or understanding.

He has felt a love for wherever you lived, and an abiding love for you, but also some conflicts involving the housewifely chores and the writing. You help often, and have always done so, but he felt that because of the male-female relationship any help you gave was something he should be thankful for, that you were doing it out of the extra goodness of your heart—that he should not have to be grateful.

[...] A rather acrimonious discussion followed my reading the questions tonight, but the session finally began.)

Ruburt turned aside from his book for a while, doubting his own authority, and so to some extent slowed his progress physically—but he did not stop it, and is returned to it. [...] Intellectually you appreciate this, but emotionally you can help him, by bolstering him as he does others.

[...] Your income will go up considerably, but you must learn to cut out distractions. In the future you may need some kind of organization, but you must preserve your privacy.

Ruburt is correct: you will be relatively untouched by the economic situation, but because you did not contribute to the reasons behind it.

[...] But the pressures upon Ruburt were still different. [...]

[...] At 10:05 Jane remarked: “I feel like there’s a whole lot of material out there getting organized, but it just hasn’t gotten here yet. [...] But if I don’t have a session tonight, then in the next one I’ll want to know why it didn’t happen this time. [...]

[...] Weathermen speak of local conditions and merging air currents — but my journeys are in a realm where consciousnesses merge. I do not know if I have specifically mentioned it, but you should understand my constant state of growth, expansion, and development. [...]

[...] But [this was] then carried over so that you wanted to keep your Roman (reincarnational) world and this [present] one separate and not merge them through association — as you did — so that it was difficult to know this when you did your sketches. Subjectively you wanted to put the worlds together, to explore the similarities and so forth, but practically you wanted to divide them for your notes.

(11:13.) There is more, but it will have to wait simply because it is not presently translatable. [...] Keep your minds open for them, but without any preconceived ideas of how they might appear. [...]