“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, you did have a positive effect on those individuals so there is no reason to blame yourself, but you were meant to witness what happened to them and to see for yourself where the utter sense of purposelessness can lead. Through these experiences, therefore, you are meant to seek out the meaning of your own identity and the experiences should serve as an impetus to you to open up those doorways of intuition that you know of but have not used and have not opened. Now you are beginning to do so and that is the important thing that I have to say to you this evening, but in many ways it should set your heart at rest. [...]

[...] You must use them as our friend here did, not only for your own benefit and edification, but so that you can change the world in which you live for no one will change it for you. [...] Not what you have been told you are, but what you discover that you are, and in the discovery you already change and your abilities begin to expand and the limited person that you knew is already a myth. [...]

[...] We will hopscotch back and forth and with our friend Ruburt, for this is also one of his main lines of interest, but your own experience can be used to benefit by the class at large for you must be led to see that you can alter physical events in such a way. [...]

(To Sally.) I have also been over here but we have a very scary soul indeed for she runs the other way. [...]

But also Adam will have changed, at this point. [...] But he will still be your version. [...]

[...] Some of this assertiveness can be met through artwork but it must be a going- out from self: a self-assertion, an expression of self—but directed then outward.

[...] You will not directly be connected with the same department, but someway two steps away from it, but you will also be two steps higher. [...]

[...] Not my book, but points concerning your own relationship with Adam. [...]

A mental enclosure cannot be seen or touched, yet no man is ever within a mental enclosure but that he is alone. Here you seek not equalization of pressure, but a delicate, even precarious instability of pressures. No, no creativity arises from an evenness of pressure, but in constantly changing, new instabilities, ever seeking to achieve a balance.

(I thought the copper insufficient in quantity, but we unrolled it upon the table, and lit the incense. [...] I thought the trappings might bring forth some rather pungent comments from Seth, but kept my own counsel. [...]

The negative ions are of help, but you could not produce such conditions. But the attempt to produce advantageous conditions is in itself of help in any case.

I do not seriously imagine that you would entertain such a ludicrous idea, but the situation certainly contains humorous overtones, and it would not be like me to let anything like this pass without comment.

I do not mean this will be a long drawn-out process either, but one in which he tastes freedom gradually, is not frightened but steadily encouraged, and in which there will be no backslidings, but understandings at all levels of body-mind relationships.

[...] The rituals will be abandoned, but gradually, slipping away. [...] There is no doubt of it—but in a safe, natural, and ever-accelerating rate both for his body and development.

He is more embarrassed now by his walking because of a healthy impatience that is understandable, but this must be kept under control so that it does not hamper him. [...] He used the last episode (on the back stairs) to trigger an important development in walking up the stairs, but he is not to imagine that everyone else is perfect because they look all right; then he deals with absolutes, becomes frightened, and exaggerates his condition, thinking in physical terms alone and forgetting those inner abilities of his, of creativity, that are indeed so important.

[...] Sometimes he may have reacted negatively, but the relationships were important. [...]

Basically there are no real divisions to the self, but for the sake of explanation we must speak of them in those terms. [...] These inner selves formed their own dream bodies about them, as previously explained, but the dream bodies did not have to have physical reactions. [...]

(Very rapidly:) “Earth is a nice place, but I wouldn’t want to live there.” A twist on an old quote, I believe—but the fact is, you are physical creatures because you do like to live on earth, you do like the conditions, you do enjoy overall the particular kind of challenge and the particular kind of perception, knowledge and understanding that the earthly environment provides.

Now as you will see, all creatures, regardless of their degree, can and do choose, within their spheres of reality, those sensations that they will experience—but to one extent or another (underlined) all sensations are felt. We will later discuss the part of the mind and its interpretation, for example, of painful stimuli, but I want to make the point that those attracted to physical life are first and foremost tasters of sensation. [...]

[...] “I really get pooped, going over the mail,” Jane said, “but some of them are great letters.” [...]

[...] But in greater, more vital issues, the sick doctor does not know as much about health as an “uneducated, untrained,” but healthy person — and I am speaking in quite practical terms. [...] But a true medical profession would be, literally, a health profession. [...]

In sense terms he would learn little about an orange, though he might be able to isolate its elements, predict where others might be found, theorize about its environment — but the greater “withinness” of the orange is not found any place inside of its skin either. The seeds are the physical carriers of future oranges, but the blueprints for that reality are what formed the seeds. [...]

[...] But all of this will do nothing except to allow people to die, perhaps, of other diseases still “unconquered.” [...] The malady is seen almost as a thing apart from the patient’s person — but thrust upon it — over which the patient has little control.³

Suppose a scientist found a first orange, and used every instrument available to examine it, but refused to feel it, taste it, smell it, or otherwise to become personally involved with it for fear of losing scientific objectivity.

[...] She appeared to have left trance as she talked, but then said: “If I came out so good, how come I’m still half under?” As before recently, Jane was partially in trance during break, but felt well. [...]

(Once again Jane began speaking in the light, pleasant, high but not falsetto voice, that we had been told represented the larger personality beyond, and encompassing, Seth. [...]

[...] This kind of comprehension automatically puts you out of self- (hyphen) structures as you think of them, but does not deny identity. [...]

Knowledge in your terms does change your own physical structure, merging with the physical stuff of your image, but your ego remains relatively detached from it, you see. [...]

[...] material, but adds to it. [...] If a few bits of debris go sailing merrily down the stream (humorously), the answer is not to cut off the stream but to recognize the difference between what the stream carries.

(Humorous.) The stream flows down from high inaccessible mountains, but it will all pass by if you are patient.

[...] It should be obvious in the book that the material is not disembodied but sifted through the personality that is mine. [...]

The personality characteristics therefore will in themselves be adequate proof to all but nincompoops, that a fully independent and highly articulate personality is behind it. [...]

Now mathematicians will not like this, but in your (underlined) terms within the multidimensional circle image, we form a triangle. The triangle is mobile, but we are to some extent (underline some) eternally allied. [...]

If you are interested I will give you such exercises, but whether or not you remember these lives consciously is of little importance, for you have subconscious knowledge of them. [...] To me that is your personality, but this is only a small part of your overall self. [...]

We are getting more of this sort of information because Ruburt allows it now, but since it involves yourselves we are learning personally to get through such information, where with others we have progressed to some extent beyond that point, you see. This represents progression on Ruburt’s part, but he must still learn lessons that he has already learned in giving such information to others. [...]

[...] Jane had a feeling of four other people in a car, with us, but couldn’t be more definite. The Gallaghers came to mind now as we discussed this, but she doesn’t know why. [...]

[...] She tried to read it while I did mail, but I ended up reading most of it to her. I’d feared it was too harsh, but as I read aloud I did see that it expressed my thinking. [...]

[...] To me, they already seem better tonight, although they’ve each had but one pill for the itching.

[...] Jane is now ready to listen to the tape, and so am I. Last night I couldn’t find the tape, but now I did, just before beginning to type this session. [...]

(So much time passed this afternoon that I thought Jane had passed up a session, but finally, after we’d talked some more, she said she wanted to have a short one. [...]

Action within your field may appear to be affected by your time, but only that part of action which is physically materialized will be so affected. Action may appear to be at rest, but is never at rest, or stationary, or permanent. Action may appear to have a beginning and an ending but this is, again, an error of perception.

[...] Jane then received the information, she believes from Seth, to the effect that she might soon be allowed to resume psy-time, but only for fifteen-minute periods, and during the evening when I would be home with her.

[...] I heartily suggest that he seriously begin to tackle the smoking problem, for his health in many small but significant ways will benefit.

[...] I will indeed help him to some degree, but I will not do all the work for him.

[...] No up or down really exists, you see, but the root assumptions take these directions for granted, and the fear of falling is a learned response. It is learned early, but it is learned.

[...] The emotional charge connected with an item may lead me into both your past and present, but I must then distinguish for you between what has happened and what will happen, although for me no such difference exists.

[...] I may quite legitimately receive the impression of unendurable heaviness, for example, but then this must be properly interpreted, does the heaviness apply to a heavy psychic sorrow, or a heavy physical weight?

[...] Again, quite legitimate perhaps, but is this a threatening event, or is it perhaps a threatening physical object?

(Once again, very forcefully:)But it was material; it was data that you needed, and did not want at the same time. [...] You are making the proper decisions now, but you needed your own complete cooperation—Ruburt in particular but you also. [...]

[...] Then, in a voice quite strong and firm, but with many pauses:)

(9:52.) It is time not only to renew the sessions, to begin your new policies, but also to be patient with your own progress once you are certain that you are trying your best. [...]

[...] Help over this present period will let you see what I mean in a clearer light—but the thrust of your joint motions is upward. [...]

[...] I told Jane she needn’t have a session, but she was willing enough if Seth decided to. She has been working long hours on her book for Prentice-Hall, The Seth Material, and has but a couple of chapters to rewrite. [...]

(Pause, one of many.) With Ruburt’s limited vocabulary, this is rather difficult to explain, but it would be as if the positions of your north and south poles changed constantly while maintaining the same relative distance from each other, and by their change in polarity upsetting the stability (pause) of the planet—except that because of the greater comparative strength (pause) at the poles of the units (gestures, attempts to draw diagrams in the air), a newer stability is almost immediately achieved after each shifting. [...]

[...] But the rhythms have to do with the nature of emotional energy itself, and not with the laws of physical matter.

The three-sided effect, instantly formed, leads to an effect that is something like friction, but the effect causes (gestures) the three sides to change position, so that you end up with a triangular effect, closed, with the initial point inside the triangle. [...]

Running away gave him a feeling of security, but he ran in desperation. [...] Symbolically then, he stopped running, but he carried this out in physical terms also.

He should work on the dream book each day, whenever possible, but not all day. [...] The book will be finished, but not too many demands will be made of either portion of the self on a daily basis.

Yes, but a different sort, leapfrogging to the desired level. [...] I must pass through the subconscious, but I am not directly concerned with it. [...]

[...] Today by telephone Nancy verified Seth, in that her mother is seriously ill at Mayo Clinic; the mother has been ill for some time, but was not, for instance, the last time Jane talked to Nancy, sometime prior to the 358th Session. [...]

[...] This I know and this, intuitively, the other members of the group know, but your questions and the fact that you question it, this is good, here or in any other place or in any other group. But do not question yourself out of feeling or emotion and do not build up a barrier in your own mind for there are no barriers here. [...]

All right, then you shall be, but you will feel apart from the group unless you do what they have done. [...]

[...] But when you are ready it will work well for you. [...]

I not only support you but congratulate you, and I want you all to know that the effort involved on Our Lady of Florence’s part this evening was only somewhat short of fantastic, and that her achievement more than equals the achievement of those who had had the projections. [...]

(Pause at 9:36.) Your thoughts and emotions, therefore, go forth from you not only in all physical directions but in directions that are quite invisible to you, appearing in dimensions that you would not presently understand. Now you are also the receiver of other such signals coming from other probabilities that are connected with your own, but you choose which of those probable actions you want to make real or physical in your system, as others also have the freedom of choice in their systems.

[...] By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others.

[...] But there are deep connections between yourself and all those individuals with whom you have had relationships, and with whom you were involved in deep decisions.

[...] The unrealized physical connections that might have occurred, but did not, are worked out in other layers of reality.

[...] We could tell there was a railroad nearby, but it was so dark we could see nothing. [...]

Intuition correct but misplaced. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Jane shouted but no one was near. [...]

You were not in this family, but were resting during this period. [...]

[...] The period before an individual’s birth is enacted again symbolically, but in new ways, each year. The seeking toward birth is a spiritual stimuli that is then re-enacted, but in new creative ways: so that Ruburt in winter, particularly in late winter, is on the one hand working toward new births of energy and creativity; and on the other is aware of the very need for such new birth, that would be implied in a before-birth situation.

I have given enough for the night, but it is an important session. We will continue with the book, but when I have something to say to you personally, I will feel free to do so.

[...] Certainly I have suggested in the past that he go out, but in line with the circumstances at the time, and the condition to which his beliefs had led him.

[...] There are too many reasons to be given in this session, but they apply generally to each individual, having to do with the nature of the psyche’s “initial” entry into your system. [...]

[...] It will be recalled that the board helped these sessions get under way, in December 1963, but it was soon dispensed with when Jane began to speak the material. The pointer’s loss however was quite embarrassing because the board did not belong to us, but to our landlord, James Spaziani. [...]

[...] Jane searched the papers there but didn’t find the pointer. But collections have been made recently and the pointer, if there, could be gone easily enough by now.)

(Our young friends, Marilyn and Don Wilbur, visited us before the session this evening but did not stay for the session itself. [...]

[...] Marilyn no longer works there because she has a son, but Ann still does. [...]