“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] But if I have taught you anything, I hope I have given you the grace to know yourselves to some extent, to recognize that you are indeed, in your way, world changers. [...] But in the same way you have a responsibility to be yourselves as a cat has to be itself. [...] Let there even be time for discord if that is what is needed, but never, and I know you would not, never impose an artificial ceiling of peace. [...] And when each person feels and releases their own creativity, (to Sue) there will be no need for books about Seth classes, but now there is such a need.

[...] And the same applies to our Reverend Jones, and to any fanatic, for the fanatic speaks in exaggerated terms, but he or she speaks beliefs that to some extent each of you hold, but to what degree? [...] But they frighten you, because you know that in your hearts some of their beliefs exist in weaker terms, and where do you draw the line? [...]

[...] But you have support. [...] But all things must exist mentally first or they will never be materialized. [...] But it will not be when you are here. [...]

[...] But remember. [...] But in the vast range of your emotions, leave room for loves that are very distant, so distant and so alien that you do not recognize them. [...]

[...] I read some of my Aspects after John commented so favorably on those theories last night, but I feel comfortable with my life—I suppose I mean with my work—in a way I haven’t. I feel my temples and brows changing constantly as tension releases; the eyes becoming better; and even my sinus. But this morning... [...] that I wasn’t before—maybe just the next progression; but that I can not only get better—but excel; that is, I have the opportunity to.... [...]

[...] from the west or southwest: I don’t know but the information seems to be coming to me at least on the southwest part of my body. [...]

I may have slipped up, but I do not think so: I do not believe I gave the information about you and George in book dictation (for “Unknown” Reality), in order to keep the material simple enough for the reader. But you and George are and are not counterparts. [...]

You tell yourself you have little control over his actions, or that your feelings make little difference in the face of his actions, but that is the other side of the same coin. He begins with the pendulum and drops it, but neither do you encourage him to persist.

The winter doldrums always affect him, but are of course reinforced. Today’s visitor (Josette) came in response to Ruburt’s need, bringing him appreciation and a new encounter—but tonight’s session dictation can be of considerable benefit to you both. [...]

[...] Others represent psychic encounters that happen between two individuals at several points, say, but are not continuous. [...]

I do not really waken however but continue dreaming. [...] Then rather dramatically but beautifully I tell her that: “Poetry is your characteristic method of expression, your way of translating the data into physical reality and that even its rhythm is the rhythm of your heartbeat.” [...]

[...] We stood blocks away but could see the houses where ours was, it was night now, the bright colors of the houses showing clearly, though. I couldn’t pick out our place from where we stood, couldn’t find it, but realized I had to get up or wake up, and did. [...]

[...] I begin to mimic him then realize that she is the one who is doing this, and talking about Untermeyer, not I, and I become confused and embarrassed and excuse myself for butting in.

[...] But I said, “No, you can’t save a part of her (and sacrifice part) you have to save the poetry too.” [...]

(Long pause at 9:42.) In certain terms alterations of consciousness involved you in experiences of an angular nature, where perception uses physical reality as a basis, but forms angles from it. In certain terms the physical world can (underlined) be said to be opaquely perceived then, while other perceptions become clearer, but the normally conscious attention (underlined) is no longer so dominant, and even normal beliefs go into a momentary withdrawal.

[...] When Ruburt utilizes other focuses and turns his consciousness in other than directly-physical areas, when he turns several angles away, then to some extent (underlined) he frees himself to some degree from beliefs, but certainly from their effects. [...]

[...] He is in it but not directly focused there.

[...] In certain stages of consciousness, beliefs can be changed more easily, but there must be of course an insertion from the normal egotistical level in most (underlined) instances.

[...] But like the trance subject, our plant is aware. Its other abilities lie unused for the time, and latent, but they are present.

As your own body senses temperature changes, it also senses the psychic charge, not only of other individuals, but of plant and vegetative matter. Your tree builds up a composite of sensations of this sort, sensing not the physical dimensions of a material object, whatever it is, but the vital psychic formation within and about it.

[...] This time, we decided not to have any “format” or particular plans but to leave ourselves open to whatever might happen. [...]

[...] But what’s the use in speaking for anyone else? [...]

[...] Jane heard this, she said, but was not bothered by it. But she now said the earlier interruption caused by the traffic had disturbed her, and she felt she hadn’t been at her best afterwards.

[...] But while giving the data she had no impressions of Ezra. [...] She remembers that she was going to elaborate on the mine impression by using the word underground; but instead of doing so she went on to the next impression.

[...] I did give him the white table, but he confused it with the white table in your room, knew that this was not the table to which I referred, made the correct distinction, but thought that the white indication did not belong.

[...] Jane had seen it a long time ago, I knew, but certainly not recently. [...]

[...] It is not a generally accepted theory, but it has ancient roots. [...] The outer ego recognizes its own duties, but it is aware that more is involved.

Such financial success is therefore important, and has its place, but when Ruburt allows himself to become overly concerned with this, then he identifies too closely with the ego alone. [...] They should be taken simply, but the overall energies should be used in creativity. [...]

Were the symptoms serious, physical therapy would be necessary, but they are not serious. [...] But the symptoms could have occurred when a high cycle was not approaching, in which case further difficulties could have arisen.

[...] We know of but one child involved with the object, Barbara’s 9-year-old daughter Lisa. [...] But see supplement, page 25.

[...] He took great pains in his work, but he was also frightened; and the world confused him and he chattered, again like a squirrel. But they were very free in their own way, and your father’s family never forgave them for this freedom.

Your father wanted it but would not pay the price for it. Your mother would never think of it as freedom, but as slavery, so she had no use for either of them. [...]

To some extent he projects his understandable but regrettable bitterness upon her, and then imagines that she aims it at Ruburt. [...] To some extent it is directed toward Ruburt, but Ruburt does have protection, the protection of his own love of all living things.

[...] Her voice was quiet to begin with, but where indicated it began to deepen. [...]

[...] But the voice was a good one, the best in many sessions. [...]

[...] While we speak of the ego, this part of the self is hardly permanent or constant, but ever-changing. [...]

[...] It must not be pushed, but with the proper attitudes it can and must participate to some extent in all psychic experiences, if the overall stability is to be maintained.

[...] Not only are they released but they form a propelling action that allows energy to flow in the opposite direction. [...]

You are aware of the selves that sit in this room on a particular evening of a snowstorm with certain members of the class present, certain members of the class absent, and some new people here, but I am familiar with the inner portions of yourselves that you also know but that the egotistical self has hidden from you. And so I must think constantly to myself, oh, yes, our Lady from Florence thinks that she sits in this specific room at this specific hour and is wearing a blue outfit but I am aware of a Lady of Florence you see, in several different manifestations in various existences all occurring at once. [...]

[...] You create from nothing the experience that is your own, and if you do not like your experience then look within yourself and then you can change your experience, but realize also, that you are responsible for your joys and triumphs. [...] The energy, but what you do with it is up to the individual personality. [...]

Now, I cannot sing along with Mitch, but I do have something to say to this one (Sue) and that one (Joel) and, to some extent, to all of you and it is this. [...]

[...] Now, I have been a very lively corpse many times, but then, so have you all. [...]

Some of this material will take some getting used to but I wanted to give it to you now; and perhaps you will see how important the use of psychological time can be to you. [...] There is more I will say later along these lines, but your experience with psychological time will to some degree help you to see through the walls of past and future. [...]

[...] He picked them up a few minutes earlier but his mind waited for a suitable occasion to transpose the word spacious in connection with the present. [...]

[...] This gives you also the illusion of past and future, and to you it appears that the present is a fleeting, almost ashen illusion in itself, beyond any true remembrance and beyond the reach of any but nostalgic recall. [...]

[...] But as the walls of your house are experienced by your outer senses, and serve to protect you against other camouflage materializations, even those of wind and rain and cold, so do the walls of past, present and future, erected by you as a different kind of camouflage pattern, protect you from inner forces and realities with which you are not as yet equipped to deal.

(Jane said she saw a photographic “size and shape” while she was speaking, but the visual data weren’t clear here. She was aware of traffic noises as she left trance, but felt good; she missed the “good rich” Seth voice and feeling however.

[...] None did, but she received brief notes from Seth: “You don’t have to worry about me drinking too much. [...]

The physical body is but one small aspect of the various inner forms of which you are personally composed. [...]

Your scientific fields of endeavor may stumble upon the mathematical probabilities involved in such other fields within perhaps a 60-year period, but they will not recognize the significance of the discovery—which will probably be made in an attempt to obtain more data concerning an idea related to Einstein’s special field theory.

Applied suggestion by Rob would have snapped me out of this state easily, but we didn’t know that at the time. [...] By then I was no longer frightened but merely curious and trying with one part of my consciousness to find out what the other part was up to — and how it went about its business. Finally, I fell asleep, expecting nothing but exhausted slumber for the rest of the night.

[...] The walls are not there as such, but you had better act as if they were or suffer a possible broken neck. I must still respect many like frameworks in my own plane, but my understanding of them renders them less … opaque. [...]

[...] THE BUILDINGS YOU SAW WERE NOT PYRAMIDS BUT THE RUINS OF MONASTERIES IN THE DISTANCE.

[...] I hope to make this clearer to you, but it involves part of a larger concept for which you do not now have the proper background. [...]

[...] I believe I might have achieved more, but was interrupted by the singing of a mosquito in my ear.

[...] 8/12, 8:12 PM, I made an attempt at contemplation while sitting up but did not achieve anything beyond a slight sensation in my left hand.

[...] I mentioned it to Jane this morning, but had no plans to ask Seth about it tonight.

Your scientific principles have been formulated either through direct interpretation of matter as perceived through the outer senses, or formulated indirectly but in accordance with such perception. [...]

(Jane, in an obvious state of altered or enhanced consciousness, not only outlined all of Politics today, but wrote four manuscript pages that will either go into its Introduction or Chapter 1. All of the material poured out of her in a most remarkable, unimpeded way — “… as though it was already finished somewhere else, just waiting for me to get it down. But I had to do it just so, right to the last word,” she said, then added enthusiastically, “I think it’s a classic.” [...]

(There were clear-cut connections between her creative performance today and her reception of the outline for The Way Toward Health last March; see the notes at 10:45, as well as Note 8, for Session 713; and in Volume 1, see Appendix 7. But there was even more creative expression to come through Jane this evening, not only in the session itself of course, but after it, as I try to explain in the concluding notes.

[...] “But I don’t think any of this has to do with Seth Two,”² she said. [...] “I’m getting two things: The session’s going to be book dictation, which surprises me, but it’s also going to be on what’s happening to me now…. [...]

[...] “Everything’s in proportion, though” she said “It’s crazy, but I feel that when I stand up my head could go through the ceiling.” But she looked quite normal to me, and of course nothing out of character happened when she stood up.

[...] But in your case, you are aware of man’s inhumanity to man. It is well that you are, but you must not allow this knowledge to weigh like a mountain upon your being, so that you are pinned under and your energies sucked away. [...]

His nature is independent, but the independence is blunted when he is not sure of what he is dealing with. [...] Ruburt was able to counteract the temporary but overall negative storm by his own creative energies, and focus strongly to protect you both.

Basically this concern for human welfare is indeed virtuous, but overindulged in it becomes loaded with possibilities that could be most unfortunate. [...] But there must be a place within you where these do not exist, or the freedom of the inner self will be hampered, as far as its connection with the ego is concerned. [...]

[...] I did not neglect you, either, while you were ill, but the circumstances did not warrant a direct action on my part. [...] I kept an inquiring, sometimes severe, sometimes amused, sometimes concerned, but always watchful eye upon the household.

[...] “But what makes me so furious,” I said to Jane Sunday, “is that the species has the ability to accomplish something like that, but then makes such a mess of things back home on the planet. [...]

(I kept trying to verbalize a thought that had come to me after supper tonight, but couldn’t get it out. [...] But I knew I was trying to get at deeper approximations of some sort of truth, and so did Jane. [...]

[...] The expected call came as I finished reading to Jane at breakfast time—but it wasn’t from Tam: Ethel Waters apologized for the fact that now Mass Events has been delayed until May 19, or just possibly only May 4. Mass Events and God of Jane are now due to be published in the same month. [...]

(At first we were unhappy with the delay, but then began to see it as probably a good thing. [...]

[...] I’m just finishing typing last Monday’s session, the first in our new series, but already I think the program has helped her.

(She’s been sleeping in the mornings because I haven’t called her at 6:15 when I get up, but starting tomorrow she plans to get up with me so we have enough time through the day to do more things. [...]

[...] But I didn’t want such material to interrupt whatever Seth might be planning for tonight.)

When Ruburt left the Church, the concept of the Sinful Self was still there, but the methods that earlier served to relieve its pressures were no longer effectively present. [...]

[...] But I soon fell asleep all right. [...] By session time they were somewhat diminished, but were very inhibiting during the day, making me hesitate to do the things I’d ordinarily do without a second thought, such as drive to the post office to mail Jane’s intro for Sue’s book Conversations With Seth. [...]

[...] Jane came out of trance quickly, but before I could even tell her how good I thought the session was, she now told me that lately she’s been picking up from Seth that animal consciousness is turned inward to form the civilization of nature, and that ours is turned outward into our physical civilizations—but that ours have to be built upon that civilization of nature. [...]

[...] So he’s now actually in the process of forming a new model of the universe between those two extremes—one that recognizes that each portion of the universe has meaning in relationship to all of its other parts, but that the meaning can’t necessarily be deduced by an examination of exterior appearances, but only in so far as man examines the nature of his own consciousness in its relationship to other species—to nature itself, to the objective universe, and begins to understand the vital nature of interrelatedness, within which the process of divinity is actualized.”

(“Each individual mind is a storehouse of knowledge from which each person can draw, but you have been taught that all knowledge comes from the exterior world, and from the stimuli that arises from it. But all knowledge is originally direct knowing—a kind of molecular mentality, in which the atoms and the molecules give their own kind of intuitive translation of knowledge possessed by all units of consciousness —for all of the knowledge of the universe is inherently contained within even the smallest, most microscopic of its parts.”