“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Many of you believe that it is safe to make a nuclear bomb, but that it is insane to use your dreams as another method of manipulating daily life; or that it is all right to be consciously aware of your viruses, wars, and disasters, but that it is not all right to be consciously aware of other portions of the self that could solve such problems.

[...] I may ask you to forget physical stimuli, or suggest that you amplify them, but I am nowhere stating that your mode of consciousness is wrong. It is limited, not by nature, but by your own beliefs and practice. [...]

(9:20.) First of all, these other organizations do not deal primarily with time at all, but with the emotions and associative processes. [...]

[...] You will see that the events will not necessarily be structured according to usual time, but according to emotional content.

I am of course quite aware of the danger of flooding that can occur under such circumstances, but I would like you both, as freely as you can, to explore that consideration. [...] Any decision is of course your own—but the overall willingness to explore the creativity possible in such a probability is perhaps more important than any choice you make. [...]

[...] But the time.... and I did fear that the extra work couldn’t but help cut into painting time, or typing time, or whatever. [...]

The same ingredients of your lives, yes, but with different light thrown upon them, so that newer understandings can sometimes appear that were not clear before. [...]

[...] It would give you the chance to explore different aspects of nature, quite simply, some different species of plants or animals, but one in which water itself is the ever-pervading main element. [...]

Now and again, do not overemphasize this next exercise, for the condition with the penis is after all but a symptom. [...] The overall concentrations should not be on ridding yourself of any particular symptom, but on directing yourself properly toward your goals, for this direction and proper focusing will automatically result in the disappearance of symptoms.

These need not be necessarily violent motions, but they will induce a feeling of freedom and spontaneity, and increase blood circulation. [...]

[...] Strenuous exercise, not necessarily overdone you understand, but strenuous exercise physically and imagined, will in itself lead to the kind of deep relaxation that he also must learn now to achieve, and which is needed by the system.

[...] I do not mean that he overdo, but he is doing none of these things.

[...] But in some session in the near future we will have a less formal and more friendly time. I am concerned with getting material to you, but I am also concerned that we do not lose the basic friendly nature of our communications.

The pieces to the puzzle are at mankind’s fingertips, but he has put together an awkward, ill-fitting miniature model universe of a puzzle with which he is afraid to part. [...] Yet this inner self, this inner vitality, is one of the main clues which man refuses to recognize, calling it an unreasonable assumption, but not willing to examine it for those characteristics which show it to be the most reasonable and logical of phenomena.

As you know, at one time it was necessary for the ego to focus exclusively upon outer data, but the channels never closed between the inner self and the ego. [...] For the species this present period is transitory, but the length of this period, if drawn out, could bring about results most unfortunate.

[...] Due to mankind’s present general insistence upon recognizing no other fields of actuality but his own, the advance of knowledge is curtailed. [...]

You are different than animals, but in this case the same issues are involved. [...] This is information not only for you two, of course, but for others—but you must trust your basic being, with its characteristics and abilities. [...]

[...] Not only of nature’s power and its effects upon civilization, but it also provides you with a very small hint of the other side of the picture, for man despite himself has not lost entirely that identification with the elements. [...] Storms often, oddly enough it seems, bring out a feeling of adventuresomeness and neighborliness, because people are united—not against nature, as they may think, but by it. [...]

[...] Again, labels are somewhat implicated, for you each thought you worked well with the pendulum, but that Ruburt did not. [...] Make sure you do not look for what is wrong, however, but for reasons behind behavior.

[...] But still there have been definite improvements. [...]

...but they limit the intuitional leaps that can be made otherwise. There will be a general overall organization in any case in our material, but let us not treat subject matter like a fence, with everything put into neat categories. [...]

[...] Tonight she not only did feel like a session, but shortly before it told me that she believed the larger Seth personality, the Seth entity as we call it, would speak.

[...] They are aware of your perception of time, but it means nothing to them. [...]

[...] Within the earthly cycle, such knowledge is not transmitted to the physical brain, but it is always known.

[...] I will say good evening to you now, but I will continue what I have to say when you go to sleep this evening. [...] But you are not sufficiently impressed with the reality of your existence within the dream state. [...] Now when I speak to you, you may remember me, but you may very well see me as you think I am. [...]

[...] Our Lady of Florence, it is true that if you go outward and up you will find an inwardness, but this is not the easiest way to go about it. [...] But you cannot bribe yourself, much less me. [...]

[...] And here we have a traveler indeed, for you travel further than most, but you do not want to remember. [...]

[...] But he shall in time, and you will recognize the difference. [...]

But I thought, “My God, I should be able to forgive my mother anything, being in that state, with a child beside.” [...] But surely my attitude as well as hers must have helped build a wall between us. [...]

(Like the last deleted session, this one is Jane’s own dictation, not Seth’s. She’d mentioned doing some yesterday, but it hadn’t worked out. [...]

[...] We agreed her energy wasn’t any better than it had seemed before she went in, but at least Dr. Kardon’s treatment was supposed to be in the process of remedying that. [...]

[...] I felt fairly hopeful this morning, for example, yet now I feel quite sad again (with a tremolo), and I feel as if I want to express myself—but when I try there is some strange block. [...]

[...] Men often took him literally, but his message was that the spirit of God was within each person—in terms of the symbolism, each person being a child of the father who dwelled in heaven. But heaven meant an inner reality for Christ, not an exterior one.

Now Ruburt’s paper was largely correct, in that Christianity in general, and the Catholic Church in particular, has not only frowned on revelation, but in the past tried with the utmost effort to strike it down. [...]

[...] If God could tell a man to slay a son, and if private revelation were granted validity, then “divinely inspired crimes” might not only be legion, but might also take man’s energies away from accepted Godly pursuits—like fighting the infidels or heretics at home (all louder).

Now God at the last moment might stay your hand—but then he might not. [...]

[...] All of this does not mean that personalities within other systems do not construct their own kind of time structures, but in all of these cases the personalities realize quite well that the structures are adapted for the sake of organization of experience.

[...] In much the same manner materializations of a kind may be utilized, but the personalities do not give the materializations any reality outside of themselves. [...]

Now some personalities from one system aid other personalities within other systems, but highly developed personalities, those in your terms so far advanced, will set for themselves the task of aiding an entire civilization; of assisting the development of a new system, and sometimes initiating the existence of that system.

[...] This does not mean however that they will all materialize within your own system, but they do represent in your terms the future inhabitants of your system.

Ruburt advised Andrea to accept the validity of such feelings as feelings — not to inhibit them, but to follow their flow with the understanding that they are feelings about reality. [...] She is to say, “I feel inferior,” and at the same time to understand that the feeling is not a statement of fact but of emotion. [...]

[...] She called to tell Ruburt that she had lost her job this morning; but more than this, that she was involved in a week of very negative circumstances and emotional encounters. [...]

She had wanted to leave her job for another one but was afraid of taking the step, so she created circumstances in which the decision was seemingly taken out of her hands; it would appear as if she were the victim of unfeeling co-workers, jealous and misunderstanding, and a boss who would not stand up for her.

(Pause at 9:42.) Now she understood that she was not a victim but the originator of those conditions. [...]

[...] First she tried to do it herself, but couldn’t quite make it. [...] She’s tried it several times with me, but hasn’t succeeded yet. But she’s improving here also. [...]

[...] But the incident made me think that it’s a pity nursing students aren’t taught valid facts of life, instead of the medical dogmas that often prolong illness. [...] But how nice if they were taught that the unimpeded body is only too willing to heal itself. [...]

(No session was held on Sunday, December 18, but I want to summarize the day’s events, for some important points evolved. [...]

[...] Jane wasn’t sure when he was leaving, but it’s probably tomorrow morning, or even tonight. [...]

[...] Not only that, but his recovery can be fairly easy, but your joint habits of pessimism color your attitudes. It is as if the team coach shouted “Try as hard as you can—but we will probably lose because that is the way it is.”

[...] It is Ruburt’s nature to yell at the cat, but he feels the noise upsets you—a small point, but important.

[...] But the event provided us with an obvious clue—any body that can undergo so spontaneous a change can hardly be one that’s permanently fixed in a stiffened condition.... [...]

[...] The impetus further led him around the kitchen, usually in the chair, but often to take steps in a different way from one point to another. [...]

[...] The month of May is a good one, but not in connection with these objects. There is a silt that covers much, but because of the currents in May, and sometimes in October, the silt—

[...] But ways of getting through them which involve two turns to the left, a going-along with the current, a right turn of 23 degrees. But a left turn could cause serious trouble.

[...] Jane said she felt Seth “buzzing around”, but since I had just caught up on my notes for the three other sessions this week, I begged off. [...]

[...] Jane and I had heard him mention this rather casually, but knew nothing of the extent of his explorations or deep interest. [...]

Your present personalities need sexual fulfillment, but the main energy of your life is in other directions. [...] Your deep attraction in this life has strong sexual connotations that must and will be satisfied, but it goes beyond this. [...]

(Jane began speaking in a very quiet voice, but quite actively, and with her eyes open at once.)

[...] But there will be a very noticeable additional energy available to you both, individually and jointly.

[...] It will help you financially also, after the period of six months approximately; but this is a good approximation. [...]

[...] Perhaps the person, a man, died at 23, or 23 years ago, but the number 23 is somehow connected. [...] Maybe England, but someplace cold and foggy.

[...] Not the type of ring worn on a finger, but larger. [...] I do not believe that the rings themselves are larger than a pencil—thicker, that is, but the circles inside are large. [...]

[...] It appeared on the same page of the newspaper, just above the center column of the object itself, but was attched to another article about Mrs. Berry.

[...] The material that I have given you on reincarnation in the past is quite valid, particularly for working purposes, but it is a highly simplified version of what actually occurs.

(No session was held yesterday, Monday, but here is a summary of the day’s events, for December 26. [...]

[...] Jane started reading yesterday’s session, but didn’t do very well. [...]

[...] Jane fretted a little about not getting anything done, but I said to forget it. [...]

[...] But he wasn’t in for the day. [...]

[...] She gave me also our copy of our medical records, but we were so busy I barely looked at them. [...] She wasn’t sure without looking at the chart, Joan said, but she thought the dosage had been cut from 0.2 milligrams twice a day to 0.3 milligrams once a day—a reduction of 0.1 milligram daily, as I figure it. We’d been thinking somehow that the dose had been cut in half, but it’s been cut by a quarter. [...]

I may or may not return again, according to those rhythms of which I have spoken—but I do want to mention that the psychic structure we have formed strengthens not only each day but each moment, and again, I am present whether or not I am speaking. [...]

(Jane’s Seth voice was a bit deeper than usual, but not all that loud.)

[...] I finally guessed it was April 9—but it’s July 9. I remembered father’s birthday okay—July 20. [...]

[...] Special diets, at particular times, restricted ones, can be of benefit in certain specialized areas of development, but there is always the danger of going overboard.

[...] A natural-enough resentment comes to the surface at times, natural enough under the circumstances, in which he objects to taking special time out, but largely he is overcoming that attitude and a more pliable attitude toward the body is being set up.

[...] The ones that he has are not severe ones, regarding the wisdom of your move for example, but are negative projections on his part.

Guest houses that have bedrooms two stories up, how he can get downstairs, that sort of thing—but he has not expressed them. [...]

Now imagine anything that you choose but have a line or a platform that represents Alpha I. Have it in your mind as a symbol of adjacent consciousness at the same level, perhaps, as your eyes. [...] You may use a floor if you prefer, but see yourself upon it, for this will represent A-I.

And now imagine a step above A-I. Not adjacent or parallel, but above, and feel yourself step up upon it. [...] Pause there and imaginatively look down to A-I, but hold your position. [...]

[...] I will not say that practice makes perfect, but at least it gives you a chance. [...]

[...] But I want you to try these exercises as you fall to sleep at night, and you will have some excellent projections. [...]