“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Jane and I did not see her, but on occasion we heard her voice through the door to her apartment as we used the hall. [...] But it was obvious her memory was faulty.

It was a moment of momentary (underlined) terror, as the ego realized that what it fought against and what it would continue, though ineffectually, to fight against, was indeed no enemy to it but a most familiar omnipresent inner self, against which it was now powerless. The ego returned but this was the first instant where it actually came face to face with its counterpart in essence and in fact.

[...] Visiting him on Monday, we found him much improved but still destined to remain in the hospital for observation.

[...] But then you cannot be at your best all the time.

As far as Jane’s levitation dreams, I myself was her delighted but inept teacher. [...] There were also two other teachers, but I will go into these at a later date.

[...] This material may not be as startling as your flying saucers, but it may be extremely useful. Now, I have seen you flounder at various times and occasions, but I could not make myself heard. [...]

[...] But to respect time is not to hoard it, but to let each moment enlarge so that it becomes more than a moment, and only the strong freedom of your subconscious drives can achieve this.

[...] And at the end of the session three hours later, while in bed, she caught additional phrases from Seth but promptly shut them off. [...]

[...] There may be, but should not be, some slight difficulty at first, the result of his own idea patterns, but that is all. [...]

Now, the crucial mother identification is passed, and Ruburt is left with a system of habit, still based on some but relatively little mother identification. [...]

[...] We are not dealing with time, but intensities. [...]

[...] I mentioned this to Ruburt today, but he thought the idea his own.

The words that I speak to you transmit information, but the words themselves are not the information but verbal carriers. [...]

[...] It is a matter of knowledge, electromagnetically coded, psychically valid, but you cannot hold knowledge in your hand and perceive it directly. [...]

[...] They are not the knowledge but the symbols of them.

[...] The mind has no need of them, but passes the information to the brain, who then interprets it. [...]

[...] His background included far more than illness, however, and the medical profession, but Ruburt knew that the conventional medical framework was not the answer to human ills.

[...] This does not mean that I do not have my own reality, for I do, but in my relationship with you and Ruburt, and in my relationship with your world, I do take certain characteristics that come from each of your realities.

(11:42.) Ruburt should use Frank’s physical assessment as encouragement, but not be confined by it. [...]

You have been of great help, more now than ever, for he needs your encouraging assessment that he is physically attractive, that he is not alone but has you to discuss these issues with. [...]

[...] If prolonged it meant the hospital, or God knows what, but we had to do something. [...] I slept with her last night—fitfully, but it helped. She didn’t know how she’d get through the night, she said, but she made it. [...]

[...] That has passed, but Jane is in poor shape; her decubiti are much more aggravated, and have been for some time. [...] An oversimplification, no doubt, but essentially true, I think. [...]

[...] (Firecrackers next door.) This applies now privately to some of the people that you know, but in particular it applies to both of you now. [...] (More fireworks at 8:46, but Seth wasn’t bothered.) These periods involve accelerations, sensed while they may still be invisible, and it is this kind of period that you have just now entered into. [...]

[...] She agreed, I guess, but I know much other material will be forthcoming along with it, as it should. [...]

[...] Try a simple game of pitch and catch, for example, but some physical release in terms of playful activity. Even slow dancing, for example, until he can manage fast dancing, but the use of bodily rhythm.

[...] He was demonstrative, but not demonstrative.

[...] He is onto something with his theory of Aspects, but the theory is not as yet fully developed. [...]

[...] Then re-imagine the circumstances, seeing himself performing adequately, but without telling himself that he must be therefore perfectly all right on the next occasion. [...]

[...] It is true that dreams allow the physically oriented self to digest current experience, but it is also true that the experience is then returned to its initial components. [...] Portions of it are retained as “past” physical sense data, but the whole experience returns to its initial direct state.

(9:19.) Words are used to tell of an experience, but they obviously are not the experience that they attempt to describe. [...]

Now, each event of which you are aware is already a translation of an inner event, a psychic or mental event that is perceived by the soul directly, but translated by the physically oriented portions of the self into physical sense terms.

[...] Now you do this to some extent in the dream state, but even then in many dreams you still tend to translate experience into hallucinatory physical terms. [...]

[...] Earlier caught myself stewing over my windows new room being accessible that is, noticeable; then cleared that up saying that Frank, etc., will be gone; phone book won’t have address; winter coming—but if I have to, I’ll lock the screen door or put up a note working hours no guests; but anyhow I’ll make conscious decisions and take steps. [...] But until lately I didn’t really feel that was wrong; or feel that I was... [...]

[...] My eyes were bothering me some, but I typed some James this afternoon; then Frank came in at 3:30; and Margaret B. came in to visit; I was annoyed; tired of people about, etc., but tried to be pleasant; as we chatted I felt my right foot and ankle changing. [...]

All of this changed my walking tonight; right foot trying to walk properly, but not synchronized... [...]

[...] I asked her if the new motions were a sign of the greater freedom of motion she would soon be showing, according to Seth in last night’s session [on the 28th], but she was noncommittal. [...]

[...] I know you’re tired, but maybe I can do it. [...]

[...] But I’ve reached the conclusion that I can no longer bug her about such things; she’ll be in charge of her own body and destiny. [...]

Now: this will undoubtedly be a brief-enough session—but I wanted you to know that some important organizations of behavior that have bothered you both—particularly Ruburt—have lost their power. [...]

[...] But it seemed that all the color had drained away from the world. [...] I’ve had normal dreams that were in vivid color, but nothing like that, and at no other time has my usual earthly environment been bathed in such iridescence.

The tangerine, then, would be compared to a group of many systems, yet it would represent in itself but one portion of an unperceived whole. The tangerine would be but one segment of a larger system. [...]

[...] I was standing before the open window, looking out at the pear tree, but it was the air itself that captured my attention. It was transparent as always but thick as Jell-O.

[...] But we must struggle to discover what these are as opposed to the hallucinatory images we set up ourselves against or superimposed upon this reality.

There is one God, but within that God are many. There is one self, but within that self are many. There is one body, in one time, but the self has other bodies in other times. [...] But inherent always, psychologically and biologically, there has been the possibility of a change in that pattern, an alteration that would effectively lift the race into another kind of weather.

Man thought once, historically speaking, that there was but one world. Now he knows differently, but he still clings to the idea of one god, one self, and one body through which to express it.

[...] Human consciousness is now at a stage where such a development is not only feasible, but necessary if the race is to achieve its greatest fulfillment.

[...] You expect the dead to be little different from the living — if you believe in afterlife at all — but perhaps more at peace, more understanding, and, hopefully, wiser.

[...] Apparent boundaries are not boundaries, but only differences in the focus of attention. Even this inner ego is not the same from one given moment to another, for it is not a static thing, but is a part of continuing action. [...]

The painting that results is a new reality, but it is also a distortion of the original landscape. The artist may hint at time within his painting, but he cannot capture the physical eons that might be contained in the mountains themselves, which he wishes to reproduce.

The act of creation occurs, itself, not at the peak of the wave of tension, but as the wave dissolves into the fulfillment of itself. [...] The sensation is usually mistakenly applied as if it accompanied the creation itself, but the creation is the final act, so to speak, of a given tension.

[...] It is not actually composed of the past egos, but of those dominant aspects of the various personalities. [...]

(Eventually, and very reluctantly, since I considered it a sign of a major failure, I ended up carrying her physically from the john to her chair—rather awkwardly but not with as much trouble as I’d anticipated, yet also feeling a bit of a strain in my lower back. [...] Jane was much relieved that I could move her, and surprised, but I had my doubts about being able to do that on a longer-term basis: I dared not endanger my own physical condition lest I be unable to take care of her otherwise, regardless of how poorly or with what ill grace I might do that. [...]

[...] I do not want to hurt either of your feelings (pause), but in your cases the creation of a crisis period is not beneficial. This does not mean there cannot be discussion, or decisions made about seeking help from others, or whatever, but that the idea of a crisis situation aggravates the very natural feelings (long pause) that are present and unfortunately exaggerated in the entire situation. [...]

Ruburt’s condition does not just have a physical significance, then, for either of you, but becomes intrinsically tied up with your personal philosophies, your values about creativity and self-reliance. [...] You can still leave open your decision about medical help, or make it, or whatever, but you will not use fear as an impetus. [...]

[...] She tried twice, but her feet and legs just wouldn’t support her, much less navigate well enough for her to walk. [...]

I do not want to overemphasize such processes of the past, however, but only what is being done now as the healing processes continue. [...] He should be able to copy an hour or so a day, but do not push that issue. [...]

It is difficult to know where to begin, but we will start with your joint beliefs: (a) that you need solitude a good deal of the day in which to work; (b) your definite belief jointly that this solitude is almost impossible to achieve. [...]

[...] She was pleased—with your talent, per se, but she was jealous of you. [...]

[...] You have gone your own ways, but in some cases you are still hampered by old beliefs. [...]

[...] We’d expected to see a long article on DMSO in the paper, written by Peggy Gallagher, but it wasn’t printed: Over the phone today Peg told Jane the article was put off until next weekend because of space limitations. [...] But in the meantime the order is going through, so we’ll be prepared. [...]

[...] Its beliefs may be exaggerated, but at one time or another various other portions of the personality at least weakly entertained a portion of them. They are also held together by a sense of earnestness and duty (with a mock-severe frown)—quite misapplied, but still characteristics hardly foreign to the personality as a whole—so these are misunderstandings to be addressed and understood, and the main issue should be an understanding of those issues specifically mentioned, so that the issues are met in the open and aired on the part of the entire personality (all often with emphasis). [...]

(Long pause.) The more stimuli, thoughts, desires and material of a diverse nature brought into the system—within reason—the greater the amount of material the inner self has to work with and put together in its own creative fashions—but do remember those sessions given that remind Ruburt that his body can indeed recover, that he can indeed trust his body’s processes, and that he should not compare his life with anyone else’s, but trust in the entire fabric of his existence, and you indeed should trust the entire fabric of your own. [...]

[...] Obviously this didn’t always apply, since some people became chronically ill, or died, or suffered devastating illnesses —but for the most part whatever helpings they managed to achieve came about through subconscious mental and bodily processes. [...]

[...] There are negative aspects, but you concentrate upon them. You accuse Ruburt of never forgetting a thing that you said of a negative nature, but you hold all of Prentice’s errors in your mind, and so far refuse to concentrate upon any good in that relationship.

(About 4 pages of material followed this, but it was too fast to record. I considered it the best part of the session, but now do not have it to read. [...]

[...] I know you have been busy, but you have not examined your beliefs as given in the book.

Now for some time he did not see that look, and you were doing very well, but you slid back just at a time when he was trying to put the advice in my book to use.

This may not seem so to you, but because subconsciously and basically, though not consciously, Ruburt trusts both his own intuition and the validity of our sessions. He will not allow the rambunctious portion of his personality to upset our schedule, but because he trusts all this subconsciously, he will not be as disturbed as you are if a session is missed.

The inner discipline, the inner utilization of energy, the inner channeling and direction of energy on Ruburt’s part in these sessions, would have been impossible but a few years ago.

This involves on his part not a conscious, but a subconscious change of habit. [...]

[...] Nor, my dear Joseph, are these explosions, though this is quite an exaggerated phrase, nor are these his alone; for he takes up also your hidden frustrations and angers, feels them deeply, though consciously he does not know this; and he then in these small explosions rather harmlessly dispels pent-up, small but potent emotional bombshells that belong to you both.

[...] The ego is but part of the self, part of the conscious self, but focused in one direction.

[...] He sees hate in his own heart, what he calls hate, which is but fear, so he projects it into another man’s face and says the man hates him; and he may slay the man. But the hate never existed, that is, what mankind thinks of as hate never existed.

[...] She had spoken steadily for half an hour, but upon coming out of her trance state felt that but a few minutes had passed.

[...] A knowledge of past lives would be most helpful to any personality, not only of lessons learned and of triumphs achieved; but also of problems passed and solved. We will have much more to say concerning what you may call moral problems, but such discussions will always be tied in with reality as it exists.

[...] The cat’s is even more limited, but for that reason they experience each event with greater vividness. But our next stage is to have a more expanded time value along with the intense perception or reaction the animals have now. We’ve given up some of that intensity because we’ve taken on more reality, but next we’ll get both more intensity and reality together.”)

[...] You will then still organize experience (underline organize), but you will not need artificial aids such as time to lean upon. [...] You will be able therefore to dispense with many seemingly permanent mass images, but when you form them you will realize why and how.

Form adopts mass within the physical system, but form is not dependent upon it. [...] Form is used as time structures may be used, but multidimensional personalities know that they construct form as they may construct various time systems as an aid toward organizing perception.

[...] (Long pause.) The intensity of an experience is their present; but in many ways that I will not explain to you at this point, their present is of wider duration than yours. [...] But in terms of quality and value fulfillment there is greater duration and the “moment,” in quotes, is more intensely perceived.