“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The stretching muscles are sore, but this will quickly vanish—but that soreness is a healthy sign, representing greater leg action. I never want to overemphasize any of your attitudes, but Ruburt has become so used to not trusting the body that even such signs of healing can upset him.

[...] I suggested that we could go back to the old session routine of having a break halfway through, thus dividing book material from personal stuff that way, but she didn’t seem to think much of the idea, nor did it develop this evening.

He does, indeed, and he wants to walk, by the way—but he does not want to waste his time. [...]

If either of you “lose” an hour, often you project that one lost hour into fifty future ones, but you are learning. [...]

[...] Seth talked about many things, but his remarks here, as I’ve put them together, mainly concerned a subject he’d first discussed with members of class just a week ago [on October 1]¹ — the “city” they could start building in their individual and collective dream states:)

[...] You do not think of yourselves as symbols [but] there is no symbol that does not have its individual life.

[...] Bow down before no man, no woman, and no belief — but know you are indeed the creators.

[...] Not because you should do it, but because you desire it … It is a great creative challenge that you can throw down to yourselves from your future selves.

[...] P.M. I did a little mail but didn’t really get into the notes which are to be a part of the program. My typing is still pretty poor but do know this will improve. I don’t feel any flow in these notes but I do feel a submerged flow rising and i do feel… centered, more content… as I get this far I feel a definite block of expression and some mild enough panic but recognize the fact that a feeling of repression came as I decided to do my notes… writing down at once and will tell rob.”

[...] Now the new year is almost a month old; the weather is cold but the frozen ground is practically bare of snow. [...] She hasn’t even had many private sessions during those breaks in book work; she gave but two private sessions between chapters 10 and 11, and four between chapters 11 and 12. [...]

I’m afraid that I did most of the talking in our “discussion,” but once again we tried to view our lives in some sort of joint mental and physical perspective. [...] We never do, yet I said things that later I wished I hadn’t. Such regrets are inevitable, I suppose, but if I can tell my wife about the storms of consciousness that I think are so active in the Middle East, for example, then certainly I feel like discussing my feelings about our own challenges. [...]

[...] I know I’ve said that before, but this time I don’t know what else to do. [...] I can’t stop you from speaking for Seth by yourself, or doing it with someone else, but I can refuse to encourage you myself.

[...] My stomach still bothers, but on a much-reduced level; the groin/left testicle seems all but clear at times; occasionally the discomfort returns on a reduced basis also.

[...] By then, Jane said, she couldn’t remember much of Professor Moorcroft’s letter, but I told her it didn’t matter. [...] “Here I thought we were going to have a nice peaceful week, with some sessions on Mass Reality, maybe, but now, who knows....”

There are almost always hidden variables, but they are of little consequence here. [...] This is most difficult to explain, but like, say, the units of some multidimensional computer, each visible or invisible particle carries within it the knowledge of all other particles, including their positions, and their probable positions.

[...] That is, at least rejection wasn’t implied, but I must admit that both of us are very cautious about expecting any sort of real acceptance via academia; certainly not these days. [...]

(10:22.) Greater recognition might help at a certain level, but this is not the answer. The fact that psychic books, so-called, do not give him what he thinks of as conventional literary praise is annoying but not basically pertinent.

[...] That was a challenge, and his own did not frighten him, but those of others did. His own did bring him up short momentarily, but that he could have handled.

[...] You can specifically say that this has to do with what you call your psychic work, but even before “it” began he was aware of that energy of his, concerned about using it, focusing it, delighted with it, and afraid of it at the same time.

[...] It is not physical mobility that worries him, but inner mobility. [...]

[...] The fear of reincarnation is again a shield for another fear that you have not faced that has nothing to do with reincarnation but has charged the word reincarnation to you. The fear is not connected with reincarnation per se, but as long as you believe, unconsciously, that this is so, you will react in that manner. [...]

[...] There is something that all of you can do, and I have told the class this many times, but you tend to forget it. [...] I am not speaking now only to you (Maria), but to everyone in the room, our friend, Ruburt, included. [...]

[...] That kind of question will only give you a certain kind of answer, and if you follow that course then you will follow a question-and-answer course, but without learning anything more than a series of questions and answers that have meaning only within a certain limited framework. [...]

Now I can tell you what the light is, but when I do that, I am a poor teacher, for a good teacher knows how to let others discover meanings for themselves, and that is a part of your experience. [...]

[...] The you that you are can make any changes you want to in your experience: You can change probabilities for your own purposes, but you cannot change the courses of other probable selves that have gone their own ways. [...] There is a natural interaction, but no coercion. [...] You can bring into your own experience any number of probable events, but you cannot deny the probable experience of another portion of your reality. [...]

[...] The picture, the photograph, is but one small object in the entire range of your vision. You are not only outside yourself in the photograph, but now it represents only a small portion of your reality. [...]

[...] “Seth’s book reminds me of an old-fashioned diary,” I remarked, “but with a new twist — that of probabilities.” [...]

(“In the same way, a ‘picture’ of the species represents only one version of the species, ‘snapped’ in a particular time sequence, valid because of the invisible realities not focused upon, but upon which reality rides.”

[...] “No, if we could do all that, we’d know when we were going to die!” But suppose we saw beyond the point of death, discovering to our surprise that we were still conscious—not only of ourselves as we “were” but of other portions of ourselves of which we had been unaware? Suppose in fact that Seth is correct: we only inhabit the flesh, existing within it but independent of it?

[...] But at least I didn’t let outdated concepts dictate what portions of my own experience I could accept as real, and what portions I must reject. But if I had not been affected by such ideas, I could have accepted my initial psychic experiences more freely and examined them wholeheartedly. [...]

[...] My idea is that Seth is fully conscious, but of—and in—other dimensions of existence. But this only leads to the question: What is nonphysical life like?

“In the terms of other systems, that kind of destruction does not exist—but you believe that it does, and the agonies of the dying are sorely felt. A vivid nightmare is also sorely felt, but quickly over. [...]

He became extremely frightened when he went to the dentist (last month, 6 weeks), and when you again expressed your concern, but not your love: “I’m afraid you’ve had it,” you said. [...] But he interpreted your remark verbally as you made it, knowing you love him, but having to search through the concern.

Not only is our own work rather unique, but you have no academic credentials. [...] In that framework many psychologists, for example, would feel comfortable, but you offer no such bridge to anyone. [...]

Intellectually he accepts it, but emotionally he yearns for that direct expression. [...] I wish I could express my love verbally, but if not, I will express it is this fashion.”

[...] Hence, you do not make any simple, joyful remarks, like “The book will be out in England or Germany,” and indeed, you take little pleasure from that, but leap ahead to the imagined threats. A man protects his family because he loves it—but in his love he can see threats all around.

[...] This will happen despite the fact that four o’clock in the afternoon has no basic meaning, but is an agreed-upon designation — a gentlemen’s agreement, if you prefer. If you attend the theatre at nine o’clock in the evening, but the actions of the play take place within the morning hours, and the actors are shown eating breakfast, you accept the time as given within the theatre’s play. [...]

(“It’s funny,” she continued, “I didn’t feel particularly psychic tonight but the material’s good. [...] But I don’t need to feel psychic when we’re here alone; the material just comes through no matter what, and it’s always good.”

[...] Consider your present self as an actor in a play; hardly a new analogy, but a suitable one. [...]

But there are other plays going on simultaneously, in which you also have a part to play. [...]

[...] But then she added, “I feel a source of energy just above my head — not a cone, nothing that definite, just that it’s there outside my body. [...] Not that I’m out-of-body, but….”

[...] The combined events of spirit, mind and body involve not only the passing of one season but preparation for the beginning of another. The situation includes all of those supports necessary to carry you through, not only with acceptance but with the great aggressive drive toward new experience.

It seemed to him that the information “just came,” but not already prepared into words. [...]

[...] Such habitual, unhappy thoughts will bring about the same kind of physical experience, but it is your own system of beliefs that you must examine.

(“…the next thing I knew I was back in bed, but massive again, and for a moment frightened: My left hand, above me on the pillow, had turned into an eagle’s claw. My eyes were closed, but as far as physical sensation was concerned that’s what it was. [...]

Young people are urged to tackle life aggressively, but in the usage of the term this means competitively. [...] Not only is consciousness to be focused to the external reality, but within those limits it is still further harnessed toward certain specific goals. [...]

but all that we know or see

is but a detail

(I was feeling somewhat better, but wasn’t clear as I wanted to be yet. I had a few questions I wanted to ask Seth if I got the chance, but hadn’t talked them over with Jane before the session. [...]

They do not then move as faithfully as your fingers, following your own intent, not theirs, but everyone involved cooperatively agrees to aid that creative venture—not only because you want it, you see, but because for their own reasons they are involved in book publishing and want to play a part in that kind of activity. [...]

[...] It made me feel real impatient—not on his part but my own. I also had the feeling that there are about five frameworks out there, but that everything has to come down to us through Framework 1 before we can understand it.”

(Once again Jane was quite relaxed, but she wanted to have the session anyhow. [...]

In time Ruburt will recognize fully my independent nature, but he did not completely (underlined) even admit the revelationary source of the material until quite lately. He knew it, but the ego did not admit it. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Our friend Ruburt must be entirely committed (pause), in order to succeed, but once committed his success is assured.

[...] (Pause.) Through easy success, through in fact a far more shallow route, but the intuitive self would have suffered drastically in your future, and there would have been severe difficulties.

[...] All probabilities now point toward success for you both; but remember, as you know, I do not mean a sudden showering. [...]

Your beliefs tell you, again, that the body is primarily a mechanism—a most amazing machine, but a machine (louder), without its own purpose, without any intent, a mindless assembly plant of assorted parts that simply happened to grow together in a certain prescribed fashion. [...] To that extent it does admit (underlined) that the machine of the body “intends” to insure its own survival—but a survival which has no meaning beyond itself. [...]

[...] But one has only to read Chapter 5 of Genesis to learn what great ages are given to Adam and nine of his descendants up to Noah, or the time of the Flood. [...] (Why isn’t Eve’s age given in the Bible?) Enoch, the fifth elder listed after Seth, lived for a mere 365 years, but sired Methuselah, who at 969 years is the oldest individual recorded in the Bible. [...]

[...] The Bible that you recognize—or that is recognized—is not the first, however, but was compiled from several earlier ones as man tried to look back, so to speak, recount his past and predict his future. Such Bibles existed, not written down but carried orally, as mentioned some time ago, by the Speakers. [...]

Tonight, Seth suggested that “portions of this session can be appended to the book,” meaning Dreams, but I found it easier to offer most of his generalized material verbatim while eliminating his information on one of my dreams.)

[...] But certainly more than coincidence is involved here. [...] More minor changes, possibly [though offhand I don’t recall them], but nothing like what’s now taking place. [...] But I may be wrong. [...]

(I’d meant to write up a more detailed account of what is really an interesting case, but had become sidetracked by the Fred Conyers experience, work, and other things to do. [...] I’d immediately suspected that he called us because he needed help that he wasn’t getting from his parents, but didn’t say this to him. [...]

[...] Naturally, I had no idea whether telepathy was involved, but had attempted during the first call to explain our ideas of such possibilities. [...]

[...] I didn’t really know whether his attraction to the woman involved had become obsessive, but did think elements of such a state were possibly involved. [...]

Not only this, but he needs other interests to refresh him. [...] These points sound obvious, but they should be followed. [...]

[...] Now form is extremely important, but forms change constantly, and no form is permanent. Therefore let your fine draftsman’s ability carry in itself that message: beautiful form but already in transition, with the vision beneath ever ready to adopt new shape. [...]

[...] He is on the right track, but now he wants to gallop down it at once, you see (more humor, eyes wide) to show us all that he has changed. [...]

[...] Jane came out trance easily, but said that once again it had been a deep one as has been the rule lately, and that even now at break she could feel Seth’s energy.

[...] Sometimes they spring to the surface of the mind, but often they are in the background, beneath the thoughts to which you are currently giving attention.

They crop up now, but his response is different. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) I had some opinions, but I have decided to keep them myself (humorously and louder). [...]

[...] “They were on the telephone—why it bothers us and why we’ve been turning it down so much lately—but he decided to let us make up our own minds about it. [...]

[...] But as the word evolution is the title for a fine tale with a little truth in it, and much distortion, so also, must the realities of consciousness sometimes be explained in terms that you can understand and in terms of your own time concepts. So what you understand of reincarnation, and of the time terms involved, is what you have been told so that you could understand it, but it is a very simplified tale, indeed. [...]

[...] I am trapped by the concept of time, but I had the idea of development in reality.”)

But you must not think in terms of one line of development for creativity goes out in all directions, and All That Is having within itself the nature of all creativity cannot be static, cannot end and will always continue to create new development. [...]

I hate to tell you this, and I cannot follow through in one evening’s session, but the idea of movement and the idea of time are not at all connected in reality. [...]

[...] She said she had a whole bunch of old songs she sang to herself — not Sumari,^* but the old standbys. I knew many of the melodies, but few words or titles. [...]

[...] It was gone by the time I went to bed, but taught me that sometimes the old ideas and beliefs die hard. [...]

[...] I got to 330 by 12:40, but still had to wait until the tray came at 1:30. [...]

[...] The window was open a good foot, but the room was still warm.)