“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This is most difficult to explain, but the capacity for full conscious life is inherent in each portion of the body itself. [...] But other cultures in your past have experienced reality quite differently as a result of encouraging different neural patterns, and putting experience together through other focuses.

[...] The dream events are partially brain-recorded, but the brain separates such experience from waking events. [...] The dream itself is recorded by the brain’s time sequences, but in the dream itself there is a duration of time “that is timeless.”

[...] There is always constant communication between all portions of the body, but when the conscious mind is diverted that activity often increases. [...] These do not involve pictures or words, but are rather like the formations of electromagnetic intent, anticipating action to be taken, and these may then serve as initiators of therapeutic dreams, in which “higher” levels of consciousness are psychologically made aware of certain conditions.

The brain organizes activity and translates events, but it does not initiate them. [...]

It is obvious that you impress a room with your characteristics as you furnish it, but you also mark (long pause) what seems to be empty space in the same fashion — that is, you turn empty space into the living matter of your body without ever realizing that you do so. [...] I admit that some of this material quite contradicts your usual ideas, but the health of your body is intimately related not only to the state of world health, but to the physical climate as well.

[...] Afterward she tried the brand of liquid vitamins I’d bought on the way home last night; she said they tasted better than the hospital’s brand — but I didn’t see vitamin C or E listed on the label. [...]

[...] She said that she wanted “to do book stuff, but I’m spending all my time trying to find out about my health.” [...]

[...] They possess power as the wind does, but you only see the effects of their actions.

[...] Shortly Ruburt will be able to use the volume also in other ways, but now you can use it and piggyback ride upon it and see where it will take you. You must not, however, feel insecure but safe and you must also feel adventurous. [...]

[...] On that particular Saturday evening you were all involved in the same dream experience, but each of you received your own messages. [...]

[...] I will not tell you ahead of time what experience you can expect but follow through upon the next instance as I suggest. [...]

You did indeed, but do not be so intent upon putting a symbolic meaning upon the crocodile for it was quite real. [...]

[...] Jane wasn’t so sure about the recovery, but I said I thought I’d seen signs of that the last few days, and now felt it would happen. [...] I told Jane I realized it would be tougher for her to realize these things, but that I thought events would prove them out.

[...] I selected them at random this morning, but picked just those I wanted, for their import is that Jane has no disease, as Seth has insisted all along. [...]

[...] I’d had them too, but they are much minimized by now for me, and I want her to reach that belief plateau also. [...]

[...] I tried to go easy with what I said to her today, but ended up fearing I had overdone it in my eagerness to get things started. [...]

[...] But you have both progressed enough in your understanding that the situation should pass without too much difficulty. I would certainly say more if it were possible, but outside of knocking Ruburt over the head, or putting him in a deep trance, there is really little I can say.

[...] I don’t know just when, but...” [...] I tried to question myself but got nothing.

[...] But my eye did then light upon a Sheridan, Arkansas; this is a smallish town perhaps fifty miles or more across the northern Louisiana border into Arkansas, and in a direct north-south line with the north-central portion of Louisiana. But I feel sure that George Marshall named the state of Louisiana, not Arkansas.

(By 8:59 Jane was a little nervous, but nothing like she used to be in earlier sessions. [...]

[...] But in this appendix, at least, I discovered that it wasn’t always possible to achieve both of those goals just as I wanted to — not in connection with each point mentioned. It also became inevitable that at least some elements of Seth’s own “separate-but-connected” reality would have to be considered. [...]

[...] Since the excerpts are still more representative than complete, however, due to the accumulated mass of information available, my own choices enter in: ESP class data are quoted a number of times; included is material summarizing Jane’s own theories about the Seth phenomena, as she worked them out in her recently completed Adventures in Consciousness; but reincarnation, while mentioned often, isn’t stressed in terms of particulars — that is, I refer to Seth’s statements that he, Jane and I led closely involved lives in Denmark in the 1600’s, but those lives aren’t studied per se. [...]

[...] I do not have the voice of an angel by any means, but neither do I sound like an asexual eunuch, which is all I’ve been able to make him sound like all night. [...] The so-called male aspect of your personality has always been strong, but by this I mean powerful. [...]

[...] But I do not feel that I could be myself as easily by means of automatic writing, for example. [...] But seeing myself transformed more or less into plain black and white words on a sheet of paper seems dull and uninteresting. [...]

[...] These are states happening simultaneously, but perceived in slow motion within your system. Not only are they perceived in slow motion, but they are perceived along one line of focus only. The focus is indeed intense, but so limited in scope that it is relatively impossible for you to keep your attention upon the self except in the most inconsistent and fleeting of ways.

[...] The child exists within the man, yes, but he is not the same child. [...] Each incident is recreated when the memory of it arises, but the memory is changed with each recreation, and subtly changed.

[...] But it will harm him in no way to help Mark in his endeavor.

I decided to mention this since he is at the point now—I am speaking of Ruburt—when he will not accept the superficial reasons given by the ego for many reactions, but seeks to discover deeper causes. [...]

The spirit of Island One says: “I quite enjoyed my venture, and I’ve learned that the great explosive thrusts of creativity are good — but, oh, I yearn for my own quiet, undisturbed shores; and so if you don’t care I think I’ll return there.” [...] The sands still lie glittering, but the fog and mists are gone. The beloved birds have multiplied, and there is in the old familiar sameness a new, muted, but delightful refrain, colon: new species in keeping with the old, but more vigorous. [...]

Your mother and father are alive, as are Ruburt’s parents,⁴ but their realities are not pinpointed to any given island, and they are forming alliances, but always from the standpoints of their own unique identities. [...]

[...] “I don’t know why, but I’ve been doing things that way lately. [...]

Now this first island is very clever indeed, and so it sends its spirit wandering to the closest counterpart, and says: “You are myself, but without sand or palm trees.”

But in your terms this was still largely a dream world, though it was fully fashioned. [...] Those consciousnesses were individualized before the beginning, but not manifest. But individualized consciousness was not quite all that bold. It did not attach itself completely to its earthly forms at the start, but rested often within its “ancient” divine heritage. [...]

The first “object” was an almost unendurable mass, though it had no weight, and it exploded, instantaneously beginning processes that formed the universe—but no time was involved. [...] In your terms this was a physical explosion—but in the terms of the consciousnesses involved in that breakthrough, this was experienced as a triumphant “first” inspirational frenzy, a breakthrough into another kind of being (most intently).

[...] She started out speaking for Seth very quietly, but her delivery soon became much more intent—then often louder and impassioned: Jane used many more gestures than usual, staring wide-eyed at me, leaning forward again and again in her rocker, crossing and uncrossing her legs. [...]

Now: You cannot prove scientifically that [your] world was created (pause) by a god who set it into motion, but remained outside of its dominion. [...]

[...] But the main idea is the affirmation that the physical being, the self that you know, is not annihilated with death. [...] The male image of God was used because of the sex orientation of the times, but beyond this the Christ personality said, “…the kingdom of God is within (among) you” (Luke 17:21).

[...] You do not help your children by keeping them chained to you, but you do not help your aged parents either by encouraging their sense of helplessness. [...]

[...] But never negate the present reality of yourself because you compare it to some idealized perfection.

[...] This does not mean that all being is in a state of becoming perfect, but in a state of becoming more itself. [...]

[...] Any event of any kind that does not directly, immaculately intersect with your space-time continuum, does not happen, in your terms, but falls away. It becomes probable in your system but seeks its own “level,” and becomes actualized as it falls into place in another reality whose “coded sequence” fits its own. [...]

[...] There are various questions involving the nature of perception that then occur, and these will be discussed somewhat later (but see Note 4). Consciousness is equipped to focus its main energy, in your terms at least, generally within the body, or to stray from it for varying amounts of time. [...] In far-past historical times, different kinds of orientation were experimented with (as by the “sleepwalkers” described in the last session, for instance). Your own present private experience can give hints and clues about such other cultures, for those abilities reside within the natural framework, now, but are underdeveloped.

(Well over a one-minute pause at 10:30, eyes closed.) Give us a moment … You have not worked with the power of thought or feeling, but only with its physical effects. [...] You do not accept your dreams as real, for example, but as a rule you consider them fantasies — imaginative happenings. [...]

In greater terms you are just as awake when you are asleep, but the focus of your awareness is turned in other directions. As you know, you can live for years while in a coma, but you could not live for years without ever sleeping. [...]

[...] Let yourself go with the joy of painting what you want to; but forgetting also, again, the idea that your paintings are working out problems, technical or not.

[...] The sense of form incidentally will, mark my words, emerge in a new way for you, but even the information given that so upset you had its purpose in your whole plan.

[...] That light enabled him to do what he wanted to but could not fake: paint the world through that particular unique vision.

Wheat fields for example, filled not only with the vitality of sun and growth but bristling with creativity that (in quotes) “destroyed” each part of itself in death, that was transformed instantaneously into a new spectacular form in which the creativity and destruction were always apparent, and yet one in which violence was necessarily turned into life.

[...] The dream as you recall it is already a translation, then, but an experienced one. As a language that you know is, again, dependent upon other languages, and implied pauses and silences, so the dream that you experience and recall is also one statement of the psyche, coming into prominence; but it is also dependent upon other events that you do not recall, and that your consciousness, as it now operates, must automatically translate into its own terms.

On cellular levels the body has a picture not only of its own present condition, but of all those aspects of the physical environment that affect its own condition. In its own codified fashion it is not only aware of local weather conditions, for example, but of all those world patterns of weather upon which the local area is dependent. [...]

[...] It can roll backward as well, but in your intentness you have a forward direction in mind, and to go backward would seem to divert you from your purpose.

[...] The present hub of the wheel, therefore, is but one prominent present, operationally valid. [...]

[...] He decided early to have no children — but more, to fight any evidence of femininity that might taint his work, or jumble up his dedication to it. He loved you deeply and does, but he always felt he had to tread a slender line, so as to satisfy the various needs and beliefs that you both had to one extent or another, and those you felt society possessed. [...]

[...] Here you won’t go to the marketplace, but you think of saving all of these private sessions for posterity, to give them to the world some day. You’re very close-mouthed: You don’t blab our personal business, but you’d do that…. [...]

[...] “But right now I’m just waiting,” she said impatiently at 9:40, after we’d been ready for Seth to come through since 9:25. [...]

(Then rather slowly — but, strangely, with emphasis:)

[...] It does no good to say, “But my life was traumatic,” therefore reinforcing the belief. [...] This does not mean “lying” to yourself; but if it seems to you that your background held no joys, accomplishments or pleasures, then you are lying to yourself now. [...] (See the 644th session in Chapter Eleven.) From the present you have hypnotized yourself, viewing the past not as it was to your experience, but as it appears now in the light of your current beliefs.

[...] [They began to approach those described in the 639th session in Chapter Ten, and the 653rd session in Chapter Thirteen, to name but two such instances mentioned in this book.] Finally she called me at 3:30 p.m. as I was painting in my studio, and read Silver Brothers to me. [...] “But now I don’t know what to do,” she said several times, looking quite bewildered. [...]

[...] I was going to do more, but I’m too high and exhausted to go on….” [...]

[...] Since telepathy exists (as described in Chapter Three), the subject will react not only to verbal commands but to the unspoken beliefs of the practitioner, thereby “proving,” of course, the hypnotist’s theory of what his profession is.

You may not consider trust an attribute connected with reasoning, but it is indeed, for it represents the creature’s innate understanding of the support with which it has been gifted. [...] Most of them are filled with distortions, but they are all efforts to uncover man’s natural magical reasoning. [...]

(Pause.) Man serves his purposes within nature, as all species do, and in the terms of your understanding man “thinks” in his own way, but he is also the thinking portion of nature. [...]

[...] Animals do not read or write books, but they do “read” nature directly through the context of their own experience, and through intuitive knowing. [...]

[...] The government is composed of many people, of course, and really extends all the way down the line, even to its least citizen, but the government can direct the use of energies, of goods, commerce, power, and so forth.

[...] But Christianity was not born at that time. (Long pause.) You might say that the labor pains (intently) were happening then, but the birth itself did not emerge for some time later.

[...] The idea of a redeemer was hardly new, but ancient in many traditions. [...] (musically) filled the psychic bill, but who were unfitted for other reasons: They were of the wrong race, or their timing was off. [...]

(9:38 P.M. Jane agreed with my own surprise that she not only chose to hold the session, but discussed the Christ material. [...] But now she was just as much at ease as she had been before the session. [...]

[...] By 8:30, when she’d finished doing the dishes, the overall soreness had dissipated to some degree, but she appeared to be so groggy with relaxation that I hardly expected her to want to have a session. [...]

They would not help you get a raise but act to the contrary, and they have done so in the past. [...] But you have severely limited yourself in this respect.

[...] I have told you that you will never be in severe financial difficulties again, but you do not trust my word enough, so far. [...] But your attitude caused the circumstances.

You have been told but you have not taken the information seriously because you were not ready, as earlier Ruburt was not ready to. [...]

[...] Now these exercises will prove themselves out in practical terms, but you must give them the opportunity to prove themselves.

[...] It concerned his low opinion of Steve Blumenthal—to which he’s entitled, I suppose—but Saul himself made a number of inaccurate statements, so the situation appeared to me to be a standoff. After lunch Jane tried to read Saul’s letter, but couldn’t manage it. [...]

[...] Jane started to read the session for yesterday, but had trouble with this one also, though not as much. [...]

[...] But, I said, they were noticeable to me, if in a different way than her own awareness dictated.)

[...] The joints are becoming not only more flexible, but the fluid within the joints, which was “frozen” —

[...] Now, often in your dreams you are able to perceive such other situations, but you often wind them into dream paraphernalia of your own, in which case upon awakening you have little clear memory.

[...] The personality itself is “safe and sound,” but certain portions of it work out unresolved problems, and discharge energy in such a fashion.

[...] Again, there are exceptions where memory is retained, but as a rule ghosts and apparitions are not any more aware of their effect upon others than you are when you appear quite unconsciously as ghosts in worlds that would be quite strange to you.

[...] You only recognize the physical materializations, but as mentioned earlier in this book, you send pseudoforms of yourself out from yourself of which you are not aware; and this is completely aside from the existence of astral travel or projection, which is a much more complicated affair.