“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Earlier this evening the pendulum had told Jane we would have a witness for the session, but none had appeared. [...]

[...] But this subject is closed, at least for now. [...]

We will go into them all, in detail, but they will also be grouped.

I do suggest merely that your friend and landlord look at it, but merely because this will set your own feelings; and that is all.

(Over the phone BT told Jane she had an operation for appendicitis, but quite a few years later than 1936. Other points in this data either checked out or were close, according to BT, but aren’t listed here separately. [...]

I want you to take a break, but I want also to comment on the dream that has been bothering Ruburt, so take your break and we will continue briefly. At your next session I hope to get back to our material, but this is also legitimate and of benefit.

The divorce was a distortion (pause), not of memory but of interpretation, representing a psychic separation that occurred between you, not in 1964 but later, when Ruburt became ill—and to some extent (underlined) you did hold him back, as you know from the work with the pendulum that you did. [...]

[...] Ruburt is obviously afraid that he will have not only his own negative tendencies to contend with, but yours as well.

[...] The universe was not created at any particular time, but neither is it expanding into nowhere like an inflated balloon that grows forever larger, at least not along the lines now being considered. The expansion is an illusion, based among other things upon inadequate time measurements, upon the limited cause and effect theories; and yet in some manners the universe could be said to be expanding, but with entirely different connotations than are usually used.

[...] This time, napping before the session, she awoke wondering about the time; she saw the veil of light again, but not the clock and could not determine the time.

[...] Of course this involves training on your part but you are coming along well.

[...] But in this instance the vision was much better, you must admit, than it is with ordinary eyesight, since the clock that Ruburt saw well enough to tell the time was not even in the same room.

[...] But now I felt that I really had to have a session each Monday and Wednesday evening, come hell or high water. [...] But now my idea of great defiance was to miss a session, to go out and get a beer and let the psychologist go stare at his old vase or ink spot or whatever he’d chosen for that night’s test.

[...] But there was much more. [...] Seth also said that there were eighteen shrubs out in front of the nightclub, but Bill had to admit that though there were shrubs out front, he hadn’t thought of counting them.

Actually, I’m not sorry that we took so much time for the tests, but I’m glad we ended them when we did. [...] Seth didn’t seem to mind them at all, but I forced myself to go along because I thought I should. [...]

[...] Rob used to try to teach me perspective, but the lessons just wouldn’t take. [...] Seth says that he has no artistic ability either, but questions artists who have entered his own field of reality.

[...] There will now be a synthesis of dream and waking activity, and a greater physical release, but he must also work through his beliefs on Rich Bed and the material begun today. You can help him, but he must do the work. He must feel free to let himself go free of limiting concepts, but he must see, the self that he is now, that certain ideas that he considered important and basic collected limitations about them. [...]

[...] But this is leading him toward the beliefs behind the charged repressed aggressiveness, which is highly important.

[...] I had quite a few questions to ask, but since my anger had still been building up I now did not write them down, or Seth’s answers—which were very good, incidentally. [...] Seth insisted that the answers re Jane’s symptoms, and my own contributing attitudes, had already been given in past sessions, but were not being followed.

[...] But I get very mad at the way other thoughts interfere with good or healthy constructions. [...] I know what I mean here, but I’m not putting it very well.”)

You do not see yourselves as human beings in a quite human environment, but against some perfect yardstick, and this applies for you (to me) also. [...]

[...] At times he simply wears his body out, and it requires additional rest, but he takes this as a sign of sloth and laziness. [...]

Even for example, levitation is involved with camouflage to a large degree, in that the camouflage physical body itself rises, but we are still here using the camouflage physical form. Traveling without the camouflage physical form is a giant step, of course, but a possible one according to your development. [...]

[...] Conceptions explode into being, evolve, change into something else, and yet all this within a framework that is definite but cannot be seen or touched by you, the psychological expansion even of atoms and molecules that in themselves contain condensed comprehensions beyond your understanding. The stuff of the universe is not inanimate, nor even on your plane is it an emptiness to be filled, but constantly expanding in ways that you cannot yet fathom.

[...] You may have seen its ultimate falling, but this was not the same kind of experience as Ruburt’s seeing the clock.

[...] Variations occur but usually some remnant of camouflage data is retained.

These incidents in the past, that appear as the original initiation of an illness, they represent points, or kinks, where energy is not smoothly used, but tends to bunch up because of a resistance. Now obviously the particular energy does not bunch up, but a pattern remains in the personality where energy is spent in resistance, and not in efficient action, and not in effective idea constructions.

[...] Her voice was average, her rate of delivery average also, but with pauses. [...]

[...] Actions are perceived as realities according to the nature, not of a given action, but according to the nature of the perceiver. [...]

[...] In our later sessions for example, we have mentioned that the desire for duplication must always result in a distortion, but this distortion is also the basis therefore for a new reality.

[...] His tendency, both for undisciplined reactions and for habitual discipline, seem contradictory, but represent merely counterbalances in his nature. He could, conceivably, act with no discipline, but he could also conceivably deny himself any freedom at all, and hide within schedule and habit.

[...] But when he relates to the world at large, his first unfortunate reaction is a panic that is derived from psychological and emotional heritage, environmental as he picked up his mother’s distrust of the outside.

He was certainly encouraged, and by his mother, to pursue the ways of inward intellectual freedoms, up to a point; but he was early inculcated with the expectation that the outside world meant danger at the least, and tragedy more probably.

[...] But faith must be shown.

The negative thoughts can and should be recognized and plucked up as they are encountered, but you do not need a shovel to pluck up one weed at a time, nor hit yourself over the head with a sledgehammer for finding a weed in your garden. This does little to help the gardener but put him out of commission for a while, and it does not pluck any more weeds.

[...] He is filled with a great love that he can never fully express, and is gifted with an intuition that he cannot follow but cannot close out. [...] It was not because he did not care for the house, but because he did care that he sold it.

[...] Now you are not actively to seek out negative thoughts, but to find positive ones. [...]

[...] But a watched kettle, if you will forgive the mixed metaphors, does not boil. [...]

It continues to grow and develop, but its growth and development is highly dependent upon its realization that while it is distinct and individual, it is also but one manifestation of the soul. [...]

[...] But basically speaking, consciousness can never be a closed system, and all barriers of such a nature are illusion. [...] But citadels not only keep out invaders, they also prevent expansion and development.

So-called extrasensory perception gives you but a crude and distorted idea of the basic ways in which the inner self receives information, but the concepts built around extrasensory perception are at least nearer the truth, and as such represent an improvement over the idea that all perception is basically physical.

[...] This may seem strange, but all acts are mental, or if you prefer, psychic acts. This is an extremely simple explanation; but the thought creates the reality. [...]

[...] I told her to refuse to go if she thinks she’s going to have to wait long periods, but I can’t see her doing that, I guess.

[...] Every so often they came closer, but didn’t interfere. [...]

[...] They had taken her temperature this morning, and it had been 100.1. I asked her why it was up again, but she didn’t know. [...]

[...] We went over parts of a long letter from Sue Watkins, but Jane couldn’t read it. [...]

[...] When you came in [at 1:15 AM] I wanted to get up, but I believed what you said, that I had to get off my ass for a while.... [...] But I always feel their presences, as if they’re really there....” [...]

(“It’s hard to be sure,” she said, “but I think from the time I was in the hospital [last February].” [...]

[...] I’m awful glad I said something about them,” she added, “but when I do the feelings start to come up also....” [...]

[...] “But it’s good that they’re there,” I said. [...]

But do not imagine this in future terms, but in present terms. [...]

[...] He need not see himself do so, but feel his emotions as if this had already happened not once but many times.

[...] Consider all of your contacts as possibilities, all of which may unfold, but do this imaginatively rather than willfully.

Now I tell you that if both of you use these methods, you will indeed completely change for the better not only your physical environment and reality, but your inner, creative, psychic and spiritual environment. [...]

[...] Dream locations do not take up any space physically, it is true, but they are composed of electrical mass density and intensity. [...] Definite work may be done in a dream, but the physical arms and legs are not tired.

[...] He decided to go but not to pay the fee.

[...] Electricity as you perceive it within your field, is merely an echo emanation, or a sort of shadow image of these infinite varieties of pulsations, which give reality and actuality to many phenomena with which you are familiar, but which do not appear as tangible objects within the physical system.

I can say little until much more background is given, but this electrical reality is vastly dense.

It is not the soul, but the soul of the body that you must learn to trust; for the soul in the body represents the corporeal meeting of the physical and nonphysical selves, in the most practical of terms. [...] But he is not relying alone upon “his own” resources, but upon those great dimensions of energy that connect the soul and body—the silver guide and the ape.

[...] In this life he never sought tall, strongly developed, muscular, large-boned males out, but avoided them. [...] Here indeed he saw a symbolic representation of Ruburt—not one that could be physically materialized with his bone structure as a woman, but a figure of idealistic physical proportions that also possessed great mental faculties to match.

[...] He is not just a symbol either, but represents a quite real psychic construct, alive in your terms but in a different reality, and connected in a way I cannot explain with Ruburt’s physical being, with the source of the flesh that physically composes him.

[...] She was still “groggy” when session time arrived, but decided to sit for it to see what happened. [...]

[...] I asked Seth for a break, but this proved to be the end of the session. [...] I told her I would go along with whatever she decided on the contract, but did express my thoughts on it.

[...] He was not encouraged, but discouraged from expressing normal anger. [...]

[...] The feelings mentioned at the (supper) table were conscious at times, but he refused to acknowledge them.

[...] When you were ill they began, but he felt even less able to acknowledge them as his own. [...]

[...] In other words, for the personality to use its abilities fully that challenge would have had to be faced in every instance but the poetry.

The crisis would have occurred according to the circumstances and a variety of probabilities, but many of these led in that direction, you see.

[...] Otherwise there would have been an extremely rigorous personality, with intuition very strong but firmly held at bay; or a highly disorganized spontaneous personality frittering away its energies without direction.

But without the challenge and the conflict the personality would have had little chance to develop its potential, particularly in terms of understanding. [...]

[...] Soon you will be able to do this automatically, but in the beginning conscious effort is needed.

[...] It may take him a while to receive the money when it is sold, but all of this is dependent upon the first and basic reality—the idea for the book. [...]

Do not overemphasize however in intellectual terms, but use imagination and feeling. [...]

It is quite possible you see for you to have results tomorrow, but it takes time to paint the picture from your idea. [...]

[...] Any intense mental act — thought or emotion — will not only be constructed in some physical or pseudophysical manner, but will also bear to some extent the imprint of the personality who originally conceived it.

[...] To help you imagine what I am speaking of, you might think of them as ghost images, or shadow images, though this is only for the sake of analogy — forms, for example, just beneath, that have not emerged completely into physical reality as you know it, but are nevertheless vivid enough to be constructed. [...]

You may suddenly strongly wish that you were standing by a beloved but distant, familiar seashore, for example. [...]

[...] The fantastic energy of your psyche not only created your physical body, but maintains it. [...]