“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This body is yours instantly, but it is not the only form that you will have. [...] It is interwound with your physical body now, but you do not perceive it. [...]

[...] Now what your senses tell you about the nature of matter is entirely erroneous, and what they tell you about space is equally wrong — wrong in terms of basic reality, but quite in keeping of course with three-dimensional concepts. [...] There are barriers, but they are mental or psychic barriers. [...]

First of all, it should be obvious from what I have said so far that there is no one after-death reality, but [that] each experience is different. [...]

[...] For example, some individuals do not undergo any such periods, but because of development and progress during their past lives, they are ready to begin more ambitious programs.

There are many probable systems of reality, therefore, in which physical data predominates, but such physical probabilities represent but one small portion. [...]

This awareness gives personal experience with the multidimensional richness that exists not apart from but intermingled with, within, through, and all about your physical world of sense. [...] In the same manner, God does not exist apart from or separate from physical reality, but exists within it and as a part of it, as he exists within and as a part of all other systems of existence.

Many were physical but some were not. [...] It was created as a result of that need, grew out of it, but it did not originate within your system of reality.

God, therefore, is first of all a creator, not of one physical universe but of an infinite variety of probable existences, far more vast than those aspects of the physical universe with which your scientists are familiar. [...]

But as it is not wise to dispense with the idea of nationalism without gradual growths of understanding and preparation, and while the idea of nationalism cannot suddenly be dispensed with, so also the ego cannot be, and will not be, overthrown overnight; and even when it is finally left behind, it will still be used as a handy reference point; and through all this the self will not lose but gain, for all expansion outward, and expansion inward is a gain, and all boundaries, whether inward or outward, are hampering and limiting. [...]

If the self were the ego then indeed such precepts would be necessary, but the ego is a small part of the self. Necessary indeed, still, but less necessary than it once was.

(Neither Jane or I felt well, but we also didn’t want to dispense with the session unless we had to, or Seth decided to.

[...] Any self, therefore, is never the same self, but action contains within itself its own comprehension.

(Long pause, eyes closed, leaning back.) Ruburt cannot understand all of the processes that are involved, but the body knows what is to be done, and is working with its own rhythms. This may cause temporary disorientation, but that will also pass, as you can see. [...]

[...] But I told Jane that now I’d need advice on how to handle my reactions to Prentice-Hall so as not to alarm her further. [...]

[...] She worried about not being able to get from the bed to the chair to the john, but did well nevertheless. [...]

(Yet she found the changes frightening, although she kept in mind Seth’s material that the fright was not to be feared but understood as expressing buried fears, to put it simply. [...]

[...] Again, we shall proceed cautiously, precisely but steadily, and always you shall be in control. But when we are finished, and it will not be for a long time, you should be able to travel from any state of consciousness to another and back again, safely, with full awareness of your identity.

So far you have analyzed these dreams as best you could, but soon you will begin to look at them in a new way. [...]

[...] Some of the data I will give you as a guide, but much you shall do on your own. [...]

[...] To some extent it can never be captured, but we shall capture enough of it for our purposes. [...]

[...] Tam had witnessed a session before—the 434th on September 6, 1968—but Eve had not; she was a little nervous before the session began, and like many others was surprised by the session’s actual beginning and its manner of presentation.)

[...] Not 24 hours a day, but I have peeked in on you now and then.

[...] but a reading in which you can learn from past errors. [...]

(Here Seth refers to various moments during the visit of Tam and Eve, when he was ready to come through, but for various reasons did not do so.)

(9:35.) Because of the energy he is given by others, he will have a certain consciousness of his own, but such a mock devil has no power or reality to those who do not believe in his existence, and who do not give him energy through their belief. He is, in other words, a superlative hallucination As mentioned earlier, those who believe in a hell and assign themselves to it through their belief can indeed experience one, but certainly in nothing like eternal terms. [...]

[...] But Buddha, like Christ, interpreted what he almost knew in terms of your own reality. Not only of your own physical reality, but your own probable physical reality.

[...] A child can think coherently before he learns vocabulary — but he cannot impress the physical universe in its terms. So this inner knowledge has always been available, but is to become physically manifest — literally made flesh. [...]

[...] This is like saying that because an apple has a top, it must have a bottom — but without any understanding of the fact that both are a portion of the apple. [...]

[...] The events that you recognize as happening now are simply specific and objective, but the most minute element in any given moment’s experience is also symbolic of other events and other times. Each moment is then like a mosaic, only in your current life history you follow but one color or pattern, and ignore the others. [...]

Such an exercise is not some theoretical, esoteric, impractical method, but a very precise, volatile, and dynamic way of helping the present self by calming the fears of a past self. That past self is not hypothetical, either, but still exists, capable of being reached and of changing its reactions. [...]

(This is the first session for Mass Events since the last one, obviously — but with an 11-week gap between the two. [...]

[...] In mid-July our friend Sue Watkins¹ began typing the rest of the final manuscript for Psyche; Jane had managed to help me out by finding the time to prepare the first five chapters for the publisher, but since we were both so busy we asked Sue for assistance. [...]

[...] I also found a young man in the bar who knew the two who had taken the car, but he was afraid to tell me who they were. Eventually the police found the car, abandoned some distance away, but unharmed. [...]

[...] I felt chilly, but she didn’t want anything over her yet. When I took my nap, she said a maintenance man came in and adjusted the thermostat, saying it would give us some heat, but it did no good. [...]

[...] She tried to read yesterday’s session, but couldn’t do it. [...]

[...] I looked at mail but didn’t accomplish anything.)

You took one small but important area—one that bothered him deeply, and frightened him; narrowed it down, so to speak, pointed out a simple but effective method of operation to be followed. [...]

This was important, because it showed that he could change, and removed physical fears he had, for example about his kidneys—but more important, because you zeroed in on an area in which change was possible.

[...] The physical patterns are of course the results of inner ones, but the deliberate breaking of a physical pattern serves as a physical example that those patterns can indeed be broken, and helps break the exterior hypnotizing effects of continued repetitious action of a given kind.

[...] I will have more to say but tonight is not the time. [...]

[...] She didn’t feel very good, but seemed to improve a bit later. [...]

Tell Ruburt to tell himself that he can slowly but definitely make small adjustments in his thinking, feeling, belief — that even despite his panic he can feel those changes move around in his psyche.

Sometimes it is not the words but the very sounds of the sessions which transfer calmness by directly affecting the body itself also.

The entire situation not only is temporary, but already has made its own turnabout, restoring the body and mind to an important degree.

The repression in one way I used in the novels, but when the habit becomes too ingrained I find it difficult to retain, to transform into art. Some of my material comes from Ruburt’s repressions, but when the habit allows for too strong a charge, constantly rebuilt, this is a hindrance.

[...] Because of his abilities he picked up your feelings all too clearly, but because of his fears he picked up your negative feelings. [...] He knew you were not a Sunday painter, but he felt you were greatly repressed in your work, and that any breakthrough could only come when you focused upon it, your work, regardless of other consequences.

[...] “Intellectually part of me is appalled but I feel triumphant also because I’ve got a clear channel up through here—”she indicated her stomach, chest and throat—”and got the material out. But I really feel strange. [...]

[...] She said we could have a regular session probably, but she waited to see what the best way to proceed would be. [...]

There are whole areas of material here that we have not discussed so that this is spotty, but we will go into it more deeply. [...] But once development begins to occur it is swift.

I haven’t had the opportunity to use my sense of humor lately but it is still here as you will discover. This is one of those nights when I dislike saying goodbye for now, but I will. [...]

[...] Once again Jane had been trying to give up cigarettes; this time the struggle lasted but a day or so, and ended in tears after supper this evening. [...]

First, naturally, I have a few comments to make that will not only tie in Ruburt’s smoking habits with his present personality, but also to some extent tie in his present personality with past personalities.

[...] The outer ego is but a counterfeit image of the inner ego. The outer ego as a rule is not aware of what you may think of for now as the thoughts or communications of the inner ego; but the inner ego knows every step you take, every particle of air you breathe, every dream you have; and it is the source of your own personality and is the representative of the entity of which it is part.

[...] He thought he might miss the beginning of the session while working in the studio, but the informality of the idea seemed good. [...]

[...] Not only is it difficult for you to conceive of a large concept for these reasons, but also it is well nigh impossible to communicate such a concept to you.

[...] But John shook his head and settled down on the couch. [...]

[...] He felt strongly but could not explain. In his solitary nature he came close to being a mystic but he was unable to relate his personality as Joseph Burdo with the social world at large, or even to the other members of his family. [...] But to him nature did not include his fellow human beings. [...]

As for your straight lines and curves you realize, I know, that there are really no straight lines and curves, but that they are symbols. [...] Action is solidified, or should I say transfixed, in a painting and yet even in a painting action is never really solidified or transfixed, but continually fluid.

But this referral itself involves time. [...] You give up your precious moment in the present but you do not have a complete moment of the past to show for it.

[...] It is difficult to carry to you at this point but I have hopes of doing better. [...] I could go on quite happily, you might say blithely, for hours but I shall not. [...]

It also involves subsidiary accomplishment that is not demanding, but that would always be a necessary part of any avocation of his. [...] He can pick any area he chooses, but he is to tell you about the accomplishments.

He is not to make an effort to get up correctly then, but instead to take it for granted that the program will automatically and is automatically allowing him to. [...]

[...] I want him to paint steadily at the easel, as mentioned, where he is standing, but with his attention directed elsewhere, and because of the particular refreshment painting gives him—the release from work and pressure.

This is not putting you in the role of a taskmaster, now, but I want you to join with him: “Can you do this? [...]

[...] Both of you can learn to modify these characteristics, but understanding them is basic. [...] But behind Ruburt’s outgoing characteristics you run into some rather restrictive ones that are more on the surface, generally speaking, in your personality.

You will have to let me handle this in my own way—the matter of your symptoms and Ruburt’s knees, but for a starter we will begin with you. [...]

Now it was on the one hand feigned behavior, but the symptoms had to be bothersome enough or they would not have served their purpose. [...]

Beside this you thought sometimes that Ruburt thought of nothing but himself, and you were saying “Look at me, I am no superman,” and so actually you were looking for communications that it seemed you did not want in the early part of the cycle.

There is no particular reason why others could not hear me, but practically speaking the ego is usually on guard to prevent such communications. The ego regards anything but itself as an alien, even the portions of the individual’s own subconscious. [...]

[...] No notes were taken, nor were they intended according to Seth, but I want to note a few points.

[...] They did not know about Seth but were somewhat familiar with our work in ESP, and of course would learn of Seth’s existence when Jane’s ESP book is published. [...]

[...] In most instances, or at least in many instances, I do not see the particular physical image of a witness to a session; but indeed as you described it, I see what you may call a composite image, an energy reality that is composed of past personalities, and in many cases also of future personalities that will be adopted by the inner self.

[...] Yes, I chose to be creatively involved (as I still am, obviously) for my own intuitive reasons—not only as an intensely interested observer and recorder, but as an artist too. [...] That may be true, but I’m also sure that she would have expressed her innate creativity in other surely literary ways—and maybe in psychic ways, too! [...] But those more acceptable ways, like her “regular” essays but like her poetry most of all, were the ones she had worked in and with from a very early age.

[...] All knew of Jane’s abilities, of course, her growing career with its attendant publicity, but that was only a minor subject amid wide-ranging discussions. Once in a while Seth would come through—though usually only by invitation—but that wasn’t the norm by any means. [...] The Gallaghers were the best friends anyone could have, but we loved everyone. [...]

[...] She had periods of modest motion improvement, but they didn’t last. Various medications helped a little (with side effects at times), but the medical establishment had no cure to offer. [...] We had a few visits from local friends, but it didn’t take us long to learn that many people avoided hospitals as much as possible. [...]

[...] Our considerable daily charges were mounting, but we had emotionally pushed their import into the background. I was able to make modest payments out of royalty income I had been saving, but this was difficult to keep up because most of that money was paid to us but twice a year. [...]

[...] But these civilizations were not organized around technology, so that the technological advances, while highly sophisticated, were not pursued with the same diligence as in your time, and they were considered novelties—playthings for the wealthy, advanced toys, but not considered in a serious light.

[...] But as before, she wanted to try having it.

There were several such civilizations, some mainly agriculturally oriented, and in those technology was applied, but generally only for that purpose—to increase agricultural yield. [...]

One or two societies had microfilm, but microfilm needs another technological society for its interpretation, where scrawls upon a rock endure physically, to be interpreted by any onlooker.