“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now we will have a relatively brief session, but I would like to give you some important immediate points to work on—not (humorously) that I did not give you enough the other evening.

[...] Physical improvement, now, in that context (underlined), meant something else you were demanding, but did not expect.

[...] But Ruburt would immediately panic.

[...] You never felt a responsibility to go out, but a responsibility to stay home and work.

[...] In a miraculous shorthand, many symbols carry the burden of far more than one experience, of course, and one symbol will therefore evoke not only one given experience, but similar ones. Personal association, therefore, is highly involved with your personal bank of symbols, and it operates in the dream states precisely as in waking life — but with greater freedom, and drawing from the future, in your terms, as well as from the past.

[...] They will affect not only your own physical reality, but all realities in which you are involved. In a manner of speaking the symbols that you know are but the tail end of greater symbols.

[...] When you are at rest, awake but with eyes closed, images and pictures will often appear to your inner eye. [...]

[...] Now with reflection you could connect these with their origin, but usually they would pass you by.

[...] They are themselves part of the camouflage, but they are like lenses over your natural inner perceptions that force you to “see” an available field of activity as physical matter; and so they can be relied upon only to tell you what is happening in a superficial manner. You can tell the position of the other actors for example, or time by clock, but these physical senses will not tell you that time is itself a camouflage, or that consciousness forms the other actors, or that realities that you cannot see exist over and beyond the physical matter that is so apparent.

[...] Your environment is not simply the world about you as you know it, but also consists of past-life environments upon which you are not now focusing. Your real environment is composed of your thoughts and emotions, for from these you form not only this reality but each reality in which you take part. [...]

[...] Consciousness can never be still, but seeks further creativity.

Not only is the entity strengthened, but portions of it, having been actualized in three-dimensional existence, now add to the very quality and nature of that existence. [...]

[...] We thought the session ended with the first 20-minute delivery, but after a break Jane returned as Seth for more material. [...]

[...] Jane believes she might have delivered much more evidential material had I asked questions; but I did not know whether to or not, fearing I might break continuity.

[...] He will always seek security, but he enjoys being the object of a chase of this nature.

[...] It would work very well, but it does not work that way.

[...] Its light and heat become latent, but practically nonexistent. [...] The bulb is still there, but its power is neutralized.

[...] They are the ground rules of your reality—but not the ground rules of all realities or of all probabilities. [...] I have said his feet touch the ground but not the flames. [...]

[...] This week she has experienced many more small but important physical improvements throughout her body, all adding up to a considerable change in her physical condition as far as sitting, walking, etc. [...]

In a manner of speaking, the man’s feet touch the ground but they do not touch the fire. [...]

(All of the following historical dates are quite approximate, but they show the overlapping pattern of the physical lives of the three personalities making up the Christ entity.

In any given historical period, one religious drama may finally emerge as the exterior representation, but there will also be many minor dramas, “projections,” that do not entirely take. [...]

The Lord of Righteousness, so called, was such a person, but his over-zealous nature held him back.

[...] The interpretation of scanty records, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, has given rise to debate, but it appears he was either Menahem ben Judah, who was killed in A.D. 66 in Jerusalem, or a nephew, who survived and succeeded him.)

[...] It is not that certain answers do not lie openly accessible, therefore, but that often you have set yourself on a course of action in which you believe, and you do not want to open yourself to any material that may contradict your current beliefs.

[...] You may dislike your illness, but it is a course you have decided upon. [...]

The beliefs of course will be accepted by you not as beliefs, but as reality. [...]

[...] In so doing you never think of looking for it in the conscious mind, since you are convinced that all deep answers lie far beneath — and, moreover, that your consciousness is not only unable to help you but will often send up camouflages instead. [...]

[...] But the following dream would not have been possible without the first. [...] The most meaningful level was one in which the many rooms represented psychic areas of development, endless possibilities that continually opened; but possibilities which were based on previous life experiences, and there are many aspects of reincarnational data in this dream, all reinforcing the healthy aspects of Ruburt’s personality.

[...] presently a small firm comparatively speaking, but it will expand drastically within a short time... [...]

[...] He lives in Williamsport, PA, but has witnessed several sessions. [...]

[...] Her pace was a little slow in the beginning but soon picked up speed. [...]

[...] The people involved are quite aware of their activity at all times, but they behave in a fashion that is not continual — that is, the main personality does not seem to behave in a continual manner, but is broken up, or again, seemingly divided. [...]

(4:40 p.m. I told Jane that I’d thought she would speak longer, but she said she often feels that if she did I’d never get the sessions typed. [...] It’s true that by then I’m restless and getting tired, but I can always make exceptions. [...]

[...] It worked out well, but I lost time — and when I got to room 330 this afternoon, my legs were itching again. [...]

[...] In fact, the main personality is able to express many different kinds of probable action, but the entire personality is prevented from acting with its full energy or power. [...]

(Jane ate a better lunch today — that is, not enough to keep a bird alive, but still an improvement over most of the month of July: A little soup, a little egg yolk, coffee, a little custard, chocolate milk, and so forth.

[...] I ended up asking Jane if she wanted to try free association after we’d talked a while, but got no definite answer.

[...] Both of us have had the thought at times, but Frank’s spontaneous remark hit the mark just right.

[...] She didn’t know, but I thought it a valid idea. [...]

(Pause.) It hears my voice, but it understands what I am saying mentally. It has come so far into physical reality (Sue is eight months pregnant), that it can perceive telepathically, but it will be some time, as you know, before it will be able to interpret speech as such. [...]

[...] There may be a definite change to another department on her (Eve’s) part, and this would represent a slight advancement—a half step, but a good one.

[...] The new department or her position would build upon her present knowledge and duties; that is, the knowledge would be of definite value to her, but the main emphasis of her duties would lie elsewhere. [...]

[...] You are able to see for yourself not only the experiments that are being tried, but often to come into contact with other portions of yourself, who are involved in those experiments. [...]

Those experiences may at times be quite jarring, tragic, frightening, but they will happen within a framework provided by the accepted suggestions of the society. People may question the precepts, but generally speaking they live and work within organizational frameworks, each one ruled by various assumptions or suggestions.

[...] This would take but a few moments. [...] Since you are doing this alone, more or less, it is natural to be upset at times, but when your confidence is greater than your doubts, Ruburt always improves.

[...] It takes but a moment to check with each other, though so far you usually answer the door, but state your feelings to Ruburt clearly, then ask for his, and make your decision jointly. [...]

[...] I’m very sensitive to tooth troubles, of course, and probably project some of this upon others; but Jane’s losing the tooth reminded me of Seth’s very recent declaration that she might lose more teeth because of the relaxation taking place in her jaws. [...]

[...] Though the eyes may initially feel fuller, the material will loosen more quickly, but it will then have to drain. Otherwise, entire bodily relationships are changing, but he needs confidence that I hope this session will give him.

Encourage him toward physical activity of a kind that in his physical condition challenges him enough, but is not beyond his physical means. [...] Do not think, again, in terms of absolutes, but of improvement from where he is, and use your creativity there. [...]

[...] As we waited for tonight’s session, Jane said she thought that Seth was organizing material about the four of us, our years together at 458 West Water St., and the flood of 1972—but that when we decided upon the questions listed above, Seth changed his tactics: he began to organize that material instead—“reorganizing what he’d already planned, in order to put it all together,” as Jane put it. [...]

[...] There are also all kinds of other groups which are not necessarily family substitutes, but different kinds of families. [...]

[...] Children are also taught, however, that reading for anything but short periods was somehow unhealthy, that daydreaming or staying alone for anything but a brief period meant that the child was withdrawn, and that his activities—or hers—were somehow unnatural.

Physically, for example, you are in much better physical condition than Joe Bumbalo, but he is a prime example, to you, of the exteriorized consciousness—and while on the one hand you envy his shoveling the walk, you are to some degree underneath all that, somewhat contemptuous—somewhat, now; I do not want to speak too strongly, but simply help you become aware of some feelings you might have submerged because you think they are not nice. [...]

[...] Today the pendulum linked my reactions to certain foods to the chest symptoms, but these I question.)

[...] The polarities are artificial, but there is no doubt that in your society and times the exterior-tuned consciousness is the most paramount. [...]

[...] The consciousness belongs to the spirit then, but the two are not the same. [...] By its nature consciousness may flicker and fluctuate, but the spirit does not.

[...] She wasn’t reading the book now, but she realized Seth wasn’t following, literally, the outline he’d given for it before he began dictating it chapter by chapter. [...]

[...] In addition, my experience blended into another one after the session started — but more about that later.

(Jane faced the painting as she sat in her Kennedy rocker, but my back was to it because of my position on the couch. [...]

We have mentioned reincarnation hardly at all (but see the 631st session in Chapter Seven), yet here let me state that the theory is a conscious-mind interpretation in linear terms. [...] But in the terms used there is no karma to be paid off as punishment unless you believe that there are crimes for which you must pay (as indicated in the 614th session in Chapter Two).

[...] Their earthly reality occurs simultaneously with their inception, but in the world of time, lapses between appear to occur. So I say one causes the other, and I use those terms to help you understand, but all are at once. [...]

[...] Your own body grows naturally and easily from its time of birth, not expecting resistance but taking its miraculous unfolding for granted; using all of itself with great, gracious, creatively aggressive abandon.

[...] You will still be graced but unable to perceive your own uniqueness and integrity, and blind also to other attributes with which you are automatically gifted.

[...] Each painting is but one materialization, one focused presentation, of an endless variety of probable paintings. The actual work involved in the selection of data is still made according to the beliefs in the artist’s conscious mind as to who he is, how good an artist he is, what kind of artist he is, what “school” of artistic beliefs he subscribes to, his ideas of society and his place in it, and esthetic and economic values, to name but a few.

(10:19.) You will do this by concentrating upon what you want, but feeling no conflict between that and what you have, because one will not contradict the other; each will be seen as a reflection of belief in daily life. [...] But concentration upon the present unhealthy situation will only prolong it. [...]

[...] On basic levels your convictions will be quite similar, but one will see himself as the victim and one as the aggressor — that is, each of you will react differently to the same set of beliefs. [...]

[...] If you think that men are evil, however, you are often not able to examine that as a belief, but take it as a condition of reality.

[...] She didn’t particularly feel like one tonight, either, but she decided to have it rather than “sit around all night.” [...]

[...] In my frustration, I told Jane over the weekend that I intended to go back to painting, starting this morning, but it didn’t work out that way. [...]

(We hadn’t asked that Seth discuss the Prentice-Hall situation this evening — but when Seth came through with a rather ironic smile. [...]

[...] They are too anti-establishment to be college textbooks, but in their way far too reasonable to be considered eccentricities — in the same fashion, now, that the Parker books are.

These are not images as you think of them but highly coded information, electromagnetically imprinted, that would not appear as images to the physical eye. [...] But this procedure is so far superior to anything that you know that the body, therefore, actually takes precognitive pictures of its future condition — as if the body situation at the time were projected into the future.

This is merely an analogy but it will explain your body’s concept of itself; for as a whole it knows it “dies,” as now its portions do, but is also aware of its “future” transformation. [...]

[...] Recently Seth told us he’d dictate “a nice letter” that we could send to those who write along with any personal note we might add, but we haven’t obtained this yet.)

[...] This arena is not a place, of course, but an inner state of gestalt consciousness. [...]

In a situation such as your father’s or Miss Callahan’s, the overall consciousness is not less, but less of it expresses itself in physical terms. It either has less and less control over the organism because it has not solved its problems well enough, because it has already largely decided to leave the system, but does so gradually; or because in some instances there is a psychic block, which prevents full utilization of energy in this important regard.

[...] “But I didn’t know what to do at break,” she said. “I was still Seth at break, but I could tell when you got up and moved around, across the light, even with my eyes closed… Everything now is fading away as I talk to you. [...]

[...] It is true that in the past he would often block personal comments, but he had simply not developed enough to overcome his own nervousness, his own emotional state.

[...] When this happens there is awareness on the part of the new personality of the old life, but more, a clinging over, a tenacious holding onto, on the part of the previous self.