“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You made brave breakthroughs, for the sessions never would have begun or continued—but to maintain your peace of mind you still had to keep your mental footing in the world of those old beliefs. It might have seemed sometimes that our ideas were fanciful projections, hoped-for but unreal hypotheses that had their own important intrinsic creative value, but did not necessarily stand for any real statements of fact about the physical universe. [...]

They might have seemed like even brilliant (amused) theoretical statements, my own pronouncements, but little by little you accepted them intellectually while still being emotionally bound through habit, so that indeed, as Ruburt wrote, you almost became programmed, your questions about reality based upon the erroneous facts of Darwinism, Freudianism, or religion. [...]

[...] “I can’t remember the session now, but I think I covered everything I got from him yesterday and today,” Jane said. [...]

The latest disclaimer issue simply falls into the same pattern, and therefore was added to it, but all of those issues involve his feelings and beliefs about work and creativity. Any issues with you also involved work and creativity, along with the expectations that you had of each other—not just in your married roles but as partners and colleagues in your artistic endeavors. [...]

(9:55.) Overall, being is its own reward—not that there are not others, but that being obviously makes all of your experiences possible, so you cannot tie being up in a package of work only, regardless of the nature of the work. All of this goes back to ideas that existence must be justified, and Ruburt’s early ideas that writing would justify his life—but writing should express life, and is an expression of being, an expression of spontaneity, an expression of emotion, of body as well as mind (all intently). [...]

(“I’m taking it for granted that I can have a session,” Jane said as we sat waiting for Seth to come through at 9:13 PM, “but I sure know that I’m awfully uncomfortable.” [...]

[...] At first I thought the dry air in the house during the winter was responsible, since for a while I thought I was having trouble hearing her—but this doesn’t seem to really apply. [...]

[...] You may also use images, but these are familiar images, born of the educated and hence prejudiced physical perceptions. Those remembered dreams have meaning and are very valuable, but they are already organized for you to some extent, and put into a shape that you can somewhat recognize.

[...] It is not just that there are other functions of the mind, unused, but that in those terms you have other minds. You have one brain, it is true, but you allow it to use only one station, or to identify itself with only one mind of many.

[...] It is not merely a matter of learning new methods to acquire knowledge, then, but a situation in which old methods must be momentarily set aside — along with the type of knowledge that is associated with them.

[...] The information itself, however, had nothing to do with words, but with an overall comprehension of the nature of painting, a direct knowing. [...]

(But the whole thing seems like a good plan. [...]

Such incidents serve as important lessons, for in each case Ruburt will be able to see that the fears are unjustified—that a fear is based on anger instead, or that the fear exists but is exaggerated in degree.

I did not mean to suggest that words like “fear” should not be used, but the day should not be begun by reminding the self of generalized fears. [...]

[...] But the body was overall stimulated, enjoyed the activity, and felt accomplishment. [...]

This does not mean that those individuals might not come down with another disease instead, but it does mean that the belief in disease is patterned and focused to particular symptoms by such methods. [...] Illness is not a foreign agency thrust upon you, but as long as you believe that it is, then you will accept it as such. [...]

Physically, it is true, but again generally speaking, that your body needs certain nourishments. But within that pattern there is great leeway, and the organism itself has the amazing capacity to make use of substitutes and alternates. [...]

[...] At the same time it seems that Jane is trying to convey several sounds or ideas at once, with but one set of vocal chords.

[...] But when a man’s ulcers bother him every time he eats certain foods, it is more difficult to perceive the fact that this behavior is also compulsive and repetitive.

[...] The fact, however, that you have left your job gives you a strong advantage and starting point, but you must use it. [...] Then it means that you do not waste time and energy in apathy, or in crying over the past, but that you see yourself at last beginning upon a course of action that is highly important. [...]

[...] Your questions will be answered, but let me go about it in my own way, and not start out necessarily with question A.

I told you some of this was review, but pertinent. [...]

[...] For whatever reasons, he never planned to marry a man who would go away to work each day, but saw you both involved in a jointly-shared comradeship of work and love. [...]

But again the term betrays (?). [...] A complex variety of feelings and emotions are involved—they rise and fall, but they do not begin and end in that particular regard.

[...] The fear under those circumstances of letting go, and yet the fear has to do with the deeper fear involving the nature of your own inner faith—thoughts, of course, of being annihilated, not however by the emotions of another, but by your own.

[...] You have glorified what orgasm is—the unattainable, and therefore, the symbol of all the other qualities you want to achieve or think you should achieve, but do not have. [...]

I want you to take it for granted that your body feels—but that you have often inhibited the feeling. [...]

[...] Jane started reading yesterday’s session, but had a lot of trouble—halting, pausing often. Her pace improved a bit as she went along, and it was still better than she used to do, but not as good as recent attempts. [...]

(She did the same thing again later this afternoon—but now she’s aware of what she’s doing, and the action has entered into her repertoire of motions on a daily basis.

I may or may not return, according to those energies of which I speak, but I am available. [...]

[...] But she wanted to be turned, and I agreed. [...]

[...] One light was on in the living room but this bothered her, even though she sat with her back to it. [...]

(But this light also bothered Jane, to such an extent that within a few minutes she switched it off. [...]

[...] I tried to take notes in this poor light, but gave up after half a dozen lines. [...]

[...] At times during regular sessions, I have introduced effects, but for various reasons you have either failed to observe them, or have not been able to.

[...] You painted a picture, showed great improvement in so doing, but you did not start out with crooked brushes. [...] In the analogy he does not start with your perfect brushes however, but with limbs not straight. [...]

(“Yes, but so far I don’t think my encouragement has done any good.”)

(“But I don’t see any signs, really, that anything we’ve done has changed his condition in any way.”)

I have not told you that there were physical signs as yet to see, any more than I have told you that you have already moved into another house, but both conditions do now exist.

Action is basically electrical, but within your field only the most obvious forms of electrical action have been perceived. In this one respect your technology has let you down, but the electrical manifestations of which I speak could not even be searched for, or anticipated within your physical field, until the reality of man’s psychic nature began to make itself known. [...]

[...] Her pace was average at the beginning, but became progressively slower as the session wore on.)

[...] This he transmits to B. But B can’t receive the thought in its present condition, for the act of receiving a thought also changes it. [...]

[...] She resumed in the same quiet manner, but at an even slower rate, at 9:31.)

[...] All of this engendered some emotional reactions, but no tears. [...]

[...] I knew things bugged me — working, being an artist, or trying to, and so forth — but not anything to do with her. [...]

[...] I said that much of what we talked about would be considered the normal hassles in life, but that we had put negative connotations on those things and ignored the positive. [...]

[...] The free association is valuable because it helps to point out those conflicting feelings and beliefs, brings them into consciousness, and into the present moment, where they can indeed be understood in the light of knowledge that has been acquired since — but not been allowed to act upon the old conflicting beliefs.

The breakdown will be emotional but it will show a physical nature affecting circulatory (hesitated on word) symptoms and the heart, but this will be secondary.

[...] She knew the glass was going to fall dimly, but after that she lost contact. She felt that her face was different in a strange manner, that muscles were relaxing into different forms but no one noticed any change. [...]

[...] Now by stout I do not mean monstrous, but overweight. [...]

[...] It could however refer to something as simple as riding; but in connection with the account I do not mean the obvious trip, of course.

[...] a war that is not Indian against white man, but Indian and white man against Indian and white man. Not nationality but trade. This occurring somewhat further west but in the same general area, involving Indians down from Canada and an 1852 or 1856 resolution of this battle. [...]

You must perceive what you do of reality through your physical senses, but your physical senses distort reality. [...] But everything in the universe exists at one time, simultaneously, and the first words ever spoken still ring throughout the universe; and in your terms, the last words ever spoken have been said time and time again, for there is no ending and no beginning. [...]

[...] It is much easier if your theories fit reality, but if they do not, then you do not change reality one iota. [...]

[...] A rather classic example of the progress followed by many psychically-endowed, but in poor control of their personalities and abilities. [...]

[...] No big deal, but from last Saturday noon until after supper Monday evening, we had eight callers, all but the first two, Rusty and Hal, being unannounced.)

[...] You would not be rejecting guests at the door, per se, but telling them to return at such and such an hour, or to leave a note. You could compose several such signs, so that one might read: “We are not seeing any strangers today at all,” but there are many variations that you could settle for.

[...] The same applies to your guests, and particularly to the two young boys from the Sunday school, hopefully showing Ruburt that all conventional churchgoers were not closed-minded, but were also seeking out new knowledge.

[...] He is quite open often, say, to making love, as you know now, but earlier you colored your reaction to him often through the pessimistic cast that both of you had allowed to slip over your perceptions.

[...] Numerous but subtle instances of “magical” orientation kept appearing in our lives. We seemed to catch tiny glimpses of ordinary events before they were fully formed, and to sense the motions of probabilities invisibly but clearly stirring in the over-heated summer air. In the beginning these suggestive events just stretched our imaginations and thoughts, but later they became numerous and persistent so that we had to take them into consideration as we made normal decisions.

As with so many instances, these weren’t esoteric startling visions, but a kind of in-between event, difficult to identify, or one like the following, that was second-handed. [...] We talked to him for an hour (while, alas, dinner got cold), but he was one of those people pleasantly gifted in a variety of fields who hadn’t yet settled down to concentrate on the development of any one or two abilities in particular. [...]

[...] I couldn’t remember what I’d said as Seth — and I wasn’t sure if I knew what magic was — or wasn’t — But I knew that the night was … magical, alive with its own natural ceremonies. [...]

[...] I could hardly believe it, but I stopped the car and we talked awhile. [...]

[...] “Wow — a whole bunch of these little Seths climb up on top of the giant head — but in perfect poses. They’re very stylized, but all real. [...] I know it’s not right, not a good analogy, but they’re like gargoyles on a steeple….

Certain families have a liking for certain months of birth,⁴ but no specific rules apply. There is indeed an inner kind of order that unites all of these issues; yet that inner order is not the result of laws, but of spontaneous creation, which flows into its own kinds of patterns. [...]

[...] “Wow,” Jane exclaimed as she emerged from her short but excellent delivery. [...] But I really clicked in before this break. [...]

[...] You may have a dim memory of the light you “saw” before, however, and so you think: “Aha, the bulb I see is my life, but I’m sure that long ago I had a different life — and perhaps another one lies ahead of me.” But unless you step far back from the tree you will not realize that the entire string of lights exists at once. [...]

[...] But an old car brings back the old struggles between your parents, and it is precisely here that subconsciously you and Ruburt do not agree. [...] But to you the old car has not meant freedom, but imperfection.

[...] You did have some help, it is true, from Ruburt, but in the main you did this on your own. [...]

That indeed was very good, quite excellent—but it is not what I am referring to.

[...] But you put to excellent use the advice which I gave you, concerning the importance of psychological reactions.

Strangely enough, it can be knocked down most easily, if you can think of me in terms in no way occult or mysterious, but simply as a personality engaged in an endeavor which science will soon come to accept, as simply one of the many facts of existence of which they have previously known but little.

Dreamer “A” for example may pick up telepathically a small but particular portion of a dream by dreamer “B”. [...] Not because he is necessarily connected with the dreamer, but because the experience will strike at him emotionally, and he will then attract the dream.

[...] Not because of the poor results of the last test in the 194th session, but to vary the steady test diet. [...]

[...] I told him that the affair would work out to his advantage, but again patience is not one of his virtues.

[...] This was an interruption of the material on Chapter Six of Seth’s book, but as long as a break had occurred I suggested Seth say something about Jane’s cold. [...]

It begins with the sense of unworthiness mentioned often, but it led to a pattern of behavior where he began to hold his breath, so to speak, tense the muscles in self-protection. [...]

The fact is of course that he doesn’t need any of the symptoms, but in the interrelationship of his beliefs the cold results as a method of understanding, and of bringing about certain necessary physical changes.

[...] The antibodies produced by the cold symptoms result in a body activity that has produced some fever—but a benign one that warms him up and increases circulation.