“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Before contacting Malba we had sat quietly for some time with but one dim red Christmas candle on, shielded by a curtain. [...] I was not particularly in the mood but I did not want to give up so easily, so we turned off the light and sat in the dark.

(She couldn’t describe very well how she got through to us.”But I’m here, aren’t I?” She likes us because we don’t make fun of her. She can visit different places on earth, but she couldn’t name another place, or other people. [...]

[...] He was not English himself, but had English relatives and was visiting them. [...]

(Malba worked in the factory but a few months. [...]

Now this sense, like all other inner senses, is being used by the inner self-conscious ego, but the outer ego is not permitted awareness along these lines. [...] But only a minimum amount.

[...] I do not intend to leave material in a general, undifferentiated fashion, but will add details. But first you need the skeleton outline.

(The feeling was predominant in her head and arms, but was also slowly spreading into the lower parts of her body. [...] It was not that she felt thickheaded, but as though the skull itself was literally expanding. [...]

[...] Not only did you come through without the possible bruises, but you have gained in stature, understanding and ability. [...]

[...] I wanted the paintings to be priced so people might buy them, but he said that wouldn’t be proper in a funeral home. [...] He hemmed and hawed, as they say, but finally I told him to forget the whole business. [...]

[...] But deliberately, she moved her right leg out to the right, away from the left one, crying all the while. [...]

[...] Jane asked for water, but her left arm began rotating so fast she couldn’t drink. [...]

[...] Jane has read the session before, of course, but she read it once more and did very well indeed, as good as she had the first time, saying the type was very clear and bright at times. [...]

[...] The supper, spaghetti, was a heavy one, but all of us felt a lassitude other than that possibly caused by a heavy meal. [...]

[...] We felt vibrations in the table at times as we kept trying, but no other movements were obtained.)

[...] Psychically you are still in that ebb, but the energy is there. [...]

[...] On occasion I will assist you, but I will assist you far more through our sessions. [...]

(I felt much better while out working Wednesday morning, but the symptoms returned again Wednesday afternoon when I again tackled the project in the studio. [...] I wanted out after a day of unease, but her symptoms had persisted now for several years. [...]

(Note that I had progressed this far on my own with the pendulum, but I hadn’t reached a full understanding of the contents of the first paragraph, above. I’d had some glimmerings, but hadn’t expressed any of them to Jane.)

[...] I had already received some insight on the problem by using the pendulum, but by tonight, Wednesday, felt exhausted by the symptoms.

[...] I thought I had resolved the problem, but when the symptoms continued during Jane’s ESP class Tuesday night, I realized I was wrong—the problem had not been cleared up.

Your relationship is a good one, compared to most an excellent one, but you know your inner potentials, and the potentials of that relationship, and how much you have to some degree failed it. Obviously you have not entirely failed by any means, and you have always maintained an underground basis of loyalty and love; but you are each deeply disappointed with that relationship compared to what you know it can be.

This will automatically break down some projections, clear the air, but more than this the repressed energy being used to prevent communication, open communication, is physically and psychically released.

You went to some good degree toward breaking some of those patterns last evening and today, but the issues of your lives should be clearly discussed and not hidden. [...]

[...] But all of the symptoms now represent aspects of your lives that you have not faced in a normal above-the-board fashion. [...]

[...] Our appreciation of life has expanded greatly — and if the Seth material did nothing but help us grow in that respect, it would perform a very valuable service. [...] I for one think that my own words are pretty inadequate tools of expression to convey the deeper, unspoken meanings within life that I sense but cannot really verbalize.

[...] But the body’s chemistry is also confused, for it “knows” it is reacting to a disease that is not “a true disease,” but a biologically counterfeit intrusion.

[...] This does not mean that such individuals make a conscious decision to die, in your terms: But such decisions are often semiconscious (intently). It might be that those individuals feel they have fulfilled their purposes — but such decisions may also be built upon a different kind of desire for survival than those understood in Darwinian terms.

(Long pause, one of many.) I will have more to say about suicide, but I do not mean here to imply guilt on the part of a person who takes his or her own life. [...] Such a son or daughter might be born, for instance, through a woman who wanted to experience childbirth but who did not necessarily want to encounter the years of child-raising, for her own reasons.

But if the interactions between or among frameworks exist for everybody, in our terms, then as far as I’m concerned they exist for each thing as well—and I do mean the so-called “inanimate.” (This isn’t the place to go into it, but Seth maintains that for many reasons we arbitrarily decide what’s living and nonliving.) Each reincarnational self, each counterpart self and probable self has its complement of frameworks. [...] But in each case where those framework interactions operate, they help each creation, each presence, each essence or vital principle fulfill “a larger picture that the conscious mind may not be able presently to perceive.” [...]

[...] (See Session 721 in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality.) However, neither of us have had such an outright encounter with a future self—that we know of. I’d say that under hypnosis the urge to fantasize the future lives must be a tempting one; but what’s the explanation for achieving little more than a formless future state while “under,” no matter how hard one tries? [...] (Or even a past self or selves, but that’s too complicated a subject to go into here.)

[...] We say that a certain gene contains the instructions for the manufacture of a certain protein the body uses in the construction or function of an eye, for instance, and that in expressing that code the gene passes on characteristics inherited from physical ancestors—but is that endowment influenced or directed in any fashion by reincarnational attributes as well? [...] But if we think of our genetic endowment as first being a system of consciousness as our reincarnational history is, we can see how the two nonphysical systems could be intermixed, as Seth put it, with one influencing the other. [...]

So if Jane undergoes illness in this reality, in another she does not—but in between those extremes she also explores all stages of her illness in a series of probable universes, flashing among them in “no time at all,” basically…. [...] But as Seth has said, since I live with her in this probable reality from which I write, then my existence is always at least probable within any of her realities. [...]

[...] Our own envelope tests not only demonstrated ESP but also offered evocative glimpses into the methods by which such information is received.

[...] But this is only a portion of any real exploration of dream reality.

[...] Yet the fact remains that there is a dream reality with a “structure,” “landscape” and images that appear to be made of matter — but matter that obeys different rules than those with which we are familiar.

[...] Don’t worry about neatness, but concentrate on capturing as much of the dream content as possible. [...]

There are “durations,” then, that have nothing to do with time as you understand it: psychological motions that manipulate time but are apart from it. Any sudden emergence of a completed universe would then imply an unimaginable and a spectacular development of organization—that it did not just appear from nowhere, but as the “completed physical version” of an inner highly concentrated endeavor, the physical manifestation of an inspiration that then suddenly emerges into physical actuality.²

[...] Now the vision (in which Paul not only saw the light of Christ, but heard his voice) happened in the world of fact. It occurred—but Paul did not see, or communicate with (long pause), a person of divine heritage, sent by his father to earth, who lived the life of the official Christ, and who was crucified. [...]

[...] Her delivery had been very slow but more intent than usual, and she was surprised and pleased: “How about that? [...] I looked the book over today, but I didn’t expect anything on it before next week. [...]

[...] It is not just that highly accelerated versions of time can occur at other levels of actuality (long pause), but that there are dimensions in which those [versions] are no impediments to the natural “flow” (pause) of events into expression.

[...] He knows this, but with your encouragement, active but playful, you can accomplish very much here. [...]

Also, as you have been, but even more actively, gently encourage him to express his feelings. He had begun to do this, but your encouragement means much to him along this line, as he still looks to see whether you approve or disapprove. [...]

[...] The new individual has a deeply buried memory of its past lives, but the personal consciousness of the last reincarnated self must not be superimposed upon this new identity. [...] It is even given lessons of a kind, but it is very much its own self.

[...] I feel Seth around too but he hasn’t come through yet. [...]

(“I can sense the information outside of me, say, but I can’t get it in my regular state of consciousness. When Seth comes through he’s at the same level the material’s at, and he — or I — can then pull it in … It’s as though there’s a store of information there, but I have to go through a door of consciousness to reach it.”

[...] But that’s funny: I don’t think of Seth being over there — just the information. [...]

[...] An organization is definitely present, but it is not the kind of order you are used to recognizing. [...]

[...] These fields of probabilities are action sources for your reality; but your world-action is also a source for these other probabilities.

The child knew “that it came from somewhere else” — not by chance but by design. [...] In fact, children let little escape them, so that, again, they experiment constantly in an effort to discover not only the effect of their thoughts and intents and wishes upon others, but the degree to which others influence their own behavior. [...]

[...] But before that….)

Children understand the importance of symbols, and they use them constantly to protect themselves — not from their own reality but from the adult world. [...]

Parents and physicians believe, instead, that the child is a victim, ill for no personal reason, but indisposed because of elements attacking him — either the outside environment, or [something] working against him from within. [...]

[...] Richita (or Wichita?—my phonetic interpretation.) An Indian name… 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. [...]

(At times Jane and I have speculated about eventually publishing the class sessions—with the permission of those involved, of course—but have been so busy we haven’t tried to follow through.

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

[...] Her Seth voice was deeper than her usual voice to some extent, but it wasn’t loud, and I was sure no one would notice anything unusual sound-wise from the hall outside the closed door of room 330. Jane’s eyes remained open, but she took few long pauses.)

[...] The television picture was on but the sound was off. [...]

I will discuss deeper matters with you at another time, but hopefully we will hold a session before too much time has passed. [...]

[...] Let Ruburt take a cigarette break, and then I may speak again for a short time—but if not, do not be discouraged, for in any case this session marks a new beginning. [...]

There are reasons why he “relapsed,” but the point of power is in the present, and this material and its understanding by Ruburt is more important than “past” causes. I have said this it seems literally thousands of times, but there must not be a concentration upon the problem. [...]

[...] But the power of Ruburt’s will was not directed in those terms. [...]

[...] He has since realized at various times that the method has outlived its purpose—but the resulting feeling of helplessness has impeded his progress. [...]

[...] But he closed off his will from his body, so in that area he felt powerless.

I do not mean to idealize him either, or others of his kind, but to point out that you can use your imaginations and intellects in other fashions than you do. In fact, such fashions are not only genetically possible, but genetically probable—a matter I will discuss later in the book. [...] That statement is generally true, but specifically, of course, any act of the imagination involves reasoning, and any [act] of reason involves the imagination.

[...] Both imagination and reason belonged to the species from the beginning, but the species has used these qualities in different ways throughout what you think of as historic time. [...]

[...] The objects of the world then become important not only for what they are but because of their standing in an inner world of meaning. [...]

[...] Ruburt was distressed—not only by the individual’s situation, but by the philosophic implications. [...]

[...] You do not need to worry or deride yourselves for stupidity if it appears (very long pause, eyes closed, at 9:04), looking over the long annals of work that we have done together, that it should have been obvious that our ideas were leading in certain directions—for not only have I been trying to divest you of official ideas, but to prepare you for the acceptance of a new version of reality: A version that could be described in many fashions. It has been during the annals of history, but many of those fashions also indisputably, and with the best of intentions, managed to give a faulty picture: you ended up with your gods and demons, unwieldy methods and cults, and often with the intellect downgraded. [...]

(9:24.) You should understand that the approach is the best one to use in life, generally speaking, but it will improve all conditions, even if you still have difficulties in certain areas (pause), and that its use cannot help but promote the overall quality of your lives. [...]

[...] I was aware of each one, but after I came out of the first one I felt something else was involved, but I’m not sure what. [...]

(We’d postponed last night’s regularly scheduled session until Thursday because Jane had a dental problem [relining,] to resolve—but then tonight after supper she decided to have a session now “because you don’t know what might happen tomorrow....”)

(Jane’s voice was shaky, but her finger looked better. [...] But a major reason for our reducing the nurses’ visits is to get rid of the constant negative suggestions they unwittingly broadcast, all in the name of trying to be helpful. [...]

[...] For now, some return to the vitamins will be helpful, because of Ruburt’s beliefs—but helpful nevertheless. [...] Now we bid you a fond good evening —but remember those suggestions I mentioned earlier, for Ruburt can really utilize them now. [...]

[...] I’ve recalled portions of some very vivid dreams, also involving my parents, but haven’t spontaneously remembered them in full detail as I usually do. [...]

[...] Once again we wondered how much more of a boost her thyroid medication needed, but we haven’t heard from Dr. Kardon about it—or anything else, for that matter, since we had the meeting with Dr. Sobel last Friday, May 28. [...]

[...] But we’ve also grown careless again: She walks but once a day, instead of the twice I suggested recently, and which she agreed to, and which Seth seconded in a recent session. [...]

[...] After some coaxing on the back porch, I got Mitzi rolling around in the catnip on the towel, but only half succeeded in wrapping her up. [...] I’d thought I might totally alienate her this time if she fought too hard, but such was not the case. [...]

[...] But she’s been bothered more than once lately by the contents of some of her mail — the letters of woe she attracts from readers who earnestly petition aid of various kinds from Seth and herself. [...]

New sentence: In your historical past, when man identified his identity with the soul, he actually gave himself greater leeway in terms of psychological mobility, but eventually the concept of the soul as held resulted in a distrust of the intellect. [...]