“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] When Augustus felt threatened then the conscious mind switched over, accepting as operating procedure the system of beliefs in which Augustus saw himself as all-powerful, secure — but as alien. [...] When Augustus Two assumed leadership then the physical body itself was not only strong and powerful, but capable of physical feats far surpassing those of Augustus One.

[...] Not only was Augustus Two more sexually promiscuous, but by contrast Augustus One seemed very pallid indeed. [...] It’s true that the exotic conditions spilled over, casting some glamour on Augustus One when Augustus Two left for a time, but the contrast was too blatant, too out in the open. [...]

[...] (Gesturing:) He believed that the individual personality was relatively powerless to understand itself and that it stood precariously alone and undefended, with a chasm of evil beneath and with an unattainable, cold, just, but not compassionate Good (with a capital “G”) above.

[...] Beliefs or ideas that frightened him were not faced, therefore, but initially shoved into corners of the conscious mind, where they lay relatively harmlessly in the beginning.

[...] Much that you know you have made a part of your life, but you still wish to use your knowledge for your own conscious purposes. [...] But what is important is the inner development. [...] But the inner attitude is far more important. [...]

[...] But you do not see this man’s good points or failings clearly. [...] You may have a relationship with that human being, but there is a world of difference between that human being and the imagined image of him to which you react. [...] But you cannot project that image upon another human being and deny him his own reality. [...]

[...] You can manipulate events and you can manipulate them for your own egotistical purposes; but when you do so, you give yourself a traffic ticket. [...] But I will not discuss them until these points have been made.

[...] Not in what he says but in his appearance. [...] Most of the other women or men like to destroy the image or try to prove it wrong, but they do that out of resentment; they see Dick as a threat. [...]

[...] But you did have a fling at meeting your times directly, and of reaping those rewards, personally, socially, and financially. [...] That was an acceptable way of using your abilities, but your adolescent mentality was the usual adult mentality, and so you grew out of the framework.

[...] This may sound very simple, but perhaps at times you forget: people show their main characteristics very early in life. [...]

[...] But even from the beginning you knew it was a transitory part of your development.

This was not one decision, but involved multitudinous small issues in your lives from childhood on, and represents aspects of your personalities that you must recognize and honor. [...]

[...] You ignore the ghost symbols or voices, the probable actions that also occur, but that are muffled in the clear tones of your accepted reality. [...] You move through other frequencies, but to do this you must alter your own consciousness.*

[...] These do not come through with sound alone, but with all the living paraphernalia of the world. The “you” that you recognize is but one signal on one such station, tuned in to a certain frequency, experiencing that station’s overall reality from your own viewpoint — one that is unique and like no other, and yet contributing to the whole life of the station.

[...] (Pause.) Not only this, but the screen people would understand the relationship between you the viewer, and, say, the other viewers in the same town. Behind the scenes not only would the performers, as performers in all of the programs, all know each other, but the characters portrayed by them would know each other and be aware of each other’s roles in the programs, and even now and then stray into one another’s dramas.

[...] His body was asleep but his consciousness was drifting. [...] He did not sense my presence, but only heard the thunder of the voice. [...]

[...] I went down the hall to 307 to see Georgia, but she was asleep. [...]

[...] She was interrupted by people taking her vitals — temperature 97.3. By 3:57 she went back to the session — but now her pace wasn’t as fast and sure. [...]

[...] Now she told me how earlier today she’d imagined herself visiting Enfield Glen.^* She said she did very well thinking of herself walking and climbing around the park and the pool — but then she ended up blue, thinking of all she had to go through yet before she could do those things. [...]

— and I am making myself known but briefly in order to accelerate those coordinates that are so beneficial for the progression of healing energy.

[...] It is simply that the family has become weary, but the circle of reaction must be broken.

(In all the sessions Jane has given, this is but the third time that Seth has referred to past-life connections involving historical figures. [...]

In this life, or rather before incarnating in it, the personality then chose to purposely minimize the intellectual area; not, now, to punish himself, but to understand in and through an exaggerated form, the experience of those far less mentally gifted than himself.

[...] He did not choose to probe lightly or delicately, for example, various areas of experience, but chose instead to intensify each life.

(This morning Jane’s neck was better; but since she was far from well we anticipated but another short session tonight, if we had one at all. Wednesdays are also witness nights, but since it was raining heavily we’d had no visitors. [...]

We have of course much to be added to our discussion of principle laws, but the laws will wait. [...]

[...] I certainly do regret the necessity for such a brief session, but I am often near in periods such as these, and I help you use your own abilities whenever I can.

[...] It is of great benefit that perceptions from the inner senses do not remain in the subconscious but become available to the intellect, and I will go into this at a future date.

(But while we were eating those portions, another new development in Jane’s progress occurred —and an important one. [...] She then proceeded to feed herself—awkwardly, it’s true, and with her left hand—but she managed to carry it through, to my complete surprise. [...]

[...] It was almost time to turn Jane on her side, but first I read the session to her. [...] It was very cold once more, but the car started okay. [...]

[...] But when I awoke to the fact that I could fasten it to a window pane via the suction cup, it was transformed somehow into a perfectly valid, evocative decoration of nature. [...]

[...] She got through it, but had a rough time doing so. [...]

[...] She didn’t feel Seth around, but lately has wanted to resume the sessions. [...]

The body, again, does possess such a natural faith, and it has nothing to do with esoteric methods and so forth—but again deals with a kind of self-evident biological knowledge. [...]

I will have further pertinent material myself to add to the overall category of Ruburt’s situation, but I am simply making this evening’s session to give him a sense of immediate direction, and in his case to break the ice, so to speak. [...]

[...] There are several lines of a poem and a few of the notes, untyped, that should be also typed at the same time—but he is pulling such issues together. [...]

Survival, of course, is important, but it is not the prime purpose of a species, in that it is a necessary means by which that species can attain its main goals. Of course [a species] must survive to do so, but it will, however, purposefully avoid survival if the conditions are not practically favorable to maintain the quality of life or existence that is considered basic.

A species that senses a lack of this quality can in one way or another destroy its offspring — not because they could not survive otherwise, but because the quality of that survival would bring about vast suffering, for example, so distorting the nature of life as to almost make a mockery of it. [...] But even the natural prey of another animal does not fear the “hunter” when the hunter animal is full of belly, nor will the hunter then attack.

[...] That consciousness is not a finished product, however, but one meant to change, [to] evolve and develop.” [...]

(10:03.) You must return, wiser creatures, to the nature that spawned you — not only as loving caretakers but as partners with the other species of the earth. [...]

Dream objects are secondary constructions, but very valid ones. Now they do have much more than an imaginative reality, and they do possess consciousness, but a fragmentary consciousness, that can however further develop.

(Don Wollheim and his wife and daughter visited us Friday evening, September 2. This session was held on Wednesday, August 31, but was not typed up by Friday. We meant to check it with Don Wollheim, but in the course of a busy evening did not do so. [...]

[...] This will produce, usually, no actual return to physical events, but a reenactment of them. [...]

(I had no conscious memories of being interested in medicine while in my teens, but then neither do I recall dreams from that period. [...]

[...] I’ve often hesitated to mention it, but as I did remark a few days ago, I feel her reaction to the weather must have other causes — that is, besides those having to do with simple environmental conditions. [...]

Some of this, again, is difficult to explain (pause), but in a fashion the intellect is a cultural (underlined) phenomenon. [...]

I am speaking about the intellect here for our discussion, but remember it is everywhere cushioned also. [...]

[...] Those same people, for example, all have, as you do, beliefs in people’s trustworthiness, and so forth — but under those conditions, at that time, you each — or rather you all — were in correspondence at many levels. [...]

[...] These are pseudo-intellectuals all, murderer included—people with some abilities, however, but pretenders to crowns. They are seeking for a positive cause to rally about, but their beliefs and self-deceptions make this impossible.

[...] To your not-so-silent gallery group in New York, for example, you have the power, which may surprise you in some of your querulous moods—but you have the format, the attention, that such people envy and resent.

I said before that no man acts out of the desire to be evil, but has always justified to himself his actions precisely by his own “good” intent. [...]

[...] In such concepts any natural goodness, or natural intent in man becomes not only invisible psychologically to the fanatic, but man’s natural nature appears as a direct threat to the ideal projected by dogma of any kind.

You might say that the personalities then are but divisions of your self here. [...] There never was any real division, but only a seeming one in which you played various roles, developed different abilities, learned to create in new and diverse ways. These reincarnational personalities continue to develop, but they also understand that their main identity is also yours.

[...] I have used the word multidimensional often, and you see I mean it quite literally, for your reality exists not only in terms of reincarnational existences but also in the probable realities mentioned earlier.

[...] There is always the opportunity to teach if you have the inclination and the capabilities, but multidimensional teaching is far different than teaching as you know it now, and it demands rigorous training.

[...] The amount of knowledge and training necessary makes such a teaching communicator-career extremely demanding, but it is one of the courses available. [...]

[...] You can indeed levitate, but not with your physical body, practically speaking in operational terms. [...] It has limitations, but these also serve to highlight certain kinds of experience. [...]

(I nodded, but I’d had a particularly interesting dream experience last night, and I also hoped that Seth might discuss that. [...]

[...] But certainly most of you are united in the seemingly irrefutable belief that you are definitely alive now, and not dead. [...]

[...] You are tuned in to an earth song, following this analogy, but you are only following your own melody, and usually you are unaware of the greater orchestration in which you also take part.

[...] You may say that you are you, but which you are you? [...] The biological equipment of your creaturehood directs your mass experience enough so that agreement is reached, but only along certain general lines.

[...] Using memory, you follow but one recognized sequence of remembered events backward. [...] There is creativity in your past waiting for you even as there is in your future, but to utilize such experiences you must learn to alter your beliefs, and to some degree escape from the particular kind of limited conscious focus that you habitually use.

The “you” that you presently conceive yourself to be represents the emergence into physical experience of but one probable state of your being, who then directs corporeal life and “frames” and defines all sense data. [...]

[...] But which world do you inhabit? [...]

[...] But they act within the physical structure, forming then definite changes in the RNA patterns.

[...] Certain classic cases of hysteria can show this in a limited but dramatic fashion.

[...] But the basic causes must be uncovered, and in some such cases, in many in fact, these causes lie to a large degree in faulty or inadequate memory functions. [...]

This would imply short-term memory you see, but this is not the case, for it is intensity and not duration that makes the difference. [...]

[...] It is that the lines, seeming so realistic, also symbolically suggest what the viewer himself cannot see in his own face, but knows is there. And so the landscape, not one but many landscapes in one, for while it is unique in a given moment, still it is a composite in your terms of the pasts that have formed it, and the futures that act upon it even now.

[...] The center contains condensed knowledge, not only of seemingly past lives, but also of the future. [...]

[...] This is not a nebulous experience, but vivid, powerful, and direct. [...]

(Smile.) You need not paint one neck with ten heads, but the one portrait can be made to suggest previous structures and characteristics that have merged to produce the present head. [...]

(Seth considered the first two questions but not the third one; I didn’t realize this until the session was over. [...] We do make progress in such affairs as visitors, expected or not expected, but could do much better.

[...] You make your own reality, but you cannot ignore the greater reality from which your world springs. Even those people, therefore, who deny the validity of anything but the most materialistic philosophy, sometimes dream unmaterialistic dreams, and in their unguarded moments they sense the greater source from which their materialistic world springs. [...]

[...] I realize you are not living in an ideal world, but we are giving that world ideas that can vastly increase peoples’ understanding. [...]

[...] But they are all signposts, and they should be vastly reassuring.

Now I am telling you this evening not only because of your own earlier discussion, but also because this material will fit in with other sessions that I have in mind. You are not only ready for them but you are demanding them, and until you are ready you would not understand them.

Not only this, but even if the race as you know it distorts itself beyond belief, or even destroys itself, the many will not forget. [...]

[...] It is not able to utilize enough energy to maintain a system of its own, but operates as an adjunct to other stronger systems.

[...] The abilities and potentials are not only being developed in this system but in others.