“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I must remember that my own caustic reactions pass rather quickly—even if they do return—but that they have a considerable effect on Jane. [...] But I’m afraid some of my responses affect Jane more deeply, aside from her problems with her own reactions.

The selected newscasts shown in theatres in the Second World War were quite censored, but the aggressive press and its corps do now indeed serve in their own way as an invisible “police force.” [...]

[...] They died, quite simply, knowing beneath it all that they were not annihilating their consciousnesses, but bringing a given life to a conclusion in protest against certain conditions that exist to some extent among many others.

But no: it seems that worrying will get you someplace. [...]

(I added that I doubt if they really do, but that the views need integration for us to understand it all clearly as a unified theory—sort of like field theory in physics, perhaps. I assume it will take lots of work to accomplish this, but am inserting these thoughts here as a remainder of one of the things I want to accomplish this year in this area. [...]

(In the last session Seth promised to begin dictation on his latest book after a long layoff, but as things turned out the book was not begun anew. [...]

[...] According to Seth’s suggested use of the point of power, and his late deleted material, one isn’t supposed to dwell on the past, but go forward from the present—two major blocks of material, I told Jane this evening, that at first glance seem to contradict each other. [...]

[...] But out of this work I expect our questions for Seth will come. [...]

You think of the past as done with and completed, but on a subconscious basis you travel through the past. [...] Inversion in terms of value interwound upon value, energy compressed, contained, working upon itself, contained but with momentum—this comes much closer to reality.

(On Saturday January 8 Jane and I received a letter from Dr. Instream, asking that Seth do his best to give data on but one object during tests. [...]

(We had some reservations however about trying it now, but decided to see what Seth would say. [...]

[...] I had mentioned the drawing to Jane several weeks ago, but not since, and of course she did not know I had brought it home. [...]

But identity is much more than this, and basic identity, while using the perceptive abilities, is not that dependent upon them. [...] But this is all highly simplified, for the ego structure is not one thing, but a changing, never constant, actually quite informal grouping of psychological patterns. [...]

[...] But identity does exist, and the ego is but a pseudoidentity formed for utilitarian reasons, and as such it is of course a part of the basic identity from which it springs.

[...] Social identity may possibly there reside, but the basic identity does not.

[...] It is not dependent upon any particular ego structure, but it is dependent upon an ego structure for its existence within a physical universe.

[...] The elements of the painting would expand in the same way that I have told you the universe expands, in a way that has nothing to do with space but of value fulfillment, which has its own kind of depth and perspective, and which exists not only behind but within the construction of matter.

I am going to give you some more material concerning our discussion of matter, but first I would like to make one comment.

[...] That is, I can let him know; but overly conscious preoccupation blocks him from knowing.

[...] Neither of them had attended a session before, but Jane had made arrangements that they were to enter without knocking if they arrived after 9 PM.

Now spontaneously he would give more sessions for others, quite happily and easily, but in the framework of the situation, the black or white aspect holds back such expression. (Pause.) He would probably see more groups, as you both did at 458 together, were it not for the black or white thinking, but this would be in response to quite spontaneous urgings to do so. [...]

[...] She knew she had the ability but feared the consequences of its use socially and personally. At the same time she wanted to use the ability but keep it under control.”

[...] Their new state didn’t yet match that of her thighs, but it was much better nevertheless. [...]

(“Well, I guess I’m about ready,” Jane finally said, “but I do really think this will be short.” [...]

[...] It can also be a method of communication, but it is never a steady constant state, and will automatically change if not tampered with.

[...] This has little to do with their “actual” world situation or with the power that others might assign to them, but to an overall sense of powerlessness — even, sometimes, regardless of world dominance.

[...] (I, Robert Butts, was one of the believers.) The lie did not become truth but it became more nearly so, for despite their failures the ex-servicemen managed to bring up children who would not go to war willingly, who would question its premise.

[...] Any sense of powerlessness on the part of individual fighting men was given expression as before, this time in a more local blood bath, but the code itself had become shaky. [...]

[...] Jane felt the test data contained but few correct impressions. [...] I saw the house once some years ago but have no conscious memory of the brick color.

[...] But at this stage he simply should leave the grading and so forth to you. Of course he may make suggestions as he reads the sessions, but that is all.

[...] Her pace was slow at the beginning but soon picked up speed. [...]

Dreams are an example of mental activity that has its origin within the physical organism, but exists in a dimension which is not mainly physical. [...]

(Last Saturday, the 6th, was not only “chair day,” as I told Jane, but seemingly synchronicity day also. [...]

[...] I was due to pick them up the next day, and she asked Mr. S. to tell me she’d been there, but he forgot to mention it. [...]

[...] My back still bothers, but perhaps to a slightly lesser degree. [...]

[...] I replied that I could have many questions, but since I hadn’t studied the material or written any down, I too had to say I had no questions.)

(Seth told us at the time that the apparition was of him, and that Bill could see it but that Jane and I could not because we were too “fussy” about what we allowed ourselves to see. He said that in the future—time unspecified—we should be able to see his apparition at times, but by no means regularly.

[...] She said she may have had such data in the earlier experiments, also, but hadn’t been quick enough to catch it. [...] Jane believes that in the early experiments her failure to appreciate this, to interpret correctly, led to many errors in the material; that actually, through Seth, she had received the correct data to begin with, but needed the practice in fine discrimination to even be aware that the problem existed. [...]

[...] They had all but disappeared by now. I felt but a light lingering of the thrilling effect, mainly in the back of my head; the lethargy was gone. [...]

[...] She also felt a definite irritation, but did not know its source, or who or what the target was.

(Slowly:) The simple picture of the universe that you see on our screen, therefore, represents a view from your own now perspective — but each star, planet, galaxy or whatever is made up of other reference points in which, to put it simply, the same patterns have different kinds of reality. [...] You not only tune in the picture but you also create the props, the entire history of the life and times, hyphen — but in living three-dimensional terms, and “you” are within that picture.

[...] In such a state, however, it is easy to see that your usual orientation may be but one of many frames of reference. [...] On the inside, however, you would be traveling not around or about, but through one portion of the psyche with its reality, into another portion of the psyche with its reality. [...]

[...] You set them into motion, but then they follow their own laws and realities. [...] This is not to be a pie-in-the sky sort of thing, or some “heaven” hanging suspended above, but a very valid meeting place between worlds. [...]

[...] When she began the sessions over 11 years ago, we requested advice and help from a few people,¹ but as we slowly began to understand the very personal nature of her gifts we realized that she’d have to find her own answers as she went along, with whatever help I could learn to offer.

[...] But, again, it is treated with an almost pompous seriousness. [...] They spend time searching for their soul mates — but the search involves them in a pilgrimage for a kind of impossible communication with another, in which all division is lost, with the two then trying to join in a cementing oneness, suffocating all sense of play or creativity. [...]

[...] Most of the people are members of Jane’s class; some have met certain of their counterparts, but not others; Jane, Sue, and I are the only ones who know everyone Seth named. During break Jane came through with additional psychic affiliations among her students, but it isn’t necessary to discuss them here. [...]

[...] But the thing was, Jane mused now, that she didn’t think “Sue’s family” was on the list Seth had just given: “It was something like Gramada, but that wasn’t it….” [...]

[...] From a deleted session that I prefer not to date here because of other, personal reasons: “I may have slipped up, but I do not think so: I do not believe I gave the information about you and Peter in book dictation (for ‘Unknown’ Reality), in order to keep the material simple enough for the reader — although you chose to include that (724th) session in the book anyhow. But you and Peter are and are not counterparts. [...]

[...] But the typical masculine role in your country, you must understand, is certainly not primarily that of an artist. If the male has natural abilities that happen to fall among those largely accepted by society, then there is little problem—in that regard at least—but if his natural abilities lie in other directions, then difficulties can arise.

His body is definitely improving, but you must both examine your beliefs again about the conventional matters I have spoken about this evening, for they affect your behavior. You need to free yourselves in your work, allow for regular hours, but as I have often told you, arrange for changes of your own choosing—ordered change is excellent. [...]

[...] [They amount to much less than I’d figured on, incidentally—including estimated payments for 1979 —so one would expect me to respond to that—but I haven’t yet.

(“The pendulum insists there’s nothing wrong physically in the side-groin area, but I’m beginning to wonder. [...]

[...] It wasn’t easy for her, but she kept at it as I worked on mail, and she finished at 3:20. [...] “But I can’t do it yet,” she said, “so I’ll try to forget about it.” [...]

[...] I couldn’t help but be bothered greatly by this, and tried to shake off the feeling so we could get on with it. But I found it ironic indeed that that capacity was there, while on conscious levels we were trying to move an inch at a time, when we could do so by leaps and bounds as far as the body’s abilities and willingness were concerned. [...]

[...] But the skin of her elbow looked much improved, much more normal. [...]

(Jane said her foot and ankle are sore, and bothered her during the night—the right one, that is—but that it feels okay at the moment. [...]

While certain stages are occurring there may be an uneven quality, but not necessarily, where he walks much better one day and not another, until the entire system is aligned, when of course the improvements will be held. [...] This may not occur, the unevenness, but it could as a natural situation as balance is restored.

[...] But freedom should not be thought of as an absolute, but as a process of fulfillment that will take place naturally because he wants it to, and believes that it will. [...]

[...] The book will be published after Personal Reality, but before Aspects.)

[...] This is but one part of the process, however. [...]

[...] This is hard to specify, but he had the same feeling I have now about newspapers — the daily spreading out of ideas, and the kind of tremendous power behind that ability … I can see that corner of his shop/work area clearly in a half-light, illuminated by a candle in an enclosed mesh lantern sitting on a tabletop. [...] I know that Gutenberg is credited with this invention, and probably rightly so; but I also feel this as one of those discoveries that appeared in several places at once, and that my beefy fellow’s shop was in the general vicinity of Gutenberg’s — in Germany? [...]

[...] It’s believed that Johann Gutenberg (1400?–1468) was experimenting with movable metal type in Strasbourg, Germany, before 1448 — but there’s also possible evidence of printing from such type in Holland by 1430, for instance. (And typography itself was known, but not much used, in China and Korea in the 11th century.) In about 1448 Gutenberg became a citizen of Mainz, Germany, where he continued his work. [...]

“When Seth listed the families of consciousness last January,³ but didn’t include the Grunaargh, Rob asked him about it in the 738th session. [...]

[...] But using these models gave the alphabets some kind of standardization.⁵

[...] Usually several are involved, but these represent the ways in which you are using your energy. [...] It is only in those compartments of your life that confound you that you suddenly begin to wonder what is happening — but here also, natural hypnosis is at work just as easily and naturally, and your conscious ideas are automatically coming to physical fruition. [...]

You may desire health, but believe implicitly in your state of poor health. [...] Desire and belief are not united but apart.

[...] The person acts in line with this belief in all ways; but also a variety of subsidiary beliefs grow up about the main one.

Data or stimuli that does not agree is a side issue, not personally applicable but present, he realizes, as fact for others. [...]

This is but a brief session. I do not intend to keep you very long, but I am pleased with the letter from Ace; and Jane is right, you have them hooked. [...]

[...] But I do not feel that I could be myself as easily if you tried automatic writing, for example. [...] But seeing myself transformed more or less into plain black and white words on a page of paper seems dull and uninteresting. [...]

[...] But Jane asked me to get pen and paper, so the session got under way in our living room. [...]

[...] The problem is not only to receive data through the inner senses in an undistorted and coherent manner, but also of translating this data into the particular camouflage patterns with which you are familiar.

(Designs are repeated in the label, but no blocks appear. [...] There is an 1840 date on the label, but not 1965. I was of course involved with the test object, and my initials are R.B., but this can apply to any test object. [...]

[...] But then these dreams in turn affect the personality in general, and affect the actions of that personality in a physical universe. [...] But in all times there is no boundary, generally speaking, that exists to separate one psychological unit from another. [...]

[...] Her glasses were on when she began speaking, actually at 8:58, but she soon removed them.)

It is well known that emotions have a chemical reality, but it is not generally realized that dreams also have the same sort of property. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s psychic climate has indeed changed for the better, but in periods of physical symptoms beyond his present norm, you can greatly assist in such a manner, for these are simply—or not so simply—miniature pitfalls. He gets out of them with much more rapidity, and they are not as deep but you can give him a boost. [...]

If it were small and in the background the favorable elements still apply, but put off some in time. [...] Further in the background a less immediate but still probably unfortunate reply.

There is less differentiation, in your terms, in notime, but far more differentiation in terms of consciousness, and psychological experience. [...]

[...] But he was afraid to grant himself that release for the old fears of rejection stop him.