“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] But I want you to know that the material you want will be given in its own way—but given. [...]

[...] I replied that all I knew was that she couldn’t move like that before taking the vitamins, the peanut oil massages, and the cod liver oil, etc., but I added that I was more than happy to credit sessions, beliefs, and/or anything else that gave us results. [...]

[...] But she kept dozing off. [...]

[...] but I’m going to try, because I do feel him in the distance....” [...]

You are at the early stages of this development, but it will come. These realities within the dream universe may be created by you, but they are as actual as the piece of cake that you eat, or the poison that you may swallow. [...]

(“Also a connection with a building that is not seen from the front but from the side, perhaps from a verandah.” [...] We have photos of buildings in our album, of course, but no specific building or location comes to mind.

[...] The pigment color is quite dark, but not black. [...]

[...] It is difficult, but not impossible, for the ego to correlate the information gained. [...]

(John Bradley, of Williamsport, PA, who has witnessed several sessions, stopped by this afternoon on his regular rounds, but could not stay for the session this evening. [...]

[...] She said she felt as though she was listening to someone else speak, but could not retain what she heard, nor did she know what was coming next.

Since matter does disintegrate, or seems to, you take it for granted that this dissolution is inherent within it, but this is not the case. [...]

But the outer ego as you know is that portion of the whole self that is given over to the maintenance of physical manipulations, and it perceives only through those physical equipments, those outer senses. [...]

[...] There are many methods and schools of thought here, but a highly suggestive state of mind results, in which spiritual, mental, and physical goals are sought. [...] I also refer to those statements that just as unfortunately specify diseases for which the individual may experience no symptoms of an observable kind, but is cautioned that these disastrous physical events may be happening despite his or her feelings of good health. [...]

[...] These are ancient dictums, but you must understand the ways in which your mass communication systems amplify both the “positive and the negative” issues.

[...] Having artificially separated yourselves from nature, you do not trust it, but often experience it as an adversary. [...]

[...] But most of all, they operate to increase the individual sense of alienation from the body, and to promote a sense of powerlessness and duality.

[...] Seth has stated that such terms as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, etc., are of but relative usefulness; perhaps this instance is but an example of the ability of part of the mind to dissolve the time barrier.

[...] Seth told us he was able to do such things when Ruburt’s attention was elsewhere, but that as soon as “he”, or Ruburt, became conscious of the possibility of such effects they were usually unattainable.

[...] At first I was joking about the idea, but when Jane said it was all right to go ahead with the idea, I took her up on it. [...]

[...] Action is motion, but not necessarily motion that is perceived in physical terms.

The wind on the arm blows the hair,
And at the base, a golden mole,
Such a speck as a peach might have,
But the hair arches back to show a gaping hole,
And each ounce of flesh is a fence,
Erected roundly and snug
About hidden landscapes, suns, and shadows,
Inroads laced with prickly shrubs.
Peer through. The holes are not big enough to see much,
But dreams travel wondrous wires.
Fires brighter than autumn moons
Throw leaping shadows on the arm.
Days and nights burn like stars
In the twinkling meadows of the skull,
And through the fence of peach-blooming flesh,
Other fruits blossom, beyond reach.

I suppose that the “Idea Construction” experience could have gradually faded from memory, losing much of its vitality if the manuscript did not exist as a constant reminder; but this is difficult to imagine. [...] That experience, then, led to the sessions and to this book, containing enough energy and motive force not only to change my life but also to affect the experience of others.

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[...] This need might not be consciously recognized, as it was not in my case, but it must be present.

[...] Perhaps, I said, but the slower motion doesn’t appear to be leading anywhere, as one might expect it to. We gather that Frank isn’t particularly in favor of contacting the medical establishment, but what is one to do, I asked Jane, if one cannot bring oneself out of his or her difficulties unaided? [...] Seth has said often that just because one has physical difficulties does not mean those problems are fated to get endlessly and progressively worse, but this hasn’t been born out in Jane’s case —so far. [...]

(Jane had thought she might not be able to have a session tonight, but she began to feel Seth around soon after I began writing these notes, at about 7:30. She did well in the session, if rather slowly, but at the same time I became more upset and frustrated as Seth spoke.)

[...] The new organization at Prentice-Hall, the General Publishing Division, has announced a new, reduced system of royalties, but Jane continues as she has been. Tam also sent Jane a copy of the new Prentice-Hall contract form, but informed her that she can continue to use the old one she’s accustomed to, if she wants to.)

[...] The fears and difficulties may be deeply ingrained, but they are largely learned. [...] An overconcern (underlined) about the mechanics of publication, or the necessity of publication, or the wheres and hows of publication, or a sense of responsibility about the work, can indeed cause difficulty, but the basic creative expression—which has been impeded in the past by fears—should still be encouraged. [...]

What is not understood is that the same sort of conditioning also operates, not only in the reaction to events but in the formation of events. [...]

[...] These require much more effort on your part, but even the physical brain has latent within it the possibilities for many kinds of activities that still remain generally unknown.

[...] (In a recent issue of Time magazine.) Such unfoldings always occur from within, responding to signals not from the exterior but from the interior environment.

[...] Your system is not the most elementary, but it is one of the most elementary, and it is a way that the inner self acquaints itself with certain basic facts.

[...] He tried to contact Kathy Hagen in Syracuse, but she’s out for the day. [...]

[...] I’d thought A. Fife mistaken yesterday, but he’d repeated the same thing to Pete, and gave him file and form numbers. [...]

(“Anyhow,” Pete told me, “I know it may not be easy, but I want you and Jane to not worry. [...]

(I also think Pete found out that Kathy Hagen is not the ultimate supervisor at Syracuse, as I’d thought from what Andy Fife said, but that she too has supervisors. [...]

You want to do anything with the emotions but feel them. Write about them, paint them, talk about them, anything but feel them. [...]

This is but one method. [...] A recognizable verbal pattern must of course result, but use of the language itself will break up these personal associative processes that cling to recognized language symbols.

[...] When she became aware of them, she got a pain in a leg, but a little later did tell me about them.)

[...] That same unexpressed energy is present within you, but it must be felt first, and acknowledged. [...]

[...] I don’t think it any coincidence that Jane contacted Eleanor, who is the editor for Dick Bach, who is a counterpart of Jane’s. [Jane first called Pat Golbitz, but Pat was out of her office—so Pat doesn’t get to see Emir first.]

[...] Tam called Jane to inform her that Eleanor called John Nelson [which Jane already knew] —but that Eleanor and her screenwriter friend had the money to do a movie for Seven. [...]

[...] His unusual vitality, abilities, and intelligence were apparent, but they were not conventional abilities. [...]

[...] It is easy enough to say that that was extreme, but many women have hysterectomies for the same purpose.

Consciously Ruburt can learn to note various circumstances that seem to facilitate or inhibit his abilities, and our communications, but the abilities themselves develop in accordance with unconscious principles. I can take advantage of these principles, and to some extent use them, but I cannot ignore them.

Changes that would involve, on your part, if you see the opportunity, not more time, but payment and recognition of responsibility that you already assume in the main. [...] Not one that will take him from the firm, but one which might take him further, in some way, from his immediate department, while he still remains connected with it.

[...] Our department was recently moved but there has been no change in personnel. But as stated there have been many changes lately, and there could be more. [...]

[...] We haven’t been this faithful but have decided to make stronger efforts here. [...] On but two or three occasions in the past we have eliminated personal material from these records. [...]

(It was getting past the time to turn her on her side, but I read portions of some of the sessions to her first. I’d wanted to do this earlier, but the visits of Peg and Nona had sidetracked this, along with my having to go downstairs. [...]

[...] I worked with mail while Jane tried to read the session, but she had trouble doing so, and was very slow at it. [...]

[...] That the problems still aren’t resolved, due to the length of time it takes to get anything done, but that they are on the way to being solved, mainly. [...]

[...] But then she asked me to get my paper and pen ready.)

(Intently:) That reality exists, but it is not yours any longer. [...] You are, therefore, tuning into another channel, experiencing a reality that is not only quite as real, but presents a far truer picture. [...]

This is not only a valid psychic truth, but is the basis for cellular integrity. [...]

[...] Nor does such an entity hold its own needs isolated, but “considered” them as a part of a cooperative venture.

[...] In the same way, society seemed no longer to be a group of cooperative individuals, of creatures gathered together; but it became an alien, outside force, threatening the individual as much as it supported him.

[...] But those unchosen events also go out from you and are projected into these other forms. [...]

[...] You are used to thinking in single-line thoughts, so you think of events that you know as complete things or actions, not realizing that what you perceive is but a fraction of their entire multidimensional existence.

[...] There are many such points of fluctuation, but your system of course is not aware of them, nor of the ultimate actions, universes, and systems that exist within them.

[...] The physically oriented consciousness, responding to one phase of the atom’s activity, comes alive and awake to its particular existence, but in between are other fluctuations in which consciousness is focused upon entirely different systems of reality; each of these coming awake and responding, and each one having no sense of absence, and memory only of those particular fluctuations to which they respond.

[...] But an equivalent exists; using an analogy, it is as if ideas are built up not through sentence structure reinforced by inner visual images, but by like “mental” patterns structured through touch and scent — in other words, thinking, but within a framework entirely different and alien to you.

[...] I thought she might not want to go back into trance tonight, but at 9:30 she said she was ready. [...] “I felt exhilarated earlier,” she said, “but now that’s gone and I’m just relaxed.”

Man grants rich psychological activity to his own species but denies it in others. [...]

[...] But,” I added jokingly, “so are you.”

[...] This also allows for a clear focus in each given area—but more, it assures that no overloads occur. [...]

Sleeping provides not only a rest from usual activity, but a recharge of energy. [...]

[...] It may be raining in a dream but your sleeping body remains dry. [...]

[...] They dealt with symbols, but the populace understood the symbols as you understand your newspaper.

As the new beliefs take over, however, he is then stimulated to use techniques that he tried to use before on occasion, but did not consistently keep up. [...] He is more consciously aware of what he is doing, so that he does not fall, for example, into self-pity so often, or feelings of hopelessness, but instead stops. [...]

[...] Physically there are very beneficial changes occurring, but these are the results of those inner determinations. [...]

[...] He is not inhibiting worry, hiding it, but trying to alter the reaction itself—a big difference. [...]

He says, ‘I breathe, but who breathes, since consciously I cannot tell myself to breathe or not to breathe?’ He says, ‘I dream. But who dreams? [...]

It is convenient not to be consciously aware of each breath you take, but it is sheer stupidity to ignore the inner self which does the breathing and is aware of the mechanics involved. I have said that the mind is a part of the inner world, but you have access to your own minds, which you ignore; and this access would lead you inevitably to truths about the outer world. [...]

[...] (At times, I knew I could have a session, for example, but mentally refused. [...]

[...] I could reconcile a mental voice as a valid and quite safe mechanism of the creative subconscious, as I liked to call it — but an image next to me in the kitchen while I did the dishes? [...]

[...] Not only that, but she was helpless to resist violence. [...] It may be slapped back, but it knows the slap will not really kill the parent. [...]

[...] But, and here Joseph we come to the real heart of the matter, the mother retaliated in the main not by a direct attack upon the child, but by causing the child to believe that its misbehavior could be, and very nearly was, going to result in the death of the mother. [...]

[...] Not only unintentional violence then of the simplest kind, had to be avoided, but the unintentional motion and the thoughtless childish move. [...]

[...] The main reason that he does not see her is not because he fears her, but because he fears the violence in himself that he has never dared direct toward her.