“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now apart from that, Ruburt has his own feelings, which are somewhat exaggerated, but he also usually tries to disregard them emotionally. He says “I overreact to Rob’s mother,” and intellectually then says “that is silly,” but he never allows himself to experience the feelings themselves. [...]

[...] When I was a young man in New York City I even saw some of it in the museums, but I don’t recall being that affected by it then. I might vaguely recall some of it, but that’s all.”

Ruburt has learned to make compromises, not always gracefully, but he has learned that they are sometimes important. [...]

[...] True, Jane didn’t express those feelings to me in those terms, but she let me know she was quite upset, etc. [...]

This is extremely important, since the dream world operates within the dimensions of your own psychic field, but utterly divorced from both space-time continuum and physical construction. Here you see the self truly spills over, not only into what you would call notself, but into areas with which the conscious self is barely familiar. On an unconscious level however the self is very aware of the progress of these secondary personalities, and indeed uses this plane itself for the fulfillment and development of qualities originally attached to it, but incompatible with its main intents. [...]

[...] He can keep it but he cannot keep it. [...]

The skin and bone, being physical, are adequate barriers to bound other material, but they have no hold over what is not material. [...]

[...] Not only this, but in all cases its own excretions are needed for nourishment of what is notself, or by what seems to be notself.

[...] The voice was coming from the area of the room next door or just beyond, but also from above; like out of the sky or something. [...] The words didn’t seem to be directed at me, particularly, but just to be there. [...] At first I thought he was angry, but then I realized I was interpreting the power of the voice that way. This wasn’t part of a dream, but I awakened almost at once as I tried to make out the words. [...]

[...] Others have journeyed to some of these interior locales, but since they were indeed explorers they had to learn as they went along. [...] The person might say “New York City is a frightful place in which crime is rampant, gangs roam the streets, murders and rapes are the norm, and people are not only impolite but ready to attack you at a moment’s notice. [...]

[...] Jane is still in the process of that objective, intellectual — and yet very emotional — movement of her psyche [as I am], but she’s made considerable progress. [...] [I note also that neither one of us is trying to get rid of our Western orientation, or to desert it — but to understand it more fully.]

(Pause, one of many, at 9:49.) There are levels within dreams, highly pertinent but mainly personal, in that they reflect your own private intents and purposes. [...]

[...] But no man truly acts out of the pure intent to do wrong, or to be vicious. [...] Not only did they have no wrong intent, but the overall condition corrected the earth’s balance.

[...] You cannot say that nature is good, but spawned man, which is a cancer upon it, for nature would have better sense. You cannot say, either, that Nature — with a capital N — will destroy man if he offends her, or that Nature — with a capital N — has little use for its own species, but only wants to promote Life — with a capital L — for Nature is within each member of each species; and without each member of each species, Nature — with a capital or a small N — would be nonexistent.

It may be difficult for you to understand, but your species means well. [...]

(10:01.) When he is destructive, man does not seek to be destructive per se; but in a desire to achieve that which he thinks of as a particular goal that to him is good, he forgets to examine the goodness of his methods.

[...] There are many consistencies in the Gospels, but also inconsistencies that cannot be resolved. [...] Sometimes Christ appeared as an apparition — but as Seth commented in a private session: “You could not have a world in which the newly risen dead mixed with the living. [...]

[...] During the session Seth said that he was “preparing some special material for Ruburt,” but except for the excellent relaxation effects Jane has experienced since then, we have yet to learn what else may be involved.

[...] “I think I know his subject matter for tonight,” she said, “but I don’t know if it’ll be dictation or not….” [...]

You do not understand this point clearly at all, but your social organizations, your governments — these are based upon imaginative principles. [...]

[...] Jane had been in trance for an hour and forty-one minutes, but even so she was out of it rapidly. [...] But you know: If you think you’re on to something no one else has, you’re afraid you’ll be called batty by the rest of the world … Seth is a great organizer, though. It’s like there’s a tremendous amount of work being done behind the sessions, so I can get the data — but this isn’t like the channels from Seth [as described in the 616th session in Chapter 2 of Personal Reality].”

[...] The blur of activity earlier was the result of neurological confusion, and Ruburt switched over unknowingly to an environment still in the same physical block that was meaningful to him, but not shared by the future experience of that infant. You must understand that your own past exists as vitally as does your present — but your probable pasts and presents exist in the same manner. [...]

[...] Now she was bleary-eyed: “I feel as though I don’t want to think for two weeks …” Seth hadn’t said so during the session, but Jane told me she’d “picked up from him” that she should eat an extra meal a day for a while — usually late at night, as, say, after a session. [...] She wasn’t under any additional strain while producing “Unknown” Reality, she added, since she wanted to do it, but those simple actions would help refresh her. [...]

[...] Then: “It’s as though I feel a lot of concepts around me right now, and I’m letting him get them organized for me … But now I think I’m about ready….”

[...] They were painful when I gently touched them, but the toes moved at the first joint. [...] But a little later the big toes began to bend by themselves. [...]

[...] Of course: Peggy had not only visited unexpectedly, but she’d brought a letter from a fan who wanted to visit us from New York City. I’d scanned the letter while Peggy was present, but hadn’t made the rather obvious connection then, nor had Jane. [...]

[...] I told Jane I hoped the whole episode served as a warning as to what hospitals were really like, and the well-meaning but misguided people who worked in them. [...]

(“But don’t they know any better?” I persisted. [...]

[...] The experience is perceived simultaneously by the inner senses, but it will be translated in terms of physical time.

[...] (Long pause.) In other words, if you will forgive a pun, you can never be consciously aware of the basic inner perception, but you can follow backward to that point. [...]

[...] Her pace had been on the slow side, but she expressed surprise when I told her this. [...]

You have yet to experience a complete projection, but this will come. [...]

[...] Not only this year but as a matter of course. [...]

[...] Your treatments from the chiropractor for example are of benefit now, but would not have been earlier. [...]

He is making an endeavor to speak to you, not only in the resentments, but wishes. [...]

Often he wanted you to approach him in intimate terms, but felt unworthy because of his condition, and because he felt that you found it distasteful, and even degrading. [...]

Tonight’s session may not be formal book dictation, but it contains many connections to Dreams. [...] We’d discussed all of them, but without making any notes.

[...] We had a quiet but very enjoyable Christmas day.

[...] Because mass events are concerned there is not a completely different year, of course, for each individual on the face of the planet—but there are literally an endless number of mass-shared worlds of 1980 “in the wings,” so to speak.

[...] But within the range of workable probabilities, private and mass choices, the people of the world are choosing their probable 1980s.

[...] But Mark, out of the goodness of his heart, never told your son who he found first in the barn, and of such small but tasty incidents is the history of the race composed.

[...] I would advise Mark to go ahead with his plans to find an apartment, but to look over all aspects of any particular apartment that he has in mind, foreseeing difficulties of a temperamental rather than practical nature with the landlord. This would have nothing to do with practical arrangements, but would rather be a more or less mutual antagonism that would rise up between them in a little time.

[...] I experienced nothing that I could recall, but Jane received snatches of tinny music, as though it was being played on an old rickety piano.

[...] It will be remembered that Bill had participated in the single seance the three of us have tried, on January 1, 1964; and was scheduled to be a witness to the 36th session, March 18, 1964, but couldn’t at the last moment.[See Volume One.]

You must indeed for practical reasons pretend as if the automobile had no reality except the reality with which you are familiar, but this is not the case. I mentioned feeling sound because this is a capability that lies latent within your own physical system, but this same sort of a juggling of perspective data is what happens, generally speaking, when inhabitants of a different system perceive realities that also have an existence within your own system.

[...] It goes without saying that this potentiality is very seldom realized, but it is part of the human heritage. [...]

You may see an automobile for example with your eyes, and hear its sound through your ears, but it is also within the human capacity, ideally speaking, to hear the sight of the car, and to see the sound of the car. [...]

[...] This transference, incidentally, from one system to another, necessarily changes the action itself; but for simplicity’s sake we may say that an action has its reality within many systems simultaneously.

The inner and outer egos do not have a cementlike relationship, but can interrelate with each other in almost infinite fashions, still preserving the reality of physical experience, but varying the accents put upon it by the inner areas of subjective life. [...]

[...] Some of you have physical children as well—but you will all “one day” also be the mental parents of dream children who also waken in a new world, and look about them for the first time, feeling isolated and frightened and triumphant all at once. [...] All of your dreams somewhere waken, but when they do they waken with the desire for creativity themselves, and they are born of an innocent new intent. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) At the time of this awakening man did experience, then, some sense of separation from his dream body, and from his own inner reality—the world of his dreams—but he was still far more aware of that subjective existence than you are now.

[...] [But] more and more man began to identify himself with his exterior environment. [...]

[...] But those fears must be considered in the light of the material given this evening. [...] It must appear in time, but its nourishment is not like that of a baker’s loaf, and its “practicality” cannot be reduced to such terms. [...] But in the recent past that spontaneity has had to emerge against those resistances.

[...] I don’t know it well enough to quote it here, but suggest that she write it up and add it to this session, for it sounded very good.)

[...] As stated, this brought conflict with the church—a painful-enough period for Ruburt, but he was sure in his convictions. [...]

The truth, as he interprets it, is no longer the joyful, curious, creative, free search for truth, let it lead where it will; but the idea of a life’s work makes him think “Who’s following me? [...]

[...] They represent uncluttered areas, but also open channels, inactive in themselves but passively waiting. [...]

(A note: Patty read the late chapters of Seth’s book but Jane did not. [...]

Characteristically, when he leaves his body he does the same thing, hardly pausing at the threshold of alpha but taking off from there.

[...] The multidimensional symbol in its entirety, then, has a reality in other states of consciousness, but also at other levels of reality entirely.

Now: I have given some—not all—of this material before, but now you can put the understanding to better advantage. [...] He was creatively gifted—but an overly impulsive child does not care for an invalid mother, conscientiously, for 21 years.

[...] The very consistent writing of poetry through those years shows its own kind of discipline, but people are not used to bursts of creativity. [...]

[...] There was in such a system no room, literally, for individual differences, but a norm set so that you must behave thus and so.

[...] He felt he was too spontaneous, again, too impulsive—but then in that belief system he worried if his sexual needs could not be properly squashed, supposing someone else aroused them, and he “fell in love” with someone else as quickly as he had fallen in love with you. [...]

[...] He did not want to live into an old age—but more than that, life had lost its flavor for him. He had sired his children, loved as well as he could, done his job—but there was no contemplative life to look forward to, no greater love than the one with his wife—and that love while conventionally sound enough, did not content him.

He was looking for someone like the young boy, someone whose actions would result in his death, but in a death without malice, a death that would in its way serve an important purpose. [...] He wanted to die, but also in an indirect fashion, in that he could not consciously shoot himself, while he could kill himself in an event that seemed to be accidental.

[...] The words are perceived consciously, but the concepts run directly counter to many usual beliefs—not just scientific ones, but to the beliefs that underlie the accepted establishment of the world.

[...] But the Dutch language? [...]

[...] I’m not getting this clear but the feeling was like you’re supposed to demonstrate truth through your life and my symptoms sort of were the opposite, or indicated the opposite; not only didn’t I heal others but not even myself. I forget just how those feelings went, but that approximates them, being ashamed of my condition as if for Christ’s sake, they blemished my art, or ashamed because they blemished my work. [...]

[...] Not sure here, but that I hadn’t outgrown old religious beliefs and training or come to terms with my own energy or abilities.)

[...] (Long pause.) Massage and warm water is of benefit—but of greatest benefit of course is the trust in the body’s processes, for then many healing procedures can continue, while fear of course slows down their effects. But you have both done well with the episode. [...]

[...] But if the powder affected the little finger, why hadn’t it also bothered the middle finger? [...]

[...] She agreed, but I wasn’t sure if she could compose herself enough to bring it off. [...]

[...] “Funny,” she said, “but I could tell at the end that he could say a lot more about those lapses.” [...]

I do not want to go into the complicated reasons why your civilization chose such beliefs, but you are everywhere presented with their effects. [...] Children also know that the present is the point of power, and that precept is a biological truth, for the physical body in your terms cannot act in the future or in the past, but only in its contact with the present moment.

[...] It can deliver it to you in the same way as your crossword puzzle exercises, but you have not thoroughly understood, in that regard, that the point of power is in the present, and that you do there also create your own reality.

[...] You can indeed change that, but you must realize it, and want actively to do so. [...]

[...] I would not go so far as to say that it is immoral to worry, but worry is a biological impediment. [...]