“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] She said that last night she’d had a brief blue period, in which she’d wondered if she’d ever walk out on the street again, but got herself out of it by saying “cancel” to herself, and remembering Seth’s material.

[...] “But then,” she said, “I told myself to trust myself and Seth, and I said to hell with it.”

They are not forgotten, but the people involved simply close their own eyes, so to speak, to those decisions, and pretend (underlined) that they do not exist, simply to make their lives appear smooth and to save face with themselves, when they know very well that the decisions really rest on very shaky ground indeed.

I do not wish to simplify matters, but such decisions can be uncovered very easily in children. [...]

(Jane was “blue and nervous” this morning, but talked herself out of it. [...]

[...] At first she was afraid to, but it went well — with only a little catch in her throat she faced herself, and did very well at it. [...]

(Jane tried to read the session again, but soon gave up. [...]

(Long pause.) It may be far more pleasant to be good-humored all of the time — but in Ruburt’s situation the fairly infrequent periods of blueness do indeed operate therapeutically, so that he is able to express those feelings through tears, and therefore relieve the body of expressing the same feelings through additional symptoms.

Not only this, but the medical profession often provides blueprints for diseases, and the patient too often tries them on for size. This is not to say that the medical profession often is not of great aid and benefit, but within the value system in which it operates much of its positive influence is negated.

[...] But if you continued such concentration the toe either would not heal or would develop into a worse condition. Behind all this, of course, would be the belief that caused the difficulty; but once you have brought about a group of symptoms you must be very careful that you do not begin to view your field of reality from that position. [...]

[...] Often it operates as a framework in which poor health and disease are not only accepted as normal, but the concepts behind them strengthened. [...]

[...] It automatically rights any imbalances, but your conscious beliefs also affect this body consciousness. [...]

[...] You say that of course you wanted to know the truth—but the pendulum responded to the part of you that was afraid, by trying to soothe your fears, as for example a mother might say “No, do not worry, everything will be all right,” while on the other hand she might be making rapid calculations as to what should be done, but first she will soothe the child.

[...] It does take some time to understand why the pendulum answers as it does, but it will be responding not only to your question but to the greater framework and the emotional circumstances connected with it. [...]

[...] It responds to the questions as they are asked, but it responds even more to the unspoken questions or feelings beneath. [...]

[...] Ideally, you should relax yourself as much as possible first—a light trance, for example, gives much more dependable results – but the mind should be stilled. [...]

(But she did quite well when I turned her, and I massaged Oil of Olay into her hands and feet, legs and arms. [...] And I felt that now familiar but never-taken-for-granted hope and enthusiasm as I walked down the hall after leaving her at 7:05 PM. [...]

[...] It does a little—but I don’t want to hurt the break or anything.” [...]

[...] But when she lifts her foot off the bed, the leg is clear of the pillow support.

[...] I feel Seth around but every time I think of having a session I start doing something with motion....” [...]

I will add to our other material, but for now I simply wanted to give you this information. I may or may not return, according to those rhythms of which I speak—but know that I am present and approachable.

[...] Her hair and scalp itch—I suggested it was caused by the medicated water in hydro, but she said no. [...]

[...] She could almost hold the papers up like anyone would, even though her arms and hands aren’t clear yet; but, she told me, they have changed enough so that she could now do this. [...]

[...] “I’m trying to sit up again, I can tell, but I can’t do it from way down in the bed. [...]

[...] I suggested she get up, but the exercises seem to substitute for the physical activity that getting up would entail.

[...] Again, bodily efforts are as magical, as creative, certainly, as the writing of a book or a poem (intently) — but Ruburt in the past trusted his creative abilities as if they were something he had to guard from his physical self.

(8:59.) You both believed it was quite possible to have clairvoyant dreams, out-of-body experiences, creative adventures in the arts — but to some extent both of you doubted that the same power or energy could be directed effectively in the physical realm, so-called, of bodily health, or situations of the nitty-gritty (with emphatic amusement). [...]

[...] To attack medical corruption, or medical errors, or particular clinics, for example, is within bounds, but to attack the belief system of the entire structure is something else again.

[...] They were dropped for several reasons, but mainly because he still did not understand that body beliefs were involved, and that these like the others could be changed.

[...] (See Tam’s recent letter, in which he described his dream in which he saw Jane fully recovered, etc.) But still in your time and terms I tell you to follow faithfully what I have suggested.

Above all however do not concentrate upon this as a problem, but as a challenge you are even now overcoming, and let the rest of your day flow with other creativity.

[...] I have said this to many: but if you, Joseph, trust yourself and throw yourself onto the graces of yourself, then from you will flow all that you need or desire. [...]

There are many differences between the ideas of nirvana and heaven, but each has been used not only to justify suffering, but also to teach people to seek pain. [...]

I want to avoid concentration upon esoteric practices in this book, but they do sometimes impinge upon the subject matter at hand.

[...] Jane had heard the medicine cart in the hall, but a few minutes passed before a nurse came in with the Darvoset. [...]

(I told Jane that I hoped Frank Longwell had gotten his young friend to mow the grass this afternoon, as he’d promised to do this morning, but nothing doing. [...]

[...] Seth didn’t help us out here and I neglected to ask him to after break, but in view of later data Jane and I believe this applies to the design on the Draft Beer can, furnishing the cap used as one of the envelope objects. [...] The card table we used had a plain brown top; but perhaps Seth referred to something else.

[...] This could be 3 PM, I do not know, but a trio or three.” As far as we know 3 PM doesn’t figure in the envelope data, but a trio, meaning Bill, Don and me, does. [...]

[...] Ruburt thinks of your father, but is afraid of distorting the information.” [...] Later, she said, she realized the initials were meant to be taken literally, but instead she tried to interpret them; hence getting the idea of my father into the picture.

(Jane was sleepy before the session, but did not tell me until after the envelope data had been obtained.

[...] We have been preparing ourselves for this since before our marriage nine years ago, but marriage reinforced our energies. Ego spits like a cat to maintain conscious control, but will relax when it sees it can come to itself whenever it chooses. [...]

[...] The mental enzymes are the same basically throughout the universe, but their materializations on a particular plane are determined by the properties inherent in the plane itself. [...]

[...] Granted this is not characteristic experience, but if the mental enzymes were not interchangeable in principle, then this experience would not be possible for any. [...]

[...] But please, stay in your own backyard.

This next may sound Pollyannaish to an extreme, but he should make it a point to help another human being in any small way, without expecting thanks, three times a week. [...] And I also most strongly suggest that three times a week in a very quiet, disciplined but positive manner, he makes it a point to express himself when any matters arise where he holds a diverse opinion from the one being presented.

[...] The rapport existing as a rule between twins, and that does indeed exist, between Loriza, L-o-r-i-z-a and her twin (sister), goes far to account for Loriza’s latent intuitive, but partial, inner comprehension of the elements that work within, say, telepathy.

[...] She said my sneezing did not bother her, that Seth was willing to wait; but also that Seth probably called the break early because of my continued sneezing.

[...] Nor are the recipients of such help alone benefited, but so are you yourselves.

(Now Jane agreed with all of this at the time, but later while painting I wondered whether I’d been too vehement in what I’d said. [...] I also wanted him to talk about the subject we’d mentioned for Monday night’s session, but which hadn’t been covered: the reasons for her sore backside, and what she could do to help ease her hip and leg discomfort. [...] But at this time in these sessions we’ve got to get all the new data we can to help in our own hassles.

[...] “I don’t feel Seth around and I don’t feel like a session,” she said, “but I guess I’d better....” [...] I showed her my rough notes on the latest insight, and took pains to explain to her that it wasn’t a negative statement, but one that I saw as having only beneficial connotations. [...]

(But with a new insight growing out of this month’s series of private sessions, I explained, I now felt that one could more directly get at the heart of one’s challenges, instead of trying to cajole the body into behaving differently—after all, the body’s condition was the result of certain ways of thinking, not the cause of the trouble. [...]

(I wrote down my intuited data, but strangely enough I forgot to show it to her when she got up around 2 PM. [...]

[...] (Pause.) I need not be entirely focused within your dimension in other words, but I am focused sufficiently to meet our appointments.

[...] But the teacher exists whether or not he is speaking at that time, in your terms, and his message is as legitimate. [...]

[...] It is unfortunate that I must use terms of time to explain this to you, but as I told you many sessions ago, my time is not your time. [...]

[...] (Pause.) It would be relatively (underlined)but certainly practically impossible, for me to make my full reality clear to you, now, in our sessions, for your understanding would not contain it.

(Pause.) Your brains are not empty, but well-oiled machines ready to whirl into activity at your births. [...] They are upset because the children do not fit the norm — but no child ever fits “the norm.”

(Since the 863rd session was held three weeks ago, Seth has given us but two regular sessions — both on subjects other than those for Mass Events — and two private sessions.

(According to him, tonight’s session after 9:52 isn’t book material either, but Jane and I are presenting it here because in it Seth returns to questions I’d asked earlier in Mass Events: What about the roles played in human affairs by viruses like smallpox? [...]

[...] We’ve heard of the theory before, by the way — but transmitting cancer in such a fashion seems to be one of the most deadly results that can follow from the union of a man and a woman. [...]

[...] She began in rather a slow manner, but as the session progressed her delivery speeded up somewhat. [...]

[...] But this is not the case.

[...] But what we have been discussing in all these topics is, indeed, the nature of action. [...]

But the personality is always in a state of becoming, and forever changes. [...]

[...] She pretended to be dominated by him, but both of them knew. [...] She gave him sons hoping to pacify him, but he always felt that the sons challenged his vitality and position.

[...] Her vitality fed him, but it could not rouse him. [...] The sons left early, but he refuses to leave. [...]

Ruburt should not brush aside any emotional connections then, but understand what is happening. [...]

[...] There is some resistance, but he now recognizes it as such, and is able to overcome it. [...]

“A tiny point of light grew on the edge of the ring, but by moving my arm, I discovered I could make the light wink off and on. [...] I began to ask questions out loud, at random, but I did not address them to Seth.

[...] You cannot see through, but the two planes move through each other constantly. [...] I have initiated the idea of motion, for true transparency is not the ability to see through, but to move through.

[...] Now it could have been easy enough for Jane to bend her own fingers into this position, but here the three of us now saw the second set rising up long and white. [...]

But as soon as the séance was over, I was appalled. [...]

[...] But they will break up, pull apart, and exert separate pressures. [...] The chips will be down, but another man will pick them up; that is, these two men will drop the chips and another man will pick them up. [...]

[...] We are oftentimes amused, but always delighted.

[...] We could get rid of all of your symptoms, but... [...]

[...] but a matter of probabilities...

[...] (But it does, terrifically.) Again, he did not foresee the results. When they became obvious he decided there was nothing to do but put up with them if the end was justified.

(I showed them to Jane after the session and asked her to translate them, as she has done with the Christmas card I made for her, but she hasn’t had time to do so as I begin typing this the next evening. [...]

[...] On a surface level the seeming shift from writer to psychic annoyed and bothered him, but it was always the same work, and he knew it. [...]

[...] He goes inward then with great applied focus, but held the body in such tight reins that he denied it both energy and attention.