“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(10:23 P.M. “I don’t know whether it’s going to last or not,” Jane said, “but I’m enjoying this book more than any. [...] Like I know the session wasn’t too long, but I had that sense of completion when he went back incredibly far. [...]

[...] (In those terms, the one exception is the hydrogen atom, which evidently consists of but one proton and one electron cloud, or “smear.”) For the simple purposes of this note, then, I’m leaving out considerations involving quantum mechanics, which concept repudiates the idea of “particles” to begin with. [...] What a heretical thought from the scientific viewpoint!) But each atom of whatever element is an amazingly complicated, finely balanced assemblage of forces and particles woven together in exquisite detail—one of the more basic examples of the unending and stupendous creativity, order, and design of nature, or consciousness, or All That Is.

[...] His material usually generates more questions than answers, but this time he’d outdone himself. I try to avoid reading too much into such brief passages, but I felt that if Seth answered all of the questions I could ask based upon this session, a book would result. [...]

[...] Like an adolescent leaving home for the first time, individualized consciousness was also somewhat homesick, and returned often to the family homestead—but gradually gained confidence and left finally to form a [universe].

[...] Many other systems reflect inner reality more clearly, with less distortions, but the distortions themselves are creations. [...]

[...] There is an electromagnetic connection within and beneath all systems indeed, but this is only the result of inner mental connections. [...]

[...] Doors are solid: This is not a basic truth, you see, but a convenient root assumption.

[...] But each self must go its own way and develop its own abilities and explore the possibilities which it creates itself, otherwise the whole would stagnate.

[...] You always have the information but you must grow up to it, so to speak.

[...] This is apart from your conflicting ideas concerning success, but colors them.

At times it masquerades as a distaste for material possessions, but often it is simply also resentment. [...]

[...] You were almost putting the cart before the horse, but in a negative manner. [...]

[...] I slept well the night of the 6th, and sneezed but five times the whole following day. [...] I have learned I can do without it, but taking the drug removes the last of the lingering traces. [...]

[...] She is very eager to get to work on her next project, but keeps struggling among many ideas, notes, etc. I suggested to her that she skip tonight’s session if she felt so nervous, but she decided to hold it regardless.

(I had prepared the usual double test envelope earlier in the day, but doubted it would be used if Jane was not in a good mood for the session. [...]

[...] He knows this intellectually, but upon this occasion he insists in using his ego as a whip to force speed. [...]

(The ink might have been of poor quality but it was difficult to remove. [...] A lot of scrubbing reduced the red stain to a yellowish cast finally, but here I had to let it wear off. [...]

[...] This is but one of many prints I made that evening; I discovered it is not easy to obtain a full print that has good overall detail.

Our friend of the manuscript thinks of himself as a liberal-minded man, but he will not take any giant steps away from the lines of academiclike safety.

[...] His messages will be full of trivial but significant data that will make his survival plain to those he has left behind.

[...] “But I don’t know about this book, and ordinary people reading it. [...] It’s only a little after ten-thirty, but I feel that I’ve really traveled a long way since the session started …”

1. Once again (as in Note 7 for the last session), I quote Seth from the 45th session: “Any investigation of the basic inner universe, which is the only real universe, must be done as much as possible from a point outside your own distortions … To get outside your own universe, you must travel inward … Your so-called scientific, so-called objective experiments can continue for an eternity, but they will only probe further and further with camouflage [physical] instruments into a camouflage universe … The subconscious, it is true, has elements of its own distortions, but these are easier to escape than the tons of distortive camouflage atmosphere that weigh your scientific experiments down.”

[...] But the pressures of work, plus our own conservative attitudes about personal publicity, have led us to pass by other such opportunities.

[...] In studying the deeper realities within and “behind” that universe, the instruments are not only useless but misleading. [...]

To some extent he knew this, but felt defiant enough to try it anyway. [...] He felt the impulse to paint, and did so, but by late afternoon he was in a very poor mood. [...]

[...] It is difficult to be prissy when discussing such a topic—but if you feel that others might be offended, do as you wish.

[...] He decided to do that, but felt guilty. [...]

[...] They were beginning to come into greater activity, but the leg was not ready to bear the full weight he had to put upon it for the top stair.

In them of course one object may be a symbol, but there is no such thing as an overall statement of dream symbolism, in which a given symbol will have a general meaning. [...] It is true that in dreams you do reach some of the deepest sources of your being at times, but even there, the expression of that being is far too individualistic to assign the same kind of “unconscious” meaning to overall symbols.

[...] But all of this may have little to do with the artist’s interpretation of his own symbols, or with his personal experience, so he may wonder how the critics could read this into his work.

[...] Sometimes the results have been laughable — but more often they’ve been frustrating. [...]

[...] No one really knows their meaning but yourself. [...]

[...] John said the girl’s first name is Terry, which is an Irish name, but that she is Italian, with black—not brown—hair. Last name is Repanshek; but there is a puzzle here, since the name doesn’t seem to be an Italian one. [...]

The whole table experiment is important, but as a stepping stone. [...]

A steady, progressive, but paced release from symptoms will allow for a more orderly mental and physical return to health. [...]

[...] He said she has exceptionally small hands for a woman grown, but he noticed nothing unusual about her hands. [...]

Unconsciously you feel that because you are the oldest son you should be the money-maker, in your mother’s eyes; but she never considered painting as such as financially rewarding. [...] Certain concessions for example you would never make, but you are still unconsciously bothered here, whether you know it or not.

[...] But do not let these repressed feelings blind you to the beneficial qualities of your situation right now, or its creative possibilities.

[...] Ruburt should write in a personal diary if he prefers, but write his feelings several times a week. [...]

[...] Your full energy for work and your creative drive is released, and will be, as you creatively use and understand your problems, but not concentrate upon them, not let them close your eyes to the joys and freedoms that you have. [...]

3. In the opening notes for the 718th session, I wrote that I’d just finished a series of diagrams for Jane’s Adventures. In Diagram 1 for Chapter 10, I tried to show schematically the same idea Seth mentions here, but with the terminology Jane used in her own book. [...] But this Ferris wheel moves in every possible direction, and its spokes are ever-moving waves of energy, connecting the Aspects with the center source. [...]

[...] I will say more about it, but for now that is the end of the session. [...]

[...] But if you tell people that, you’ll just get them all mixed up.”

[...] But at some other time.” [...]

[...] I started noting down her experiences, but missed out on some of her descriptions because of the speed with which she talked. [...]

(“I’d better get back to the session; but I’m up to something,” she continued, pleased. [...]

[...] I wish I could put this into words; but you’ve got to realize that events outside the body are the same events as those inside the body — the behavior of its neurons and all of its chemical activities … and because inside and outside are so beautifully synchronized, everything will always agree.

[...] But I’ve got to get back to the session….

[...] The rains must fall, but not too much. The storms must rage, but not too devastatingly. [...]

(10:42.) I am trying to put this simply — but without some illnesses, the body could not endure. Give us a moment… First of all, the body must be in a state of constant change, making decisions far too fast for you to follow, adjusting hormonal levels, maintaining balances between all of its systems; not only in relationship to itself — the body — but to an environment that is also in constant change. [...]

Many people, however, do not pay attention to everything in their environments, but through their beliefs concentrate only upon “the ferocious dog four blocks away.” That is, they do not respond to what is physically present or perceivable in either space or time, but instead [dwell] upon the threats that may or may not exist, ignoring at the same time other pertinent data that are immediately at hand.

[...] The most secluded recluse must still depend upon the biological sociability of not only his own body cells, but of the natural world with all of its creatures. [...]

[...] But now it seems that when science claims to understand the workings of a molecule of DNA, for example — the “master molecule” of life, as it’s often called — science then states that it’s stripped away the mystery of DNA and reduced our functions to easily understood mechanistic ones. But Jane and I maintain that grasping the marvelous workings of DNA should instead increase our sense of the wonder and mystery of life. The DNA lies exposed in all of its parts, but the questions about the life within it remain unanswered. [...]

[...] For religions have often hinged themselves upon one or another quite valid perception, but then distorted it, excluding anything else that did not seem to fit. [...] This is an often-heard sentence — and yet the main point of the Christ story² was not Christ’s death but his birth, and the often-stated proposition that each person was indeed “a child of the father.”

[...] Death is not an affront to life, but means its continuation — not only inside the framework of nature as you understand it, but in terms of nature’s source. [...]

[...] [We don’t expect to receive the page proofs for James, for correcting, until late next month.] Jane began to enjoy her break by writing poetry and doing some painting — but she surprised me when she also spontaneously began to rough out some of the notes for Psyche. [...]

[...] Last evening she tried a rereading of the two poems involved, but stopped before getting through G. K. Chesterton’s Lepanto. She began the reading all right but soon felt a sense of strain. [...]

[...] We had discussed the matter earlier in the day but she had not given me an unequivocal yes or no answer, as to whether we should make such tests an everyday procedure during sessions. [...]

It was far from inevitable that he turn to this field but the innermost portions of his personality were drawn to it, and within this field he can develop his abilities, mature, and contribute. [...]

(Bill Macdonnel was present but I was working in my studio. [...]

[...] I had planned to give you tonight completely free, but I want to make a few points first.

[...] It will probably be so for quite a while yet, but in a more distant future this will not necessarily apply.

The point that I wanted to make is that in all instances energy, individualized energy, materializes itself on any, or within any, field through mental enclosures; which are of themselves not formed of any camouflage, but represent entry points formed of pure energy for its entrance and eventual manipulation within a given field.

[...] There may be the possibility, if you request it, of one session off during the Christmas holidays, but only at your request.

[...] Jane was out as usual but remembered most of the material. [...] Jane was aware of this while giving the data, but made no attempt to block Seth. [...]

[...] The letters are still in a strongbox, and have not been destroyed, but Anne Healy does not have them. [...]

[...] He may or may not have been present, but he was the cause of the argument.

[...] No one knew of the argument but the two women, and neither of them told anyone. [...]

[...] The material led me to suggest some alternatives to our present routine and attitudes; Jane said the suggestions, which were only speculative at this stage, frightened her, but I did not intend this of course. [...]

(Jane said she didn’t know whether she could resume the session, but she did so at 10:37.)

When Ruburt is finished with his own book and I am done with mine, a vacation should come in any case, and will be not only acceptable but most beneficial.

[...] He still finds reincarnation difficult to accept, but this is not the only sore point. [...]

In fact it is not a product in those terms at all, but a process of becoming. [...] There are probable gods as there are probable men; but these probable gods are all a part of what you may call the soul of, or the identity of, All That Is; even as your probable selves are all a portion of your soul or entity.

Now these facts do not deny the validity of the soul, but instead add to it immeasurably.

[...] Imagination will have opened the door and given him the freedom to perceive, but hallucination will not be involved. [...]

[...] The divisions between them are arbitrarily decided upon as a matter of convenience, but all exist simultaneously, and each one supports and adds to the other. [...]

We will end the session but continue this material on Wednesday. [...] As a part of consciousness other systems are not closed to you, but as physical organisms other systems are closed to you.

The change itself is the direct reflection of inner psychic and psychological alterations; but you have actually altered the nature of the physical environment and the quality that pervades it. [...]

[...] In psychic terms also there is something that can be loosely explained in terms of spatial relationships, but having to do with intensities. [...]

[...] Jane’s pace had picked up a bit by break, but was still slow. [...]