“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I had asked the pendulum about it today, but didn’t tell Jane what I had learned. [...]

[...] You use that area to give you, in your own fashion, a feeling of security: there you are relating in old ways, not only getting your checkups as you should, but seeing the dentist as more than that. [...]

[...] He need not fear any of the old trouble with the teeth, sinus or jaw—but gradually tensions are being released in the jaw, neck and shoulder areas. [...]

[...] Held in bounds it helps, but it should not be allowed to gain sway.

[...] Seth’s voice was precise, but quick and conversational; also, we had the opportunity to exclaim in a brief conversation, which I of course found most gratifying.

( We can’t remember everything, but I’ll try to give a precis of what he said, based on what we both remember. [...]

But I wanted to clarify some points... [...]

(Humorously:) But you should issue only se-lec-tive invitations, and be careful of the company you keep.

These acts are not only interpreted differently, they also of course have effects which are caused not only by the initial action but also by the distortive appearance of the action in a given system. The reaction to such a mental act is made not only to the act itself; but the reaction is made to the appearance of an initial act, as it is projected into the second system.

[...] An action may occur therefore in the world of matter, and be perceived in both the universe of negative matter and the dream world, but in such a case each universe interprets the action according to, and within, its own framework of reference.

There may be the appearance of a time lapse of one kind or another between mental actions and their appearance or projection into other systems, but this is a distortive effect. [...]

[...] Beside the interpretation of dreams specifically, in which I realize you are most interested, beside the explanation of dreams as they apply to your manipulation in the world of matter, we will discuss dream symbols as they apply not to the world of matter but to the dream universe itself.

[...] The clear recognition of such a psychological feeling alone helps such individuals understand their own positions and intents, but usually the feeling itself is forced to go underground because people are so afraid of it. [...] The person recognizes the restrictions and changes his or her ways accordingly, opening the doorway not into death but to further life and action in this space and time. [...]

[...] You can’t verbalize it, but it was illuminating and helpful. [...] But in this case I felt that Seth could lay it out for me better than I could. [...]

[...] She was very relaxed—very —but felt Seth around and decided to have a session, or at least try to. [...]

[...] Today, however, we’d used it but once, on her knees and lower legs. [...]

[...] As Jane said, “Scott conserved his energy, but he seemed to do well enough, although his movements were slow, especially walking and sitting down. But he appeared to have the use of all his faculties. [...]

(Odd notes: Today Jane received the contract for Emir from Delacorte, but is not about to sign it yet. [...]

(She felt pretty relaxed by the time the movie was over, but wanted to have the session because she thought it would contain material on Scott Nearing.)

[...] But SN never met James, he told Jane in reply to her question.)

[...] In the seance Jane was not Eve, but the driver of the car in the accident; she was a woman, with Eve a passenger beside her.

[...] But I think it’s Seth.” [...]

[...] These probabilities include webworks and probable action and reaction, involving not only yourself but others.

[...] The main events of a civilization are chosen by its people, but because a course is begun this does not mean that it cannot at any point be changed.

(The twice-repaired table has been used in subsequent sessions, but very gingerly for it is now much weakened. Pressure has indicated itself to a small degree, but we have used little force to subdue it. [...]

[...] I personally did not think we were unappreciative of what had taken place this evening, but Seth proceeded to drive the point home rather unmercifully, I thought at the time. Later the Gallaghers said they did not think the session had been unduly severe, but I do not think I agree.

(This session was not particularly planned, but grew out of conversation on the subject. [...]

(Carl, being big and strong, could hold the table as he did, with but one hand, the arm extended straight out, for some little time. [...]

[...] “I wouldn’t mind trying some things on my own, here at the house, like getting an eye, ear and nose doctor here, or an orthopedist—but no hospital. But I’m shocked at what you’re saying.” [...]

(“I’ve thought more and more lately about what happens when a person is born with very strong gifts—but can’t stand to use them, or has to pay a very high price indeed if they do try to use them. [...] I used to think that if a person had a strong gift that nothing would stop the ability from showing itself in that certain way—but now I don’t think so at all. [...]

(Very long pause at 10:16.) The other comments are simply handy Band-Aids, so to speak, but are extremely healthy along the way. [...]

[...] Not just Ruburt alone but the people of the world are, one way or another, now in the process of just such a redefinition. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been good, but still she’d been bothered by the sounds of traffic rising up from the busy intersection close by our living room windows. [...] “Maybe I can get better at it, but you need such a fine control….” [...] “I don’t know who’s going to read this book but they’ll sure find a lot in it to study.”

Give us a moment … I am putting this as simply as possible; but when your “original self” enters [part of] itself into three-dimensional life from an inner reality, the energy waves carrying it break — not simply into one particle, following our analogy, but into a number of conscious particles. [...]

[...] The identity of even the smallest consciousness is always maintained — but not limited. If you can think of your present idea of identity as if it were but one shape or one motion of a moving particle, a shape or a motion that never loses its imprint or meaning, then you could also see how you could follow it forward or backward to the shape or motion taken “before or afterward.”

[...] “I feel stuff there, but I haven’t got it clear yet….” [...]

(This afternoon Jane wrote a letter to a spiritual healer, Harry Edwards, in England, but has yet to mail it. [...] At about 8:30 this evening she got a flash from Seth, commenting on her asking for help in an amused but not sarcastic way.

[...] Those who have left and survive, use thoughtwords but do not need to speak, though they may (underlined). [...]

[...] Images are widely used, but these images would be fourth-dimensional to your way of thinking. [...]

[...] He correctly but imperfectly recalled a dream during your vacation, in which I was helping him with his health problems.

[...] There is a give-and-take between all elements of nature, so that such individuals often choose mothers, for example, who perhaps wanted the experience of pregnancy but not of birth — where they choose the experience of the fetus but not necessarily [that] of the child. Often in such cases these are “fragment personalities,” wanting to taste physical reality, but not being ready to deal with it. [...]

[...] Biological, sociological, or even economic factors may be involved, in that for a variety of reasons, and at different levels, whole groups of individuals want to die at any given time — but in such a way that their individual deaths amount to a mass statement.

Not only do such states of mind lower the defenses, however, but they activate and change the body’s chemistries, alter its balances, and initiate disease conditions. [...]

(Pause at 10:16.) Despair may seem passive only because it feels that exterior action is hopeless — but its fires rage inwardly, and that kind of contagion can leap from bed to bed and from heart to heart. [...]

Now I have told you that you may legitimately visit not only the past, present and future as it existed, or will exist in physical terms; but you may also visit realities which never existed in physical terms. [...] You may therefore visit a museum which was planned in the 16th century, but never built. [...] In projections you may visit other realities such as these also—which you may be tempted to call imaginary, but they are not.

Now your consciousness will not be in it, but it is hardly lifeless. [...] I will give you alternate methods of projecting, but I will be concerned now with what you can expect the few moments after you have left the physical body.

[...] Don and his wife Marilyn were due to witness the 248th session on April 4, but last-minute developments prevented them doing so. [...]

[...] She had seen Don hand me the envelope on April 4, but since none of us had ever mentioned it since then I was hoping she had forgotten about it. [...]

Give us a moment … (Then slowly:) It is difficult to explain on spiritual and psychic levels without speaking in terms of gradations of identity, for example, but in your terms even the smallest “particle” of identity is inviolate. [...] Put simply, the stuff of the body is constantly returned to the earth,* where it forms again into physical actualization — but always differently.

8. Strange — but recently I visually approached the idea of interrelated consciousnesses in two pen-and-ink drawings for Jane’s book of poetry, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time: I incorporated humanoid features on large rocks. [...] But so are we — and might not both rock and human also respond to a uniting psychological weather?

[...] But at 8:45 she wanted to try — especially since we hadn’t done anything on Monday. [...]

[...] That episode had upset me to some degree, but Jane’s discussion of the subject in Politics, plus a few comments Seth made in ESP class last night, helped me put the affair in a more objective light.

[...] You might utilize them in the background, but as a photographer you would not confuse the shadows with, say, the solid objects. [...]

[...] So hallucinations alter the environment, but in a different way and at another level of reality. [...]

[...] It will move, faithfully mirroring the tiniest motion of the smallest leaf, but its freedom to move will be dictated by the motion of the oak. [...]

[...] Not only that, but there would be a creative give-and-take between it and the tree that gave it birth. [...]

[...] He did not symbolically rage with the storms, for example, but quite consciously identified with them to such a degree that he and his tribesmen merged with the wind and lightning, and became a part of the storms’ forces. [...]

[...] The body was considered more or less like a friendly home or cave, kindly giving the self refuge but not confining it.

[...] Man understood himself to be a separate entity, but one that was connected to all of nature. [...]

[...] I must stress again that the identification was not symbolic, but practical, daily expression. [...]

A kind of projection can occur, but never a full projection of this type. A fragment may project, you see, but one atom could not contain the full projecting consciousness of an adult human mind.

[...] But the projecting fragments themselves, you see, do not come and leave unaffected, but grow and mature and develop, really, other portions of the self in continuing extensions. [...]

(Last night Jane had several revelatory dreams, but on awakening could remember no details. [...]

[...] This form is much like the form in which you project, but the form which you project is not truly complete, for there must be some (underlined) division of vitality so that physical existence is maintained during out-of-body episodes.

[...] There are molecular structures in every inch of empty space, but you have taught yourself not to perceive them. There are other voices, but you have conditioned your ears not to hear them. [...]

[...] I expected all the racket to break Jane’s trance, but it didn’t; she paused for a few moments and then continued.)

[...] Mankind has had various conceptions of his own reality but he has purposely, it seems, turned away from it in the last century. [...]

[...] After death you may, under certain conditions and if you choose, experience the events of those seventy-seven years at your leisure — but not necessarily in terms of continuity. [...]

[...] It will be a short one considering, but a good one. [...]

[...] The anima serves not only as a personal but as a mass-civilizing influence, mellowing strongly aggressive tendencies and serving also as a bridge both in communicating with women in a family relationship, and in communication also as it is applied through the arts and verbalization.

[...] Maleness and femaleness are obviously not opposites, but merging tendencies. [...]

[...] However, the women do not need to be reminded of their femaleness, but again, so that they do not overidentify with their present sex, there is what Jung called the “animus,” or the hidden male within the woman.

[...] I cannot help speaking humorously, but you must die many times before you enter this particular plane of existence. [...] Sometimes when you die you do not realize it, but birth almost always implies a sharp and sudden recognition. [...]

[...] First of all, you must understand that no objective reality exists but that which is created by consciousness. [...]

Permanency and stability basically have nothing to do with form, but with the integration of pleasure, purpose, accomplishment, and identity. [...]

[...] You, however, form your own physical image at an unconscious level in more or less the same manner, but with some important differences. [...]

(10:26.) This is highly simplified, but some angles will be more “on the outskirts” than others, and will be less favorable for all conditions of growth and activity. [...] Other elements affect them, but we need not be concerned with these now.

(Jane didn’t feel particularly well this evening, but decided to sit for a session to see what developed. [...]

These points are not recognized as such, but they are points of what you could call double reality, containing great energy potential; coordinate points, indeed, where realities merge. [...]

(Slow at 9:43.) These coordinate points — absolute, main, or subordinate — represent accumulations or traces of pure energy, minute to an extreme if you are thinking in terms of size — smaller than any particle of which your scientists know for example, but composed of pure energy. [...]