“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This analogy will not carry us far, but it will be enough initially to get the idea across. [...]

[...] Later you will see that I am making it simple for you, but you will not understand it unless we start in this manner. [...]

[...] Being just beyond the range of matter, having a structure but a nonphysical one, and being of a pulsating nature, they can expand or contract. [...]

[...] Intensity governs not only their activity and size, but the relative strength of their magnetic nature. [...]

(So I didn’t get to work on Dreams this morning, but hope to tomorrow. [...] It would help a little, but I need much more than that. [...]

[...] I was ready to start on another session for Chapter 7 of Dreams, but realized I’d have to let that go. [...]

Often, seriously ill people quite clearly recognize such feelings, but they have been taught not to speak of them. [...]

This does not mean that anyone consciously decides to get such-and-such a disease, but it does mean that some people instinctively realize that their own individual development and fulfillment does now demand another new framework of existence.

(I finished early so I’d have some extra time to open the account for Jane’s hospital expenses — but wouldn’t you know it, the phone rang at 11:50 a.m. It was someone from social services at the hospital. [...] I didn’t understand all she said, but something about the Infirmary, beds, and what she’s been telling people. [...]

[...] Her eyes don’t look as red, but she said they’re bothering her a great deal. [...]

(The window was closed but there was no heat again in 330, even though it had been “fixed” by changing the thermostat. [...]

Now I may or may not return, according to those rhythms of which I speak — but know that I am present and approachable.

[...] It is only natural to contrast what you want with what you have, and it is very easy to become discouraged in so doing, but looking for errors in the past will not help you. [...] Use visualization or verbal thought — whatever comes most naturally to you; but for that period do not concentrate upon any lacks, just upon your desire.

[...] It is bad enough to believe that you are at the mercy of one past, but to consider yourself helpless before innumerable previous errors from other lives puts you in an impossible situation; the conscious will is robbed of its power to act. [...] They are other expressions of yourself, interacting, but with each conscious self possessing the point of power in its own present.

(Pause.) These selves are different counterparts of yourself in creaturehood, experiencing bodily reality; but at the same time your organism itself shuts out the simultaneous nature of experience. This does not mean that at other levels you cannot perceive it, but that generally speaking events must seem to appear in a series.

[...] “It’s usually advanced stuff that we haven’t come to yet, and I’ll say, ‘Hey, what’s happening?’ Sometimes it’s just information for me — but anyhow, I know dictation’s been going on and that you’ve been taking notes. [...]

“But tonight I had the feeling after the session that it’s a real full one—that I really got to the heart of something,” Jane added. [...] The last session didn’t give me that feeling, but when I read it, it was fine….”)

[...] It not only contains and conveys information, but it also reacts to information from the physical and cultural worlds.

[...] Events can trigger genetic activity—not simply through, say, chemical reactions, but through individual and mass beliefs about the safety or lack of it in the world at large.

[...] The precise orientation of that conceptualizing, and the precise orientation of the thinking patterns, wait for certain physical triggers received from the parents and the environment after birth, but the processes of conceptualization and of thought are already established. [...]

Oftentimes he was not sure what his next book would be, but overall he never doubted there would be a next book. [...] At times he might think of writing in one area or another, but his imagination did not set up barriers: it was always receptive to new ideas, casting about for new experiences, consciously involved in the process of creativity.

There is, incidentally, a Framework 3 and a Framework 4, in the terms of our discussion—but all such labels are, again, only for the sake of explanation. [...] You are more knowledgeable now, but at the time Ruburt did restrict his abilities, pull in his horns, and to some extent with your implied consent. [...]

Before, earlier, there was a third concern—a financial one, but he did not come across those journals this evening. [...]

[...] In “trying to get better,” Ruburt has taken impediments for granted, not only generally but specifically. [...]

It is true that on a conscious level you do not as yet operate outside of time, but are bound by it. When you learn to free yourselves from those dimensions to some extent, you are not simply duplicating or “returning” to some vaster condition, but adding a new element to that condition. The kind of self-awareness you have is unique, but all kinds are unique. [...]

[...] I mention this only to show you that the evolutionary system you recognize is but one such system. [...] In some quarters it is fashionable these days to say that man’s consciousness is now an element in a new kind of evolution — but that “new consciousness” has always been inherent. [...]

[...] But I’d say his procedure also helps satisfy Jane’s spontaneous impatience about learning what’s coming next in the material.

[...] But given that right kind of equanimity, time — our ordinary time — slides by; then, looking back periodically, we discover that we’ve accomplished at least something of what we wanted to do.

(Jane has decided that she smokes too much during sessions; as a result she did not smoke while dictating this evening, but did light up at breaks. [...] Her pace was quite slow in the beginning, but by first break was up to its usual rather fast state.)

[...] I had prepared this test envelope for last Wednesday’s session but did not use it then; the session was witnessed by the Gallaghers and the test was shoved aside by other developments, notably the impromptu discussion between Seth, Bill and Peg. We ate during the course of the evening, but do not know whether this would be a “supper engagement, with two others beside Ruburt.”

[...] We know several doctors on a social basis, but for various reasons hesitate to ask one of them to perform these duties; we would also like to repeat these studies regularly, and could hardly expect a medical man to be available in this respect.

[...] Jane and I like him, but doubted his availability very often. [...]

The imagination can vaguely perceive, of course, some probabilities, but the physical organism can directly experience but one of these within physical time, and in terms of continuity. [...]

[...] Jane’s eyes did not open up but her delivery became spasmodic. [...]

[...] For its purposes however the conscious self chooses this particular event X. But again, this event X, until the conscious self experiences it, is only one of many other probable events, different in no basic manner from the others. [...]

The package of experience that you can focus upon and make sense of, is indeed composed of many small packages, but the whole package of reality is actually much larger than this. [...]

She is already running about where she is now, and laughing, but she does not want him to be sorrowful. [...] She is trying to make them neat, so it is difficult to tell him things clearly, now, but she is not worried.

[...] She had experiences involving caskets, death, etc...but said these episodes were separated in time, at least one of the times being quite long ago. [...]

[...] But he must imagine the plucking-out process.

[...] A few are persons with whom she seemed to be superficially connected in this life, but the encounters provided deep emotional support that was not obvious.

[...] The material mentioned is available in each of the levels of consciousness given, but it must be sought out, either through conscious desire or strong unconscious desire. [...]

[...] This involves communicating not only with past personalities in your terms, but future ones. [...]

[...] Those involved have an excellent knowledge of their own backgrounds and histories, of course, but in this state possess also a much larger perspective, in which private and historical backgrounds are seen as a portion of a greater perceivable whole.

[...] Their achievements may be misunderstood or physically lost, but at this level of consciousness they share in these communications, and at another level of existence their achievements are recognized.

The dream comes to mind several times but don’t type it up till the weekend. [...] There was a feeling of disappointment connected and I’d say that it represents some feelings about my abilities—I thought they were sterling—really terrific—and wore myself out caring for them, but I fear that they are only very good serviceable ones after all, their earlier promise not proving true.... [...] By being so careful with the abilities—actually because I valued them, I end up being their servant, but actually end up using my abilities at the service of others—to help save the world, solve problems, etc.... [...]

[...] I tell the “help” that this isn’t my cup of tea, they will have to help; at the same time I discover that this isn’t the best silver as I’d thought but serviceable enough stuff. [...]

The motions may not seem synchronized as yet, but those important ligaments are midway along in their release—a highly important development.

Now: I will end the session, but what I have said is far more important to both of you than your refrigerator problems.

I am not speaking here of the guests that you had (Fuller and Kautz), but of mundane distractions, perhaps, that were once feared out of all proportion, and in the future can be shunned as you wish. [...]

I will end the session, but I will leave some good humor here for both of you.

[...] She lived in an apartment right at the corner of Walnut and Water Streets, but she was not a close friend — barely an acquaintance — and we saw her rarely. I knew she was a teacher, but hadn’t the foggiest idea in what school. [...]

“No, but I’m sure there must be an emotional connection someplace.” I shook my head, but then suddenly the answer came to me. [...]

[...] But I checked my dream records. [...] This was the only reference to Mike in any of my records, but I’d forgotten the dream entirely.

But there are precognitive dreams that tell me precisely what I want to know when I want to know it — if I’m deeply motivated enough to request them through suggestion. These are fascinating, not only because they are practical, but because they suggest the awesome abilities of the inner self to solve problems for us and to obtain information that we consider vital.

[...] I’d heard the same sound a few days ago, but since it had been a windy day I’d thought the noise was caused by branches rubbing against the house or fireplace outside. [...] But why would birds build a nest in such a place, assuming they could get to it to begin with? [...]

[...] Am I an independent personality, who has indeed survived not one but many deaths? [...]

This applies not only to seemingly “pure” objective events, but to the more complicated event of an individual psychological being. [...]

[...] They can serve as thresholds (long pause), but they cannot contain direct experience themselves with events that are intrinsically beyond those reaches. [...]

[...] Something like a medal, but not round. Resembling a short squat cross in shape, but more filled in, in the center, and this portion scalloped in some manner, and inscribed. [...]

[...] He has followed through by using the intellect, but the intuitional data, as always, provides the direct experience upon which the intellect can then work.

[...] But all apparitions are not of this nature. [...]

[...] The perceiver constructs the pseudomaterial apparition as he constructs the physical image of his contemporaries, but in, or rather and in line with telepathic data that is received by or from the consciousness whose material image is being constructed.

[...] In physical reality you can move fairly freely through space, but you do not travel from one city to another, for example, unless you want to. [...] This is so obvious that its significance escapes you: but it is intent that moves you through space, and that is behind all of your physical locomotion. [...]

[...] He previously had experience that convinced him that he was a man called Nebene.⁹ All of this could have been accepted quite easily in conventional terms of reincarnation, but Joseph felt that Nebene and the Roman soldier had existed during the same general time period, and he was not sure where to place the woman (but see Note 1).

[...] The black woman followed nothing but her own instincts (and very vividly, too). I do not want to give too much background here, and hence rob our Joseph of discoveries that he will certainly make on his own — but (louder) the woman bowed only to the authority of her own emotions, and those emotions automatically put her in conflict with the [British colonial] politics of the times.

[...] This one wasn’t a “Roman,” though, but a series of very vivid impressions of myself as a black woman on the island of Jamaica, in the Caribbean Sea. [...]

I have said the universe, that is the inner universe, does expand, but does not expand in space. For Roarck’s benefit, ideas, theories, plans, capabilities expand, but do not take up more space. And so does the universe expand, but space is merely a camouflage, useful to you for a time, constructed through the use of mental enzymes, subconsciously and only for a brief span.

[...] He is a computer service technician whom Jane and I had met but two or three times some months ago, before the sessions began. [...] But after this first acquaintance we had not seen him since, and often wondered what happened to him.

[...] We must always work together, but you must never consider me as an infallible source. This material is more valid than any material possible on your plane, but it is nevertheless to some degree conditioned by the camouflage attributes of the plane.

Here we have Roarck’s overall entity, laughing with mirth but also with compassion, for while the entity enjoys all that is, the personalities have often turned their backs upon very much, in order to pursue esthetic purpose. At another time we will go into this more deeply, but Roarck recognized the picture, and subconsciously saw himself. [...]

Its data will agree when taken within its own framework, but this will be the only clue visible at first sight. [...] It has been glimpsed however, but not recognized as a separate part of the self, in dream recordings given in analytic sessions.

In other words the ego is not familiar with the probable self, but certain portions of the subconscious are. [...]

[...] The probable self does not make the decision, but merely passes on the data which it has received through its own experience with the event.

[...] But then the ego must come to its own decision.

[...] The nucleus may change, but it will always be the center from which physical existence will radiate. [...]

[...] In a way they were unfocused, yet each with strong abilities, but dispersed. [...]

[...] Your father loved it but never trusted it. [...]

In another system of reality your father was — in fact, still is — a well-known inventor, who never married but used his mechanically creative abilities to the fullest while avoiding emotional commitment. [...]