“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause.) Imagine yourself as a portion of an invisible universe, but one in which all the stars and planets are conscious and full of indescribable energy. [...] The suns and planets are your cells, each filled with energy and power but awaiting your direction.

Think of the greater you — call it the entity if you want to — as forming a psychic structure quite as real as your physical one, but composed of many selves. [...]

[...] In a book we must use words, but such analogies can, if you let them, conjure up within your imagination some feeling of your intimate relationship with all other reality. [...]

[...] They have the innate capacity to form other organizations, but not while affiliated with you. [...]

[...] Just before tonight’s session began she said with unwitting humor, “I’m starting to get stuff from Seth, but it’s about us. I don’t want that, I want material on the book —” But Seth did come through with a couple of pages relative to a discussion we’d had today. [...]

The early acquiescence to beliefs has a biological importance, therefore, but as the conscious mind attains its maturity it is also natural for it to question those beliefs, and to assess them in relation to its own environment. [...] You may think that you are quite free, only to discover that you hold old ideas but have simply put new terms to them, or concentrated upon other aspects.

It was only natural that certain experiences would seem better than others, but the species’ new abilities made it necessary that sharp distinctions be made. [...]

The birth of imagination initiated the largest possibilities, and at the same time put great strain upon the biological creature whose entire corporeal structure would now react not only to present objective situations, but imaginative ones. [...]

But this lesson, learned, is a valuable achievement. He understood it, it would seem, of a sudden, but this was only a crystallization of knowledge. [...] I have to a large degree kept my eye upon him, but you see the lesson had to be learned by him.

[...] To the extent that this journey is faced, the greater the perils, but the greater the rewards.

[...] The winter of the spirit must be journeyed through, and it must not only be conquered but the benefits used. [...]

[...] Now, it is possible but difficult to catch your own consciousness in the act of its own natural perception, before impressions become crystallized in physical terms. [...]

(Concerning the new product mentioned; John said that fellow workers recently visited the laboratories in Chicago and told him about one scientist in particular who was testing, or wanted to test, or experiment for problems of the central nervous system, but the budget insistence made this difficult. Such a drug could result, of course, and could be in the works but such things take a long time.

[...] The man to which I refer is not terribly advanced in age, but he is at least 50. [...] But if so, he has more drive than the son. [...]

[...] But not from the profile.

[...] The product is in the works, so to speak, but that is all at present.

[...] But the guests are so engrossed by the wonders of their own quarters within this strange hotel that many of them do little investigating.

Sometimes in their sleep they sleepwalk and come upon the passageways, and meet, but in the morning they do not remember. [...]

[...] He is not only working with patients and using art as a therapy for them, not only having them paint as therapy, you see, but he is also working on the idea that some paintings in themselves have a healing effect. [...]

Not only this however, but certain colors as you know have their own soothing or inflaming qualities. [...]

There is a natural impulse to die on the part of men and animals, but in such circumstances [as we are discussing here] that desire becomes the only impulse that the individual feels able to express, for it seems that all other avenues of expression have become closed. [...] Only people who trust their spontaneous beings and the altruistic nature of their impulses can be consciously wise enough to choose from a myriad of probable futures the most promising events — for again, impulses take not only [people’s] best interest into consideration, but those of all other species.

[...] The universe and everything within it is composed of “information,” but this information is aware-ized containing — I am sorry: information concerning the entire universe is always latent within each and any part of it.

[...] (Pause.) Impulses are spontaneous, and you have been taught not to trust the spontaneous portions of your being, but to rely upon your reason and your intellect — which (amused) both operate, incidentally, quite spontaneously, by the way.

When you let yourselves alone, you are spontaneously reasonable, but because of your beliefs it seems that reason and spontaneity make poor bedfellows.

[...] He had confessed to her death several times, but no one believed him—until the last time, evidently. [...] Jane didn’t ask for details on the case, but instead explained to the lawyer something of Seth’s ideas so that the attorney could use that material in his defense, making it clear that above all Seth was not for violence, even though the prosecuting attorney was evidently trying to make the defendant sound as though it was okay to kill because reincarnation was a fact: Since we all lived other lives, no one could really kill anyone. [...] Interestingly, in the small town of Roseburg he’d been able to buy James and Cézanne and ESP Power, but no other Seth books. [...]

[...] She thought I didn’t want her to call, but I told her to do as she pleased. Jane talked to Carole, the medium’s wife who works with him, and stated clearly that she didn’t want others claiming to speak for her Seth—who, incidentally, had told us years ago that he spoke through no one else but Jane. [...]

[...] Last night Jane was faced with a little dilemma: She felt Seth around after supper, but also had the idea that we go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 4 AM to “work.” [...] We started out with the best intentions, but ended up sidetracked—for Jane was so restless she couldn’t sleep at all. [...]

[...] But when they were over I told her she responded well to them, and she seemed pleased that she’d taken positive actions re them through the telephone. [...]

The legs do not appear straighter as yet, however (which Jane has been concerned about), but the change of tempo there reflects greater inner coordination. The soreness in the knees I mentioned as a possibility last week, but it discouraged him nevertheless.

[...] But that power went nowhere, for Ruburt’s father was physically free while his mother was not. [...] If will and power meant relative immobility but purpose—and purpose was what he had—then in the past he chose that above what he thought of as laxness, relaxation, and physical freedom that might mean frittering away ability, a relaxation in which nothing was accomplished.

[...] Each parent also represented opposites to them—but different ones, and so they saw your parents differently. [...] But the beliefs have changed enough so that the improvements will come and the walking will be remedied.

(Jane was very relaxed after supper, but she wanted to have the session. [...]

[...] But now… “I almost don’t want to hold the session,” Jane said as we waited for 9:00. [...]

[...] We made various joking remarks about what would come next in the sessions, but I could see that Jane didn’t really feel humorous. [...]

[...] He’s got something for you, I think, about those biblical times; the Crucifixion… The thing is, I know what Seth’s going to start telling you, but it’s confusing. [...]

[...] After Seth began that chapter Jane and I realized we could become quite interested in biblical history, but our time for learning had been brief. [...]

[...] There are some individuals embarked upon a study of dreams, working in the “dream laboratories”; but here again there is prejudiced perception, with scientists on the outside studying the dreams of others, or emphasizing the physical changes that occur in the dream state. [...] (Intently:) It is not only as valid as the exterior one, but it is the origin for it. [...]

[...] “It’s sure funny: I can feel a whole lot more right there now, waiting to be given — but before the session, nothing. [...] But not here; yet once I get started I want to keep going …”

(10:39.) Simply as an analogy, look at it this way: Your present universe is a mass-shared dream, quite valid — a dream that presents reality in a certain light; a dream that is above all meaningful, creative, based not upon chaos (with a knowing look), but upon spontaneous order. [...] There, from another viewpoint, you can see it even more clearly, holding it like a photograph in your hands; at the same time you can see from that broader perspective that you do indeed also stand outside of the dream context, but in a “within” that cannot show in the snapshot because of its limitations.

[...] Almost anyone can become a satisfied and productive amateur in this art-science; but its true fulfillment takes years of training, a strong sense of purpose, and a dedication — as does any true vocation.

[...] I have spoken of this before, but it is important to remember that you impose a certain kind of “artificial” sense of exaggerated continuity even to the self you know. Your experience changes constantly, and so does the intimate context of your life — but you concentrate upon points of order, in your terms, that actually serve to scale down the context of your experience to make it more comprehensible. [...]

(11:23.) On the one hand, dreaming on the part of animals — and men in particular — involves not only information processing, but information gathering. [...] Data gained through waking learning endeavor and experience are checked in dreaming, not only against physical experience, but are also processed according to those “biological” and “spiritual” data, colon: Again, that information is acquired as the sleeping consciousness disperses itself, in a manner of speaking, and merges with other consciousnesses of its own and other species while still retaining its overall identity. [...]

[...] But finally she reached the point where there just wasn’t enough time for her to answer the telephone that often and get her own work done too.)

[...] Also, part of man’s reality contributes to that trans-species organization, but he has not chosen to focus his practical daily consciousness in that direction, or to identify his individuality with it. [...]

[...] I’m not speaking of transforming it through great dogmas, but of concepts that put people in touch with their own reality.

[...] On the other hand, he is placing himself in a position of trusting the inner self, not from a state of agility and confidence, but one in which he must remind himself that despite, say, soreness, definite feelings of life and mobility appear. [...]

[...] Your finances will completely astound you as time goes by, but they are the result of inner wealth, materialized.

(But this proved to be the end of the session. [...]

[...] The body acts as truly and automatically, but it does not follow one given course, but splintered causes or ends.

[...] After the session I told Jane I’d been tempted to ask Seth to comment on the tragic situation involving Venice and Howard McCullough, but decided not to because of Jane’s own concerns. [...] Jane was willing to go back into trance, but I thought she’d better pass it up.

[...] She tried to do more today, but couldn’t concentrate upon it. [...]

[...] Ruburt wanted to go in one particular direction, but with no clear-cut known ways of getting there.

[...] You are moving more effectively within camouflage reality, but you are still dealing with it. The focus of your attention has changed somewhat, but you are still strongly relating to the physical field.

[...] Jane has no middle name now; her name used to be Dorothy Jane Roberts but she dropped the Dorothy when we were married 11 years ago. [...] But she puzzled over why the A would crop up now, since she never uses it. [...]

[...] Jane cannot now recall the name of the female supervisor, whom she met but once, but doesn’t think the initials tally. [...]

Now it is possible for someone within the physical body to perceive someone who is not, but it is not usual. [...]

[...] We see it every day of course but I was sure Jane wasn’t aware of these two specific leaves separately. [...] Note that the word “top” is penciled on the back of the Bristol; this was done by me after the experiment, but before Jane saw the objects, as will be shown later.

[...] You will begin here to perceive very clearly constructions that are not your own, where earlier these were but dimly glimpsed. [...] Some may have existed in your past, and some were thought of but never physically materialized.

[...] The room and the people exist, but they do not exist in the manner which you endorse as reality. They exist in another dimension, but as a rule you cannot perceive it. [...]

[...] Her pace had been average but her manner very emphatic. [...] She had been aware of nothing but the material, she said.

[...] I asked that she be tested for food allergies, since I’d read that reactions to various foods and additives can trigger arthritis, but Dr. Mandali said that “if Jane is allergic she (Jane) would know it”—a position I came to most thoroughly disagree with. But usually, I thought, the trouble with having something diagnosed as rheumatoid arthritis is that not only do you have it when you go into the hospital, but when you leave it. [...]

[...] She’d very gradually started doing this before entering the hospital, but any physical causes behind her behavior had been unsuspected by us then. I only saw that she could use the rest, since she obviously didn’t feel well generally—but I also thought she was waiting for one of her characteristic surges of creative energy before digging into her next book (of which she always has several going). [...]

[...] They X-rayed my hands but not my knees. [...] But other tests and X-rays revealed that I had sound lungs—in spite of my smoking—a good heart and stomach and other organs. [...]

[...] I asked her for more on the song’s interpretation, but she just repeated that line. [...]

In a deep trance we could tell you much, Ruburt and I, but I still agree on the principles of cooperation, and always follow the dictates of caution. Ruburt’s abilities along these lines are great, but it is necessary always that certain controls are maintained; and he certainly sees to that!

[...] We had discussed with Bill the additional information Seth gave in the last session concerning the boat with a symbol on it, supposedly visible to Bill from this particular seaside room in Provincetown, but Bill is not able to recall the craft in question. [...]

[...] But the seasons are automatic constructions along the lines of alterations, happening to matter already constructed.

You cannot for example see autumn, but only its effects upon matter already constructed. [...]

[...] But no information may be gathered here that was unknown to the particular previous personality as a rule. Some particularly gifted may use one of these levels as a focus point, looking outward even to the present personality, but this is unusual.

There are of course peculiar sets of associations that have been collected in this existence only, but even among associations that seem to be from this existence there are those associations, usually key associations, from previous existences which merge with those of the present.

The topmost layer of the subconscious contains predominantly present associations, but in these are mixed and interwoven associations which have their origin elsewhere. [...]

When I speak of levels of the subconscious, I do so only for simplicity’s sake, since there is after all no top or bottom to the mind, but only a present point of focus from which viewpoints may be taken, and new perspectives formed. [...]

[...] They take hardly any time, but will be most effective.

[...] Once they were meant to promote your psychological understanding, but now they can only impede your progress; and you are also slightly resentful at Ruburt, feeling that he is somewhat responsible, by still maintaining his symptoms, for your own.

[...] Of course she knows I use the pendulum, and with excellent results; but I hadn’t told her about this other inquiry.

[...] You would still like to believe in the importance of suggestion and telepathy, but only when it suits your purposes, and to minimize it in those areas that are somewhat touchy.

The open is before her, but facile. [...]

The closed is stubborn, but I am strong. [...]

She kneels to the closed, but I am awed. [...]