“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Both of you have kept yourselves uneasy in your environment lest you become too comfortable. You concentrate upon the annoyances of your neighbors lest you become too close to them and emotionally involved and touched. You have lived here some years yet purposely avoided thinking of it, this apartment, as anything but transitory lest you put down roots and become involved in ways that might distract you from your work and purposes. Give us a moment.... You do not buy much furniture so that the idea of being transitory is more convincing. At the same time you stay where you are so you can work, while denying yourselves the sense of ease that you could otherwise enjoy.

(9:55.) Give us a moment.... You both are so afraid of being tied down however that even in the apartment you did not allow yourselves really to feel at home—to buy your furniture, cheap or expensive. You love and hate family, precisely as Ruburt does. He because he never really had one, and you because you did.

Each of you sees buying a house now as a threat, though you are at times tempted. You have always seen family life yourself as a threat to artistic production, and the first thing you would do if you had a house would be to build a studio outside of it. You did not want children. Whatever methods Ruburt chose to insure that you were childless you proclaimed with joy, glad that you were not the woman.

[...] Do not buy a house with a dirt cellar. Do not buy a house heated by oil. [...] Use your psychic abilities to ascertain the house’s atmosphere, by all means, and no matter how fine it seems, if you do not feel comfortable inside, do not buy it. [...]

Now he has felt that if the “authority,” the people, do not like what he says, then they will not buy his books, and deny him that “welfare.” [...] Instead of the people giving him handouts as a child, where he had to be careful of what he did and said, he saw them as contributing to his welfare through buying his books, and if he went too far and offended them, they would stop.

[...] You need to buy, not rent; there are further financial developments, windfalls.

What I do deal with is extremely complicated, and yet next to your dilemma—buy or don’t buy—I must say that my own concerns seem almost childlike by comparison.

[...] It had caught our fancy to some degree and was possibly within our ability to buy, if we could take the word of friends of ours. [...]

[...] We had not entertained any though of buying it, however, since we had heard the price was high previously, and did not care for the location. [...]

[...] These buyers may look at many other paintings, but mine are the ones they want and will buy, because they are guided by the infinite intelligence within each of them. [...]

[...] By using the powers of your subconscious mind correctly, you free your mind of all sense of competition and anxiety in buying and selling.)

[...] We buy a loaf of bread for trip mentioned next. [...]

[...] We buy a loaf of bread for trip mentioned next, trip by motorcycle.)

[...] Since this particular kind of Masonite is hard to find and the Schuyler lumberyard had a good supply, I decided to return to Wellsburg on Saturday, July 23, to buy two more full sheets. [...]

[...] In this event, it can be said we made the trip to Wellsburg for the express purpose of buying Masonite.

[...] This I regard as excellent data pertaining to the object, whereas Jane said it had no particular meaning for her because she didn’t know the specifics concerning the way I usually buy Masonite.

[...] People don’t want to buy a painting. They’d rather buy a TV set. People come in here and look at my paintings, but I don’t see them buying any. [...]

(On Friday, February 21, Jane and I not only saw the hill house from the inside for the first time — but decided to buy it. [...]

(These notes give me a chance to hint at another in the series of “house connections” that Jane and I have become so much aware of this month — for there is a close professional relationship between the owner of the Foster Avenue house and the real estate agency through which we’re buying the house on the hill. [...]

1. I want to note here that at the same time Jane and I decided to buy the hill house, we learned that the house next door, to the west, would soon be for sale; because of a job transfer its owner would be moving with his family to California this summer. [...]

[...] You realize you have the money to run the machine, or to buy the washer. [...]

[...] He would not be tempted to buy so many clothes. [...]

[...] It makes little difference whether you buy a washer, or ever use your dryer or dishwasher, but it does make a difference that you understand your feelings about these items, and know how those feelings connect with your deeper activities.

[...] She may not buy, believing that a parking area will be set up to drive off the sort of tenants she wants; and then after this proscribed time of contract the parking area itself may well fall through, as I told you. [...]

[...] But an individual has already decided to buy; and two will be bought shortly, one by a man and one by a woman.

[...] (Pause.) Do not say “so-and-so will buy such-and-such a painting, he has the money,” if there is any touch of accusation in the statement “He has money.” [...]

[...] He would do very well in the future in buying real estate—and there will be money to buy it. [...]

[...] Though the price was quite high, Ruburt and Joseph thought about buying it, and were taken through the home by the real estate people. [...]

[...] In this one Joseph can choose whether to buy or not, so there is no coercion (by Stella Butts), for example. [...]

[...] In certain terms his mother will feel vindicated if Joseph buys that house, but the choice is still his and Ruburt’s. If you pay more attention to what you think of as coincidences, you will discover another kind of order that underlies the recognized order you follow. [...]

It is beside the point to become angry at those who buy the Seth books and not Ruburt’s. Those people do the best they can. [...]

[...] I remarked to Jane that if we paid attention to that material, then instead of turning away the people who would be influenced by the newspaper notice, we might be able to influence some of them to buy Seth/Jane’s books.

The important point, however, is that if you are not honest with your own feelings and beliefs, then you feel victimized by the society who will not buy your books. [...]

[...] He is hurt when people do not buy your paintings off the walls, and angry at anyone who mentions liking a painting without offering to buy it.

[...] You can choose to buy or not buy a product whose virtues are being praised. [...]

[...] You are certain, however, that if you do buy a television set it will perform in an adequate fashion, whether or not you are familiar with electronics. [...]

I would heartily suggest that you and Ruburt consider (underlined) the possibility of buying Paul’s cottage. [...]

[...] It seems he and his wife are buying a larger cottage close by their old one, which they plan to rent. [...]

Leonard will want to buy a house. [...]

(Note: This session was held on June 2. On June 5 we heard that Leonard was going to contact a real estate agent about buying a house.

(A clarification: Seth didn’t actually suggest that Jane and I buy the “1964 house.” [...] The house you looked at today should prove an excellent buy …” and, “If you purchase the house …” and, “You will have to make your own decisions.”¹⁵

(The next day, Friday, Jane had an auditory “psychic” experience of sorts about the Foster Avenue situation; Saturday morning we made a formal offer to buy the house in question. [...]

(Considering parallels, here’s another of the many “connections” that Jane and I have become aware of since we began our housing odyssey last year [already we’ve compiled a list of 30 similar relationships]: Three out of the four dwellings that in one way or another we’ve been seriously involved with possess driveways shared by next-door neighbors — Mr. Markle’s in Sayre; the apartment house we live in now; and the house in Elmira that we considered buying in 1964. [...]

[...] You may know absolutely nothing about music, for example, and one afternoon while in the middle of some mundane activity be struck by a sudden impulse to buy a violin.

[...] I am not telling you to run off and buy one, but you could however act on the impulse as far as is reasonably possible — renting a violin, simply acquainting yourself with violin concerti, etc.

The rich cannot buy a better light bulb than the poor—though they may have chandeliers galore, and electricity flows in your country through the poorest and richest areas as well. [...]

[...] He is slightly contemptuous of it, while liking what it can buy. [...]