“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

A cell is not a closed system. An egg, despite all appearances is not a closed system. A skull is not a closed system.

I repeat that no system, either microscopic or cosmic in size, is ever a closed system. No closed system exists. I will not at this time discuss the deeper issue of one infinite and open system, although this is reality which has indeed theoretically no limitations. Energy completely and constantly does renew itself.

This would represent a closed system. The calculations would have to be based upon the supposition that the original system somehow had its origin within the room itself. Imagine now that our inhabitants have been hypnotized into believing that they are in a small closed room. Their attention is completely focused within the imaginary room, with the result that all their concepts are based upon that belief.

(Jane had been speaking rather quietly if rapidly, with her eyes closed. Lorraine, who was also taking shorthand notes, sat close by. Now Jane, her eyes still closed, leaned rather quickly toward Lorraine and her voice boomed out briefly. [...]

Now these same sort of emotional systems operate under all conditions, and they regulate the kinds of experience to which an individual is susceptible or open, and they close out from his awareness those experiences which he has already decided he will not accept. [...] This field or system will therefore attract certain experiences, close out others, allow others to come so close and no closer, as is the case with Marleno and our sessions.

[...] Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed. [...]

[...] Strangely enough, her eyes remained closed for most of this closing delivery, opening but once or twice.)

[...] Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed, in a voice a little stronger than usual, and at a fairly fast rate. [...]

[...] Her eyes remained closed.)

[...] She began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. [...]

I am keeping your York Beach material until later in the session, close to the ten o’clock hour.

[...] The loud, brittle sound was clearly audible through the closed door. [...]

[...] Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. [...]

(Jane smiled, her eyes still closed. [...]

[...] Jane began speaking while seated and with her eyes closed. [...]

[...] As soon as she began to speak she closed her eyes, and to my continuing surprise she kept her eyes closed throughout the session, except for one brief instant that shall be mentioned later. There followed a rather strange procedure, for when Jane addressed either Bill or myself she kept her eyes closed but faced the pertinent one, and gestured in the correct direction also. After a while one tended to forget that her eyes were closed, since there was no evidence of confusion on her part. In addition, the closed eyes played a part in an interesting little development that will also be mentioned later.

[...] I saw that he had roughed out Jane’s features, stressing her closed eyes. I also saw that he had drawn, upon the closed upper eyelid, an iris, thus superimposing upon Jane’s closed eye an open one. I nodded to Bill to show that I understood that he was seeing an eye or eyes upon Jane’s closed lids.)

(Telling us about his recent dream and apparition experiences, Bill had mentioned that at times when his eyes were closed he was aware of the feeling of a white light, or glow, that varied in intensity at different times. [...]

[...] She began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. [...]

As leaves drop from the tree, so finally do dream images depart from close connection with the personality. [...]

[...] There is also, as I mentioned, a close relationship existing between dream images and other materializations, that are not ordinarily regular physical occurrences.

(During her delivery of the above paragraph Jane’s eyes opened, then closed. [...] She continued to open and close them until break.)

[...] Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. [...]

[...] They are not the same thing, but they are closely allied. [...]

[...] Theoretically there is no such thing as a closed system. However for all practical purposes a closed mental system is one which allows the least amount of camouflage data to come through. It is not closed entirely but nevertheless it could be said to approximate in psychic terms the enclosure within which your so-called mediums work; that is, with a minimum of camouflage communication at hand.

The system or the mental enclosure, again, is only closed comparatively speaking. An endeavor is made to close one opening from one plane, and keep the alternate or inner communication channel open. [...]

[...] Therefore, if you begin in an attempt to contract your consciousness and energy, in the hopes of attaining communication with inner reality, then indeed will your consciousness, closed and contracted like a tight fist, open and expand. And if you seek to communicate by expansion of consciousness, then will this expansion come crushing and closing upon itself.

[...] The window was closed, for my hay fever bothered me most of the day. [...] Jane began speaking while sitting down as usual, with her eyes closed. [...]

[...] Jane sat quietly waiting, her eyes closed.)

[...] She looked at me then closed them again.)

I look at that which is closed. [...]

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

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

[...] Traffic noise was not a problem, the windows being closed because of the cool night. [...] Her eyes were closed, her voice good but not loud, her pace a little fast. [...]

[...] Her eyes had been open up to this point, but she now closed them and sat waiting quietly while I handed the envelope to Bill; he passed it to Jane. She held it lightly in both hands, her eyes still closed.)

[...] Her eyes had remained closed. [...]

[...] Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. [...]

[...] This is the result of a lowering of egotistic guards, for the ego sets up controls that act as resistance to various channels, so that many connections are closed. [...]

[...] Her eyes remained closed. [...]

[...] Jane’s eyes however remained closed. [...]

(Jane faced me while speaking this last phrase, her eyes still closed, and in good humor.)

[...] Her eyes had remained closed, her pace had been quite fast and expressive. [...]

[...] The air cooler was on, and the entity’s first words were hard to hear—I had to lean close. [...]

[...] Jane began with eyes closed, many pauses.)

[...] Jane sat quite still, eyes closed. [...]

[...] The idea of birth and death each day is close. Those who cry when they hurt a flea come close... [...] come close. [...]

[...] Buddhists are perhaps closer, but no religion comes close really... The man or woman feeling identity with each day that passes comes close.

[...] There were misses of course, and statements that hinted at, or came close to, events and thoughts involving our friends. [...]

[...] I freed him then deposited him behind a closed door while Jane sat waiting, eyes closed.)

[...] These concerned John’s uneasy feeling about his wife Peg, last week; the strange loss of feeling in his legs in hot weather; and an effort to learn something from Seth about a pilot who disappeared some four years ago in a light plane near John’s hometown, Franklin, LA, which is close to the Gulf of Mexico.

[...] In fact the Senator did die the next morning, close to 5 AM, EDT.)

(She spoke for the whole session with her eyes closed. [...]

[...] Her eyes were closed. [...]

[...] (Long pause, eyes closed.)

Such financial success is therefore important, and has its place, but when Ruburt allows himself to become overly concerned with this, then he identifies too closely with the ego alone. [...] When he identifies too closely with the ego he loses inner direction.

[...] “Our sessions were discussed, or the item is closely connected to one used previously in our sessions.” [...] Tonight’s item, a postcard, is closely connected to one used previously as an envelope object. [...]

[...] Actually Jane’s eyes were closed for much of the material. [...]

[...] And a secondary connection with a car—not close, not a close connection—in which your parents traveled on that occasion.

[...] Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed. [...]

[...] Three of these were the voices of personalities who no longer exist within the physical system, but which were closely allied with Ruburt in past lives. [...]