“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] No system of consciousness is ever closed, only you pretend that they are closed. [...]

(To Sue.) The other room exists simultaneously, as this room now exists, and your two friends are as closely connected as our Ruburt and Joseph. [...]

[...] The meaning of your being and the meaning of All That Is is as close to you as your breath and if there is any division between you and All That Is it is a completely artificial division that you have yourselves erected and maintained. [...]

I pushed Jane in her chair out on the porch, as close to the hemlock as we could get behind the floor-to-ceiling glass; we looked up at the chattering animal from only three feet away. [...]

[...] Right now I’m really blue, my eyes operating poorly; tears warmly close; yet enjoying the dark sky and street as rain threatens… the view of the mountains afforded by the windows; the rock music on the radio; the odd remaining odor of door varnish—deeply loving all of it yet swept through with something like nostalgia. [...]

[...] I told my wife I’m particularly pleased that even though we live within the confines of a small city, we’re also in close contact with the natural world and its creatures. [...]

[...] Her pace was better, eyes open and closed. [...]

[...] (Long pause, eyes closed; one minute.) Spatially, a painting is flat. [...]

[...] There were images within this concept that were something like an accordion, Jane said, having to do with time opening and closing, etc.

(Jane sat at the living room table with me and began speaking with her eyes closed, in a normal voice and at a good pace.)

[...] (Pause, eyes closed.)

Were it not for the close connection between you, you would not have been able to receive the material that you did through the pendulum.

[...] He still does not like the living room door closed at night. He feels closed in. [...]

[...] You close it off because you are concentrating upon the opposite direction.

[...] The perceived lapse noted by scientists is of course the physical one (leaning forward, hand to closed eyes), caused by the “time” it takes the message to leap the nerve endings.³  The interior translation however is simultaneous.

Consciously you react to the physical data — the noise, the squeal of brakes perhaps, the visual shock of seeing the car so close, but the entire inner reality of that scene or event is instantly “recognized” by what I refer to as your inner senses. [...]

(“The needs and desires of others naturally enter in,” Seth continued, “and some energy must be used to close them out. [...]

[...] But no boundaries really close a system, and within any set, any given set of coordinates, there will be others. [...]

[...] Jane sat with her eyes still closed, but nodded that she was okay to my question. [...]

[...] Then I saw her eyes close; her face took on a certain familiar expression, she smiled, and I knew Seth was going to speak. [...]

(It had rained hard after supper, but slackened as session time drew close. As I turned on a couple of additional lights in the living room, to see to write by, our friends in the fireplace began to sound off —adding a new sort of whistling or crying sound—and Jane made what may be a good point: light may leak past the closed damper enough that the raccoons respond to that stimulus. [...]

[...] Often such people are in a very depressed state of mind, so that they have already closed their thoughts to the reasons for living, and only keep reminding themselves of the availability of death.

It is also true that persons in ordinary good health who often contemplate suicide have already closed themselves away from the world to an important extent. [...]

[...] It’s the little painting of a dream of my own, in which I stand on the close edge of a roof, looking down into a city street. [...]

[...] “Is the door closed?”

[...] The dream was partially triggered, as is often the case between closely related individuals, by Ruburt’s own dream in which the leaking vessel was featured.

Because I have kept you without your break, I will now close the session. [...]

[...] I will continue the session for a few closing remarks after break, if you prefer.

(Actually, I had been well aware that Seth was skipping breaks, and had watched Jane rather closely to see if she became uncomfortable. [...]

2. In general, given the nature of the CU’s — Seth’s postulated “basic” units of consciousness that make up all realities — closed systems cannot exist. From Session 581 in Chapter 20 of Seth Speaks: “Basically, however, no system is closed. [...] It is only the camouflage [physical] structure that gives the impression of closed systems, and the law of inertia does not apply. [...]

[...] Such a system may seem like a closed one² from any viewpoint within itself. [...]

[...] Yet, disappearing through one of the physicists’ black holes,⁴ for example, though structure and form would seem to be annihilated and time drastically altered, there would be an emergence at the other end, where the whole “package of a universe,” having been closed in the black hole, would be reopened.

[...] Without the use of this sense, however, no man would ever come close to understanding another.” [...]

(While giving the 73rd Dr. Instream material she spoke with a hand raised to her closed eyes. [...]

[...] The M may stand for Milton, or a close-sounding name. [...]

(Jane resumed with her eyes closed and at a slow rate at 10:49.)

We will close our session.

[...] I am particularly close to you both this evening. When possible I will endeavor to close our sessions before 11:30, for practical reasons, so that while you are learning to draw upon additional energy you will not be tired the following day. [...]

[...] Her voice was very quiet; she sat quietly with her eyes closed for the most part. [...]

Nevertheless, I will close the session early, as it is certainly an excellent one; and we have finally begun to get near, but hardly into, the heart of the matter—that’s a pun. [...]

[...] Her glasses were off and her eyes remained closed while she delivered material throughout the session.)

[...] She resumed in the same quiet manner, sitting down and with her eyes closed, at 10:10.)

[...] Then it is too late for the ego to close its gates against them. [...]

(Once again she sat on the couch, and I sat in her chair facing her across the coffee table—with behind me, the closed-off fireplace. [...]

Now (leaning back on the couch, eyes closed): First, we will begin with Ruburt’s physical sensations. [...]

(All of a sudden the noises from the fireplace were so loud and intimate that I thought that somehow the raccoons had managed to get past the closed damper and were behind the screen in the fireplace itself, but Jane continued as usual in trance.)

Ancestors had worked the same fields, walked the same paths, and to that extent the past was open-ended rather than closed. [...]

[...] The peasants of course worked closely with the land and seasons, with earth’s natural timing, and even though such work seemed to make time go faster, in the overall the sense of present time included a rich dimension from both present and past, so that in your terms it would seem longer by contrast —richer—when people went to bed earlier, lacking the night’s electricity. [...]

[...] All very well, I suppose—I agreed with Seth’s closing remarks about new creativity arising out of our experiences, yet this truth hadn’t seemed to do much to relieve the depths of feeling I’d experienced while rereading those 1973 sessions.

Now in close marriages or those of long duration, there is a kind of superimposed family personality, a composite, to which each member contributes, and to which all members respond. [...]

Your struggles earlier, before you met Ruburt, involved relationships, in that you had no deep ones, allowing yourself to become close to no one. [...]

[...] If you close the door in the world’s face, it is because Ruburt cannot walk properly. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had again been a good one, her pace fast, voice fairly strong, eyes closed for much of the early part of the delivery.

[...] He opened the channels wide in order to receive the information for our friend, And indeed he does not know how to close them. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s trance state has improved indeed, but having opened the door, oftentimes he does not know how to close it. [...]