“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] (Long pause; eyes closed; smile.) The activity of molecules actually is caused by perceptive qualities. [...]

(Long pause, hand to closed eyes.) Perceptions in general physical terms usually seem to involve information picked up from an arbitrarily designated structure, of an event seemingly occurring in another structure outside of itself. [...]

Now: the overly conscientious self is opinionated, closed-minded, pedantic. [...]

It is possible to be opinionated at times, closed-minded, and pedantic, in good normal behavior—but when certain characteristics group together, then you have the formation of an overly-conscientious self, which acts in a repetitive manner, always showing these fairly rigid characteristics. [...]

(As I mentioned doing at the close of last Saturday night’s deleted session, today I paid our NY State and Federal income taxes a few days ahead of time, hoping the action would contribute to my sense of freedom, and perhaps Jane’s too. [...]

(Willy kept bugging me as I tried to make notes for this session—sitting as he does close to me on the couch, wanting to stare at me and be petted at the same time, while I try to accomplish something. [...]

[...] So one morning that same week I lay down, closed my eyes, and gave myself the suggestion that I would find Peg and Bill.

[...] If Seth was what he said he was, then he should be able to look into time and space and closed envelopes as easily as you and I can see the objects in a room. [...]

[...] I was always in trance, and usually my eyes were closed. [...]

[...] With the experience furnished by the scale, they now estimated they used close to 90 pounds pressure to level the table, this being the moment of highest pressure during the evening. [...]

(I stood back in a corner by the bookcase; the table had worked its way toward the bathroom door, which was closed. [...]

[...] Jane wanted to go to a back room; but the bathroom door was closed. [...]

[...] Now when Jane and I drive past the old house we lived in on Water Street, close by downtown Elmira, we engender within ourselves mixed feelings of strangeness and familiarity. [...]

[...] (Long pause, eyes closed.) These are not just esoteric statements, but valid clues about the nature of your own behavior, meant to give you a sense of your own freedom, and to emphasize the importance of your choice.

[...] You are denied tomorrow’s wisdom only because you believe time is a closed system.¹⁴ It is true that you are subject to birth and death, yet within that framework far greater dimensions of experience are possible than are usually experienced.

This has been a most fruitful session, and I will close it unless you have questions that you want to ask me.

Your psychic strength is extremely important, Joseph, in our communications; and without it adequate communication would be most difficult; because we three have been closely involved in the past, the psychic gestalt between us is possible. [...]

I will now close, but I wanted to give you some sort of report card, so to speak. [...]

[...] These quotes are close to being exact, whereas for some reason I cannot remember at all what Father said.

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

During some cycles I am more strongly focused with you than others, but I am always close enough to see that the material is being properly delivered and that the necessary structures are being maintained. [...]

[...] Families may be composed, then, of individuals who disliked each other in the past and come together in a close relationship where they are to work together toward a common goal, learn to understand each other better, and work out problems in a different kind of context.

[...] Very close friends from past lives, who are in a position to do so, often communicate with you when you are in the dream state, and the relationships are continued though you do not realize it consciously.

Houses even in the country can have a closed quality if the mountains or trees press too closely. [...]

[...] But Ruburt has a highly symbolic mind as well as a highly literal one, so he has hidden behind closed doors.

(Long pause at 10:23, eyes closed.) I make recommendations now and then, and now and then you see fit to follow them … ¹⁰ Considering Ruburt’s challenges, he has done extremely well as he cleared away the debris that literally surrounds the lives of most people … In a way his progress has been dependent upon the state of his learning, so that he has been trying to stretch the abilities of normal consciousness by drawing in other “strands.”¹¹ Yet because he was the one so involved, he had to test each strand; and in the meantime he still had his “old” consciousness, with its habits, to contend with.

[...] It’s neither the most inconsequential item on our list, or the most spectacular — but recently we learned through a close relative of the Steffans (I’ll call them), the couple from whom we bought the hill house, that at a small social gathering over two years ago Jane had spontaneously given something of a psychic “reading” for Mrs. Steffans. [...]

[...] Sue Watkins remains close (to both of us, by the way), even though she now lives in a small community that’s well over an hour’s travel north of Elmira. [...]

[...] Time is not closed, however — it is open. [...]

(Very long pause.) Good health is closely related, of course, to a family’s beliefs about the body. [...]

Now, I have been here all evening, and I shall be here until the door is closed. [...]

[...] Jane said she’d better close out the session.

[...] In sticking so close to the confines of egotistical physically oriented awareness, we may be closing ourselves off from answers to our deepest questions, knowledge that can help us deal more intelligently with physical life.

As to who or what Seth is, his term “energy essence personality” seems as close to the answer as anyone can get. I don’t believe he is a part of my subconscious, as that term is used by psychologists, or a secondary personality. [...]

[...] In accepting one solution, we may be closing our minds to others that lie beneath. [...]

I am to some extent oversimplifying to make my point, but the body is in the condition it is because you did not feel close enough together, et cetera. [...]

(Seth continued:) He also began to see two poles in society one highly conventional and closed, in which he would appear as a charlatan; and another, yearning but gullible, willing to believe anything if only it offered hope, in which his activities would be misinterpreted, and to him [would be] fraudulent … There was a middle ground that he would have to make for himself … to make a bridge to those intellectuals who doubted, and yet maintain some freedom and spontaneity in order to reach those at the other end. [...]

[...] (Long pause, eyes closed, then open.) A death by drowning, rather than fire. [...]