“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Besides normal reasons (Jane dictates:) he was psychically inclined, at a time when Jane was young and herself close to a past life. [...] In his solitary nature he came close to being a mystic but he was unable to relate his personality as Joseph Burdo with the social world at large, or even to the other members of his family. [...]

[...] She now displays in some instances her grandfather’s closed attitude toward people. [...]

[...] The two are so closely bound, through music for example, which can only be appreciated through the senses. [...]

[...] The counteraction involved in this case is counteraction within the core of vitality itself, in much the same manner that we spoke of a closed mental enclosure, multiplying and setting up motion within itself.

[...] When you leave for a vacation, for example, you close down your house. In these ideal terms, death would involve a closing down of your [physical] house; it would not be crumbling about you.

The unknown reality: Much of that reality is unknown simply because your beliefs close you off from your own knowledge. [...]

(3. Appendix 10 [for Session 692], on Jane’s efforts to make a “middle ground” between the extremes of society’s reactions to her psychic abilities: rejection by the conventionally closed-minded at one end, and gullible acceptance at the other.

Though doors are closed,

(At the start of this same period my own inner adventures stopped completely, as though hidden by a curtain closing on a stage. [...]

[...] After giving half a page of information about another matter, Seth closed out the session at 11:12 P.M.)

6. Currently there are close to 6,000 languages and dialects in use around the world.

[...] Her eyes were closed often.) You are presently focused entirely within it, wondering perhaps what else if anything there may be outside. [...]

For convenience’s sake, you close out the multitudinous inner communications that leap between the tiniest parts of your flesh, yet even as physical creatures, you are to some extent a portion of other consciousnesses. [...]

[...] The doors were closed. [...]

(She sat down as usual, kept her eyes closed, and used a rather quiet voice. [...]

In psychological time therefore it is at least possible that you can have some experience with other methods when you close off habitual methods of perception. [...]

I will close our session now however unless you have questions.

Your beliefs close you off from much otherwise quite-available knowledge concerning man’s psychology—knowledge that would serve to answer many questions usually asked about the reasons for suffering. [...]

[...] “We might have played dead now and then—you know, lain down and closed our eyes, but that would be all.” [...]

Science’s eyes, at least, have been largely closed, because it does not know how to read the personal script that is written everywhere in the passages of the chromosomes, or in the passages of a poem. [...]

In Framework 2 Ruburt’s normal walking is coming about in the same fashion, only you have far more clues to which still to some extent you close your eyes, as our hypothetical friends did when they lived on the same street without knowing it.

[...] Because another man is blind you do not close your eyes so that you can agree. [...]

I am going to close our session—far be it from me to keep you from your sleep! [...]

(Jane leaned back in her rocker, eyes closed as she paused. [...]

[...] Now your own system is relatively (underlined) closed, in that within it as a rule only one ego predominates, and you think of yourself as that ego.

[...] They were closely involved in other relationships in past lives.

(Jane took a pause, her hand to her closed eyes, which lasted well over a minute.)

[...] I’ve got the impression that she was trying to close the door of the stove.”

[...] On one occasion I lay down and closed my eyes simply because it was easier to do this than anything else. [...]

[...] Close to death, this same sort of thing happens in varying degrees when the consciousness realizes that it can no longer express itself through the mediumship of the body. [...]

Now: I will close for this evening.

[...] Those who have been closely bound through emotional ties often prefer to remain in closely tied or loosely tied physical relationships that continue through many lifetimes. [...]

[...] In many cases the friends that you make were close to you long before you met them in this present life.

[...] The sound penetrated the two closed doors between Jane’s study and the living room, where we were. [...]

[...] Jane spoke while sitting down, with her eyes closed, and in a voice somewhat deeper than usual. [...]

[...] Behind me in the fireplace we heard once again the mysterious scratching or chucking or chirruping sounds we’ve become aware of lately, as though a family of animals or birds has young hatching our or growing in a nest on the other side of the closed damper. [...]

When Ruburt closes his mind to the feelings of the Sinful Self, he locks it up within a prison as if it could receive no new information, but must always operate with the distorted beliefs of its birth. [...]

You do not have the kind of brandy that I drink, nor indeed could you come close to approximating the quality. [...]

([Rachel:] “I have the feeling that the other personality is very close by. [...]

[...] The genetic system, again, is not closed nearly as much as supposed. [...]

10:01 P.M. Near the close of Monday evening’s session, Seth had given us an insight into the nature of his own reality. [...]

[...] I began closing windows. [...]

[...] He had noticed for some time before that he had difficulty rolling his eyes when they were closed, for example.

This also forces you to guard your emotional life very closely. [...]

[...] The Church closed its eyes as long as the relationships were sexual in nature. [...]