“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The self is not … (pause, eyes closed) … give us a moment; I am searching for a good analogy … the self is not like a clay figure coming from a potter’s oven, so that you can say: “Ah, here is a self, and nothing can be added to it.” [...]

[...] Space and time, for instance, are not separate or uniform entities, but closely related intuitive “constructs” of consciousness; mass is a form of energy; motion is not absolute, but relative to the motion of something else; two observers, each moving at a different velocity relative to a common sequence of events, will perceive those events in different courses of time.

[...] Part of the time while dancing, we had been so close to their table we probably touched it. [...]

[...] We found ourselves on the other side of the floor, shoved next to the couple’s table, dancing very close. [...]

[...] The dream world exists more closely in that spacious present of which the inner self is so aware. [...]

The eye movements noted in the beginning of REM sleep are only indications of dream activity that is closely connected with the physical layers of the self. [...]

No man can find
Where he has been,
Or follow in flesh
Where the self tread,
Or keep the self in
Though doors are closed,
For the self moves through
Wood and stone.

[...] We ordered Oliver Fox’s Astral Projection. Astonished, I discovered that my experiences followed his rather closely, even though most of my projections to that date had been spontaneous. [...]

[...] I lay down on the bed to support my body, closed my eyes and used all my will-power to eject myself out. [...]

[...] I also closed the doors so I would not hear the doorbell or phone.

[...] Because you open a door, this does not mean that you cannot close it or open another door, nor does it mean that you cannot have two doors open at once, and that is my point.

[...] Now this idea comes close to the relationship of the entity to its personalities. [...]

[...] Jane was quite dissociated in the beginning of this monologue, but she reports that as it drew to a close the state grew less.)

[...] He also began to see two poles in society—one highly conventional, 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, fraudulent.

[...] He was a compact, dark-skinned and dark-haired person with soft brown large eyes that were kept half closed when he was being a psychologist, and turned larger, commanding and yet inviting when he was being a magician. [...]

[...] The close observer could, I think, find among the three men more physical and psychological correlations [some having to do with illness], as well as meaningful opposing features, so that in this instance the counterpart relationships can be seen as quite apropos.

[...] Eyes half closed most of the time.)

[...] We have put his concepts to work in our own lives, and sometimes both of us wonder how we managed daily life before we understood the close relationship between thoughts, emotions, and health.

[...] If an individual sees only evil and desolation in the physical world, it is because he is obsessed with evil and desolation and projects them outward, and closes his eyes to all else. [...]

[...] Before closing, Seth gave her advice which can be used by anyone:

[...] Then we close ourselves off from the constructive energies we need.

[...] If you close your eyes, you do not see.

(9:59 P.M. Her eyes closed, Jane sat quietly in her rocker for several moments before leaving her trance state. [...]

[...] There were various tests applied before an initiate could come close to the interior doctrines. [...]

[...] Sometimes I can hear Seth through the two closed doors.)

[...] In some cases, unknowingly, your scientists are close to observing the birth of time effects within your system. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been good, but still she’d been bothered by the sounds of traffic rising up from the busy intersection close by our living room windows. [...]

[...] For diphtheria they closed all the windows and the doors. [...]

[...] The basis however is very strongly female, since without the giving quality the aggressiveness would be but a stationary closed fist, incapable of motion and incapable of unfolding into other lives, as it must. [...]

[...] Now I wish this session was recorded so you could hear me, for I hold you, as Ruburt does, closely and dearly as a friend. [...]

[...] You are trying to close it. [...]

[...] Since the excerpts are still more representative than complete, however, due to the accumulated mass of information available, my own choices enter in: ESP class data are quoted a number of times; included is material summarizing Jane’s own theories about the Seth phenomena, as she worked them out in her recently completed Adventures in Consciousness; but reincarnation, while mentioned often, isn’t stressed in terms of particulars — that is, I refer to Seth’s statements that he, Jane and I led closely involved lives in Denmark in the 1600’s, but those lives aren’t studied per se. [...]

(Sessions 12 through 15 are briefly quoted in Note 4 for the 680th session, in Volume 1; Seth remarked upon the impossibility of closed systems, his own senses [including something of their limits], his ability to visit other “planes” of reality, and his “incipient” man’s form.

(Seth came through with this material, including his jocular closing remarks, because a good friend of ours had asked many questions as he witnessed the session — one of them being why the right-handed Jane gestured mainly with her left hand while speaking in trance. [...]

[...] They are not closed units.

[...] His rather long letter dealt with Dr. Childers’ nightshade diet for arthritis; the writer claimed he had a close friend who had recovered completely from rheumatoid arthritis that had plagued him since childhood, by following this diet—no potatoes, paprika [peppers], tomatoes, and a few other common foods of the nightshade family. [...]

[...] We shall close the session, or I will be glad to answer any questions, if you wish.

[...] My own interpretation, I told Jane now, was the same is it had been then—that since the checks looked so small, it meant they weren’t that physically close to us yet—in other words, a waiting period was involved in which, hopefully, they’d move closer and closer to us. [...]

[...] Her head was bent over, her eyes closed often so that I was afraid she’d bump into her glass of Coke, and perhaps knock it over. [...]