“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] (She would terrify the young Jane by stuffing cotton in her mouth and pretending she’d committed suicide, for example.) Jane also spent time in a strictly run Catholic orphanage. [...]

The horrible misdeeds committed upon the Jews by the Germans were certainly not asked for specifically. [...]

(Unknown to Jane, until I told her after the session, was my mental commitment to build a F. M. tuner and amplifier.

[...] As long as one person commits acts of violence for the sake of peace, you will have war. [...]

[...] In other words they do not belong as yet, or are not committed to the next plane of their advancement.

[...] They sought to learn John’s views while not committing themselves in any way, so as to save themselves the embarrassmentof being refused. [...]

[...] What they really signify for the long term is (as I wrote in the essay for April 16) a continuing program of intense study for Jane and me—and yes, for Seth, too—as we seek to better understand our chosen commitments in our present physical lives. [...]

The personality has endeavored to right old wrongs, and has succeeded to a great degree, but at the risk of sacrificing inner spontaneity, and even at the risk of losing the very authoritative aspects of his nature, so that there is still a tendency to follow rather than to lead; simply because in the period of the Inquisition he was in a place of authority, he led; and he led men into atrocities committed in the fine name of principle and religion. [...]

[...] This time she was quite aware of Seth’s concern lest anyone, upon reading this section of the material, commit suicide in a misguided effort to prove that it is possible for the consciousness to get along without the physical body. [...]

[...] It did not involve a disaster for Leonard, he said, nor a crippling accident; he used the word unpleasant often, and did not commit himself beyond this.

In the past he stayed at the gallery despite some natural disadvantages, because of the independence which he enjoyed there, because of the commitment mentioned earlier, and because of innate interest in paintings which surrounded him. [...]

“I was not conscious of my age, 61, in the dream, nor do I remember anything about being committed to draw a daily strip also. [...]

By then, of course, Rob and I felt a strong commitment to the sessions. [...]

[...] Almost unconsciously, it seemed, the three of us were committed to creative growth in spite of all obstacles, whatever their cause or nature, or the amount of camouflage time involved.

[...] (We didn’t give a thought, however, to anything like reincarnation, let alone to such connections involving us.) Even now, 18 years after Jane’s death in l984, I’m as committed to our work as ever. [...]

If they chose to do so together, how did Jane and Seth explore the new reality they were committed to? [...]

10. I gave up my commitment to commercial art in 1953, when I was 34 years old. [...]

[...] According to Seth, a still-living probable self of Robert Butts, Sr., is “a well-known inventor, who never married but used his mechanically creative abilities to the fullest while avoiding emotional commitment.” [...]

[...] “We may want to know the place and the time of a past self, for example—and the very concentration upon the ‘past’ simply deepens our commitment to time. [...]

[...] He does not owe me a sense of commitment. [...]