“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Note: last thing she said was afternoon…one of the first things Jane asked Barbara when she was partially recovered was whether she had ever tried to commit suicide in the afternoon. [...]

[...] On a limited level, commitment to intangible values, which you have, limits you to a commitment in physical terms. [...]

[...] Your fear of commitment was indeed an element here. [...]

[...] That voice might tell him to commit any of a number of nefarious actions — to assassinate the enemies that stand in the way of his great ideal — and it might seem to him and to others that he has a natural impulse to kill, and indeed an inner decree from God to do so.

How can you trust your impulses when you read, for example, that a man commits a murder because he has a strong impulse to do so, or because the voice of God commanded it? [...]

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

The greatest majority of destructive acts are committed in line with that belief. [...]

(Long pause at 4:16.) All creatures are basically of good intent; even when they commit the most dubious of acts, these are usually caused by a misdirected good intent. [...]

(At suppertime tonight we read a newspaper article about a 27-year-old man from Philadelphia who’d committed suicide in our area by having himself decapitated by a railroad train. [...]

[...] The suicide story bothered him simply because it reminded him of Will (Ives), who had attended classes, and of a friend of Venice’s, who committed suicide many years ago, although a session was held for her.

[...] At this time, 1602, in England, the man committed an act which put him greatly in his sister’s debt. [...]

[...] The involvement between the two personalities of the man and the woman at this time is a good one, as far as commitments previously in other lives is concerned. [...]

[...] And I even wonder about the woman [Mrs. Anderson] who lived in this house, and committed suicide later—though it’s no big deal. [...]

[...] Last week’s poetry served to refresh his creative energies, and in commitment to the book and to our work, and with your prayer activities. [...] Energy given in commitment will rob the symptoms. [...]

[...] Therefore, you may be punished in this life for errors you have committed in a past one, or you may actually be making up for a mistake made thousands of years ago. [...]

What sin did the poor person or the sick person commit? [...]

Commitment yes, fanatic commitment no. [...]

[...] Ruburt was speaking of commitment, the commitment there is as complete. [...]

Ruburt was strongly committed to the sessions on the one hand, and highly skeptical on the other. [...]

(Jane’s own counterparts, Sue, Zelda, Alan Koch, “Maryland,” and myself are all committed to the dissemination of Seth-type ideas, either through professional writing, classes, and/or lecture appearances that extend from one end of the country to the other.

No child, no infant commits suicide. [...] The adult who commits suicide has still gained experience to some degree within your plane. [...]

These ideas do not only inflict severe difficulties upon older members of the population, but they also have a vital part to play in the behavior of many young people who commit suicide directly or indirectly. [...]

The individual, like Donald, has also given up the responsibility for his own choices, and feels that he or she cannot be held responsible for any destructive acts that might be committed.

[...] Their commitment was for life, I thought, and so was bound to be different than most other people’s. I wondered how often they went through roughly the same procedures with the dead, and speculated about how their sincerity and love must have stood them in good stead at such often-repeated times. [...]