“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It is true that the Sumari do not communicate verbally, and yet so far you have been given what seems to be the rudiments of a language and why? [...] You are also being introduced, or you will be introduced, to some different kinds of concepts and to some different kinds of communication, so be on your toes. There should also be communications in one way or another in the dream state. [...]

Now you are beginning to communicate backward and trying to put aside the language that you knew and the phrases that you took for granted in order to approximate a more pure communication. [...] And we will indeed, with your permission and consent, lead you into other areas where you need not rely only upon the communication that you now take for granted, and we must begin by building bridges and so we shall. [...]

[...] Did it ever occur to you that there are other methods of communication and ways of learning what they are and steps to learning them? [...]

[...] There are consciousness, groups of consciousness, that try to communicate and you cannot listen because you insist that they have a language. [...]

If you cannot communicate important ideas, then you must communicate trivial ones. The big conversation, in which you attempt to communicate your ideas, only frightens her. The idea should be communicated when you are not emotionally upset, and you should not adopt the tone of a parent speaking to a child.

[...] The simple fact is that you do need her, and you have not communicated this. [...]

Hinged to this is the belief that this felt lack of communication is wrong, and that for anything wrong you should be punished. In taking dictation for this book you are helping us communicate with many people, while at the same time you feel that you cannot communicate with your own parent.

[...] They are given to you through example, verbal communication, and constant telepathic reinforcement. [...]

[...] The belief is that you do not communicate well with your mother.

[...] You also believe that you communicate through writing far better than you do verbally. [...]

[...] It is pragmatically practical, and above all it wants to explore and to communicate. Communication implies a social nature. [...] Through biological communication the child’s cells are made aware of its physical environment, the temperature, air pressure, weather conditions, food supplies — and the body reacts to these conditions, making some adjustments with great rapidity.

[...] They naturally communicate. [...] In making such statements I am not personifying the cell, for the desire for communication and motion does not belong to man, or even animals, alone. [...]

(Long pause.) If the “earthling” spoke, the alien would of course instantly know that you were communicating creatures, and in the vocal sounds recognize patterns that contained purpose and intent. [...]

Man’s physical world, with all of its civilizations and cultural aspects, and even with its technologies and sciences, basically represents the species’ innate drive to communicate, to move outward, to create, and to objectify sensed inner realities. [...]

[...] You did not communicate your concern to each other, therefore you did not communicate your hopes. [...] It is not so much that you have not solved them, as that you let communication about them gradually fade away.

This will automatically break down some projections, clear the air, but more than this the repressed energy being used to prevent communication, open communication, is physically and psychically released.

[...] It means that you refuse to let old habits any longer rule, and each such encounter is an exercise in learning how to express and communicate your feelings each to the other.

[...] You were not living clearly in the sensual, physical world, in that large amounts of energy were being used to repress physical communication.

[...] (Long pause.) Dreams serve as backup systems also, for example, in the important communications between various peoples or nations—and, particularly when physical communication is cut off between such groups, dreams provide the continuation of information’s flow from one part of the species to another.

There are certain kinds of dreams in which the various species then communicate, and in which the energies of the environment and its inhabitants merge. [...]

[...] But I came to feel that I was right with it, right close to some kind of important knowledge that I could communicate at the same time. [...]

This reassembled ego then attempts to perceive these concepts in terms of sense perceptions, which are sent as communications to the physical individual at the other end. Sometimes the communications are made directly, though they must be sifted through the subconscious of the physical individual. [...]

In my communications to you, I speak as my whole self, and not on the part of any one of the egos which have been dominant in other existences. [...] I am not tied to physical existence by any strong emotional bonds however, and my personality structure is more advanced than is usual for communicators from other systems.

[...] When communications take place between a survival personality and a personality who exists within the physical system, then this involves a reshuffling, again, on the part of the survival personality, where the ego is momentarily given greater reign.

[...] If it did not occur, then in most cases communication would not be possible, simply because the survival personality would have such difficulty in impressing the personality who was still ego-oriented within the physical system.

[...] The inner self communicates with your present personality. In your dreams you have communication with that larger portion of yourself that is your identity. [...]

[...] But while you are awake this communication also goes on continually but you are not aware of it, for your ego is so focused upon physical reality and upon survival within it, that you do not allow yourself to listen to the inner voice. [...]

Our friend here (John) spoke of communications, and their effect upon you. Here you will find an almost instantaneous system of communications. [...]

It is a period of great activity, telepathic communication, an overcrowding physically, but forces great new developments and a new synthesis, and this is your present situation. [...]

[...] The oversaturation of your atmosphere that will be brought about as a result of overpopulation, the increased psychic activity, the greater communications, will have the result further of pressing inward upon the individual until he is forced to find a new way to handle stimuli, and to respond to events.

[...] Either you thought of this or they have thought of you, and some communications, though of an informal nature, may have happened in the past. [...]

[...] You communicate easily and well in your writing because sound is not involved. The ability to communicate is yours, and you are highly gifted in that regard. You are simply dropping the communication on the sound level. [...]

[...] You erect barriers like walls—so that someone wanting to communicate with you cannot get through, cannot find a “hole” in your conversation to reach you. [...] You have used it to protect yourself, either erecting sound yourself to protect you from communications coming from without, or, when this fails, by refusing—refusing to hear. [...]

Now, before your husband became more willing to communicate, before he made an effort, you had fallen into your own rut. [...]

[...] The hearing, you see; the state of the hearing, is among other things a symbolic, physical statement of the lack of communication that has existed between you and your husband. [...]

Many of the methods used to find solutions actually involve the setup of negotiations on the part of nations—the third party or parties—who in the beginning can communicate with each side, explaining one side’s viewpoint to the other. The setting up of communication with individuals, communication between the various portions of the self, is highly desirable then. [...]

[...] So we are often indeed faced with a lack of communication between various portions of the self, or between various portions of the world. [...]

[...] The intellect’s reasons, however, were not entirely its own, but only appeared to be because the opposing camps were so out of communication. [...]

Ruburt has also managed to set up a better system of communication, and whenever you begin to pay more attention to your impulses again, you are bound to get off-center at any point. [...]

“… you are a part of nature, and that is your saving grace—that no matter how you try to leave that framework you exist within it, so that you communicate with earth at other levels, even if you refuse to be aware of that communication. [...]

[...] Even this is a rather complicated endeavor, and one seldom used for purposes of communication.

[...] Or the individual might send you a thought-form at the same time that he telepathically communicates with you. [...]

[...] You thrust into the background telepathic communications that often accompany such forms, and you turn aside from all clues that other realities exist quite validly with your own, and that in the midst of one existence you are surrounded by intangible but valid evidence. [...]

[...] So others, strangers, may communicate with you when you are sleeping, and even guide you through various periods of your life.

[...] It depends upon simultaneous actuality in so many fields, and delicate balances and communications, the balances in all cases being determined by the efficiency of the communications.

[...] I am concerned with getting material to you, but I am also concerned that we do not lose the basic friendly nature of our communications.

[...] There are also reasons why the deep subconscious has allowed such difficulties to come about, and in most cases the basic reason here is a lack of understanding and communication between the various portions of the self, so that seemingly the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.

The first treatment should always include the setting up, once more, of such communication, and we will have more to say later on this subject.

[...] Hatred brings a sense of power and initiates communication and action. In your terms it is the build up of natural anger; in animals, say, it would lead to a face-to-face encounter, of battle stances in which each creature’s body language, motion, and ritual would serve to communicate a dangerous position. [...]

[...] It was not meant to be the cringing act of a martyr who said, “Hit me again,” but represented a biologically pertinent statement, a communication of body language. Give us a moment… (Softly:) It would cleverly remind the attacker of the “old” communicative postures of the sane animals.

[...] It can also be a method of communication, but it is never a steady constant state, and will automatically change if not tampered with.

[...] They cannot communicate as, say, even animals can, with their fellow men as far as the expression of a disagreement is concerned.

This has to do with communication as it was applied to their drawings and paintings, and to the highly discriminating channels that their creative communications could take. [...]

Communication, in fact, was one of their strongest points, and it was developed to such a high degree simply because they feared violence so deeply and were constantly on the alert. [...]

[...] Color was used in terms of language in communication, in drawings and paintings; representing somewhat as your own color does, emotional gradations. [...]

Now: Their communicative abilities, and therefore creative abilities, were more vital, alive, and responsive than yours are. [...]

[...] Communication, perception, and environment can hardly be separated. Therefore the kind of communication that is carried on by myself and my associates is extremely important in any discussion of our environment.

[...] In Chapter Nine of The Seth Material (1970) she wrote: “Several people have told me that Seth communicated with them through automatic writing, but Seth denies any such contacts, saying that his communications will be limited to his work with me, in order that the integrity of the Seth Material be preserved.” And in her introduction to Seth Speaks (1972), she quoted Seth from the 510th session for January 19, 1970: “While my communications will come exclusively through Ruburt (Jane) at all times, to protect the integrity of the material, I will invite the reader to become aware of me as a personality….”

Even in God of Jane, which was published in 1981, Jane presented some relatively late material from Seth to show that he doesn’t independently communicate with others. [...] After explaining how a couple of women (among others) had recently claimed that he had been in contact with them, Seth stated: “Now, I did not communicate with those women—but their belief in me helped each of them use certain abilities.”

[...] In the dream state many kinds of communication occur, and there are inner translations. [...] They may each translate the communication into their familiar language.

Numerous forms of vocal communication — whether “true” speech or not, in current opinion — undoubtedly existed among the ancestors of our species for many millennia before the appearance of late Neanderthal man, however; according to conservative estimates such methods could have been in use for well over two million years, perhaps beginning even with our prehuman or animal stages. [...] To us, even the potential for audible communication has always been as much a part of our creature states as arms and legs. [...]

Underneath this, however, there are basic inner sounds upon which all language is based, in which certain images give forth their own sound, and the two together portray clear, precise meaning.² A long time ago I said that language would be impossible were it not for its basis in telepathic communication³ — and that communication is built up of microscopic images and sounds. [...]

[...] Freedom from time and place, the wider kind of communication, the great mobility of consciousness — all of these experiences under dreaming conditions are characteristic of the basic nature of reality — whereas your waking experience provides limitations that are indicators of certain conditions only. [...]

[...] But the event helped me get first-hand experience with the therapeutic benefits that can stem from simple communication. [...]

(Pause.) Ruburt’s experience this afternoon was a response to your own notes concerning communication and its importance.

In this case, the notes allowed Ruburt to see the vaster and yet even more intimate kind of communication that unites you, and that unites all of life.

The television program, about the communication of plants, also served as an impetus, so that Ruburt was able to sense the continuous “inner world” flow of love and cooperation within which all of life is couched. [...]