“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

A point: Ruburt’s condition involves a complete reorientation. [...]

[...] When you immerse yourselves completely in physical reality, then you have no time for the inner voice. [...]

[...] I counted to ten backward, with appropriate suggestions, but when the count was completed she told me she could see nothing. [...]

[...] Before about twenty people Dr. Erickson put her into a deep trance quite easily, with the result that Peggy had complete amnesia for a ten-minute period. [...]

[...] Imagine the individual as the center of all life, so that when the painting is completed it automatically suggests the whole universe of which the individual is part. [...]

I’ve noted that many of the sessions in this personal series will not be complete, but deleted excerpts from published sessions. [...]

Yet I also knew that there was more that Seth could have said; that if Jane had allowed herself to cooperate—but hardly surrender—more completely, the creative Seth portion of her psyche could have helped her more. [...]

[...] Instead we became involved in a long process of trying to understand my wife’s impairments as they fluctuated over the years, and then finally did not leave her completely at all. [...]

[...] I was the complete amateur at dealing with the personal interactions of others. [...]

[...] One person may be completely free physically and in excellent health, and yet, because of certain experiences, begin to doubt his ability to get along with others. [...]

This cooperative nature of the libido has been completely overlooked and misinterpreted for various reasons, many simply due to ignorance. [...]

Two days later, the conditions had completely changed. [...]

[...] As physical creatures, they focused upon what you think of as physical identities: separate, individual differences, endowing each physical consciousness with its own original variations and creative potentials, its own opportunity for completely original experience, and a viewpoint or platform from which to participate in reality—one that at that level could not be experienced in the same way by any other individual (all very intently). This is [the] privileged, always new, private and immediate, direct experience of any individual of any species, or of any degree, as it encounters the objective universe.

[...] Follow my suggestions, and know that the necessary work is being done completely outside of physical time, so that improvements can occur of a significant nature without any particular conventional expected processes that must first occur.

[...] If you are able to do what you know even to a limited extent what you claim that you are able to do, I would be completely dumbfounded. [...]

[...] It wasn’t complete but, surprisingly, it already ran to five typed pages and some fifty-two items. [...]

[...] Suggestion will allow him, or will allow you Joseph, to awaken yourself as soon as a dream is completed.

[...] For that matter, the outline is scarcely completed.

[...] Even though Jane had remarked at the end of last Wednesday evenings session that Seth was close to the end of the book, his actual completion of it still hit us. [...]

Company projections are that the entire cleanup at TMI won’t be completed until the end of 1988—more than nine years after the accident took place. [...]

All of that work—and more—accounts for the long delay in the completion of Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment. Actually, with the exception of one session held in November 1980, I let my work on the book go for over 13 months, from early June 1980 to mid-July 1981.

So in a fashion [Jane’s] physical symptoms became a psychological disclaimer, so that in some court of larger values we could not be “sued” for leading others astray from entrenched beliefs that we were still discarding, while not having any completed structure that would allow easy access or safe passage from one “life raft” to the new one that we were trying to provide….

[...] It grieves you, but you believe it completely. [...]

[...] This is one of the main reasons why, in the Rhine experiments, results were not given until a certain sequence of tests had been completed, or a given series.

[...] There is always a kind of artistic dissatisfaction that any artist feels, any true artist, with work that is completed—for the true artist is always aware of the difference between the sensed ideal and its created actualization—but that is the dimension in which the artist has his being (intently). [...]