“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You did not, fully now, realize your contribution to Seth Speaks in financial terms, though you understood your creative contribution. Ruburt did not either, until lately, because it was a matter of self-evidence: your contribution financially would come through painting alone. So for a while you were hassled that you were not financially contributing after you left Artistic, and so was Ruburt. You were contributing financially, but neither of you correctly understood this because of that specialized focus.

His reaction was to not hide the ability in your way, but to force the world to accept it. Again, it is important that since the works were published—even for example the ESP book—neither of you understood your (my) financial contribution. Even to the ESP book, not just the session material that you took down. But your limited focuses blinded you. That kind of contribution was literally invisible—not legitimate, because you had not sold paintings.

(Notes before session: My sportsman self. My writing and painting selves. Father’s secrecy and my identification. My financial contribution. Jane’s fears. Our creative errors. Our attitudes re Prentice. Our attitudes re correspondence. Jane’s flexibility. Her dancing. My selling paintings. Mother.

Because you saw yourself with such specialized focus, unknowingly you blocked out stimuli that as a painter you could have used. Because of your joint ideas—you, the artist, Ruburt the writer—then your financial contribution was strictly limited by both of you to that one field.

[...] They yearn to give and to contribute. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) To some extent they have felt closed out, unable to contribute. [...]

(When we were alone again I reminded Jane that as far as we knew the fund idea was known to only two people, so I was a bit mystified when Seth evidently talked about many people wanting to contribute. [...]

The offer of contributions is also partially the result of your own changed attitudes, and is meant to inform you that the universe is indeed inclined in your direction. [...]

[...] Men dreamed their own maps in the same fashion, one man dreaming perhaps a certain portion, and several dreamers contributing their versions, drawing in sand in the waking state, or upon cave walls. [...]

[...] There is indeed a kind of communal dream life, then, in which each individual contributes—a dream life in which both living and dead play a part, in your terms. [...]

[...] All meaningful work means in the meaningful and productive relationship between oneself and the natural world, that contributes to both one’s own survival and fulfillment, and to the survival and fulfillment of the natural world. [...]

In such a way the individual, the society, and the natural world meet, merge, and contribute to each other’s existence. [...]

Ruburt is correct: you will be relatively untouched by the economic situation, but because you did not contribute to the reasons behind it.

Those characteristics that kept you from contributing to those conditions are those that now are most needed, and will be most recognized. [...]

As soon as I realized that Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment was going to be so long that it would require publication in two volumes, I began to think about how I was going to summarize here all of the material that Jane, Seth, and I had contributed to Volume 1. I developed the hilarious notion that if I did the job the way I really wanted to, this introduction would be as long as that first volume is itself! [...]

I do feel that part of that enrichment involves a worldwide (and possibly universal) healing action, contributed to by each living form—that here on earth, at least, this vital force of our own creation sustains us in an unending grand synthesis of regeneration. [...]

I’m proud to have helped Jane and Seth make their contributions in our complex and very creative system of things in this reality. I thank them — just as I thank each and every one of you, dear readers, for your past, present, and future contributions. [...]

[...] Leaving the house, I picked up from the mailbox some $360 in contributions sent to us by Maude Cardwell. [...]

(I stopped at a Convenient Market to buy potato chips to contribute to a party the staff is giving for one of the aides who’s changing jobs at the hospital. [...]

[...] Your financial needs are now being more than satisfied, and there will also be breakthroughs, so that you are contributing. You are contributing in any case, of course, not only in Seth Speaks but in the book to follow.

The reality, the physical reality, of fire was such a contribution made by the physical universe to the universe of dreams. [...] His discovery in the physical universe of domesticating fire was another such contribution to the dream universe.

[...] It was a main contribution of that field to your own, and could be compared physically to an emergence of a new planet within the physical universe.

[...] It is a contribution of the universe of dreams to your own universe, representing knowledge within the dream universe that man was independent of physical matter ultimately.

[...] You contribute your abilities and experience, helping to form the world’s civilization and culture. [...]

[...] You are so a part of the world that your slightest action contributes to its reality. [...]

[...] That is, each of your actions is so important, contributing to the experience of others whom you do not know, that each individual is like a center about which the world revolves.

[...] Your endeavors cannot be labeled, nor can your (to me) contribution to our joint work be assessed. [...]

[...] Unless negative beliefs stand in your way, then creative ideas that you contribute to the work will automatically take care of your needs, and it is truly idiotic to want to substitute that good fortune for such parochial concepts like the male as breadwinner, or the male performing in a given definable fashion. [...]

[...] When you paint, you feel you cannot justify your art, and in our books you wonder what percentage your notes and contributions might make in the overall royalties, say. [...]

[...] If all a man can do to “prove his value” is to put a bolt in a car, or drive a truck, or even teach a class, then he is very careful that that contribution be noticed, and that a definite value be given it. [...]

Now all of you—each in your own way—contribute. For you can consider the body of the earth and all that you know—the trees and the seasons and the sky—to some extent as your own contribution—the combination of spontaneity and discipline that gives fruit to the earth. [...]

[...] A completely different kind of focus was presented, in which the ancestors were understood to contribute to the “new” experience of the living; one in which the physically focused consciousness clearly saw itself as perceiving the world for itself, but also for all of those who had gone before — (gradually louder for emphasis:) while realizing that in those terms he or she would contribute as well as the generations past.

All of the leaves now growing on this plant could be thought of as counterparts of each other, each alive and individual in one time, each contributing yet facing in different directions. [...]

(“Tonight the pendulum says just what it did yesterday—that I feel poorly because I estimated a high income when we don’t have it in sight; that I think I should be working on Mass Reality instead of Through My Eyes because the former will bring in sure money; that I think I don’t contribute enough financially; that I feel lousy because I want something definite to work on —that at this time I’m not contributing enough. [...]

[...] In other words, I’m very concerned about my financial contribution, and paying all those taxes exacerbates it all.

(“The pendulum repeated my insight of a couple of days ago—one that may be very important: that all of my upsets over the years, the stomach, the side, the groin, the shoulder—the whole bunch—stem from my consistent feeling that I’m a failure in life, that I don’t contribute enough, that I don’t help Jane enough, that I haven’t really made it as an artist or as a writer.

[...] Ruburt is contributing and forming a certain portion of my experience, even as I am contributing to his. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, Seth Two’s reality includes my own, yet I am aware of my contribution to “his” experience.

[...] The energy of all contributes.

[...] The amount of contributing energy needed may or may not require many sitters, according to their varying abilities to direct and focus energy.

Your own speaking about distractions, chores contributed. [...] The worries about money, age, all contributed so that he tried to work harder.

All of those reasons contributed to his course of action. [...]

[...] You feel guilty about taxes, because you feel that you have not contributed enough financially—therefore doubly angry that the money must be taken from Ruburt, and so forth.

[...] In Mass Events, though, Seth goes further, maintaining that our private impulses are meant to provide the impetus for the development of our own abilities in a way that will also contribute to the best interests of the species and the natural world as well. [...]

[...] In this book Seth clearly shows how each of us can contribute to the mass reality, and concisely outlines the issues so that we don’t fall prey to disillusionment or fanaticism.

This Introduction represents my only conscious contribution to this entire book, for example. [...]

[...] She seemed to be a little more comfortable, now that her birthday and Mother’s Day are past — factors, Seth said, that contributed to her discomfort.)