“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Some of these will involve you in those planes of reality in which personalities more or less recently dead now survive.

[...] You may visit others now dead in those terms, with whom you were once acquainted. [...]

The Speakers help you in the formation of dreams which are indeed multidimensional artistic productions of a kind — dreams existing in more than one reality, with effects that dissect various stages of consciousness that are real, in your terms, to both the living and the dead and in which both the living and the dead may participate. [...]

(Jane said tonight that she still feels a strong emotional charge in connection with the idea of the “dead” returning in those stereotyped, banal terms. [...]

[...] The Platonic, idealized inner world would ultimately result in a dead one, for in it the models for all exteriorizations were seen as already completed — finished and perfect.

([Rich L.:] “Why do the dead wish to influence the living so much?”)

Most of the dead do not particularly wish to influence the living. [...]

In ordinary terms, however, the dead are not concerned with the living except perhaps in the very earliest phases, when their emotional feelings are connected with those they have left. [...]

[...] In times past in particular, though the custom is not dead, men purged themselves, wore ashes and beat themselves with chains, or went hungry or otherwise deprived themselves. [...]

[...] “We might have played dead now and then—you know, lain down and closed our eyes, but that would be all.” [...]

1. I added “[resurrection and]” to Seth’s passage because Jane told me that according to ordinary teaching Christ’s resurrection from the dead took place on Easter Sunday, the third day following his crucifixion (on Friday), while his ascension into heaven transpired at an indefinite later time — up to 40 days later, as stated in the writings of St. Luke in the Acts of the Apostles (AA 1:10). [...]

[...] Sometimes Christ appeared as an apparition — but as Seth commented in a private session: “You could not have a world in which the newly risen dead mixed with the living. [...]

I’d say that in this 829th session Seth spoke out of a knowledge of biblical tradition and history; that is, he wasn’t saying that Christ did rise from the dead or ascend into heaven, but referring to Christianity’s interpretation of its own creative Christ story. [...]

[...] And so there is instead triumph, for you say, “I am dead, and still I am I” You will dance a merry dance! [...]

Now, I have not been so social here before, and if you are not careful I shall see that you return to your dead bonfire. [...]

(9:46.) Many viruses are vital to physical existence, and in your terms there are gradations of activity, so that only under certain conditions do viruses turn into, say, what you think of as deadly ones. The healthiest body contains within it many so-called deadly viruses in what you may call (underlined) an inactive form — inactive from your viewpoint, in that they are not causing disease. [...]

[...] For he knew the dead body would not be his own.

[...] He tried to tell them however that he was not dead, and they chose to take him symbolically. [...]

[...] Now your own system includes not only your physical universe as you know it, but also any personalities, living or dead in your terms, who are physically oriented.

[...] Miss Callahan, deceased, did not know yet that she was dead, and Jane was explaining the situation to her. [...]

[...] Before they were relatively dead. [...]

(It might be of interest to note that Helen McIlwain, the communicant in Jane’s dream of November 8, has been dead for perhaps two years. [...]

(Thus, Seth seems to be saying in the above paragraph that Jane received a communication through a personality that has been dead for two years. [...]

[...] The brother has been dead for at least five years, and quite possibly much longer, Jane states. [...]

You may feel alone in life if all of your relatives are dead, for example. [...]

[...] Yet, strangely, I can consciously accept that my grandmother passed away more than half a century ago easier than I can the fact that my own father and mother have already been dead for seven and five years, respectively.

[...] Ruburt thought the plant next door was dead. [...]

[...] On several occasions I have “known” the subject was dead. [...]

(“Do you want to deal now with the question about the Dead Sea Scrolls and Yahoshua?” This was in reference to a letter Jane had received on April 12, having to do with Seth’s third-Christ data in The Seth Material.)

[...] As you know, everything alive is conscious — and even so-called dead matter possesses its own variety of self-awareness.

[...] She was deadly frightened that Ruburt might have a child and not finish school. [...]

[...] Then even our most unfortunate escapades, our most sorrowful ventures, are not dead-ended, but serve as doorways into a deeper comprehension and a more meaningful relationship with the universe of which we are such a vital part.

[...] You must understand that these are not simply dead ideas, like debris, within your mind. [...]

[...] It is not dead or inert. [...]

[...] The physical system would become too rigid, lose the power of its natural diversity, and eventually bring a dead-end to human survival.