“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In that framework, necessary death is meted out in such a manner that each creature understands that its own death serves a greater purpose—and further understands that there is no malice involved (whispering).

[...] But the means were not those that would benefit all involved, for the mouse died no quick death.

As human beings we live suspended between life and death. [...] But animals, as far as we know, do not anticipate their own death, or wonder about their status before birth. [...]

[...] “No, if we could do all that, we’d know when we were going to die!” But suppose we saw beyond the point of death, discovering to our surprise that we were still conscious—not only of ourselves as we “were” but of other portions of ourselves of which we had been unaware? [...]

Organized religion professes to hold the opposite idea, that man’s identity is independent of physical matter—after death. [...]

[...] I do think that Seth is part of another entity, and that he is something quite different from, say, a friend who has “survived” death.

[...] Jane also had a dream involving the death of Sue Watkins that I wanted a word on. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s dream that Sue was dead represented the death of old beliefs about women writers. [...]

[...] I am here to tell you that I have survived physical death, and that you have survived physical death time and time again. [...]

There was a death by fire on two occasions. [...]

[...] You were correct in the assumption that upon death the personality sends out signals; but the personality constantly sends out signals, in any condition of existence.

We will in the future deal with the problem of evil, and hint of some of its implications in our life after death material.

[...] Crime after death is not punished. [...]

[...] At that time she died an unfortunate death. You had nothing to do with the death, however, you felt guilty about the circumstances for she did not do well in her profession and died, indeed, of starvation in another town never having told her family where she was. [...]

1. Seth first mentioned viruses in the 17th session for January 26, 1964, when I asked him to comment upon the recent deaths of our dog, Mischa, at the age of 11, and of a pair of kittens Jane had obtained from the janitor of the art gallery where she worked part time. [...]

“The particular atmosphere surrounding your personalities just prior to the animals’ deaths was destructive, short-circuited, and filled with inner panics. [...]

“In the cats’ deaths, both cats inherited the peculiar illness, which was a virus, that killed them. [...]

[...] The individual insists upon growing or upon death, and forces an artificial situation in which growth itself becomes physically disastrous.

[...] The new puberty dies a slow death, for your society has no framework in which to understand it. [...]

[...] It does mean that the male so divorced himself from the common fountain of love and sex that the repressed energy came forth in those aggressive acts of cultural rape and death, instead of birth.

[...] Life implies death, and death implies life — that is, in the terms of your world. In those terms life is a spoken element, while death is the unspoken but still-present element “beneath,” upon which life rides. [...]

[...] In two recent envelope experiments involving my place of employment, this word had cropped up in connection with the death of an older fellow worker; mine referring to grave, or underground, because Jane instinctively disliked the idea of graves. [...] Jane said she received the word again this evening in connection with Ezra; she felt Seth wanted to connect Ezra with the idea of disease—hence the polio data—followed by death, etc.

[...] Neither Jane or I had ever met Lucy’s friend but we recall hearing about her death through Lucy. [...]

[...] Death does not automatically bring enlightenment or development. [...]

Death brings a certain knowledge that things have changed, as on earth you know when you have walked from one room to another, but nothing can automatically make the survival personality understand or perceive clearly the new conditions.

(“I may have chosen death,” she said weakly.

[...] 9, 1984, four days after Jane’s death — Seth’s last words, trying to help to the last.]

[...] People who are terrified of physical death might take this path, since when physical death occurs, consciousness is already acquainted with its new environment and the organism’s death is relatively meaningless. [...]

[...] Yet we were all astonished to hear of her death. Even though we realized that she was literally making herself sick, we had no idea that she was “sick to death.”

[...] Two years before her death she asked to attend a regular Seth session. [...]

You can even continue some symptoms after death. [...]

None of my deaths surprised me. [...] The life could not be finished properly without the death.

There is a great sense of humility, and yet a great sense of exaltation as the inner self senses its freedom when death occurs. All my deaths were the complement of my lives, in that it seemed to me that it could not be otherwise.

[...] I always found my deaths highly educational — in your terms, afterwards. [...]

(The last in the series took place last night, and since it dealt with extreme situations concerning my own death, Jane and I thought it wise to inquire into it. [...]

[...] The execution, which you feared, was a symbol for the death of many hopes, both financial hopes and artistic ones. [...]

[...] There is also some element of distorted clairvoyance, in that your father’s death—when it does occur, and it is not imminent—will finally be a painless one.

[...] My father’s death was peaceful and painless—six years later, on February 5,1971.)

[...] He knew his death, his personal death, was only a transition, for his identification allowed him to feel the mobility of his consciousness, and allowed him to feel a sense of communion with the passing seasons, and with the ever-constant renewal of plants and fields. [...]

One of Christ’s purposes, meaning the entity, was to teach man to see beyond the so-called facts of existence; not to deny death’s physical event, but to show the greater dimensions of that event, and man’s emergence into a new reality.

At the end of your seventh dream you will be acquainted with your immediate environment after death. [...]

[...] It was almost a nightmare—in fact Jane woke me out of it to prevent this seeming reaction on my part, I was fairly sure the dream concerned my father’s approaching death, but certain elements in it were similar enough to Seth’s suggestions about contacting Dr. Pietra, above, to make me tell Jane about it—on the off chance the dream had been more than it seemed.

[...] The barrier was not death, but life on the other side of it.

Death operates in the same fashion. [...] Dreaming provides all the conditions of life and death, therefore — a fact that often frightens the waking self. [...]

You say: “I must maintain my individuality after death,” as if after the play the actor playing Hamlet stayed in that role, refused to study other parts or go on in his career, and said: “I am Hamlet, forever bound to follow the dilemmas and the challenges of my way. [...]

[...] The deaths are accepted almost as a matter of course. [...]

[...] In death they fulfilled their purposes, making a mass statement. [...]

[...] The mass deaths at Jonestown (in November 1978) took place during our long layoff from book dictation, but Seth began discussing the affair almost at once in our private material, as Jane described in her own portion of the opening notes for Session 831. [...]

[...] Your time seems marked, individually, by birth and death. [...]

It is equally true to say that your deaths from this life are already accomplished, as it is to say that you have not yet been born in this life. [...]

Now you have also been helping others adjust after the death, but you have not remembered. [...]

[...] Others see the universe as a sort of theater into which we are thrust at birth and from which we depart forever at death. In the backs of their minds people with either attitude will see a built-in threat in each new day; even joy will be suspect because it, too, must end in the body’s eventual death.

[...] When I fell in love with Rob, my joy served to double the underlying sense of tragedy I felt, as if death mocked me all the more by making life twice as precious. [...]

Many people, of course, feel that death is a new beginning, but most of us still think that we are formed and bound by our physical bodies and environment. [...]

Seth says that not only do we form our own reality now, but we will continue to do so after physical death, so it is of the utmost importance that we understand the connection between thought and reality.