“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Each of you survive death. [...]

[...] But the main idea is the affirmation that the physical being, the self that you know, is not annihilated with death. [...]

[...] The messages were given in other terms, but again they reflected the affirmation of the self and its continued existence after physical death. [...]

(All dates given are approximate: Many Biblical scholars think the Gospels were composed between A.D. 60 to 100, well after the death of Christ in A.D. 29 or 30. [...]

Now, he thought as a child that every night was literally a death, and every dawn literally a rebirth. [...]

Basically however you see he has lived through the night; the feared death was powerless against him. [...]

[...] His weaknesses were out in the open, dramatically presented, and from that point, unless he chose death he could only go forward: for suddenly he felt that there was after all some (underlined) room to move, that achievements were possible, where before all achievements seemed beside the point in the face of his expected superhuman activity. [...]

(And as Jane and I had discussed while she was in the hospital, she had indeed explored quite seriously the possibility of physical death—much more so than either of us had realized on conscious levels before her admittance to the hospital.)

[...] Possibly the death of Nate Goldsmith; we learned about this on our second visit. Jane, or Seth, has used the underground idea several times now in connection with death.

[...] Jane said this data goes with the earlier underground and spade data, and is a symbolic reference to the death of Nate Goldsmith. [...]

It is true that basically there is no death, but this cannot be used as an excuse within your sense-system. You have created death within your system. [...]

[...] However, if a personality believes strongly in the reality of hell, for some time after death he will experience the hallucination of a hell which will be of his own creation.

[...] She had experiences involving caskets, death, etc...but said these episodes were separated in time, at least one of the times being quite long ago. [...]

[...] You have already made your in- roads long before the time of physical death. [...]

John must tell her that she is free to leave, and that he joyfully gives her her freedom, so that even after death she does not feel that she must stay close to him. [...]

[...] Granted that certain individuals could choose to pursue certain goals and challenges even through the point of physical death, never relaxing that focus; still, most did not. [...]

(“We’re all going to die,” I said, “so what we’re really talking about is how and when that death takes place.... [...]

[...] Many deaths must be directly attributable to these kinds of mechanisms operating, and I would imagine that psychologically it’s an old story.)

The “stuff” of the environment will have its origin in the mind of the projectionist, being symbolic of his idea, for example, of life after death. [...]

[...] Many of these involve systems in which life and death as you know it does not occur, where time is felt as weight; systems in which the root assumptions are so different from your own that you would only accept any experiences as fantasy.

[...] You have been much given to thoughts of death this evening. [...]

[...] A death is a death, regardless....)

[...] As the months passed I became more and more consciously caught up in the signs of her approaching physical death. [...] There was no end to them, and there still isn’t. Like, why had I stayed way later than usual on the night of her death—so late that I fell asleep in my chair beside her bed after she had fallen asleep? [...] How did my dear wife react, feel, at the moment of her death? In the minute AFTER her death? [...]

[...] It will also be rather unorthodox—more like a series of conscious and unconscious reminiscences and free associations, moving back and forth in time as I approach sets of ideas from various angles while seeking to learn more about my wife even now, 18 years after her death. Jane’s death may have been physical, yet she still lives, still offers insights, still makes me reach to understand and grow as I mourn her passing. [...]

[...] More and more, but especially since Jane’s death on September 5, 1984, I have tried to be open to those fascinating and unending interrelationships we create individually and en masse and so live with.

During her journey (and mine) I helped her publish 19 volumes of the Seth material, fiction, and poetry, and since her death in 1984 I’ve added 12 more so far, including this first volume of The Personal Sessions. [...]

[...] In it, symbolically, you have “death” as your physically attuned consciousness comes to the end of the amount of stimuli it can comfortably handle without rest. So, at your normal physical death, you come to the point where your earth-attuned consciousness can no longer handle further data without a “longer rest,” and organize it into a creative meaningful whole — in terms of time.

[...] Some of your physical cells are brand new, so to speak — the regeneration of fresh life is physically within you; in your terms this is true not only until your death but even after it, when your hair and nails can still grow. [...]

[...] It is a disease that people have when they want to die — when they are ashamed to admit that they want to die, because death seems to fly against sane behavior. [...]

[...] The fact is that when death comes it is wanted; it has been chosen.

The fact is that death in its way is the culmination of life, leading toward a new birth and new experience. [...]

[...] And with many deaths in the past.

[...] Sir Harry Oakes was bludgeoned to death, I think, though he may have been stabbed too, I don’t know.”)

[...] It will seed the earth, and so it knows its death is not death.

[...] Now your desire has ebbed and flowed through psychic deaths and births. [...]

[...] See the 537th session in Chapter Nine for material on after-death organization.)

[...] You simply do not realize what you are now; and as I’ve said before, when you ask me questions about life after death, you automatically transpose — — if you will forgive me — this lack of knowledge into the next realm. [...]

(Seth’s phrase, “… you cannot see before or after what you think of as your birth or death….” [...]

Granted we survive death, what part of us survives? [...] Having a whole self may be great, but if my Jane Roberts self is engulfed by it after death, then to me that’s not much of a survival. [...]

“The inner self can, indeed, perceive events that will occur after physical death. [...] The inner self can perceive events that will occur to itself after death, and those in which it is not involved.

[...] You do not suddenly acquire a ‘spirit’ at death. [...]

[...] They are being nurtured, but do they in this darkness, therefore, look about them and say, “This is a time of death? [...]

[...] And you will see at the end of a life only death and annihilation and wonder what the life was for. [...]

([Gert:] “Then a consciousness of a person may leave before death, but the soul would be the last thing that leaves the body?”)

The Ottoman Empire’s death in its own way regenerated Europe, and its energy gave birth to the civilization that you know. The death of the Ottoman Empire enriched Europe. [...]

[...] Each death he saw as a triumph for the cause.

In reply to another of my questions, she said her emotional charge was also involved with the death of our cat, Billy One, in February 1979. [...]

In the 840th session for Chapter 6 of Mass Events, see my account of Billy One’s death.)