“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You think of being one self after another, each identity being neatly separated from the others by a passage of years, an obvious death and an obvious birth.

[...] There is no point at which you can say in basic terms (underlined twice) that an individual is alive,² though you do find it more practical to accept certain points of life and death. [...]

[...] Also, there are some variables which cannot be adequately predicted because of conditions that will change drastically the attitudes of two men within the organization, and also a death which will occur in the higher organizational realm.

[...] Again, I am not sure of the date of the death that will be involved here. [...]

We do not know death in your terms. [...]

Ruburt was not responsible for the housekeeper’s death when he was in high school. [...]

[...] In the same way, many other concepts and ideas already given will also assume a new significance and meaning, and add to the richness of your experience, because you will be open to them more than you were before — Ruburt in particular — to ideas having to do with reincarnation, life after death, other spheres of activity.

Doctors had terrified me as a child, when my mother was already bedridden with arthritis, and when I was diagnosed as having an overactive thyroid gland—an affliction that could lead, so my mother told me, to insanity and death. [...]

Someday you may want to leave money to insure that our books continue to be printed after your deaths. [...]

[...] Not only could that consciousness have no existence before or after death, but obviously it could have no access to knowledge that was not physically acquired. [...]

[...] On September 12, Jane had a very vivid dream that she believes was rooted in a past life of hers in Turkey: Her dream involved a little boy, Prince Emir, who lived in a brand-new world in which death hadn’t been invented yet. [...]

[...] They remain quite healthy until the time of death.

[...] One point representing a birth, and another a death.

[...] From material given in various sessions we think the date of Seth’s death, given as 1655, is more likely to be correct. If Seth had been born in 1586 he would have been 69 at his death in 1655. [...]

[...] Here’s a small quotation from it, dealing with part of a vision “James” had following his physical death:

(Emphatically:) There is great energy, however, in those who have persevered enough to become generally known in their time, and the great impetus of that psychic and mental energy does not cease at death, but continues. [...]

6. Since William James died in 1910, this means that in our terms Jane picked up on his world view as it existed some 54 years after his physical death. [...]

[...] In Volume 1, Seth devoted much of the 681st session to a discussion of probabilities, or, in sum, All That Is, and interwound Jane’s psychic and physical experiences with that material: “The cellular consciousness experiences itself as eternal … Part of Ruburt’s feeling of massiveness² comes from the mass [life-to-death] experience of the body, existing all at once. [...]

11. According to modern cosmology, a black hole consists of the remains of a very massive star (one much larger than our own sun, for example) that’s suffered complete gravitational collapse after the death of its nuclear fires. [...]

[...] If we consider the universe as a white hole — our exterior universe of sense — we at least have a theoretical framework that reconciles our inner and outer activity, our physical and spiritual or psychic experience; and the apparent dilemma between a simultaneous present in which all events happen at once, and our daily experience in which we seem to progress through time from birth to death.”

(During our break I wondered aloud if Jung had changed his ideas since his physical death.)

[...] Otherwise you feel as if your consciousness is enclosed within your skull, immobile and constricted, and every lost thought or forgotten memory at least symbolically seems like a small death. [...]

[...] In physical death of course the connection between consciousness and matter is broken. [...]

(As Rachel departed, she mentioned that the old saying that, “one can only be sure of two things—death and taxes,” is no longer true. [...]

Wheat fields for example, filled not only with the vitality of sun and growth but bristling with creativity that (in quotes) “destroyed” each part of itself in death, that was transformed instantaneously into a new spectacular form in which the creativity and destruction were always apparent, and yet one in which violence was necessarily turned into life.

(For the last two weeks we have been busy with affairs related to the recent death of my father.)

After death, for example, an individual may continue to create these — masses of individuals may — until they realize that the frameworks are no longer necessary. [...]