“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane also blamed herself for the death of Mischa & the cats.)

[...] (Speaking generally): You are so frightened of death, in your terms, that you dare not turn your consciousness off for one second; for you fear that if you do, indeed, who will be there to turn it back on again?

As I’ve joked with Jane more than once: “If there’s life after death, each of us in turn will find it out — including the nonbelievers. [...]

[...] No death occurs by chance, nor any birth. [...]

[...] At physical death this connection is severed. [...]

[...] Overall there is also the world situation to be taken into consideration — the status of the species on the planet, in which, say, overpopulation problems will bring about death to insure new growth.

[...] A self that is conceived of as a physical composition only would never be able to project, nor survive physical death.

[...] One is called “Death Conditions in Life”’ and in it I make several points that will somewhat answer your questions. [...]

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

[...] Questions such as those pertaining to life after death, in your terms, will be covered perhaps in a consecutive number of sessions, in which such matters will be covered in a body of material.

[...] Within our national orientations, within our religious and secular, scientific and artistic structures, we are choosing to go to the extremes of “good” and “bad,” and to deal with the consequences, all stewing together in what seems like an impossible mix of reason and emotion, learning and joy, pain and violence, and life and death. [...]

[...] As a result, Jane and I have arranged that upon our deaths our estate—including the Seth material—goes to the Manuscripts and Archives division of the Library. [...]

[...] On occasion I was consciously aware of thinking how easy it might be on certain levels to let my desires drop one by one—there seemed to be few left in any case—and to let myself simply drift off into an unastonished death.

[...] 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 room to move, that achievements were possible, where before all accomplishments seemed beside the point in the face of his expected superhuman activity.

[...] Sometimes these intuitions involve the approaching death of the individual concerned. [...]

[...] I am not telling you to be so frightened of a negative thought that you want to run into a corner or hide under the bed or say “Oh, this is a negative thought, I must change it at once” and half-terrify yourselves to death. [...]

[...] The elders preferred it rather than to be banished and left the prey of animals or to die of starvation and slow death outside of the tribe. [...]

[...] I am myself … You are death and you are life … Ruburt can do many things that surprise me — that I did not do in my past, for remember that fresh creativity emerges from the past also, as in [Ruburt’s novel] Oversoul Seven. [...]

[...] Seth was discussing the Three Mile Island accident, but he left off book dictation for a while because we felt so badly, and gave us some excellent material on animal consciousness before and after death — because “tragedies” come in all shapes and sizes, and the most domestic events of our days offer Seth opportunities to comment on life itself.

[...] It is that part which survives physical death. [...]

[...] You are almost finished with incarnations on the earth, so much so that the physical bodies will return completely and unfragmented upon your physical death. [...]

[...] I’ve been especially curious about this since we received his information on the death of our cat, Rooney, in the 639th session. [...]