“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Frank Watts would be aware of the approaching death of a previous child, for example, though not of the approaching death of Miss Callahan at this time. [...]

[...] In the long run her way is a better one, however, than the manner chosen by those who prefer a so-called quick death.

(“You said once that the shock of birth was worse than the shock of death.”

[...] Death on your plane is a termination but does not involve a new immediately-critical adjustment, since there is a time for rest and a time to catch up, so to speak.

[...] Then I read the session for July 30 — at Jane’s request — the first in this series regarding her death, the end of The Way Toward Health, and so forth. I tried to put the situation in perspective: “You’re trying to excise your fears of your mother, which in turn led to your being afraid of the world and your own fears of death, ‘cause you carried your idea of protection from the world so far …”

[...] But it shows how far things have gone — that it’s time to back off from the point of death.”

Another similar case, involving the death of a child, concerned a woman who attended a few of my classes. [...] Seth said in a session that the boy had been a sailor in several past lives and still regarded death by water as preferable to dying on land. [...] He died early so that his death would make her question, and search for answers. [...]

[...] And what happens after death?” In a recent session Seth answered these questions. Many of the answers apply to death in general, so I’ll include some excerpts from this session in the next chapter, and also go into Seth’s ideas on reincarnation more thoroughly.

[...] As I mentioned earlier, when the sessions started I didn’t believe that we survived death once, much less many times. [...]

[...] I felt their terrific need, but I also realized that it was well-nigh impossible to prove life after death. [...]

They saw that the earth was simply changing its forms, but that the identity of each unit of consciousness survived—and so, although they saw the picture of death, they did not recognize it as the death that to many people now seems an inevitable end.

[...] It exists before and after physical death. [...]

[...] people ask, even though some of the more than 200 nuclear power plants around the world have operated for more than 20 years now, without a single death caused by radiation. [...]

(There was a class discussion of the adjustment to be made going from death on the physical plane to “spirit” plane.)

[...] That the shock of birth is far greater than the shock of death. [...]

[...] Death is indeed triumphant. [...]

Now (to Florence), Ihad contemplated being—if you will excuse the expression—deathly quiet after your arrival. [...]

Even though making our wills led us to think of our deaths, in ordinary terms, still that making implies both order and things accomplished during our lifetimes. We have achieved a situation beneficial to all—for Jane’s will and my own each declares that upon the death of the survivor of the two of us, our estate is to be donated to the Manuscripts and Archives division of Yale University Library, in New Haven, Connecticut. [...]

At first we thought of keeping the collection closed until after our deaths, as donors usually request to be done, but we’ve decided to make everything accessible as soon as we can, both for scholarship and for study by the public. [...]

A past death does not bother them, but the contemplation of a future reincarnation implies the death within this present life, and is largely avoided.

[...] Your question about reincarnation cannot be answered with any clear statement because of the intersections of probabilities in time as you experience it, and because people generally are so afraid of death.

[...] They realized they were mortal, and must die, but their greater awareness of Framework 2 allowed them a larger identification, so they understood that death was not only a natural necessity, but also an opportunity for other kinds of experience and development (see Note 1 for Session 803).

Death is not an end, but a transformation of consciousness. [...]

Your concepts about death and nature, however, force you to see man and nature as adversaries, and also program your experience of such events so that they seem to only confirm what you already believe. [...]

With the death of Ruburt’s mother last year, Rooney’s purpose was fulfilled for Ruburt. Rooney even did a final service, for through his death Ruburt faced the nature of pain and creaturehood that his mother’s life had so frightened him of.

(10:42.) If you identify with your body alone, then you may feel that life after death is impossible. [...]

[...] Biologically and spiritually, new life relies upon these innumerable changes and transformations, deaths and births that occur naturally both in the seasons of the earth and those of the psyche.

Now: In the normal cycle of the death and rebirth of cells, and the usual pattern in which the ego constantly changes, there is a smooth flow and no loss of orientation. [...]

My environment, now, is not the one in which you will find yourself immediately after death. [...] (Birth is much more of a shock than death. [...] So there is no need to fear death. [...]

[...] It appears, furthermore, that your consciousness will meet a death beyond which your self-consciousness will not survive. [...] Yet most of you, my readers, yearn for some private and intimate assurances, and seek for some inner certainty that your own individuality is not curtly dismissed at death.

[...] Suspended — or so it certainly seems — between birth and death, you wonder at the nature of your own being. [...]

[...] (A one-minute pause.) Like you, she is presented with a life that seems to begin at her birth, and that is suspended from that point of emergence until the moment of death’s departure. [...]

Death is the personality’s release from the physical plane, or we will use the term “the physical field,” and that is all. [...] Recognition in physical life of the whole self would do much to negate this death fear, since there are rather pleasant psychological experiences which are akin to the experience of death, and which would prepare the personality for this eventuality.

It is only the sense of duality, of which we have spoken, that makes death appear as such a dreadful thing. Once the personality realizes that even in life on your plane he is not always bound by physical data, and that even in physical life the most real portion of him is independent of physical matter, and in a personal way, then he will not fear death as a personal ending.

A death in a family, for example, is a physical occurrence. [...]

I have avoided in the past going into the event of death, as you know it on your plane. [...]

(We discussed the general implications of Seth’s material on my mother — that she was not only “alive” after her “death,” but that a portion of her was focused upon Jane and me. Jane had allowed Seth to talk about the whole situation in a more personal way than she usually does; the result is that we already have more data on Stella Butts than on the earlier deaths of Jane’s own parents [in 1971 and 1972], for instance.⁴ We knew that Seth wouldn’t continue describing my mother and her present reality indefinitely; such a study could easily grow into a book by itself. [...]

[...] It would seem as if all of this was dependent upon earlier events: his mother’s prior meeting with Mr. Markle years ago, when both were young; her daydreams and fantasies in later years; her own death; Mr. Markle’s old age, and his own abandonment of the home.

When she sensed any strong feelings that Joseph also wanted such a home, then — in your terms now — she began, from her different framework after death, to bring that opportunity into his experience. [...]

In dreams you are acquainted with probable events, from which you then choose; (to me:) so before you died as a child, you knew that you could pick or choose that death. In greater terms you chose both life and death, and the picture of you at the age of 16⁹ was never taken in one reality.

[...] You pick and choose one birth and one death, in your terms.

[...] You died again in the war, where you were a pilot — but those are not your official deaths, so you do not recognize them.³

[...] (To me:) “Your” desire to live straddled the death of the child in an operation. [...]

[...] Her death took place in California just at the time I met Jane in Saratoga Springs, NY, in 1954 in January. [...]

[...] Jane and I both thought of Maxine’s unexpected death while in her late thirties.

[...] Jane said this referred to Maxine’s untimely death.

[...] Our interpretation connects them through Maxine; something suitable being Maxine’s corsage, something surprising being her early death.

[...] A further puzzle was due to the fact that for some time before her death Billie could not write, so Jerry was curious as to just when the note had been written.

[...] Couldn’t write approximately 2 months before death.) A connection with Billie and apples. [...]

[...] Moved in after Billie’s death.) She thinks he should sleep downstairs.

(Jerry said she didn’t see how Billie could have written the note when Jane said she did, in November 1964, since Billie died in 1965 [just two months into the year] and had been unable to write for some time before her death. [...]

[...] Five months after my wife’s death, I called Laurel, who was an administrative assistant at a center for the arts and humanities in Los Angeles, California, for the first time. [...] Yet even so, as the years passed I began to better see that recovery from Jane’s death was going to take the rest of my life; and that within the framework of simultaneous time uncounted millions of others had experienced that truth, were doing so now, and would be doing so. [...]

For several years after Jane’s death, I explored possible publishing ventures with old and trusted friends — people who, like Richard Kendall and Suzanne Delisle, sincerely wanted to see Jane’s and my work kept in print. [...]

[...] On a biological level all death is hidden in life, and all life in death.

[...] So the principle applies to both life and death. [...]

(During last week Jane told me she’d picked up that my troubles had been set off by the death of Bill Crowder on October 2. Betts didn’t write us about the death until we received her letter of the 25th on the 26th—which date being the day before I became ill. I hadn’t paid more than normal attention to Bill’s death, I thought, beyond feeling sympathy, and speculating with Jane about the money he must have left. [...] I hadn’t thought his death could bother me that much, for certainly I hadn’t dwelled upon it consciously at all.

The latest episode was indeed triggered by Bill Crowder’s death—triggered. [...]

[...] To some extent, the affair of Crowder’s death made you look at yourself through what you thought were your mother’s eyes. [...]

[...] Nor is this to be unexpected for any physical death, or knowledge of any such physical death, is considered automatically as a threat by the ego. [...]

[...] The information that Ruburt has been receiving, by the very fact of its source, and by the very fact of the method of communication used, the information itself is proof that death is much more than an ending.

If this information comes from a personality no longer in physical form upon your earth, then surely this is an indication that death is but entrance into another dimension.