“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I could not distinguish her features. I tried to take notes in this poor light, but gave up after half a dozen lines. What follows is a reasonably accurate reconstruction of Seth’s material. The first paragraph, however, is a verbatim transcript.)

(Jane now sat down. Her chair was against a wall, and out of the direct line of reflected traffic lights, although I could see shadows pass across the white blur of her face. Again, I could not distinguish her features.)

Concentrating upon your own camouflage universe, you are able to distinguish only the distortive pattern, and from this pattern you deduce your ideas of cause and effect, past, present and future, and ideas of an expanding universe that floats …

[...] Your identity obviously has some connection with your body, since you have no trouble distinguishing your body from someone else’s, and you certainly have no trouble distinguishing between your body and the chair, say, upon which you may sit.

I did not then distinguish as to whether or not, in this particular case, what you thought was true. [...]

[...] The emotional charge connected with an item may lead me into both your past and present, but I must then distinguish for you between what has happened and what will happen, although for me no such difference exists.

However, only by making mistakes can Ruburt learn to distinguish the highly nebulous changes, subjectively speaking, that characterize legitimate hits from failures, and without the experience he would not learn. [...] There is a certain feel to the correct channel, and he will learn to distinguish it.

[...] But she also knew the test was poor, something she wouldn’t have been able to distinguish not too long ago. [...]

(It was: distinguish between the natural and cultural or social world and assure myself I am safe in the natural world.

[...] A closed system is, in other words, the result of the limitations of the outward senses, whose nature it is to distinguish as a meaningful reality only one portion of an open infinite system.

An idea contains in itself an energy that you cannot presently distinguish or measure, an energy transformed into a form unperceived by the outer senses. [...]

As sensitivity increases it will be necessary for him to distinguish among them; that is, to distinguish so that he realizes the differences between his own sensations, and any he may have inadvertently picked up. [...]

[...] The reference to green is interesting; my thought being that blue and green are next to each other on the color wheel and perhaps difficult for Seth to distinguish. [...]

[...] Anyone fully accustomed to inner reality would have no difficulty in telling the dream oak tree from its frisky shadow, however (humorously), any more than awaking photographer would have trouble distinguishing the physical oak tree from its counterpart upon the grass.

Since these are far more lively than ordinary shadows, and are definitely more colorful, they may be more difficult to distinguish at first. [...]

(Unfortunately, we are unable to distinguish here as to whether Jane pronounced the word forefinger, or the two words, fourth finger. Her diction was not quite clear enough on the tape for us to distinguish between the two. [...]

[...] He is aware of light and shadow, of shape and form, though he must learn to distinguish these portions from the available field of reality that you accept as objects, from the available field that you do not accept as objects.

It is the ego, practically speaking, who attempts to do the distinguishing here; but the inner core of the self, the inner ego of which we have spoken, manages the basic chore. [...]

[...] I always distinguish between our lines of thought when this happens. [...]

[...] I could not distinguish the subject matter of the photo. [...]

(Long pause at 4:44.) What you are involved in then is really, of course, a completely new educational procedure, so that you are at least able to distinguish one style of thought from another, and therefore be freer to make choices.

[...] It is unfortunate that he does not know how to distinguish between, say, symptoms of disorder and symptoms of healing.

[...] These individuals often use the physical world in the way that most people use the dream world, so that for them it is difficult to distinguish between a private and a publicly-shared reality.

[...] They are as much a part of nature as feelings are, but if you set up an arbitrary division — considering thoughts mental as distinguished from the physical — then your body may give a truer reflection of your being than your thoughts do.

(10:06.) There were various marks made, however, to distinguish the various sets of records, true and false. [...]

It would be nearly impossible for anyone except one of the innermost circle to distinguish between some of the versions presented. [...]

The comprehension of itself and its workings, being an attribute and everywhere a part of energy, cannot be therefore pointed at, and is in no way distinguishable from energy itself, being a part and not an addition. [...]

He became worried about the dream only much later, because many other dreams have been clairvoyant in that fashion, and he wondered then what distinguished this dream from the others.

[...] He went along with it, which is very good, but he didn’t sustain it long enough so that he could distinguish the other tissue capsules which came within his own extended awareness.

[...] There is nothing about this one to distinguish it from many of the others. [...]

[...] Jane said she cannot distinguish between the two, if this took place.