“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I told Jane that I hoped Frank Longwell had gotten his young friend to mow the grass this afternoon, as he’d promised to do this morning, but nothing doing. [...]

I want to avoid concentration upon esoteric practices in this book, but they do sometimes impinge upon the subject matter at hand.

[...] Told my class last night the whole bit, and said that from now on classes were to be focused about the material; we were going to study it from scratch; this was my life work, my direction, what I was meant to do. [...]

[...] Pendulum said, negative suggestion having to do with some old notes I read, plus not wanting to hurt Venice. [...]

Believe this all has to do with the above, plus with a strange session held the night before last, in which through me the voice said it was sort of ‘beyond Seth’; the message coming from a higher portion of that personality; tremendous energy seemed to flow through me and the definite, thank God, certainty, that this came from beyond me, and was automatically translated into words at my end. [...]

[...] I was frightened by her reactions — appalled that after all we were trying to do, she still reacted to something beneficial — the coughing — as something to be scared of. [...] I wondered what we’d been trying to do all of this time.

[...] I read yesterday’s session to Jane, after she couldn’t do it. [...]

[...] Jane’s temperature was 98.9. I read her the sessions for February 1, 6, and 7. She said her eyes do bother her. [...]

(I told Jane that now that the fever business was on the way out, I expected to see her body continue its improvements, as obviously it was trying to do. [...]

[...] The main tension points however involved the ligaments of the neck, affecting the eyes, and while those ligaments stayed more or less rigid, the eyes got used to doing their work in a restricted area. [...]

[...] Minimize impediments in your mind and they do become minimized. [...]

[...] In so doing, you display a change of attitude, a willingness to be creative in your life as well as in your work.

Do you have any more questions?

When you were ill and not working part of Ruburt’s money went to them, and he was ashamed at resenting this, and furious at you that you would allow them to do this to him. [...]

[...] He feels as if his mother is getting your mother to do her dirty work for her, and when your mother said to him “You are a phony,” it was also his own mother for the thousandth time putting him down.

[...] He mentioned it on several occasions, but you made a reasonable reply having to do with convenience, and so he brooded.

[...] Do you follow me?

[...] She writes her own books and carries on as each of you do in life’s ordinary context. She has her own unique likes and dislikes, characteristics and abilities; her own time and space slot as each of you do. [...]

[...] Do not consider them as separated from the greater reality of your being, but as a part of it. You do not exist outside of your psyche’s being, but within it. [...]

(Because of the press of other matters following the 753rd session — my work doing the notes for Seth’s “Unknown” Reality, Jane’s involvement in writing a new introduction for one of her own books that’s coming out in a new paperback edition, and a stream of unexpected visitors — we didn’t hold any sessions for several weeks. [...]

[...] And so you try to define the psyche in terms of time, and in so doing you limit your understanding and even your experience of it.

[...] After Stuart finally left, to stay at the YMCA, she walked in the kitchen, better than I’d seen her do in some time. [...] We wondered what he was doing today. [...]

I am doing my best to explain. I do not want you to think I am without compassion. [...]

[...] I never heard Jane give better advice, though I doubted if an interview was going to do much about changing what seemed to be a lifetime’s habits.

[...] The system supports him, and it would not do so under other conditions. [...]

[...] Do not be concerned with physical time. Do not overdo. [...]

[...] Sensuous pleasure will do you both much good during your vacation, a sensuous and psychic immersion into the patterns of nature will refresh you both.

[...] Although you are both doing ever so much better, nevertheless you have expended much subconscious energy in the recent past, and not in constructive ways. [...]

[...] From your small circle of friends you do receive a very beneficial exchange of psychic energies and comprehensions.

The material of the physical universe is created spontaneously and constantly, even as the dream locations in the dream world are so created; and as it is impossible in terms of time as you know it to set a point of beginning in the dream world, so it is impossible to attempt to do the same as far as the physical universe is concerned.

[...] You are only aware of development along certain lines because you focus upon some, and do not focus upon others. [...]

[...] The two perspectives or dimensions do exist simultaneously, even though you cannot inhabit them simultaneously.

As awareness develops, so do the abilities develop that enable the whole self to handle ever-varying data, and therefore to manipulate it and function within the perspective of its meaning. [...]

[...] I wanted to exercise Jane’s right leg while she was still on her back, as Seth suggested I do each day, but she decided to wait until I’d turned her. I also massaged with Oil of Olay the toes of her feet, as Seth had mentioned doing. [...]

[...] “I know,” she said, “and that’s what I’m trying to do.” [...]

[...] After the nap I described it to her, and said I’d wanted to do so earlier, so Seth could comment if he wanted to. [...]

[...] You do not think of yourselves as symbols [but] there is no symbol that does not have its individual life.

I speak to you from the known and unknown desire that gives you your own birth, and that speaks to you from the tiniest, least-acknowledged thought that flies like a pigeon within your skull … And in this moment of your reality, and in the desire of your being, do you even create All That Is. [...]

[...] Not because you should do it, but because you desire it … It is a great creative challenge that you can throw down to yourselves from your future selves.

[...] “To do so, you must give your best with dedication and joyful creativity. [...]

The books will yet do far better, and your creative energies will touch on other fields, and this has already begun.

[...] I can’t see how or what the two of us can do to change things as they are—but....”)

Ruburt has added more time to his writing day, and is now also doing more painting. [...]

[...] It recreates itself in the moment of its birth, with multitudinous slight variations and differentiations; and in so doing automatically plunges into, or projects itself into, those fields which attract the particular range of those differentials.

Yet these projections or reflections do not alter the fact, or change the basic nature of the so-called original mental act, and it remains as untouched by its own reflections as does the stationary tree remain independent from its reflections in the water.

This discussion may require more understanding than you or Ruburt possess, but I do not believe so. [...]

You are free-lancers, so that you do not deal with a regular, specified financial state, of course. [...] The psychic work brings in a further extension, both of a do-it-yourself element, and the creative uncertainty. [...]

[...] I’ve thought of trying to find another place to paint, especially for the larger works I plan to do, but not of leaving her. [...]

[...] In the meantime, Jane is getting used to the idea, should we do anything about it.

[...] It is important then that he begin using his psychic abilities to help heal his own body, and he will begin doing that as he understands that it is indeed safer to let that tension go, and to free his psychic and physical motion. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You would do well with male characters and be fairly strong in plotting. [...] You laugh at yourself, and then think that this means that you do not have to take yourself seriously.

[...] You are not developing your abilities, but using vital energies in pursuit of something that you do not basically want to attain.

[...] The obsession to have him grows precisely in proportion to your inner realization that you do not want him, but only the excitement involved in searching for him. [...]

[...] Seth now told Pat she had writing ability, especially for historical works, and that she would do well in writing and history connected with the Tudor period.)

[...] She’d mentioned a session earlier in the day, and so had I. At the same time she’d slept in her chair most of the day, and was doing so again at the card table, when I finally got out there at about 7:55. [...]

[...] It is true he needs quite constant reassurance on that point, however—for letting go is something he would not do to any extent earlier in the same fashion. [...]

[...] There have been stresses laid, however, on the acts of eating that you could do without, and in your ways you have carried through the best procedure without knowing it, following the entire procedure for a short time, then dropping it, then continuing. [...]

[...] They are like a reward food, while many of the health-food foods come somewhat closer—somewhat closer (much louder)—to a kind of punishment syndrome, though I do not want to stress the point. [...]

[...] There are tigers in Asia, but you can travel through Asia and if you do not want to you’ll never see a tiger. [...] There, if you believe in demons, you will see them — without ever realizing that they are part of the environment of your psyche, formed by your beliefs, and thrown out as mirages over a very real environment that you do not perceive. [...]

Even as I wrote this note Jane received a letter “Do what I ask for me, if you are not a fraud….” [...] At the same time I remembered, as I do every so often, the prophetic and amused remarks Seth made way back in the 20th session for January 29, 1964: “As far as publishing this material is concerned, I have no objections. [...]

[...] But I had to do it just so, right to the last word,” she said, then added enthusiastically, “I think it’s a classic.” [...]

[...] “But I don’t think any of this has to do with Seth Two,”² she said. [...]

[...] Exactly how do we form events from mental energy? How do we form objects? How do we agree on what we see?

Seth says that not only do we form our own reality now, but we will continue to do so after physical death, so it is of the utmost importance that we understand the connection between thought and reality.

What do you think this physical universe is? [...]

“Because I say that you create physical matter by use of the inner vitality of the universe, in the same way that you form a pattern with your breath on a glass pane, I do not mean that you are the creators of the universe. [...]

[...] “Besides,” Rob said, “what do we call this new personality?” We knew it was meaningless basically, but we felt we needed a name, a label. [...] What could it do that Seth couldn’t? [...]

“Other shapes and forms that you could perceive, you do not. [...] Yet none of us would think of kicking aside your block constructions in ire, or telling you to put aside your children’s toys, though one day you will do so.

[...] This [kind of material] has its purposes, and it does do some good, explaining reality in terms that people can understand, for the props and fantasies are familiar ones. [...]

[...] Do you understand?”

[...] Whether or not you can achieve such purposeful visits at this time, I do not know. [...] At all such occasions, try to establish some kind of contact if possible, but do not be discouraged if this is not achieved at once.

[...] Whether or not you were physically assembled when you saw the girl, I do not know. [...]

Your abilities, and Ruburt’s, of course do vary, as is natural, and it is possible that you may be extremely gifted in this particular fashion.

[...] I say seemingly because this traveling really has little to do with transportation as such.