“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The body is doing what it is supposed to do. [...]

Many people, however, do not pay attention to everything in their environments, but through their beliefs concentrate only upon “the ferocious dog four blocks away.” That is, they do not respond to what is physically present or perceivable in either space or time, but instead [dwell] upon the threats that may or may not exist, ignoring at the same time other pertinent data that are immediately at hand.

[...] The plants must do their part. [...]

[...] The cells that compose the body do not try to make sense of the cultural world. [...]

[...] When Andrew called I went to see him, showing him the two latest communications from Blue Cross, with the new claim numbers for Jane’s account; he copied them, and reiterated that the company was stalling: “It helps their cash flow, but it doesn’t do anything for ours.” [...]

[...] Her ulcers continue to do well. [...]

[...] In many cases people forget (long pause) their native, natural method of seeing themselves and the world, and turn outward to the stylized version—and in so doing they lose sight of vital portions of their own identities. [...]

This causes many people to feel as if they were travelers in some strange land—but instead of receiving intimate letters from home, they receive only stylized postcard pictures, that do not bear any resemblance to the home they vaguely remember. [...]

[...] Despite many of your cherished, erroneous beliefs, your nations exist as the result of cooperation, not competition, as do all social groupings. [...]

[...] Waking, however, you forget — or you do not trust what you remember.

In such dreams you tune in to other frequencies that are, indeed, closer to your biological integrity, but there is no reason why you cannot do so in the waking state. [...]

In dreams you are so “insane” that you do not feel yourself locked in a closet of time and space, but feel instead as if all infinity but waited your beckoning.

Jane resisted lying down a couple of times a day to get some relief, although usually I was able to talk her into doing so. For many complex reasons she refused to go the conventional medical route, as she always had—and I felt [and still do] that my own hang-ups in that area prevented me from helping her as much as I should have. [...] I grieved to see my wife in such distress, but ultimately could do little beyond helping her get as comfortable as possible. [...]

[...] So closely do those 13 sessions fit together that it’s most difficult to give excerpts.⁵ Seth’s magical-approach material represents one of his best efforts to help us, as well as others. [...] And as soon as I realized she was going to continue the series for a while, I jokingly asked her what was going on: “What do you think you’re up to, hon? Are you doing a book within a book, or what?” My wife didn’t answer yes or no, but I could see that she was pleased, and that she was thinking about it. [...]

[...] Remember, we are dealing with a scattered force, various elements of the personality sent out to do different tasks—and in a fashion they are caught between the superior self and the debased self. [...] These may appear as voices telling an individual to do this or that, as “automatic” commands through writing, or as perceptions that would be called hallucinatory. [...] They do not seem to be coming from himself or from herself. [...]

[...] She had to sit on a high stool to do the dishes. [...]

[...] I was upset because I didn’t want her to slack off on eating, and perhaps start losing weight when she was doing so well. [...]

(While she waited to see what she’d do next, Jane told me to get my paper and pen ready for a session.)

[...] “Even when I’m doing this [smoking], I feel my ass revolving inside,” she said—another good sign. [...]

[...] “I always get hot when I do all of that,” Jane said. [...]

[...] I do not know here. [...] I do not know if this is our young friend’s grandfather, or the grandfather’s father, you see.

[...] I do not want to burst any bubbles, nor did I want to encourage you along these lines unless you were willing to devote considerable energy in these directions. [...]

(Pause.) Do not ask any questions here. [...]

[...] There is much concerning time that you do not yet understand, and I cannot explain it to you, unfortunately, in an evening. [...]

“Nothing in the universe is ever lost, or mislaid, or wasted, so the energy of your own thoughts, while they are still your own thoughts, helps to form the natural attributes of physical realities that you do not perceive. [...] Its natural elements are the glistening remnants of other units of consciousness that you do not see.”

[...] My wife is also doing some poetry as a Christmas present for me—though she’s very secretive about this activity; I’m not supposed to know what she’s up to.

[...] Units of consciousness also form other kinds of matter that you do not perceive.¹

When CU’s operate as waves, however, they do not set up any boundaries about their own self-awareness—and when operating as waves CU’s can indeed be in more than one place at one time.

[...] When it began, I for one had no thought that we would end up asking Seth for assistance, yet within an hour I found myself doing just this. I was quite reluctant to do so, since I felt it was better to continue with the board, and to accumulate a written record which might serve as a basis for other types of experiments at a later date.

(“For a first attempt I’m doing beautifully”, Seth said. “What do you think of that? [...]

[...] I do not know.] But laughing, Seth told us plainly that when we had attained more proficiency, he would materialize a fully independent hand for us. He explained that he drew on all three of us for the psychic energy necessary to do this.

[...] “You didn’t think I could do it, did you my lovelies? [...]

This also has something to do with Ruburt’s fears if he is not financially contributing to your establishment. Do you see?

[...] This time her vitality, chosen by her, forces her to do so. [...]

Do you have questions?

[...] Let him get his results, and do his critical work afterwards. [...]

[...] You are consciously aware of these, though often you do not focus your attention upon them. [...]

(10:00.) Usually when you look into your conscious mind you do so for a particular reason, to find some information. [...]

[...] If you hold to it and do not examine it, however, you may find that the word “responsible” is quite loaded, and collects other ideas that are equally unexamined by you. [...]

[...] When you do this you often perceive new insights. [...]

(I do want to note, however, that I met Dr. Jeff Karder as I walked down the hall from the emergency room today, on my way to climb the stairs to 330. [...]

You think, for example, without consciously knowing how you do so, and you speak long sentences without consciously being aware at the beginning of the sentence what the conclusion will be.

— and I do indeed actuate those coordinates that regenerate all aspects of your lives in general.

True motion has absolutely nothing to do with space. [...] (Long pause.) The depths within the painting do not physically exist, yet they are perceived.

[...] Basically, experience has nothing to do with time as you know it. [...]

Nor do such projections involve necessarily journeys through space as you know it. [...]

[...] Again, experience that has nothing to do with physical time. [...]

[...] You use energy without understanding how it works, so obviously you do not need a detailed map of the inner world to obtain its benefits. You do need a faith in the existence of that reality, however, therefore I suggest that your program once again includes your helping Ruburt change his working space, and that this time you both try it with a kind of loving play, if that is possible. [...]

(Today, however, she didn’t do the notes. [...]

[...] That should be a part of the program, in other words, regardless of what Ruburt intends to do bookwise with those sessions. [...]

[...] Yet the feeling is the result of the natural person’s knowledge of the symbolic nature both of objects and thoughts, and of the rhythmic patterns that both follow, so that, again, on such occasions such activities do trigger new unconscious activity and set up new patterns of organization. [...]

[...] The cells that compose your intestines, your heart, your muscles obviously do not see the car as “you” do. [...]

[...] There’s a great kind of fulfilling sense of triumph, doing it, like you’re pulling stuff out of the secret nature of things. I can’t say where you go or what you do. [...]

The atoms and molecules that compose your cells and your flesh, for instance, do not react to the physical sounds that you hear or to the light patterns that your physical eyes perceive. [...]

Now before you see anything physically, you do so through these inner pathways. [...]

[...] He also said he had written to Ruth Montgomery, asking her to do the introduction; if she agreed this might mean RM. [...] was unavailable, the point being that Prentice-Hall would like a name to do the intro. [...]

[...] The main nature of events, the majority of events, do not in quotes “solidify” until the last moment, in your terms. [...]

[...] You simply do not realize that this is the case.

[...] (Pause.) Though I do not mean this week or this month. [...]

[...] All you have to do is realize that each breath you take ultimately reaches to the ends of the universe and helps uphold your world.”

“Now, the creative abilities do not just help you write books, paint pictures, play the piano, compose. [...]

Stop, do dishes after typing an hour. [...]

[...] (Body stuff continues.) [RFB note: Bob McClure died, August 1979, of cancer.] Do two sketches of Bob McClure.

In some manners you do exist identically in the world of negative matter, but in most manners you do not. Psychologically, dear friends, you do not. [...]

[...] The momentary difficulty in the short story that he did not finish was simply caused by a very temporary relapse because of pressure: He did not wait for his subconscious to deliver an idea, as he has been long accustomed to doing.

[...] However, those who ask concerning the time of the origin of consciousness within your universe, are those who do not understand that the most minute physical particle, the most microscopic, is a materialization of inner, aware energy.

[...] Do you see?

(“It’s liable to be a short session,” Jane said at 9:15,” I’m just doing it because I don’t want to miss a turn.” [...] “I hate to do that....” [...]

[...] Now I’m organizing my files for new work, doing some painting, and making a few picture frames for both of us, a very pleasant interlude for a change. [...]

A man only gives up his soul when he has not met it face to face, and that is like bidding adieu to a stranger you have met at a train station: little loss, for you do not know what you have missed.

Ruburt is doing very well, removing the suggestions that have resulted in the symptoms, and finally beginning to trust the body, as the spring lamb trusted its body and its being. [...]

Do not allow negative considerations to close your eyes to Ruburt’s considerable improvement. [...]

[...] I do not see a lawsuit involved. [...]

[...] I do not want it to bother Ruburt’s progress, for even now his body accelerates the healing process. [...]

[...] What do you think of that?”)