“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

“I feel sometimes as if I am expected to justify life’s conditions, when of course they do not need any such justification.”

“… basically, consciousness has nothing to do with size. [...]

[...] Jane started reading yesterday’s session, but didn’t do very well. [...] She was able to grasp the edge of the paper with her left hand, though—something she hasn’t been able to do before. [...]

[...] “I knew you could do it all along,” or, “I don’t know how you did it, but you did.” [...]

The concepts given in this book should have already helped you do that to some extent. [...]

Whatever talents you sense you have can be developed only if you determine to do so. [...]

[...] As you do, the intensity of your desire brings them into your experience. [...]

The plants awakened before the animals—and there are reasons for these varying degrees of “wakefulness” that have nothing to do basically with the differentiations of specieshood as defined by science from the outside, but have to do with the inner affiliations of consciousness, and with species or families of consciousness. [...]

I estimate that I’m two-thirds finished with the notes I want to do for Mass Events. [...]

[...] “And just when I was doing so well last night and today,” she said, as I made ready to turn her on her back. [...]

[...] In color: I’d looked out the south window of the bedroom to see Fred Kardon standing out on the lawn; he was talking to someone else who was doing some kind of work near the big pine tree that grows up over the corner of the house. [...]

[...] She said she was also able to do so this morning. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) You are both encountering new probabilities of a beneficial nature, and each time you do this you put new imprints or paths or impressions into reality, effectively changing reality in those desired ways. [...]

You do not understand the diversity of life-forms within your own reality. [...]

[...] You do not understand the multiple reality of your own thoughts or thought forms, and you are not able to follow them out of your own mental home. [...]

You are a part of other systems that you do not know, and dreaming portions of your processes exist as thoroughly in other systems as your physical body dwells in this one.

[...] The mind of the larger self you do not know.

People feel that they must push themselves or their civilizations along certain lines—that they must impose an order from without, since they do not trust the spontaneous order of nature. [...]

[...] Sometimes it seems that you are bothered by visitors when you do not want them, but those visitors are also a part of that spontaneous order, whether or not at any given time you recognize the purpose of such a visit, or its place in your lives. [...]

There is a gestalt relationship between all the sperm, say, in a man’s body at a given time, in which the sperm that do not connect still add their latent characteristics to the one that seemingly triumphs. [...]

(Pause.) Do you have questions? [...]

[...] After our meal I’d reread some of these late private sessions, and had planned to go over some of those from 1973, but various distractions prevented me from doing the latter. [...]

[...] “Actually my ankles are doing all kinds of things, releasing.... [...]

Your morning discussion, concerning Ruburt’s past, was also beneficial, for it is good to remind yourselves of your own (underlined) backgrounds, rather than ever comparing yourselves with other people whose own backgrounds may have little to do with yours. [...]

[...] The idea of Ruburt doing some work in the near future on Rich Bed is therefore a good one. [...]

If you do not like a television program, you can switch to another with a mere flick of the wrist. If you do not like your own physical experience, you can also change to another, more beneficial station — but only if you recognize the fact that you are the producer.

(Pause.) Your “dreaming” psyche seems to be dreaming only because you do not recognize that particular state of awareness as your own. [...]

[...] Ruburt and Joseph do not feel threatened, again, by Star Trek. [...]

[...] But often you become so engrossed in your life situation that you do not realize the inappropriateness of your response.

[...] Jane thought the family name was similar to the “Gramada” that Seth had described; at session’s end I wrote that I intended to check our records for the missing name, and to ask Seth about it — but I neglected to do either of those things. One of the reasons for my failure to settle the matter right away was the lack of any immediate pressure to do so, for we hadn’t seen Sue since before the 729th session was held; that’s over five weeks ago now; newspaper work has often kept her too busy to make the trip to Elmira.

[...] Physically speaking, these people often have many children, and usually the offspring do well in whatever area of life is chosen. [...]

These parents do not sacrifice themselves for the sake of their children. [...]

[...] Very seldom do they live in one place for long, although they may if their occupation deals with products from another land. [...]

He is thinking of what to do physically, however, which automatically alters his mental expectations, and further improves his beliefs. [...]

[...] Do not worry at the lull.

[...] Flowers from the spring of one year “do not see” or mix with the flowers of the following spring, or with those of the spring before. In the same way, those born in 1940 “at one season” do not, in a greater context, mix with those born in the same year either.

[...] All of those sharing any given birthdate, however, sharing even place as well as time, do not have the same “destiny”; but more, they do not share the same conditions necessarily. [...]

[...] There is no point at which you can say in basic terms (underlined twice) that an individual is alive,² though you do find it more practical to accept certain points of life and death. [...]

Some persons will be much more affected by, and sensitive to, other probabilities — which, for instance, do not show at all in conventional astrological “charts.”

I do not think you understand yet the importance of suggestion, for once you said to me “Suggestion cannot be all that important.” [...]

(“I said that?” I didn’t remember doing so and I certainly wouldn’t say so today.)

[...] He tried to wipe God’s hands clean, as he understood the nature of God through his early beliefs—but in so doing he wiped the soul from the face of nature. [...]

[...] It would take it for granted that its body knew what it was doing. [...]

(Since I knew so little about the time of Christ, it’s taken me a while to do the extra reading necessary so that I could write appropriate session notes. [...]

[...] (More heartily): Now, we do not have to be so formal. [...]

[...] I do not want to take up all your waking time besides.

[...] (Jane paused as Seth, a hand to her eyes.) Now, I do not know whether or not we can get this through clearly… Give Ruburt a piece of paper, and together we will see.

[...] However, there are a few points that I do want to make. [...] This has little to do with their “actual” world situation or with the power that others might assign to them, but to an overall sense of powerlessness — even, sometimes, regardless of world dominance.

[...] You do not bother to love or hate persons you cannot identify with at all. [...] They do not elicit deep emotion.

[...] You do not love someone simply because you associate portions of yourself with another. You often do love another individual because such a person evokes within you glimpses of your own “idealized” self.

[...] Parents, taught to believe that hatred is wrong, do not know how to handle such a situation. [...]

[...] You do not deprive others. [...]

[...] I do not know to what it refers. [...]

Do you have a test for me?

[...] Some strong verticals, having to do with two people, and a fall or fall.

[...] So in my contacts with your sphere of activity, I do not sweep through bright golden skies like some spiritual superman into your physical domain.

Each personality has within it the ability not only to gain a new type of existence in the environment — in your case in physical reality — but to add creatively to the very quality of its own consciousness, and in so doing to work its way through the specialized system, breaking the barriers of reality as it knows it.

[...] I send out much more than you do in a letter, for a portion of my consciousness is now within the entranced woman as I dictate, but the analogy is close enough.

[...] I can now turn the focus of my consciousness toward it, and if I choose, experience it as you do; but I can also perceive it in many ways that you cannot in your time.

[...] Jane took the visit well indeed this morning, and I congratulate her for doing so. [...]

[...] I said that from his position he could do little else.

[...] She managed to do something, resting the pad against her right knee — which is sore to the touch. [...]

[...] Jane wanted to get started on the session, which she felt might be longer than usual, so I told her not to wait for people to do her vitals.)

[...] The final period was and is to be one in which your energies are directed to your work without the outside job, for finally you began to feel that you were not doing what you should do; this itself inhibited your trust in yourself further, and therefore the development of your work.

[...] It could not do so by imposing its culture, however admirable in many respects, upon others. [...]

[...] Do not smother them with opaqueness.

[...] It’s so easy, yet I couldn’t do it in English.”)

[...] There were several reasons for this, one having to do with the existence of rather giant-sized men in the mountain areas. [...]

[...] The first followed generally your own line of development and faced many of the problems that you now do. [...]

This has to do with communication as it was applied to their drawings and paintings, and to the highly discriminating channels that their creative communications could take. [...]

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