“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Dreams deal with associations and with emotional validities that often do not seem to make sense in the usual world. [...]

It did not occur to him that those experiences had anything to do with this book, or that in acting so spontaneously he was following any kind of inner order. [...]

[...] For one thing, at any given time you could end the process — and many do. [...]

[...] Do you want to rest?

[...] In doing so, to some extent you multiply the creative possibilities of the universe, forming from it a personal reality that would otherwise be absent, in those terms; and in so doing you also add in an immeasurable fashion to the reality of all other consciousness by increasing the bank of reality from which all consciousness draws.

Dictation: Basically, events have nothing to do with what you think of as cause and effect. [...]

[...] Even then, however, associations deal with the passage of time, and basically significances do not. [...]

A direct cognition is involved in which each consciousness knows what each other one is doing, its “position,” and the implications of its experience. [...]

[...] You do not understand your own multidimensional reality; therefore it seems strange or unbelievable when I tell you that you live many existences at one time. [...]

[...] “Every so often I get a huge sweep of something that I can’t put into words; do you know what I mean? [...]

(10:17.) Progress has nothing to do with time, you see, but with psychic and spiritual focus. [...]

[...] Do you follow me?

[...] For variety’s sake she wanted to hold the session in our living room again, as we used to do regularly. [...]

[...] I do regret the amount of such work that is necessary. [...]

[...] We do not want, for example, the personality to plunge into a solution. [...]

[...] It will perhaps seem like a conservative program, and he will do all of the work.

[...] All probabilities now point toward success for you both; but remember, as you know, I do not mean a sudden showering. [...]

You will to some extent change the thought of your error, and in so doing of future errors, in your terms. [...]

[...] He will be free, you see, to work in fiction, and will do so in the future, because fiction will be something different than it was.

[...] On the occasion I witnessed, I do not recall what Jane said as Ruburt.

[...] We didn’t plan to do this; it just developed, and we eventually realized that it did so through Jane’s simple need for a change in routine. We had plenty of other things to do: I was still occupied daily with writing notes and appendixes for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality; on June 4 Jane received the page proofs for Cézanne, and began correcting them for the printer; on the 14th of the month “our” contractor began converting half of our garage into a writing room for Jane, and adding a large back porch [see the end of Note 2 for Session 801]. [...]

When such other-life memories do come to the surface, they are of course colored by it, and their rhythm is not synchronized. [...] Events do also. [...]

[...] What were Jane and I doing all of that “time” — that nearly one-quarter of a year of our physical lives?

Because events do not exist in the concrete, done-and-finished versions about which you have been taught, then memory must also be a different story.

[...] Never think that you and Ruburt do not have children, for you are closer to many individuals than their parents, and you provide an emotional creativity that will enable physical parents to communicate far better with their offspring.

[...] They do not react predictably. [...]

[...] Your own creativity has expanded in ways that have nothing to do with time, however. [...]

(At 2:30 Jane began having panic attacks, just as she’s been doing lately. [...]

[...] “I’ll do the best I can.”)

[...] I wondered what good it would do. [...]

[...] Though they hadn’t anything to do with reincarnation, these impressions did have a lot to do with demonstrating to Jim and Ann that we do have the ability to receive knowledge other than through the physical senses. [...]

[...] I do not give readings or sessions for the public (nor do I charge fees or accept contributions), so the reincarnational readings were those we had for students, friends, or for those who had asked for assistance in a particularly tragic problem. [...]

[...] If we lived before, I thought, and if we can’t remember, then what good does it do? [...]

Why do some children die young—particularly gifted children with devoted parents? [...]

[...] I do not know who he is, but think that I must have known him sometime in the past. [...] I think of looking at the other apartments now, before the dream is over, but realize that if I do I run the chance of forgetting this part of the dream, and I want to write it down.

[...] However, I do not remember what they said. [...]

[...] [Actually this must have to do with our hopes of having our kitchen enlarged.]

[...] When his creative abilities found contemporary scientific thought also too narrow, however, and his natural intuitions had led him toward a new framework—one that, again, introduced values having to do with the nature of consciousness, or soul—then the new ideas began to conflict directly with the old buried ones, particularly those that had to do with the conflicts between creative expression, the church, and “forbidden knowledge.” [...]

The child at such a time for one thing is not in the situation to do conflict with belief systems—it is too young and dependent. [...]

[...] Most religious concepts, unfortunately, regardless of the original intentions behind them, end up by dividing man from his own sense of grace—his sense of rightness within the universe, and the individual will do almost anything to gain back that sense, for it is highly vital. [...]

(“I do have another one, but you can discuss it later. [...]

[...] Your situation is much more important to me than anything Prentice may do or not do.”)

(I hadn’t deliberately planned that those notes would do that, yet in retrospect I was glad they had—especially in the unprecedented response Jane was getting from her Sinful Self. [...]

Now: there are session-related events that do not necessarily appear within the sessions themselves, except as they are related through your own notes. [...]

[...] It was of great value in the fact that the Sinful Self was able, finally, to express itself that clearly—and I do not believe that the document is as yet completed. [...]

The desire for punishment led him to contemplate doing the program, but under a guise to fool the spontaneous self. [...]

I do suggest that you get some enjoyment away from your apartment when you can.

Do you have any particular questions you feel should be covered this evening?

(“Just the one; what do you think of the suggestions Jane wrote out the day after the 387th Session, and which she has been reading to herself several times daily since?”

[...] These experiences, not being translated physically, do not remain in the morning. You do not remember them as dreams. [...]

[...] Most experiences of which you are aware come packaged in physical wrapping, and you take the wrapping for the experience itself, and do not think of looking inside. [...]

[...] Now you do this to some extent in the dream state, but even then in many dreams you still tend to translate experience into hallucinatory physical terms. [...]

[...] This does not mean that in your system, and in some others, these problems do not exist and that good is not preferable to the evil. [...]

[...] You do not need to reproduce physically, in other words. [...]

[...] The reasons have to do with the particular way in which mankind has chosen to evolve and use his abilities; and I will have more to say regarding this point, but it does not belong in this chapter.

[...] It has realized and experienced itself in a dimension of reality unknown to it earlier, and in doing so, has of course increased its being. [...]

[...] I wanted to get all of that through while we were doing so well.

Rob picked up the book and said jokingly, “Why don’t you do a do-it-yourself book on ESP?”

[...] As you’ll see later, however, I do think that these abilities are attributes of another portion of our personalities with which we’re relatively unfamiliar. [...]

[...] And what do you call that experience you had last month? [...]

[...] I could investigate a subject that now intrigued me, and do a book at the same time.

[...] You do this often without realizing that you do so, but a conscious knowledge will help you.

The conscious mind had nothing to do with this. [...]

[...] When you strongly desire to sell your paintings, my friend, you will do so. [...]

[...] As negative suggestions play their part, so do positive suggestions, and both in terms of symbols.

[...] The disturbing aspect having to do with a book, and the initials A G that have something to do, I believe, with the book.

[...] She has been doing very well on her book on dreams recently; this afternoon she remarked that it was going so well that she wondered where the material was coming from. [...]

[...] He will have no difficulty doing this. [...]

He has already learned how to do so, and so he is over that hump.

[...] It’s a project that Jane herself never figured she’d do, but wanted done — and Sue, who was a class member, is talented psychically herself, has a newspaper and reporting background, and is ideally qualified for the job.¹ (Conversations, we think, is sure to be published before Mass Events, since Tam is supposed to have Sue’s manuscript in hand by January 1980, for publication in the fall of that year. Even assuming that Seth will finish dictating Mass Events later this year [1979], Jane and I will still have too much work to do on it for publication in 1980.

[...] “Doing the outline for the book came easily,” Sue wrote for this note, later, “but then I spent the next four weeks in hell. [...] After that initial plunge, though, she’s been doing very well.

[...] In connection with our feelings about the long intervals that have materialized several times during the production of this book, see my opening notes for the 815th session — especially those concerning simultaneous time, and my statement that “We do not plan to ask Seth when the book will be done.” [...]

[...] The thing is, often we’re so busy getting the material and preparing it for publication that we don’t have the time to really study it as our readers do. [...]

[...] Dream objects and physical objects alike are symbols by which we perceive — and distort — an inner reality that we do not seem able to experience directly. [...]

I wanted to show the direction in which we were moving since our first experiences with interior events of this nature, and also generally provide guidelines for others who may wish to do their own investigations. [...]

I do not believe that there are any more dangers facing us in the interior universe than there are in the physical one. [...]