“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] His attitudes toward such activities may indeed be something else again, but he is working those out, and needs some time to do so. [...]

[...] I had no conscious work to do on the book at all. [...]

The “spirit guide” designation may be a handy symbolic representation of this idea, and I’m not saying that spirit guides do not exist. [...]

[...] Certainly I’m trying to do that, and Seth wrote this book to help people deal more effectively with their daily lives. [...]

What should you do, then, if you find yourself feeling tired? [...] You want to change it so you do not reinforce it. [...]

[...] Often only when you are in dire straits do you open up the doors to this great energy, when it is much too clear that your previous beliefs and behavior have not worked.

Initially language had nothing to do with words, and indeed verbal language emerged only when man had lost a portion of his love, forgotten some of his identification with nature, so that he no longer understood its voice to be his also. [...]

To some extent punctuation is sound that you do not hear, a pause that implies the presence of withheld sound. [...]

Again, you speak for yourselves; yet in doing so you speak a language that is not yours alone, but the result of inner communications too swift for you to follow, involving corporal and subjective realities alike. [...]

[...] Jane began reading yesterday’s session, but couldn’t do it. [...] At 3:40 she started reading the session for October 9, 1983, but didn’t do quite as well — see the hospital and session chronology in my opening notes for the session of January 6, 1984. [...]

(Long pauses.) You do not have to worry in an overly strained way about putting the new principles of life into practical experience at once. You do not need to worry or deride yourselves for stupidity if it appears (very long pause, eyes closed, at 9:04), looking over the long annals of work that we have done together, that it should have been obvious that our ideas were leading in certain directions—for not only have I been trying to divest you of official ideas, but to prepare you for the acceptance of a new version of reality: A version that could be described in many fashions. [...]

With the exception of the ego, the various parts of the personality do not react to time as a series of moments. [...]

(I was tempted to try to obtain more information from Seth about immediately future events, following up his own hints, but did not do so because he called for a short session. [...]

So Do I
An Out-of-Body Experience

[...] How do we know it won’t happen to us?” And the comfortable room suddenly seemed a facade. [...]

“Do unto others, I tell you.”
He wanted to say more
But they carted him off.
The good people laughed.
On the ground was a puddle
Of the idiot’s tears.

[...] They do not realize that the whole thing is self-created, nor should they in the main, since the urgency to solve problems would dissolve.

[...] By making myself better I can really do something to … change a small part of the world. Maybe that’s all I’m responsible for — odd thought — what else did I, do I, feel responsible for? [...]

[...] “I don’t have a vision every time I want to do something important.

[...] He considered that he aged as a tree will age, but perversely he felt that others aged to spite him … From an early age, however, Jane drank in his feeling of completeness with nature, and it had much to do with her later development …

Do realize I’d like small twice a week contained class, though....

[...] I do peek in at you now and then, and will be in contact with you certainly before Monday.

[...] I do not travel physically in a UFO (with amusement), and yet my mental or psychic journeys must occur in a medium of some kind. [...]

[...] Normal legs do not —they change with each step, and his are beginning now to move as they should.

[...] I got up to look out the living room window, to try my mental experience of traveling across the Walnut St. bridge again, to “feel” myself doing it as before.

[...] They do not even know they have done so.

[...] Do you have a question?

[...] Do you know what I mean?”

[...] “I hope Seth will just do those chapters on religion and reincarnation, and get them over with,” she said. [...]

The individuals so chosen do not just happen to appear among you. [...]

[...] How come I was doing an early chapter — or was this work for a different book?”

[...] The rock-music program was interrupted by an announcement having to do with the Indianapolis speed-car racing exhibition (the 57th Indianapolis 500-mile race). [...]

[...] Yet in all instances not only do children choose their parents ahead of time, but parents choose their children, of course.

[...] Individuals born into your time do not feel, say, the same sense of familiarity with the religious belief systems of past lives. [...]

[...] Only by so doing, of course, can the larger avenues of knowledge be opened and made available to the society—or to the self. [...]

(Long pause.) Now: the substance (DMSO), used as you are using it, will not do Ruburt any harm, and can be of great value, as it introduces more equitable bodily motions and sensations that now, with Ruburt’s greater understanding, he can accept, appreciate, and put to fullest benefit. [...]

(“Do you mean a different ‘orbit’?”)

[...] There was a different attraction of land mass having to do with the altered position of the poles. [...]

[...] Now psychologically you can see vestiges of this in certain individuals, who will faint, or even attack their own physical system, before allowing themselves to do what they think of as violence to another.