“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He was still looking for signs that you meant the change—do you follow me?

When you showed impatience with his progress it was sometimes a natural impatience, and sometimes Nebene’s dissatisfaction with a student who should, with those abilities, do better. [...]

[...] Do not stress so much that he must go out, as much as things you go out for, to your bars, shopping or whatever.

[...] He was saying “In big things where I need help you often refuse to help, and your help is a gesture as when you light my cigarette, when I can do that myself.” [...]

When you speak a sentence you do not stop to consider all of the rules of grammar. You do not mentally diagram the sentence ahead of time. [...] When you experience an event, you do not usually stop either to examine the rules of perception or to wonder what these are. [...]

(9:53.) These events and responses continue to operate, however, particularly in the dream state where they do not intersect directly with full physical experience, as waking events do. [...]

[...] While we enjoy meeting people, we’re getting somewhat concerned because such encounters do cut into our worktime.

[...] When you are creating a product or a work of art, the results will have much to do with your ideas of what the product is, or what the work of art is — so your ideas about your life, or life itself, will also have much to do with your experience of it as a living art.

(Session 819, which was held last Saturday evening, had nothing to do with Mass Events. [...]

[...] In a way the suggestion was my idea of trying to do something about Seth producing books within books, as I discussed in my opening notes for the 814th session; but Seth is so prolific that it seems we’ll never get all of his material published at this time.

Even your concepts of creativity are necessarily influenced by Framework 1 thinking, of course, so our sessions do indeed follow a larger pattern than that, giving you certain perspectives from different angles in book dictation, and in other material. [...]

[...] Your physical universe arose from that inner framework, then, and continues to do so.

I do not mean to speak of reason in derogatory terms, for it is well suited to its purposes, which are vital in your reality. [...]

Nor do I mean to agree with those who ask you to use your intuitions and feelings at the expense of your reason. [...]

[...] Those odds — those impediments — do not exist in Framework 2.

[...] When you want to travel, you do so within the dimensions of the reality thus created. If you drive or fly from one city to another, you do not consider the journey imaginary. [...]

3. The 453rd session, for December 4, 1968, is printed in its entirety in the Appendix of The Seth Material. In that session, I think, Seth came through with one of his most evocative conceptions: “You do not understand the dimensions into which your own thoughts drop, for they continue their own existences, and others look up to them and view them like stars. I am telling you that your own dreams and thoughts and mental actions appear to the inhabitants of other systems like the stars and planets within your own; and those inhabitants do not perceive what lies within and behind the stars in their own heavens.”

[...] I’m the one who’s got to do it….” [...]

[...] Much more important is that she’s always wanted to do her own thing. [...]

[...] Some of this has to do with temperament, and with quite normal individual differences and preferences. [...] They know and yet pretend they do not know, but those who die in catastrophes choose the experience — the drama, even the terror when that occurs. [...]

[...] Certainly thousands of individuals, or millions of them, do not consciously decide to bring about a hurricane, or a flood or an earthquake, in the same manner. In the first place, on that level they do not believe such a thing possible. [...]

[...] They do not want to live under the conditions as they believe them to be. [...]

[...] The inciters of riots are often searching for the manifestation of energy which they do not believe they possess on their own. [...]

(In line with the material of the last session, Jane had been studying her dream notebook with renewed respect, and I had resolved to begin one without yet doing anything about it. [...]

[...] As there are levels of unconsciousness or subconsciousness, so do each of these levels have their own activities and translate, symbolize and often distort valid data, according to the different degree of subconsciousness through which the data were able to emerge.

[...] What psychologists do not understand, however, is that in deep levels of subconscious activity associations may spring from the inner self’s latent knowledge and experience of past lives.

When I speak of levels of the subconscious, I do so only for simplicity’s sake, since there is after all no top or bottom to the mind, but only a present point of focus from which viewpoints may be taken, and new perspectives formed. [...]

Now: Say that at a certain stage you have some decisions to make and do not know which way to turn. You may sense that you are in danger of swerving from your purpose, yet for other reasons feel strongly inclined to do so. [...] Or in some other way you may receive the same information — through an urge, or a vision, or simply by suddenly knowing what to do. [...]

[...] “I do want to have a session, only this is so much fun it makes you feel so great! [...]

[...] In so doing, he denied many of the concepts believed in by others. [...]

[...] The very belief allowed him to use those abilities, and as muscles became more resilient with use, so do psychic and intuitive powers.

[...] I learn through many existences, but I do not set myself up as many of you set yourself up, and I do not determine what shall be destroyed or who or what shall remain... [...] And when you kill so much as an ant, so do you kill part of Him in most practical terms.

[...] I do not have her name at the moment. [...]

We see your Kimball as new mayor, though I do not usually think in political terms.

[...] Now and then I do indeed look down at him from my painting. [...]

(1. Sue has to do a considerable amount of research for Conversations with Seth, incidentally, especially locating, then interviewing—in person, by telephone or by mail, as the case may be—numerous class members. [...]

(2. Much of Jane’s trance material on how individuals use dreams personally came through in answer to a question of mine that we’d often speculated about lately: If most people do not remember their dreams most of the time, of what use can their dreams be to them? [...]

“Even if you don’t consciously remember your dreams, you do get the message. [...]

(10:42.) A note: Ruburt is doing well. [...]

(“Do you want to say something about Jane’s dream about her mother, on Monday—the one that upset him?”)

[...] She took this to mean she was thinking of dying, and she didn’t want to do this, or leave the cats. [...]

[...] and we do not walk on the surface in this class. [...] for you still do not understand that you create your physical reality! [...]

[...] I do not see your party faces—you had them on earlier. [...]

(“How is Seven going to do?” I was trying to get some good news to cheer Jane up. [...]

[...] He thinks of it still to some degree as his book, rather than mine, and was worried that it would not do as well.

Tell him that when he is writing a poem, or wants to, he does not stop each time he picks up a pen and says “I can’t do it.”

[...] To do so you must believe in the integrity of your own being. If you do not trust your waking self you will not trust your dreaming self, and the landscape of your dreams will appear threatening. [...]

Dictation: Generally speaking, if you do not believe that you can become conscious in the dream state, then that feat will be relatively impossible. [...]

New paragraph: While your beliefs do structure much of your dream activity, other issues are also involved simply because the focus of your awareness is not acutely directed toward physical reality, but is only opaquely concerned with it.

(Slowly:) It may seem that such comprehensions have little to do with your daily life, particularly since they are so seldom recalled, and then only in translation; yet they provide you with additional energy — and when you need it most.

I guess I feel now that anything that one can do to better the situation in the world is bound to help, where before I wanted everything completed ahead of time in some fashion. So I do feel a new kind of inner motion, and of course I’m grateful to Rob for writing these notes down for me. [...]

[...] I mentioned at the time that maybe she could do some dictation this morning about her new insights, and this session is the result. [...]

[...] Its side effect had something to do with preventing the blood from clotting so easily in the capillaries, I think. [...]

[...] They had to do with my religious upbringing, my joy and appreciation of my creative abilities, and my fear of using them at the same time, lest they lead me astray—or lead my followers astray. [...]

It does not do to say that such a river is illusion. [...] The living do not know how to read it. [...]

[...] Now I do not necessarily mean intellectual development. [...]

[...] Others have to learn all over again about certain laws of behavior, for they do not realize the creative potency of their thoughts or emotions.

[...] While Seth was giving the data, Jane said, she wondered what an Arab would be doing in Turkish Constantinople in those days. [...]

[...] Now I wonder that Seth was able to do anything with me at all in those days, but most of the time he managed to do very well indeed.

[...] Later I was to do much better when Seth left some impressions up to me, but this kind of training was invaluable. Even though I didn’t do a very good job, we learned something about the nature of perception, which was Seth’s intent. [...]

We knew that Nora was a secretary in a hospital office that had to do with the purchase of drugs and supplies, but that she had nothing to do with patients, their records, or medical procedures. [...]

With no idea of how we were doing, I couldn’t have cared less, finally, what Dr. Instream was concentrating on. [...] But he would not say we were doing well, fair, or poorly, and he gave no reports on the many specific details given.

But if all this is so important, why can’t we do it more easily and naturally? Why do we need experiments? [...]

[...] I know that we can on occasion manipulate dream events; my students and I do this frequently. [...]

[...] Seth maintains that we will understand ourselves as dreamers only if we are also aware of the larger environment in which dreams take place, that we interact in the dream state as we do in the waking one and that we form mass dream events as we form physical events on a mass basis.

[...] This does not mean that we do not repress fears and desires beneath consciousness. [...]

Camouflage patterns do, of course, also belong to the inner world, since they are formed from the stuff of the universe by mental enzymes, which have a chemical reaction on your plane. [...] Do you have any questions?

[...] ‘I don’t know how I do it,’ she said. [...]

Since very often the vitality or stuff of the universe seems as innocuous as air … then look for what you do not see. [...]

[...] There is nothing else you can do. [...]

[...] That is, within limits I can change my form, but in doing so I do not actually change my form as much as I choose to become part of something else.

[...] They exist as surely as you do, however. [...]

[...] Do you follow me?

[...] She became an independent woman, and — again in your historical context — when it took some doing for a woman to distinguish herself.