“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Pause.) I do not want to give you a big head, but your wit and your abilities simply place you in another area of activity, for which you should be grateful. Do not be overly parochial or nationalistic in your views. There is a great history of masculinity that expressed itself through the development of thought, quiet meditation—and I do not necessarily mean of the mystical kind—of communion of the mind with nature. [...]

[...] I thought of asking Jane for help, but disliked doing so because I could see that she was doing very well. [...]

[...] I do not want to overemphasize this point, so do not overemphasize it yourself—but the idea is that you sometimes become angry at your own “unconscious creative abilities.” [...]

(When I mentioned a session to Jane finally she said she didn’t really feel like it; she was getting relaxed, “really out of it,” and I could tell she’d rather not do it. [...]

I can perceive much that you do not for example, but I hardly perceive all, and what I do perceive is but a fraction of All That Is. [...]

Something to do with an animal in a tree, that I do not understand.

[...] “Something to do with an animal in a tree, that I do not understand.” [...]

You do not perceive them physically. [...]

[...] When you know you are in a projection do not be tempted to tamper. There are forces that you do not yet understand. [...] Conscious projections do not occur with any frequency as far as a large percentage of humanity is concerned. [...]

These forms do exist, as your physical body does. [...] They are not physical, but they do exist in the whole package of the self, perhaps like the skins of an onion, you see. [...]

[...] I do not suggest at this point that you or Ruburt attempt to contact me during any projection. [...]

[...] Otherwise we would have explosive outbursts of suddenly released aggressions in systems where they do not belong.

[...] Do not take this literally by any means. [...] (Humorously:) I am not comparing you with motes of dust by any means; to some extent, however, you do share in my journeys. [...]

[...] Otherwise I’d just say the hell with it and do something else. [...]

[...] “Do you feel that way?” I did. [...]

Now: In explanation, I do not know exactly how to word this, but in a manner of speaking I take tours — through psychological realities, however, or through psychic lands rather than physical ones. [...]

I have said this so many times —and I do realize it is difficult for you—but you cannot concentrate upon two things at once. [...] You do not spend time thinking that you have not used your abilities properly. [...]

You do not spend time worrying about what is going to happen to Ruburt’s condition—meaning, how much worse he might get, either of you. [...] He concentrates upon what he can do, and enjoys it—and that will bring about beneficial projections.

[...] You do not thoroughly appreciate emotionally your part in the production of our material, or realize that its direction and so forth must be, and is, colored by your own unique characteristics as well as Ruburt’s—and that at certain levels, the Seth material, as it exists, is a product of your lives together. [...]

[...] Whenever you feel that you have not used your abilities fully, you are doing two things: you are disapproving of yourself as you are, taking it for granted that you have gone astray in an important fashion, and you are also projecting that disapproval and “error” into the future.

You had some good points when you told him, for example, to simply think of fixing rice, rather than worrying about how to do it. There, however, he was in his situation, saying “Well, I can do it, though it may be difficult,” then leading up to “Well, perhaps, since I know I can do it, I will then be able to do it easier”—needless thought steps to your position.

He should use large, general suggestions of a positive nature that do not concentrate upon details that do not automatically give rise to contradictions with present behavior. [...]

What you do in those situations is in a way concentrated. [...] In a manner of speaking they are hypnotic containers, emphasizing what you want emphasized, and cutting off data that do not apply, or that is contradictory. [...]

[...] Nor do we know that much about the circumstances of the Nebene life to begin with. [...]

It can do more for you than you are letting it do at this time, for it has depths that you are not using. [...]

[...] There are several fields in which you would do well—and acting is one where you would speak as well as write the words, you see. (Pause.) You may be appalled, but you would do well as a salesman, connected with public relations and business; that is, some of your abilities would serve you well in these fields.

[...] I do not always speak when I am here. (To Tam:) You are doing well.

[...] He had arrived yesterday to spend the weekend with us and to discuss the book Jane is doing on the Seth material. [...]

[...] After all this time you still do not personally accept the fact that you are, in your terms at this moment, the sum of your own thoughts and emotions about yourselves and that whatever you want to fix you can fix, and that whatever you want to change you can change. If you do not change it is because you do not want to change badly enough. [...]

It is indeed, but I never was able to do so and at one time when I was pope I used to try very hard, and it always sounded terrible and even the altar boys drowned me out. (Seth sang) I could not do it and they would titter and laugh behind my back. [...]

[...] They knew how to do this consciously. [...]

[...] It will lead us into the heart of perception as you understand it and as you do not, as yet, understand it. [...]

The colors have to do with quickening intensity of an inner nature. [...] You are close to achieving a goal, having to do with your work.

You should not comment, for when you do so you leave us open, because you give clues; and these clues do help in any case, my dear friend.

(We have not heard from the Gallaghers, incidentally, and do not expect to. [...]

[...] The shop within the apartment had to do with the physical dimension and various physical abilities which are based on past-life experiences.

[...] Again this is beyond my control, in these cases you simply do not understand what I am trying to say. [...] I hope to go into this also at a further time, because there are definite reasons for this that have nothing or little to do with you personally, but represent a more or less natural distortion of data along these lines. [...]

Asia was where you saw him though he was in many other places, traveling in his middle years (Jane dictates:) doing penance for his sins according to the customs of the age.

[...] I hope to make it much clearer to you, but it involves part of a larger concept and as yet you do not have the necessary background.

This will also have something to do with your life readings in some cases, where the personalities involved are closely entwined with your own. [...]

[...] “The funny thing is, if we were that free yet committed, we wouldn’t have to worry about money because we’d automatically do the right things that would get us more whenever we needed it, just by doing the things we love to do....”

Some of this has to do with the complicated nature of creativity itself, and with the contradictions that seem to exist at certain levels. Your kind of creativity has always been together and jointly of a private nature—so much so that you do not even like to work in rooms too close to each other. [...]

(“You’d be free to do anything you want to,” I said. “The idea is you’d be free to do as you please. [...]

[...] As we discussed the dream I began to make connections on my own about my early days in NY City with Ralph Ramstad, as well as about commercial art, my parents, doing illustration, and so forth. [...]

[...] Those belonged to the unsafe universe, and made perfect sense there—and there they still do. When you change your affiliation and find yourself now and then encountering such feelings; and they are always one way or another feelings of insecurity—then admit to yourself that while they made sense in the unsafe universe, they do not belong in the safe one. [...]

Do you want book dictation first, or personal material?

All of this is occurring because he is beginning to understand that you do indeed live in a safe universe. [...]

[...] When you find yourself in a period of distress, it is because you do not trust your safety. [...]

[...] No one, I am sure, denies the existence of air because ordinarily you do not see it. No one denies the existence of air because they do not understand the method by which their own lungs breathe. [...] It is just as ridiculous to deny this vitality because it is usually unseen, or because you do not understand how you use it.

Because you know that somehow you breathe, without consciously being aware of the actual mechanics being involved, you are forced despite your inclinations to admit that you do do your own breathing. When you cross a room you are forced to admit that you have caused yourself to cross the room, even though consciously you have no idea of willing the muscles to move or of stimulating one muscle or another; and yet even there, though you admit these things, you do not believe them. [...]

[...] This requirement for fullest use of capabilities has nothing to do with opportunity in the social sense, although of course the particular social framework will have much to do with the particular development of certain abilities.

[...] Nevertheless as you do not deprive another of breath as you breathe, so you do not deprive another of the vitality of the universe simply by the act of using it yourself.

[...] Something—pressure in my head maybe keeps changing—the bottoms of my feet feel woozy; they throb gently; so does my neck; my breath deepens, ears feel funny—was going to walk around the house or do some other writing but for now at least I’ll have to go along with... [...] this all continues; I feel a twinge of guilt—Rob’s typing reminds me that I was to do my three hours—but this IS writing; cataloging body-mood changes; I want to sketch the men working—eyes, sinuses, ears and neck strongly “working.” [...]

My feelings are ambiguous—should I go along with this, doing nothing otherwise, or try to get some James though I don’t feel like it particularly or get up and walk around? [...] Get up, to john, bedroom, do dishes, go through living room without holding onto things, sit down. [...]

Do reflexology.

(As we sat for the session, Jane reminded me that she thought Seth would do an introduction tonight for her own book on Paul Cézanne. [...]

[...] “But I’ve done introductions for Seth’s books, so why shouldn’t he do one for mine?” And yes, the Cézanne material mentioned earlier — see Jane’s introduction for Psyche — had developed into a full-fledged book of its own.

[...] After that event, we decided that a flood was one reality we could do without!)

[...] That is, each of your actions is so important, contributing to the experience of others whom you do not know, that each individual is like a center about which the world revolves.

[...] You do not consciously examine the data that you receive. Many who make a practice of “denying” negative suggestions from others, asserting positive affirmations instead, actually do so because they are so fully convinced that the power of negative beliefs is stronger than that of beneficial ones.

(11:40.) During the period, however, do remember that you are using the present as a moment of power to insert new beliefs, and that these will indeed be materialized. When the exercise is finished do not dwell upon it. [...]

[...] Try to feel the statement in whatever way is possible — that is, do not allow distractions, but if your mind insists upon running about then channel its images in line with your declaration.

[...] Do not strain. [...]

Praise him, without of course overdoing it (smile) but praise him when he is doing well and showing improvement, and encourage him. Do not comment overmuch about symptoms when they occur.

Again do not ignore them, but do not let your comments act as a negative suggestion that already might reinforce those that he has inadvertently given himself. [...]

[...] You do not want any chronic lasting symptoms, even of lesser intensity, however. [...]

[...] This has to do with the difficulty in buying groceries, the fish being an act of denial, you see.

[...] (Smile.) Were I in your circumstances I do not know if I would believe me either. [...]

[...] You must close yourself off from some stimuli in order to fully utilize the stimuli that you do perceive.

[...] When you do not you build up inner resentments that mitigate against your welfare. [...]

[...] It would be most beneficial for you to do some painting outdoors, or to walk outdoors.

[...] When Jane finally admitted she couldn’t make it, I went back out to the kitchen to do the dishes and close up the house for the night. [...] My own fears left me seeing visions of a drastically changed relationship between us, and a different life-style, one probably considerably less private if she needed nursing care, say, “What are you trying to do to me?” I demanded, and so forth. [...] “Do it later....”

[...] Jane was much relieved that I could move her, and surprised, but I had my doubts about being able to do that on a longer-term basis: I dared not endanger my own physical condition lest I be unable to take care of her otherwise, regardless of how poorly or with what ill grace I might do that. [...]

[...] They are elements that do not seem perhaps to have anything at all to do with the matter at hand. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Your conflict personally about doing the lawn, or having it done for you, is by the way a minor example of your do-it-yourself tendencies coming in conflict with other ideas—a point I wanted to mention. [...]

[...] It appears that we can do little until the 22nd of October, although I plan to start writing letters before that. I bitterly resent the cutting in the first place, and the time that will be spent away from Mass Events, now, as I do all the work necessary to make our points. [...] I can only think at this writing [on the 14th] that we must do all we can to stop such practices by foreign publishers, or we’ll surely regret it deeply in the years to come. [...]

[...] She told Tam she wouldn’t sign them, nor do I want her to. [...] Instead of charging hardcover losses against taxes as a business expense, say, they charge the author for them; this means they do not have to pay the author any royalties on paperback sales, for at least several years. [...]

(In addition, I want to do what we can to get sales reports from Prentice-Hall re Bantam sales [which we know aren’t great], and from the Pocket Books/Fell fiasco. [...]

[...] I for one have to do or say something, or I’d spend my days thinking about what a fool and coward I was not to stand up for my rights. [...]