“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

One note: Do have Ruburt tell you how he is doing moodwise, for now you can help him there. [...] Left alone, he would do “the right thing.” [...]

(Jane, for her part, said she didn’t particularly feel like having a session tonight, that she was “doing it just to do it.” [...]

[...] What do we do next — or will we give up on that idea too? [...]

[...] Thirteen days later, Jane and I were most intrigued to read an article in a national publication in which researchers show, after eight years of tests, that not only do women do most things as well as men — they actually outperform men in many areas, both intellectually and intuitively.

[...] Something about us not taking vacations….and even not wanting to rest between mental creative projects; that Rob had his stomach troubles when he needed a rest....a vacation of some sort could have prevented that....but since we prefer to do things differently, we should frequently arrange changes in our lives....that we control....changes in the house, routine, hours....or even a week off to do the house or yard or whatever.... [...]

(9:47.) The two of you do not have children, yet you do indeed not only have mental children, but you are—if you will forgive the term—psychic or mental parents to many thousands of people. [...]

[...] When you believe that relaxation means that you are limp, that you can do nothing, that you have let go (with humor), then, of course, you experience it as such. [...] To both of you, however, relaxation means somehow to be lax, to shuffle (louder) rather than to be resolute and determined and forever at it; and so then natural relaxation can seem overwhelming, for you are afraid, both of you, that if you relax you will do nothing. [...]

[...] Though you do not have children, the two of you do indeed possess a unique relationship, and that in itself is an achievement. [...]

[...] Please do follow my advice (humorously), and then yell if you do not think it works.

[...] Not that I don’t think Prentice owes us some explanations, for they do—especially since they told us nothing of any plans, good or not so good. We wouldn’t know the little we do know if we hadn’t written them a month or so ago, wanting to know what had happened to some long-overdue travel expense money, etc.)

[...] When you compare yourselves with others you often do so in material terms. [...]

[...] Do you follow me here?

[...] Do not check on yourself all the time. [...]

[...] They do not even seem to be mistakes until you are “at the next level” of development, or a step higher in your understanding—as when, say, in the sixth grade you looked back and saw a page of your own childish lettering done at the age of five. [...]

I realize it is difficult to understand at times, but even your so-called mistakes have many far-reaching beneficial results that do not show in any isolated fashion. [...]

Do not undervalue or overvalue yourself. [...]

[...] Jane was doing well on her side, and as I turned her. [...]

[...] Up in the air, Jane rotated her left ankle quite freely—the best I’ve seen her do yet. [...]

[...] Jane was concerned about staff coming in to do vitals. [...]

[...] Do not forget to reread our own material as often as you can—certainly the portions dealing with the roles of the conscious and unconscious minds. [...]

Consciously you might want to express certain abilities, while unconsciously you are afraid of doing so. [...] Negative beliefs can block the passageways between Framework 1 and Framework 2. It is an excellent idea for those in any kind of difficulty to do the following simple exercise.

So do not be surprised, for you may see a person, an animal, an insect, or a landscape — but trust whatever image you do receive. [...]

[...] “What will happen, will happen,” but they do not physically struggle against their situation.

Next, gently remind yourself again: “I am an excellent person,” adding: “It is good and safe for me to express my own abilities, for in doing so I express the energy of the universe itself.”

[...] Apropos of Jane’s efforts to personally do what she can, she received a visitor recently who displayed signs of a secondary personality….

[...] She chose to continue with the book, saying that it will help numbers of people far beyond anything she can do individually.)

[...] You will begin to use the faculty less and less, unconsciously transfer your attention to the other senses to compensate, and rely less and less upon your ears until the functions themselves do atrophy. [...]

You must understand, again, that your ideas and thoughts do not exist as phantoms or shadow images without substance. [...]

[...] We seem to be doing things much better these days. [...]

[...] I do think Jane has signaled to the body that it’s time for changes to be made, which marks a learning point for her.

[...] This shows the body can do it. [...]

[...] Forget what you have heard, again, about what the body can and cannot do, or what must happen before such and such a performance appears, for the body itself exults in creative unpredictability, and given the chance loves to perform.

The familiarity of speech begins to vanish when you realize that you, yourself, when you begin a sentence do not know precisely how you will end it, or even how you form the words. You do not consciously know how you manipulate a staggering pyramid of symbols, picking from them precisely those you need to express a given thought. For that matter, you do not know how you think.

[...] I do not mean that you create them with your hands alone, or through manufacture. [...]

You do not know how you translate these symbols upon this page into thoughts, and then store them, or make them your own. [...]

[...] She also realized that if she “just sat there,” Seth would do okay on his own.

[...] I sometimes think it impossible to do all we want to do, or think we should, in the course of an ordinary day. [...] I do think that on my part at least this feeling underlies some of my own shortcomings. [...] Nor did Jane get her mail answered yesterday, as she had planned to do, nor did she find the time to putter about in the house, either in her writing room, or the studio annex.)

[...] His overall balance, or feeling of balance, does constantly change, however, as the muscular pressure pressures, or tensions, do. [...]

[...] I was wondering if it has anything to do with George Rhodes’ tooth trouble.”)

[...] When you do not take any steps toward an ideal position, then your life does lack excitement. [...]

None of the unfortunate situations discussed in this book have any power over you, however, if you understand that events do not exist by themselves. [...]

[...] When you give lip service to ideas with which you do not agree, you are betraying your own ideals, harming yourself to some extent, and society as well, insofar as you are denying yourself and society the benefit of your own understanding. [...]

[...] If you do your best in your own life, then you are indeed helping to improve the quality of all life. [...]

You have been united in so many pursuits, however, and used your creativity together, there is no reason why you cannot do so in this regard. [...] Your Framework 1 exercises, however you do them, done at the same time, increase your effects.

[...] You read without remembering learning to do so. [...]

[...] Jane also knows Ryerson, much better than I do. [...]

[...] Neither of you have moved mentally, even playfully, ahead in terms of imagining what you will do. [...]

[...] You can do so mentally and I will help you personally whether or not a session is involved. I will try to introduce into your mind when you request it, any particular information, or answer questions having to do with your development.

[...] Do not forget however that initially you had some strong effect here. [...]

[...] Any questions concerning your own individual lives or historical information, we will do our best to deliver.

[...] There may be errors having to do with verbal interpretation. [...]

(Jane and I decided to record tonight’s session, and to make it a practice to do so more often in the future. [...]

I do intend to speak about his particular problems in a few moments. [...]

[...] I mentioned before that you do not clearly understand the meaning of practicality. [...]

[...] For your individual integrity, you must be willing to jeopardize present financial security; and if you are willing to do this, these men will sense that they cannot sway you, and they will accept your terms in the main.

[...] Now I will do this evening what I can do for Ruburt while he sleeps, by way of redirecting his inner energies while he dreams. [...]

[...] We do not want intense concentration upon the symptoms. [...]

Do you have any particular questions?

[...] Do you see what I mean here?

Continue to do your Framework 2 approaches. You build up interest there, as you do with money in a bank, and you will collect that interest. [...]

[...] Religious ideas of course held their own sway then as they do now. [...]

[...] But even those did not organize life about technology in the way that you do. [...]

[...] The reason for the brief sessions, relatively speaking, has to do with the exercise of the jaw areas, which is being executed in precisely the best fashion, but not being overdone.

Psychic structures interweave, and realities do, one through the other (as Jane wrote this afternoon). [...] This does not mean that I do not have my own reality, for I do, but in my relationship with you and Ruburt, and in my relationship with your world, I do take certain characteristics that come from each of your realities.

(11:21.) You do not understand how alike you two are. [...]

[...] You yourselves adopt personality, though you are usually not aware of doing so. [...]

(Long pause, eyes closed.) E-ven seem-ing fail-ures serve as ex-peri-ence in worlds you do not know. [...]

Releasing the repressed feelings will also clear the way for freer expression of joy and exuberance, so while repressed feelings are being freed, do not forget to concentrate upon the positive aspects also. You do both, when you are together—often now, but not always—still concentrate upon Ruburt’s symptoms, so that they seem to block out all else. [...]

[...] You still do not want to hurt her feelings. [...]

[...] But do not let these repressed feelings blind you to the beneficial qualities of your situation right now, or its creative possibilities.

You both do have an inclination to overstate your problems, and concentrate on them in an effort to solve them, and as you know that is not the answer. [...]

[...] What you do not understand is that from that given point of silence, which is your point of non-perception, sounds also begin that grow deeper and deeper into silence, yet still have meaning and as much variety as the sounds that you know, and these are also symbols. The thought unspoken has a “sound” that you do not hear, but that is very audible at another level of reality and perception.

[...] To some extent they seem disconnected from you and not of your doing. [...]

[...] Because the images may seem to have no direct connection logically to these thoughts and feelings, you do not recognize them either as your own, nor are you able to tie them up with what they represent.

[...] (Pause.) Imaginatively you have greater freedom to express feelings than you do practically. [...]

For example, Ruburt might think “I must make up my mind, go out into the world, do lectures and tours, state my case, be an excellent example of the material, not only in normal physical condition but in glowing health.” [...] And only when someone begins to doubt those impulses and their validity do difficulties arise.

[...] Eastern religions are the only ones that even remotely try to approach such a principle, and they do so in highly distorted fashions. [...]

[...] In a curious fashion, such letting go of effort might well result in an increased abundance of creativity, for example, but the mental and psychological set allows an individual to become more aware of the basic motivations of the personality, that show themselves quite clearly through the impulses, and through desires—particularly when they are not overlain by layers of “I must,” “I should,” or “I must do this or that.” [...]

[...] I do want to make the point that that state of mind should be applied whenever possible to all areas of your lives. [...]