“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] During the week after the Dutch edition arrived, we received from Tam the contracts for God of Jane and Mass Events, both of which contain phrases and clauses in an effort to get around Prentice-Hall’s habit of withholding percentages of earnings against returns. [...] Prentice-Hall even wants to apply any losses for God of Jane against Mass Events after 18 months, in an effort to make one book pay for another! [...]

There are some reincarnational connections involving Tam, but the overall important point is that in its way, Prentice has attempted to maintain the books’ integrity, and not made any effort to distort the message, to sensationalize it, as for example the Bantam covers, or to personally exploit Ruburt, yourself, or the situation. [...]

Ruburt has made some effort to avoid negative projections, and has therefore met with some success. [...]

[...] This required initially some considerable effort, but once he decided upon this a mechanism took over so that for a while he behaved almost automatically in the new manner, as before he had behaved almost automatically in the old way. [...]

[...] In the same way highly significant improvements not yet visible, are in the offing in Ruburt’s condition, that will, say, seemingly require no effort when in your terms they do appear. [...]

[...] I did not tell Jane of my little effort until we were home. [...]

(The irony here being that I had been making efforts, consciously at least, to convince myself that I would not catch Jane’s cold, after she developed it last Tuesday. [...]

The same issues underlie your own attitudes, the tension between effort and relaxation, discipline and spontaneity has applied, say, in the creative area as far as painting is concerned. [...]

At Ruburt’s end, it almost seems as if he had our material at hand magically without effort, and therefore should have put it to use at once, learning the lessons of half a lifetime in a few years, and graduating to solve all of his own problems and half of the world’s as well. [...]

Your Framework 1 life is, again, based on the idea that you have only so much energy, that you will wear out, and that a certain expenditure of energy will produce a given amount of work — in other words, that applied effort of a certain kind will produce the best results. [...] The source of the world would therefore seem no longer to exist, having worn itself out in the effort to produce physical phenomena. [...]

(I spent part of the afternoon and evening writing to Tam, asking him to defend us from the well-meaning but evidently inept efforts of various people in Canada and Switzerland to arrange for translations of Jane’s work in French, Italian, and Spanish—and I’d sworn off writing such letters following the fiasco with Ariston.... [...]

[...] In a fashion that particular approach, for all of its reliance upon “sorcery,” is not actually true to the magical approach at all, because it insists so fervently upon the impediments that stand in man’s way, and stresses the importance of rituals and methods, and the almost superhuman effort that is required (pause) in order to meet the “magical ends.” [...]

A note: the reincarnational information you received was quite legitimate—and with some little application on your part entire episodes of that existence could become clear, with little relative effort.

[...] The “as if “ will automatically retrain muscular motion, and without effort.

[...] This scene will change not necessarily because of any particular effort to reenact the scene differently imaginatively, but because of the overall “as if” game. [...]

[...] Peggy Gallagher visited briefly in the middle of Jane’s effort.)

[...] The effort was cut short however by the arrival of company.

[...] Those who do not realize that they are dead are here told of their true condition, and all efforts are made to refresh the energies and spirits. [...]

The individual inner self, then, through constant massive effort of great creative intensity, cooperates with all other inner selves to form and maintain the physical reality that you know, so that physical reality is an offshoot or by-product of the highly conscious inner self.

[...] They are actually oscillating, ever-moving, highly charged gestalts of EE units (“beneath,” say, any atomic particles), organized and maintained by the collective efforts on the part of inner selves. [...]

[...] Because you view action in narrow terms, usually seeing it in physical terms only, you are inclined to think of it, or any effort, as a straight line from one point to another. [...]

[...] This habit then gradually fell away, practically without conscious effort.)

I not only support you but congratulate you, and I want you all to know that the effort involved on Our Lady of Florence’s part this evening was only somewhat short of fantastic, and that her achievement more than equals the achievement of those who had had the projections. [...]

[...] But you may tell our friend over here the effort I make precisely so that you do not set me up as a demigod and that you use your own abilities. [...]

[...] The call to Prentice today was an effort to free one area of life. I told Jane today that this week I’d pay our taxes a few days ahead of time—another effort to get free....)

[...] When you perform some task without effort and take joy in the task, you will have some slight idea of All That Is. [...]

Though both of you give much in time, energy and dedication and effort to our sessions, you will receive much more than you give. [...]

Action can be experienced directly, however, but only when no effort is made to tamper with it. [...]

(Below is a copy of the question-and-answer session I held with myself and the pendulum on the afternoon of June 12, 1967, today, in an effort to see what subconscious knowledge I might have that would benefit Jane.

Before too long, naturally, without effort, Ruburt will find himself visualizing himself outdoors, or in a restaurant, and the physical facts will follow. [...] Already, at least mentally, he sees it can be easier to sit down in the bathroom, and that activity will follow naturally, without effort. [...]

[...] And Seth, very briefly commenting upon the search while it was still in progress, remarked to an out-of-town group of visitors that Jane was endeavoring to use her psychic abilities on her own; and that the assurance she was gaining through her efforts would be much more valuable to her than any she might derive from Seth himself “doing all the work.”

[...] (This from Jane’s reading of William James lately.) You have been afraid of really structuring the improvements, of really making an important effort, for fear that effort will fail.

[...] You think my books require much effort, and people often say so—yet you get letters from people who are nearly illiterate. [...]