“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Seth here speaks of Jane’s intuitive and emotional realization of the basic causes behind the foot and other muscular troubles that have plagued her since early summer. [...]

[...] Rapidity of perception, mobility of consciousness, openness of emotional response, are prerequisites for our work. [...]

Your imaginations and emotions must be utilized constructively, and not to prolong the effects. [...]

[...] You know little, regardless of the mail, about the personal situation of others and the emotional climate in which they live.

[...] In Florida he saw his father as the epitome of unreason and uncontrolled spontaneity, which had actually become a hodgepodge of unrelated emotional acts, and he felt you then deserting him symbolically.

[...] Often what passed as spontaneity and emotionalism were often unrelated acts of instinctive nature. [...]

[...] In your terms, then, other civilizations considered art as a fine science, and used it in such a way that it painted a very clear-cut picture of the nature of reality — a picture in which human emotion and motivation played a grand role.

[...] Also, as we grew up independently of each other, Jane and I gradually dispensed with conventional scientific ideas that life had occurred by chance; the emotional natures of our creative endeavors led us to question the theory. [...]

[...] Never think that you and Ruburt do not have children, for you are closer to many individuals than their parents, and you provide an emotional creativity that will enable physical parents to communicate far better with their offspring.

[...] Rather, my emotional behavior does not follow your patterns — that is closer to “the truth.” I have long delegated your kind of emotional activity to what you would call unconscious behavior. [...]

[...] It is somewhat like having to free a particular word from a strong emotional association. [...]

[...] None of the communications from me have been in any way conducive to a development toward mental or emotional instability. [...]

[...] If anything, the personal advice I have given you both should add to your mental and emotional balance, and result in a stronger relationship with the outside world.

The similarity here may not be easy for you to perceive, because of the diverse emotions with which you view childhood and old age. [...]

[...] He is unbound emotionally and psychically by physical time, even while his physical body ticks with physical minutes.

During that period you refer to as old age, once again emotionally and psychologically the individual is less bound by physical time. [...]

[...] He fears his spontaneity directed toward you sexually and emotionally would threaten you. [...] You equate emotionalism with your mother. Ruburt equates spontaneity with emotionalism, therefore he imagines that his spontaneity will threaten your art.

Had you been more helpful in the circumstances of last evening, you would not have had to turn your emotions inward in a self-destructive manner. [...]

[...] I do not want to hurt Ruburt’s feelings, and I have avoided making this statement thus far; however, for purely personal reasons I have been emotionally more involved with you in past instances. [...]

(Jane said then she had felt for some time that Seth was more emotionally involved with me than with her. [...]

You are putting love on such a plane that you divorce yourself from your real feelings, and do not recognize the loving emotions that are the basis for your discontent. Your affection has fallen short of itself in your experience because you have denied the impact of this emotion, for fear that the beloved — in this case the race as a whole — will not measure up to it. [...]

[...] All other emotions are based on love, and in one way or another they all relate to it, and all are methods of returning to it and expanding its capacities.

[...] Its thoughts and emotions can appear to you. [...]

[...] They possess emotions. [...]

(We think such psychometrizing of emotionally-charged mail a good idea, and Jane has decided to keep experimenting in this fashion. [...]

[...] Sometimes he feels lost, however, as an emotional human being, groping toward that potential, and he needs to be comforted. As you know now, comforting him can be frightening to you, because it returns you both to deep emotional realizations and feelings that you sublimate in your paintings, and even to mystical experiences that you also channel through your work.

[...] Jane remembered little of what she’d said, yet now she felt the emotional impact of the material in her stomach — the reaction she often gets, she told me, when the information is of a personal or “charged” nature.

[...] She had forced herself to focus all of her great emotional power into the marriage structure as they both understood it; but your father would not concentrate his own abilities into the cultural and financial structure as he had agreed to do in the tacit contract.

[...] We not only want to give necessary background information relative to the sessions themselves, but to offer glimpses into the very complicated emotional and physical forces that lie beneath close long-term relationships. [...]

There will be more about the emotions in my latest book than before. You and Ruburt should be willing to express your emotions to each other even more than you have, for they have a quickening element, and are highly important in moving you from one state of awareness into another. [...]

[...] It is the direct result of the fact that the male has been taught to deny the existence within himself of certain basic emotions. This means that he denies a certain portion of his own humanity, and then is forced to overreact in expressing those emotions left open to him. [...]

[...] I know it is difficult to comprehend, but every object that you perceive — grass or rock or stone — even ocean waves or clouds — any physical phenomenon — has its own invisible consciousness, its own intent and emotional coloration. [...]

[...] I am speaking in very simple terms now, and yet those involved in a flood, for example, want the past washed away, or want to be flooded by bursts of vital emotions such as disasters often bring. [...]

Now he was told under emotionally charged conditions, as you know, by his mother, that he could or would lose his mind. [...]

[...] His mother, for all her emotionalism, stressed intellectual control, contrasting it with the father’s lack of control. [...]

[...] They are the cause, also, of many spiritual, emotional, and physical difficulties.

Creativity is an emotional and psychic characteristic. [...]

(Jane and I thought the strong emotional content of this experience accounted for its cropping up in the data, since the incident took place at the location designated by the object; although on a different day, it still took place within the same week. [...]

The blanket incident overshadowed the other data because of the emotional content of the child’s fall. [...]