“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I am sure that you appreciated the encounter that took place the other evening, under my auspices. [...]

[...] Earlier Ruburt would have become alarmed and frightened, felt you were being negative, and discouraged at any verbal and emotional encounter with the feelings that you expressed, precisely because they brought into the open feelings of his. [...]

[...] Only in this way are they faced, encountered and cast aside. [...]

[...] Remember the encounter (of February 19)—it was with a part of both of your personalities, not only Ruburt’s.

[...] You did not know what to do with them, or whether or not they should lead to a sexual encounter. [...] The latest bedroom encounter took Ruburt by surprise. [...]

[...] Many people spend hours, now and then, caressing each other’s bodies, massaging each other, or simply relaxing in such a way, whether or not a sexual encounter occurs or is expected.

Your encounter with Leonard (tonight) was beneficial, because it allowed for expressions of friendliness on all of your parts, and the suspension of disapproving attitudes.

Your person-to-person encounters with reality have been unusually supportive of late: Adams, Frank, your new friends the Germans, and even your encounter with the photographer. These encounters in their own ways are meant to show you that other people do indeed mean well, that they send good wishes in your directions (long pause), and the small clues mentioned earlier are meant, again, to remind you of the inner unity and correspondences beneath events. [...]

[...] They protect themselves by setting up the conditions of such an encounter, and controlling those conditions, again down to the smallest detail.

[...] It is true that these individuals do choose for themselves a carefully planned and regulated style of life, in which the threat of death is encountered personally and regularly; each day becomes an odyssey, in which death and life are purposefully weighed. [...]

Give us a moment… No chance encounter of physical elements alone, under any circumstances, could produce consciousness — or the conditions that would then make consciousness possible.

[...] The myth of the great CHANCE ENCOUNTER, in caps, that is supposed to have brought forth life on your planet then presupposes, of course, an individual consciousness that is, in certain terms, alive by chance alone.

[...] Ruburt set out, of course, to handle his own purposes and challenges, but he chose those in the context of your world, so that in encountering them personally he would encounter them for your society as well. [...]

[...] Again, I mentioned that you could both benefit far more from more such encounters. [...]

You did not encounter the difficulty in sketch form, you see—only when the idea of permanency in a painting came into issue. The remark I made about the inner encounter will help you reconcile the two positions.

[...] I felt intuitively that both sets of symptoms represented doing things that encountered resistance; my own symptoms seemed very instructive in this respect.

The inner self is permanent regardless of its form of course, and the encounter of a man with himself is primarily an interior one. [...]

Now, you (to Garrett) had your strongest sense of immediacy with our friend over here, and he encountered each of you according to his own light, at the moment, as he met you. [...]

Now, in somewhat the same way must you meet your own aliveness and encounter yourselves, and you cannot do it by digging around the bush. [...]

[...] He encountered some particularly frightening material. [...]

Now: Under such enforced conditions, you are literally facing egotistical consciousness with its own death in an encounter that need not occur — and while the physical body is fighting for its own life and vitality. [...]

[...] But the experiences undergone by the patients — and all of this applies to massive doses — represent the enactment, through terrible encounter, of the species’ birth into consciousness, and its death as consciousness falls back annihilated; followed by its rebirth as the individual patient struggles to emerge again from dimensions not native under those conditions.

They also share other beliefs, for example: That the inner self is a repository for repressed fears, terrors, and uncivilized savagery; that the inner self must be forced to get rid of such material before it is possible for it to express its power, energy and strength in creative, positive terms; and that, therefore, the self must first encounter and deal with all those terrors of its past before it can be free of the fears of the present.

[...] (Long pause.) Those from both your past and your future have a hand in your present world, and at this level the problems that have been met and will be encountered are being discussed. [...] It is most usually encountered either in a protected deep level of sleep or in a sudden spontaneous trance state. [...]

Often they are incipient forms given activity by the personality who encounters them. [...] The person encountering these has only to turn his attention away to “deactivate” the phenomenon. [...]

[...] You may on the other hand yourself encounter apparitions. Some may be ideas of strong import, which you encounter in physical terms. [...]

You may encounter apparitions that are actual visitors from another system. [...]

The encounters themselves occur in a Framework 3 environment. [...] Our encounters initially take place, then, beyond the sphere that deals exclusively with either your physical world or the inner mental and psychic realm from which your present experience springs.

[...] While our meetings take place in your time, and in the physical space of your house, say, the primary encounter must be a subjective inner one, an intersection of consciousnesses that is then physically experienced.

[...] Others represent psychic encounters that happen between two individuals at several points, say, but are not continuous. [...]

[...] Today’s visitor (Josette) came in response to Ruburt’s need, bringing him appreciation and a new encounter—but tonight’s session dictation can be of considerable benefit to you both. [...]

[...] Dreams can provide you with experience that in a manner of speaking, at least, is not encountered in time. [...]

[...] Several lines of dream experience can be encountered at the same time, each complete in itself, but when the dreamer wakes to the fact, the experience cannot be neurologically translated; so one dream usually predominates, with the others more like ghost images.

[...] These exercises alter your usual organizations, and hence allow you to encounter experience in a fresher fashion.

[...] Double or triple dreams may represent such encounters at times. [...]

[...] Yet the greater encounters take place in the psyche, and this encounter is independent of space and time.

[...] Glimpses and Direct Encounters.

[...] As Seth comments in the 742nd session for April 16, 1975, in Section 6: “It is obvious that when you move from one place to another you make an alteration in space — but you alter time as well, and you set into motion a certain psychological impetus that reaches out to affect everyone you know … Such messages are often encountered in the dream state. [...]

[...] I have used television as an analogy at various times, and I would like to do so again, to show the ways in which physical events are formed, and to try to describe the many methods used by individuals in choosing those particular events that will be personally encountered.

The inner mechanisms that happen prior to your experience will take place in the vast mental studio of Framework 2. There, all the details will be arranged, the seemingly chance encounters, for example, the unexplained coincidences that might have to occur before a given physical event takes place.

[...] All of these will be encountered in full-blown physical reality.

[...] There is no such thing as a chance encounter. [...]

[...] [See my opening notes for Session 814.] The 812th session was held following an encounter Jane and I had with an unexpected visitor, although these excerpts aren’t personal at all. [...]

[...] Yet there is also a meeting ground of more or less shared physical encounters, a sense plateau that offers firm-enough footing for the agreement of a mass-shared world. [...]

Largely—for I am simplifying here to some considerable degree, but largely—Ruburt felt little difficulties to be encountered in his private search, but in their public expression he was far more cautious. [...]

[...] Despite this he went on with some considerable courage, determination and vigor in my book and his own to encounter the nitty-gritty, so to speak, to bring out the issues clearly to himself and to the world. [...]

[...] This means that he has been encountering his own beliefs, arguing with them—changing them at very elemental levels. [...]

The immobility protected him, so he thought, from encountering any such outside conflicts, and insured his continuing creativity by cutting down other interests and distractions, and by organizing his time in a most economical fashion—or so it seemed. [...]

[...] As you progress, you will be able to remember more and more about such encounters.

[...] If you keep your mind on me when you give your projection suggestions, it will be easier for you to remember our encounters.