“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The books that I have written are excellent conveyors, not only of content but of essence. [...]

(Pause.) I must be, as Seth, true or false, fiction or nonfiction, personality essence—spirit, if you prefer—or Ruburt’s own psyche in definitions usually accepted, playing at best a dubious role. [...]

[...] Forget the cringing selves that you sometimes are and remember, instead, your abilities and the magic essence of your own being that sings even now through your fingertips. [...]

([Ron:] “So the answer in essence is that you yourself would not be interested in this because you don’t consider it relevant even though...”)

We may not be able to pin Seth — as that energy personality essence calls himself — down to one physical race, but he is a Sumari: “And a very high lieutenant indeed, I will have you know,” he told us with much humor in his first session on the Sumari family of consciousness, the 598th for November 24, 1971. [...]

[...] The Seth portion of me has been intimately connected with you both, and so in that respect have I. (Pause.) This is all closely related to the definition of a personality energy essence, from which of course all individuals spring.

[...] “God, I get impatient!” she exclaimed “But in physical reality I can get only one of them at a time, and you can write just one sentence at a time.⁷ Oh, forget it, Seth,” she added, half laughing, for that “energy personality essence” was ready with comments on what she’d just told me. [...]

[...] Nowhere in my first book did I say that I thought Seth was exactly what he said he was: “an energy personality essence no longer focused in physical reality.” [...]

In essence you see the past can be changed. [...]

1. Seth is the “energy personality essence” Jane speaks for while in a trance or dissociated state. [...]

[...] When I say as I have that the overall entity is neither male or female, and yet refer to various entities such as Joseph and Ruburt, which are definitely male names, I merely mean that in the overall essence the entity refers or identifies itself more with male characteristics, or so-called male characteristics, than with the female.

I am what I have always said that I was, and I said it in as emotionally neutral terms as possible: —an energy essence personality. [...]

[...] In essence my memory had been fairly accurate—yet rereading Seth’s material was like a revelation to me. [...]

The information which Ruburt learned this morning is correct in essence, and you will see that the data I gave you many sessions back is coming to pass.

When we make contact his personality and consciousness in concentrated form makes its journey, in your terms like a speck in space, the consciousness reduced to its essence, and from this experience we then let him fall back into the physical system. [...]

[...] The younger people, especially those who weren’t natives of the area to begin with, began to fan out across the nation, and even into foreign lands, continuously searching for more of that indefinable essence or quality many of them called “truth.” [...]

[...] There is an area of being where a person simply is not intelligent or dumb, greedy or not greedy, where the essence of personality simply is. [...]

[...] To me it’s a sort of … yes, sturdy connection of one person to the universe … a one-to-one relationship; a yearning to participate in the meaning of existence; a drive to appreciate nature and salute it while adding to it; but the knowledge that nature is also a touchstone to a deeper unknowable essence from which we and the world spring.

[...] I see the essence of your personality in all it’s past and present existences, and I must pinpoint you in your time.

[...] It must also be formed by portions of my own essence, and by portions of Ruburt’s personality. [...]

It is the essence of yourself. [...]