“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Resume at 11:15.) Though I am using numbers and classifications, please realize that I am doing this for the convenience of explanation, and that these realities exist one within the other. [...]

Such explanations are needed only because we are speaking in terms of indirect experience.

Even my explanations to you involve a verbal dissection, which in itself distorts the very nature of the matter under examination. [...]

Events that appear senseless demand some kind of explanation, and the explanations of the official world no longer content its members. [...]

(See Volume 2, page 5 in the 43rd session for a brief explanation of the hand phenomenon. [...]

[...] As their physical instruments become more sophisticated they will be able to glimpse more of this reality, but since they will not be able to explain it within their known system of references, many curious and distorted explanations of reported phenomena will be given.

(As this material continues to expand, Jane and I realize more and more that indeed nothing is simple in explanation. For this reason we have curtailed our questions concerning a quick explanation on any subject that might interest us at the moment. [...]

[...] Nor could I have even begun this explanation of the relationship and growth of the physical universe, the universe of negative matter, and the dream universe at a much earlier date. [...]

[...] You are so used to one kind of explanation for childbirth, so familiar with one specific framework, that alternate explanations appear to be the height of nonsense. [...]

[...] Otherwise, regardless of what you say you thought, your mother would take my explanation as given.

You think of your universe as having certain dimensions, and you want an explanation based more or less upon the proposition that those dimensions themselves made possible the origin—which must, however, have emerged from other larger dimensions of actuality than those contained in your universe itself. [...]

[...] Your ideas of historic time impede my explanations. [...]

The book should cover your version of our joint experience — your own philosophical explanation of it, the questions it arouses within your own mind, your observations of Ruburt as Jane and in our trance states. [...]

The explanation is a good possible one. However, it is the only one that your psychologists would consider, and at least two other possible explanations exist. [...]

[...] There is room in this system for a rather complete explanation of the mind’s associative processes.

[...] He agreed with my explanation, which I offered quite diplomatically. [...]

[...] She had no explanations to offer; in trance she’d experienced only “a brief sense of waiting.”

[...] Why man’s sin, resulting in the catastrophic flood, to which all species fell victim? The regular theory of evolution doesn’t have to contend with such questions, of course, but in the book I just read no explanations for questions like that are given—I don’t even remember that they were raised.

[...] The explanation for man’s use of language sounded a bit pat, too: God just made him that way.

[...] No explanation of why the missing months. [...]

[...] When you use coincidence as a handy explanation for everything, then you never get that far.”

[...] Instead I studied the various explanations for such personalities given by psychologists and parapsychologists on the one hand, and by spiritualists on the other. Nowhere did I find an explanation as logical and consistent as that given in the Seth Material itself.

[...] We think it offers excellent explanations as to how ESP or any perception works, and to us this is far more important. We also accept Seth’s statements as meaningful, significant explanations of the nature of reality and mankind’s position within it. [...]

“I am using terms of continuity now simply for explanation. [...]

During all of this time, we told no one in the hospital what we were specifically doing — staff accepted our conventional explanation that we were writers and “just working.” [...]

[...] As long as Ruburt’s attitude is good the antibiotics will do no harm, and will provide an explanation as the conditions are cleared. [...]

[...] Quite interesting, but as I told Jane, it reminded me of just what a task it is to start at the beginning and present an explanation of the Seth material. [...]