“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The cold and the jaw difficulty—both of these were his physical interpretation of a growing crisis that had to be faced. He was ready to face the problem, to bring it out into the open, and the whole issue was finally brought out into the open through those symptoms. The critical period is over because of his recognition of the problem and his determination to face and solve it.

Now. I could not force Ruburt to face the dilemma until he felt he was ready to handle it—then he would see it as he does, now, as a challenge. All the other reasons given fit in. They were behind the reasons that he did not feel he could face the dilemma, but they partially masked it, also.

In reference to my book’s theme now, the basic dilemma as well as its reasons and development, was quite available in Ruburt’s conscious mind all of that time. He chose not to deal with it however because he was not ready to face the problem, he did not feel himself capable. He was not ready to make the move.

The trouble is that when you refuse to deal with such quite available conscious problems, you begin to organize other pertinent material about the problem, and it also becomes taboo. It is a game you play with yourself. Because you will not face the material, you cannot counter it with other conscious ideas, or generate other emotional feelings that would help you.

So do not think you are being spiritual when you are being long-faced—and do not think you are being spiritual when you berate yourself for your sins. [...] The sun falls upon your face whether you think you are a sinner or a saint. [...]

[...] It has nothing to do with long words and sorrowful faces. [...]

So do not think you are being spiritual when you are being long-faced, and do not think you are being spiritual when you berate yourself for your sins. [...] The sun falls upon your face whether you think you are a sinner or a saint. [...]

[...] It has nothing to do with long words and sorrowful faces. [...]

I still do not understand, however, why earlier Ruburt whispered and why these long serious faces as we sit about the table. [...] The dead are not long-faced. Why should they come into such a long-faced sober group? [...]

All, all–life is full of vitality, and all life is joyful, and sitting around the table with long faces is not any more beneficial than sitting around the table with wine on it and the lights lit. My vitality is here, and it was not drawn here by long faces nor by sorrow. [...]

[...] The both of you (Sally and Florence) hide fear behind different faces. [...]

Now I have the serious faces. [...]

[...] Many in this room have abilities…my dear friend, the Jesuit, whose flippancy does not help him in his dark moments (to Bill) for you are not facing yourself and your abilities. [...] It is yourself with whom you must become friendly and yourself you must face.

[...] You must face these responsibilities and face them, you shall. [...]

A crisis will come in three years and our young friend had better be willing to face it. [...]

[...] If you shall be friends unto yourself then face yourselves—make peace with yourselves, and I bid you a fond good evening.

Now when you, with your love of images, look at a face, relax for a moment. Slightly let yourself fall out of focus, look away, and then back to the face of the subject. [...] You will see the face behind that face, the image of the person as it was in a past life.

[...] Remembered faces of those you have known, and remembered scenes from other existences, form the nucleus of your experience; the forms that you bring, seemingly out of nothing, into actuality. [...]

[...] There may be a definite memory recall, a few curious moments when time dissolves, when even beneath a portrait you have painted you will see another face.

[...] You can look through the face therefore, as an archaeologist would look through rock. [...]

[...] In facing these problems, he is releasing himself through highly traumatic inner psychological dramas. [...] He is able however, now, to face realities, allow himself motion, and not fear that motion will automatically mean cowardly flight.

In facing the situation in your parent’s house, he faces and conquers the situation once existing in his mother’s house. [...]

In a new crisis situation, in facing a present crisis squarely and dealing with it in adult terms, he may indeed free himself largely; for the present situation through association brings up highly charged emotional energies that have been stopped up and causing difficulty.

[...] If she is destructive, he sees that this destruction is the other face of love never truly given. [...]

[...] It must be faced and conquered. It always leads to retreat when it is not faced. [...]

You and I were quite right in advising Ruburt to face this through without the treatment of a doctor or chiropractor. [...] (The chiropractor.) I wanted him to face the symptoms for what they were, and to find the cause. [...]

[...] Finally Ruburt discovered for himself, this morning precisely, his basic problem—the problem that eventually everyone must face.

[...] I am speaking of course generally, and of anticipatory fear, not the fear, quite healthy, with which a man faces a ferocious beast.

(Jane described a dream she’d had last night, a very positive one, she thought, in which she’d looked at her face in a mirror for the first time in a long while. [...] “I don’t have the guts to really look at my face yet,” she said now. “The last time I did—some months ago—I thought I looked terrible, with a double chin and my face bloated all out of shape....” I told her her face wasn’t bloated out of shape, that it looked much better, and that she appeared to have a double chin because of her position in bed. [...]

You are both doing very well, and Ruburt’s dream—the one in which he looked at his face in a mirror—was excellent, and already shows a change of belief that will be most beneficial. [...]

[...] Now you can if you want to—and without any kind of coercion—look up and see Seth’s face. And in the face you’ll find confidence to leave the group at that time. [...]

[...] I’m not getting to see faces, but I can see Seth.”)

[...] There’s only one figure out in the wheat field that she doesn’t want to face.”

An inability to face or admit, or solve, physical problems, can also be reflected in the physical condition, and reactivate earlier sensitivities, leading to a sense of hopelessness. [...]

[...] In other words you have preferred to place the problem, both of you again, upon Ruburt in physical terms, rather than face the inner issues with initiative and daring.

[...] You felt your physical problems insurmountable, that you had not the energy to face them. [...]

[...] You must make an effort to face these other problems head on.

[...] Now she wears another face, as you all wear other faces. [...]

[...] After a discussion of that, Valerie described a dream in which a face appeared, then Seth came through.)

Now the powers were your own and the face that you saw was a materialization of your own angers because you are not using your full abilities and so it was one part of the self, angry, yelling at another portion. [...]

[...] Pretend that you are some weird creature with two faces. One face looks out upon one world [the dream reality] and one face looks out upon another world [the physical one].

The television camera lights were warm on my face. [...] I tried to look composed and confident, though I still found it difficult to face strangers so early in the day, much less the world at large — particularly when I was expected to explain my own psychic experiences and the philosophical concepts of The Seth Material.

[...] Examining my feelings after the program and finding myself face to face with that energy, I realized that the same sort of energy, to a lesser degree, is one of my main cues that Seth is ready to come through.

[...] My face must have begun to change even then, the muscles rearranging themselves into Seth’s characteristic expressions, because in that last moment I saw what seemed to be a gigantic camera lens coming in for a close-up. [...]

Sorrow or fear obviously show different faces—not only (long pause), the anatomy and the structure [that] forms the living face, but the emotions within that give the muscles and the structures meaning, and that play upon them. [...]

The particular words are not important, but the emotion behind them is important, for they will—the words and the emotions—be reflected in every muscle of the face, as well as in the thrust of the head and the hands. [...]

The face, in intense (underlined) joy and in intense terror, may often be much the same, but the emotion still will speak within it, and you will know clearly despite the similarity of some muscular effects, which emotion is being expressed.

[...] Put yourself in his place, and with all of his capacities, and with his wisdom, and what would you be saying, and what emotion would move the muscles of your face?

[...] If a particular person’s face was a landscape, what kind of a landscape would it be, for example? Even the planes of the face themselves can suggest mountains or valleys. But beyond this in deeper terms, how would that face be translated if it were not a face but a landscape? [...]

[...] He was dominant, round-faced with thick glasses. [...]

Your treescape, for example: the other way around—what kind of face does it evoke? [...]

[...] The idea of thinking of a person’s face as a landscape is very good. [...]

[...] When he finds himself in such physical circumstances then it is difficult for him to fly in the face of such “physical evidence.”

[...] At times it has seemed at best Pollyanna, even to you, in the face of Ruburt’s daily situation, and your intimate experience with it, to pretend playfully that it did not exist.

In any area, an attempt to alter an unfavorable circumstance will always find you, at one stage, flying in the face of all physical evidence to the contrary. [...]

He must project that same sense of freedom and understanding into the physical situation, and fly as freely in the face of that situation. [...]

[...] Your faces face this room, your eyes look out upon physical reality. Imagine, however, that you have innumerable faces, for our analogy. And that these faces look out into other realities quite as varied and quite as real. [...]

[...] Then you are not facing yourselves individually or as a people. [...]

I have lived through many reincarnations and faced these problems and I was not free until I realized this basic truth. [...]

[...] You do not suddenly become a spirit as is and all spirits are not long-faced and boastly [sic], although you could frighten me under certain circumstances. [...]

[...] You are in the habit of carrying these hells and demons around with you, and if you do not watch it you will see them even in the faces of the flowers. [...]

[...] Old fears were aroused that you have never faced consciously. You never faced them honestly. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) You must face the fact fully that you are and have been frightened, and that fear is a natural reaction, and that there are ways of responding to it that are healthy and constructive. You can face your problems and deal with them. [...]

[...] You refused to add another, and at the same time you did not face the inner problem that was bothering you, that made the comfort so necessary to begin with. [...]

[...] When you bought the dog, and particularly since your wife was so for the idea, you feared that she also took this as a sign that you had made your mind up to the fact, or faced the fact, that you would be where you are for some time.

[...] But all of the symptoms now represent aspects of your lives that you have not faced in a normal above-the-board fashion. [...]

It naturally reflected all of your own attitudes, the similar and various ways the both of you have of facing reality. [...]

[...] If so face those feelings honestly, for they have been backed up within you. [...]

[...] One of the deep disappointments that neither of you have faced is the difference between what your personal relationship is and what it could and should be.