“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Tonight’s session may not be formal book dictation, but it contains many connections to Dreams. [...]

Whenever you want a less formal session, or have questions, then let me know.

[...] She might, for example, through a series of seemingly chance encounters, end up in another branch of singing, less formal, where she also deals with her contemporaries, as in a music company.

(Once again Jane began the session speaking in the new voice: higher in pitch, clear, formal and somewhat distant. [...]

[...] But in some session in the near future we will have a less formal and more friendly time. [...]

1. I also kept track of Jane’s progress as she wrote the Introduction for Mass Events. She finished that excellent piece of work seven months ago—a few days before she delivered the first formal session for the Preface to Dreams, the 881st, on September 25, 1979. [...]

[...] Man, for example, exhibited natural psychic activity long before the birth of science —and for that matter before the initiation of formal religion. [...]

[...] When it was slain it gained freedom, for the negative elements were released from their compulsions, and the ritualized behavior that was symbolized by the formal clothing of your dream.

[...] Before the Roman gods were fully formalized, there was a spectacular range of good and bad deities, with all gradations [among them], that more or less “democratically” represented the unknown but sensed, splendid and tumultuous characteristics of the human soul, and have stood for those sensed but unknown glimpses of his own reality that man was in one way or another determined to explore.

[...] It is very well controlled, distinct, almost lilting, with a distant or formal quality.

[...] I think that it operates as a psychological and psychic framework that frees me from normal verbal reference, letting me express and communicate inner feelings and data that lie just beneath formalized word patterns.

And for the rest of you a far more formal framework that I should get you used to. [...]

[...] At the realtor’s office two days later, then, we signed the initial papers leading to the formal purchase, which will be consummated in a couple of weeks or so.

[...] If you overstructure reality, however, then you will end up with a formal mental garden — whose precise display may be so rigidly structured that the natural aspect of the plants and the flowers is completely obscured. [...]

[...] So while classes are formally suspended I want each of you to read our class sessions. [...]

In the terms in which you understand them, no formal sessions have been held, simply communication at various times of the day which our probable Jane has learned to interpret through the poetry experience.”

Now: The Physical Universe as Idea Construction, mentioned by Ruburt in his Introduction, did indeed represent our first formal contact, although Ruburt was not aware of it at that time.

[...] I tried again to speak with you on a much less formal basis. [...]

[...] Seth/Jane leaned forward, smiling and emphatic.) And I will sit more formally for my portrait some day.

We parked here today
and the green world swirled
jungle-quick, downtown
across the river, and like
a city bushman I was in tune,
swinging through thought’s treetops
while the traffic stopped and started,
precise as a ceremony of animals,
almost formal, engines thundering
then purring, wheels pausing,
headlights hypnotized in sun.
You walked into the bank,
making an exchange as ancient
as any tribal dance.