“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(When the nurse took Jane’s temperature it was 98.8. “My God,” I joked, “that’s almost perfect.”

[...] The man who is given the book startles the man who gives it to him by quoting a line from Dante having to do with (his?) not appointing God. [...]

The inner self and the deeper layers of the subconscious are relatively free however from the ego’s false gods, and it is for this reason that precognitions are at all possible. [...]

(“I did believe implicitly in the God in which I was brought up, and in that belief. It was only later that I wondered how such a god would choose me for such a position — and then I began to wonder. [...]

(And here we have an excellent capsule answer as to why Jane has grown progressively worse since beginning Mass Events—see her paper of last December about her unease over that book and God of Jane—and why her symptoms have become even worse as the publication date of Mass Events draws near. [...]

[...] His attitude is often: “Now what in God’s name caused this?”

Even in God of Jane, which was published in 1981, Jane presented some relatively late material from Seth to show that he doesn’t independently communicate with others. [...]

[...] If prolonged it meant the hospital, or God knows what, but we had to do something. [...]

[...] You have in the past, collectively and individually, blamed a god or a fate for the nature of your personal realities — those aspects, indeed that you did not like.

[...] He is therefore not damned in any manner — neither by God or nature, and there is no reason for him to damn himself. [...]

At the end of May and early in June 1981 we published two books involving years of effort: Seth-Jane’s The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, and Jane’s The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto. I was positive that those volumes contained much excellent work. [...]

Our explorations involved no secondhand evidence handed down by others, but the direct personal encounter of our consciousness and being with the vast elements of the unknown—a meeting of the self (human and vulnerable) with the psychological realms of gods and eternities; giant realms of mind that our nature felt attracted to … and [was] uniquely equipped to perceive.

The belief in sin and in the sinful self has been for uncounted centuries embedded in man’s concepts about himself and God. [...]

[...] He felt also that my ideas in Mass Events, and his ideas in God of Jane, were almost bound to bring about some controversy from the beginning—for reasons he largely worked out for himself—and they are related in his book. [...]

[...] Each era set up various methods meant to protect man against the environment itself, or against the gods. [...]

(“There was a procession, a procession of the gods that went before my very eyes. [...] Each god or goddess had a poet who went in company, and the poets sang that they gave reason voice. [...]

[...] The libido knows itself as God, and therefore all fractions fly out of the self-structure of its own reality.”

[...] Jane has God of Jane and her book of poetry well in the works now, and both involve Mass Events, or material in it. [...]

(The index proofs for God of Jane arrived day before yesterday, and Jane found them okay when she checked them today. [...]

[...] Even the gods know vulnerability—and that is why they live. [...]

[...] The play of the gods: your natural expression. [...]

[...] It’s as though I could wake up at 2 A.M. and say, ‘Oh my god, here it is….’”

[...] “I got the heading earlier for the next chapter: “‘Messages’ From Gods, Demons, Heroes, and Other Prominent Persons — or, More Conflicting Beliefs.”)

[...] They are projected into concepts of God and the universe. [...] At one “time” a god interpreted in those terms served as a model for the egotistical behavior of one self toward another self.