“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This is the first group of full-length sessions to be omitted in all of the volumes of The Early Sessions so far. Jane held only five “regular” or public sessions while delivering this large group, and those five are presented in Volume 8.

[...] (And the members of that group had to be back in the city to go to work the next day! Jane and I used to marvel at their endurance.) Rick recorded and has produced many audio tapes of Jane and Seth speaking in those classes; at this time he’s also producing an additional group of tapes. [...]

[...] The Zealots, the sect, were also divided into two main groups, one splitting finally from the other main one. [...] (Pause.) During one short period of his life, Paul joined a Zealot group. [...]

Some carried on following the same pattern taken by Christ, performed psychic feats and healings, had groups of followers, and yet were not capable of holding that powerful focus of psychic attention that was so necessary.

[...] He died with a small group of men in a cave that he held as a point of refuge in the middle of a battle, killed by members of another sect. [...]

Offhand, the work involved could take five years, for there were several versions, and a group of leaders, each going in different directions, who taught their people. The world was far more ripe for Christianity than people suppose, because of these groups. [...]

[...] Quite without realizing it, your ego is a result of group consciousness, for example; the one consciousness that most directly faces the exterior world, is dependent upon the minute consciousness that resides within each living cell of your body; and as a rule you are only aware of one ego — at least at a time.

[...] There are many manuscripts still not discovered, from old monasteries particularly in Spain, that tell of underground groups within religious orders who kept these secrets alive when other monks were copying old Latin manuscripts.

[...] There was one separate group in an area where the Aztecs dwelled at a later date, though the land mass was somewhat different then, and some of the lower cave dwellings at times were under water.

[...] And Seth, very briefly commenting upon the search while it was still in progress, remarked to an out-of-town group of visitors that Jane was endeavoring to use her psychic abilities on her own; and that the assurance she was gaining through her efforts would be much more valuable to her than any she might derive from Seth himself “doing all the work.”

(1. “Sometimes,” she said to me recently, and with no hint of smugness, “when I talk to a group of people — say on a Friday night, when psychic stuff may or may not be involved — I get the weird feeling that I’m operating on nine or ten different levels at once: The meanings and understandings that are being exchanged, at least between me and the other individuals in the room, are all so different. [...]

(Yes, I’ve started my famous list of questions for that “personality energy essence;” it’s based on this latest group of private sessions, that began on February 4, 1981. [...] Next comes my list of “pithy quotations” from the same group of sessions—positive statements from Seth [usually] that we can quickly review. [...]

[...] The connection between black and white thinking and creativity is legitimate, but it exists the other way around: as a rule the artist or creative person is (underlined) creative to the extent that he or she escapes black and white thinking, for the creative person deals with syntheses, original versions of reality and the consideration of different groups of probabilities—groups that appear otherwise very unlikely together from the standpoint of black and white thinking. [...]

[...] There was some rivalry between these groups, some cooperation. [...] There was some mating between these groups—that is, of all of the groups—at various times.

[...] (Long pause.) Many of the man-animal groups had their own communities. [...]

(In the 104th session, Seth said that Jane would sell some of the short stories from the group she was working on at the time of the session. The two sales, including the one just published, are from this group; in addition Jane missed out on other sales from the group because various publishers wrote her that although they liked her material, they already had similar ideas in inventory. Jane has now begun work on another group of short stories. Enough time lapses between her short-story work so that it is easy to keep the groups separate. [...]

[...] The group was not with us when we tried moving the ring; it was with us when we concentrated upon the rocker. [...] The group was “interested” in watching our progress with Seth. [...]

(At this conference Jane, A.J. and three other science fiction writers formed a group they called “The Five.” [...]

[...] The group had not been with us very often in the past. [...]

[...] The nameless personality said the group had assisted in these dreams, and that Jane had done better psychically, with them, than she had so far done physically. [...]

[...] One is to the effect that although Seth’s contact with Jane and me is his first venture into education on our plane, [which he had told us many sessions ago], he is also in contact with other groups on other planes. These other groups are not physical in our terms. Seth said that these other groups also have their wrongs, as we have ours. [...]

(A new physical effect concerned the candle, standing on the table against the wall perhaps three feet from our group. [...]

[...] Seth said this is a common occurrence in illnesses being passed about among a family group. [...]

(Seth said he had unfortunately been involved with some other groups on our plane, in seance gatherings. [...]

Certain muscle groups were very tightened, and tended to bunch. [...] The bunched groups are releasing. [...]

[...] With some of them has come unsteadiness and disorientation in vision and walking, as new groups release, and so forth. [...]

I see you also in a group of four. If there are five, the fifth will be a woman, and one man in this group will later be of benefit to us. [...]

I am pleased with our group. [...]

[...] However, I see that our group will have its Jesuit member.

(This play upon words, in Seth/Jane’s peculiar accent, brought forth laughter from the group.)

Groupings of actions of any kind merge into other groupings, both within the physical field and outside of it. [...]

It is therefore with the second alternating group of characteristics that most such problems arise. [...]

The hope and the possibilities here, as well as some of the dangers, lie in the fact that the ego does indeed change, and is not one specific reality but a series or group of actions, with direction, that have the potentiality for unlimited value fulfillment. [...]

[...] In between may be a grouping of opposing symbols, representing your hope — a spring flower, a table loaded with food, a new suit of clothes, any sign of abundance that would have meaning to you. [...]

[...] The dreaming self then manufactures a group of dreams in which the solution is stated within a symbolic dream situation.

[...] Each physical event that has happened to you is filed away within your psyche as a definite group of symbols. [...]

[...] Our talks reminded Jane of a group of private sessions Seth gave in 1973, so she looked those over before I came out to see if she wanted a session tonight. [...]

The sessions that Ruburt read this evening—that group—contain excellent material that was, at the time, used to bring about considerable understanding and improvement in Ruburt’s condition. [...]

In the next few days, have Ruburt read over that group of sessions. [...]

[...] As stated above, under the group data, Marie and Andy were in the group visiting us a couple of weeks ago. [...]

[...] A group of people, and connection with a boat perhaps, or water.

[...] My letter concerns a group, or array of paintings I have available to show Dr. Lodico. [...]

(“A group of people, and connection with a boat perhaps, or water.” [...]

[...] And across the river at one spot, I saw a large group of men romping or working on the bank — I think they were still incarcerated. [...]

[...] Also, the group of men across the river represented old beliefs of mine that I’d discarded. [...]

[...] There is no situation from which you must escape in your inner group. There is a change that you have set for yourself and you have set up your own equation—and those in the class who are in both groups have their own equations—and in solving the emotional equations, you end up with spiritual clues. [...]

(Seth discusses the “two groups “ regarding Rachel’s question.)

[...] To your not-so-silent gallery group in New York, for example, you have the power, which may surprise you in some of your querulous moods—but you have the format, the attention, that such people envy and resent.

Topside, those people see themselves as a tiny group crying in the wilderness, unrecognized, unheeded, prophets to whom no one will listen. [...]

[...] I am speaking now of this particular group. [...]

[...] The conscientious self groups about ideas of right and wrong. This portion of the self is often altered, its characteristics becoming less apparent as individuals move through the various social groupings of work, church, or community, where it is obvious that the standards of behavior are hardly rigid, but adaptable.

It is possible to be opinionated at times, closed-minded, and pedantic, in good normal behavior—but when certain characteristics group together, then you have the formation of an overly-conscientious self, which acts in a repetitive manner, always showing these fairly rigid characteristics. [...]

Now, our regular members will find themselves having more group class dreams, and when you do not have group class dreams, there is a reason for it. [...]