“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He’s seen plenty and done a lot. He’s known many places on earth, and many loves as man and as woman, but I’ll bet that even now his experiences are still new, and that he reinforces Jane’s living feelings for each one of us. And thanks us for what he learns as much as we thank him.

[...] (I told him more than once along the way that he’d better think twice—and more!— before taking on the job of publishing eight-to-ten books.) Jane died on September 5,1984, at the age of 55. [...]

[...] It is of prime importance then that he not become impatient, continue as he has been doing; and give us a moment.

[...] He has made his decision to attain flexibility at all levels, and that was the most important issue.

Now, in politics and religion, (Prime Minister) Begin believes it much more practical to deal with the Sinful Self and its “evil prerogatives” than he does with the better self that may indeed represent “the Son of God in man.” He is not waiting around, therefore, by relying upon or overrelying upon, in his view, man’s good intent. [...]

[...] She had no questions for the session this evening, “But I had a feeling he might say something about that Kubler-Ross thing, and that there might be some charged material in it about me—that’s the feeling I get, so I’m just waiting....” [...]

[...] It goes without saying that the framework is male-oriented —but even then the male is really no adequate male unless he becomes a warrior, and pushes himself to perform against the powers of darkness, on the one hand, and against sloth on the other. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) It will be useful if Ruburt remembers this when he views other systems of reality. [...]

[...] I did not think Ruburt would work unless he was chained to his chair, so I chained him, both to do his own work and force you to do yours. [...] He did not like working chained, and I tried to make the chains appear as natural as I could. He is not physically harmed to any great degree (one of the questions I wanted discussed tonight, although I never mentioned it to Jane), or maimed. I can say however that for some time I did not care if he was, if these purposes were met. [...]

[...] She could feel Seth about, but he was letting her go ahead on her own.)

[...] He looked up to you. [...]

[...] Because I am attached to Ruburt now, his ideas of course color many of mine, so his fear of the passing years developed upon your fear of them ten years ago, projected now into your future, as ten years older than he. [...]

[...] He should be feeling increased quickness of motion in some respects soon. He is doing well, concentrating upon the good moods, which have increased as a result. [...]

He is told the nature of those who participate with him. He realizes they are thought-forms, for example, and his own; but again, thought-forms do possess a certain reality and consciousness. [...] He must, therefore, take them into consideration, and he has a certain responsibility toward them.

[...] I did hope he would comment on it, but he did not…. [...]

[...] The events may be used in any way the individual chooses; altered, played back the way they happened for contrast; the way, perhaps, an actor would play an old movie in which he appeared over again in order to study it. [...] He has full freedom with the events within those years.

[...] He’s mailing a book to Jane today.

[...] He left his home in San Francisco to travel to India to study with a guru. He has been told that sexual desire mitigates against spiritual illumination. [...] At the same time, when he meditates and alters his consciousness, he immediately finds himself with a blinding headache, images of nude women, and fantasies of female goddesses out to tempt him from his celibate state.

[...] Instead, they are telling him something — that his home program is impoverished, for he has been denying the reality of his being.³ If he ignores the advice of his psyche, then his journeys into the unknown reality will be highly distorted. Seductive goddesses will follow him wherever he goes.

[...] “I think Seth’s going to start another section tonight — but I don’t think he’s quite finished with the last one….” [...]

[...] She said she felt that in this section Seth would have a series of exercises related to the one he’d just given, these would help people glimpse at least some of the alternate or probable realities discussed in Section 4.

[...] He and Ruburt have worked together, you see, on other occasions and also have known each other in some past lives. He knew you as a Sumari but he had not worked with you, in your terms, personally. [...]

[...] Now, Ruburt also knew what was going to happen and that you would be involved, simply because the eye effect frightens him and he is always aware ahead of time of such activities on your part. [...]

[...] “All right,” he agreed, “but you’ll have to explain it to us.”)

[...] During break, we discussed what had been said and then somehow got to joking about a reincarnational drama-scene that Rob and I had played out a few months ago, in which he had apparently been a teacher of mine and an exasperatingly thorough record-keeper. [...]

The trip will not be as tangled as he imagines.

[...] The agency representative with whom he makes arrangements asked to see him.”)

(Dr. Gibson was in briefly this morning, Jane said, but she didn’t tell him about the second opening in the knee, for drainage, nor did he ask. [He may not know about it.]

[...] It does not matter that he remembers so little of them. [...]

[...] But for a session lasting only 11 minutes, he sure delivered a lot. [...]

[...] He is therefore at the mercy of every physical camouflage. He does not realize that he is what he is. He must live in the world he has created, and it is a miserable and cruel world.

[...] He is on the last reincarnation within this system.

[...] However, if a personality believes strongly in the reality of hell, for some time after death he will experience the hallucination of a hell which will be of his own creation.

[...] There was no suggestion meant that he had made any decision to give up the poetry. [...]

[...] I am simply waiting while Ruburt gets himself settled in the book he is beginning. [...]

[...] Ruburt may make minor corrections if he feels them necessary, but the I in the book will be my own so interpretation will not be needed.

[...] He’d touched upon a few of them. [...] Then he made himself comfortable beside me on the couch, preparing for a nap.

[...] He’d alluded to her notes a little more, but I was disappointed that he hadn’t developed two particular thoughts Jane had picked up from him today. [...]

[...] Yet I also felt that he meant just what he’d said—and that even from our human positions alone the ramifications of our individual and joint realities are enormously greater than we ordinarily conceive them to be. [...]

[...] Probabilities intersect at each point with your time, and those probabilities are psychologically directed so that, in your terms once again, he is at an excellent intersection point, where the prognosis is excellent. [...]

He would try to ascertain the patterns of the psyche, and follow them. He would encourage the patient to tune into the private oracle in order to ascertain his or her own purposes in physical life, and to reinforce spiritual strength. [...]

3. In Note 6 for Session 681 I quoted Seth on his own ability to predict (which he seldom indulges), and on the subject in general. He also commented on predictions in a more amused way in ESP class for January 5, 1971; see the transcript in the Appendix of Seth Speaks: “Time, in your terms, is plastic. [...]

[...] The complete physician would try to understand the inner mechanics of vitality and, as best he could, learn to encourage these.

[...] This 704th session continues briefly in Volume 2, where Seth gives the heading for Section 4 [which opens that second volume]; then he adds a few words of personal material for Jane and me before saying good night at 11:21 P.M. The notes for tonight’s session are presented below, however, since all of them refer to material already given.

[...] He teaches himself as he teaches others, and of course in the writing of the book he is also being taught.

[...] In the same way that all individual can (underlined) know what is happening in another place without any physical communication, so he can know about his other reincarnational existences.

Oversoul Seven and Cyprus do exist, though in different terms than he may imagine them, and the whole episode allows him to work creatively with fiction, and creatively with his psychic abilities.

[...] Your artistic ability does not belong to your ego, dear Joseph, though I understand as I speak that anyone on your plane identifies himself with his ego, and when he says “I am,” he means he is his ego, or his ego is.

I would suggest also, though I don’t mean to be presumptuous, that you ask Mr. Clauss over, where he can get a good look at your paintings. He may not be Santa Claus, but it will do no harm.

Nevertheless the two of you interact, and because Ruburt is strongly intuitional at times he is a help to you. [...]

[...] I am amazed that Joseph smoked as long as he did. [...]

Seth himself said nothing about publishing “Unknown” Reality in one volume, two volumes, or even more, while he was producing it. He referred to it as one unit until the very last session, the 744th, when he said in answer to a question I asked “The Seth material is endless. [...]

[...] As an example, I’ll continue with the subject of time — but Seth’s time now — and couple it with his notions of a durability that is at the same time spontaneous and simultaneous, as he’s explained to us more than once. [...] Part of my paragraph of commentary following the 724th session, in Volume 2, fits in here: “As he [Seth] quite humorously commented in the 14th session for January 8, 1964, ‘… for you have no idea of the difficulties involved in explaining time to someone who must take time to understand the explanation.’ Yet Seth’s simultaneous time isn’t an absolute, for, as he also told us in that session: ‘While I am not affected by time on your plane, I am affected by something resembling time on my plane … To me time can be manipulated, used at leisure and examined. [...]

In his laboratories, man thus has great opportunities to obtain preprogrammed answers, based on what he thinks he already knows; his exteriorized equipment can hardly produce anything else. [...] Yet a collection of certain atoms assembled into a human form calls itself alive — and vehemently denies the same status to identical atoms that have the misfortune to exist outside of that human framework.) But some of the reasons for our exceedingly poor understanding of the general human state are discussed by Seth in the material he’s given over the last decade, and I’m sure there is much more to come.

[...] He did group his material into six sections, though, with headings. As he told us in the 743rd session, a few days after the visit of Tam and his associate: “This book had no chapters [in order] to further disrupt your accepted notions of what a book should be. [...]

[...] He can see through this experience how such people behave. He cannot remotely be considered in that framework—except by fanatics, who are already within it.

Comment: now: for all of the fanatic’s display of energy, he feels basically powerless. [...]

When ideals are set more or less artificially, greatly divorced from man’s nature, he cannot begin to live up to them. [...]

[...] Your individual and joint feelings about threat have to one extent or another made Ruburt believe that he needed that protection.

Man desired in one way to step out of himself, out of the framework in which he had his psychological existence, to try new challenges, to step out of a mode of consciousness into another. He wanted to study the process of his own consciousness. [...]

[...] To the extent that a man feels that his religion expresses such inner experience, he will feel it valid. [...]

[...] Christ spoke in terms of the father and son because in your terms, at that time, this was the method used — the story he told to explain the relationship between the inner self and the physically-alive individual. [...]

[...] God behaved exactly as an enraged child would, had he those powers, sending thunder and lightning and fire against his enemies, destroying them. [...]

[...] I think he means some substitute for class? [...]

4. For three hours to write whatever he wants, freeing mind from symptoms and responsibilities. [...]