“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Here Theodore said that he thought [he] saw a filmy whitish something move out from me in the same direction. In here also I concentrated on a ectoplastic arm without telling anyone and Theodore again reported without any suggestion from me that he thought he noticed a change in the same arm, and once thought it was about to rise. [...]

[...] He thought that perhaps my hand had gone to sleep—it hadn’t—don’t know how much time this took, perhaps ten minutes all in all, with hand manifestation taking up... [...]

He is combining and alternating frequencies so that he literally brings forth a different creature of consciousness — one that in your terms is not alive, yet one whose very reality straddles the life that you know. [...]

[...] He finished dictating Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality in April 1975, and we finally got around to the session I wanted six and a half months later.

[...] Naturally, Seth said what he said from his own viewpoint. [...]

[...] In a way this is like an accelerated, chosen, well-organized “conscious” dream venture, in which Ruburt travels through mediums of consciousness until finally he, still being himself, is nevertheless no longer himself (humorously), but me.

(Seth said he did not know whether Marian could learn rapidly enough how to do this; but if she could get herself on the right track soon, he said, she would not need the operation in June; a medical examination then would show that the tumor was shrinking, and would continue to shrink. [...] He went to considerable length in all of this, repeating himself often in an effort to teach Marian as much as possible.

(After we had talked for some time Jane told me that she felt Seth “buzzing around,” and that he could explain Marian’s dream to her should she be willing to listen. [...]

[...] He is a musician and now forming a group. Jane knew vaguely of this but did not know that he now has a torn ligament and must wear some kind of waist brace that I don’t know the technical name for but I always call it a strap. The material mentions 6 group members and this is what he hopes for but doesn’t have the 6 people yet. [...]

[...] Sometimes it’s difficult to pinpoint just what he’s saying. His material usually generates more questions than answers, but this time he’d outdone himself. [...] Was he referring to another big-bang type of “momentous explosion”? [...] Instead, I thought, by “another form” he may mean an explosion of ideas or knowledge in our reality, with the tremendous objective results that would follow. [...]

[...] Like I know the session wasn’t too long, but I had that sense of completion when he went back incredibly far. [...]

[...] All of which reminds me that almost 16 years ago, in only the 19th session he’d given us (on January 27, 1964), Seth remarked:

[...] Now let me close this note with an excerpt from a private session he gave on July 3, 1978:

[...] For a couple of pages of notes he discussed the house we’d looked at on Foster Avenue two days ago. [...] He helped explain the psychic attractions Jane and I feel for the house, without implying a commitment toward it [through purchase, for instance] in any way. [...]

2. Now Seth began a rundown of the roles played by each of the families of consciousness as he’d listed them in the 732nd session. Note that he didn’t name any of them tonight, merely calling each one the “next family,” and so forth. [...]

[...] Seth didn’t suggest that we buy that particular place, and had he done so I’m fairly sure we’d have rejected the idea. [...]

(Because we’d been looking at houses today, Jane was excited: “How am I going to get my mind on the session?” Just before Seth came through, she reread his list of the families of consciousness that he’d given for the 732nd session. [...]

[...] Ruburt is aware of many of these sensations, so that he consciously will have some knowledge of how his own body works, and will be able from now on to have a greater conscious knowledge of its condition. He knows, now, as areas are released, and automatically keeps watch. He will understand how the body feelings serve as important informative data.

[...] He needed protection, he felt. [...]

[...] Ruburt was involved in a process when he initiated the symptoms, in which certain highly specific areas were directly affected, and their function impaired. [...]

All of this is occurring because he is beginning to understand that you do indeed live in a safe universe. [...]

[...] He left his family group before you. [...] He was a male and you were not approved of, and so he told them to go to hell. [...]

[...] Unconsciously he has always been aware that he was a Sumari. [...]

(Lawrence said he had the feeling that it was right for him to be there.)

[...] And he simply shows those portions of his reality that are also counterparts of your own reality that exists within you. [...]

(We hadn’t expected that he’d deal with either topic in tonight’s session, since we hadn’t asked that he consider them. [...] First he went into Jane’s dream per se, then continued as follows.)

Ruburt had to know what he was afraid of, and his dream interpretation gave him that knowledge so that he could deal with it. It was the fear of death — not chosen, of course — the fear that if he did not deliver, work hard, and pay his mother back for a life magically given, grudgingly given, then in a magical equation she, the mother, could take it back. [...]

[...] Intellectually he had that solution, but it did not become part of the emotional equation until the dream put the two together. [...]

[...] In a way, Seth was as nebulous as dreams are, but we already had over two thousand pages of manuscript he had dictated through me in trance; and surely he had changed our lives. Now here he was, telling us how to travel through a territory more naturally his, I thought, than ours.

[...] In most cases, however, he writes only those dreams which he remembers upon awakening in the morning. [...]

[...] He started out in a jovial manner: I am indeed glad to see that you are all in such high spirits. [...] Of course, I welcome our Jesuit and cat-lover, as always. (Seth always referred to Bill as “The Jesuit” because of his quick, inquiring mind and to Peg as “the cat-lover,” humorously, because of her strong dislike for cats.) After a few more personal remarks, he launched into the discussion.

[...] He does not realize how hard he works when the ego is unaware. [...]

(Long pause at 10:25.) Nebene had a scholar’s distaste for the peasants, but he also possessed a solid respect for the overall framework of their existence. He had a tendency on the one hand to idealize them for their love of nature, and on the other hand he somewhat scorned their lack of intellectual breadth. The Roman soldier understood them far better, for he was originally of their stock. [...]

[...] It was one that Nebene knew of and respected, where the Roman soldier scoffed at what even then he considered the old ways. [...]

(While I was Christmas shopping this afternoon Jane called Tam; he’d just received our disclaimer letter. [...]

[...] Ruburt will also, but he is not at that stage yet, in your terms. In another frame of reference he is, of course. He also contains those portions of himself that are less developed, for they all exist as one. [...] In your terms only, I could be referred to — and I have told Ruburt this — as a sixth self of his in his future; but this is only to get the idea across, for he will not become what I am. [...]

[...] I evolved along my own ways and he evolved along his. [...]

[...] Now, I am speaking to our friend over here (Art O., an engineer) because he may perhaps have a comprehension of what I am trying to explain, because of his background.

[...] He can pretend to be well and flexible if he remembers that, without feeling any contradictions at all.

[...] For now, let me say that in his writing and psychic activity he has learned to largely forget the levels of consciousness that are limited to cause-and-effect and time continuity.

[...] During that time he automatically refreshes his body, by placing himself in a state of consciousness that is at least capable of opening up all kinds of help, inspiration, and undreamed-of considerations.

[...] He will then speak to you, but not as he would like to speak… He is now living in a town beginning with the letter A.

[...] He looks at physical reality for the rest of physical reality: He is earth coming alive to view itself through conscious eyes—but that consciousness is graced to be because it is so intimately a part of earth’s framework.

[...] And in a matter of speaking, again, man becomes the earth thinking, and thinking his own thoughts, man in his way specializes in the conscious work of the world—a work that is dependent upon the indispensable “unconscious” work of the rest of nature, a nature that sustains him (all very intently). And when he thinks, man thinks for the microbes, for the atoms and the molecules, for the smallest particles within his being, for the insects and for the rocks, for the creatures of the sky and the air and the oceans.

He may now, if he wants, visit his Piper friend, giving himself constructive suggestions when doing so.

[...] He used a most advantageous method of projection without knowing that he did so, and I highly recommend this method to you both. [...]

I did not recommend that Ruburt call off the substitute job because he would not have faced this through if he had done so earlier.

He should go to the gallery two half-days if necessary, not one full day you see.

His education, his everyday pattern of existence, his cultural values, tend to imprison him so that he can only view other societies through the murky haze of his own misconceptions. If he considers a native in Africa, for example, as a superstitious rather imbecilic, almost prehistoric creature from the past, then he will learn nothing of that man’s ability. He will ridicule any such evidence of so-called ESP on the native’s part as further proof of the African’s childlike mind.

[...] The fact is that Western man has not only cut himself off from half of his own ability, and half of his own knowledge because of his insistence upon an artificial dual nature, but he has also cut himself off from the very primitive societies from which he could learn very much about these abilities, which he himself refuses to admit.

[...] Once the personality realizes that even in life on your plane he is not always bound by physical data, and that even in physical life the most real portion of him is independent of physical matter, and in a personal way, then he will not fear death as a personal ending.

Ruburt has been complaining with loud inner wails because he has been sleeping later in the mornings, and hasn’t put in his full work time this week. [...]

[...] I did ask if he knew whether the company is paying 80% or 100%, and he didn’t know. [...]

[...] After the session I told Jane that he’d said more than he realized — that in the case of predictions it would be wise of us to remind ourselves that his sense of time is indeed far different than ours, that much more time could be involved on our parts than on his. [...]

Ruburt’s feeling is true: he is not ready to die yet — he will not die yet. [...]

Of course, many of the difficulties are caused by the environment, and the sooner he can return home the better, regardless of how presumptive this may seem.

He must regain that determination to return, and so should you make every effort to do the same; your feelings that the affair is hopeless do not mean that the affair is hopeless — and this must be as clearly understood as possible.