“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] “He did go into that chapter I picked up on earlier today, but I don’t remember what he called it.”)

[...] He was exercising his consciousness, allowing himself greater freedom. [...]

(“How does a person know he is dead at first? Is he left alone to find his own way, greeted by others, or what?”)

(“Does a person know immediately when he dies?”)

[...] As you all know, he is hardly the inhibited type on his own! [...] He is able to use his ability more fully. [...]

(I told Jane that I hoped Frank Longwell had gotten his young friend to mow the grass this afternoon, as he’d promised to do this morning, but nothing doing. [...] The place looks terrible, although Frank said some of the wild flowers he planted out back are just beginning to show through the straw and grass mulch.

[...] Ruburt did not use his abilities in precisely the same manner in the past, simply because he was unable to do so had he been willing.

[...] Bill Gallagher’s facetious term for the local newspaper office, where he also works, is the Garden of Gethsemane—hence such religious connections in the poem used as object. Also, Seth’s longstanding term of affection for Bill is “The Jesuit,” and he so calls Bill in the session tonight. [...]

(Jane had no idea of what Seth would talk about during the session, although both of us hoped he would discuss the events of last Friday evening, September 23, at home. [...]

[...] Jane denied Seth permission to speak, and he agreed. [...]

This is merely due to the additional time that he has added to his schedule, and he will quickly acclimate himself to the new conditions.

[...] It will take a very short period however for him to catch up, and soon he will have more energy by far, than he expected.

[...] He will always seek security, but he enjoys being the object of a chase of this nature.

[...] He serves, instead, as a substitute in a quest that the questioner has not yet begun.

He will not be directly connected. [...]

[...] Physically, he had begun to use muscles in a more normal manner, and to activate some muscles that he had hardly used for some time.

Ruburt is particularly now ready and able to start anew, and he has already done so. [...]

[...] The author does not realize how much is necessary before his methods will have the effect that he expects. [...]

[...] Edgar remarked he would like Seth’s comments on their method.)

(During break Edgar remarked Seth said he asked foolish questions. [...]

[...] He is not taken over by another, his individuality is not violated in any way, and it is very important for you to realize that and to know it. [...]

[...] That means any tests that he likes the idea of, so you can pass the word along. [...]

[...] He’d taken to staying outside all night as well as most of the day. He was also losing weight. [...]

[...] At supper time he’d actually seemed to feel that the inside of the house was forbidden territory, and had refused to come in. [...]

(I asked that Seth comment upon Willy’s behavior, if he cared to, after dictation. [...]

He thought of that realm as eternal and unchanging, a perfect but frozen composite that must indeed inspire men toward achievement on the one hand, and on the other reproach them for their failure, since their achievements must necessarily seem puny in contrast. [...] He could, however, use it as a source of inspiration.

[...] He saw quite correctly that there was a great give-and-take between the two frameworks — your regular working one, Framework 1, and this other more comprehensive reality. He did not thoroughly understand, however, the creative ramifications involved, for it did not occur to him at the time that the prime work of your world was actually done by you in that other wider aspect of your existence.

[...] When Ruburt began Politics he experienced his ‘true tone’ mentally and psychically. Though he did not realize it, this gave him something to go by, so that now … he is unconsciously [still] bringing about the physical equivalent of that true tone.”

Ruburt has thus far insisted upon his private vision and his unique expression of the unknown reality as he experiences it, and so he brings back bulletins that do not agree with the conventional psychic line.

[...] As I speak he is experiencing certain sensations, in which his body feels drastically elongated (pause), the head reaching out beyond the stars, the whole form straddling realities.

[...] When Seth talked about Jane’s private psychic vision he reminded me of her own remarks on the same subject; see the notes opening the 713th session.

Without consciously knowing how his body performs such manipulations, he trusts it—the hands to hold the brush, the fingers to type or whatever, and the idea becomes reality. [...]

[...] The artist paints because he loves to. [...]

[...] I reread daily many of the private sessions he’s given for us in the last year or two—especially those in Book 20. [...]

[...] When you are upset, ask the creative man what he thinks. [...]

[...] You see, I am not using a flower, and the onion comes up and it insists that it must know who God is and where He is that makes him grow. [...] And then he looks up to the asparagus and to the vines and to the tree. [...] He may even hallucinate such a giant onion but all the time the principle of vitality and power and growth is All That Is, and all of it that you can understand at this point, is within the onion. [...]

[...] Besides the person of whom you are aware, there are also other guises taken by the same personality, and he has appeared in your dreams before you were aware of him objectively. [...]

[...] You have our Lady of Florence to thank that there are classes here, for Ruburt would not think of them in the beginning, and it was our friend, who you think is too intellectual and not intuitional, who suggested the classes in the first place to Ruburt and opened his mind so that he would follow my suggestions. [...]

[...] At first I wondered whether his A-1 state would merely repeat the alpha data given to us by Patty Middleton, but it soon developed that he was using alpha only as a takeoff point. Already he was well beyond it.

(Seth, Jane said, already had other “directions” in mind, involving the right and left; although he hadn’t moved into these areas yet to any great degree via analogies, he had it all planned. [...]

[...] Seth knew there was a high probability that she would be here when he was working on the section of his book concerning stages of consciousness. [...]

He should read over, however, some old sessions, given on work and spontaneity. [...]

[...] “They were on the telephone—why it bothers us and why we’ve been turning it down so much lately—but he decided to let us make up our own minds about it. [...]

Ruburt spread his physical problem around more, bodywise; in such a way, he thought he could endure longer, you see, rather than attacking a critical organ.

[...] We waited to see if Seth would return—and he did, in less than a minute. [...]

My purpose this evening was merely to assure you of my presence, and in particular to reassure Ruburt that the sessions could continue whenever he was willing. [...]

[...] But more and more, ever since he gave that session, some time ago now, on redemption, I’ve come to believe that the very idea or theme of redemption may be the major path we follow in physical life.)

Remind Ruburt that he is indeed safe, secure, and supported. [...] Ruburt should also be patient with himself, for he is indeed improving, and further improvements are definitely in store. [...]

You can also tell him that he can welcome new motion, knowing that it surely leads to recovery. [...]

(5:00 p.m. “Don’t be worried — I’m not going to go on with the session, but as he said, you always go back and change the past from the present — your focus point, you know — I know what he’s going to say next …” I said she was welcome to resume the session.

(4:55 p.m. “I should tell you,” Jane said as I lit a smoke for her, “but as soon as that program was over, I knew he was going to mention the Abominable Snowman. [...]