“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He did so this evening also, of course, when he remarked at 10:59 that our “ideas of Atlantis are partially composed of future memories” — thus leaving room for past manifestations. [...] At any given “time,” depending on whatever information he’s given previously, Jane could just as easily quote Seth as placing Atlantis in our historic past, or in a probable past, present, or future — or all four “places” at once, for that matter. [...]

(The tenor of Seth’s material tonight led me to think that he was close to finishing “Unknown” Reality, but since Jane evidently didn’t feel that way I said nothing about it. [...]

Theories of probabilities will be seen as practical, workable, psychological facts, giving leeway and freedom to the individual, who will no longer feel at the mercy of external events — but will realize instead that he (or she) is their initiator.

[...] “He’s got more on it, too,” Jane said now, but she didn’t go back into trance.

[...] He was born with (long pause) all of those abilities—abilities by which he is now characterized—and with other abilities that in your terms still wait for development. Not that he has not used them so far, but that he has not focused upon them in what you consider the main lines of civilized continuity. [...]

An individual, and I am speaking in your terms now, again to make a point: an individual is the 60 or 70-odd years of his earthly existence, as much as he is the 150-odd pounds that he may be.

[...] This he proceeded to do, at a good pace and in a voice somewhat stronger than usual.)

It follows then that I am aware of the other Seth personality, and he of me. [...]

(“I was hoping he’d explain that red spot on top of my knee,” she said, adding her statement of earlier in the afternoon that she hoped it wasn’t another ulcer starting, like the previous one that had finally erupted on her knee. [...] “Well, maybe he’ll mention it next time,” I said. [...]

[...] The exercises that he does help keep it flexible. [...]

[...] The results, even so far, were apparent in the manner in which he handled reading material this afternoon. He is experiencing the body’s impetus, its urge toward motion, and to reactivation. [...]

[...] He went next door and said hello to Christina in Russian. [...]

Ruburt is finally setting himself free, dispensing with beliefs that he once accepted from the world—beliefs that set up conflicts—and now the unity of his nature is healing him. He senses the awe of creativity as it becomes physically apparent, and that force is being released in your lives. [...]

[...] As an individual creates his physical image and environment according to his abilities and defects, and in line with his expectations and subconscious and inner needs, so does he create his dreams; and these interact with the outer environment which he has created.

However, with the ego at rest the individual may allow communications and dream constructions through, past the ego barrier, in such a manner that he becomes in some ways free. If for example his present expectations are faulty, when the ego rests he may recreate a time when expectations were high. [...]

[...] I paid him, and both of us joked with him for a minute or two before he left. [...]

[...] Jane said, “that Seth had gone away, rather than staying close like he usually does—as though he’d left to gather information or something. [...]

[...] I get a word or two in my head, so I know he’s here.” [...]

[...] I said I thought I understood what Seth was doing: in light of the material we’d been getting, he was giving Jane the experience of that ancient time and our present time, showing that both are simultaneous. [...]

[...] I described what I had experienced, not knowing if I had accomplished anything even remotely approaching what he had in mind. [...]

(In the 82nd session, which was held on the evening of August 27, 1964, Seth said: “When man realizes that he, himself, creates his personal and universal environment in concrete terms, then he can begin to create a private and universal environment much superior to the [present] one, that is the result of haphazard and unenlightened constructions.

[...] He reveals the very structure upon which our free will rests: for if events were immutable or fated, no free will would be possible.

No one, whether that individual is a psychic, a mystic, a writer, a poet, or even if he or she combines all of those qualities (as I think Jane does), can encompass all of the incredible differences within the human species. [...]

[...] If the question could he answered, would all of reality in its unending mystery lie revealed before us?

[...] We have asked him to discuss his Framework 1 and 2 concepts for it, though, and he’s promised to do so; he’s had a good deal to say about those structures in the nonbook material Jane has delivered since the 814th session was held.

[...] For in trance, Jane will once again be in accord with Seth in that nearly “timeless” environment in which he has a large portion of his being.¹

[...] Since introducing them in the deleted, or nonbook session for September 17, Seth has at least mentioned the two frameworks in 17 of the 23 deleted sessions he’s given us since then.

He’d dealt with Frameworks 1 and 2 in only seven sessions, however, when I wrote a paragraph of suggestions about them on October 26. [...]

[...] Built up then cleverly with (pause) transparent ochre which he had, and a particular green, muted. The top complexion tone lay on this lightly, as if a wind could blow it away, and of course he suggests this. [...]

[...] He does not understand form in those terms, and never has. [...]

(I asked the question because of the long pause; I wanted to keep Seth on this track, and thought he might begin talking about another subject. [...]

(Jane said Seth seemed to have a tremendous fount of information to draw upon as she gave the data tonight, as though he had gathered it together just for this session. [...]

[...] He possesses great mastery of the guitar. As he played, it was obvious that any given composition “grew” from the first note, and had always been latent within it. [...]

[...] Each personality carries traces of other characteristics besides those of the family of consciousness to which he or she might belong. [...]

[...] He might think that “aggressiveness,”⁶ competition, and emotional aloofness were required to perform that role. [...]

[...] After disdaining such activities as beneath him for years, he suddenly discovers an intimate relationship with earth and its goods, and this appreciation adds to words that before may have been as dry as ash.

[...] He was invited to go to some affair. [...] He decided to go but not to pay the fee.

[...] She thinks Seth is trying to make clear things that almost cannot be put into words, however; that while she sits waiting he assembles words for her to speak. [...]

[...] But because of the truly infinite range of intensities available, every individual has limitless intensities available within which he can move.

(Long pause.) The more stimuli, thoughts, desires and material of a diverse nature brought into the system—within reason—the greater the amount of material the inner self has to work with and put together in its own creative fashions—but do remember those sessions given that remind Ruburt that his body can indeed recover, that he can indeed trust his body’s processes, and that he should not compare his life with anyone else’s, but trust in the entire fabric of his existence, and you indeed should trust the entire fabric of your own. [...]

(Jane had no direct questions for Seth, as usual, she said, unless he wanted to comment upon the DMSO question. [...]

He does need to be generally aware of his own beliefs, however. [...]

[...] I told Jane I wasn’t asking that Seth go into these this evening; I preferred that he talk about Jane or the Sumari work. [...]

[...] He must not strain, however. [...]

[...] The exercises are important symbolically because they show he is willing to spend time with his body rather than ignoring it. [...]

Quite literally he felt no deep need for exercises before. [...]

[...] To a certain extent he soaks up their paranoia, until it becomes an unquenchable force in him, and he is their “victim” as much as his followers are his “victims.”

1. Seth cited the same famous autosuggestion from the work of the French psychotherapist, Emile Coué (1857–1926), in Chapter 4 of Personal Reality, and then as now, he was correct except for the first two words. He should have said: “Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” [...]

[...] He wants to write it. [...] Instead, he simply ignores the physical evidence of the book’s absence, and creatively begins to write. [...]

[...] When man believed the world was flat, he used his thought processes in such a way that they had great difficulty in imagining any other kind of world, and read the evidence so that it fit the flat-world picture.

[...] He’s an artist I work with at Artistic Card Co.)

[...] I suggest that he use this during your prayer periods. [...]

[...] In terms of air, water, how freely these are available to you, sunlight, even the abundance for example of emotional energy present in your friend who just left here, for he makes it available to you also, and gives of it freely. [...]

[...] Someone remarked that he was getting it with both barrels tonight. He and Janice talked about how they had each felt something in common with the other when Phil first came to class. [...]

(Janice said she felt Pete was that baby, and all three agree he was. [...]

[...] I also understood as we talked that when Jane’s grandfather had wanted to move out of the house on Middle Avenue, he had sold all the furniture and had the utilities turned off. [...]

He should remind himself to look for new signs, however small, of a new ease, for those signs will indeed now be making themselves known.

[...] I told John that he really did look peaceful, as at no other time in his life. [...]