“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It should be obvious by now that in a large measure all of the selves and approaches I’ve delineated in these essays simply represent Seth playing around semantically, as he tries to get various portions of his ideas through our heads at certain times. All is one, basically, as he knows—and can feel—far better from his vantage point than we can from ours. [...]

[...] I’m sure he’s quite entertained by the whole situation—yet also compassionate toward the human strivings involved. He’s never mentioned the concept, nor have we asked him to. [...]

[...] As I wrote to a fan just last week: “No matter what he or she may think of it personally, no reputable scientist is going to publicly espouse a belief in the Seth material. [...]

[...] (Jane didn’t see her father again—he came from a broken home himself—until she was 21.) By the time Jane was three years old, her mother was having serious problems with rheumatoid arthritis. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, we knew that Seth would soon finish Mass Events; he’s been very neatly summing it up in recent sessions.

[...] To the end he stayed with his practice of giving book dictation on Wednesday evenings. [...]

(“I always feel funny when he ends a book,” Jane couldn’t help saying. [...]

[...] “You’d better hurry up, though, ’cause he’s already got his next one planned. [...]

(Long pause.) Whenever man believes that life is meaningless, whenever he feels that value fulfillment is impossible, or indeed nonexistent, then he undermines his genetic heritage. He separates himself from life’s meaning. He feels vacant inside. [...]

[...] “See, I wanted him to come through and say something about me, without my asking, but he didn’t.” [...]

[...] He got poetry book okay and will read it at once! [...]

A survival personality in many respects is psychologically much different from the individual that he was. [...]

[...] By the 15th session he was explaining Jane’s role as a translator for him, putting concepts into words, etc. [...]

[...] When the physical individual is trained along these lines however, he helps in this process, and a psychological framework, like a bridge, is erected that serves to connect the two personalities.

[...] It delivers information to Ruburt in a way which he can understand. [...]

Now I was not dreaming of him, and he was not dreaming of me. [...] When he is ready to embark he will do so. He cannot push himself in this direction, for the whole self sets ups safeguards. [...]

[...] Ruburt is quite familiar with such excursions, though egotistically he is only slightly aware of a few of them. [...]

[...] Just for kicks, I asked Seth if he thought the object was a photograph. [...]

[...] He has studied extensively overseas, and worked there and in Canada as an art expert, and in Brooklyn with the Kecks. He has also been employed in various Midwest locations, Chicago, etc. [...]

[...] He said 1948 when the correct year is 1947.

[...] Ruburt should definitely take up his yoga again, as he plans.

[...] The person, the survival person that is, contains all that he was, and more.

4. A note added some eight months later: Once in a great while Seth refers to the slower rate of physical aging connected with the out-of-body state, and notes the “certain principles” involved, as he does here. Jane and I have always felt that he has some very interesting material on the subject, and that we’ll get it someday. [...]

A note: Just as he periodically reminds us of his material-to-come on physical aging and out-of-body states (see Note 4, above), Seth mentions that there are more inner senses he’ll tell us about someday — then adds that many of them are so far removed from reality as we understand it that our comprehension will be intellectual at best; in such cases we won’t be able to identify with them emotionally. [...]

[...] “I have an idea of what  he’s going to talk about — but I haven’t quite got it yet so I have to wait….” [...]

[...] In Session 684 (in Volume 1) he said at 10:07: “Your body’s condition at any time is not so much the result of its own comprehension of its ‘past history’ as it is of its own comprehension of future probabilities. [...]

[...] He must see himself as a force in the world.

[...] I hope Seth comes through with more on the subject before he finishes Mass Events.)

He tells us that our reincarnational selves explore the past, present, and future—but basically all at once, since time as he defines it is simultaneous. [...]

[...] He said that basically both our genetic structure and our reincarnational history are systems of consciousness, that they’re “intermixed.” [...] I don’t doubt that he’s right—that is, in our temporal lifetimes we call upon whatever systems of consciousness we desire to, at whatever “time”: a matter of choice and free will operating within the broad parameters of our sexual orientation and other personality factors.

Aside from any books that he may produce himself (and on whatever subjects), I’ve already made plans to put together a short volume featuring Seth’s discussions on the magical approach to reality. [...]

[...] Interesting question: How would our 20th-century individual react when told by a visitor from the year 2355 (for example) that he or she represented one of our futurian’s “past” lives?

[...] After all, here he is, engaged in a “lifelong” process with my wife, and just as dependent upon what he can get through her psyche, as she is upon what she can get from him and then let through to me and to others! [...] help her even as much as he does’? As far as he’s concerned those storms and reaches aren’t physical, but instead consist of intensities of feeling—as they do for us too, basically.

[...] Tam has grown restless; he needs a change; he plans to leave Prentice-Hall.⁵

[...] I know that it appears much more translucent to Seth, and that he sees our great active potentials as we cannot at this time.

[...] She promised me that he would discuss it soon—but we have yet to receive any such commentary. [...]

[...] Seth admits he is part of the game and was, in a sense, created by Gene. He says that Gene is dealing in artificial terms, not real ones.) You and I are part of the same reality.

He (to Gene) Fifteenth century—both France and Italy—a brief journey to Spain—the name however would seem to be Italian. [...]

Now: For Ruburt, I want him to remember the idea of effortlessness, because with the best of intentions he has been trying too hard. [...] He is naturally gifted with the quickness of body and mind. [...]

[...] “I was afraid he might only get as far as Coleman Avenue — a block away — or someplace like that. [...]

It is understandable that he feels strange at times, for he has given up an old, dependable but limited framework. [...]

[...] There have been relaxations and he felt better, but now we are dealing with overall definite changes in which the ligaments are being extended. [...]

[...] These have to be corrected while he maintains balance. [...]

[...] Ruburt has noticed several occasions when he projected negatively in your direction. In other words, instances where he misinterpreted your meaning, or anticipated a negative reaction.

Your remark earlier to him to relax in the moment is indeed an important key, and he needs that reminder. [...]

It builds up from feelings that are by their nature denied clear expression through the specific but therefore limiting alphabet systems. (Pause at 11:06.) It allows the perceiver to face experience much more closely, and once having done this to some extent he is free in other areas also. [...]

In sense terms he would learn little about an orange, though he might be able to isolate its elements, predict where others might be found, theorize about its environment — but the greater “withinness” of the orange is not found any place inside of its skin either. [...]

[...] He cannot divorce himself from the reality of his patient. [...]

[...] But he [or she] is discouraged from identifying with the blood of his physical being, so that even his own blood seems alien.

[...] This represents progression on Ruburt’s part, but he must still learn lessons that he has already learned in giving such information to others. [...]

(Pause at 10:31.) Ruburt may be invited to go somewhere or do something, on a Wednesday shortly, and I suggest that he not do so. [...]

[...] He has only to refuse, politely.

[...] It only occurs, however, under certain conditions, when the individual involved is at a certain state of awareness, in which he is ready to consciously accept such information as originating in dreams, and when the dreams are recognized by him as being an acceptable way of receiving information.

[...] It was more me topside, but he was definitely there at the end.”

[...] They act as symbols of inner reality, so it’s only natural that whether he’s aware of it or not, man perceives objects in such a fashion that they also stand for symbols that first originate in his dreams. [...]

[...] Man has always considered himself, in your terms, as set apart from nature, so he must feel set apart from nature’s power—and there must be a great division in his dreams between the two. [...]

He wanted them to wish you a happy birthday. [...] Consciously he wanted to be alone. [...] Then of course it came to nothing, because he would not disturb you. [...]

(At the end of Seth’s second try at the envelope data, he once again came up with the newspaper connection: “Still, there seems to be a newspaper connection. [...]

[...] His own associations operated, though he did not realize it. [...]

The artist does not identify with the colors he uses. He knows he chooses them, and applies them with a brush. [...] If a painter finds his hands stained with pigment at the end of a day, he can wash the stain off easily, knowing its nature. [...]

Each person chooses for himself the individual patterns within which he will create this personal reality. [...]