“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Each participator sensed the chaos to which he had direct access (emphatic). He feared it then and afterward, even in his fascination, because he was bound to recognize that it would sweep he and his enemy into insanity or death.(...him and..?)

[...] He has gone beyond the child’s game. [...] He also learns by his successes, and there are times when he holds his hand, moments of deliberation, periods of creativity. [...]

This does not mean that he could not destroy the world that he knew. [...] You do not give a child a loaded gun if you are certain he is going to shoot himself or his neighbor.

[...] You do not worry about the child’s development, for you realize that he will learn better.

[...] It is therefore all the more important that he always try (pause), to use discipline and caution, that he think in terms of helping other individuals, and that he not glorify his own position egotistically, thinking, “Since I can heal you, I am therefore superior to you,” even though the idea is partially hidden from his own consciousness, and even though he feels kindly—put in here that I smiled—while feeling so superior.

[...] He is however still at the stage where he takes pleasure in intellectual superiority, and somewhat looks down upon those who are not so intellectually gifted. [...]

[...] I do not suggest that he do such writing (automatic writing) more than twice a week for now at the most, however. [...] I know that he knows this, and I do indeed commend him. [...]

[...] He must also make sure of the integrity of his motives, and learn to recognize his own motives. This is not to imply that he does not, but it is a necessity for any personality who is working with psychic activity of this kind.

There is no doubt he prefers the door open, but he does understand the reasons for the doors closed. He finally realizes the advantage in walking home. [...]

[...] He should also begin again to suggest that his own subconscious will help him in the dream state, for the images he encounters there can be most beneficial.

[...] The swearing when he drinks is a direct result of the fact that he tries to deny aggressive feelings otherwise. [...]

He may, for example, continue within it for several reincarnations. [...]

There are things he does not remember from his childhood, when he was warned against telling lies—apparitions that he spoke of. He was punished. [...]

One note: Ruburt was correct in the interpretation he just gave you. He could use his inner senses fairly frequently in his waking state, as he did momentarily during that incident.

He was considered an overimaginative child, and turned much of the inner information into poetic form as he grew from childhood. He felt free using this information in writing. [...]

If it were not creatively transformed into writing however he felt, as a child, threatened, for he would be accused of telling lies.

He is not just being creative when he is writing. He is being as creative when he contemplates the kitchen table in his own fashion, and is enjoying then a state of consciousness that is to some extent uniquely his own. [...]

Ruburt always did realize he was quite different from other people. [...] You both felt he must be very careful. [...] He believed, however, that one set was opposed to the other. [...]

Ruburt got so he wanted such encounters only if they fell into his ideas of work. [...] The main point for now that I want to make is that Ruburt does indeed perceive the world differently, and he cannot try to force that vaster kind of perception into the narrow confines of ordinary work ideas.

[...] He may or may not sell his paintings, but the difference between the artist and other people is his or her way of being—a difference in the style of existence. [...]

After he has done these exercises, then he can begin again seeing his body walking or sitting, or whatever. [...] You breathe whether or not you understand how breathing happens—so remind Ruburt that he must get to the point where he realizes that walking is as easy as writing a book, or thinking a thought, or having a session. [...]

It is not so much that he has been worrying—but at times he does think of the impediments that stand seemingly in his way. [...]

(“Has he been inhibiting his recovery toward walking by worrying about it?”)

[...] Ruburt tried in the family to express independence, to show that he was (underlined) a writer, and at the same time he tried to express dependence, to show that he was a good wife, and this applied to many social relationships as well. If he succeeded as a writer, it seemed he was less the loyal wife, and sometimes in the past—the distant past—you felt the same when you tried to be “the male provider,” and take a job to satisfy that narrow role. [...]

[...] He would follow in his father’s footsteps. He was not of equal value with a prince, either of church or state. [...] He might be a good yeoman or a poor one, but a yeoman he was. [...]

The peasant was poor because he was basically brutish as a result of his parentage. [...] A man of property, whether he be a scoundrel or a fool, was first and foremost a man of worth. [...]

[...] He has to be “working” all the time, so people will see he is not just a dumb housewife. [...]

[...] He was from Port Arthur, Texas. He was quite intelligent, a musician who had written an “opera,” he told us. Like a number of our other recent callers, he was traveling around the country, seemingly free of all ties, doing odd jobs on occasion, but living on little money. [...]

Though the fanatic may make much noise in the world, he is actually isolated from all of the world’s ideas except his own. [...] He does not allow the development of his concepts or beliefs, for example. They stop at one particular point—and at that point he wages his battle against reality.

[...] The fanatic is usually also a person whose vitality is blocked in important ways—yet he manages often to summon great energy, so that even in his denunciations he shows many people who are more timid the demonstration of personal exuberance and energy, however misdirected.

[...] A few moments later, when he came through Seth took up where he’d left off in mid-sentence:)

[...] He doesn’t answer. [...] His voice says he’s busy.... and just then, as I’m irritably aware of his reply, I realize I’m in bed and so is he. [...]

[...] Played old Safe Universe Seth tape for them, was struck by Seth’s discussion strongly and saw how back in ‘75 he had the issues already organized for the future.... anyhow, he did a terrific session then on the Sinful Self.... [...]

(Seth said again that he considered such effects childish, but that it would be a small sacrifice to make if it helped to get the material across. Again he dwelt upon the difficulty of proving immortality. No matter what he did, people would say it was trickery. He still maintained that he could offer proof that would be sufficient, in time. He repeated again that he could not play on Dr. Instream’s desire for immortality in order to arouse his interest in the material.

[...] He allows me to speak indeed. I have his politeness to thank that he does not interrupt me, but his speaking is not compulsive in that he is so driven.

He knows well who I am, and I know who he is. [...] (Louder.) He knows I am who I say I am. [...]

[...] He keeps records, which will be invaluable. He is an intelligent and intuitional personality, and should be given credit. He is not however some demigod walking the face of the physical earth; and your word “medium” leaves much to be desired. [...]

[...] More will come to him as he writes his notes in the morning. [...] In fact, he progressed enough so that they continued in spite of his momentary confusion. He taught himself a lesson, literally, this evening, and that is the way he learns.

One of the women in this gathering wears a large blue or gray brooch (pause) that I believe he has noticed. (Pause.) He has been or very shortly will be, informed of a change in his teaching schedule that he did not expect or anticipate, having to do with the morning hours of Tuesday and Thursday, I believe, though I am not certain of the precise two days. [...]

I also believe that he lost or misplaced an item from his own office at the school today. (Pause.) Or he misplaced it earlier and went to look for it today. [...]

[...] The conditions have to do with the amount which Ruburt is willing to allow me to have of the physical matter of which he is composed, and of which he is naturally jealous.

[...] When he is off guard, as he was when Philip was present, then we can achieve very much.

[...] A few times, because Ruburt was so upset, I managed to console him by saying that he wasn’t pregnant when he rather feared that he might be. [...]

[...] He is afraid of speaking out aggressively when he feels unjustly taken advantage of, as he did not speak out against his mother out of fear of reprisal.

[...] In some respects under usual circumstances at least, Ruburt is more proficient than you, but in times of crisis he reverts and runs full steam ahead on limited energy; often quite automatically he transforms available and abundant psychic energy for his own purposes, and later forgets how he has done it.

[...] Ruburt is all right, although he will try and block me when he can. Of course he knew his present mother earlier, but only as an acquaintance. [...]

Following Seth’s suggestions, Rob began doing a few simple yoga exercises, and the night before the eighteenth session he used self-hypnosis to relax his muscles. The results were so immediate and excellent, and Rob was so limp when he finished, that both of us were amused. He looked so like a before-and-after advertisement. Before he began the exercises, he was very uptight, with sore muscles and a repressive body pose. Afterward, he was like some happy rag doll. [...] As usual, he used our personal experience as a basis for some excellent information with great general application.

[...] He was really laughing now, and I sulked. I realized he was right the moment he spoke.

[...] He also carried on with his discussion of the ego and health, giving an excellent analysis of the ego’s relationship to the personality as a whole. I took what he said to heart and found myself opening up, becoming more free and creative. In this session, he also spoke about the consciousness of trees in such a way that I was never able to look at the trees outside of my window with the same old detachment. [...]

[...] He sat, taking notes, as Seth dictated, stopping now and then to stare at him as he made a point. [...]

[...] He said he felt fine, and that it was a most welcome situation. [...] Bill however remarked that he thought he had detected a change; he thought Jane’s lower jaw line had become more rounded, losing a little of its angularity. [...]

(Bill’s ulcer was still not bothering him, and he was still free of symptoms at 1:20 AM when Peggy and he left for home. Bill again mentioned that he thought he saw a change in Jane’s features while she was speaking, especially in the jawline and the shape of the face in general. [...]

[...] Nevertheless I cannot help but grow annoyed when I am literally besieged with the protests meant to insist upon his sanity, the point being that if he is sane, then I must be some nefarious seven-eyed monster. He does indeed give acquiescence for these sessions, and I am indeed fond of you both. [...] What is he afraid of?

[...] He knows full well not only the importance of the sessions, personally, but he knows the far-reaching consequences of these sessions, and he is indeed quite able to deal with the consequences.

[...] He could at best try to duplicate it physically — never able, however, to match its perfection in those terms. [...] Man, being a part of that inner world by reason of the nature of his own psyche, automatically has a hand in the creation of those blueprints which at another level he uses as guides.

4. Plato, the Greek philosopher, poet, and logician, lived from about 427 to about 347 B.C. Throughout his mature life he treated what he considered to be man’s God-given ideas in a series of Dialogues, or free conversations.

[...] A little reflection will show that in spite of the “sexist” implications it would be quite difficult to present such material in other ways, so common is the use of “man,” “he,” “his,” and “him.” [...] We also don’t want to become involved with rewriting Seth’s material: We’re sure that when he produces passages cast in the male gender, his intentions are anything but prejudiced in favor of that sex.

“Obviously, Seth’s purpose is to explain what he can within the framework of that language, rather than to change the language itself — as would be necessary, for example, to escape its often prejudiced nature. This prejudice appears most obviously in its sexual aspects: ‘Mankind’ for the species in general, and ‘he’ in referring to the individual member. [...]

Left alone, he never wrote conventional fiction. His abilities would not confine themselves to such a limited form, and he was always trying to bring them into line. He grew up at a time when it was considered somewhat dangerous to be different from others. In the home, the Catholic asylum, he was often punished for noncomformity. He tried to form a protective self to keep himself in line. [...]

[...] He had problems to face, then, that resulted in his symptoms—but (louder) they are nothing like the problems he would have had to face had he not found this greater framework for himself and others. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s main problem was that he tried too hard to protect himself because he believed it was necessary. [...]

[...] “I vaguely know what he said about 1964,” Jane said. “He put that in to make me feel better, about being reborn.”

[...] At the same time the background itself will be alive, so it is difficult to tell whether the living background propels him outward, or whether he himself, from his own power, seems to rise out apart from the background. Or whether he has been thrust outward from the background of which he is part, a living focus rising out of the background, a part of consciousness rising out of a larger, undifferentiated consciousness implied in the background. [...]

[...] To whom is his implied speech spoken—to a god he understands, to a god he does not understand, to the elements or to a part of himself that he knows exists and cannot reach. [...]

[...] Is he only aware of those who will later look at the painting? Is he only aware of the unseen power or person his lips address? Is he speaking words not only for himself but for every other individual?

Do you know what he is saying?

[...] When Jane called him the lawyer told Jane that his client was a 27-year-old schizophrenic who’d confessed to killing a certain woman he’d met in a Seth class both attended some years ago. He had confessed to her death several times, but no one believed him—until the last time, evidently. Now he was on trial. [...] Interestingly, in the small town of Roseburg he’d been able to buy James and Cézanne and ESP Power, but no other Seth books. [...]

[...] The main issue here is that feeling of responsibility again, so that he writes or whatever because he loves to do it, not because he should or must, and that involves my books as well as his own. [...]

(It turned out that the wife claimed her husband was not trying to capitalize on Seth, that they both respected highly the Seth material, and that as we had suspected he had written Jane several years ago telling her about his Seth. Jane had told him then that he wasn’t speaking for her Seth. [...]

[...] He’s been doing such speaking in trance since the early 1970’s. The literature a fan sent us last week made it seem that the medium claimed to be speaking for Jane’s Seth. [...]

[...] He is a fully developed personality with a variety of interests: writing, teaching, helping others. [...] He is shrewd; in his manner more earthy than ethereal. He knows how to explain complex theories simply, in person-to-person contact. Perhaps more important, he is able to relate these ideas to ordinary living.

I will tell the reader how he sees what he sees, or hears what he hears, and why. [...]

While my communications will come exclusively through Ruburt at all times, to protect the integrity of the material, I will invite the reader to become aware of me as a personality, so that he may then realize that communication from other realities is possible, and that he himself is therefore open to perception that is not physical.

[...] Sometimes they see him as he appears in the portrait Rob painted of him. On occasion he speaks through my image, as in normal sessions. [...]