“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He wanted to speak for a personality like Joel speaks for a personality, or Jane does, or he wanted to get information in a given particular way. Where all the time he’s got it, and he knows he’s got it. But he just wanted it to come out in a particular way. [...]

[...] I talked to him because he talked to me. If he hadn’t, I wouldn’t have pushed in to talk to Bill. [...] But as far as thinking that I could learn any more by listening to him than I could from coming here, or just listening to myself  because if Joel is capable of doing this, so am I. If he can look in, so can I.”

([Bette Zahorian:] “And I just sat here for five minutes telling you to put that goddamn pen down, that he’s been banging away, and he finally did it.”

“I saw last week as Bill started to speak, the class swerved, and everybody looked and listened to the new teacher, hoping that he would have the new answers; that if you couched your questions differently he would give you the answers. [...]

[...] He enjoys having sessions to some degree for his students, for he responds to their desire and need, but he distrusts himself more when you are not present, you see. [...] In such cases, you see, he must trust himself entirely to me, and since he distrusts himself and me to some varying degree, then there is some conflict. [...]

[...] He felt duty bound to hold the session, you see; guilty that he had not held it; and yet highly uneasy, for he realized it would contain information that could bring sorrow. [...]

[...] She has clothed a basic idea of reality in certain garments, and he has chosen other garments. [...]

He has wondered about this. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) By the time Ruburt left the church, he thought that it had also lost its emotional pull upon him. He felt free, and he immediately leapt toward what you can generally think of as the scientific viewpoint. [...]

(Pause.) He took the dictums of the church seriously, but questioned them with as much passion and enthusiasm as he overall used in his affiliation with the entire church organization. [...]

[...] He was far from any scientist, of course. He did poorly in science in college, for that matter, for if his mind was too scientific for religious dogma, it was too creative and emotional for conventional scientific thought. [...]

[...] He did not admit those feelings, however. [...] They seemed especially humiliating in the light of what he thought his public position should be. [...]

He is behaving in a compulsive manner. [...] He is squeezing the life from it symbolically and he senses the emotional (Jane’s voice sounded almost drugged here) crisis toward which he is propelled. [...]

[...] Quite literally he does indeed step out of himself. This happens much more frequently than he realizes. He has not utilized suggestion, however, to any significant degree as an aid in controlling his symptoms.

The tangle in Syracuse will not be quite as tangled as he imagines. [...]

[...] He said that Seth had correctly described the stout man with glasses, though the description was so general it could apply to many.

He feels more energetic, and of course wants to become much more active. [...] He assimilates it far better, and this does allow the healing process to quicken. [...] The eyes today showed what I mean, as on occasion he could briefly read far better than he has so far, then seemingly go back to a previous level, and then back and forth between various stages.

[...] I told Jane I suspected the dream grew out of my meeting Leonard at the new Super-Duper market the other night, when he’d joked around and repeated several times how good he felt physically, after his heart operation. [...]

The advice I recently gave must particularly be followed — so that he concentrates upon the joys that he possesses, keeps his goals in mind, and trusts the infinite intelligence within him to bring about the desired results. [...]

It is because Ruburt now has more vitality that he sometimes becomes quite impatient with his progress.

[...] He went along with it, which is very good, but he didn’t sustain it long enough so that he could distinguish the other tissue capsules which came within his own extended awareness.

[...] Although he lost his grip, he leaped after her leg again and gave a loud meow.)

[...] He gave voice to several loud cries and finally succeeded in anchoring himself upon one of Jane’s legs. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, he did receive a startling glimmer into the possibilities inherent here.

[...] He reminds me of Joseph. He appears to be alone. [...]

He was an extremely aggressive woman last time. [...]

[...] He is a part of his last mother’s entity.

[...] He saw aggression as strength. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Now when you watch, say, educational TV, you see the teacher, and he speaks. He may or may not actually be speaking at that time, for you may be watching a film. But the teacher exists whether or not he is speaking at that time, in your terms, and his message is as legitimate. [...]

He was taking you to a concert. [...] The horses panicked, and [he] fell beneath a hoof. You never forgave yourself, and now in your first reincarnation as a woman since that time, you decided to be the vehicle through which he could enter physical reality again, and so became his mother in physical terms.

For various reasons, and because you did not understand, you held it against yourself that once you accidentally killed him, and then when he was a child you gave him away. [...] There were other entries available, but he understood your purposes, and accepted you as a mother to show you that he held no grudges. [...]

[...] He was impatient with you at times, for he remembered you as a companion in male pursuits, and bitterly resented your femininity.

He, Ruburt, feels so deprived. [...] However, the benefits are well worth whatever passing discomfort he fancies he feels. [...]

He is stubborn, as we have discovered, you and I, and this stubbornness will also work for him. There is no reason why he should not succeed, and he will succeed in letting go the smoking habit. [...]

He will do all right, even if I do rib him now and then.

Give us a moment … What he wrote is pertinent. Before he could go fully ahead he had to accept the challenges of the past, and this meant he had to examine those old beliefs. He is only now really beginning to do so….

[...] The trust is accepted, however, because he is finally ready to work through the issues. As given [at various times over the years, mostly in personal material], they involve cultural training and religious indoctrinations.⁴ He is challenging, finally, the old beliefs that say that the self’s spontaneity is not to be trusted. He is challenging those ideas emotionally and philosophically, uniting physical action and inner mobility. In the past he was still afraid to touch those beliefs with any but the slightest of hands.

[...] “Boy, he was going strong,” she said. “He kept me under a good long time because of the noise [in the apartment] upstairs — and because of those phone calls, too, I’ll bet….” [...]

[...] All of the writing he did today is important. He is preparing to go ahead in all directions.

[...] Until Ruburt was at his desk this evening, he did not finally decide whether or not he would greet the strangers you knew had earlier tried to reach you. He played with the idea of checking some notes, and then taking his chapter (on James) to the living room table, and darkening his room. [...]

[...] This can cause some feelings of instability when he is walking—but the body must also try out its positions when he is on his feet. [...] He favored certain portions of the neck and shoulders. [...]

[...] Ruburt should tell you, as you told him, when he finds himself in a particularly blue mood, or projecting negatively, but he does catch such situations better than he did. [...]

Had he been living, he would have sought Ruburt out, you see, and they would have gotten along famously. [...]

Creatively and intuitively, he relates much better to others than he realizes, and this will also add to the manuscript on which he is working. [...]

—and I thank Ruburt for the class sessions. (Elaborate, courteous amusement.) He learns as much from them as the students, but of a different nature; and he also knows that if he did not give his permission, such sessions would not be held. [...]

[...] Working with it Ruburt can use his own creative abilities as he attempts to make a work of art from any given book. Psychologically his interpretations and comments add another dimension that he scarcely realizes at present.

[...] He should understand this, and explain it simply to his students.

These mass suggestions include not only those given to him by others, both verbally and telepathically, but also those suggestions that he has given to himself while in the waking or dream states. If individual A is in a period of despondency, then this is because he has already become prey to negative suggestions of his own and others. If now you see him and think that he looks miserable—or that he is an incurable drunk—then indeed these suggestions are picked up by him subconsciously though you have not spoken a word, and in his already weakened condition, they will be accepted and acted upon.

[...] If you continually expect any individual to behave in a particular manner, then you are constantly sending him telepathic suggestions that he will do so. [...] According then to the specific conditions existing at the time, such an individual will to some extent or another act according the mass suggestions he has received.

[...] No one would ever think of calling him lazy or good for nothing, yet this may be precisely his own subconscious picture of himself, against which he drives himself incessantly, all in an effort to prove that his erroneous self-image is, indeed, wrong. And all without realizing his basic concept of himself and without recognizing the fact that he projects it outward onto others.

If, on the other hand, thinking of him under the same conditions, you stop yourself and say gently to yourself: he will begin to feel better now—or his drinking is temporary—and there is indeed hope here, then you have given him aid, for the suggestions will at least represent some small telepathic ammunition to fight off the war of despondency.

[...] He gave us his magazines and newspapers—a practice he continues to this day during his school year. Sometimes we swapped furniture with him; sometimes he sold us at very reasonable cost pieces he’d replaced. He has a passion for neatness and the well-ordered life. He bought a power-driven lawn mower, and for years cut the grass without asking our landlord for any compensation.

[...] Last Thursday morning, then, we were really shocked when Doris, who is also a teacher and a friend from those apartment-house years, called to tell us that David was in the hospital—that he was to undergo triple-bypass heart surgery the next day. [...] He’d taken up jogging some time ago and was now running 15 miles at a time, three days a week. As he lay in the hospital, David asked Doris why this was happening to him, when he’d tried to take care of himself, help others, and “do everything right.”

[...] He’s a bachelor, and a high-school teacher. [...] Eventually he moved downstairs when a larger apartment right beneath ours became available: Still later, Jane and I rented the apartment he’d had on the second floor, so that we ended up with two apartments, side by side; we needed more room by then, and didn’t want to move.

[...] He knew what Jane was up to, but had only a peripheral interest in “psychic phenomena.” David never complained about the racket, though sometimes he secluded himself in a back room down there, or left the house until class was over. [...]

He is now soaking up energy, so to speak, within his physical system as a sponge soaks up water. (Smile.) He is using the new energy where he feels he needs it most, which is quite legitimate.

Some material he can present to you more clearly than I. This was particularly true up to this present point. [...] I wondered: if Seth isn’t speaking now, who is?) He is closer to you in personality makeup and closer to your reality, therefore he could transmit ideas to Ruburt in more understandable terms than I.

[...] He is the connective between us, and he has been a part of me that I have sent out to you. He has gone willingly.

[...] Seth as you knew him will also be Seth as you know him; for whether or not I speak as myself or through him, as you think of him, he is still the intermediary and the connection between us, and he will help transmit energy; but more, he will also appear as himself as you have known him. [...]

Dick, being so much younger, saw no reason why he should be able to compete. He identified with you and loved you. His wife is a great help to him, but so far he has not fully developed his intellectual capacities, for many reasons, and he has a tendency to blame her for it. [...]

[...] Because Ruburt is trying to learn gentleness this time and because he is a woman strongly attached to you, his respect for you is boundless and in most cases he will give in to what he considers your superior judgment. [...]

[...] He would have tried to make a serious mistake at this time. In pity and against his own intuition, he would have tried to move in with your parents. [...]

[...] Unlike you and Loren, he does not have a strongly developed ego core to protect him. He is somewhat like a snail without a shell, and could benefit strongly by your affection, shown in a more practical manner.

[...] Steve took it well, and is going to use up the retainer he gave the Ithaca lawyer to have her ask Prentice-Hall some questions, etc. It’s a free country, I said, he can ask them anything he likes, I suppose. [...]

[...] He’s going away for a week —to Florida—just when we may need his cooperation. [...] Jane wasn’t sure when he was leaving, but it’s probably tomorrow morning, or even tonight. [...]

[...] I talked to Luke on the phone—at first, I could tell, he didn’t know who I was. But he sounded the same after I became a little more familiar with his voice. [...]

(When I called Pete back I told him about the Steve affair, and he said I should think twice before I cut out something that might give us extra income in the future. [...] “I don’t see how you do what you’re doing now,” he said. [...]

Ruburt has always had a difficulty—if he will forgive me—in integrating the various abilities that are his. He was either so intellectual that you could not understand him when he spoke or so intuitive that you could not understand him when he spoke. The duty he imposed upon himself this time was to integrate these two strong aspects of himself, and he has had his difficulties in doing so. [...]

[...] He is less easily bothered of late in any case. [...]

[...] I shall see what a good teacher your Ruburt is, and I shall correct him if he makes errors. [...]

[...] With Ruburt’s eyes open, I can see you as he sees you as a particular personality in this particular space and time and then, you see, I can place you within your own development. [...]

[...] No matter how fast he ran or how far he traveled, early man could not run out of land, or trees, or forests, or food supplies. If he came to a desert, he still knew that fertile lands were somewhere available, even if it was a matter of finding them. [...]

Now: Historically speaking, early man in his way understood those connections far better than you do, and used language as he developed it to express first of all this miracle of birth. For he saw that he constantly replenished his kind, and that all other species were replenished in the same manner.

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[...] The He and She” dash — “the She and He.” [...]

[...] Before he [or she] is old enough to begin any kind of training, he will know on other levels the probable direction that music will take during his lifetime. He will be acquainted in the dream state with other young budding musicians, though they are infants also. [...]

He was looking for a state of higher consciousness that would represent a unique and yet universal source of information and revelation. [...] He could not assimilate the information, and became frightened, to some extent at least, at the vastness of the experience involved, as if the ancient yet new knowledge that he sought for his individual reasons was so encompassing that his own individuality would have trouble handling it while retaining its own necessary frame of reference. [...]

[...] As he progressed with the session I began hoping that Seth meant it for Mass Events; finally I decided to insert it in the book even if he didn’t.

[...] He was looking for counsel of a most exalted kind, and so it became the council — an excellent term, by the way, standing for the most intimate and yet exalted counsel possible for any individual.