“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Dr. Instream would like us to ask Seth why he stopped at York Beach, since he had never been there before. For our part we want to know whether Dr. Instream understands that he was in York Beach on the same night a photo of York Beach was used in a session, or whether he remembers reading about York Beach in previous sessions.

(Last week we received Dr. Instream’s letter of September 13, in which he wrote that he would like to try straight clairvoyant communication with Seth on Monday and Wednesday nights at 10 PM. Dr. Instream also noted that on the evening of August 23,1965 he and his wife stopped overnight at York Beach, ME, while traveling. [...]

[...] Each individual has various ways in which he or she characteristically handles the protoplastic elements of which the physical being is composed.

[...] He is actually learning rather quickly, more quickly than I had anticipated. [...]

[...] He because he never really had one, and you because you did.

[...] He wanted to help you, and felt powerless to a large extent.

Ruburt was already leery of putting his physical condition to the test of the trip, and so easily acquiesced, worried also that perhaps he would lose out on Aspects, that was already contracted for.

[...] He is not alone with his mother any more.

[...] Each man is born with the yearning to make these truths real for himself, though he sees a great difference between them and the environment in which he lives.

The personality so touched by it actually does then become, in certain terms, what he seems to be. He will emerge as an eternal hero in the external religious drama, as the inner self is the eternal hero of the interior religious drama.

(Somewhat to my surprise Seth started Chapter Twenty-one this evening, but I soon realized that he wasn’t leaving our questions behind. [...]

[...] Each man, then, possesses this inner knowledge within himself, and to some extent or other he also looks for confirmation of it in the world.

[...] He thinks they have various states of origin. Occasionally he’ll mention them in connection with another subject; as an example, see the two paragraphs about “saucers” and the pulsating nature of atoms and molecules in the ESP class session for January 12, 1971, in the Appendix of Seth Speaks.

[...] However, note at the end of these excerpts from the 16th session the meanings and delineations he found within that word “plane” — even though he regarded it as our term.])

[...] The earthly viewer attempts to correlate what he sees with what he supposedly knows or imagines possible in the universe.

What he sees is something between a horse and a dog, that resembles neither. [...]

[...] He had fingers like sausages; people in town were always amused that he was so big and worked with such small pieces. He made them out of wood, I think, and they served as molds or models that ended up cast in metal. He rubbed a substance on the wood grain to protect it. [...]

[...] This is hard to specify, but he had the same feeling I have now about newspapers — the daily spreading out of ideas, and the kind of tremendous power behind that ability … I can see that corner of his shop/work area clearly in a half-light, illuminated by a candle in an enclosed mesh lantern sitting on a tabletop. This man had several apprentices, and he was a real artisan, putting ideas across in the form of movable type. [...]

[...] (And typography itself was known, but not much used, in China and Korea in the 11th century.) In about 1448 Gutenberg became a citizen of Mainz, Germany, where he continued his work. [...]

Ruburt also of course knew this, as he knew about your curly-headed friend the other night (at the Hurricane bar, amused), and he reacted vehemently, particularly against your parents. To help support your mother, particularly in the beginning under the situation as he sensed it, and with all of his other anti-mother sentiments, was the greatest of outrages. [...]

[...] This time however he recognized that earlier he would have brooded and gone to bed, leaving you to brood alone at his ways.

After the first bad bouts for example, when he improved enough to go up and down stairs without even limping, when he was agile enough at least to climb some rocks at the Glen (Enfield, near Ithaca, NY), to swim after being largely incapacitated, you both acted as if the improvements meant nothing, discounted them largely, and concentrated upon those symptoms that did indeed still remain.

I am not saying that he was completely better then, but the improvements far outweighed the symptoms at that time. [...]

[...] The affair involved an education for Poett, as he struggled with many concepts, and as he struggled against portions of himself, for he wants to be a journalist even while he has no use for it at the same time.

(“This afternoon I was wondering how Jim Poett was making out—not when the article will be published [in the Village Voice], but what he thinks of what he’s doing.”)

(9:48.) A ruler cannot make his decisions based upon national events only, but he must take international ones into mind, and in a more direct fashion, say, than even 10 years ago. [...]

[...] Unfortunately, it was also an example of what happens when the official line of consciousness steps into the dream state, as Ruburt realized your father was dead, and at that level then decided he could not be here.

He does, indeed, and he wants to walk, by the way—but he does not want to waste his time. [...]

[...] It is unfortunate that he does not know how to distinguish between, say, symptoms of disorder and symptoms of healing.

(“Does he want them to stretch?”)

(10:01.) He did think women had to try harder, as I have discussed many times. [...]

[...] He knew of no competitors. He mentioned a Dave Gleason [not Jewish] in his company. Gleason is an excellent salesman, John said, but he knew of no way they could be competitors. [...]

[...] He (meaning Jane) will learn much from them, and he shall help others.

The very fact that the man has been driven into a corner has made him desperate enough so that he is able to concentrate large amounts of energy on her behalf. [...]

He did better than usual (comma), lately, in the store today, and immediately found himself substituting a bad coughing spell (in the store, P&C)—highly illuminating. But in his scheme of beliefs a cough can be rather easily dispensed with, and he was aware of this.

[...] His interest is aroused, and he will pursue it. [...]

[...] In Adventures he will be able to do so.

[...] Next I got that Plato picked up the Atlantis material himself, psychically — he didn’t get it the way he said he did. [...]

(A note added later: Seth himself had some things to say about Atlantis in the 742nd session for Section 6; the session also contains excerpts from the Atlantis material he delivered a month or so after finishing Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. [...]

(12:29 AM.) Very quickly: Ruburt, again, is at a point where he can be on his way. What he said in class last evening relates. [...]

[...] He must not concentrate on the symptoms, but on the improvements, even when they appear minute enough. [...]

[...] A man may decide he wants to be a homosexual because he cannot fit into the usual pattern. [...]

[...] Larry Davidson called from San Francisco, during which he agreed to ship us some copies from the bookstore where he works. [...]

[...] You can see how Ruburt’s body responds when he suspends self-disapproval, and when he allies himself with his nature, and when you both suspend your sense of hopelessness in that area. [...]

[...] Ruburt accepted that idea, believing he must make a choice. [...]

[...] “I told him that he could have the session be as long as he wanted,” Jane said as soon as she was out of trance. [...]

[...] I hoped that what he might have to say would ease my concern —although I haven’t heard Jane mention the condition at all. [...]

[...] Jane left a message that he should call her, but she hasn’t heard. [...]

The material he is receiving is excellent, and later I will of course comment on it most thoroughly. [...]

(Seth had told us last time that he was near the end of the chapter, but we hadn’t realized of course that he was to finish it with a sentence or two in the next session. Nor did we know why he chose this method. [...]

[...] He mentions the 20th anniversary of a friend’s wedding. He discusses the fact that although he is recovered from a heart attack of last year, he cannot lift over 20 pounds, and must take a 2-mile walk each day. [...]

[...] If he drove to New York City by private car, he would presumably head south and take the first tunnel he met—the Lincoln.

[...] Early in these experiments Seth announced that he would give no data resulting from Jane’s sense of touch, and he has stuck to this procedure. [...]

[...] Jane and I felt reasonably sure here that this referred to the boss of the studio at which both Wendell and I worked in 1941-3. His name is Jack Binder, and he is in his 60’s now—perhaps twenty years older than the crew of artists he had working for him. [...]

[...] He said he’ll be at the hospital to see Jane at about 6:00 PM tomorrow—Tuesday, to take impressions for her teeth. Failing that, he’ll be there early Wednesday afternoon. [...]

He receives new indications of his improvements each day, so it is vital that he remember that the improvements are leading him toward sitting up, standing, and walking. [...]

[...] “I started to move while he was speaking at the same time....”

“As his abilities grew, however, of course he sensed the outlines of other realities, the glimmerings of other worlds. He sensed these cousins of consciousness in one way or another—these environments that seemed real but not real, these further extensions of possible experience—and he decided that he must be very cautious: He must be prudent (long pause), he must take his time, he must range but carefully—and certainly to some extent such feelings cut down upon his spontaneity.

[...] Ruburt carries his protection and safety wherever he goes. [...] Ruburt is safe wherever he goes. His psychological stance is honored wherever he goes.

[...] So far in our discussion of his own situation, we have not for good reason touched upon certain material because he was not ready for it.

[...] Her “undeviating direction,” expressed in Poem One below, is directly related to the material about her that I quoted from Seth in Note 6 for Session 931, in Chapter 9 of Dreams: “Nothing, however, would have kept him at the sessions for this amount of time unless he wanted them.” [...]

[...] When Seth comes through he’s at the same level the material’s at, and he — or I — can then pull it in … It’s as though there’s a store of information there, but I have to go through a door of consciousness to reach it.”

[...] It also shows that his desires for a house in Sayre (deeper and stronger) helped bring about certain events: He could have such a house if he wanted one.

The episode also mirrored his beliefs, for to his way of thinking he would have to relinquish certain freedoms, and this he was not ready to do. [...]

[...] In his book Adventures in Consciousness, Ruburt mentions what he calls “prejudiced perception.’’¹ It is an excellent term in this regard.

[...] Within another couple of sessions, however, he began to let “fragment” semantically yield to other terminology as he continued developing his material in ever-deepening discussions of personalities and entities, reincarnation, time, dreams, and other related subjects. I was surprised when he returned to the word here in Dreams. [...]

In view of Jane’s own limited knowledge of the scientific vocabulary man has devised to classify just the multitude of living forms alone on our planet, it’s very interesting that Seth used what I think is the correct popular terminology as he went through the session. Even so, however, he still added meanings of his own to some of those basic categories, or taxa.)

[...] Neither of us could remember Seth stating flat out in any of his material that animals reincarnate, although he may have done so. “After all of this time,” Jane mused, “he says that….”

In the 4th session for December 8, 1963, the personality Jane and I had been contacting through the Ouija board, Frank Withers, spelled out with the board’s pointer the message that he preferred to be called Seth—and Seth it’s been ever since. Shortly before he announced himself as Seth, I’d asked Frank Withers if people were ever “reborn as animals.” [...]