“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: Christ was not crucified — therefore he did not resurrect, coming out of the tomb, nor did he then ascend into heaven. [...]

He arose from the tomb and ascended into heaven. [...]

[...] Christ, as you know, was a common name, so when I say that there was a man named Christ involved in those events (see Seth Speaks), I do not mean to say that he was the biblical Christ. [...]

[...] They had to flow into the events of history as he (underlined) experienced history. [...]

[...] The day before Willy (One) died, his expectations were no different than they were when he was a kitten. His illness made performance more difficult, and yet in periods of rest he would start out again expecting to make the same leaps, and so often he did.

He did not wear himself out with worry, and so he lived a long life. [...]

Now: in Ruburt’s story of Emir, he presents a theoretical new earth, yet in the truest meaning of that term, earth is ever-new, for fresh energy comes into the exterior world from an interior source.

[...] All of Ruburt’s improvements, however, spring directly from the fact that he is freeing his desire to walk, stating it in Framework 2, where it is being brought to pass.

[...] He spent several minutes checking reception on our set while we talked with him. He was on duty until 11:00 PM. He left at 10:30. [...]

[...] Although he knows nothing of music now, he was once proficient in it. [...]

(By 8:50 Jane said, “I sort of feel Seth around, but I don’t know what he’s going to talk about.” [...]

[...] This same energy is used in Ruburt’s writing and is extremely strong, powerful and stormy often; and he is not, Joseph, trying to get out of his room as I believe you mentioned earlier.

He is particularly appreciative, and feels that with the food he eats he also receives other benefits, as indeed he does. [...]

[...] The worker—whose name we do not know, but could easily learn—became quite talkative when he learned I planned to use the Masonite as support for paintings. He described to us in some detail how he had a portrait of himself drawn during the Second World War, when he was overseas. [...]

Ruburt was sick to his stomach because he had not been able to work properly. He acted this out physically. [...]

[...] If he is to survive as a fully effective and fully healthy animal. There is no reason why he will not, as long as you maintain your present course.

[...] This means he is now an old man now or is dead. [...] He wears a uniform of some sort or fancy clothes, a hat that is strange.

[...] At the time he seems to be 34 but he is older now. [...]

[...] He wore light blue trousers at their marriage. [...]

[...] This means he is now an old man now or is dead. [...] He wears a uniform of some sort or fancy clothes, a hat that is strange. [...]

[...] At the time he seems to be 34 but he is older now. [...]

[...] He wore light blue trousers at their marriage. [...]

Ruburt has often felt that it was too late, and that you could not help him —for you would sabotage his efforts, as it seemed he himself did. [...] They are, however, the results of old hangovers, when he is reacting to conventional, quite limited knowledge filled with distortion, about the nature of the psyche, the nature of time—knowledge further polluted by methods of problem-solving that simply add to problems.

[...] You would share what you learned with the world —but he who seeks knowledge must first of all be himself or herself, for most members of the world cannot follow such a course.

Ruburt found our last session extremely depressing, as he saw how the two of you conspired to bring about his physical condition. [...]

It often seemed safer, even, to keep a certain distance from the material, lest you accept it too uncritically, and Ruburt’s critical stance was usually simply an unneeded defense, so that he could keep footing in both worlds at once. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) He may see images that are highly symbolic to him of joy or exuberance. [...] He now enters into his mental experiences far more deeply than in the reverie state, and may have a series of dream episodes in which he is able to express his joy and share it with others.

(9:41.) What he sees, however, is still physical, the objects of the material world. Pretend now that he begins to daydream and falls into a reverie. [...]

He is still dealing with physically oriented symbols, however. [...] He may form images of dream cities or people that are of a very joyful nature, translate the emotion itself into whatever symbols are pertinent to him. [...]

[...] He creates the objects far more vividly and with greater clarity. [...]

[...] (Pause.) He did not realize the implications, the immediacy, of an object pulled up as he pushed. [...]

He decided to head in another direction from the one first planned, to visit a friend. [...]

[...] His system makes overall adjustments, having to do with utilization of his own energy, and the way he individually utilizes it. [...]

(Pause.) Whether or not this is a cafeteria I do not know, but he and others seem to be drinking coffee. (Pause.) He is dressed in a business-type suit this evening, with shirt and tie, standing up and talking to two other people.

He finds the conversation in some way inadequate. He is trying to get definite answers from a man who does not seem able to give them. [...]

[...] Note the error, 1985, in the postmark; I thought Seth might comment on this but he did not. [...]

Again it seems, as I believe one time before, he is in a room that is at least partially below ground level. [...]

[...] Then Del returned; he wore clean, modern, tailored hiking clothes, a wool jacket and a fedora with a feather in it — much sharper than he dresses in real life. He also looked much younger and more self-possessed than I’d ever seen him be.

[...] He appeared younger and more vital than you had ever known him — indeed, transformed in a fashion. He was redeemed in your mind, and appeared as his ideal self. In that capacity he helped lead you along safe paths, out of danger.

[...] He had been having back trouble. As he sat on the couch, he suddenly buckled over with a spasm. [...] When he recovered, he offered to drive us to the garage to pick up our car.

[...] Neither had he. [...] Then, I remembered that when he was a young man, Rob’s father did have motorcycles. There were family pictures in an old album showing him proudly standing next to one when he was courting Rob’s mother. [...]

[...] In the course of conversation, my father-in-law told us that on July 3, from his window, he had watched a near-accident involving a motorcycle. Then he proceeded to outline my dream precisely, ending up with the remark: “Motorcycles are dangerous on a wet road” — the exact words I had spoken in the dream.

[...] He was out of town and had just learned that he was to be transferred to another area. [...]

[...] He could not give us this information earlier, he said, because we would have leaped to the conclusion that he was Ruburt’s [Jane’s] subconscious mind; this is not so. [...] To quote Seth: “Ruburt is not myself now, in his present life; he is nevertheless an extension and materialization of the Seth that I was at one time... He grew, evolved and expanded in terms of a particular, personal set of value fulfillments... He is now an actual gestalt, a personality that was one of the probable personalities into which Seth could grow. [...]

[...] He no longer experiences earthly or physical existence. [...] He was a teacher, and is one now. He was a relative when Ruburt was Seth. He knows of our relationship, and was curious.

In many cases he perceives in a dream a future physical event, and then within the dream situation acts out various possible solutions, until he hits upon the most agreeable one. [...]

(Thus it seems that Seth traveled through the thickness of the paper, picking up impressions as he went along, and did this at least twice. He also mentioned “two people...perhaps a dress.” [...]

(Rapidly:) He is learning how to use the light of his own consciousness, and discovering how far one particular method of using it can be counted upon. He is studying what he can do and not do with that particular focus. He is now discovering that he needs other lights also, in other words — that he has been relying upon only a small portion of an entire inner searchlight that can be used in many directions. [...]

He has put to the test much of what he has learned. His own personality has blossomed in all aspects, especially in terms of relating with others and in personal creativity … He has been testing out our information in the world that he knows. He felt that it was necessary … For how could the self, taught that it was bad, bring forth good?

[...] For some time he was simply between belief systems, discarding some entirely, accepting portions of others; but mainly he was a pioneer — and this while carrying the largely unrealized, basic belief of society that you cannot trust the self …

[...] Not that I thought Seth was going out of his way to deal with such concepts tonight, but by the time he was through with his material on the sleepwalkers, I thought he’d considered at least one possible facet of my inquiry.

Without his blocking therefore, he would have access to the previous three lives that he has lived, and in detail. And since his abilities are strong, he would also have access to your previous three lives, since he picks up much information from you telepathically.

As it is, he does not have sufficient inner confidence to give reign to his abilities, for changing his focus point. It was the outlet of creative writing, early adopted, that saved him from becoming a most rigid and frozen personality; and if he had adopted such a stonelike ego, then indeed he would now be in dangerous circumstances, since his strong creative nature would finally and disastrously have shattered the stone image.

[...] However controls adopted during this life made his abilities late in showing themselves, and now training and confidence must be given before he can spontaneously adapt himself.

[...] He would have finally used his psychic abilities in any case, but they would have under those conditions been tools, or used as tools of the personal subconscious in diverse ways, shattering beyond repair the unity and integrity of the personality.

[...] If he walks down his steps better, that should be noted and encouraged. Often, for example, he will think “Big deal—so I can lift one foot now a little better than I did yesterday.” In the light of normal walking that is hardly significant, and he will become discouraged rather than encouraged, as he should be.

[...] When he became nervous he didn’t breathe properly. His head became congested and he used the inhaler.

[...] He would not have written them. It is impossible to say what he would have written. [...]

[...] They want to believe that he depends upon me to make all his decisions, and they do not want to hear about his independent thinking. [...]

[...] He has always emphasized his own unique creative and intuitive processes. In so doing, he denied many of the concepts believed in by others. He accepted the belief that any consciousness could be in some kind of direct intimate contact with experiences and realities usually not perceived, but ignored.

[...] If he came through like he is now, his voice would be so strong it would drown out everything else in the world. [...]

He knew there were many different ways of experiencing even the physical world, and so he rejected all concepts that told him otherwise. [...]

[...] When man first developed the pause of reflection, as mentioned earlier in this book (see sessions 635–36 in Chapter Nine), he did undergo initial disorientation before he learned to distinguish a vividly remembered event of the past from a presently experienced one. [...]

(Pause.) In your terms man is of course still learning, and as he set up barriers between lands and formed separate nations, so he also set up divisions between aspects of his own consciousness and awareness, in his terms, so he could deal with them one at a time. He made distinctions that are largely arbitrary. [...]

He should indeed reread those sessions that he read today, and you paint because you love to paint, and forget what an artist is supposed to be or not to be. [...]

Ruburt believed he must impose a secondary kind of order upon his creativity and spontaneity. [...]

Now as Ruburt said earlier, he (Martin) is a good man and besides that I like him. Now he may not approve of Ruburt’s habits, but then Ruburt does not approve of his, and that is between he and Ruburt. [...] He thinks of vitality in different ways than you do, but he uses it very well. [...]

[...] I do not want our friend here (Martin Crocker) to feel as he feels that he is cramping your style. [...]

Nor do we want to rid him of one illness so quickly that he still feels a need for it, for in such a case he would indeed very promptly develop another. So, though he would wish that we go quickly, we shall go slowly, for the nature of his own reactions causes in some degree the necessity for the illness.

[...] Bill Gallagher said he thought he had noticed a change in Jane’s features, at least in terms of expression, during this last delivery. It was hard for him to describe, he said.

(Jane and I wondered whether Seth would mention the letter from Dr. Instream during this session, but he did not; just as he did not discuss my recent clairvoyant dream. [...]

[...] If we outline a whole program, then he will plunge into it, and we will have him go more slowly. For the problem already has to do with the fact that he plunges into both dilemmas and solutions, with a desperation that is born from anxiety, if not pure panic.