“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In here she sang some Sumari songs. [...]

[...] This time though you’re adding to the lines, and I wanted to be here when you put flesh on them through your painting.”

[...] Once you are aware of the probable system, however, you will also learn to become alert to what I will here call “benign intrusive impulses.” [...]

This is not a book on techniques, so I will not go into this particular method deeply, but merely mention it here. [...]

[...] Here you experience a valid reality that exists on its own, so to speak; one in which the psyche’s own language is given greater freedom.

[...] It is here, however, that the tyranny of the fact world holds greatest sway. [...]

When energy in its performance brings about a complete change of form, as it does when a seed seems to grow into a blade of grass, what you have here is merely such a complete difference between the gradations which you are able to perceive, that finally you are forced to admit that the thing you take to be continuous matter has somehow or other become something entirely different.

There is still a tendency here to depend perhaps overmuch on intuitions which are basically sound; but such a dependence must go hand in hand with the discipline of which I have spoken. [...]

Ruburt I believe once wrote a poem in which he stated, much more poetically indeed, that pain was deeper than a lake or a river; and this type of depth is that to which I refer here. [...]

[...] I would say they represent simplistic thinking to some degree—but that, again, I’ve hit on something here that hasn’t been expressed in just this way before. I feel the same mechanisms for understanding operated here as did when I had the insight of February 3—see the deleted session for February 4 [the first in this new series], wherein I wrote that Jane “does the Seth books just to please me.” [...]

[...] Beneath the familiar parts I think there is something new here.

[...] But more study is required here, and with this knowledge in mind, we will try to more accurately assess the table’s performance at future sessions.

[...] A variation in accounts of course resulted, and we will not try to give these here.

[...] I thought too much excitement might be responsible here. [...]

[...] I should end the session here, and leave you with that one, but I will explain what I mean.

[...] First give me one moment here. [...]

Some further here with sepia—to achieve something different now, a sunny clear effect, a newness, a way of applying sepia with white; thin-layered, with a particular kind of varnish... [...]

Then in here I enter a conversation with another girl about Louis Untermeyer. [...]

We are sitting here on a specific autumn evening. [...]

[...] A fairly startling event may be connected here.

[...] I am pointing out here a few considerations—not important in themselves, but for what they represent.

[...] “I wouldn’t mind trying some things on my own here at the house, like getting an eye, ear, nose and throat doctor here, or an orthopedist—but no hospital. [...]

[...] Jane came through with the session just a week after giving the last session for Chapter 11 [on November 24, 1981], and I’m presenting it here in Note 1.

[...] Our program of self-help gradually began to diminish, as had many of them before.⁸ Finally, in an effort to cheer up Jane one day as she sat idly at the typing table in her writing room, I tried a variation of a tactic that had worked so well for her inception of Seth’s The Nature of the Psyche almost six and a half years ago: This time, standing in back of her, I put my arms around her and rolled a clean sheet of paper into her typewriter—but here’s the note she wrote the next day:

[...] A long cone of ash fell into her lap as she woke up with a start: “I never never do that when I’m here alone!” she exclaimed, chagrined. [...]

We find here a difference between this experience and the one in which Ruburt journeyed psychically, but actually, through space and time to a Saratoga of quite some years ago. [...]

(It might be noted here that Seth/Jane also gave a brief physical description of a person on page 84, in the 99th session. [...]

(I was tempted to ask Seth whether he referred to distractions around Jane and me here in Elmira, or possible ones in say New York City. [...]

[...] It is included here so as to present all the pertinent material together. [...]

[...] I am trying to show you here that many experiences in everyday life, which you know by their vividness to be valid, cannot be perceived by the outer senses. [...]

[...] I am trying to put over the thought here in one way or another that as the inner senses come more and more within the field of the whole self on your plane, they take on its characteristics while yet retaining within themselves their own characteristics.

[...] Here you find of course the repository for personal memories, and not of personal egobound conscious memories either, but also of psychological experiences that the ego itself prefers to forget.

(Along in here the recorder abruptly ran out of tape. [...]

[...] Miss Callahan would have come in here seeking it, and a critical situation would have resulted. [...]

[...] We are dealing here with a psychic tree however, and the seeds or personalities that do not develop into entities, do not because they do not choose to do so.

[...] Here is your creation; this creation, occurring constantly, is as I have said one of the laws of the inner universe. [...]

There is really little such danger involved here. [...]

Your idea of one soul, one self, forms a significance and a selectivity that blinds you to these other realities that are as much “here and now” as your present self. [...]

[...] As I came out with that, I got something over here” — she gestured to her right, indicating one of the channels of information available from Seth — “about the unpredictability of consciousness, and precognition and heredity: the cell’s soul and the soul’s cell….”

2. In connection with Seth’s discussion of animals and men here, see his excellent material in Chapter 12 of Personal Reality. Summarizing parts of that chapter very simply: In Session 647 Seth goes into the challenges early man faced as he contended with his own burgeoning consciousness. [...]

[...] Here’s the relevant portion of the description I wrote for Through My Eyes: “Then I saw my mother [Stella] between my brother Linden and his wife, all separated each from the other a little bit, all walking obliquely toward me across a featureless plain. [...]

[...] In historic terms, early man, using here your theories about the race — early man — was in intimate contact with his family, clan, or tribe. [...]

Now: Here, and throughout this book there will be sections dealing with Practice Elements — in capitals — where to some extent you can see how certain of these concepts can be practically experienced, and receive at least a hint of their application.

[...] He visited a store that is not at that location “anymore,” and here the sense data were somewhat clearer. [...]

[...] In Adventures Ruburt uses the term “prejudiced perception” — an excellent one — that is applicable here. [...]

(“Yes,” I said, although I didn’t have the opposing lists arranged as neatly as they’re shown here. [...]

(See my hospital notes today for details regarding my talk with Fred Kardon here at the house this morning. [...]

[...] Jane said she often imagines herself here at our house, doing various things. [...]

(Jane described her own vivid dream of last night, which I can only approximate here. [...]