“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In one way this meant a giant separation from the inner spontaneity that had given him both peace and security. [...]

[...] Jane said she could feel him pause briefly at times to make sure that she chose just the right word while delivering the material. [...]

[...] The failure weighed heavily upon him. [...]

Since these are meaningless to Ruburt, it is difficult to get the symbolism across to him clearly. [...]

[...] At 9:37 Jane said impatiently, “Come on, Seth … Hmm; I’ve done this a lot lately, haven’t I?” Then: “I feel him vaguely around …” And Seth continued his material on Practice Element 1.)

[...] Always, however, there was the undeniable inner self in the background: man’s dreams, his biological and spiritual integrity, and these in one way or another were always before him.

[...] My heartiest wishes … Have him (Jane) read the latest material I gave for him (which we’d deleted from its spot at 11:44 in the last session) every day until our next one.

[...] Following our own suggestions, we did fairly well at not dwelling upon those vocal challenges; we sent out no signals to Seth, asking him to discuss them. [...]

[...] He can do better for us only if Jane allows him to, but after we’ve struggled for so many years I’m no longer sure that she can.

[...] He needs to turn away from an overconcern with life’s more ‘weighty problems,’ to lose the feeling that it is up to him to solve those problems for himself and you and for the world.

[...] His class gave him some direct encounters through the years as he personally helped to direct others, and could watch the results through their achievements or behavior.

[...] I gave him another chance to back out. [...]

Again however, through this excellent balance and these fine controls, the ego will accept knowledge derived from the dream state, as a man might accept a message from a distant land in which he does not care to dwell, and whose environment would both mystify and frighten him.

[...] I do not know who he is, but think that I must have known him sometime in the past. [...]

(9:46.) Your ideas of God are put to the test in this meeting (at Camp David), for here men who claim to believe in a merciful God discuss their mortal claims to property and land, and each feels behind him the ancient dictates of an archaic God.

I just stared at him. [...]

[...] You had not seen him approach and took it for granted that he came by way of a walk that wound around a bandstand. [...]

(On July 10,1966, I wrote Dr. Instream canceling our series of experiments with him, because we hadn’t heard from him since January 1966.

[...] Our President’s main challengers for his office haven’t publicly criticized him, but neither have they defended him from foreign and domestic censure—and today our Secretary of State resigned in protest of the rescue mission. [...]

[...] Such repeated remarks, with other childhood conditions, made him afraid of his own mental activity. [...]

In his normal state he accepted only the beliefs he considered were expected of him. [...]

[...] I am pleased with Ruburt’s Saratoga experience also, and wish to let him know that we will see to it that witnesses do not bother him.

[...] I also told Steve he could lose money on the deal, and evidently he’s finally beginning to see that it might be very expensive for him. [...]

[...] “I knew I felt him around. [...]

Ruburt felt some dismay when you told him of the letter about the diet because he felt momentarily threatened—attracted to the diet, and suspicious of it at the same time. [...]

[...] Since her death many have written to both sympathize and to ask “Why?” She had Seth, didn’t she — for whom she spoke for some 21 years; she also produced six books with him along the way (plus a number of books on her “own”). [...]

No man or woman consciously knows for sure which day will be the last for him or her in this particular life, that each calls the present one. [...]

[...] To others it seems strange that I address her as ‘Ruburt,’ and ‘him,’ but the fact is that I have known her in other times and places, by other names. [...]