“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Bill was unable to open his eyes and developed good amnesia in his left hand, these being the tests Jane used to show him something about the trance state. However he was not able to speak during either session, and came out of the state both times when Jane asked him to answer questions. [...] This is difficult for him to do; he has ulcers.

The glass is in front of him. I do not pick up any strong emotional attachment between him and the object.

(At first John said Seth’s material meant little or nothing to him. [...] Seth expands on this last session in the 205th and 206th sessions, and deals with John’s experience in hearing Seth speak to him when he was alone.

[...] Mr. McKeown, John said, had gone so far as to invite him up to his private room at the Sheraton-Hilton, for more secluded talks involving the company. At the time John was somewhat surprised that a high company official would pay particular attention to him. [...]

(“The insight also reminds me of one of my questions for Seth: I plan to ask him for hints about what sort of ideas he would advance if he’s given the freedom to do so by Jane. [...] I now wish I’d asked him at the time, acceptable to whom? [...]

[...] The affair frightens him nevertheless because, as mentioned earlier, he identifies strongly with his own bodily tensions. Letting them go brings him into a more or less constant encounter with many of the fears that helped generate them. [...]

[...] I also wanted him to talk about the subject we’d mentioned for Monday night’s session, but which hadn’t been covered: the reasons for her sore backside, and what she could do to help ease her hip and leg discomfort. [...]

[...] “But I assume Seth would have said a lot more about things like UFO’s, Atlantis and reincarnation if I’d let him.... [...]

[...] The dreams were meant to encourage him and to show him that the inner order of events does assure his improvements.

The Christian-Science background with the father was also important, for it was this inner belief of the father that did sustain him, and that inclination of the father and his mother (Mattie) that Ruburt chose in his background to temper his own mother’s beliefs and lead him in our direction. [...]

[...] The soreness in the knees I mentioned as a possibility last week, but it discouraged him nevertheless.

[...] The second part concerned new rooms, all rich avenues open to him, both as a result of the release and yet bringing forth the release. [...]

[...] Instantly I see him seated in writing room and behind him stands a transparent whitish woman’s image, my astral self. From behind Rob, standing, she lightly soothes his forehead, then quickly is in his lap, facing him, sort of melting in with him; then they express their love.... [...]

[...] Mentally see him in his studio, at drawing table. Imagine and visualize the energy all around the corner of the house and sky, rushing toward him; then am surprised when mentally the top of his head comes neatly off, like a lid from a jar. [...] I was leery as if I didn’t know if I could harm him, rummaging around in there like that; then realized that these images represented tangles of thought that were being smoothed out. [...]

The experiences also kept him from becoming too embroiled in your mood at the time, and by giving him an experience of your own joint greater subjective reality. [...]

[...] Imagine Rob in writing room, soft, warm yellow light shines on him from Framework two, and though I didn’t specify, the light lingers particularly on his shoulder. Then I see him quite clearly in miniature, jumping and rolling high in the air, throwing his arms out....

Your many notes (to Jane) have been a delight to him and your changed attitude is being received by him with the most beneficial results, and this is beginning to add to your own health and energy. [...]

This is an excellent way for him to handle many issues which in the past have caused problems, such as the financial aspect. I will indeed help him. [...]

[...] Rest assured of this, and let him do his best.

[...] For with each day, he has greater vitality, you see, that he did not have earlier, that works for him and for complete recovery with ever-growing strength.

[...] I’ll call him John. Rob grinned when he saw him; John had been here twice before (once a year), he was good-humored, good-looking, eager, healthy and strong. [...] We talked to him for an hour (while, alas, dinner got cold), but he was one of those people pleasantly gifted in a variety of fields who hadn’t yet settled down to concentrate on the development of any one or two abilities in particular. [...]

[...] She had told him he could stay at her place overnight. [...] We only spoke to him for an hour, and he said he had wondered earlier what he’d do with the whole evening … so what exactly happened at the magical level of activity?

[...] Because the heat didn’t bother Seth, (or me speaking for him) at all. [...]

[...] That energy could have sustained him far more than it has, however, had he counted on his natural interests and chosen one of those for his life’s work. [...] He had offers of other jobs that would have pleased him more, but he is so convinced of his lack of power that he did not dare take advantage of the opportunities. There are satisfactions in his life [however] that prevent him from narrowing his focus even further.

[...] The idea is that if you love your neighbor you will not treat him poorly, much less kill him — but the commandment: “Thou shalt not kill,” says you shall not kill your neighbor no matter how you feel about him. [...]

[...] Roger, let us call him, is an idealist at heart, but he believes that the individual has little power in the world, and so he did not pursue his personal idealism in the events of his own life. “Everyone is a slave to the system.” [...] He took a routine job in a local business and stayed with it for over 20 years, all of the time hating to go to work, or saying that he did, and at the same time refusing to try other areas of activity that were open to him — because he was afraid to try.

In the meantime, he looks with horror and disgust at the older men who have worked there for years, “getting drunk on Saturday nights, thinking only of the narrow world of their families,” and he is determined that the same thing will not happen to him. [...] He doesn’t want to leave town, which is the place of his birth, to find a better job; nor does it occur to him to try and understand better the experiences of his fellow workers. [...]

[...] We gave him paper and pen to write down any questions he might have, but Phil never got a chance to write anything down. According to him, Seth answered each of his questions in turn as Phil formed them in his mind. [...]

“There is no danger of dissociation grabbing hold of him like some black vague and furry monster, carrying him away to the nether-lands of hysteria, schizophrenia, or insanity. [...]

[...] Once he nipped at my ankles as I was speaking for Seth, and in trance I dragged him half across the room while he hung on to the bottom of my slacks. Rob had to shut him in the studio.

[...] Rob also sent him copies of a few sessions, including some of the information we had been given about our own past lives. [...]

[...] I hollered at him to be careful. [...] I heard him hit the ground with such force that I was very afraid he had broken a limb. [...]

(I then realized that I could go over the edge of the roof at the corner, where there was a drainpipe to use as a handhold, then reach down and save him by lifting him back up with one hand. [...]

[...] Your father personally did not appear because literally you could not see him doing this to you. So you did not see him give you the needle.

(Then Bill went ahead, his body curled up into a ball, much like a fetal position. I saw him coast over the edge of the fall. [...]

[...] Do not, in your case, over-remind him of what he is “supposed” to do, for he takes this to mean that you do not expect him to do it. [...]

I want to say something about beliefs that became obvious to him today concerning time and “work.” [...]

[...] The trivialities and moods, the feelings of morning and twilight would be extinguished—so he thought as you told him, and so against many of his natural instincts he tried to obey.

[...] He understands now a good deal of this, but I want to put it in form for him. [...]

Subconsciously he feels that you are saying shut up, and this angers, humiliates and bewilders him. [...] You can get him to talk about other matters by asking for example about what he has written for the day. [...] He will understand that you are merely trying to redirect him, and will not feel that you are restraining his freedom to say what he wants to say. [...]

[...] It has always been extremely difficult for him to defend himself physically. As a child he simply would not do so, and to make matters worse the mother taunted him for being a coward.

[...] As an infant and a young child he had a strong temper, which terrified him, and he indulged in childish tantrums. [...]

[...] Jane was as well dissociated, she said, as she has ever been: “He had me so that I was more him than me… Now, how did he do that?” She could have been talking about a stranger, she continued, yet knew what she was saying and that she talked about herself.

—but when Ruburt merrily began to write you spoke to him quite sharply, reminding him that he was dropping other projects to embark on a new one at Tam’s enthusiasm. [...]

[...] He was afraid that spontaneity would cause him to color certain transcriptions from the past. [...]

(I studied this session to better grasp my Nebene characteristics then [and now] by painting his image, and then drawing him again, but now I’m appalled by my behavior in first-century Rome. [...]

[...] In the first place your father’s creativity, his inventions, brought him no recognition, no money in your mother’s terms. [...]

[...] It is good for him to sleep without a pillow for a while. [...] Your hands upon him— this is of benefit, and to some extent you can direct healing energy to him in this manner. [...]

[...] I was a light, but I did not want to help him too much or I would have hampered him. [...]

[...] Now you repay him by showing him how to rediscover his own. [...]

[...] Let him forget about them, and they will return to normal. [...] (Long pause.) As for your earlier comments let him focus upon his general goals. [...]

[...] An event of which Philip has not told you, that involved him, or could have involved him in a change of important consequence. [...]

[...] John said that nothing in the impressions meant anything to him; he could see no connections—so much so, he said, that as Seth gave the impressions John wondered if they were really directed to him. [...]

[...] G A R. 1947—a spectacular event, or an event deeply affecting him. [...]

[...] Now either there is an Ohio connection with him, or his name began with an O, and was short. [...]

As Jane commented afterward, LeRoy Guy said not a single word to us about his reaction to Seth, although I’d watched him pay the same rapt attention to that personality as had many others. [...] For that matter, we hadn’t even asked him exactly what Dr. Camper wanted him to find out about Jane and Seth—or even me. Dr. Guy left us a book written by a scientist about a famous medium, and I’ll be mailing it back to him as soon as we’ve read it.)

(Last Saturday evening we were visited by Dr. LeRoy Guy [I’ll call him], a professor of psychology at a well-known nearby university. [...]

[...] Strangely enough, Dr. Guy didn’t bring a tape recorder with him. [...]

The last session for him—that is, the last key session I gave—is also connected here, for in following it he lifted himself enough above negative attitudes so that he could attract such a meeting. The psycho-cybernetics that he also began because I told him to do what he had done last summer also helped. [...]

[...] You were with him, but because of personal loyalty to him and the brothership of male with male was considered sacred—but you became appalled that he was leading his people into destruction.

[...] I must be getting him bigger than life, because now I see him bounding all over Europe with his great big shield.” [...]

[...] Jane also gave an excellent reading for him.

[...] Maltz’s telephone episode should be imagined by him in place of all unpleasant stimulus. Let him—again and again I say this— focus toward his work and classes, and pleasant daily activities, and away from symptoms.

[...] (Smile.) He did this years ago in effect, hence you passed him by, while recognizing his gesture and deciding against it. [...] He was afraid they would drown him. [...]

[...] Had the dream not ended you would have made your way across to him, in time (smile), to help him up when he fell—this symbolic of his difficulties in the past year. [...]

[...] Therefore inner data is directed, often, into that channel, for it will impress him vividly.

[...] He felt it beneath him intellectually to speak of them to you, and felt that you would have no use for him, that you would think he was a cowering, spineless child rather than the independent brave spirit that he tried so hard to be for himself and you.

Great bursts of energy are available to him then, and he is not ambiguous about using it. Now that feeling of confidence is available to him at other times. [...]

The “lovely young woman” phrase incidentally is an excellent one for him to use. [...]

[...] Looking at him, you can see that the condition, the problem, is a repressed one —the physical symptoms make this obvious. [...]

[...] The suggestions will help him gain weight if they are used. When the book is sent its way this will also help—a project to him then complete. [...] I also suggest an addition of vitamins, and have him make out a list of foods he particularly likes.

[...] This will also encourage him as the two of you quite freely discuss all aspects, and he will not harbor worries that he can speak frankly in the context of the conversation.

[...] Encourage him to do so, get them out in the open where they can quite easily be handled with your help.

He can do this by employing the exercises that you mentioned, that will show him a daily improvement that will help break the negative image and prevent further negative projections. [...] All of these help break the negative projections, and are already proof physically of inside willingness that is then physically materialized for him to see—in terms of physical performance that he can judge.

You have not helped him believe it either. [...]

[...] Especially when I see him going down the stairs sideways.”)

[...] You did more good by telling him he bent over well from the front this evening (while we were exercising), that simple statement, than you ever could by any remark, however well-meaning, that he is not bending his leg when he walks for example.