“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Tell him that I told him not to intellectualize in such instances, but to follow his original impulses.

[...] Rich also brought with him contact proofs of photos he took of Jane and me yesterday afternoon.

[...] Now Seth was just beginning to pay some attention to the activity about him. [...]

[...] Tell him to give himself proper suggestions concerning my project. [...]

Your loving encouragement will help Ruburt change his own beliefs, for you can (underline three times) help him trust his physical body. You cannot do it for him, but you can help or impede his progress.

Some of the results mentioned earlier will come from conversations the Seagull has with people in California, who ask him about us. [...]

This made him more worried that the future death foreseen was his own, since he was looking up at a nurse and doctor while they looked down at him. [...]

I realize that Ruburt in particular is in no mood for levity, and I would for his sake tell him that the information contained in his psychological time experiments, and in his dreams of late, is merely the fabrications of his subconscious, of which in the past he was not aware.

However, I cannot tell him this, since he has indeed received a communication from someone he knew as his mother’s friend. [...]

[...] And the import of the dream was clear to him merely in the perception of that simple data, the black envelope, with the return name in the left hand corner, and though he does not recall it, his name on the envelope as the person to whom the communication was sent.

(“There’s a man in there,” he said, “and there’s something wrong with him. I can’t get him out. [...]

[...] Each time he spoke to me, I saw him all alone, as on a large milky-white screen. The screen cut him off at the waist, and was large in proportion to the size of the man. [...]

[...] Our cat Willy had become very frisky just before the session was due, as he has done lately, so to forestall interruptions Jane deposited him in another room.

[...] I would certainly say more if it were possible, but outside of knocking Ruburt over the head, or putting him in a deep trance, there is really little I can say.

[...] It is better to be late than not to arrive at all, and I should most assuredly give him a most hearty welcome. We will have something to say to him before I am finished tonight.

His present mother was a wife to him when he was overly aggressive, and he chose to be born as her son in this existence in order to pay an old debt. He was unkind to her when she was a wife to him, and here we run into another case where the subconscious knows what it knows.

(Bill barely had time to get his coat off and take a pencil and paper I offered him so that he could take his own notes, when the session began. [...]

[...] You always manage to bring him into a discussion. [...]

[...] While we were there Dr. K. called him and gave him the results of the blood tests begun in the hospital the week before: One was normal, one said vasculitis could be present, the third one didn’t work—so after all of that the results were very meager and frustrating. [...]

He told you he thought you both needed help in getting him into the car, which would necessitate motions quite difficult for him at that point in time—but he went along with your opinion, feeling again that negative suggestion alone was responsible for his own feelings. [...]

[...] He called a colleague of his who was in Ithaca, and described Jane’s finger condition to him, but if memory serves he received ambiguous information again. [...]

[...] His body let him know it did not anticipate such an encounter. [...]

It should not upset him unduly then if it seems to him that he makes “the wrong decision” at any given time, for the process of becoming aware of the impulses is now the important issue, and then to decide between them. [...]

[...] In fact, he should not, for I want him to have a simple feeling of achievement. [...]

[...] I also want him to read the old sessions on work and spontaneity. [...]

(Long pause.) Instead, have him try to sense the rightness that still works within him. [...]

Let him take a break, and perhaps we can return briefly.

(3:27.) The session itself should reassure him enough to allow some of the panic to subside, so that he can begin to sense at least some return of composure. [...]

I believe that the light is concentrated directly in front of him upon the desk or tabletop, and that he sits more or less like this, with the light falling in front of him.

[...] Suggestion will allow him, or will allow you Joseph, to awaken yourself as soon as a dream is completed.

There may be something white, a piece of paper perhaps, in front of him, upon which the light falls.

[...] It may well be a letter that you have written him, and he concentrates on my name; and thinks (pause) of a picture in a frame, of his wife I believe, but not one just taken.

[...] Jane spent some fifteen minutes explaining to him why she did not want to be on the Burke show.

[...] He briefly outlined a business venture he was launching himself in the fall, if possible, and asked if we could meet him in the lobby of our hotel, the Paramount, at 3 PM. [...]

(There are no verbatim quotes here from Seth, since Jane obtained her information from him in a different way. [...]

[...] She felt Seth’s presence “just below consciousness”, she said, and thought she might be able to speak for him in a natural manner without attracting the attention of others. [...]

[...] Ruburt used his will to solve one challenge: he was determined to find the kind of mate that would best suit him, and his own unique characteristics. [...]

[...] Ruburt always concentrated in his own way upon one challenge at a time, boring in, so to speak, and ignoring anything else that might distract him.

[...] His literal mind led him on the one hand to a rich diet of creativity and psychic experience, and to a situation in which he and Joseph could finally be financially free and not in that way threatened.

[...] On the other hand it was part of his method, a way of intensifying focus, increasing perception in a small area while also insuring safety, so that inner excursions would be balanced by a constant worrisome body that would urge him to return.

I simply want you to know that you are beginning well—for you are really beginning with a new resoluteness a program, a program on Ruburt’s part to trust the energy of his being, the motion, inspiration and vitality that gave him birth and continues to sustain him. [...]

(Long pause at 9:16.) Have him keep his recorder at handy reach out there also. [...] When he is in his room, let him begin to court his creative self (leaning to her right, eyes closed....)

[...] He needs that background of past joy and success, of sunny hours in the past, to help revive him. [...]

The period of recovery, as he has set it up, is also meant to impress upon him the fact that the kind of venture he embarked upon physically is not one to be thrown aside overnight. [...]

[...] The painting, however, and the poetry, sets him into motion, releasing the trust that will then flow into his other writing. [...]

This means that he is bravely and fully encountering himself, so if he comes up against worries for example about his work, tell him to be patient. [...]

[...] Ruburt has endeavored to speak to Pete and explain to him how his ability should be used and should not be used.

He understands what Ruburt has told him, and I am certain that he will explain it well to you. [...]

Now, the love that binds you all is a close, sometimes open… (words missed again)…that which is too much for him at this time… (and again.)… This sort of session is not primarily to tell you what you should do, Stephen. [...]

[...] But do not shield him too well. [...]

[...] This provided needed leeway in the formation of his ideas, and allowed him to leap free of the stereotyped beliefs about femininity that otherwise could have hampered him. [...]

If during that time nothing in particular comes, then let him sketch, for the sketching reinforces playful creativity. [...] I want him to concentrate upon his ideas, theories rather than think in terms of work. [...]

[...] Have him begin a dream notebook (7). I want him to think in terms of using his abilities. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s held-over feelings about femininity make him try to be overly respectable in his work. [...]

I poked Rob, and told him what I thought. [...] A moment earlier I’d seen him grimace with pain. [...] I resisted, but Rob wouldn’t take no for an answer — very uncharacteristic of him.

[...] Immediately I get annoyed with him and begin telling him about my problems. [...]

[...] Seth turns to Carl and gives him a long lecture. Carl smiles at him, and Seth says, ‘Now at the count of three, you will go into a deeper trance.’ Carl begins to do so. [...]

[...] This time I change the events from the way they happened the first time, realize how important his problems are to him, smile and send him good thoughts. [...]

[...] I have to a large degree kept my eye upon him, but you see the lesson had to be learned by him.

[...] (The chiropractor.) I wanted him to face the symptoms for what they were, and to find the cause. [...]

[...] I am trying to tell him about the college position, but for the moment I am unable to. [...]

(Sunday evening, October 30, I was approached by a friend who expressed interest in buying a small painting, and I promised to show it to him. [...]

[...] When Jane called him the lawyer told Jane that his client was a 27-year-old schizophrenic who’d confessed to killing a certain woman he’d met in a Seth class both attended some years ago. He had confessed to her death several times, but no one believed him—until the last time, evidently. [...]

[...] Jane plans to call Tam tomorrow to tell him what she’s learned, and to ask him to return the first material concerning the Massaris. [...]

[...] Jane talked to Carole, the medium’s wife who works with him, and stated clearly that she didn’t want others claiming to speak for her Seth—who, incidentally, had told us years ago that he spoke through no one else but Jane. [...]

[...] Jane had told him then that he wasn’t speaking for her Seth. [...]

[...] Earlier Ruburt’s beliefs behind the body beliefs causing the difficulty affected him in such a way that he picked up from others those moods and feelings that agreed with him, so often constructive body messages could not get through. [...]

[...] If that is expected of him in line with both of your current beliefs in the body’s poor performance then he does not feel free to go at all.

The fact that he plans a trip means to him that he is free to go, and that there are some gradations of freedom physically in which he can operate and use as a vehicle. [...]

[...] Your worrying about Ruburt 85% of the time does him no good and you less. [...]

The fact is that although no one taught him to see, he sees. The part of himself that did ‘teach’ him to see still guides his movements, still moves the muscles of his eyes, still becomes conscious despite him when he sleeps, still breathes for him without thanks or recognition and still carries on his task of transforming energy from an inner reality into an outer one. [...]

[...] In those days, I’d put him on probation and myself as well. And I never tried to visualize him. [...]

If man does not know who breathes within him, and if man does not know who dreams within him, it is not because there is one self who acts in the physical universe and another who dreams and breathes. [...]

[...] With no transition or advance notice, a vision appeared to him. [...]