“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] That light enabled him to do what he wanted to but could not fake: paint the world through that particular unique vision.

His “success” (in quotes) was no success to him. [...]

[...] Even Jane’s voice, speaking for him, had been somehow indicative of a summing-up.)

[...] I laid my notebook aside and picked him up. [...]

[...] Yet he felt that women were inferior, and that his very abilities made him vulnerable, that he would be ridiculed by others, that women were not taken seriously as profound thinkers, or innovators in philosophical matters.

[...] The story says that Eve tempted the male, having him eat of the tree of good and evil, or the tree of knowledge. [...]

Such an optimist will of course not be blind, and he will see that there are indeed many blemishes in the world; but his overall faith not only sustains him, but because of his own state of mind his creativity blossoms to whatever degree he has it. [...]

[...] You have not encouraged him. [...]

[...] “I hope Seth doesn’t talk too loud,” Jane said as we waited for him to come through, “or I might lose that tooth.” [...]

[...] The fear of not producing, however, can inhibit his productivity, and wear him out with worry.

[...] Joe B may suddenly “come to” in a strange bedroom, in a compromising position with a woman it certainly seems to him he has never seen before in his life.

On the other hand, Joe B may find himself in the middle of a family picnic, or other gathering — events that bore and displease him — or worse, he may not even remember his family at all. [...]

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

[...] He can therefore make alterations in any aspect of time as it affects him.

[...] I believe I mentioned earlier that an object will work best if it has emotional significance for him.

[...] The coat was a legitimate connection, but I could not get through to him to make it correctly. [...]

For out of a seemingly endless number of possibilities, our individual dreamer actually discriminates with great care, choosing only those dream objects or symbols that have meaning to him; and those dream objects that can best serve his purposes. [...]

[...] If a dream object or event does so straddle what you call not only time but space, and if as I say dream objects and creations maintain some independence from the dreamer, then you must see that although the dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him, he nevertheless projects them outward in a value fulfillment and psychic expansion.

[...] The dream means something to the individual who originates it, selects its elements most carefully, but in order for him to use it he must create it.

[...] At first the table seemed to move Carl around in circles, continually being ahead of him, in that it ended up by twisting Carl’s arm awkwardly behind him; this made it very difficult for Claire, Jane and me to keep contact with the top. [...]

[...] At the table were Bill Gallagher, with beside him Pat Norelli. [...]

[...] 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 achievement or behavior. [...]

There is little else this evening for me to say, but I will indeed make whatever further connections I might make, and I will add my own help and energy to him at whatever levels they can be most useful. [...]

[...] It is impossible to deprive a human being of dreams, for even though you deprive him of sleep, this necessary mental function will be carried on subconsciously.

Dr. Instream might find such a study would bring him much satisfaction. [...]

[...] The tests in the sessions have not bothered him at all to any important degree, except for a natural initial nervousness, and all in all we have been coming along well enough. [...]

[...] I begin to mimic him then realize that she is the one who is doing this, and talking about Untermeyer, not I, and I become confused and embarrassed and excuse myself for butting in.

The important thing is for him not to worry at any given stage, for there will be many fleeting stages—very fleeting—as long as he trusts the process. [...]

[...] The free-wheeling states of consciousness can therefore be of help to him, the free-wheeling characteristic being primarily in relationship to physical reality. [...]

[...] After introducing him to my wife, I went back to my writing room. [...] Jane caught him in a number of contradictory statements.

[...] He also gave us a clue as to how Jane delivers certain sessions for him. To begin with, however, his magical-approach information reminded me at once of the two thoughts Jane had picked up from him back on May 12, the day she held the 915th session for Chapter 8. I’m stressing these points because I think they’re important: “Alone, reason finally becomes unreasonable. [...]

[...] The belief in these highly contrasting elements of personality keep him in a state of turmoil, however, so that he feels powerless to act in any concerted fashion.

[...] We’ve had many indications that his material is multichanneled, as when Jane has felt him ready to discuss any one of a number of subjects on any given occasion. [...]

[...] As this self grows in value fulfillment, he can become aware of these travelers on other threads, who would seem to him to be future selves.

“If you prefer to call this supreme psychic gestalt God, then you must not attempt to objectify him, for he is the nuclei of your cells and more intimate than your breath.”

“When you kill a man, you believe that you kill him forever. [...]

[...] And you must honor each other individual also, because in him is the spark of eternal vitality.

[...] This physical universe is however quite important to him, after all, but he is well isolated within it.

[...] My thought was that the bulk of the material he gives had more appeal emotionally for him than the object itself, and he confirmed this after break. [...]

(Seth gave a few impressions connected with the object, the maple leaf, itself, at the beginning of the data, and at the end when I asked him to name it.

[...] We saw him just the once.)

[...] He is working alone, with only you to give him encouragement, so try at least to provide it when he needs it.

It would do him better to cry when he feels like it, fully. [...]