“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Let us say that he tells his friend he will not go. [...] If he is lucky and the circumstances are good, he might suddenly feel the full validity of his acceptance as strongly as if he had chosen it physically. Before he realizes what is happening, he might actually feel himself leave his home and embark upon those probable actions that physically he has chosen not to perform.

[...] This was largely out of self-interest, and the many Protestant faiths are a proof of the fragmentation that results when man is given some freedom to interpret his relationship with God himself.

[...] Men often took him literally, but his message was that the spirit of God was within each person—in terms of the symbolism, each person being a child of the father who dwelled in heaven. [...]

[...] Man has indeed forgotten how to interpret his revelations—but more importantly, he has forgotten how to receive them, and then how to perfect them in reason’s light.

[...] Marie then succeeded in thwarting his plans and banned him from the house. [...]

[...] This is a therapeutic measure that will make way for healings, comfort and reassurance, by his putting together material in different fashions, rearranging experience, turning thoughts inside out.

[...] I told John that he really did look peaceful, as at no other time in his life. [...]

[...] He is working with your help, and yet privately, as each must, with his challenges. [...] His muscles and joints hurt more than they did before. [...]

He does contact me however without his conscious knowledge in his dreams on some occasions. [...]

[...] Not in his immediate family but in his wife’s family. [...]

[...] Now Ruburt has not, in his imagination, given me a particular physical image, and dreaming at your level involves visual images. [...]

[...] The letter to or from another man, perhaps in his late fifties, and in another area of the country. [...]

[...] Seth stated that his mother “was fascinated by numbers,” loved the color blue, and was inordinately fond of flowers. After the session Bill Gallagher told us his mother had been a bookkeeper, was buried wearing a blue dress—blue was her favorite color—and that she was indeed very fond of flowers.)

[...] The personality’s physical environment therefore is greatly colored and formed by his dream existence. [...] The individual first manipulates situations within the dream reality, and then transposes his characteristic method of handling them upon the physical reality.

[...] Frank Watts, it will be remembered, was our communicator; the present Seth entity did not announce his presence until the 4th session, when he superseded Frank Watts.

[...] Frank Watts and I were females, Jane was a male, our brother, and his name was Seth.

[...] All was quiet when suddenly Willy burst out of the closet in a mad scramble, his nails sliding on the bare floor. His ears were back, his hackles up. [...]

[...] There was a purpose in his misreading. [...] He picked them up a few minutes earlier but his mind waited for a suitable occasion to transpose the word spacious in connection with the present. [...]

[...] At one time she was his mother, and she did this with full inner knowledge. There is something that he must still do, that is not done, that will greatly advance his own development.

[...] He is well on his way now. And yes, he did allow his old shoes to adopt a certain symbolism, and I should have mentioned this.

[...] But I do not believe you are finished with Ward and his friends. [...]

(Bill Ward’s letter accompanying the artwork mentioned his recent attendance at a dinner gathering of many of the group of friends we worked with in the early 1940’s. Oddly enough, the last letter I received from Wendell Crowley, in May 1966, also described a similar event.)

[...] This would also help his recovery—and his recovery is what we are after.

(10:17.) In man, again, generally speaking, reason and emotion become separated so that man can think about his emotions, or emotionally feel his reasoning thoughts. [...]

(The session is included in the regular series because of the voice effects; the fact that both Seth & his entity spoke; some new ideas from both entities; and because no regular session was held the next day, Wednesday, July 16.

[...] Jane said she felt it was a good session, an unusual occasion to get some new ideas, so she went along with Seth & his entity. [...]

[...] The “boxcar” episode represented his living at one level of physical experience, even while he also existed as the giant-sized self that peered over the mountain top and watched his progress. [...]

[...] And the small trinkets that Ruburt discovered to his own delight represented the small but very valuable pleasures of daily life that he is now reclaiming.

(4:48.) Remind Ruburt — in the meantime — that he is indeed a beloved daughter of the universe, and that his parents are as much the sea and sky as his physical parents. [...]

You have started the free association in a good and rousing fashion, so that Ruburt becomes consciously aware of some of his own attitudes that he has more or less become blind to. [...]

[...] He’s given all he can — or wants to — on the negative beliefs we hold as individuals and societies; he wants to start his next book [my emphasis] on how to positively work our way out of our challenges and create a much better world…. [...]

(9:40 P.M. Jane said that in his dictation this evening, Seth covered some of the information she’d picked up from him nonverbally, then written about prior to the session that wasn’t held last Wednesday night. [...]

[...] He certainly sounded as though he’d decided upon his next book:

[...] “I think Seth’s going to add a Part 4 to this book,” she said, “and he’s going to call it ‘The Practicing Idealist.’ And I want to keep changing it to ‘Practicing Idealism,’ because his heading sounds too much like it’s already been used. [...]

[...] But that also [became] bound up with Darwinian ideas of the survival of the fittest, and with the belief, then, that each individual must seek his or her own good at the expense of others, and by the quite erroneous conception that all of the members of a given species are in competition with each other, and that each species is in further competition with each other species.

[...] When man spoke of the sacredness of life — in his more expansive moods — he referred to human life alone. [...]

[...] Those senses could only perceive the immediate environment, but man’s dreams compensated for that lack, and filled out his consciousness by giving it the benefit of that larger generalized information to which it had once had an easy access. When he was asleep man could take advantage of the information banks contained in the units of consciousness that composed his very flesh.

(9:30.) Now (underlined): When he dreamed—when he dreamed (underlined)—man actually returned to a state prior to waking, from which his physical life itself had emerged—only now he was a new creature, a new kind of consciousness, and so were all of the other species. [...]

You did an excellent job of your own dream interpretation, and Ruburt unwittingly added to it with his poetry.¹

She’s been most intrigued by Seth’s referrals to the concept of “master events” ever since he gave them in the final session for Chapter 8—preparations, she hoped, for his material this evening. [...]

“Sunday, June 8, 1980: As I went about the day, showering, doing my hair, reading the paper, doing my exercises and so forth, I kept getting stuff from Seth on … the next chapter of his book, I think to be called ‘Master Events and Overlays.’ There can be overlays of one civilization onto another, so that a ‘real’ civilization in one sphere of existence can appear as myth in another…. [...]

2. This paragraph of Seth’s at once reminded me of some of his most evocative earlier material on animal consciousness. [...]

[...] I like to keep such penetrating remarks before me, and wish the reader would too, for I often fear they’ll become lost from conscious view within his material. [...]

[...] A father can feel very guilty about his love for his children, for he has been conditioned to believe that love is expressed only through sex, or else it is unmanly, while sex with one’s children is taboo.

[...] Man’s recognition of his bisexual nature is, therefore, a must in his future.

His psychic abilities are being channeled, as they should be. [...] Yet even now his confidence will begin, and it will aid in the development of future sessions.

[...] His name is Delmer Roberts; and Hubbell is the family name. In this constant questioning about descendants, we wanted to get enough information for Jane to be able to ask her father some questions about his family tree; Jane knows nothing about it, and her father has not discussed it with her. [...]

[...] In general outlines, I saw him as he sat leaning back in an easy chair, his right leg crossed over his left, and holding up an opened newspaper. [...]

[...] He, Philip, should come out well in his situation if he follows through.

Such a situation denies the individual his full strength, and cuts him off — consciously, now — from the important sources of his being. [...]

[...] There only seems to be when the individual refuses to face all the information that is available in his conscious mind. [...]

[...] You change the idea as an artist would his palette.

[...] If a painter finds his hands stained with pigment at the end of a day, he can wash the stain off easily, knowing its nature. [...]