“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The very way his notes are written also shows his state of mind, his careful attitude and critical manner. [...]

[...] Frank Withers was a fathead,’ he said, with great satisfaction, even though Frank was, according to Seth, a personality fragment of his own entity.

When Seth took over, his confidence knocked all other ideas or doubts from my mind. [...]

For nearly three hours I spoke for Seth, striding up and down the room, joking, pausing now and then for Rob to catch up with his notes, and delivering this monologue, using gestures and facial expressions, verbal expressions and inflections, entirely different from my own. [...]

[...] Ruburt, during the seance, weighed somewhat less than his usual weight. [...] With his help certain portions of energy were used to construct pseudoimages.

[...] Uncertainty on his part, and some speculation.

[...] According to Seth after break his data was legitimate as given to Jane, but was distorted by her.

His data was legitimate from me, but it was deliberately distorted on the part of the subconscious.

[...] Consider again Ruburt in one room with his eyes closed, “seeing” the time by a clock in the other room. This clairvoyance is of the easier variety, and yet represents an important step in his development, and should in your own. [...]

Ruburt’s experience with the slip of paper represented a clairvoyance, as did his experience with the clock; and clairvoyance is concerned with camouflage pattern. [...] In further experiences of this kind, Ruburt will be able to “see” (in quotes) more as his ability grows.

[...] I must say that his discipline was admirable, and that I myself gave him much aid. [...]

[...] Though you recognize in a dream the complete furnishings of an actual house, still the dreamer lies in his bed. [...]

[...] Early man recognized his relationships more clearly. [...]

[...] But with his limited knowledge he did not see that this unconscious would exist outside of your three-dimensional system entirely, holding future as well as past, nor that it has such a cohesive effect upon humanity as a whole. [...]

[...] Reverend Crosson did not refer to the WELM program, of course, but in his letter offers Jane an opportunity to lecture to a group on ESP in Massachusetts, which is the same type of activity. [...]

[...] Instead my companion was assigned this job: Each day his task was to climb back out the window with perhaps three looseleaf volumes of the Seth material tucked under one arm. With the other, and his feet, he was to maneuver his way back down the wall, with only a white rope as an aid, until he reached the street. [...]

[...] For of all the doctors she’d encountered while in the hospital, Jane had liked Dr. C the best, feeling intuitively drawn to him and his optimistic statements that once her thyroid began functioning again she’d find herself getting around much much better than she thought possible. [...] When we’d told Dr. K. what Dr C. had said, Dr K. had remarked that Dr C. “hadn’t seen as many cases of arthritis as Dr. S. had” —meaning of course that Dr C. wasn’t that much of an expert, and that his opinion could be discounted....)

[...] Normal writing will become as real to him as his normal hearing is now. [...]

[...] In light of tonight’s material, I couldn’t help feeling that he’d lost part of his natural heritage — whether he had decided upon that course himself, whether it had been imposed upon him, or both. Seth, I thought, would say that my father chose all the circumstances of his life, and that such a deprivation in old age was a probable result that materialized physically. [...]

[...] They will consider poverty as a sign of God’s displeasure and so be inclined to leave the entire matter in his “hands.” [...]

[...] They may say that since an individual chose his or her problems in this life — deciding for instance to be born black, or poor, or both — that karma is being worked out; therefore such issues should not be adjusted through a change of law or custom. [...]

The doctor looks at his watch. [...]

There are four or five people, now, in his immediate party. [...]

He made a trip to his office, and spoke briefly with one man there. [...]

This was as close as man could come in his imagination to that which is, and this is all right. [...]

Now for all of that, Ruburt does have his intent clear. [...] You recognize improvements, but you do not see him walking better, and you are not pleased, either of you, with his vision; though it shows that great activity is going on, and that there have been improvements there also.

(A brief account for possible future use: Around November 17 we received a postcard from Carlos from his winter mooring berth in Alicante, Spain; card dated November 10. [...]

(10:10.) Ruburt has been worrying, rather than concentrating upon his creative work. [...]

[...] At the same time, I was thinking as I wrote that Seth’s sentence, above: “You cannot understand perceived events unless you understand who perceives them,” embodied one of his best ideas in “Unknown” Reality.)

[...] Reading it, each person sets out upon a psychic pilgrimage through the unknown realities of his or her own consciousness and experience. [...]

[...] (His comments in the 750th session as to why “Unknown” Reality was written, are quoted in the Introductory Notes for Volume 1.)

[...] Then, in the 752nd session for July 28, 1975, Seth plunged into his next book: The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression. He’s well into it at this writing, and as Jane and I have planned things, the notes for it will be very short. [...]

It is an excellent idea for Ruburt to tell his arms and legs that it is perfectly safe for them to straighten out, to stretch and flex, and to use their normal capacity for motion. [...]

It would be a good idea once or twice for him to remember the Jungle Gym (in Webster, New York where my younger brother Bill and his family live), and the first time he remembered faltering in a physical fashion. [...]

(Long pause.) I cannot stress the fact of Ruburt’s attitude toward the medical profession during and immediately following his hospital stay. Symbolically, however, the attitude itself is highly therapeutic, since it “stands for and represents” many important issues in his life—and in settling one you settle all in this regard. [...]

[...] Why was Ruburt speaking Sumari in his sleep last night?”)

[...] When he speaks in his sleep in Sumari, you have to learn it in order to understand what he is saying. [...]

In the next session the following night, Seth launched into the nature of my last trance experience and used it as a stepping stone for his first real discussion of the nature of human personality. [...]

Rob was intrigued not only by the material but by Seth himself as he began to manifest his own personality more clearly. [...]

[...] I came in halfway on an interesting little experiment that Ruburt tried on his own, and you can thank me that he came out of it so well. [...]

(With a laugh, Rob told me that as Seth, I’d been pacing up and down the room, giving “myself” the dickens about the trance experiment, then switching to the humorous comparison of his voice and mine. [...]

[...] There seems to be some connection with the Midwest here, or at least further west than his present location. Perhaps someone further west had to do with his decision.

[...] I was curious to see if Seth would repeat any of his impressions given in the 257th session. [...]

All Ruburt could remember of his dream was the knowledge that many of mankind’s most cherished conceptions about reality are completely false. [...]

[...] This material tonight represents the information given to Ruburt in his dream.

Ruburt has thus far insisted upon his private vision and his unique expression of the unknown reality as he experiences it, and so he brings back bulletins that do not agree with the conventional psychic line.

[...] As I speak he is experiencing certain sensations, in which his body feels drastically elongated (pause), the head reaching out beyond the stars, the whole form straddling realities.

In your terms, Ruburt has been out for the real thing — to experience the unknown reality directly through his own perceptions, as divorced from the scenes given him by the postcards. [...]

[...] [The session itself of course, embodied yet another altered state.] At the same time, the reader can make his or her own intuitive connections in assembling such materials, even if “only” in unconscious ways.

[...] Also Theodore Muldoon told of returning to his Great Hall, of the new tapestry and the new pulsating sensation of feeling.)

[...] Now I evolved along my own ways and he evolved along his own ways. [...]

In your terms, and in your terms only, I could be referred to, and I told Ruburt this, as a sixth self of his in your future but this is only in your terms of reference and to get the idea across for he will not become what I am. [...]

Now, Ruburt will not get his cigarette again, you see. [...]

Often it is akin to love, for the hater is attracted to the object of his hatred by deep bonds. [...]

[...] They turned against the idea of violence, and each in his own way recognized the personal psychological ambiguities of their feelings during combat.

[...] In his or her eyes you see what you can be. [...]

[...] His earlier comments on hate, for example, were made when he had to consider the level of understanding of those who were witnessing the session. [...]

4. I doubt if by his statement Seth means that physicists are attempting to study his CU’s (see Note 2) — certainly not yet, although a few scientists who have written us thereby show that they’re familiar with Seth’s thinking here. [...]

2. For some background information on Seth’s basic units of consciousness (CU’s), cells, probabilities, time structures and other material in connection with his delivery here, I suggest reviewing these sessions in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality: 682–84, 688, and 694.

9. A note added two months later: In retrospect it’s easy to see that while discussing his ideas of counterparts here, Seth was also preparing us for the families-of-consciousness material he was to start giving in January 1975. [...]

And Seth in his Preface for Volume 1: “Here, I wish to make it clear that this book will initiate a journey in which it may seem that the familiar is left far behind. [...]

[...] This morning I’d reread his brief passages in the session for December 3, in which he’d noted that the affair would be settled to our satisfaction. [...]

[...] His right hand has also loosened up, and other areas of the body are responding. [...]

[...] I do not want it to bother Ruburt’s progress, for even now his body accelerates the healing process. [...]