“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] His entity held the session instead.

[...] We had wondered at times why the entity hadn’t spoken more often; Seth has said little about his entity, and we did not ask that this personality speak tonight.

[...] Jane said that as she left trance last time she got the feeling that “this personality felt that he was able to use some of my processes, that we were clicking together better, to get his ideas across.”

[...] He is giving it a different picture of the world, and he is doing that because he has finally changed many of his old beliefs.

[...] Ruburt accepted the magic of a poem, but not the magic of health or mobility, because he was convinced that mobility stood in the way of his other abilities.

Ruburt’s body is then magically and naturally repairing itself in a function just as creative, of course, as the inner work that goes on in the production of a book or a poem — a fact he is finally getting through his head. [...]

(This session also contained the very interesting material that Seth gave concerning his own perceptions while he is addressing a group of people; that data is quoted in the 575th session, in Chapter Nineteen.)

[...] He chose both the time, in your terms, and the method, for reasons of his own.

[...] Though he eats the same poor fare as the poor man, and lives in the same poor house for a day — or for a year or five years — he knows he has his mansion to return to. [...]

(A note by R.F.B.: This is the first verse of a long poem Jane wrote late in July 1979, as Seth was finishing his work on Mass Events. [...]

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

[...] Important to his health and future well-being.

[...] There will be time needed if his abilities are to mature. [...]

[...] I hope that we have been able to be of some help to your brother, for it is time for him to change some of his ways.

[...] His sleeping periods were instead for two or three hours, stretched through the nighttime from dusk to dawn, but alternated by periods of high wakefulness and alert activity. He also crept out to seek food when he hoped his predators were sleeping.

[...] He awakened often, and surveyed the nearby land and his own place of shelter.

This resulted in a mobility of consciousness that indeed insured his physical survival, and those intuitions that appeared to him in the dream state were remembered and taken advantage of in the waking state.

Ruburt had to know what he was afraid of, and his dream interpretation gave him that knowledge so that he could deal with it. It was the fear of death — not chosen, of course — the fear that if he did not deliver, work hard, and pay his mother back for a life magically given, grudgingly given, then in a magical equation she, the mother, could take it back. [...]

[...] Although they aren’t book dictation, we’re presenting here some of Seth’s own comments about the dream, since they have a general interest and also fit in with his earlier dream material.

This does not mean that those people are committing suicide in the same way that a person does who takes his life — but that in a unique psychological manipulation they no longer hold the same claim to life as they had before. [...]

[...] To me, privation theory is a beautiful example of how man projects his fears of the world he’s created out upon that very world. His focus is much too limited.

[...] Even though Jane had remarked at the end of last Wednesday evenings session that Seth was close to the end of the book, his actual completion of it still hit us. [...]

I can’t note the same for The Magical Approach to Reality: A Seth Book—the very promising work that Jane and I first discussed a year and a half ago [in August 1980], after Seth had started his group of excellent private sessions on that subject.⁸ I watched Jane try to write the book a number of times; last month, in Note 6 for Session 939 [in this chapter], I finally expressed the opinion that she wouldn’t finish the job. [...]

[...] as I see it even that can be utilized in magical approach, again, Seth finished his book monday.”

[...] His faith in himself is the key. [...]

Transformations of self-images occur back and forth from dream to waking reality, once he made his conscious decision. [...]

[...] A few of his following remarks apparently represent such “answers”.)

(Seth smiled, closed his eyes, and opened them, leaning forward intently. [...]

What Ruburt received with his numbers, and through his friend Nabene, is only a beginning and more, indeed, will be given. [...]

[...] He could be scattered into several ‘spirit guides’; that’s how his reality would be interpreted, or come through …

“Camouflage” became a familiar word to us in those early sessions, and we thought it an excellent one for Seth’s purposes — but rather oddly, except for using it once in a while in recent years, he’s largely dropped it from his vocabulary.

[...] Now I get Bill hurt in this, his right arm, or hand or shoulder.” [...]

Such an accident would occur in a period of exuberance, rather than for example when he was driving in connection with his duties at work. [...]

[...] It will automatically allow the inner portion of his personality to protect him from such probable harm.

(It’s interesting to note, however, the way in which Seth “takes off” from material like Jung’s, developing it to include his own ideas and interpretations, as he does in this chapter.

[...] To prevent an overidentification of the individual with his present sex, within the male there resides an inner personification of femaleness. [...]

[...] The particular way in which he does so, can tell him much about his own reincarnational background in which he operated as a female. [...]

[...] The poem isn’t very good but I feel indulgent because his intentions are good....

A man showed himself a man, say, by getting paid every Friday night, coming home after a stop at the pub with coins jingling in his pocket, to give his wife the house money for the week. [...]

You may laugh with some disdain when I mention, for example, that in some other societies, both today and in the past (pause) a gentleman proved his moral worth and value by not working. [...]

[...] Ruburt said that he used to like his class money because it was tangible, and you understood. [...]

[...] If all a man can do to “prove his value” is to put a bolt in a car, or drive a truck, or even teach a class, then he is very careful that that contribution be noticed, and that a definite value be given it. [...]

It has to do with his physical sensations at the time and also the weakness of the voice. The weakness, however, did not have to do with the weakness of power, but to his inability to translate the strange material that he was receiving.

[...] The first thing I thought of was Jane’s father, though—I didn’t actually see him, but I was telling Jane that at times I thought I did see the shape of the back of the head —I did associate that with his head.”)

Initiate and nourish, in his particular case. [...]

[...] If class could correlate their dreams, we might be able to find a common theme or purpose, with each individual remembering his own part in it. [...]

HIS IMPRESSIONS GIVEN, ON MAY 5, 1967.

Tell Ruburt to trust his body and its periods of exercise and rest. [...]

Now I may or may not return, according to those rhythms of which I have spoken—but I am once again present whether or not I am speaking, and Ruburt can learn to taste his body’s full agility and motion. [...]

(At 3:10 Jane said she’d just picked up from Seth the heading for Chapter 4 of the book — that she had to reach a certain level of well-being before she could get his material, obviously.

Many psychiatrists and psychologists now realize that a disturbed client (long pause) cannot be helped sufficiently unless the individual is considered along with his or her relationship to the family unit.