“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Man no longer identifies with a storm, for example, and has lost his sense of relationship with it, and therefore his natural power over it. [...]

[...] He would encourage the patient to tune into the private oracle in order to ascertain his or her own purposes in physical life, and to reinforce spiritual strength. [...] (Intently:) That would be his specialty.

[...] The private oracle is the voice of the inner multidimensional self — the part of each person not fully contained in his or her personhood, the part of the unknown self-structure out of which personhood, with its physical alliance, springs. [...]

Dictation: To some extent, each individual who wants to can become aware of the “unknown” reality — can become his or her own dream-art scientist, mental physicist, or complete physician, and begin to explore those lands of the psyche that are the real frontier.

[...] Ruburt should continue with his exercises, as they are unusually beneficial for him. [...] They allow him to step aside in a regular and disciplined fashion, from the worrisome aspects of his ego.

If Ruburt will begin his exercises again he will notice an immediate improvement. [...]

[...] As stated Jane and I visited my parents at their home last Sunday, April 3, and while there met my brother Loren, his wife Betts, and their son Douglas, who is 14. In this envelope experiment Seth again used the actual object as a jumping-off point for some of his data, and this is a case in point. Doug, who helped me author the object, is not musical; however both his parents are professional musicians; both are teachers; Betts teaching music as well as other subjects. [...]

When it is realized that man actually constructs his own physical universe, and that individual man constructs his own physical image, then you see considerable progress can be made. [...]

(After supper this evening young Don Wilbur informed us that he and his wife would not be able to witness the session as scheduled. [...]

[...] Therefore if the individual can change his own past, then it must follow that a people can change its past, that a nation can change past events, that the future can influence the past historically, and even you see that a death can alter a birth.

And now, if Ruburt worries that he does not carry his share of the work load, because you spend so much time typing our sessions, then the work of typing the dream experiences, both his and your own, shall be his. [...]

[...] A light bulb directly above, and a book in his hands or on his lap. [...]

Whether or not you realize it, you have already begun such an investigation, and Ruburt’s careful notes and recordings of his dreams, over nearly a three-year period, and your own dream recordings, are only the beginning.

[...] Jane was dissociated as usual for a first break, and was somewhat surprised that Seth broke his delivery so soon. [...]

[...] Seth told us this was because the cat’s very acute senses detected his arrival on our plane. Willy, he said, would get used to his presence eventually and show no reaction; this has been the case now for well over a year.)

The spontaneity that allowed him to deviate from his usual schedule is largely responsible for the whole book, for his original intention was merely to write a few humorous verses for out cat lover’s birthday. [...]

[...] As cats will, he began to knead her legs with his forefeet. [...]

[...] There is no reason why any of the children could not spend his day at the office with the father of the family, basically speaking, but he would not be able to understand or perceive many of the events that occurred there.

[...] These were so small in proportion to his success that he should forget them. And he did very well, tell him, in his encounter with Mr. Fisher, and with your mother’s friends in the hospital room.

(On Sunday, May 18, John Pitre called Jane from Franklin, Louisiana and asked that Seth hold a session for his wife Peg; she is in the hospital, in poor condition, with muscular dystrophy. [...]

[...] Last week’s poetry served to refresh his creative energies, and in commitment to the book and to our work, and with your prayer activities. [...]

[...] He has conquered this however, and also varied his prayer technique to advantage.

Tonight, Seth suggested that “portions of this session can be appended to the book,” meaning Dreams, but I found it easier to offer most of his generalized material verbatim while eliminating his information on one of my dreams.)

[...] The Bible that you recognize—or that is recognized—is not the first, however, but was compiled from several earlier ones as man tried to look back, so to speak, recount his past and predict his future. [...]

[...] There were many unfortunate misuses of the old system of having a son follow in his father’s footsteps, yet the son at a young age was given meaningful work to do, and felt a part of life’s mainstream. [...]

[...] There comes a time when the experiences of the person in the world click together and form a new clearer focus, provide a new psychological framework from which his or her greatest capacities can emerge to form a new synthesis. [...]

Ruburt need not spend 24 hours a day thinking about his work. [...] Now let him keep his regular hours. [...] When he is going about household chores for example, let him give his mind a rest. [...]

[...] Now this too-much-too-soon attitude was reflected last evening in his class. [...] His own interpretation of the communication attempt is correct, so I shall not waste time discussing it.

[...] He sees he has changed his ways, and now wants to do so with a vengeance, you see. [...]

[...] These suggestions, followed, will return him to his proper course. [...]

[...] Because I am attached to Ruburt now, his ideas of course color many of mine, so his fear of the passing years developed upon your fear of them ten years ago, projected now into your future, as ten years older than he. [...]

(Pause at 9:40.) These themselves led you to concentrate on his condition here. On his own, in other words, he picked up negative habits, apparently as a side effect of my methods.

[...] I did not think Ruburt would work unless he was chained to his chair, so I chained him, both to do his own work and force you to do yours. [...]

You two more or less made me a promise that Ruburt would begin working sensibly on his book again (after last session), and instead you took a trip. [...]

Following this, in our next session, Seth confirmed that the material amounted to a partial outline for his projected new book, and that the title I’d “picked up” while he was still finishing Mass Events was correct. [...] Seth will say again, “Now: Dictation,” and Rob will make up a new title page for his notebook.

[...] Perhaps this isn’t a good analogy — Seth is far from a dream character, and in fact I hardly ever dream of him at all — but he is a personality whose platform of reality isn’t the same as ours, a personality who writes books through me, but from his standpoint, not mine.

[...] That statement is one of the cornerstones of Seth’s material, stated almost from the beginning of our sessions and emphasized throughout his books. [...]

[...] Seth answers those questions and many more, until as we read his explanations we wonder how we could have so misread our own nature as to distrust the very messages meant to lead us toward our own spiritual growth and that of the species as well.

[...] I want to note, again, that Ruburt earlier decided to bank on his intellect as a child, rather than upon beauty, as he felt his mother had. In his case also, as given in the past, he felt that the feminine qualities were those opposed to intellectual development. [...]

[...] His closest connection to magic would be his comics experience when he drew Captain Marvel — a magical character. The resulting image, in two parts, shows that the idea is almost completed in his mind, just needing to be put together. [...]

(“Seth, of course, not only dictates his magical material — the session — but must keep the whole session in mind while doing so, so that each sentence as he delivers it makes sense compared to its predecessors, and those to follow. Quite a feat on his part, and Jane’s, once you stop to think about it. [...]

[...] The transposition of the flowered designs of bedsheets to sheets of paper is great; Rob chose a sketch pad rather than, say, typing paper, I think, because painting is his art while Mary’s is writing. [...] Maybe by using his own art symbol, the sketch pad instead of the typing paper, Rob reinforced the idea of Mary’s conflicts about the nature of her own work.

His nature is independent, but the independence is blunted when he is not sure of what he is dealing with. You felt his reaction to your attitude strongly, and you should have questioned yourself at that point. Ruburt was able to counteract the temporary but overall negative storm by his own creative energies, and focus strongly to protect you both.

However it is your duty, and the duty of every individual insofar as it is within his power, to maintain his own psychic health and vitality; according to the strength of this vitality he will protect himself and others. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s feelings and lack of action as far as the publishing house was concerned left much to be desired, and in time his lack of action would have caused an unpleasant reaction on his own part. [...]

Your attitude was, in some manner, more realistic than Ruburt’s, and yet his attitude was the healthier. Both of you went too far in opposite directions, as is characteristic of your own natures: you are sometimes inclined, and underline sometimes, to be overly pessimistic; and Ruburt is sometimes inclined to be not overly optimistic but overly docile, as far as his connections with the outside world are concerned.

(Even though Seth didn’t call last Monday’s 867th session book dictation, then, Jane and I presented it because his material on viruses, disease, health, and biological experimentation obviously complemented his themes for Mass Events. [...]

[...] So-called Mongoloid children, for example, are reminders of man’s purely emotional heritage, as separate from his intellectual achievements. [...]

[...] Seth has also used the phrase in connection with a next work.⁴ Now it appears that he’s settled upon a formal title for his book — one that Jane has received from him several times lately: Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment.)

[...] In his passing reference to it, Seth didn’t mention that besides producing the gruesome leathery skin, onchocerciasis can cause blindness — hence its common name, river blindness. [...]

[...] Carl was on his way to a destination near Niagara Falls, New York, for the Thanksgiving holidays.)

[...] They will not, therefore, isolate the individual involved, but instead will enlarge his perceptions until he will experience the reality and uniqueness of as many other aspects of reality of which he is capable.

[...] On the contrary he will be swept along in a gestalt of comprehension in which he realizes his own oneness with All That Is.

[...] But the time has come for mankind to take several steps further, to expand the nature of his own consciousness by trying to comprehend a more profound version of reality. [...]

[...] The particular virus that attacked your cat had actually been in his system for some time. His own native resiliency and your combined psychic reinforcement protected him. [...] With his illness he was not able to reinforce the cat’s condition by his own psychic creativity.

His condition was not severe enough to strike me. Had you asked however I could have explored his state and given you some warning. [...]

Ruburt was sick to his stomach because he had not been able to work properly. [...] The enforced rest also gave him time to gain back his psychic resources. [...]

[...] Jane was sure this referred to the story told us by the worker at the lumberyard, who procured the Masonite for me, concerning his war service, his portrait, etc., done while he was in the service. [...]

Referring to his Introduction again, he remarks that he misses the excitement of the chase, encountered in his own creative work. [...]

He uses nervous connections in a way that is unusual, and to his purpose. His pulse rate is normal. [...]

I refer readers to Ruburt’s Introduction, in which he compares his own creative experiences as a writer to those he feels in our sessions. [...]

[...] For various reasons, reincarnationally speaking, he allowed himself to remain ignorant of the ways in which the ability could be used for the early portion of his life. [...]

[...] A given scientist may act quite differently in his family life and as a scientist. He may love his family dog, for example, while at the same time think nothing of injecting other animals with diseased tissue in his professional capacity.

(9:58.) A recent article in a national magazine speaks “glowingly” about the latest direction of progress in the field of psychology, saying that man will realize that his moods, thoughts, and feelings are the result of the melody of chemicals that swirl in his brain. [...]

[...] She agreed with the decisions I’d made in that area, but she also wanted Seth “to get back to the book per se, and call his sessions dictation.

[...] Then Seth came through without his customary greeting:)

[...] (See my files.) On the other hand, you telepathically picked up from memory of a period in his life when he was afraid that he might die. [...] It was when he was worried about his own legs, and veins.

Once again, his attempts are at the point of success, so it is highly important that he trust the physician within, and the body’s ancient knowledge, and I know he has begun again to use those suggestions.

Ruburt is finally learning to trust the nature of his being—the self that is. His body will walk normally again, and his eyes will clear. [...]

[...] The basic action of the first dream involved his reception of several voices. [...] They presented excellent evidence of his own abilities, for initially they were crystal-clear and without distortion. [...] This was an attempt to build Ruburt’s confidence — to show how clear reception can be if his abilities are fully utilized.

[...] Here he reaches out to turn the radio off and gets a shock; the shock is his realization that the Material itself would cease were he to shut off his abilities. [...] Were he to shut off his abilities as one can turn off a radio, then you would also be deprived.

In the dream, then, he goes into his own room. [...] In the dream itself, however, he discovers that his ability is as much a part of him as breath and can’t be turned off and on at will. [...]

[...] The dream generated sufficient energy to lift Ruburt’s spirits and allow his normal enthusiasm to return in full force. It cut short his poor mood by several weeks.