“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Now imagine that our individual from his reverie falls either into a trance state or into a deep sleep. [...] He now enters into his mental experiences far more deeply than in the reverie state, and may have a series of dream episodes in which he is able to express his joy and share it with others.

[...] In feedback fashion, the environment then seems to reinforce his joy.

[...] Into his inner mind come pictures or symbols of material objects, people or events, from perhaps the past as well as present and future imaginings, the joy now being expressed with greater freedom mentally, but with symbols.

[...] When Ruburt is about to leave his body from the dream state for example, he will often find himself in a strange house or apartment that offers opportunities for exploration.

[...] The person that you seek is here, but he is with you, and has never parted from you, and even though he continues his existence in another dimension you are not divided nor separated; and you will gain from his added development, for he will telepathically let you understand matters that you did not understand before.

Now we shall let Ruburt take a break, or end the session…at his discretion…

[...] The person that you seek is here, but he is with you, and has never parted from you, and even though he continues his existence in another dimension you are not divided nor separated; and you will gain from his added development, for he will telepathically let you understand matters that you did not understand before. [...]

[...] at his discretion ... [...]

[...] His reaction here depends on several circumstances, including the intensity of the electrical pulsations that compose the thought, and his own inner facility in reacting to particular ranges of intensities. [...]

[...] I would suggest that Ruburt set aside one day a week for the marketing of his own manuscripts.

[...] Some, or a portion of, the transmitted thought may fall within his range, and some may not. [...]

It may happen however that the dissimilarity is what falls within his particular accustomed range, in which case proof would be inadequate. [...]

[...] He could use his inner senses fairly frequently in his waking state, as he did momentarily during that incident.

There are things he does not remember from his childhood, when he was warned against telling lies—apparitions that he spoke of. [...]

Strong abilities show themselves, and Ruburt’s inner life is a full and rich one, his inner perceptions well-developed. [...]

[...] This involves a high degree of cooperation from the other person who does not exist in your physical terms, an opening of his reality to the medium rather than an invasion of the medium.

[...] Ruburt did not come to his recognition of the world’s mental source through reasoning. [...] His consciousness left his body — an event not even considered possible by many educated people. Ruburt’s consciousness merged, while still retaining its own individuality, with the consciousness of the leaves outside his window, and with the nail in the windowsill, and traveled outward and inward at the same time, so that like a mental wind his consciousness traveled through other psychological neighborhoods.

[...] Seth had been his usual energetic self, in marked contrast to the cool and distant voice of his entity, so called.)

[...] Anything that an observer learns from looking at the painting is always living knowledge, that alters his own makeup.

Your own father (meaning mine) has been in contact with his relative recently dead (Alice Butts). [...]

[...] Ruburt is not good enough yet to change his channels quickly, but he is learning. [...]

[...] It goes without saying that mankind is not alone in maintaining the physical universe, and in giving it continuity as he projects and constructs his own physical image; and as this image is the direct result of his own inner psychic climate, and as it reflects most faithfully his own inner joy and illness, and as this joy and illness shows itself physically in his image, so also do all living things construct their own images, and help to maintain the physical properties of your universe.

[...] He told us again about a lawyer friend of his in Williamsport, who wanted to witness a session, and indeed was willing to make the long drive [about 200 miles round trip] solely for this purpose. Jane had been unsure as to what to say the first time John had mentioned his [...] We have had several witnesses since then however, so she told John his friend would be welcome now; John may make arrangements as to the date by mail.)

One of Ruburt’s little prize perceptions was his realization that you see, or are aware of, only your own idea constructions. [...]

[...] They are fully as idiotic as Frank Watts in his Mason’s robes.

[...] Your bodies then were relegated to nature and your souls to God, who stood immaculately apart from His creations.

[...] I also refer to those statements that just as unfortunately specify diseases for which the individual may experience no symptoms of an observable kind, but is cautioned that these disastrous physical events may be happening despite his or her feelings of good health. [...]

[...] Indeed, man almost seems to be allergic to his own natural environment, a prey to the weather itself.

[...] Yet within reason man is biologically capable of assimilating such materials, and using them to his advantage.

A child sits, perhaps three years old, with his finger stuck up his ass, feeling the shit that warmly runs down, and that child knows that shit is good. [...]

[...] His material was hilarious, provocative, and profound — all at once. [...]

I pick up quite strongly a discouragement on his part this evening. But again, his affairs will work out. The discouragement seems to be connected with his work, and a lack of confidence that is temporary. By Sunday he will feel much better, partially as a result of intervening circumstances, and partly because his mood will simply have changed. [...]

He is in his room (pause), a photograph of his wife on a dresser. [...]

[...] Ruburt thinks of the package that his mother sent him, containing a sweater, and the stamp on the package.

[...] Jane’s mother and a Christmas present also entered the test data, for reasons we do understand; here Seth tells us that Ruburt thinks of the package that his mother sent him.

[...] He was not at his best this evening. [...] In the past when he was not at his best, we simply could not get this much legitimate information through. He is operating in a more efficient manner, and his attitude of late is of great benefit to us.

He is obviously drawing upon knowledge that is beyond his own conscious abilities. [...] He is reaching beyond his own personal subconscious, for while the personal subconscious does have definite knowledge unknown to the conscious mind, it also has definite limits.

[...] At various times Seth has told us his idea of time may not coincide with ours. Without going into details I recall a prediction of his that was to materialize “soon.” [...]

In his previous poetry, as a rule, Ruburt was not reaching deeply enough. [...]

On the one hand he cannot communicate with you clearly because of his own condition at this time. [...]

It is because of this that he speaks through you, because of your youth, and because your condition in this system or life somewhat approximates his own situation within another system. [...]

[...] You must have patience while these abilities develop, while Ferd learns to perfect his own communication process, and while you learn to perfect your receptive abilities.

(Seth’s manner in speaking to Pete was, on the overall, quite restrained and serious, and the difference from his usual manner was quite obvious to the Gallaghers and myself. [...]

[...] Earlier Ruburt would have become alarmed and frightened, felt you were being negative, and discouraged at any verbal and emotional encounter with the feelings that you expressed, precisely because they brought into the open feelings of his. This time however he recognized that earlier he would have brooded and gone to bed, leaving you to brood alone at his ways.

[...] To help support your mother, particularly in the beginning under the situation as he sensed it, and with all of his other anti-mother sentiments, was the greatest of outrages. This is another reason for his actions on the Sunday visits. [...]

[...] The same applies to Ruburt’s background, mainly with his grandfather. [...]

Your family to Ruburt was one of society trying to make you toe the mark, hence his often exaggerated reactions. [...]

The individual is born equipped with his humanness, with certain propensities and leanings toward development. He knows what human voices sound like even before his ear physically hears those sounds. [...]

[...] This means that he denies a certain portion of his own humanity, and then is forced to overreact in expressing those emotions left open to him. [...]

His rage turns outward as aggression. [...]

Because dreams follow paths of association, they break through time barriers, allowing the individual to mix, match, and compare events from different periods of his life. [...]

[...] The entire framework of a prison — with its bars — is a constant reminder to the convict of his situation, and reinforces his original difficulty.

[...] The witch doctor, while initiating natural forces on behalf of his patient, who seemed momentarily unable to do so, was then returning the patient to the source of himself and reviving his own buried sense of power. [...]

[...] Because his basic concept held aggressiveness and power as one, however, then the strength to act automatically meant the strength to be aggressive. [...]

The criminal or murderer being executed dies for the “evil” within each member of his society, then, and a magical transference takes place.

[...] The weather was much cooler, and Willy napped in his chair. [...]

His initial attempt at kindliness at the gallery the following day took more out of him, although he quickly saw that my diagnosis of the situation there was correct.

[...] He grapples with, and manipulates and juggles these inner psychological shapes before constructing them, his version of them, into physical form.

You will see that in the first mentioned examples the effect would be created by man in line with his abilities, and in the latter examples the effects would be created in some instances by what is sometimes called dead matter, but what we know as other forms of consciousness, according to their ability.

In certain areas of mass shared dreams, collective mankind deals with the problems of his political and social objective structure. The solutions which he makes within his dream reality are often, however, not the same solutions that he accepts within physical reality.

(“The word grand… a grandparent?” Our young friend Don Wilbur made the envelope object on his usual Friday night visit here with his wife Marilyn. [...]

[...] Bill Gallagher, who has ulcers, drinks either coffee or tea on his visits, and he was present on April 15. [...]

[...] He was changing jobs, and had to tell his employer that he was quitting. [...]

[...] 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, and recount his past and predict his future.

[...] This also presents you with an example of the ways in which early man expanded his own knowledge and experience in the dream state. [...]

(4:19 p.m. Neither of us had particularly thought that my dream-paternal feelings represented an analogy with the way early man had expanded his own knowledge while in the dream state — but we saw the connection as soon as Seth mentioned it. [...]

[...] The out-of-body was the result of a change in attitude, and made possible also because of his (Ruburt’s) body’s relaxation. He was exercising his consciousness, allowing himself greater freedom. [...]

You were mentally wandering through the house, the both of you, and Ruburt caught himself where his mind was—only his physical body was not in the same place. [...]