“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The signals were picked up though he did not realize either that he had come to the realization that his work would change, nor that he had signaled so. I add to make him feel better (smile), and you also, that he could not have done —I am going slowly here so as not to offend his sensibilities—he could not have done earlier the kind of book he will do now. His understanding, and even his writing abilities, were simply not up to it.

(I did this because in the last session Seth said he would resume his discussion of theoretical material at any point we chose. [...]

[...] He will quickly readjust however, for he now has faith in the new direction of his work. [...]

[...] You and he must see to it then (Jane pointed vigorously at me) that he does not color his experiences with me through reading material that ‘is highly camouflaged and distorted, even though the distortion is well-meaning.

[...] Realizing that will greatly help to reduce his fears. Suggestions I give are always couched to his condition at the time given, in your terms. [...]

[...] The mass condition of the world, and the situation of each individual in it, is the materialization of man’s progress as he forms his world.

Space and time are both root assumptions, which simply means that man accepts both, and assumes that his reality is rooted in a series of moments and a dimension of space. [...]

(I paused, considering the late hour, then asked Seth for his opinion about the recent visit of a young scientist from a Western state. [...]

[...] We will get to his [scientific] questions. [...]

They were not only his private religious beliefs, but those of his contemporaries generally — and (loudly:) the foundations upon which your present civilization was made. [...] I will have more to say to him in the dream state this evening, and I will shortly explain his experience with my voice.

(Those excerpts, in turn, came from his remarks about Jane’s second composition, which she wrote late this afternoon after we’d finished reading certain material. [...]

[...] If you were from a foreign land and asked one person to give you a description of New York City, you might take his or her description for reality. [...]

[...] His material was for Jane, and grew out of the paper she wrote this afternoon on Eastern religious thought [see Appendix 15]. [...]

[...] He still wants to know if I am part of his subconscious—and I must admit I do find such an idea appalling—and he wants his answers given to him in a manner which his conscious mind can understand. [...]

[...] One of mankind’s weaknesses has always been his impatience and his preoccupation with camouflage patterns on his plane. [...]

[...] It bothers Ruburt, as he has said in my hearing, that often-times just before we begin our session formally he does not have a thought in his head. [...]

I suggest a brief break, and after it we will touch upon some of the reasons for this fear which man felt, and feels, for the whole portion of his being. [...]

(9:05.) One person’s dreams, therefore, while his or her own, will still fit into an important notch in the dreams of a given family. One person might, because of his or her own interests, seek largely from dreams warnings of difficulty or trouble, and therefore be the family’s dream watchguard—the one who has, say, the nightmares for everyone else. [...]

[...] Such dreams gave him the assurance that other lands existed outside of his own, and spurred him onward into those physical expeditions in which the species has always taken a particular delight.

[...] In the dream state, then, to one extent or another man seeks solutions to the problems of his age.

This material very nicely supplements information I’d quoted from the second session Seth gave in his series on the magical approach to reality. [...]

(Long pause.) Your mother believed that a man should work so many hours a day in conventional ways, whether he owned his own business or worked for others—and also of course that he should have a family. At certain levels (underlined), your brother Loren once compared your art to his love of trains—an enjoyable hobby, but not something to which a man devoted his life. [...]

[...] I’d planned to write down some questions for tonight, based on Monday’s session, but had so many actually that I decided to let that project go, trusting that Seth will cover them in his own way.

[...] Note that originally Seth didn’t mention the reincarnational connections in his interpretation of the dream. [...]

[...] In two cases he was using his own energy to sustain and direct the group, and to transport them, so to speak. [...]

If he only sees your physical body then he should address you, announce his own out-of-body state and invite you to join him. [...]

[...] Ruburt should try on these nights one of his methods as he falls asleep, and if that does not succeed, tell him to use the other methods that he knows from the dream state.

[...] Use one book for dreams, and leave it on his desk overnight. [...]

[...] He is expressing his salvation now through his poetry, which is natural for both portions of the self. This will also be felt in his dream book, however.

Ruburt’s poem is of help to him, springing as it did from both levels of his personality. [...]

Before bed this evening let Ruburt read his suggestions twice. [...]

[...] Most of his material is deleted here, but I can write that her situation was tied in to her work with the challenges presented by her physical symptoms [as described in Note 8 for the 679th session, in Section 1]. [...]

(Seth’s last statement had to do with his contention that “hormones are also automatically released into the system, encouraging either periods of activity or tranquilizing periods, according to the specific portions of the overall process [of healing]. [...]

[...] His material led Jane to do some excellent work with dreams on her own. [...]

4. Seth discussed the basic unpredictability from which significances arise in sessions 681–82, in Section 1. After break at 11:47 in the 681st session, he incorporated this line in his material: “From the ‘chaotic’ bed of your dreams springs your ordered daily organized action.”

(Pause.) I told you some time ago that miracles were simply nature unimpeded, and Ruburt is learning to give his nature freedom, so that it can follow the greater ways of its own knowledge —therefore freeing his body so that it can behave in a more natural and normal fashion. [...]

I am not comparing the body to a computer—but in a fashion it is as if Ruburt were reprogramming himself, with help from higher echelons of his being, so that a kind of new and more effective and beneficial organization is being activated, in which old errors were cancelled, and new knowledge is inserted. [...]

(In my dream I’d written that he had a heart attack, but this appears to be off the mark, although pinpointing the correct area of his trouble. At times I’ve even wondered if I recorded the dream accurately, since in it I didn’t see him having a heart attack, only rubbing his chest area with Margaret helping him, and myself there as only a witness. [...]

[...] His diabetes isn’t yet under control.

There is nothing “wrong” with his finger—that is, it is not endangered. His bodily feelings, and his intuitive ones, were quite correct: nervous passageways were trying to reopen. [...]

Because he left, and because you knew his hands shook also. At times he wanted to throw his work across the floor.

(“His hands shake too.” [...]

2. For those who are interested: As soon as Seth mentioned the “psychological activity” of atoms and molecules, I was intuitively and strongly aware of connections between his statement and at least two principles of modern physics. [...]

The uncertainty principle, or the principle of indeterminacy (advanced by Heisenberg in 1927, and part of the theory of quantum mechanics), sets definite limits to the accuracy possible in measuring both the motion and position of atoms and elementary particles simultaneously; more importantly to my mind, for the purposes of this note, the uncertainty principle maintains that there is an interaction between the observer (with his instruments) and the object or quality being measured.

[...] Albert Einstein, whose own work was rooted in strict causality, found a notion like the free will of an electron untenable, even though much earlier (in 1905) he had laid the foundation for quantum mechanics in his special theory of relativity.

[...] His fear, however, shows that he still has the remnants of old doubts. [...] Before long, however, he will be much more confident as his own improvements convince him of his body’s overall vitality, and its resurge of excellent health. [...]

(Seth made his remark about checking the sessions because I’d said earlier this afternoon that I wanted to go over some of them with Jane. [...]

[...] His name was Albert Lang. [...] The cobbler and his wife had no children. [...]

[...] “Do you want some now?”
Rob shook his head.
“There’s something that wants you back at the board.
You’d better sit down again.”

But he was benign and jovial as a bishop
Someone might ask in for an evening of tea,
And when he let me peek out through his eyes,
The familiar living room seemed very strange.

[...] “His name came up the other day. [...]

[...] On a superficial level, it represented his inner knowledge that he is not physically afraid of childbirth. [...] It will begin about the time of his own birth date, another reason why birth symbolism was used.

[...] Tam, with whom I had been corresponding, had to sell the idea to his boss — a woman. Tam asked me if I would consent to having a well-known psychic writer tell my story for me because of the built-in publicity his name would lend. [...]

Apparently Rob, too, has his dream eye out for my writing interests. [...]

A friend, Jim Lord, realizes how helpful dreams can be, because one literally saved his life. [...]

The man who does not realize his basic independence from the physical system will not have the same freedom within it.

[...] And the action, or actions involved in this belief will therefore act upon the physical cells of his body with vengeful force, because he has himself directed them to do so.

[...] However his ego is very well in control, so well in control that on occasion when I would have spoken on these very matters, I have not been allowed to do so. [...]

One small point: I have never manipulated his subconscious, in any manner. [...]

[...] However, I told Jane, in his own way Seth had incorporated mathematical ideas in his material: I saw correlations between his probable realities, his intervals, and the concept of an infinite number of points on a line—and that some mathematical definitions of infinity are considered to be more basic, or of a greater order, than others. [...] I do think that Seth’s material on the “origin” of our universe can be termed an “ideal point,” embracing our mathematical systems, and that his concept of All That Is has no “limits” in mathematical terms. [...]

[...] Yet when Seth came through his material certainly sounded like book work to me.)