“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is as if man said: “Now what about this idea? [...] How far can we go with any of the great social, scientific, religious ideas that are so peculiarly the offshoots of man’s mind?”

[...] He is directly faced with a far more complex conscious world than the other animals are, dealing particularly with symbols and ideas that are then projected outward into reality, where they are to be tested. [...]

[...] As the animal must play, mate, hunt his prey or eat his berries within the physical context of sun, ground, trees, snow, hail and wind, so in a different way man must pursue his ideas by clothing them in the elemental realities of earth, by perceiving them as events.

[...] Man consumes ideas. [...]

[...] My idea was to hand the envelope to Jane just before she went into trance for the session. [...]

[...] My idea was that using such a design as a test would summon up a little more emotional involvement, since Bill was included along with Seth, Jane and me.

[...] The idea of tests somewhat upsets him, but this can be overcome without too much difficulty in time.

[...] It is an excellent idea that he has taken up his painting again, for this turns his awareness to other matters. [...]

(The idea seemed to be that creativity, mine and anyone’s, is initially playful, curious, seeks expression—and is one of the highest kinds of psychic play—the artist playing with concepts no matter what the art; and actually inserts his or her reality onto the world, superimposed upon it. [...]

(Its very difficult for the practical world—for people who aren’t primarily “artists or creators” to deal with that sort of thing; they don’t know where to place it and ideas alone make them uncomfortable—they aren’t real or unreal according to their way of looking at reality.

[...] (Jane paused, a hand to her eyes.) He created them in so far as he found himself forced to admit certain facts: In that world at that time, earthly power was needed to hold Christian ideas apart from numberless other theories and religions, to maintain them in the middle of warring factions. It was his job to form a physical framework; and even then he was afraid that the framework would strangle the ideas, but he saw no other way.

[...] When the historical Christ “died,” Paul was to implement the spiritual ideas in physical terms, to carry on. In so doing, however, he grew the seeds of an organization that would smother the ideas. [...]

Ideas of good and evil, gods and devils, salvation and damnation, are merely symbols of deeper religious values; cosmic values if you will, that cannot be translated into physical terms.

These ideas become the driving themes of these religious dramas of which I have spoken. [...]

[...] Today, however, she did get several more notebook pages on a “Speaker’s manuscript”—an idea she began to receive material on last Thursday, she thinks it was. [...]

The idea of the Sinful Self came into play here, for if the material was not true, then in that framework it must necessarily be false—or at the least very misleading. [...]

[...] (The noise from the fireplace was now quite loud.) Your very ideas of the nature of reality change. [...]

[...] The Sinful Self idea can be detrimental in particular when it is faced by experience that must necessarily fall outside of its realm of reference. [...]

[...] You are to forget the idea that what you see physically is the only reality, and that what only one perceived must be an hallucination if it is not perceived by the others. [...]

Now when your read what I have said, you should have some good ideas for experiments of your own. [...]

[...] For many of these ideas are so a part of your mental furniture and you do never change the furniture about. [...]

The idea of a time sequence (pause), is a psychological method of separating such experience for practical purposes at a given level of development. The idea of time sequence is intimately connected, again, with the structure of physical matter as you perceive it, a way of separating and correlating experience so that it can be physically processed and correlated.

[...] She has no idea of subject matter, title, etc., for any projected book by Seth. [...]

Again, he does not have to feel—and he should not feel—that ideally he should be a public personality, going abroad to sell our ideas. [...]

There is no doubt Ruburt has made a breakthrough—and so have you, in terms of your ideas—for what I call illustrated Seth material. [...]

(Seth’s reference to “illustrated Seth material” stems from ideas I’ve mentioned to Jane recently. [...]

[...] It is a good idea, then, to remember that regardless of appearances at any given time, those issues are being settled to your satisfaction. [...]

[...] I dare say Jane has the same ideas. [...]

[...] My idea in it, that we should forget the concentration on health problems for a while, was one that she’d had herself this morning, she told me, in surprise. [...]

[...] Seth at least verified some of my ideas. [...]

(9:13.) Various old religions picked up the idea of the Lumanians’ fierce god figure for example, in whom they managed to project their concepts of force, power, and violence, this god who had meant to protect them when nonviolence would not allow them to protect themselves.

[...] Ideas of probable realities and probable men and gods may strike some of you as quite absurd, and yet as you read this book, you are but one of the probable you’s. Other probable you’s would not consider you real, of course, and some might indignantly question your existence. [...]

[...] This morning Jane also mentioned that she had the idea of trying to walk with the typing table —something she hasn’t done since last November 16, 1980, by the way—so I got it out. [...] An excellent idea.

[...] This does not mean there cannot be discussion, or decisions made about seeking help from others, or whatever, but that the idea of a crisis situation aggravates the very natural feelings (long pause) that are present and unfortunately exaggerated in the entire situation. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Your conflict personally about doing the lawn, or having it done for you, is by the way a minor example of your do-it-yourself tendencies coming in conflict with other ideas—a point I wanted to mention. [...]

The idea of the ramp falls in the same category. [...]

[...] Since this is the third such break between book sessions, it seems that Jane and I would be used to the idea by now. [...]

[...] Second, if one keeps in mind Seth’s ideas about simultaneous time, that basically all happens at once [even considering Seth’s own acknowledgment that time “…is therefore still a reality of some kind to me”], then it hardly matters how long a break transpires between particular sessions; there is no real separation; dictation on any subject or project can be resumed whenever all involved — Jane, Seth, and myself — choose, and it will be as though the break never existed. [...]

[...] The programming for Channel 9, for example, does not suddenly intrude on Channel 6. Even the actors themselves, taking part in such sagas, have but the remotest idea of events that are involved in order that their own images will appear on your television screen. [...]

1. The basic simultaneity of time is the most fascinating of all of Seth’s ideas, I think. [...]

[...] In two recent envelope experiments involving my place of employment, this word had cropped up in connection with the death of an older fellow worker; mine referring to grave, or underground, because Jane instinctively disliked the idea of graves. [...] Jane said she received the word again this evening in connection with Ezra; she felt Seth wanted to connect Ezra with the idea of disease—hence the polio data—followed by death, etc.

[...] These cards are mentioned on page 40 of the 243rd session; this gave me the idea of using them for an experiment. [...]

[...] She said she had the idea of Cisco for a place name in the state, but thought she had chosen this because it has a western sound. [...]

In the past years you had a tendency to use them haphazardly and with no idea as to how they should be directed. [...]

[...] Seth’s own idea of “simultaneous time,” that “all exists at once, yet is not completed,” has run throughout his material since its inception over a decade ago. As he quite humorously commented in the 14th session for January 8, 1964: “… for you have no idea of the difficulties involved in explaining time to someone who must take time to understand the explanation.” [...]

Again, we come up against limited ideas of personhood. [...]

(Pause.) It is difficult to try to explain the creativity of the psyche when, as a species, you have such set ideas about it, but I shall try.

[...] After breakfast Jane enthusiastically set to work writing about her new ideas; she plans to use them in Psychic Politics. [...]

(4:12.) These were distortive offshoots connected with misinterpretations of ideas of equality, connected with a democratic government. These same ideas also had involvements with psychology, dealing with “the norm,” the average man, and so forth. [...]

(I explained to Jane my mental saying, “Sorry, Mom, but I don’t have time any more for your shaky beliefs or ideas,” as it had spontaneously grown out of Seth’s comments about why my right hand is shaky, in a recent session. [...]

His beliefs about poets were contaminated by ideas that said that the poet was too sensitive, too vulnerable to life’s experiences — that this sensitivity brought weakness instead of strength, and that true artists or true poets came to a tragic end for that reason.

[...] He is not only working with patients and using art as a therapy for them, not only having them paint as therapy, you see, but he is also working on the idea that some paintings in themselves have a healing effect. [...]

This other portion of yourself will also view his reality from your vantage point, and your ideas will stimulate his own, and both of you will gain from the encounter. [...]

[...] He has no idea however that you might be told of his visits, or that you might be planning to meet him. [...]

[...] He has no idea that such a thing can be done without the use of drugs.

[...] He will be using the same ideas, but different methods, in any case. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Your suggestions as to the séances and Ruburt’s as to other experiments — these ideas are both good ones.

[...] Following them can give you some idea of those other directions, and those other levels of which we have spoken. [...]

[...] Consciousness only pretends to bow to the idea of time. [...]

[...] In regular life, you organize your experience very neatly and push it into accepted patterns or channels, into preconceived ideas and beliefs. [...] Its products can often appear chaotic simply because they splash over your accepted ideas about what experience is.

[...] Your ideas about the psyche therefore limit your experience of it. [...]

[...] She has no idea whether or not the manuscript will continue “to come.” [...]

(I’d been commenting on her call tonight to a psychiatrist—Dr. Beahrs—who’d written her recently from Washington state, and of his informing her that another doctor out there is also using the Seth material ideas in dealing with her patients. I talked about the doctor reporting that Jane’s books were kept in the occult section of the bookstore, thus causing her to lose readers; I used the incident as an example of how stereotyped ideas can limit something becoming better known—breaking out of its specialized field to reach a much wider audience, as I think Jane’s work deserves. [...]

(I can safely say that such ideas never occurred to me. [...]

[...] You kept those physical abilities around, though—the feeling for sports—in school, with the idea that you could fall back upon them if need be. [...]