“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The dream world consists of depths and dimensions, expansions and contractions that are more clearly related, perhaps, to ideals that have no need for the particular kind of structure with which you are familiar. [...]

The expanding self, ideally, would reach out beyond the arbitrary boundaries it has placed upon itself. [...]

[...] The light trance state is ideal for my purposes. [...]

[...] I haven’t had any such feelings, since from the very beginning of our relationship I’ve always felt certain that in Jane I’d found the ideal mate—an achievement I’ve considered most fortunate, one I’d hardly dared dream I’d ever manage to do. [...]

[...] “Ideally, infants ‘bond’ with their parents, particularly with the mother but with the father also, and they bond with the general ideas of their society. [...]

[...] A firm bonding with the parent ideally implies, however, that the child will not be abandoned, despite parental anger at any given time.

[...] The ideal of course is a consciousness that is adept at using both the inner and outer senses fully.

[...] Financially, then, now is an ideal time to experiment with any changes we may want to put into effect. [...]

[...] For a while he idealized you. [...]

[...] The ideal is to use all of your abilities, and in doing this you will help others and the race of which you are part automatically.”

[...] In closing the notebook tonight, I noticed the query I’d written following the 697th session for May 13, 1974, in Volume 1. In that session Seth told us: “Because you are now a conscious species, in your terms, there are racial idealizations that you can accept or deny.”

[...] The one big difference is that the Sumari deal primarily with creativity and the arts, and often subordinate family life (as Jane and I have done), while this family thinks of offspring in the terms of living art; everything else is subordinated to that “ideal.”

(I’ll preface the abbreviated version to follow of Jane’s first slow, or “long sound” session, the 612th for September 6, 1972, with these notes about Seth Two, since this is the ideal place for them.

“The dream solutions are held as ideals, however. [...]

[...] Certainly we think that presenting Seth’s new letter here makes an ideal way to conclude these notes. [...]

[...] Ideally this desire for death, however, would simply involve the slowing of the body’s processes, the gradual disentanglement of psyche from flesh; or in other instances, according to individual characteristics, a sudden, natural stopping of the body’s processes.

[...] But for convenience’s sake, in Seth, Dreams … I bring together certain events in chronological time; I feel that its having been written some time ago makes this book the ideal place for me to discuss Jane’s death, to unite the “past,” the “present,” and the “future’; I regard it as being next in line after Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, which Prentice-Hall, Inc. [...]

[...] It is, for example, usual enough to think that your cats (Billy and Mitzi) should ideally run outside in the open, because in the wild that is what cats would do.

(And this is the ideal place to insert the poem she wrote not long afterward: