“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I also learned during the discussion that Jane didn’t like the Seth book material being tied too closely to current events, as witness Mass Events and Jonestown and Three Mile Island. [...]

[...] Not all of this is bad, of course, and I trust that here again Jane will gradually come to an accommodation with such responses, seeing them not as implied threats, but as true reinforcements of her abilities, which, as we have learned, really do have the power to move others in a variety, and often profound number of ways.

[...] It is not simply that they communicate with you, or you with them, so much as it is that in sleep the conventional properties that you have learned are somewhat loosened and abandoned. [...]

In certain eras, the lines between the species were not completely drawn, and there were long periods where men and animals mixed and learned from each other. [...]

[...] Children learn such languages mentally long before they are physically capable of speaking them; but again, in genetically inspired dreams, children—or rather, infants—practice language. [...]

(Checking later, I learned that the Greater Pittsburgh Airport is in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania.)

[...] Both of you can learn to modify these characteristics, but understanding them is basic. [...]

[...] It involved, Jane said, some kind of inner comprehension that she was learning something in a new way, as though some kind of undifferentiated sense was operating and soaking up information. [...]

[...] They did not know about Seth but were somewhat familiar with our work in ESP, and of course would learn of Seth’s existence when Jane’s ESP book is published. [...]

[...] We have not tried to hold another seance, partly because of time limitations, partly because of a fear of failure [we imagine], and partly because we want to learn more about such things from Seth before we try again.)

This will be a different kind of in-depth learning, a rather unique and original development that will be as devoid as possible of stereotyped symbols, which are usually almost automatically superimposed on strong experiences so that they seem—so that the experiences seem—to be made up of stereotypes. [...]

[...] You are learning how to form reality from your own beliefs, while having at the same time the freedom to choose those beliefs—to chose your mental state in a way that the animals, for example, do not. [...]

[...] The challenge of our learning enough to initiate her recovery was still with us during that summer of 1981.

[...] “I’ve learned something this afternoon,” Jane said during a brief unannounced break. [...]

[...] Remind me, for our next session, to wind in a discussion of those subjective entities as they learned how to translate themselves into physical individuals.

[...] Questioning her before writing these notes, I learned that she had indeed covered up feelings of inadequacy, crying, etc., regarding her appearance as compared with others.)

The inner self is embarked upon an exciting endeavor, in which it learns how to translate its reality into physical terms. [...]

[...] When possible I will endeavor to close our sessions before 11:30, for practical reasons, so that while you are learning to draw upon additional energy you will not be tired the following day. [...]

(2. “The one thing about an ancient existence [like mine], if you will forgive the term, is that old hatreds do not last because you learn to have a sense of humor … Love, on the other hand, even with a sense of humor, becomes highly precious and large enough so that it can contain old hates very nicely.”

[...] There are, however, learned arguments in which professors debate such questions. [...]

[...] She did so, I quickly learned, for both practical and intuitive reasons.)

On the part of any human personality, therefore, it is extremely important that methods be learned to let action follow its normal directive bent within the personality, therefore avoiding these abortive offshoots that impede main directives and purposes of the unit as a whole.