“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In normal life you even turn down outer-sense stimuli for the sake of simplicity, and to enable you to focus upon those stimuli close at hand.

You would find it difficult to attend to or be aware of regular outer stimuli while you dealt with the ordinary function of daily life. [...]

There is a unity and there is a joy and there is an exaltation in all aspects of life and consciousness. [...]

(Seth had more to say about my life in Denmark in the 1600’s, although nothing factual or involving dates, etc. [...]

Now: the units about which I have been speaking do not have any specific, regular, preordained “life.” [...]

[...] It is indeed a condition of biological life—this of course despite all of your upbringing. [...]

Such a consideration brings also to mind gears about changing the status quo, of adding to life’s ordinary distractions. [...]

[...] You simply do not realize what you are now, and as I’ve said before, when you ask me questions about life after death, you automatically transpose, if you will all forgive me, this lack of knowledge into the next realm and therefore, sometimes I am at a loss to answer your questions. [...]

[...] This is fairly automatic, this tendency, and the nature of his mental life. [...]

[...] You simply do not realize what you are now; and as I’ve said before, when you ask me questions about life after death, you automatically transpose — — if you will forgive me — this lack of knowledge into the next realm. [...]

[...] If all illness has been adopted by a personality for a particular reason in this life, then it has been adopted so that the personality involved will understand the illness as a materialized symbol for a challenge or problem that the personality has set. [...]

[...] But these were unsatisfactory; so much could be said that, once again, answers to what seemed like simple questions could expand with a life of their own.

[...] “For the life of me I can’t understand why Seth’s emergence doesn’t make it a far better book than it would be otherwise.”

[...] If only life were that neat, I thought. [...]

[...] We have here this evening a secondary personality that attempts to rule the complete life of the personality of whom we have been speaking, and its name is ulcer. [...] The personality literally lives its life about the existence of the ulcer. [...]

[...] That is, reincarnation does not imply in a basic manner existence in one life after another, in your time of successive moments.

When it is said that certain characteristics from a past life influence or cause present patterns of behavior, such statements, and I have made some of them, are grossly simplified simply to make certain points clear.

[...] For you two this life is no game. [...]

[...] You have, now, an inner fortification and peace and knowledge that will allow you to deal with a more complex life than you would have been able to handle before. [...]

The world in those terms (pause) is as much the result of unpredictable behavior, unforeseen events, unexpected benefits, unforeseeable conditions, as it is the result of predictable actions, usual cause-and-effect phenomena (pause), and a close inspection of public and private life would show quite clearly that both are magnificently touched by significant coincidences. [...]

[...] In the same way, many other concepts and ideas already given will also assume a new significance and meaning, and add to the richness of your experience, because you will be open to them more than you were before — Ruburt in particular — to ideas having to do with reincarnation, life after death, other spheres of activity.

Without going into reincarnational information just now: from this life Ruburt got into the habit of not physically expressing emotion. [...]

It goes without saying then that the soul does not require a physical body for purposes of perception; that perception is not dependent upon physical senses; that experience continues whether or not you are in this life or another; and also that the soul’s basic methods of perception are also operating within you now even as you read this book. [...]

[...] In the truest sense, the birth magically happens, as miraculous in those terms as the so-called initial emergence of life upon the planet itself. [...]

[...] I tried writing it down so that I could read it to Jane: “Why did the personality adopt a course of action—being out of condition, say—that eventually came to assume such proportions in life that the focus upon it equaled, or even surpassed, the hours spent in the creative actions of writing that the personality said it wanted to do each day above everything else?”