“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You may decide to focus instead upon your past life, using it as the stuff of new experience, as mentioned previously creating variations of events as you have known them, making corrections as you choose. [...]

Now some individuals, some personalities, prefer a life organization bound about past, present, and future in a seemingly logical structure, and these persons usually choose reincarnation. [...]

[...] There will be emotional ties with other personalities whom you have known in past lives, and some of these may supersede your relationships in the immediately past life. [...]

[...] I thought it could underlie her daily life like a foundation.

[...] Chapter One: You come into the condition you call life, and pass out of it. [...]

Your life seems synonymous with your consciousness. [...]

In private life and on the world stage, action is occurring all the time. [...]

You may feel alone in life if all of your relatives are dead, for example. In the same way, entering life, you often assure yourselves that past friends or relatives are there before you.

In simple terms, your body has an invisible counterpart in Framework 2. During life that counterpart is so connected with your own physical tissues, however, that it can be misleading to say that the two — the visible and invisible bodies — are separate. [...]

[...] They want to feel a renewed sense of nature’s power, and often, though devastated, they use the experience to start a new life.

(Long pause.) When you enter time and physical life, you are already aware of its conditions. [...]

(To me:) Because you are so drawn to Ruburt, there is the struggle to actualize your emotions toward him in daily life. This of course superimposed on your early fear of emotionalism in this life. [...]

With this method, the examples come from your own life. [...]

[...] You should be alert however to the fact that emotional actualization in daily life is necessary, even though at times it will be much stronger than others, for the reasons given.

[...] While this pattern shows rather contrasting elements you will find a natural pattern; and some emotional actualization must also be evident in daily life.

[...] It is partially the result of experiences in this life, and of experiences in the last life. [...]

[...] The overcensuring, when it appears, shows itself, of course, in all spontaneous areas of his life—physical, psychic, creative and spiritual.

[...] Ruburt is at the tail end of these inner problems that have been there in this life since childhood.

[...] In the early background of each individual, in each life, you will find the material for development. [...]

[...] I intend to go into past-life experiences rather extensively, but in another context. The main problems with Ruburt exist as given, and when these are cleared then we will have clear access to our other material, that is, the past-life data.

[...] Without the trance however you will not reach buried past-life data.

(“We can use some more past-life data on this problem. [...]

In this particular instance there is no overriding past-life data that is important in context with Ruburt’s condition, except the overall personality patterns that existed.

[...] I also was curious as to what he’d say about my speculation that the symptoms themselves might actually be one of her main challenges in this life.

[...] You will compare your own life and work often in a critical fashion to artists who were obsessed with one art from the beginning of their lives, or who pursued what is really a kind of straight and undeviating course—a brave courageous one, perhaps, and highly focused, but one that must be in certain respects (underlined) limited in scope and complexity, not crossing any barriers except those that seem to occur strictly within painting’s realm itself (all intently. [...]

You also ignore the fact that even the kind of painting you do could not be done by anyone else, and contains within it the raw material of your own unique and natural experience with life, and no one else’s.

[...] Part of your accomplishment lies in our sessions and your own considerable work with the notes, and with the invisible aura contained in those notes, for there in a different way you are painting a portrait—a portrait of two lives from a highly individualistic standpoint, extremely unique—and that is the kind of experience that would be ripped out of your life’s fabric, were you the hypothetical idealized version with whom you sometimes relate—a version highly romanticized, let me add. [...]

Alone, they carry within themselves the splendor of unknown knowledge, and they arise from the deep founts of Ruburt’s life, containing within themselves the neighborhood and world in which he grew, the power and vitality of the people he knew, the resourcefulness and energy that composed reality. [...] And the two of you together also live within one life that expresses multitudinous voices, and sheds its own mercy, gladness, and joy, out into the world at large, enriching it, renewing the springtimes, and never truly ending.

[...] I’d always been cautious about asking her to keep holding them, for fear that they might come to dominate her life. [...]

The sessions, like life itself, have been and are a gift, rising from the immense, never-ending creativity of existence.

[...] You loved her greatly in this life …” The priest promised to send me a copy of his eulogy.

[...] Although one can say that her life is over in this reality, her lifework isn’t. Many have written that her books are new each time they read them — that they’re constantly finding new material in them. [...]

[...] Enough there to do for the rest of my life, certainly, and perhaps for others to carry on after I join my wife.

As Seth said in the session for July 31, 1984, in The Way Toward Health, “The sessions, like life itself, have been and are a gift, rising from the immense, never-ending creativity of existence.”

(I have the simple, profound faith that anything I desire in this life can come to me from Framework 2. There are no impediments in Framework 2. Framework 2 can creatively produce everything I desire to have in Framework 1—my excellent health, painting, and writing, my excellent relationship with Jane, Jane’s own spontaneous and glowing physical flexibility and creativity, the greater and greater sales of all of her books. I knew that all of these positive goals are worked out in Framework 2, regardless of their seeming complexity, and that they can then show themselves in Framework 1. I have the simple, profound faith that everything I desire in life can come to me from the miraculous workings of Framework 2. I do not need to be concerned with details of any kind, knowing that Framework 2 possesses the infinite creative capacity to handle and produce everything I can possibly ask of it. [...]

[...] That breakthrough, you might say, with perhaps some exaggeration, was a life saver, for without some such expansion Ruburt would have felt unable to continue the particular brand of his existence. It is not possible to say in words what one person or another looks for in life, or what unique features best promote his or her growth and development. [...]

(I added that I’d had no idea that the idea of the Sinful Self occupied that prominent and basic a position in her life. [...] It would make a lot of sense, I said, if it were true, and would account for things like an obsession with work, giving up other life activities, etc.—all done in a disguised attempt to appease that Sinful Self that merrily carried on year after year.... [...]

It is one thing to say that the dilemma is unfortunate, but it is also true to say that the dilemma existed because of a breakthrough that gave him what amounted to a new life at the time.... [...]

[...] He was not responsible for her marriage, its breakup, for his mother’s illness, again, or for the entire “tragedy” that he sees as his mother’s life. [...]

In normal terms in life, while the conditions for life are given, the nature of physical time means that practically speaking life will be full of surprises, for in usual terms you do not know what will happen tomorrow. [...]

[...] But the subconscious knows that the quality of life for that individual involves such exhilaration, and such a person literally chooses that rather than, for example, what someone else might consider a well-balanced long life.

Choices are a vital ingredient in life.

That “well-balanced life” might well be considered a slow death to our risk seeker, and no moral judgment can be placed on such behavior.

[...] This is your life, and your life, and your life, and not mine. [...]

All, all–life is full of vitality, and all life is joyful, and sitting around the table with long faces is not any more beneficial than sitting around the table with wine on it and the lights lit. [...]

Now those beliefs separate man from his own nature.¹ He cannot trust himself — for who can rely upon the accidental bubblings of hormones and chemicals that somehow form a stew called consciousness (louder and quite ironic) — an unsavory brew at best, so the field of science will forever escape opening up into any great vision of the meaning of life. (Long pause.) It cannot value life, and so in its search for the ideal it can indeed justify in its philosophy the possibility of an accident that might kill many many people through direct or indirect means, and kill the unborn as well.²

[...] This manuscript, however, is devoted to the interplay that occurs between individual and mass experience, and so we must deal with your national dreams and fears, and their materializations in private and public life.

[...] Yet there was of course a psychological fallout, and effects that will be felt throughout the land by people in all walks of life. [...]

[...] A given scientist may act quite differently in his family life and as a scientist. [...]

Immediately Seth launched into a discussion of Sonja’s past life experiences. In the time available, he dwelt on one life in particular, during which he said Sonja had a cleft palate that impeded verbal communication. [...] He also said that Sonja loved color and fabric and that she used these as a method of communication in the past life as well as in this one. [...]

A few day’s later, I received a long distance call at home from a woman who told me that Seth’s appearance on the “Today’s Woman Show” convinced her of life after death, though she had never believed in it before. She also said that listening to Seth had been the most profound religious experience of her life, although Seth had not talked in specific religious terms. [...]

Certainly my life has been vastly enriched by an odd subjective mobility. [...] Then my physical environment does not concern me, and my normal waking life is the dream.

You could say, if you wanted to, that Seth intruded himself from some unconscious dimension into my conscious life, yet now he is such a part of my professional and personal experience that much of my time is spent studying and interpreting his theories. [...]

Dreams, for example, were once as clear, vivid, and real as waking life was. [...] Men and women in fact learned how to deal with daily life—daily waking life—by studying the lessons they received in the dream state. [...]

Children possess this high expectancy, this promise of future growth and development, and whenever those expectations are discouraged, then to that extent the quality of life itself is diminished. [...]

Social life also becomes contaminated, so that people expect the worst rather than the best outcome for any endeavor or encounter. [...]

[...] Man tried out in waking life those lessons that he received in dreams. [...]

[...] The pleasure principle can probably be likened most to the latent appreciation of beauty that is everywhere apparent if you look for it: the ecstasy of each form of life for the wonders of its own existence, in which love’s values go beyond themselves, and yet a condition in which each species or life form “realizes” that its own fulfillment adds immeasurably to the existence of all other forms.

As I have mentioned many times, animals then dream, as do plants, insects, and all forms of life. [...]

[...] It should be no surprise, then, that this same kind of “fitting together” includes subjective life also—or that, say, your private dreams are also fragments in a vaster dream reality. [...]

[...] Tam Mossman said: “Seth was certainly into my imaginative life; also, he has me pegged psychologically.” Tam said Seth’s data about his inner life was “especially true.” [...]

[...] But there was a laxness within, and a lack of inner concentration that in this life hampered earlier development.

[...] They were trying to discover the secret of heredity within plant life.

The efforts on the part of seed life were unappreciated. [...]

(Pause at 11:51 — then with much emphasis.) The fact is that in life you poise delicately and yet perfectly between realities, and after death you do the same. I used the opportunity, then, to explain the great freedom available to Robert Butts’s mother after death — but also to explain those elements of her reality present during life that had been closed to him consciously because of mankind’s concepts about the nature of the psyche. [...]

[...] Yet when I am finished, I hope you will discover that the known reality is even more precious, more “real,” because you will find it illuminated both within and without by the rich fabric of an “unknown” reality now seen emerging from the most intimate portions of daily life. [...]

[...] Now: Life after death has usually been described quite in keeping with the old accepted ideas about one self, and limited concepts of personhood. [...]

[...] It is a triumph of spiritual and psychological identity, ever choosing from a myriad of probable realities its own clear unassailable focus (very intently). When you don’t realize this, then you project upon life after death all of the old misconceptions. [...]

[...] They see the results of dream activity in practical physical life. Many others, though untrained, can clearly trace certain decisions made in waking life to dreams. [...] In waking life there are fluctuations in your consciousness, periods when you are more or less alert, in your terms, when your attention wanders from issues at hand; or when, instead, you are certainly brilliantly focused in the moment. [...]

[...] Because you must manipulate within specific time periods, you do the same kind of thing in daily life, and on a conscious level ignore or exclude much information that is otherwise available.

[...] You know what physical issue is (intently), because you see the children of your loins, but you do not experience the children of your dreams in the same physical way, nor understand that your dream life is continuous. [...]

[...] When you are alive, corporally speaking, what you think of as dreaming becomes subordinate to what you refer to as your conscious waking life. [...]