“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I’ve always transferred my life to letters,
and one day it will reside
exclusively in written nouns and vowels,
clean paragraphs
distilled from mysterious life’s days.
Even before death’s event
I plan my mind’s resting place
as if there is a second life
in thought’s products that defies
the brain’s shorter span, and rises
sans blood, flesh, hand or eye,
self-contained, truly alive at last;
like some mental balloon
set on a safe course finally
through unexplored skies
when the hand that holds it
lets it go.

[...] Jane loved physical life with a deep, intuitive and psychic innocence then—and she still does. [...]

Its workings entail cooperative ventures literally beyond your comprehension —ventures in which each life, and each detail of each life, has a purpose, a well-intended purpose, so that when it naturally seeks its own good it also increases the good of all. [...]

In the dream you make a decision never to partake of such a feast again, and the decision simply represents the multitudinous like decisions that are made by individual people, when they finally recognize the fact that a given act, considered acceptable in the past, does not fit in with the overall intent of life at large. [...]

[...] Acts which fit in with the good-intended universe, in which basically each life and detail, seeking its good, also works for the good of all others, bring forth what you call good acts—simple enough acts which are not well-intentioned in that light, toward the self or others “do not work right.” [...]

On the other hand, because of your agricultural methods and so forth, many animals live, through breeding, who would not live otherwise—so those creatures are given life. [...]

[...] For one thing, of course, neither of us particularly believed in life after death—certainly not conscious life, capable of communicating. [...]

The next time we tried a few days later, Frank Withers said that he had been a soldier in Turkey during one life, and insisted (through the board) that he had known Rob and me in a city called Triev, in Denmark, in still another life. [...]

[...] I thought my life and work were planned, my course set. [...]

[...] To my knowledge, I’d never had a psychic experience in my life, and I didn’t know anyone who had. [...]

“You have not accepted life on life’s terms,” he said. [...] You are refusing to accept life gladly, as its own reason and cause within you.

“Once you wholeheartedly accept life on life’s terms, then you may indeed get what you are after, but not while you insist upon it as a condition for continued existence. … Your own purpose will make life a daily joy when you let your conditions go. [...]

“The idea that you must find a man that will love you is a cover to hide this deeper refusal to accept life on life’s terms. [...]

[...] They accepted life on its terms, and in so accepting they were filled with a grace … that comes from giving life all that you have.”

I am not speaking of usual, but fairly unusual events, when, in one fashion or another, reincarnational memory seems to bleed through to the present life. [...]

[...] On the other hand, usually such episodes are highly reassuring, for along with them rides the inner assurance that life has been lived before, many times.

[...] They remain only as memories, having opened up the person’s mind to larger visions of life than he or she may have entertained before.

bring all my life to newly rise in wisdom

with a secret life that dances

(9:28.) A small note — for this will be a brief session — to add to your material on disease: All biological organisms know that physical life depends upon a constant transformation of consciousness and form. In your terms I am saying, of course, that physically death gives life. [...]

[...] In the greater sphere of spiritual and biological activity, the viruses are protecting life at their level, and in the capacity given them.

In one way or another, they are always invited (underlined) — again, always invited — in response to that greater rhythm of existence in which physical life is dependent upon constant transformation of consciousness and form. [...]

(9:40.) Give us a moment… The phase of death is, then, a part of life’s cycle. [...]

[...] In this dogma man needs to apologize for his birth, and the conditions of life are seen as a punishment set by God upon his erring creatures. [...]

[...] Such people will, however, tend toward a strongly disciplined life. [...]

Expression is a necessity of life, however. [...]

Many men look forward to having sons, while at the same time they revere marriage as a necessary part of respectable family life, and also feel that marriage is somehow degrading — particularly to a male — and that the sex act itself is only justified if it brings him an heir.

[...] Toward the end of a long life, however, he began to doubt. Life was cheap. [...]

As Nebene, while attracted by Ruburt, and in love with her, you considered her evil, and your attraction to her as a weakness on your part, a debasement: so now you find yourself in the position of helping Ruburt understand that his basic nature is good, that he is not leading people astray, as in that life you thought he was.

[...] It was in that life also that he knew Sue as the personality that sometimes has emerged between them.

[...] I must be getting him bigger than life, because now I see him bounding all over Europe with his great big shield.” [...]

[...] Seth said I had not known Lee Wright before, but that I had been “involved” with Judy in a past life. It was indeed in my Denmark existence, he said, “the life of which you are now so ashamed.” In that life Judy had been a man, and a sailor. This reminded me that Seth had given similar data for our friend Bill Macdonnel; he too had been a sailor in a Denmark contemporary existence, but as I recall I did not ask Seth whether Judy and Bill had known each other in that life. [...]

[...] It was a time when such cruelty was indeed accepted, and sensitivity was hardly a way of life.

[...] Seth’s use of the phrase “at one time,” could refer, we suppose, to either a past life of Lee’s, or an earlier period in his present one.

(Lee said he didn’t recall any injury or trouble with his left foot in this life.

(Pause.) Now: While you believe that consciousness somehow emerges from dead matter, you will never understand yourselves, and you will always be looking for the point at which life took on form. You will always have to wonder about a kind of mechanical birth of the universe—and it will indeed seem as if your own world was made up of the spare parts that somehow fell together in just such a fashion so that life later emerged.

[...] In this book, then, we will look at the origin of the universe, the origin of the species, the origin of life from another viewpoint. [...]

I hope to show that all species are motivated by what I call value fulfillment, in which each seeks to enhance the quality of life for itself and for all other species at the same time.

[...] I hope to show their practical importance, both as a part of man’s “evolutionary development” and their possibilities in what you think of as modern life. [...]

My definition of magic is this: Magic is nature unimpeded, or magic is life unimpeded. [...]

[...] The reasoning mind alone, however, cannot by itself grow even the smallest cell, or activate the life of even one molecule, yet the growth and maintenance of the body is constant.

When you become too serious you overwork your intellect and tire your body, for then it seems that your entire life depends upon the reasoning of your intellect alone. [...]

[...] Many people ask, for example: “What is the purpose of my life?” Meaning: “What am I meant to do?” but the purpose of your life, and each life, is in its being (intently). That being may include certain actions, but the acts themselves are only important in that they spring out of the essence of your life, which simply by being is bound to fulfill its purposes.

[...] Pu²³⁸, a high-quality isotope consumed in commercial nuclear reactors, has a half-life of about 88 years. [A bomb-quality isotope, Pu²³⁹, has a half-life of around 24,400 years.])

Therefore, a kind of momentary gap appeared between his life and his living of it—a pause and a hesitation (pause) became obvious between his life and what he would do with it, as his condition showed just before the hospital hiatus. [...]

[...] that when you’re a kid you pick up certain ideas about what kind of a person you want to be—from a photograph, a corner of life, an edge, and you put all those little things together into a personality. [...]

[...] For many people—most people—carry on the same kind of procedures while making important decisions as to whether or not they will continue life at any given time—but they hide the issues from themselves far more than Ruburt did.

[...] Life decisions are often made in just such a fashion. [...]

Someone here this evening mentioned that it seemed that you only learn what life is and who you are and then your life is over; the time is brief. [...]

[...] I want you to feel their reality, their strength and vitality and to realize that they also reinforce your own life and your own existence. [...]

[...] For beyond this, there are still other beginnings so alien that I cannot explain them, and yet they are connected with your own life; and they find existence and expression even in the small cells within your physical flesh. [...]

You are teaching yourselves the value of consciousness and vitality and strength and life, by pretending to yourselves that death is death and that your consciousness will not continue and that your parents who die are forever still, by pretending that the voices you have heard in childhood will be heard no more. [...]

[...] I take Seth’s reference to a friend’s apothecary shop to mean the one operated by our friend in this life, John Bradley, who has been a witness to several sessions. According to Seth, John in his immediate past life ran such a shop in Boston; he moved at that time in the outer circle of our acquaintance. [...] In that life Seth states John died in 1863, which helps determine the time Jane and I lived in our immediately past life also.)

This will be one of the very practical contributions of these sessions to daily life. [...]

The nail had to do with a horseshoe in a previous life. [...]

Your father in that life tried to control the horse but its forefoot came down upon the nail. [...]

[...] For example: If you constantly focus on the belief that your early background was damaging and negative, then only such experiences will flow into your present life from the past. It does no good to say, “But my life was traumatic,” therefore reinforcing the belief. [...]

[...] (See the 620th session in Chapter Four.) Only when particular procedures are assigned to it, and when it is set aside from normal life, does hypnotic suggestion seem so esoteric. [...]

Hypnosis clearly shows in concentrated form the way in which your beliefs affect your behavior in normal life. [...]

1. See the 639th session in Chapter Ten for material on the life and death of our cat, Rooney. [...]

You adopted a female form in your next life. And in that life you learned the meaning of love, and the false necessity of sacrifice. In this life you hoped to learn further answers of science, but in the eyes of the molecule you found yourself staring symbolically into the eye of that long-forgotten idol. [...]

[...] And in the day, you continued in those pursuits necessitated by your life in the tribe. [...]

[...] And in all of this life you questioned and tried to use your intuitions to the fullest. [...]

(“How much of a part is Jane’s past-life misuse of her psychic abilities playing in this life?”)

[...] He misused such abilities in a past life, and this time he is having to work for them.

His own mother in this life had, and has, abilities. [...]

[...] Her being is what I want to spend the rest of my life with. Once again I recalled Seth’s statement in Chapter 5 of Dreams, in Volume 1. See Session 899 for February 6, 1980: “But the purpose of your life, and each life, is in its being (intently). That being may include certain actions, but the acts themselves are only important in that they spring out of the essence of your life, which simply by being is bound to fulfill its purposes.”

I took those associations to mean that no matter what her evolving focuses in her present life, Jane should be as much aware of my reactions to her situation as she is of her own—that even though I’d worked out religious questions in a previous life, still this time around I had chosen to share with her a probable reality within which her physical symptoms, bound up as they are with the subject of religion, could occur. [...] It’s not that she perversely refuses to get well, even with all of the help Seth and I have tried to give her—and that she has even asked for—but that the deepest portions of her being in this physical life have other goals, toward which her nonphysical self and her physical symptoms are traveling together. [...]

[...] During the early morning hours of the 6th she had a very vivid and joyful reincarnational dream involving herself, and a dream in which she returned to her own past in this life. [...] The first one gave her information about a life she’d lived as a nun in the former province of Normandy, France, in the 16th century. [...]

[...] I saw only the end of the program, but it involved, Jane told me, a persons traveling from a present life into a past life. [...]