“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(11:08.) There are even now in your species a number of different kinds of consciousness; different in that the physical life-situation is qualitatively experienced in ways that are not native to you in your culture; different in that the entire fabric of meaning, interpretation, experience, and life itself is “alien” to the kind of experience with which you are familiar. [...] You have been so obsessed with exterior differences, especially of color and nationality, that you have completely ignored these other far more important variations in the form that consciousness takes in relation to physical life within your race — the race of man.

[...] He said that writing can be, first, a method of standing apart from life to some extent — in order to capture life, and preserve the unutterable uniqueness of any given day. [...]

[...] I ended up thinking that my own little experience hadn’t amounted to so much after all; but still, it had made Jane and me aware of another facet of dream life. [...]

[...] This would be a very difficult achievement in normal life in any sustained fashion.

[...] As I’ve told Jane several times lately, the renewing rain reminded me once again of the wonders of nature, and I thought once again of living a natural life outdoors in the environment of woods and elements, summer and winter. Maybe I did this in one life or another. [...]

When you think “I should be thus-and-so along the way,” and so forth, or when you look back into the past and think that those abilities you had then should have matured far earlier in your life, you are doing so of course from a structure of your present. [...] That person was committed to a love of drawing but not to a life of art. [...]

[...] There are all different kinds of artistic development, of course, some more than others directly concerned with the play of life itself upon the artistic capacity, so that generally speaking, now, there are certain kinds of developments that in your world require the personality’s encounter with years of experience. [...]

[...] Creative people do have more than most an inner sense of their life’s direction, even if they are taught to ignore it. [...]

When you love life very deeply then it is very easy to despair, and when you compare ideal human relations to the relations that exist in the world as it is, it is very easy to despair; but if you give in to despair then you cannot see the beauty that does exist for the despair will eat it through like lye; and so hold on to the beauty and guard it and the vitality of your thoughts and emotions and your natural vitality as you would your life, for it is your life. [...]

(To Ned.) Behind me, this fellow behind the rocker, you mark my words and guard your vitality and the love you have of life and of your wife and of your child and the new life you see beginning in him and do not let the other emotions destroy your peace of mind. [...]

[...] When you allow your thoughts to run riot then your life runs riot. [...]

Those of you who are negative, therefore, will find this reflected not only in your waking life but in your dreams. [...]

Now, that disappointment with your relationship is even more pertinent than your individual and joint feelings about Artistic, and your life in that regard. That aspect of your life would simply be another challenge for the two of you to face together if you admitted this deeper disappointment and did something about it.

Because now you fear that the situation may become a way of life, you are finally both willing to take more direct action. [...]

[...] Neither of your ideas were tempered by the ideas of the other, therefore, nor were your feelings about these life problems. [...]

Now Ruburt took this out physically, and blocked emotions, not from the distant past but a current life-habit, now shows these blocked emotions. [...]

Now these two (Sue and Daniel’s)—I’m getting to them at a fairly young age in this life. [...] This is no fun life. It is a work life for you and it is a time for you to produce and develop, and to use your abilities on your own behalf and for others. [...]

It does you no good as an infant to recall your success of a life past in your terms, for then you feel twice as helpless. [...] Our friend Ruburt feels triumph in this life to have lived as many years as he has, and to find himself strong and hearty—for he feared that adulthood would destroy him. [...]

[...] In this life some of you are older and some of you are young, but as entities it may be the other way around. [...]

And when you realize that you form the events of your life in the same way, you will learn to take hold of your entire consciousness in whatever aspect it shows itself in this life. [...] Remember, also, that this life is a dimension of experience and reality even if it is, in contrast, a dream in a higher level of reality in which you have your larger consciousness.

[...] If you believe that you exist only within the context of this life, that you are born only to death and annihilation, then you will not use your freedoms in this existence. [...]

[...] Whether or not you remember your dreams, for example, a certain portion of you, under hypnosis, could remember every dream that you ever had in your life. [...]

That is correct — except that in the life in which you are now involved, you are not focusing upon the full potential of your vitality.

[...] Consciously you must realize this and seize the direction for your own life. Even if you say, “I will go along with all life offers,” you are making a conscious decision. If you say, “I am powerless to direct my life,” you are also making a deliberate choice — and in that case a limiting one.

[...] The principle of right action and divine order govern my entire life. I know my major premise is based on the eternal truths of life, and I know, feel, and believe that my subconscious mind responds according to the nature of my conscious mind thinking.

(Silently, quietly, all distorted thought patterns in her subconscious mind are removed and dissolved, and the vitality, wholeness and beauty of the life principle are made manifest in every atom of her being. [...]

From the outside, for instance, it might seem as if a young person dies because in one way or another he or she is dissatisfied with life itself. Certainly it is usually taken for granted that suicides are afraid of life. However, suicides and would-be suicides often have such a great literal lust for life that they constantly put it into jeopardy, so that they can experience what it is in heightened form. [...] Instead, many of them have an intensified life wish, so to speak. [...] The risk, in fact, gives them an intensified version of life.⁹

[...] On the other hand, Mary’s experiences in life may make her change her mind, so to speak, so that at 17 she encounters a severe illness instead, from which she victoriously recovers. [...] You cannot consciously begin to alter the framework of your life, however, unless you realize first of all that you form it. [...]

[...] They are just different, and they represent various ways of looking at physical life. [...]

Life as you think of it is far from being inflexible.

(I think that whatever fears of life Jane has are the result of conditioning early in life, and that they have successfully resisted all attempts to dig them out. [...]

[...] I also said that on a larger, more inclusive scale I can understand a person choosing a life of illness, say, in order to learn and to explore consciousness in certain ways. I think this is what she has chosen to do so far in life. [...]

“Or that something will happen to me, that will prove that there is more to life than usual cause and effect,” he said to us. [...] But in my own life, I can’t find it. [...]

[...] You might find that you have proof of precognition in your own life that you’re ignoring.”

Producing
from it’s magical bag
of tricks,
one marvelous form
of life after another,
fish,
bird,
monkey,
man
(not just one dove
or rabbit)
with a skill and swiftness
so astute
that our wise men think
one turns into the other!

The Turkish life was the only colorful past life I’ve had to my present knowledge. The Boston life was ordinary enough, according to what Seth said. [...] I was quite undisciplined, however, and flighty—personality defects that I am trying to correct in this life. [...]

[...] How is it that ordinary daily life seems much more real to us than any dream existence? And if such a universe is valid, why doesn’t it intrude on our daily life even more? [...]

[...] Dreams definitely affect daily life. [...]

“On one level the personality attempts to solve problems through dream constructions … and often gives freedom to actions that cannot be adequately expressed within the confines of waking life. [...]

In a way, illnesses are definitely a part of health, for life itself consists of a fine alignment, of imbalances. [...] In the greater realm of activity—I am trying to put this simply—a poor marriage, for example, is on the same level as a chronic but not life-threatening disease. [...]

[...] Your life is dependent upon that intimate relationship between body and mind. [...]

At different times in life certain areas may become prerogatives, while other just-as-important areas are largely ignored, or downplayed, in which case they suffer. [...]

The entire life situation may be unpleasant. [...]

[...] The “dreaming” psyche is actually as awake as you are in your normal waking life. [...]

[...] Later, in waking life, you may discover that a friend of yours, a Mr. Taylor (spelled), has a party, or dies, or gets married, whatever the case may be; yet you might never connect the dream with the later event because you did not understand the way that words and images can be united in your dreams.

(9:32.) Your waking life is the result of the most precise kind of organization, held competently and with amazing clarity. [...]

[...] Not only can you experience dramas in which you are intimately involved, as in waking life, but your range of activities is multiplied so that you can view events “from outside” your own usual context. [...]

[...] It is not just that all species of life have feeling, but that all participate in dimensions of emotional reality. [...]

Animals also possess independent volition, and while I am emphasizing animals here, the same applies to any creature, large or small: insect, bird, fish, or worm; to plant life; to cells, atoms, or electrons. [...]

[...] Genetic structure makes possible physical organisms through which life is to be experienced, and to a large extent that structure must determine the kind of action possible in the world, and the way or ways in which volition can be effectively expressed.

[...] The character in the play is seemingly alive (creatively) for the play’s duration, perception being limited to that framework, yet to play that role the actor draws upon the experience of his own life. [...]

Now Joseph (pause), neither of you should overlook the fact that in one way or another, and regardless of the psychic development, such a crisis point (Jane’s symptoms) would have appeared in Ruburt’s life as a result of personal characteristics, present-life background, and past-life characteristics.

[...] This life sees this integration as necessary. [...]

[...] These erroneous attitudes were built up in this life. [...]

[...] On other areas of life the spontaneous became highly suspect in both social and work areas. [...]

[...] In waking life you have the family that you recognize, or group of friends, or profession, or what have you. In dreams you may find yourself married to someone else, or living an entirely different kind of life. In a way dreams are like variations of the theme of your life, though in reality your life is the theme you have chosen from those possible versions.

[...] Using another analogy, it is as if you joyfully leave the normal paraphernalia of usual life behind, and ride aboard your own greater psyche into vaster seas of experience.

[...] At this moment the cells within your body know the life conditions of any place on the planet, and compute these, ascertaining the ways in which they require action on the body’s part. [...]

[...] They would seem to be at the peak of life, the product of the best America has to offer. [...] They may have attended colleges — but they are the first to realize that such advantages do not necessarily add to the quality of life, for they are the first to arrive at such an enviable position.

[...] No person dies without a reason.² You are not taught that, however, so people do not recognize their own reasons for dying, and they are not taught to recognize their own reasons for living — because you are told that life itself is an accident in a cosmic game of chance.

[...] You think that your purpose in life must be to be something else, or someone else, than you are. [...]

Beside the list given earlier [tonight], you have the American belief that money will solve almost any social problem, that the middle-class way of life is the correct “democratic” one, and that the difficulty between blacks and whites in particular can be erased by applying social bandages, rather than by attacking the basic beliefs behind the problem.

[...] One may be called “Life in the twelfth century A.D.” One may be called “Life in the eighteenth century,” or “in 500 B.C.,” or “in A.D. 3000.” [...]

[...] It is not correct, therefore, to suppose that your actions in this life are caused by a previous existence, or that you are being punished in this life for crimes in a past one. [...]

[...] This intensely moving drama, with all its joys and tragedies, can be compared with your present life, your present environment, both individually and en masse.

(According to Seth, each individual chooses the time and place of every “life” in his reincarnational cycle.)

[...] When communication is set up with those within your physical system, then indeed life meets life. [...]

[...] There was a Spanish life in the 13th century, and one in what is now the state of California in the very early 1800’s. You have been twice a woman, three times a man.