“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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. [...]

(“Where did you spend most of your life, Frank Watts?”)

A life.

(“Did you know either Jane or me in a previous life?”)

(“What did you think of my speculations about life and age, births and probabilities?”)

[...] Death and life are indeed one and the same. [...]

(My questions to Seth about life and death sprang out of my hassles this morning about insurance, oddly enough. [...]

[...] Of course, there has to be a physical cutting-off point somewhere along the line— but even then, I said, we may move into another life and begin all over in those terms. [...]

[...] She may be so different in basic ways from most of her fellow human beings that conflicts may be almost inevitable—at least until later in life, when the personality has learned what the situation is and can make adjustments. [...] My question is based upon the environment and situations she found herself in as she grew—not upon any questions about why she chose such circumstances in this life to begin with.

[...] The creative self, however, left alone, and being in a Framework 2 reference, will take all aspects of life into consideration. It lights up all aspects of life. [...]

[...] Main points should be the trust of the body—that is paramount—and the expression of the creative spontaneous self in all areas of daily life. [...]

A child who says, “I gave up my life for my parents and devoted myself to their care,” means, “I was afraid to live my own life, and afraid to let them live theirs. And so in ‘giving up’ my life I gained the life I wanted.”

A mother who says to her child, “I gave up my life for you,” is speaking nonsense. In basic terms such a mother believes, no matter what she says, that she did not have that much to give up, and the “giving up” gave her a life that she wanted.

(10:48.) True religion is not repressive, as life itself is not. [...]

There are indeed lost gospels, written by men in other countries in that time, relating to Christ’s unknown life, to episodes not given in the Bible. [...]

In periods of depression you feel that your life, the main points, have passed, and that you have lost time—important time that you feel you cannot recover. [...] There is no one who can change your life for you. [...] You are now organizing your life about your hearing defect. [...]

[...] You expected many things —a complete renewal, a reversal of certain circumstances in your life—a new relationship with your husband. [...] You thought that you would welcome his cooperation and aid, and because, now, of other conflicts with him, in the east, in this life, instead, you resented his help. [...]

[...] Whether or not you are consciously aware of this, in your earlier life, when you became extremely nervous or upset or had a bad problem, you began to “shut down” stimuli. [...] Because of some circumstances and conflicts with your husband in this life in the past, you did not want to hear what he had to say. [...]

I want to tell you what I know about your days, and then I will tell you what you must do to change them, You are beginning to organize your life about your lack of hearing. [...]

Seth uses the term “value fulfillment,” as in the title of this book, to imply life’s greater values and characteristics—that is, we are alive not only to continue, to insure life’s existence, but to add to the very quality of life itself.

[...] Although she’s not entirely in agreement with me on this point, I think that essentially Jane is a mystic—not an easy thing to be in our extroverted, materialistic society, for it represents a way of life that’s little understood these days. [...]

[...] Jane is to take these pills for the rest of her life. [...]

We do not just receive the torch of life and pass it on as one Olympic runner does to another, but we each add to that living torch or flame a power, a meaning, a quality that is uniquely our own. [...]

For some time, in your terms, the sleepwalkers remained more or less at that level of activity, and for many centuries they used the surface of the earth as a kind of background for other activity.Their real life was what you would now call the dreaming one. [...] It mentally formed the patterns through which all physical life could flow. [...]

1. My dream represented a reaffirmation of a stand I’d taken early in this life—one that perhaps I’d felt since birth. [...] My interpretation is that I saw the tree as the tree of life even then, and that I’d chosen to remain close to the world of nature and art instead of immersing myself in the safer industrial one. [...]

[...] Each form of life is created along with each other form—environment and organism in those terms creating each other. [...]

(9:30.) Now (underlined): When he dreamed—when he dreamed (underlined)—man actually returned to a state prior to waking, from which his physical life itself had emerged—only now he was a new creature, a new kind of consciousness, and so were all of the other species. [...]

[...] (Pause.) A relative from this life, I think. [...]

There is still determination and vitality on the wife’s part however in regard to this life. [...]

[...] The religious connotation from your past life, given a modern interpretation. [...]

[...] You did not have, in the past life, any idea of joy connected with religion, however, the cross being then a symbol of death, leading to a Puritan afterlife.

[...] In spite of all problems, the life force operates continually in each person’s life, and can bring about at any time the most profound, beneficial changes. The idea is to clear the mind as much as possible from beliefs that impede the fine, smooth workings of the life force, and to actively encourage those beliefs and attitudes that promote health and the development of all aspects of healing experience.

For all of life’s seeming misfortunes, development, fulfillment, and accomplishment far outweigh death, diseases, and disasters. [...]

It must seem obvious that behind all such beliefs lies the distrust of nature, man, and life itself.

[...] Instead, compare the negative beliefs, for example, with the storms that sweep the country: they have their purposes — and all in all those purposes tend to promote and support life itself.

[...] Remind yourselves also that despite all of your worrying, the spirit of life itself is continually within your experience, and forms your physical body.

[...] His impulsive nature is actually somewhat more restrained in this life than it was in the previously past life. [...]

You have more than compensated now for past errors, not only in this life but in the previous life. [...]

[...] It can be as valid in a dream, or even more so, than in waking life. The lost town incident was extremely significant to him, and represented his subconscious projection of a memory from a past life upon the present.

[...] In the immediately previous life he was a woman, living in your own west, midwest.

If life is seen as good in this system of belief, then youth is viewed as the crowning glory, from which summit there is no further journey except descent. [...] To these people senility seems a natural, inevitable end to life.

The individual, when it is time then, begins to see beyond temporal life, to open up dimensions of awareness that in your terms he or she could not afford while involved in the intense physical focus of normal adult life. [...]

[...] They may say that since an individual chose his or her problems in this life — deciding for instance to be born black, or poor, or both — that karma is being worked out; therefore such issues should not be adjusted through a change of law or custom. [...]

[...] Seth, I thought, would say that my father chose all the circumstances of his life, and that such a deprivation in old age was a probable result that materialized physically. [...]

[...] You may be depending upon another such person too strongly, trying to live your own life secondhandedly through the life of another. [...]

In waking life you experience certain events as real, and generally these are the only ones that can be captured by an ordinary photographer. [...]

[...] This should be easy to grasp, for if you tried to understand physical life having only a group of snapshots taken at different places and in different times, then it would be rather difficult to form a clear idea of the nature of the physical world.

Now: If you are honest with your thoughts and feelings, then you will express them in your waking life, and they will not cast disturbing shadows in your dreams.

For one thing, [the] Cinderella [tale] has a happy ending, of course, and is therefore highly unrealistic (with irony), according to many educators, since it does not properly prepare children for life’s necessary disappointments. [...]

[...] The fairy godmother, suddenly appearing, uses the normal objects of everyday life so that they are suddenly transformed, and we have a chariot¹ from a pumpkin, and other transformations of a like nature.

The tale has always appealed to children because they recognize the validity behind it.² The fairy godmother is a creative personification of the personalized elements in Framework 2 — a personification therefore of the inner ego, that rises to the aid of the mortal self to grant its desires, even when the intents of the mortal self may not seem to fit into the practical framework of normal life. [...]

[...] The disappointments you have faced indeed make such a tale seem to be a direct contradiction to life’s realities. [...]

(A one-minute pause at 9:21.) In normal daily life, considerable natural therapy often takes place in the dream state, even when nightmares of such frightening degree arise that the sleeper is shocked into awakening. [...]

[...] While the experience was exhilarating, it could have turned into a “nightmare” had his conscious mind not clearly understood; had he walked outside, for example, and found himself encountering living creatures rising out of each rainy puddle; and if for the life of him he could not have turned the creatures back. [...]

[...] Your life as a creature is dependent upon your alliance with flesh. [...]

(10:42.) If you identify with your body alone, then you may feel that life after death is impossible. [...]

[...] In your terms you worked out this possibility by weaving, over a period of three years, a dream framework in which you learned exactly what your life would have been, had you gone into medicine.

[...] In the dream state you experienced literally a future life that existed as a definite possibility. [...]

[...] Some of these people you also know in the life that you chose.

In your present daily life the same process continues. [...]

Though Ruburt was a good-looking young woman, with much vitality, he had no children, and indeed had been determined not to, for writing was the overwhelming interest in his life. [...] Though you were in your thirties, you had not married, and your sex life was rather controlled. You both had at that point decided not to concentrate upon family life. [...]

[...] In the process, you see, your views of life are changing, and that change is showing that your creative abilities, if expressed, will automatically allow you to express your natures—your natures—and will lead you into your most advantageous way of life.

[...] Place reminiscent of another in another life, when the wolves came. [...]

[...] Your two present brothers were intertwined with your life on two other occasions, once as friends and once as cousins. [...]

[...] Many of her generation women were so wearied by drudgery in past lives that they wanted no children or responsibilities in this life, and may felt subconsciously cheated when children were born. [...]

[...] In each life the new consciousness struggles to tie together the whole present personality, to use what is necessary from the subconscious for the good of the personality, and to keep submerged in the subconscious any knowledge that would threaten the dominancy of the present ego.

[...] You have the same sort of thing that Jane had, but Jane is getting over it egotistically in this life. [...]

[...] It is as if in your terms, you see, you could go back to a period of this life where you should have acted in a different way and didn’t. Well you have the opportunity now to go back into that existence and make it different in the present. [...]

[...] The confidence you find then will serve you now and help you in the daily life that you think you are leading now.”