“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

According to other religions, you may be “earthbound” by the “gross desires” of your nature, “bound to the wheel of life,” condemned to endless reincarnations until you are “purified.” As I have said before, according to psychology and science, you are a living conglomeration of elements and chemicals, spawned by a universe without purpose, itself accidentally formed, and you are given a life in which all the “primitive and animalistic” drives of your evolutionary past ever lurk within you, awaiting expression and undermining your control.

[...] You are born seeking to add value to the quality of life, to add characteristics, energies, abilities to life that only you can individually contribute to the world, and to attain a state of being that is uniquely yours, while adding to the value fulfillment of the world.

[...] In a life just previous to that one however, you were a woman with a bitter tongue, who spoke too often and too harshly, and so you set yourself among other things the task, in the Irish life, of speaking only to music. This is highly simplified of course, there were other reasons, but in singing you were not harsh, and in singing you communicated in a way that you could not in the earlier life, and in the singing also you gave of yourself in a way you did not earlier.

You were also highly involved with what was going on in the country at the time, where in the life immediately previous you cared little for any but your immediate family, and rarely moved beyond your house. In the Irish life therefore you chose to roam freely and to inform others as to the happenings of the time.

[...] In the immediately previous life you see you were quite different, and thought only of yourself. [...]

[...] In entire life situations—I am speaking in terms of a lifelong illness now—the illness is not predetermined by the personality to last the length of the life. [...]

[...] No personality chooses a life situation of illness. [...]

(“I have often wondered: why do such childhood experiences have such lasting effects through an adult life, that may be many years longer?”)

You have told him that life is far more generous, that there are built-in mechanisms of defense. [...]

[...] And physical life in its reincarnational self is not some chaos thrust upon you, some evil from which you must shortly hope to escape. [...]

[...] They are recognized intuitively when they appear on the exterior scene because in psychic life they have already been known, and in dream states these dramas have been worked out. [...]

[...] They are very close, however, in comparison with other religions in that they at least accepted the possibility that all things were a portion of vitality and life. [...]

Those who need verbal messages most, and I am closing my eyes so no one will be offended, those of you who need verbal messages most, are those who have the greatest doubts about their own inner reality and experiences, (to Bette) but beyond that you distrust anyone who seems to have had a better education in this life than your own, and it is discrimination. [...]

[...] It was one in which she was attempting to follow in a still-life some of the techniques I’d showed her a few days ago, when I repainted another still-life composition she’d started, and showed her how to get more opaque effects for variety; a demonstration, then, for she’d asked for “a lesson.” [...]

(Pause.) Sometimes to protect themselves because of their beliefs, people then form distorted portraits of themselves, and project these outward “to take life’s arrows,” so to speak. [...]

[...] In waking life, however, you have both been literally hypnotized by the idea that such a recovery is one of the hardest things in the world to achieve (intently). [...]

[...] The beginning of our sessions represents to you your own version of hearing the voice of God, in that you felt that it was the first time in your life that in whatever guise, some portion of the universe “had a message for you”—or that you were in contact with anything beyond the ordinary, that at least held hopes for a glimpse of any real knowledge beyond the known.

[...] Those of you now living, say, are in the same life class. [...]

[...] In a way, illness is a tool used on behalf of life, for people have given it social, economic, psychological, and religious connotations. [...]

It “sings” with the quality of its own life. [...]

[...] It reinforced the lessons of daily life, and was highly important in man’s progress.

[...] Though it seems to you that reincarnational existences involve past and future events, they are existences parallel or adjacent to your own present life and consciousness. [...]

[...] Yet in that existence, physical life had a contrast, a sharpness greater than any I had known. [...]

[...] I chose that life deliberately, as each of you choose each of yours, and I did so because my previous lives had left me too blasé. [...]

[...] It does mean that each of you choose those life conditions that you have for your own purpose, knowing ahead of time where your weaknesses and strengths lie. [...]

[...] Instead, through working with your own beliefs, take it for granted that your life is important; begin with it and where you are. [...]

(10:01.) Any help that you give to others will come through the creative utilization of your own characteristics and no one else’s. Do not get upset with yourself when you find yourself dwelling on negative issues in your life. [...]

Some beliefs may work very positively for you for certain periods of your life. [...]

For a while the new adults often feel themselves to be invincible, beyond the boundaries of creaturehood, even; this belief, again, endows them with the strength and energy they need to begin a life for themselves and to form their own mass world. [...]

Even in reincarnation for example, an ego who experienced a Civil War life is now aware of another ego who may have experienced life in the year three thousand. [...]

[...] Because of your time misconceptions you make serious errors whenever you attempt any predictions into life after death, or life within other systems than your own. [...]

[...] (Pause.) A life in a Spanish environment, with Spanish speaking people but in South America. [...]

[...] If you agree that violence is power then you will punish the criminal with great vindictiveness, for you will see life as a power struggle, and will concentrate upon the acts of violence about which you read. This may bring such aspects into your personal life, so that you yourself meet with violence — hence deepening your conviction. [...]

Any normal home life is denied him; and along with the overall concentration upon the problem at hand, all other stimuli is purposely held to a minimum. [...]

[...] That is the source of physical life, the sense of power and action. [...]

[...] The recognition of that fact alone can revitalize your life.

[...] To do so would obliterate life as you know it.

[...] You allow it its life and follow through. [...]

[...] The fact is that before being “assailed” by what may seem to be such terrifying unnatural ideas, you have already blocked off an endless variety of far less drastic ones, any of which you could have expressed quite safely and naturally in daily life. [...]

At certain levels both cat and mouse understand the nature of the life energy they share, and are not — in those terms — jealous for their own individuality. [...]

(Yet I think more is involved than choosing among the belief systems offered by Eastern or Western cultures, for instance — that is, in more basic terms each personality would make that kind of choice before physical birth, with the full understanding of the vast influence such a decision would have upon a life’s work. [...]

“What is this passion for nonbeing, this denial of sensual life, that drives so many gurus and self-proclaimed prophets? [...]

[...] You are a god living a life — being, desiring, creating. [...]

[...] Seth, for example, in the 642nd session in Chapter 11 of Personal Reality: “You will not attain spirituality or even a happy life by denying the wisdom and experience of the flesh. [...]

[...] In those terms the entity wakes up as a different person each day, in a different century, each life seeming like a day in its level of experience. [...]

[...] In each individual case the options will be different, of course, yet you can draw into your present life some knowledge and intimate connection with your own probable realities.

On a conscious basis, then, you can learn to deepen the dimensions of your life by pulling into it the rich fabric of probabilities. [...]

[...] I asked her now to dictate to me exactly what she wanted me to record: “Now he’s telling us that to take conscious control of your beliefs and life and everything does involve a new manipulation of consciousness, where I’d been knocking my guts out thinking it should be something you can do real easy. [...]

[...] In this life, you come together and part, come together and part again, forming a counterpart relationship when it suits your purposes, as streams of consciousness might mix and merge, and then separate.

(11:00.) The lack of persistence simply shows that in large measure your way of life suits you both, regardless of its consequences. [...]

[...] Even when it is shut light shines through it, illuminating your daily life. [...]

[...] Abilities focused upon in one life may be recognized as your own now, for example, but not strongly utilized.

[...] It does mean that in your own life such information automatically appears in intimate ways, but couched within the framework of your own comprehensions, even passing unobtrusively through your conscious thoughts.

[...] If you are too imaginative, for example, you may not be able to adequately deal with physical life. [...]

[...] Earlier, she’d finished a small acrylic still life of flowers and fruit.)

[...] Ruburt was presented with—or presented himself with—a situation in which large portions of his creative life appeared in books that were written in another state of consciousness entirely. [...]

[...] You worked that out in your Nebene existence to a large extent, and because of your own preparations for a life in which you are now involved. [...]

In personal terms, he feared that his father abandoned him for that reason, that his mother disliked him for that reason, for each person will interpret the belief in his or her own life according to circumstances. [...]

[...] Imagine a very large painting, in which the most important events of your life are clearly depicted. [...]

Many of you believe that it is safe to make a nuclear bomb, but that it is insane to use your dreams as another method of manipulating daily life; or that it is all right to be consciously aware of your viruses, wars, and disasters, but that it is not all right to be consciously aware of other portions of the self that could solve such problems.

[...] And into what kind of waking life would you rise in the morning?

[...] You form your life, however, through the intimate interworkings of your own conscious goals and beliefs.

It is as if the experiences of your life were captured on a film. [...]

In a manner of speaking the activity of your brain adjusts the speed with which you, as a physical creature, perceive life’s events. [...]

(9:44.) Your brain gives you a handy and quite necessary reference system with which to conduct corporal life. [...]

This is most difficult to explain, but the capacity for full conscious life is inherent in each portion of the body itself. [...]

[...] The notion of one life at a time, in any time period, is bullshit—the psyche is so rich that it can have more than one life at a time—like your Nabene and Roman lives together, in the first century A.D. But if you tell people that you’ll get them all confused....”

[...] The man was seen larger than life, in excellent physical condition.

[...] In this life he never sought tall, strongly developed, muscular, large-boned males out, but avoided them. [...]

[...] That represented a period in his life where he felt physically insecure. [...]

[...] When he considers work as paramount, however, or thinks in terms of “the work of my life,” that emphasis inclines (with amusement) him to think primarily of results rather than of doing. [...]

[...] Those fears are then not admitted, for he thinks that they must indeed be beneath a person whose entire life work is devoted to a search for the nature of reality, and therefore a person who must possess, or try to possess, the answers to all of the questions.

The truth, as he interprets it, is no longer the joyful, curious, creative, free search for truth, let it lead where it will; but the idea of a life’s work makes him think “Who’s following me? [...]

Television becomes a threat because he feels he is being asked to prove the unprovable, and yet since this is his life’s work he feels responsible to do so.