“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It was you who suggested the ESP book, and you also early decided not to become a part of the American mainstream of life. [...] You felt that a family life would automatically plunge you into the kind of living that would not allow you such luxury. [...]

Here we see purpose, strong intent, and despite the ins-and-outs with mood, and the youthful wandering, the same purpose to write, to express oneself, to observe, and to stand apart from the mainstream of American life.

(9:50.) The entire premise is highly faulty, for the species deals with value fulfillment and quality, as do all forms of life, and not with mere physical reproduction. [...]

[...] If you shovel you are not suddenly going to decide to devote yourself to a life of physical chores, and “meaningless” activity, and ignore your creative work. [...]

It is equally true to say that your deaths from this life are already accomplished, as it is to say that you have not yet been born in this life. [...]

[...] As far as your own system is concerned, I have told you that the past ever changes, and here we enter the realm of probabilities; for at any point in any man’s life, where a decision was made, the other probable alternative actions were also taken.

The self that stabbed you in the back was the self negatively (underlined)developed in this life’s early existence. [...]

The historical context was simply meant to represent the past in this particular life however, and Ruburt was your ally. [...]

[...] Directly beneath personal subconscious you will find upon examination either through hypnosis or applied association, a layer dealing with the period before this life, and after the life before this one.

[...] At times much information can be used from them, after analysis in conscious life.

Such personalities, that is such secondary personalities, do not represent past incarnations therefore, although some of the qualities may originate in a past life.

[...] When the proper focus point is reached however, these communications will result in rapport between the living and that portion of personality essences, or so-called dead, who are still at least psychically connected with life on your field.

The dream represented a correlation of past, present and future, a knowledge that Ruburt was indeed an artist in a distant life, that he has strong abilities in that direction now; and it represents your inner realization of the type of painting he can ultimately produce in this life if he utilizes the ability. [...]

Because of the present situation, where the man in your present life is a mere lad, the dream then changed levels. [...]

[...] This being a symbolic connection again, a transference not yet into this life, that is not into your parents’ home. [...]

But though you met both the present Dick and Loren, neither of you knew what your relationship would be in this life. [...]

[...] Your expectations literally create your life as you know it. [...]

[...] A rather stubborn resistance that has its roots in your childhood in this life. [...]

If it is somewhat bothersome to me, it is of great benefit to growing things however, and quickens the chemical responses of plant life. [...]

[...] You see, a very cruel interpretation and a very literal interpretation of his action in a past life, this coming through in an entirely different situation in this life. [...] Through his actions in this life he is trying to make an honest statement about actions in the past. [...] In this life, then, the parents do not mean to hold him. [...]

[...] It does no good to understand issues intellectually, however, or even to understand them intuitively unless you understand them so thoroughly that they become a part of your daily life. Much that you know you have made a part of your life, but you still wish to use your knowledge for your own conscious purposes. [...]

[...] There is something here particularly with him… an intense loyalty from a past life having to do with his parents. [...] The main problem in his case stems from this particular immediate past life. [...]

[...] You cannot drive through physical life in the same way that you drive your car down the highway. [...]

[...] They serve other functions, they have other purposes, they take part in life through a different cast of action. They affect life while themselves not completely immersed in it. [...] They remain, however, an important element in life’s overall picture — part of a psychological underpainting that always affects later versions.

[...] (Still intently): They can disentangle themselves because they have not as yet identified their basic beings with life experience. [...]

[...] One picture is transposed upon the others, and calculations made constantly, so that all of the components that make up physical existence are met, and intersect to give you life.

[...] The question of life’s tragedies still cannot be answered satisfactorily at the level at which either of you — or anyone else — is currently asking it. [...]

[...] Here, however, I only want to mention one facet, and that is the importance of physical sensation, of whatever kind—for the life of the body provides you, among all things, with a life of sensation, of feeling, a spectrum that must include the experience of all possible sensations within its overall range.

[...] We will later discuss the part of the mind and its interpretation, for example, of painful stimuli, but I want to make the point that those attracted to physical life are first and foremost tasters of sensation. [...] It is made to feel life and vitality by reacting to an environment that is not itself, by encountering what you might call natural stress. [...]

[...] That is the self that lives the life of the body.

Some people, for example, definitely want to live, while they try to hide from life at the same time. [...]

(Pause.) What is actually involved is a kind of paranoia, which can become such a powerful response that it can take over a person’s life, and color all projects. [...]

[...] They do not trust the natural functioning of their bodies, or accept this functioning as a gift of life. [...]

[...] Now he is beginning to understand that his energy is the gift of his life — to be expressed, not repressed — and to understand, again, that spontaneity knows its own order.

[...] It is a more comprehensive existence in one way, in that while you solve problems that exist in your physical life, you are also free of physical life to some extent within it, and free to travel to other dimensions.

[...] Physical reality itself is still a dream within a larger existence, so from that existence you seem to yourself to be dreaming while you are immersed in physical life. Often in physical life then, you are also working out solutions to problems that exist in a quite different manner, and in a completely different context in this other dimension.

[...] Set up your life situation about a normal pattern, and because Ruburt has lost a clear idea of what this is you can help him here. [...] Set your life up in that way and it will be. [...]

Now I expect your joint and individual exuberance to spread in all areas of your life now—freely—but you must begin those lists and you must take what I have said this afternoon to heart, not bury it in the records.

Now, you both (underlined) take it for granted that Ruburt cannot live a normal life. [...]

[...] It is a past life portrait, though the clothing is interpretive on your part. [...] Now this was a Near East life. [...]

[...] In another past life, Seth said he had been a member of a religion that no longer existed in our terms; that he would tell Jane and me about it some time, and that we would find it very interesting.

(I have no dream recall of the above life. [...]

my life and the message

The idea of survival reaches far beyond this life experience, and each person has new physical and spiritual existences ever ready — for there is no such thing as extinction. [...]

You are supported, never abandoned, and always couched lovingly in the great yet intimate presence of All That Is, whose love forms your breath, your life, your death, as in which the unknown divinity is always blessed and ever known.

(I’d like to add that while there’s life there’s hope, and that as Seth has said many times, one who doesn’t want to die — as Jane said the other day she didn’t — won’t for any reason. [...]

I do not want to romanticize nonhuman life either, or to overestimate its resources, but nature also has its own ways — and in those ways it constantly works toward survival of life in general. [...]

Such ideas affect every level of life, from the most microscopic onward. [...]

[...] First of all, I mentioned in our last class session that you are not tied to a neurosis from a past life, or because you set certain challenges for yourself in this life this does not mean that you cannot conquer them. [...]

[...] Now I am speaking now of any given particular issue, not for example, of an entire mental life style, but beneath the humility a stubbornness; an attention to detail; a freedom of thought on the one hand, but an attention to detail having to do also, with this life when you took care of a sacristy and attended to altar veils and the placement of candles, missals and statues in specific and given places. [...]

[...] Not that in a past life you overused psychic abilities but that in this one you are intrigued by them but frightened also, and afraid that in using them you would be lead too far away from the intellect. [...]

[...] She was far older than you in that life, as the older brother, and used to having his way. [...]

The whole nature and structure of physical life as you know it, is a symbolic statement made by groups of entities who choose to work with physical symbolism. [...]

[...] Your entire life is a statement in physical terms, written upon time as you understand it.

[...] You must learn, of course, what the various symbols mean in your own life, and how to translate their meaning.

[...] If these concepts are understood, then the individual should realize the freedom he has to operate purposefully within the structure of physical life. [...]

[...] How can you stand to nurture so many different kinds of life?”

[...] My life is far the better, and you two are only poor shadowy counterparts of me.”

So the spirit of Island Four journeys to that other reality, where all kinds of life swarm over shore and mountain, and the spirit of the third island visits a world of such peace that all motion seems stilled.

In the meantime, the spirit of the desert island is almost overwhelmed by the teeming life forms on Island Three, so next it visits the volcanic one; and when the volcano becomes frightened of its own energy the spirit of the desert island says: “Peace. [...]

[...] But the year we arrived, her life began to shrink. [...]

[...] Yet my first precognitive dream involved her, and, in a strange way, my psychic experience became bound up with her life. [...]

[...] I mean, think of how much more difficult life could be if we could see the future in dreams? [...]

Summer passed and autumn had begun before the next experience, one that was to change my life. [...]

[...] As an analogy, this would be as if you lived, say, the life of a rich man of great talent, the life of a poor man and the life of a mother and career woman. [...]

[...] Jane says, ‘No.’ But somehow they both seem more like themselves, as I know them in daily life.

[...] It is as though I am remembering physical life as a dream, and yet I have the feeling that Carl and I have done this cycle bit before, that we are doing it still in another place and that we will do it even as we are doing it now. [...]

Were it not for the experience of this probable self, and for its information given via the dreaming self to the subconscious, then it would be most difficult for the ego to come to any clear decisions in daily life. [...]

These were all stages of development, then, and the same applies to your life. [...]

[...] They may be applied beneficially in entirely different areas of your life—so stop disapproving of yourself, of your “mistakes.” [...]