“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Your interest in painting and your abilities do not only spring from the Denmark life, for example, but also arose out of your quite legitimate life as Nebene, when you were focused upon the visual symbols and their correct inscription. [...]

[...] In the Denmark life the love of the visual was still with you, but you were trying to allow yourself greater freedom with it, to feel the freedom of adding to what you saw, but you felt a great reluctance to do so. It is for that reason that you gave up painting in that life.

[...] Your own relationship is excellent now, and the exercises will help in giving him greater physical spontaneity in your more intimate life.

I have no idea, of course, what physical state I’d be in if the Seth phenomenon hadn’t appeared in my life (in late 1963), or if I hadn’t had those sessions to rely upon. [...]

(9:10.) Seth couldn’t lead my life for me, of course. [...]

(Long pause at 9:35.) By last year, as my symptoms worsened, I began to feel that life’s frustrations outweighed its pleasures. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) In man’s desire to make creative adjustments, it often seems that instead he adds unfortunate blemishes to life’s vitality. [...]

[...] There were vast civilizations, however, where now there is only the endless expanse of the ocean waves, and ruins that most likely will never be discovered, for they are obliterated in the very life of the planet itself.

[...] But even those did not organize life about technology in the way that you do. [...]

[...] Be clear in your intent, however, and clear in your faith that the sales increase will benefit all portions of your life, and not cause any problems.

You can, however, think of what you will do with the money—how you can use it to increase life’s enjoyment, which will in turn benefit your work, and others.

[...] Often past-life memories come to the surface but are not recognized as such, since they appear in fantasy form, or are projected into art creations.

[...] Such instances represent an excellent working rapport between the present self and the unconscious, which brings these memories to the surface in such a way that current life is enriched. [...]

[...] The animus and the anima are born into the individual with the first physical life, and serve as an inner pattern, reminding the personality of its basic unity. [...]

[...] The life that you know is simply one of the many areas in which it is conscious. [...]

[...] These represent your personal symbol bank as far as your present life is concerned.

[...] Personal association, therefore, is highly involved with your personal bank of symbols, and it operates in the dream states precisely as in waking life — but with greater freedom, and drawing from the future, in your terms, as well as from the past.

[...] It contained the symbols of your past existences in your terms (and in your terms, you add to it in this life). [...]

[...] Some infants will think in the language of a past life before the new language is learned. [...]

[...] That was some 18 months ago, but actually to one degree or another I’ve been involved with “Unknown” Reality for four years now; I think that temporarily I’ve simply grown tired and overly concerned about the whole project, even while I still have a considerable way to go to finish certain notes and appendixes for Volume 2. Not that I haven’t worked on a number of other things at the same time, of course — but my labors on those two books represent the prolonged, intense focus I always search for in my creative life, and without which I feel incomplete. [...]

[...] You constantly process those data that come to you in your private life, and that information includes bulletins from all over the world, through your news broadcasts and so forth.

[...] Here I would like to emphasize that to one degree or another all species of plant and animal life “dream.” [...]

What part, for example, does chance play in your life? [...]

In your life as a minister (in Boston, early last century) you were a receiver in the terms that Ruburt is now, and your congregation acted as a transmitting agency.

[...] In that case your own personality structure was altered by the information that flowed through you, and it became a part of your earth life heritage. [...]

You and Ruburt had of course been in close relationships in past life existences in the physical system. [...]

[...] (Pause.) There were past-life circumstances operating. [...]

[...] If one problem is solved seemingly in such a manner, then you will simply have to set a new problem of a similar kind and begin again from scratch, in another life or other circumstances in this life. [...]

[...] You could ask me questions about your personal life and I would not require that you think for yourself. [...]

[...] What you do not realize is that when you are dreaming, you are writing the script for your physical life—you are solving simple problems, but lifetime problems you are trying out—probable actions. [...]

([Brad:] “Would it be of value for me to know, for example, that I had a relationship with my wife in another life?”)

(Pause.) You are always at the center of your life. [...] The same applies to each life lived either before or after. [...]

[...] Instead, you set it aside and frame it with its own decor, as you might in a museum that has separate rooms designating life in past centuries. [...]

[...] In your terms, you exist in physical life before your children do. [...]

[...] Each “greater personage” takes several parts, or brings forth several psychic children, who spring to life as individual human beings. [...]

[...] Now, this astral form belongs to the individual, the personality as it will be in this life. [...]

There is great energy connected with the fetus, for at no other time in physical life is so much energy utilized so purposefully and so well directed. [...]

The awareness of plant life lies along these lines. [...] The awareness of plant life is also like the awareness of a subject in deep trance. Except for the suggestion and stimulus received by regular natural forces on your plane, the plant life does not bestir itself in other directions. [...]

In some fragments such as much plant life and vegetative life there is strong use of certain inner senses. [...] Other types of life, including your own, rely on the recognized outer senses. [...]

When I said that you saved Ruburt’s life I meant it quite literally. [...] Jane’s father is still in danger of losing his life violently, but if he survives the next five years he will die a natural death, before 70 I believe. [...]

[...] The inner senses of all plant life are well attuned, alert and very important. [...]

[...] Other species of consciousness — of a different order entirely, and with a different rhythm of experience — would think of a life in your terms as a day, and have no trouble bridging that gap between apparent life, death, and new life.

[...] For example, certain kinds of life obviously respond to spectrums with which you are not familiar — but beyond that there are electromagnetic ranges, or rather extensions of electromagnetic ranges, completely unknown to you, to which other life forms respond.

[...] The main consciousness, because of its beliefs, often hampers such manipulability in normal waking life.

[...] To them the real was the dream life, which contained the highest stimuli, the most focused experience, the most maintained purpose, the most meaningful activity, and the most organized social and cultural behavior. [...]

[...] (Pause.) At night you tune in to dreaming reality simply by closing out so-called waking reality, but the same kind of dream experience continues beneath your focus in waking life. [...] You can and often do work out in dreams the challenges of daily life. In waking life you are also working out challenges set for yourselves in the dream state. [...]

[...] It may escape you, however, that the objects with which you surround yourself in physical life also have symbolic meanings — only these are three-dimensional. You may spend time trying to understand the nature of dreams and their implications, without ever realizing that your physical life is to some extent a three-dimensional dream. [...]

Your physical life and your dreaming life are so intimately connected that it can be misleading to say what I am about to say, colon: that waking experience springs from the unknown dream reality. [...]

[...] These can remain in the background during waking life — or you can decide to enlarge your world view by taking advantage of your dreaming activities. [...]

[...] Jane and I were so struck by the practical, far-reaching implications of this proposition that we began a concerted effort to put it to use in daily life. Briefly and very simply, Seth maintains that Framework 2, or inner reality, contains the creative source from which we form all events, and that by the proper focusing of attention we can draw from that vast subjective medium everything we need for a constructive, positive life in Framework 1, or physical reality. [...]

[...] On September 12, Jane had a very vivid dream that she believes was rooted in a past life of hers in Turkey: Her dream involved a little boy, Prince Emir, who lived in a brand-new world in which death hadn’t been invented yet. [...]

[...] That susceptibility is a medical fact of life. [...]

[...] Such a religion becomes isolated from daily life. [...]

[...] When you imagine a life after death as unnatural or supernatural then you feel divorced, cut off and bewildered. [...] Your physical life — your human nature — is, in your terms, dependent upon a time when you were not. [...] Your existence before and after death is as much a normal phenomenon as your present life.

[...] With what you know now you should realize that in each life you have different abilities. [...] So you need not fight that battle all of your life.

[...] Some of your interpretations were legitimate, based upon his attitudes, but many more were the innermost doubts that you have not faced as to who you were, and deep questions involving the nature of your person as it is related to your particular sex in this life.

You were aggressively aware of the difference between your own attitude and some of society’s in that regard, but for the first time in your life you were closely involved with another person, day by day—who to some extent (underlined) then served as a moving picture onto which you projected these fears as to your own worth.

[...] Regardless of past-life influences, which did exist, and granting some other interior reasons, you had a child to prove that you were a woman both to your mother and to yourself.

The symbols are so precisely and accurately produced that they simultaneously serve as aspects relating to your intimate daily life as well. Since everyday events are formed in part as a result of such dream information, then each event of your physical life is also a symbol for another otherwise undecipherable event that occurs in those levels of the psyche in which your own being is immersed.

[...] In its larger aspects, then, nature involves states that include both life and death in far more expansive frameworks of reference.

To some extent your dreaming state is a connective between the kind of life you recognize and this far vaster dimension that is its source. [...]

Your daily life seems to give you little evidence of this. [...]

(“Impulses have a life-serving, life-promoting, creative basis, and possess a spontaneous order—though as we will see, that order may not be immediately apparent since the orderly pattern is larger than our conscious span of events.” [...]

(“It should go without saying that impulses are the basis upon which life rides —and that they represent the overall motivating life force.”

[...] I have never wanted to dwell negatively on what might have happened in terms of probabilities, and have mentioned it very briefly only—but Ruburt’s psychic initiation, and your own, represented a breakthrough of the most important kind in this life, and automatically shunted aside, for good, many other serious difficulties that otherwise could have occurred.

[...] In an unsafe universe as given protection is necessary, and certain attitudes are accepted, coloring many areas of life, spreading out to assure that protection.

[...] This happens even in the life you know and recognize, even though you do everything possible to exaggerate the similarities and minimize the differences, so that you always seem to be the self that you have always known.

[...] Individual life, religion, culture, politics, were each vastly different in each period, the concept of the self profoundly different in one era and another. [...]

(11:07.) Coping became a way of life in each civilization. [...]

[...] Your psychological life is composed of many different levels of consciousness of varying classifications. [...]

[...] They will always form part of the fabric of your existence in this life. [...]

[...] There are periods of balance, where for example—and I am using analogies, understand me—you may find a product, a person at a certain balance point, pleased with all aspects of life, in good health, well-off financially, and meeting goals. [...]

The person as yet may have no idea that in contrast to what experience is available, his world, life, is highly limited, or flawed, for the person does not know good furniture from poor.