“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your sex life—and I have told you this countless times—is important. Your emotional (underlined) sex life, as last night shows; when you let down with each other and really show your feelings.

[...] However simple those ideas may sound to the adult, still they carry within them the needed power and impetus that fill all of life’s parts. [...]

Many people no longer believe in life after death, and so large numbers of the population are philosophically denied a spiritual or a physical future.

There is no need to search endlessly into the past of this life or any other, for the “original” causes for beliefs. [...]

[...] Some generic images will have strong personal significance because of past life experiences. [...]

[...] The specialized development of animal life led to and brought about specialization of function. [...]

[...] They color much of your subjective life. [...]

[...] Now he said that Walter Zeh had also been an invalid in a previous life, and a female. [...] In his previous life Walter Zeh had been crippled because of an accident.

[...] Because he had been an invalid in a past life, he tried to slow down Jane’s development in this life to a crawl. [...]

(Also it was necessary that this episode in Jane’s life take place before I came along, and be gotten out of the way and done with. [...]

[...] Her illness was not the result of events in this life only, but of past lives also.

“Life as we know it is excitement; highly organized—excitement at all levels, microscopic, macroscopic, psychic. [...] We instinctively know that disasters mimic the birth and death of cells within our bodies—we instinctively know that all life survives death, that death is the bursting of life into new forms, hence our fascination with accidents and fires. The psyche itself leapfrogs our beliefs at usual conscious levels, and sees us as a part of all life, excitedly forming all kinds of complexes which then fill themselves to the brim, exploding, escaping the framework only to form another. The emotions themselves can sense this when we let them, and grasping that sense of excitement can show us a glimpse of the even greater freedom of our own psychic existence, which flows into us as individuals and then bursts apart that short-lived form into another, as the excitement of individuation leaps from life to life.”

2. When Jane and I married on December 27, 1954, we promised each other that neither one of us would interfere with the other’s creative approach to life, no matter what resulted from the actions we individually chose. [...] Yet as the years passed I still had to learn the obvious—that Jane’s creative powers are inextricably a part of her whole approach to life, including her symptoms. [...]

[...] Two days later, Jane began writing the first of the three essays she had planned for the book: “Poetry and the Magical Approach to Life.” [...]

[...] If she were to sum up the results of her life’s work so far in a few lines, this poem would do the job the best of all:

(Slowly at 11:46:) Ruburt’s condition involved a situation in this life. [...] In larger terms, such focusing in particular areas can involve an entire life situation, reincarnationally speaking, where you choose ahead of time, so to speak, to concentrate your attention in certain areas rather than others; you may pick for yourself a body that does not perform normally, or a mind that is not up to par in usual terms.

These are recommendations given yesterday, of course, but their life-giving qualities can be taken advantage of now. [...]

[...] I realize its performance will call for my summoning a kind of nerve and disregard and daring that ordinarily I’d just as soon ignore in daily life....)

[...] And I thought that years ago, [and with my own unwitting cooperation] Jane had given over control of her life in certain large ways to the Sinful Self through the symptoms—and yes, abjectly allowed it to exert such power and influence that now she finally found herself in the grip of a strong force, or set of beliefs. [...] A little suffering in life—okay, I thought, considering the session last night—but this? [...]

[...] In the face of Ruburt’s background he has managed as well as he has, and that in the other areas of life you are doing far better than you habitually give yourselves credit for. [...]

[...] You must remember that the entire problem does indeed exist in a larger personal framework in which life and energy are abundantly and freely given. [...]

[...] These are reflected in your physical life, and in one way or another elements of your life are shared in the same fashion.

[...] Your self is secure in its own identity, unique in its characteristics, meeting life and the seasons in a way that has never happened before, and will never happen again — yet still you are a unique version of your greater self. [...]

1. In Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality Seth began developing his theory of counterparts — that the larger psychological self, or entity, of each of us manifests not just one physical life in any given century, say, but several, so as to gain that much more experience in a variety of roles involving different ages, nationalities and languages, sexual orientations, family roles, and so forth. [...]

[...] The personality then irresponsible but full of gaiety, with some effeminate characteristics from an earlier 9th century life. [...]

(“Did Barbara have any children in her last life, the Oklahoma existence?”)

In the Oklahoma life, five.

([Barbara:] “What was my first name in the Oklahoma life?”

[...] You chose challenges, then, because despite it all your personalities are the kind that set up such life situations to begin with. [...]

[...] Life was not meant to be perfect. [...]

You could have stayed in apartments all your life, denying yourself the privacy that you now enjoy, and thus avoided any conflict. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s creative life follows rhythms in which he produces excellent works usually in great bursts of activity—then a quiet period. [...]

Yet I felt that they had patterned my life and behavior for some years, culminating in the physical situation. [...]

[...] I must have gotten to the point where I thought, “Okay, if you’re afraid to trust yourself completely, and your own life, let’s take a taste of what it’s like to have no other place to turn but the world of conventional medicine and beliefs.” [...]

[...] In any case I could see how important our ideas were, and how much they were needed—and I hope I began to feel that indeed I could trust my own life when it came down to it, when a choice should be made (all emphatically). [...]

[...] And that perhaps my life had no place to go if that were the case. [...]

[...] It is absurd to believe that you can learn one iota about the inner reality of life when your search leads you to destroy it. Destruction, you see, in your terms (underlined twice), presupposes a misunderstanding of life to begin with.

Suppose that you stood in one spot all of your physical life, and that you had to do this because you had been told that you must. [...]

[...] There is, in certain terms, a continuum of consciousness there of which your present physical life is a part. [...]

In many cases your scientists seem to have the strange idea that you can understand a reality by destroying it; that you can perceive the life mechanism of an animal by killing it; or that you can examine a phenomenon best by separating yourself from it. [...]

[...] I had mentioned that this woman was known to you in previous life. [...] However, the elements of the dream were disintegrating, and he saw the woman in the form with which he is familiar with her in this life. [...]

[...] She was a medium, and she passed from life to death with a smooth transition, continuing her work almost without interruption after death. [...]

The men, reassured by Ruburt in the dream, appeared without being old, although the original event of the past life involved men in their 70’s. This was a distortion of the personal subconscious, to add to the seeming separateness of the two dreams.

He was bound up with you in the past life and what he did not know then, and he knew much, he has picked up telepathically from you, since the washing machine was a visual distortion of the idea of a ship, which he interpreted as a tub. [...]

[...] All of the larger divisions of life—the mammals, fish, birds, and so forth—are an integral part of that living gridwork. [...] In your terms, then (underlined), all of life’s large classifications were present “at the beginning of the world.” Otherwise there would have been vast holes in that grid of perception that makes possible the very sensations of physical life.

(9:42.) The large classifications of life give you the patterns into which consciousness forms itself, and because those patterns seem relatively stable it is easy to miss the fact that they are filled out, so to speak, in each moment with new energy. [...] (Pause.) The reincarnational aspects of physical life, however, serve a very important purpose, providing an inner subjective background. [...]

[...] The entity gives the fragments independent life, then more or less forgets them…. [...]

“I can think more creatively and positively in all areas of my life. I can move faster and more surely in all areas of my life. [...]

[...] These were triggered, I believe, as I looked over Seth’s material on counterparts in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, and by his material on my Roman captain life in the same period, as he gave it in the deleted session for Sept. [...]

[...] Nor do we know that much about the circumstances of the Nebene life to begin with. [...]

A good deal of the time he has been writing well, operating in Framework 2. Whenever you operate in Framework 2 in any area, to some extent you enrich other areas of your life. [...]

[...] I also am aware of your quite natural and human need to translate philosophy into daily life and action.

[...] In my present book, The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book, I am including techniques that will allow you and thousands of others to use these ideas in normal daily living, to enrich the life that you know and to help you understand and solve your problems.

[...] If you believe me, then you will realize that others at best can only act as intermediaries, middlemen, and are in that respect not needed, for the energy is always available in your life. [...]

[...] Think of a sad event from your life. [...]

[...] I explained that I had such thoughts when we moved to Pinnacle Road, and could easily revive them and try a different kind of life.

As she was in life, she would not have understood in any case unless the money definitely came from a recognizable, socially accepted output on your part. [...]

[...] At the same time, you are more than a little contemptuous of what we may gently call the mental culture of Bill Crowder’s life and mind. [...]

[...] But when you take stock with the feelings we are describing as the emotional yardsticks, those feelings consider valid only the beliefs that go along with them—a traditional male role: the accumulation of money through traditional means—and they discount as legitimate the accumulation of knowledge or wisdom as a pursuit of life. [...]

[...] Your social, political, religious, economic and medical areas of life are all built upon certain assumed suggestions that people agree to accept as standards of behavior. [...]

[...] Because of your natures, you are seeking answers to the most difficult problems of life and death alike, on your own, so to speak. [...]

[...] The trembling (in the legs) is indeed a sign of new life, new sensation, as large areas of the body try the new positions. [...]

[...] If Ruburt had gone to a doctor, he would have been a different person after a certain point in his life—so in a way it is meaningless to ask what would have happened. [...]

[...] Without this creativity, planetary life in your terms would always be sterile. [...]

The settings in your physical environment, the sometimes lovely paraphernalia, the physical aspects of life as you know it, are all camouflages, and so I call your physical reality a camouflage. [...]

[...] Your environment is not simply the world about you as you know it, but also consists of past-life environments upon which you are not now focusing. [...]

(10:58.) Pretend that you have been blind to this world all your life, and are now slowly gaining sight within it. [...]