“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Dictation: There are also various states of consciousness in waking life, upon which you do not focus, and of which you are usually quite unaware. [...]

On occasion even in waking life a personality may spontaneously shift gears, so to speak, and suddenly find itself for a second or perhaps a few moments within another such realm. [...]

[...] By becoming more aware of your consciousness as it operates in physical life, you can learn to watch it as it manipulates through these other less familiar areas. [...]

[...] The production of dreams is as “sophisticated” an endeavor as is the production of the objective life of a given individual. [...]

[...] Our appreciation of life has expanded greatly — and if the Seth material did nothing but help us grow in that respect, it would perform a very valuable service. [...] [Actually, I think that what I’ve learned has saved me from bitterness and disillusionment in later life. [...] I for one think that my own words are pretty inadequate tools of expression to convey the deeper, unspoken meanings within life that I sense but cannot really verbalize.

The desire for life has been most flaunted, yet human psychology has seldom dealt with the quite active desire for death. In its natural form this is not a morbid, frightened, neurotic, or cowardly attempt to escape life, but a definite, positive, “healthy” acceleration of the desire for survival, in which the individual strongly wants to leave physical life as once the child wanted to leave the parent’s home.

(Long pause, one of many.) I will have more to say about suicide, but I do not mean here to imply guilt on the part of a person who takes his or her own life. [...] Often, for example, a person wanting to die originally intended to experience only a portion of earth life, say childhood. [...]

[...] In a way, they gave you both a second life, for in the old framework there was no satisfying [underlined] or creative way to go.

Now, in your experiences this evening you have been dealing with symbols and you bring them to life. This is exactly what you are doing every day of your life in your normal hours of activity but you do not recognize the symbols. [...]

[...] So that if all physical knowledge were taken from you, all the knowledge that you have learned since birth in this life, and that is impossible, but if it were possible still within you would always be the inner knowledge not only of your own private past and future, but of the private past and future of your kind and of your species. [...]

[...] Automatically in daily life you translate symbols into what you call reality. [...]

[...] God instead must be a giant onion, a beautiful giant onion, and so our poor and stupid little onion spends all its life waiting for this giant perfection of an onion to come by and save it. [...]

[...] The objects and symbols within it are as faithful representations of dream life as physical objects are of waking life.

Obviously you cannot become aware of that stage of consciousness now, but you can keep track of the way symbols appear to you in both waking life and the dream state, and learn to connect them with the feelings they represent. [...]

(10:36.) Some such symbols stay with you for life. [...]

[...] In this realm of consciousness an entire book may be written, or one’s life plans thoroughly scrutinized. [...]

[...] Each being is an individualized segment of the universe; then, in human terms, each person is a beloved individual, formed with infinite care and love, uniquely gifted with a life like no other.

[...] The knowledge can let it relax, let go, so that it feels its life couched and safe, and knows itself to be indeed a beloved child of the universe, both ancient and young at once, with an identity far beyond the annals of time.

[...] Even then, however, all creatures are sustained by that innate gift, that inner sense of security that not only propels creatures toward life, but safely conducts them past physical life and past death’s doorway.

[...] (Long pause.) This optimism is reflected in many other areas of life also.

Dictation: Currently, mankind has little knowledge of the interior dream world, his place in it, or its effects upon his daily conscious life.

[...] (See the 668th session in Chapter Nineteen.) You would call each of these immersions into three-dimensional existence a life, with its own self. [...]

[...] All of this has to do with pulsations of energy and consciousness, and in one way what you think of as your life is the apparent “length” of a light ray seen from another perspective.

[...] I guess it’s supposed to mark a milestone in one’s life — especially that of the male of the species — but I have no plans to retire, quit working, or give up the creative life. [...]

Remind yourself that for all you might have read, or heard, or deduced earlier, it is certainly not inevitable that all unfortunate situations take the darkest of tones, and that indeed the opposite is true; for if such were the case, the world and all of life would have literally been destroyed through disasters and calamities.

[...] Sue, if you speak of life and death and if you speak of men’s dreams and aspirations, then some people in Dundee will understand. [...] In every walk of life. [...]

[...] Remember, and I do not expect any of you practically in daily life, to hold this as a rule. [...]

[...] now I want to say that since I began studying the books the quality has definitely increased in my life, and I want to thank you for that.”

[...] And there is the meaning of your life and your death. [...]

[...] In that life my main occupation was that of a merchant, but I was a highly curious gentleman, and my travels gave me access to many different groups of people.

[...] Now some of these jewels, as well as the money, went for expeditions that you do not realize were adopted at the time, having to do with commerce and ships sent to Africa; and this interest had to do with my later life when I was involved with the oregano [as a spice merchant in Denmark, in the 1600’s]. [...]

I did not play the part of any towering personality of historical note, but became experienced in the homey and intimate details of daily life, the normal struggle for achievement, the need for love. [...]

[...] (Smile): Ruburt, in particular, did not accept reincarnation, and the idea of such multiple life experiences would have been highly scandalous to him.

[...] For the purposes of this particular chapter, we will discuss illnesses or situations that have arisen since childhood, so we are not including birth defects or very early life-endangering childhood accidents, or most unfortunate childhood family situations. [...]

In this book we will be involved with the nature of beliefs and with various methods that will allow you to choose those beliefs that lead to a more satisfying life.

You are alive to express the individualistic life-force that is the source of your being. [...]

One of the main issues is the recognition of the fact that energy is good, that its expression is to be naturally encouraged, and that through such encouragement each individual best fulfills his or her life, and also adds to the development and understanding of the species.

[...] In that area you are asked to merge philosophical insights with the practical, everyday nitty-gritty of life. [...]

[...] So to some extent or another, Ruburt’s own adherence to past beliefs of a “negative” nature were also used in his life itself, appearing as symptoms that only the more pointed out the necessity for light, and the need for the greater understandings toward which he was searching.

[...] I said that much of what we talked about would be considered the normal hassles in life, but that we had put negative connotations on those things and ignored the positive. [...]

[...] But the idea is that it is safe to express himself, and that the true purpose of his life is indeed to express those characteristics that compose his personal reality.

(4:45.) In other words, Ruburt was given strong creative abilities that he was determined to express — but at the same time early in his life he was given the idea that it was highly dangerous to express the very uniqueness that was inherent in his creativity. [...]

He is to realize that if he has any duty or purpose in life, it is indeed to express those very abilities (all very emphatically), since those abilities are so natural in his makeup, they also possess their own protective mechanisms. [...]

[...] You had indeed a very short life, dying at nine or ten, of diphtheria. [...]

[...] Many times before Seth has told us he lived a life in Denmark in the sixteenth century.)

[...] The time you seem to spend within the dream, within each life, is only an illusion, and to the inner self no moment has passed, and to the inner self there is no time. [...]

[...] Also, Joan of Arc has figured rather prominently in her life; in school for instance she was called Joan of Arc, witch, etc.)

Now: as I told you, Framework 2 is the creative medium that is responsible for physical life.

[...] The more you enjoy life, and your daily moments, the less difficulty you will be in in any area, for your thoughts become naturally pleasant, and naturally attract good to you from Framework 2.

There are no impediments in Framework 2, then, to desires that are natural, creative, and that promote life. [...]

Some of the material in this session is extremely valuable in the handling of health problems, because of its clues in rousing the creative abilities from one area of life to another. [...]

(Seth spoke to Gert after she had discussed life in the convent and her feeling of having had to go there.)

[...] Your spontaneity is your life. [...]

[...] Now, you have a lot to do now, but consciously you are not aware of what you do, and little by little you must learn to accept greater and greater portions of your own reality in this life and future lives. [...]

[...] However, you are also working toward an inner image of a self in a previous life but it is highly distorted. [...]

[...] However it is impossible for them to create a consistent solid image in your terms, for while they are still focused within your system the inner self knows well that the individual is finished with a given life situation, is out of alignment so to speak, and is therefore denied full use of its own energy.

The focus of attention cannot be as strong as it was in physical life, hence the inability to deal with energy in those terms. [...]

[...] All of this directly affects your own personal and joint—I will have to use the term for you —future, experience; both in this life and later.

We will in the future deal with the problem of evil, and hint of some of its implications in our life after death material.

[...] Through your past life, that is the life before this one, you progressed along these lines. [...]

[...] Ordinarily the last life before this would have adequately compensated for the Denmark experience, but the mother situation in this life reawakened the fear of giving in to impulse, and tended to overstrengthen the desire for discipline, which was based on fear.

[...] You will get your life readings in due time, and other material in which you are interested, and still other material in which you will become interested. [...] You must realize that just your personal data is a project in itself, and just to cover this one life at that.

As far as life readings are concerned, I will go into the matter later.

[...] They pared life down to its necessities. [...]

[...] He can do far better, and the way to begin is to allow the spontaneous self as much freedom as he can in daily life, and to trust its expression—that it knows his psychic and creative needs, his physical needs, his social and financial needs, and all of these can be taken care of.

[...] In still greater terms, each life experience is unique so that it is literally impossible to put labels, such as “positive” or “negative” upon any aspect of experience, so keep this in mind also.

[...] There was a life in Arabia, a poor and humble one, and one much more recently in the Midwest of this country; as a woman.

(To Pete:) You did not know Ruburt nor Joseph in a past life. [...]

(According to Seth I have lived a life in Boston, and it ended probably just before the Civil War.)

[...] Therefore in actuality no one life is lived before nor after another.