“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This summer, you compared your way of life with those polarized ideas, with the way of life of the construction men, for example. [...]

The outside-attuned consciousness, however, is almost dependent upon exterior stimuli for its sense of life and enjoyment. [...]

[...] For you feel that the life-styles are completely different, and polarized.

Here, as opposed to the apartment, where the life-styles were seemingly in a more transitory situation, you have both again dramatized yourselves to some degree as outsiders in a negative fashion, disapprovingly seeing yourselves in relationship to your neighbors, but not constructively. [...]

[...] This life is as important as any other life, and none of you attempt to deny the abilities of another for in doing this you speak against creativity. [...]

[...] If you understood me, you would realize then that you are highly unique, and that those problems and challenges that you have can be met by no others, and that those private elements of your personal life that seem so uncosmic are, indeed, of great importance. [...]

[...] Life bursts apart in all directions as consciousness does and explodes in all probable directions. [...]

[...] And life did not begin as some isolated single organism that in the great probabilities of existence meant another, and then another, and then another, until a chain of molecules could be made and selves formed. [...]

[...] In the first place, as you know, your life is at once, though you experience, practically, a life-to-death sequence — Ruburt’s living area in Adventures.⁷ Every probable event that could happen to you, happens. [...]

There are systems in which a moment,⁵ from your standpoint, is made to endure for the life of a universe. [...]

[...] Life after death has great meaning in your reality, because death is a part of it. [...]

[...] What you think of as daily life is then a focus upon certain probable events above others, a choosing of significances, a selection of pattern. [...]

[...] The ordinary person, for example, in the western world cannot relate to a Darwinian past in that same fashion, and psychology robs him of any personal extension in the future after death, so in practical life most modern people have freedom of extension in space but less in time. [...]

[...] Your life seems to have no past behind it or future ahead of it, so identity itself seems foreshortened. [...]

[...] Such a framework may have been filled with potential problems, but there were usually ways in life to get around those ways that were specified according to religion or culture. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) There are rhythms in your experience, so that some information comes freshly newly in life in your experience that in certain ways you overlooked before. [...]

[...] The dream came to remind Ruburt of those connections, but also to remind him that his life even then was enriched by a long-held love relationship. [...]

The dream representing his grandfather symbolically allowed him to go back to the past in this life, to a time of severe shock—his grandfather’s death—which occurred when he was beginning to substitute scientific belief for religious belief, wondering if his grandfather’s consciousness then fell back into a mindless state of being, into chaos, as science would certainly seem to suggest. [...]

[...] He [Ruburt] had a small experience of hearing a voice speak in his mind [yesterday]—a voice of comfort, all he remembered of quite legitimate assistance he received from other personalities connected with the French life, that came as a result of the French dream. [...]

(I suggested to Jane that she see what she might be able to pick up on her own about the French life. [...]

He became quite good at expressing this inner life regardless of other circumstances, and the situation at home, and he understood that it was at odds with what was expected. It was the most vital area of his life, so quite on his own he decided that he would forgo motherhood and a conventional family life.

[...] In a way the symptoms are a statement of the distance Ruburt wanted to maintain from public life, because he felt equally that he should go out into the world in a public manner, and “tackle it.”

Now the species does have its life-tasters, rising always out of any given time to check on the overall quality of life, to see what new ingredients should be added—what new directions should be followed, what new ideas or inventions must be planted for future harvest.

Ruburt once received a few interesting pages from a world view, in which the author spoke, in archaic terms, of being a person who was a “life-taster,” sent by God to taste the quality of man’s experience, so that God might know what new ingredients might be added.

[...] In it Jastrow goes on to talk about how silicon-based computer life is going to replace man and his messy emotions—theories quite in keeping with current “scientific” thinking about man’s innate worthlessness and his accidental creation. [...]

[...] He is beginning to understand that the spontaneous and creative aspects of personality are the life-giving ones. [...]

[...] You do not have to fight to trust the thrust of your own life. [...]

When you trust the thrust of your own life, you are always supported. [...]

If, for example, you believe that after a certain time of life hearing will fade, then so it will. [...]

[...] Unassimilated beliefs, unexamined ideas, can seem to adopt a life of their own. [...]

Here was a young man whose beliefs were alive with their own life while he was relatively powerless. [...]

Now: there is one main issue in particular that mitigates against a full life, generally speaking, and that shows itself in many instances in either physical illness, or in the “illness” of poor relationships, or lacks of fulfillment. [...]

[...] Life becomes a series of habits, and in the mentally ill, for example, you may have seemingly meaningless habits, compulsively performed. [...]

Habitual patterns can be broken overnight with creative unpredictability, and creative unpredictability is of course one of life’s greatest characteristics. [...]

[...] You know more about your life than you think you do—and far more about your life and society than you are intellectually aware of. [...]

[...] [That total includes Mass Events, God of Jane, and the poetry book, all of which are yet to be issued.] In the private session for September 22—one of his series on the magical approach to life—Seth had told us that our work is “protected.” [...]

[...] The form represented (long pause) the personified, accumulated positive energies that were working to his advantage at that time, that provided him protection, but that also automatically worked to the benefit of his life and projects.

[...] It is a kind of secondary information—interesting, but not life-giving.

I had meant to mention earlier that your daughter and sister were brothers in a previous life... [...] and that child will be G’s husband in this life. [...] Your father has now strong feminine traits because in Boston in an immediately past life there was a woman... [...]

[...] early in life... [...]

[...] There is some past life that operated in your case that has caused a block, and we hope that we can help you remove it. [...]

[...] Now you show somewhat more of yourselves in class than you do in your usual life situations. [...]

You knew him in a past life in Germany, and you have all been males and females so it is quite easily for you to relate in either direction. [...]

([Ned:] “Was there some connection between us in a past life that I have this feeling?”)

Now there are endless possibilities of development in this life and you utilize only few of them. [...]

“I have the simple, profound faith that anything I desire in this life can come to me from Framework 2. There are no impediments in Framework 2. Framework 2 can creatively produce everything I desire to have in Framework 1 — my excellent health, painting, and writing, my excellent relationship with Jane, Jane’s own spontaneous and glowing physical health and creativity, the greater and greater sales of all her books. I know that all of these positive goals are worked out in Framework 2, regardless of their seeming complexity, and that they can then show themselves in Framework 1. I have the simple, profound faith that everything I desire in life can come to me from the miraculous workings of Framework 2. I do not need to be concerned with details of any kind, knowing that Framework 2 possesses the infinite creative capacity to handle and produce everything I can possibly ask of it. [...]

[...] You are quite familiar with the events of your own life, for you are of course your own main hero or heroine, villain or victim, or whatever. [...]

[...] You decide which of these adventures you want to take part in — and those you will experience in normal life, or in Framework 1.

[...] You would not know how to do it, for your life flows through you automatically and spontaneously. [...]

When you think of the purpose of your existence, you think in terms of daily waking life, but you also work at your purpose in these other dream dimensions, and you are then in communication with other portions of your own entity, at work at endeavors quite as valid as those you are about in waking life.

When you arrive, or emerge, into physical life, not only is your mind not a blank slate, waiting for the scrolls that experience will write upon it, but you are already equipped with a memory bank far surpassing that of any computer. [...]

[...] Your personality as you now know it will indeed persevere, and with its memories, but it is only a part of your entire identity, even as your childhood in this life is an extremely important part of your present personality, though now you are far more than a child.

[...] The pursuit of art was considered egotistical in a negative meaning of the word—selfish, childish or adolescent, and indeed many psychologists of the recent past considered it in the light of prolonged adolescence, or saw it as a sign of the individuals’ refusal to fully accept an adult role in life. [...]

[...] Value fulfillment even with the animals insists upon a qualitative enjoyment of life’s existence—one that automatically fosters a loving cooperation with the rest of nature as the individual follows impulses toward various kinds of pleasures. [...]

[...] Whatever—both cases would involve time and interruptions, a threat to what I see as my main course in life these days, painting. [...]

[...] At the moment I couldn’t decide if everyone had such hassles in life, or if Jane and I had managed to create sets of beliefs that were indeed “beauts” and quite unusual. [...]

[...] The inhibition of physical motion obviously took place little by little, until he began to learn the truth — that human beings are meant to express all of their abilities, mental and physical, and that life is an arena of expression. In fact, life is expression.

His beliefs about poets were contaminated by ideas that said that the poet was too sensitive, too vulnerable to life’s experiences — that this sensitivity brought weakness instead of strength, and that true artists or true poets came to a tragic end for that reason.

[...] Then he began to learn the lessons that were needed — that life is expression, and that it is safe for him to move mentally and physically, using both his psychic, creative, mental and physical abilities to their fullest.

The inner and outer egos do not have a cementlike relationship, but can interrelate with each other in almost infinite fashions, still preserving the reality of physical experience, but varying the accents put upon it by the inner areas of subjective life. [...]

[...] He does not naturally seek to destroy his own life or [the lives of] others. [...]

[...] In his life [each] man is embarked upon a cooperative venture with his own species, and with the other species, and dying he also in that regard acts in a cooperative manner, returning his physical substance to the earth. [...]

[...] You also wanted some reassurance that you could operate as an artist as long as you chose in this life. [...]

[...] That child’s life already carries the marks of her beliefs about religion, God, power, and mainly in the belief that nature is a tool in the God’s hands—to be used against man at any time.

[...] For a time it fueled both the arts and political life. [...]

[...] Myths always weave in and out of historical context, even as dreams are related to daily life. [...]

[...] Your dreams instantly come to life, and appear in your experience as aids and guides. [...]

[...] You do not seem at this point able to realize that what you call evil works for what you call good, or that both are a part of energy, and that you are using energy to form your reality, both now and after this life. [...]

[...] And I shall certainly see to it, if I have any abilities to do so, that in your next life, you are put in the position of answering someone whose mind works exactly as yours does. [...]

(During break, a discussion of Seth’s life as a pope.)

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