“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It has many good things in it, but we’re disturbed when we come to passages in which the author describes “life” as opposed to “nonlife”, or in which he postulates an ultimate chaos — the running-down of our universe into a final random distribution of matter — as inevitable. [...] Also, as we grew up independently of each other, Jane and I gradually dispensed with conventional scientific ideas that life had occurred by chance; the emotional natures of our creative endeavors led us to question the theory. [...]

[...] He familiarizes himself with the symbolism of his own dreams, and sees how these do or do not correlate with the exterior symbols that appear in the waking life that he shares with others. [...]

[...] The closest she’s come to this situation is in giving a session for him in the dream state, as she does in waking life.

[...] Seth prefaced this by saying something about “I see a breathing difficulty.” He went on to say that Ruburt was upset at this information, and that her relatively early death simply meant she had to work harder in this life. According to Seth this is the last physical life for Jane and me. [...]

[...] Seth went on to say that once this proof was made known and accepted, it would change the behavior of every man on earth, for man would have to live his physical life in the face of knowledge of an afterlife.

[...] I told John that he really did look peaceful, as at no other time in his life. [...] Life goes on, even in our reality.

[...] I didn’t think it was a life-or-death crisis, but the result of our conversations lately, and the sessions, the panic attacks, and so forth. [...]

[...] The basis of all life and of all existence can be loosely termed intuitional. Obviously the intellect is not necessary for life.

[...] This dream involved the large playground she visited often in waking life, across the street from her school in Saratoga Springs, NY. There were many kinds of games to be indulged in at the playground in waking life. [...]

[...] In an earlier session Seth told us Jane had been a medium in her Boston life, and that she had misused her abilities. [...]

[...] The whole of chapter five, from which the object comes, concerns the close relationship between dreaming and waking life. [...]

“I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. [...]

Ruburt has allowed a portion of his this-life consciousness to go off on a tangent, so to speak, on another path into another system of actuality (i.e., into his psychic library). His life there is as valid as his existence in your world. [...]

[...] I cut off my awareness of the experience right there, possibly to avoid undergoing my own death in that life. From the safety of the cot in my studio, I didn’t panic as that other me faced such a life-threatening situation, yet I was disturbed by it — enough so that I repressed conscious recall of the whole episode until the evening after this (715th) session was held. [...]

[...] Neither of us realized it at the time, but she was to soon embark upon one of the key episodes³ of her psychic life: “My later experiences that day were a practical lesson in how models work” she wrote after it was all over.

I hope in these sessions to show the indivisible connections between the experience of the psyche at various levels and the resulting experience in terms of varying systems — each valid, each to some extent or another bearing on the life you know.

[...] I think there is a “mass” dream experience, however, as there is a collectively perceived physical life and definite interior conditions within which dream life happens. [...]

(Jane wants me to note that this is Day 2 of her new approach to life, based on the session for February 1. I do think the session is an excellent one, and I’ve copied it for use at the house, too.)

[...] In daily waking life the shakiness still represents leftover uncertainty, and it is more noticeable whenever any strong interruptions occur.

[...] And in a true communion, all things of this life return to the earth, and are consumed and rise up again in a new life that is never destroyed or annihilated, though always changing form.

[...] Then she said, her voice breaking, “It wasn’t until the other day that I really realized — felt — just how far I’d strayed from normal motion, or life, after all this time. [...] I just have to use it, instead of letting it — life — use me …”

[...] The implications took my breath away, and I became depressed with thoughts that I didn’t see how she was ever going to make it, ever going to break that cycle of fearful response to the world and her place in it, her fear of being attacked, of life itself. [...]

[...] Are laws made to protect life, to protect property, to establish order, to punish transgressors? [...]

[...] You do not begin with your own life, with your own job, or with your own associates. [...]

[...] You will purposefully keep your ideals generalized, thus saving yourself from the necessity of acting upon them in the one way open to you: by trusting yourself and your impulses, and impressing those that you meet in daily life with the full validity that is your own.

Each moment is then like a mosaic, only in your current life history you follow only one color or pattern, and ignore the others. [...]

[...] In so doing, you display a change of attitude, a willingness to be creative in your life as well as in your work.

[...] Most people are caught between the hope that life offers more than conventional knowledge gives it, and the fear that it might not. [...]

[...] (To Ron): In a life in the east before the time of Christ, 1200 B.C., you were a member of a body of men who belonged to an esoteric heritage. [...]

[...] If Seth means that the Essenes were promulgating the Speakers’ codes of ethics in, say, the first century A.D., then this of course is a time many centuries later than Ron’s life in 1200 B.C.

[...] It seems to me that in this life at least, Ron and I encountered each other in quite a strange way: almost of an age, we grew up in the same small town near Elmira many years ago; we knew of each other’s family — and yet we didn’t meet until 1970….

[...] Use my voice, therefore, as a vehicle upon which unending energy can rise and let that power then of vitality and life and strength enter the body and spirit and mind of the woman and fill her with the feeling of vital life and give her the knowledge of herself that she now so desperately requires. [...]

(Jane’s impressions to Bette of a past life the class had received the previous week in Alpha: “You had seven children. [...]

It was in a life both in Sweden and Denmark. [...]

[...] They are responsible for the inventiveness and creativity of the species, even bringing new comprehensions that can be used to bear upon the life of the physical world.

[...] Nor do you wipe that slate clean, symbolically speaking, before you write your life upon it. [...]

Because dreams follow paths of association, they break through time barriers, allowing the individual to mix, match, and compare events from different periods of his life. [...]

[...] Still, they are an important part of a child’s daily life, and they affect the way he or she relates to others. [...]

All of life as you know it is vulnerable. [...] Creativity is always vulnerable and within the vulnerability of your present life is the key to your own infinite existence. [...]

[...] Your questioning nature would have followed the aesthetic life with devotion and without deviation. [...]

[...] The intimate and noble qualities of life that can only be known through emotion of flesh with flesh. [...]

[...] In each life I had secrets. [...]

Rob’s notes provide the necessary exterior orientation for this present volume, as they do for the previous Seth books, and hint at the framework of normal life in which Seth so gallantly “appears” twice weekly, tossing off my glasses and thereby signaling the beginning of my trance. [...] The day may have been calm or distracted by unexpected guests, or marked by any of life’s normal domestic ups and downs.

[...] Seth must use my voice to speak and my life as reference, and certainly the contents of my mind are vastly expanded as a result of the sessions. My daily life is lived with the knowledge of that association, of course, and my normal routine now includes “turning into Seth” twice weekly, and has for years.

[...] Seth was discussing the Three Mile Island accident, but he left off book dictation for a while because we felt so badly, and gave us some excellent material on animal consciousness before and after death — because “tragedies” come in all shapes and sizes, and the most domestic events of our days offer Seth opportunities to comment on life itself.

Much of this had to do with the picture in his mind, quite unconscious, of what he expected life to be. It involved both of you working against any impediment together, taking trips together, and having a freedom in that regard, a mobility because of your life-style.

[...] It is the life-style he feels that is natural to you, and if you deviate from it for too long you become less unified and relatively listless. He feels then you will be working once again actively toward a common goal, with a life-style suited more daily to your natures.

He was also afraid of losing what you had, disrupting the pattern of current life, particularly if you did not feel ready. [...]

[...] I said for my part that the end of January would mark a change in our way of life, and that I didn’t think we’d ever return to the old—it obviously left too many things to be desired in spite of any accomplishments, etc. [...]

[...] Such clues in your intimate daily life, however, looked at in a different way, can tell you much about the potentials of the species, and give you glimpses of other systems of reality in which human consciousness can respond. [...]

[...] It appeared to be one of life’s curious incidents.

If your mother did not get the man and the wealth, then — to her way of thinking, now — you can still get the house that she fantasized was her own during her life.

[...] On a mental level and an emotional one, she used that probability in this life to enrich her own hours through daydreaming — but without, of course, any realization that those daydreams had their own reality.

[...] As you go about your life, therefore, you are very effectively taking part in the “future” developments of your species. [...]

[...] There are tiny innocuous instances that come up daily: “Shall I go to the movies, or bowling?” “Shall I brush my teeth now or later?” “Should I write to my friend today or tomorrow?” There are also more pertinent questions having to do with careers, ways of life, or other deeper involvements. [...]

[...] Your daily life is affected, because in such a dream you deal with probable predictabilities. [...]