“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The unknown reality exists to the extent that you do not travel joyfully through the intimate lands of the psyche, to the extent that you do not directly experience your life as original (forcefully), but accept labels put on it by others. [...] Do not overlay the personal daily aspects of your life with preconceived ideas about who you are, what you are, where you are, why you are. [...]

Besides this, however, it contains what you may call cues that automatically open up greater levels of your own awareness, and hence bring into your conscious life some recognition of the unknown reality in which you also have your being. [...]

[...] That’s her focus in life [and mine, too]: the full commitment to artistic production. [...]

[...] Each person’s “individual” life plan fits in somewhere with that of his or her contemporaries. [...] There will be certain cornerstone encounters in each person’s life that are set up as strong probabilities, or as plans to be grown into.

Your mental life deals with psychological events, obviously, but beneath so-called normal awareness the child grows toward the mental body of events that will compose his or her life. [...]

[...] Now your TV dramas, again, systematically show your old Frankenstein movies just when your scientists are contemplating all kinds of experiments supposed to bring forth life. [...]

[...] We want our world — our living world, the very planet itself — and every life form upon it, to exist in the greatest cooperative spirit possible, so that individually and collectively we can investigate what surely must be a myriad of still-unsuspected interior and exterior challenges.

“The idea is that the scientists’ system of beliefs is bound to result in some destructive action; that is, the implied attitudes of today’s scientists lead them to be less careful of life than they should be, and separate them from nature in a way that leads to some contempt on their parts of individual living things. [...]

[...] At the same time these ideals further divorce the scientists from daily practical experience with their fellowman; and since they see animals as objects, they’re bound to see human life in somewhat the same fashion. [...]

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

[...] 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, withch, etc.)

Your present personalities need sexual fulfillment, but the main energy of your life is in other directions. [...] Your deep attraction in this life has strong sexual connotations that must and will be satisfied, but it goes beyond this. [...]

There were two worlds to him instead of one, and he would not apply his intuitions to physical life directly. [...]

[...] Your personality per se changes in this life. [...]

[...] It is extremely important that he concentrate upon those pleasures of life that he does enjoy. [...]

The conscious mind can direct bodily activity (long pause), but the body consciousness alone can perform those activites that bring forth life and motion.

That is why I emphasize a new (underlined) beginning, for it is from that viewpoint that he will be structuring his life from now on.

[...] It signals the incipience of a new way of life — most interesting. [...]

[...] He is working intimately with subjective and objective experience, correlating dream events and physical life.

[...] Life and vitality is returning to a large number of previously hardened muscles. [...]

[...] Symbolically, however, the attitude itself is highly therapeutic, since it “stands for and represents” many important issues in his life—and in settling one you settle all in this regard. [...]

Feel also those responses occurring again, as they are, in other areas of your life. [...]

[...] He was willing however to trade these for several years of additional physical life, in which he also learned for the first time to relate to gentleness; even to be on terms with another cat, and Willy in his way served as a mentor.

[...] With the death of Ruburt’s mother Rooney’s purpose was done as far as Ruburt was concerned; and Rooney did a final service, for through his death Ruburt faced the nature of pain and creaturehood that his mother’s life had so frightened him of.

[...] If he is my window into other realities, am I his window into physical life? [...] But this only leads to the question: What is nonphysical life like?

As human beings we live suspended between life and death. [...]

[...] In sticking so close to the confines of egotistical physically oriented awareness, we may be closing ourselves off from answers to our deepest questions, knowledge that can help us deal more intelligently with physical life.

[...] He reacts to others, and relates much better than I do to people from various walks of life. [...]

I use the word “methods” because you understand it, but actually we are speaking about an approach to life, a magical or natural approach to life that is man’s version of the animal’s natural instinctive behavior in the universe.

“Then, in a private session held on the evening of September 17, 1977, Seth came through with a very exciting concept called ‘Framework 1 and Framework 2.’ 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.”

[...] The rational approach works quite well in certain situations, such as mass production of goods, or in certain kinds of scientific measurements — but all in all the rational method, as it is understood and used, does not work as an overall approach to life, or in the solving of problems that involve subjective rather than objective measurements or calculations.

The idea of financial abundance and of an abundance of the good things in life will not limit you, nor limit the means possible by which they will come to you. [...]

[...] He did not believe that strongly in the creative function of his own being, and in the natural abundance of life itself. [...]

If he could not reach out to comb his hair correctly then he was no good, a cripple for life, and useless. [...]

[...] He thought it was natural for him to be afraid of life because his mother was.

[...] If the psychic developments that represented your greatest fulfillment, with all their ramifications in your art and life, had not occurred, then you would have had two children, and continued a reincarnational cycle. There are other aspects here, in that in your last reincarnational life you had somewhat greater freedom within the sexual framework. [...]

[...] You did this to assure yourselves that these abilities, feminine in both of your minds, would not so get the upper hand that the responsible, and in both of your minds, masculine or dependable aspects of your life would be threatened.

[...] This fits in with your own artistic nature, and with your background in this life. [...]

[...] You will find that I have given you a good deal of information this evening, that you should be able to put to excellent use in your daily life. [...]

[...] The woman was not easy in social life, and could now stay home to care for the small invalid.

[...] Now that knowledge is a part of that child’s experience, and the cure will be the great event of his life, in that it will always be in the back of his mind as he grows. [...]

[...] He believed that physical exertion was life itself, and he little appreciated the world of the mind, so little by little the self-suggestions took effect. [...]

[...] Yet even so, as the years passed I began to better see that recovery from Jane’s death was going to take the rest of my life; and that within the framework of simultaneous time uncounted millions of others had experienced that truth, were doing so now, and would be doing so. [...]

[...] In the meantime I’d gone back to painting, which I’d given up for the last two years of Jane’s life. [...]

Life goes on, then, only it’s different. [...]

[...] You were twin brothers in a past life and in Greece. I would like to tell you that it was a grand life and that you were gladiators, but you were houseboys. You were very close, however, and that psychic closeness is now returning in this life. [...]

(“The pendulum repeated my insight of a couple of days ago—one that may be very important: that all of my upsets over the years, the stomach, the side, the groin, the shoulder—the whole bunch—stem from my consistent feeling that I’m a failure in life, that I don’t contribute enough, that I don’t help Jane enough, that I haven’t really made it as an artist or as a writer.

[...] Bill, however, concentrated upon life’s regrettable elements, upon the impediments, the dishonesties and so forth, until it seemed that even if he followed the world’s way he could not succeed. [...]

[...] Bill feels that his business productive life is coming to an end, when he will retire. [...]

(10:07.) Now: the route you chose was far different than your friend’s. You did not choose a job as a life endeavor, where money would be clearly paid for acts specifically assigned, nor did you choose a route for which there was any conventional role for you to follow.

[...] Its character is transformed, so that the “dark” qualities are seen as actually illuminating portions of conscious life, while also providing great sources of power and energy for normal ego-oriented experience.

When you find yourself as alert, responsive, and intellectual in the dream state as you are in waking life, it becomes impossible to operate within the old framework. [...]

[...] Not only are they often hindered in waking life, then, but censored as much as possible in dreams. [...]

[...] Such wake-sleep patterns as I have suggested would acquaint you with the great creative and energetic portions of psychological behavior — that are not undifferentiated at all, but simply distinct from your usual concepts of consciousness; and these operate throughout your life.

[...] Remember however that there were also reasons having to do with past life experience, and that all of you chose these conditions.

[...] The same sort of events occur with infinite variations in family life. [...]

[...] (To me:) You will not reincarnate again in physical terms, but those who will can also have dreams in which they catch a glimpse of their own future life.

[...] I explained to her about what I really meant by my question concerning physical life in the future, and she then said that Seth was going to comment on our experience in physical reality in new ways in the future, rather than experience a lifetime of continuous physical creatures.