“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Your father began in this life as a whole personality. [...]

The fragment also knows that this life is being lived for the particular reason given. [...]

The analogy is perhaps an old one, but the fragment is like an actor playing a character role, partially lost within it, perhaps disliking the character he plays, and yet through the part learning lessons that he will use in his own private life with its greater dimensions. [...]

[...] There has on the other hand been a strong commitment to life on the fragment’s part.

[...] And as I always do to show not only guests and seeming strangers the nature of vitality but always to impress it as deeply as possible into your knowledge, then let me again remind you that this vitality is your own; that life, physical or nonphysical, is a full vitality that it is not necessarily quiet, that it is not necessarily sedate, and though my voice does not ring with the innocent chatter of children, that that same vitality that fills them fills me and fills each of you. [...] Life is not quiet, it is not sedate. [...] It is the force that gives you all life and do not restrain it. [...]

(During break there was a discussion of Grace Rittenberger’s method of giving life readings, especially the form letter of questions.)

[...] This process chooses significances then, again, around which experience is built, and around which “life” is felt. The very sensations of one kind of life then automatically set up barriers against other such “world-schemes” (hyphen) that do not correlate with their own.

Your present is the result of your own poised consciousness, choosing its perception and the nature of its life from a field that is at all predictable only because of the greater area of organization available to it.

[...] I will make it clearer later in the book.² But your limited ideas of time cause conceptual barriers that operate even when you consider the structure of physical biological life.

[...] They also need to see other life-styles. [...]

[...] The open flame, the source of cave heat, is evocative, and represents a closeness with the origins of light and life.

(Now this is the right time to refer the reader to Appendix 27, which contains Sue Watkins’s account of her past-life involvement with the Grunaargh family of consciousness.)

3. I found Seth’s statement about contending with the thought patterns of others a particularly apropos one, since Jane and I have lived in apartment houses for many years (and are only now preparing to give up that kind of life.) A question: How does that steady psychic exchange affect all of those who work and/or live in high-rise complexes, for instance?

[...] Many of your dreams are like the tail end of a comet: Their real life is over, and you see the flash of their disappearance as they strike your own mental atmosphere and explode in a spark of dream images. [...]

This is true of a life. [...]

Each event of your life is contained within each other event. [...]

[...] There are structured dreams as there are structured games in waking life. [...]

Andrea never doubted the “fact” that life was more difficult for a woman than for a man. [...]

[...] He built his life around the core belief in himself as a writer.

[...] He had schooled himself to refute any opposing impulses, and built his life along those lines from a young age.

He proceeded to make two divisions in his life, one “psychic,” and the other “the writing self.” [...]

[...] It is directed toward action in physical life. [...]

It is true that physical life represents only one —

[...] He was not sure enough of his new world, still enough a part of the old one so that he saw his life and abilities often through the eyes of the “old world inhabitants”—the others who might scorn him, or set him up for ridicule.

Now this is because Ruburt did not want to encounter his own past emotional history in this life. [...]

(Pause.) Your mail presents you with glimpses of the people who read our books, from all walks of life, in all circumstances. [...] You cannot write their “books” of life for them. [...]

[...] If he must think in terms of responsibility, then the only responsibility he has is to express the spirit of life as it is most naturally felt in his experience, through the development of his abilities in their natural flow (underlined). [...]

(Today I picked up from Mr. Steiner the life-size enlargements of my parents; they’re remarkably good, and I plan to paint portraits of the folks from them. [...]

It may seem that the question of services (like the lawn) is a mundane one, yet it is connected of course with your attitudes toward work and daily life. [...]

(Pause at 9:42.) I want you to see that in many of your situations there are creative possibilities that can be flexibly considered, for these will also be reflected in life’s daily enjoyments, in creative satisfaction that literally cannot be measured in terms, say, of how much money is expended, and with the proper attitude the money simply will not matter, it will be so easily replenished. [...]

(Today I looked over a Time-Life book on the ancient civilizations of the Americas—the Aztecs, Incas, Mixtecs, etc, and once more was impressed by their amazing abilities as far as architecture, carving, weaving, astronomy, etc., went. [...]

[...] It now becomes apparent that a war, or near-war in one country is a threat to all others, and man’s consciousness at the level we are discussing is struggling to attain a planetary concern, a sense of life’s balances.

[...] No television picture is showing you the silent afternoons spent by an artist who will be called great tomorrow, or stresses the vitality of life that is responsible for the existence of the television sets to begin with. [...]

[...] You will learn not only that human life is sacred, but that the life within each molecule and atom is sacred. [...]

[...] You have allowed her, in the past, to take full control of your life and destiny, and this no individual can do. [...]

[...] Not without thanking the cow for the food and the nourishment which it has given you, not without realizing that the cow, like yourself, is a part of the chain of life without which physically you would not exist and be free. [...]

[...] I have been in one life not only black but a woman in a civilization where neither was appreciated. [...]

[...] Noise to you personally is a symbol for all of life’s distractions. [...]

[...] He interprets your remarks therefore as aimed against distractions in general, recognizing your symbolism, and this makes him uneasy because in his own life he has taken the steps he has to cut down distractions.

[...] Now in another kind of life-style, with another kind of personality, the same belief might have been dispensed with easily. [...]

[...] In your early relationship this could mean anything from sudden trips across country, an overactive social life, or even sexual attraction to men outside of marriage.

The splendid biological acceptance of life could not be thrust or forced upon his emerging consciousness, so to be effective, efficient, to emerge in the new focus of awareness, grace had to expand from the life of the tissue to that of the feelings, thoughts and mental processes. [...]

[...] Because you perceive a reality of cause and effect, you hypothesize a reality in which one life affects the next one. With your theories of guilt and punishment you often imagine that you are hampered in this existence by guilts collected in the last life — or worse, accumulated through the centuries.

(9:23.) It is not just that each person has his or her source in a “magical” dimension, from which his or her overall life emerges, but that the private source itself is a part of the very energy that upholds the entire planet and its inhabitants, and the overall construct that you understand as the universe.

Fields, or p-l-a-n-e-s (spelled) of interrelatedness connect all kinds of life, supporting it not through, say, just one system — a biological one or a spiritual one — but at every conceivable point of its existence. [...]

[...] A plant comes to life for the same reason. [...]

[...] But I know that I’ve also met a counterpart outside of class, and later in life: Laurel Lee Davies, the beautiful young lady from Iowa who’s been my loving companion for some years now, following Jane’s death in 1984. [...]

[...] It is not just, again, that man does not live by bread alone, but that his life is intimately bound up with his need for creative expression—his need to develop as an individual, and therefore to affect his world. [...]

A note: our books do reach people in all walks of life. [...]

[...] For our “vacations” we visit amid quite simple life forms, and blend with them.

To this extent we indulge in relaxation and sleep, for we can spend a century as a tree or as an uncomplicated life form in another reality. [...]

[...] Later I will have at least some remarks to make concerning the ways that you can learn to recognize your own feats, to compare them with your proficiency in daily physical life.

My life is its own definition.
So is yours.
Let us leave the priests
to their hells and heavens,
and confine
the scientists
to their dying universe,
with its
accidentally created stars.
Let us each dare
to open our dream’s door,
and explore
the unofficial thresholds,
where we begin.

[...] To one extent or another each individual involved saw himself in clear personal relationship with the nature of his life thus far, and sensed his kinship with the community. More than this, however, each human being felt the enduring energy of nature and was reminded, even in the seeming unpredictability of the flood, of the great permanent stability upon which normal life is based.

[...] We are dealing now with your beliefs as you know them in this life, and leaving for a later chapter any bleed-throughs of beliefs that may occur from other existences. [...]

[...] They prefer to leave physical life in a blaze of perception, battling for their lives, at a point of challenge, “fighting” and not acquiescent.

[...] War will finally teach you to revere life. [...]

[...] You may, therefore, for example, choose to be an intellectual giant in one life and an emotional idiot in order that you can concentrate upon intellectual abilities. [...]

[...] The psychological time experiences should involve you with some very legitimate information from that one past life that was mentioned earlier. [...]

[...] You are so distrustful of the innate vitality of life and of consciousness and of All That Is that you feel that your aggressive thoughts can take it off balance and, magnified a million times, destroy it. [...]

[...] He is filled with the vitality of life even as I am.” [...]