“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In physical life, your conscious mind is largely dependent upon the workings of your physical brain. [...]

[...] (Seth-Jane spoke emphatically, rapping upon the coffee table between us.) Because of this, physically speaking and in life as you think of it, the mind is to a large extent dependent upon the brain’s growth and activity. [...]

[...] Later I will discuss greater aspects of the origin of ideas, but for now we will simply speak in terms of this life, the one you know.

(9:35.) So it is quite necessary that an acquiescence to belief does exist, particularly in early life. [...]

[...] But, paradoxically, the origins aren’t to be found there, either, or grasped in regular terms, for according to Seth they’d lie outside the reach of physical life. [...]

[...] However, extremely inarticulate in last life, due to an inability to synthesize gains in past lives.

Besides normal reasons, he was psychically inclined, at a time when Jane was young and herself close to a past life. [...]

“I thought that life was a gracious gift, and that we were ‘given’ the natural world along with it. [...]

[...] He wants to study the world and nature, and the nature of men and ideas, and to search from that vantage point for some greater order, and some greater context in which life must reside.

[...] It is the overall approach to daily life that is important. [...]

[...] The ones that are not done are not done for a reason, because they do not fit in with your nature, or because they can be handled in a different way, or whatever, but you must trust that the spontaneous self understands the overall shape of your life, and its creative contexts and contents.

(Long pause.) You are, because you have chosen it, initiating a new way of life. [...]

[...] Often midway in life an individual will suddenly seem to see things clearly in a physical manner, straightening out his affairs. A life that seems headed for disaster will suddenly become victorious, for example. [...]

The energy generated by some such experiences is enough to change a life in a matter of moments, and to affect the understanding and behavior of others. [...]

Such knowledge requires not only more responsive and responsible behavior, but involves a sympathy with life that may earlier have been lacking. [...]

[...] Simply put, a world view is a living psychological picture of an individual life, with its knowledge and experience, which remains responsive and viable long after the physical life itself is over. [...]

[...] Most people, however, don’t realize the time or work required to keep up with Seth’s seemingly endless creativity: the sessions to be typed, the various stages of manuscript preparation, or the simple persistence necessary, so that the sessions continue despite life’s normal distractions.

Yet I can’t remember offhand what happened in my normal daily life during those past days, either. [...]

The session went on as Seth gave Rob some excellent psychological insights into his own behavior, and tied this is with early experience in this life, and with relationships with his present family in past life existences. [...]

[...] Besides, I felt that this was “my thing;” something that came unannounced, suddenly, into my life; something that I could not ignore; that I had to see through or regret my lack of courage for the rest of my life. [...]

The life of any given individual could be legitimately compared to the dream of an entity. [...] As you give inner purpose and organization to your dreams, and as you obtain insight and satisfaction from them, though they involve only a portion of your life, so the entity to some extent directs and gives purpose and organization to his personalities. [...]

[...] “Like me, in the Denmark life you told me about?”

[...] (Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment.) Your beliefs often tell you that life is hard, however, that living is difficult, that the universe, again, is unsafe, and that you must use all of your resources—not to meet the world with anything like joyful abandon, of course, but to protect yourself against its implied threats; threats that you have been taught to expect. [...]

1. Life in general can become easier and easier. [...]

As the present life of any individual rises from hidden dimensions beyond those easily accessible in physical terms, and as it draws its energy and power to act from unconscious sources, so does the present physical universe as you know it rise from other dimensions. [...]

[...] All probable materializations of life and consciousness have their day, and create those conditions within which they can flourish; and their day, in your terms, is eternal.

[...] These basic thought-processes, then, are too vast to be consciously apprehended, for they deal with meanings and relationships that reach before and after your life spans.

(10:25.) Nevertheless, that process is the foundation from which your mental life arises. [...]

The material just given has also been given for that reason—for trusted, his mental life would blossom overnight. [...]

I do admit that in recent years I’ve wondered more and more why artists don’t deal with at least their own past-life images. [...] I also believe that opening up past-life fields would enrich us all. [...] My own projected portfolio of art will include at least several past-life images of me. [...] Recently I finished a past-life portrait from my vision of a friend Jane and I had known years ago. [...] Why did that past-life image of him come to me in 2002? [...]

[...] But I’m hardly being original when I insist that each life is so intensely real that it seems most difficult to truly believe that we can have it any other way—let alone have more than one! [...] So even if Seth did help, still Jane chose to live her own life within the face and force of her own very creative present personality. [...] And even though we agreed with Seth’s reincarnational material involving the three of us, and our families, still it was also intensely personal for my wife in this life that she go her own way.

[...] He was a man of few words, yet he nurtured in his granddaughter a love of nature that she was to cherish for the rest of her life. [...] However, extremely inarticulate in his last life, due to an inability to synthesize gains in past lives… That is, in his feeling of unity with All That Is, he excluded other human beings....” [...]

[...] Of course 1730 is still a large part of my life, as it is of Laurel’s, even while we use it for storage of all of the treasures it still contains: many of my paintings, files stuffed with records that are destined for the collection at Yale University Library, Laurel’s books and mine, and her records and possessions—all of those intimate signs of life that now seem suspended in our creations of space/time. [...]

[...] There is no drifting through life, then, but a built-in search for the fulfillment of values, whatever possible successes, conflicts, or failures may be involved, and no matter how modest or great or complex any of those qualities may be. The ecstasy and love of being always operate to ensure the quality and growth of life’s existence through value fulfillment.

[...] The trouble is that the rational view of life has separated man from a sense of his own power source. [...]

[...] (with emphasis) is instead implied, and that entire reorientation will effortlessly bring about a new relationship of Ruburt with his body, with his life, and with the adventure the two of you have embarked upon. [...]

[...] This is partially the result of old ideas, where sleep is a separate, isolated part of life, or of the personality.

[...] In this life they are solving, or trying to solve, a variety of problems which have hung over them for a long time. They each have a life ahead of them on this plane. That is, one life at least. [...]

[...] This present trouble is a result of your parents’ inabilities and false conceptions, and of your own over-conscientiousness resulting from your Denmark life.

Ruburt is strongly intuitive, but basically in this life relies upon your logic and strength, and you have a good degree of both. [...]

[...] And in this life his failings are more apparent simply because they represent old leftover problem remnants; and you have had a lot to do with your father’s ability to face these problems all at once, so to speak.

[...] Martha’s husband, Venice’s brother, lost his life as a result of war wounds. [...]

Seems a doctor was a close friend or had a strong effect on your life.

[...] Martha’s husband, Florence’s brother, lost his life as a result of war wounds. [...]

Seems a doctor was a close friend or had a strong effect on your life. [...]

[...] To some extent or another each of you has played this role for the other at various times, in this life and in others. [...]

[...] Have Ruburt give himself suggestions that he will dream of his Turkish life, for there is information there that can help him now. [...]

Before this life both of you decided upon the search for knowledge. [...]

[...] To mix your purposes with the conventional family life would have been most difficult, so you chose situations that left you free until you met—that is, of property, children, or important ties.

Some in your society feel that the young are kept out of life’s mainstream also, denied purposeful work, their adolescence prolonged unnecessarily. [...] There were many unfortunate misuses of the old system of having a son follow in his father’s footsteps, yet the son at a young age was given meaningful work to do, and felt a part of life’s mainstream. [...]

Man’s will to survive includes a sense of meaning and purpose, and a feeling for the quality (underlined) of life. [...]

Your dream³ fits in here in its own fashion, for you see that the ship of life, so to speak, rides very swiftly and beautifully also beneath the conscious surface, traveling through the waters of the psyche…. [...]

In many cases memory remains unconscious as far as waking self is concerned, but the experiences themselves can completely change the structure of an individual life. [...]

[...] The experiences will all have to do in one way or another with nonphysical life, noncorporeal consciousness and forms, and the independence of consciousness from matter. [...]

The “stuff” of the environment will have its origin in the mind of the projectionist, being symbolic of his idea, for example, of life after death. [...]

[...] Many of these involve systems in which life and death as you know it does not occur, where time is felt as weight; systems in which the root assumptions are so different from your own that you would only accept any experiences as fantasy.

2. You ask Seth about life. [...]

[...] The dramas are not true to life in physical terms, but are true to life in psychic terms.

[...] There is some leakage from waking-life experience to dream experience, but this leakage usually represents the material needed, or the problem to be solved. [...]

The subconscious in sleep has great freedom, and has at its command information gained through past experience in this life and in other lives. [...]

The man was an acquaintance of yours in a life many centuries ago. [...]