“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In waking life, if you want to disconnect yourself from an event or place, you try to move away from it in space. [...]

[...] The intimate life of a person in one country, with its culture, is far different from that of an individual who comes from another kind of culture, with its own ideas of art, history, politics or religion or law. [...]

(Humorously:) You forget that dreaming is a part of life. [...]

[...] The realization is usually put in reincarnational terms, so that the self is seen as traveling through the centuries, moving through doors of death and life into other times and places.

[...] He said that the green jacket represented a new ability that had been mine in a past life but which I misused, this new ability was now waiting for me to claim. The people were all persons with who I’d had past life connections. [...]

[...] If an individual has strong feelings of dependency that cannot be expressed in daily life, he will express these in dreams. If he does not, then he may develop an illness that allows him to be dependent in physical life. [...]

[...] It is a strong awareness of activity and life. [...]

[...] She was reading a book on the life of Edgar Cayce when her shoulder began to ache. [...]

[...] You do not realize that you create your larger environment and the physical world as you know it by propelling your thoughts and emotions into matter — a breakthrough into three-dimensional life. [...]

[...] It seems also that your subjectivity has a mysterious unknown quality about it, and that even your mental life has a sort of insidious dropping-off point, a subjective cliff over which thoughts and memories fall, to disappear into nothingness. [...]

(10:29.) These subjective openings through which thoughts seem to disappear are in fact like psychic warps, connecting the self that you know with other universes of experience — realities where symbols come to life and thoughts are not denied their potential.

[...] You identify instead with your present ego, so when you think in terms of life after death you really mean a future life of the ego that you know. [...]

[...] There is no such simple end to the life that you know, [such] as the story of heaven. [...]

[...] All of his life he has sought comradeship with others. [...]

[...] He is at his prime of his life.

[...] But this time of emotional turmoil takes their minds off the fact that their children are grown, and adds a new challenge—one that convinces them that life is still exciting, that you must be on your toes. [...]

[...] On the card the feminine friend asked Marian to tell Jane that “the books” had changed her life for the better. [...]

[...] When you do this, you can indeed see the overall purpose of your life—but you cannot do so until you approve of yourself, and recognize that you as an individual are unique, and uniquely a part of all reality.

To paint pictures or write books is only the topmost cover for a life’s purpose, for the paintings or the books contain the purpose, but are not the purpose itself. [...]

The father however had a particularly unpleasant life in 14th Century France, and (to Dave) if you will refuse what you had learned in the past, he could not force you to remember. [...]

I use the word acquaintanceship, for in this life, on a physical level and in physical terms only, you did not understand him for what he was, though you sensed what he was and to some extent reacted to what he was.

[...] You did not save his life one time, you helped him save his soul, and he gallantly returned the favor; for he at one time was tempted to use his abilities for power and to use the priesthood for gain, and on that occasion you stopped him. [...]

[...] with the boy, having to do with a past life.... [...]

[...] There is indeed a kind of communal dream life, then, in which each individual contributes—a dream life in which both living and dead play a part, in your terms. [...]

[...] Your society has emphasized and exaggerated the objective characteristics of life to such an extent, however, that art seems to be an esthetic, fairly remote phenomenon, quite divorced from physical time. [...]

[...] His position was a poor one, yet its freedoms and limitations were known, and his value, whatever it was, was accepted as his station in life. [...]

The conscious mind can, for instance, see a rose as a symbol of life or death, or joy or sadness, and under certain conditions its interpretation of a simple flower can trigger deep experiences that call up power and strength from the inner resources of being. [...]

Music is an exterior representation, and an excellent one, of the life-giving inner sounds that act therapeutically within your body all the time. [...]

The most rejuvenating idea of all, and the greatest step to any true illumination, is the realization that your exterior life springs from the invisible world of your reality through your conscious thoughts and beliefs, for then you realize the power of your individuality and identity. [...]

[...] A dream may be purposely experienced to provide an outlet of a kind that is missing in your daily life. [...]

[...] The characteristics of the animals were understood to continue “life,” adding their qualities to the experience of the self in a new way.³ You had better put “life” in quotes in that last sentence.

[...] Before this life you chose what you wished from those two main areas.

[...] The life of the plant and its leaves cannot be separated.

[...] It would include the ways in which perceptive mechanisms operate, the manners by which I must activate Ruburt’s associative patterns in the case of clairvoyant information, and what your life looks like to me who observes it from such a unique perspective.

I would make clear the nature and conditions in which I now have my existence, and explain some of the reasons for the various, often contradictory, statements made concerning life after death. [...]

Miss Carr, (referring to Tam’s immediate boss) a spectacular enough achievement early in life, I believe. [...]

[...] This is basically behind your reaction, having to do with your early life. [...]

Now you must understand that this continues throughout the entire system—animal and plant life. [...]

[...] Some are so alien that you would not recognize them, nor would I, as any indication of conscious life.

There were three men whose lives became confused in history, and merged, and whose composite history became known as the life of Christ, for example. [...]

[...] Ruburt is working well with his beliefs, and seeing them reflected in all portions of his life as mentioned, Dialogues, some other thoughts he had only beginning to be expressed in Tim’s (Foote) letters and his work, are working together in a therapeutic framework.

[...] Impulses are inner messages toward actions that are life-giving. [...]

The same applies to you, and I expect both of you, in the last halves of your lives, to demonstrate the bursts of creativity and new wisdom that should ideally appear in each life. [...]

[...] It’s far better to think in terms of power than of lacks — the power of life, of motion, of speech, etc. [...]

(And: “A chapter on a person’s ‘Effective Personal Reality’ — about the private purposes in one’s life, and the bounds of creaturehood as set by your body; what you choose to be born with as far as health, disease, poverty or wealth, ability, etc., are concerned.”

[...] A Study of the Psyche as It Is Related to Private Life and the Experience of the Species. [...]

[...] He explains in some detail how we live more than one life at a time, how “the greater self ‘divides’ itself, materializing in flesh as several individuals, with entirely different backgrounds — yet each embarked upon the same kind of creative challenge.” [...]

[...] There are all kinds of definite, even specific, subjective evidence for the nature of your own reality—evidence that is readily apparent once you really begin to look for it, particularly by comparing the world of your dreams with your daily life.

[...] They derisively call their rebellious colleagues “animists”—those who believe that all life forms and natural phenomena have a spiritual origin independent of physical matter. [...]

Aside from anything Seth has said or ever may say about other probable realities, or even about human origins here on earth, I think it most risky at this stage in history for anyone—scientist or not—to dogmatically state that life has no meaning, or is a farce, or that attributes of our reality of which we can only mentally conceive at this time do not really exist. [...]

“There is no doubt that we need to believe that life has meaning. [...]

[...] The particular connections here are too complicated to try to explain, but they do involve James’s intense interest during his life in the future of his own work, and in the state of the psychic field of the future. [...]

In a manner of speaking, the gentleman’s (Hal) visit, while Ruburt is doing the James book, completes an intent on James’s part that he had in life. [...]

[...] It is only because so many of the manipulations of your own consciousness are unknown to you in life that such issues appear odd.

[...] It seems that we can put the concepts of the frameworks to use in all areas of daily life, reinforce longtime goals, etc.

I had meant to mention earlier that your daughter and sister were brothers in a previous life in Afghanistan. [...] There was also another child—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—give us a moment—the first name was also Lillian. [...]

[...] There may be an allergy to wheat—early in life—was also known to this one here in Spain—the country now called Spain—in 801 as an uncle—then a warrior-type personality—but again given to indulgence. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

Your family in this life has always been determined upon longevity, and you pace your energy. [...]

Now as she more vividly imagines life without him, this stimuli will wane. [...]

He was jealous of all (underlined) of his sons, not because your mother seemed to prefer them, but because he saw his own energy and life force giving independence in ways he could not control. [...]

[...] Your mother and he, beneath all of their difficulties in this life and in others past, have a deep relationship. [...]