“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

What we want is an altered approach to life itself, to one that follows the kind of natural approach to living that children unerringly possess, but to one that is also enriched with experience that a child does not possess. [...]

[...] The shop within the apartment had to do with the physical dimension and various physical abilities which are based on past-life experiences.

He will however then realize, or he should realize, that this ability was his in a past life, but unused, and is now awaiting him. [...]

[...] The persons involved were good friends indeed in a past life. [...]

(During our daily life we do not take the time to describe in detail each dream we have to the other, unless obvious connections arise in future events, or the dream happens to be unusually vivid in some way. [...]

[...] If you accept the idea that the reasons for your behavior are forever buried in the past of this life, or any other, then you will not be able to alter your experience until you change that belief. [...]

[...] You can change those areas of your life with which you are less than pleased, but you must take the responsibility for your being.

[...] Often it will sift out from the barrage of conflicting beliefs the particular set that is the most life-giving, and send these forth in what then appears as a burst of revelation. [...]

[...] Think of a limiting idea as a muddy color and your life as a multidimensional painting that is marred. [...]

(Saturday morning, April 25: When we went to bed, Jane dreamed about her mother and about writing about her life with Walt. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s dreams have been helping him identify his own personal experience as he interpreted such beliefs in early life. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Added to all of this, you have varying social climates throughout a life. [...]

[...] I remarked to Jane today, then, that what we need is more insight into the phenomenon of such thinking itself—for after all, that approach to life’s challenges has led to our problems, it seems to me. [...]

(10:20.) Our books and sessions are primarily a celebration of life, not a justification of it, or an excuse or apology for the conditions of physical reality. [...]

[...] Any kind of extensive public life cannot be reasonably expected from two people who value privacy to the extent that you both do. [...]

In this life the early background meant that Ruburt’s writing was done in the face of great distractions. [...]

[...] They rose in this life at least in response to events that do not now exist. [...]

[...] In this life Ruburt saw those same characteristics in Father Ryan, where repression was used to keep him in the church. [...]

Now: Love is a biological necessity, a force operating to one degree or another in all biological life. Without love there is no physical commitment to life — no psychic hold.

[...] The male in particular has been taught to separate love and sex, so that a schizophrenic condition results that tears apart his psyche — in operational terms — as he lives his life.

“I feel sometimes as if I am expected to justify life’s conditions, when of course they do not need any such justification.”

[...] A curious new second life began, adjacent to our normal one. Some may call it a fantasy life, but surely it is no more fantastic or mysterious than the ordinary world in which we all find ourselves.

[...] As we followed it, our own results brought the material itself to life.

[...] This was not their normal house in daily life, though, and I was aware of this. [...]

[...] You would then construct dream images, a multitudinous variety of shapes and forms meant to represent the complicated forms of life. [...]

As Seth continued dictation I was fired by his purpose to make the unknown elements of human life at least partially visible — an audacious goal, I thought — and I tried to do my part in recording all such disclosures as they appeared in our lives and were reflected in the experiences of our friends and students.

[...] Yet when I am finished, I hope you will discover that the known reality is even more precious, more ‘real,’ because you will find it illuminated both within and without by the rich fabric of an ‘unknown’ reality now seen emerging from the most intimate portions of daily life…. [...]

[...] In The Nature of Personal Reality, I tried to extend the boundaries of individual existence as it is usually experienced … to give the reader hints that would increase practical, spiritual and physical enjoyment and fulfillment in daily life. [...]

Jane insisted that the notes were important, as a constant reminder to the reader that psychic or inner events happen in the context of daily life. [...]

[...] The individual person is also involved in an ever-continuing process to increase the quality of life as it exists at all levels of personal experience. Reality is so constructed that each individual seeking such fulfillment does so not at the expense of others, but in such a way that the quality of life is increased for all.

You do not understand the diversity of life-forms within your own reality. [...]

Even physically you have not categorized all of the life-forms, and there are many co-inhabiting your system that you will never physically perceive. [...]

Your conscious knowledge rests upon an invisible, unspoken, psychological and physical language that provides the inner support for the communications and recognized happenings of conscious life. [...]

[...] In waking life you meet the completed event, so to speak. [...]

Since you both work at home, those houses do not fit you, generally speaking.¹⁴ Work is not incorporated into daily family life, but certainly exists apart from it — something you find, each of you, relatively inconceivable. You can see farms better, though you are not farmers, simply because there also work and home life are one.

[...] Physically speaking, these people often have many children, and usually the offspring do well in whatever area of life is chosen. [...]

[...] These are not rigid parents, though, blindly following conventions, but people who see family life as a fine living creative art, and children as masterpieces in flesh and blood. [...]

[...] The one big difference is that the Sumari deal primarily with creativity and the arts, and often subordinate family life (as Jane and I have done), while this family thinks of offspring in the terms of living art; everything else is subordinated to that “ideal.”

[...] In your past life you would have known much better.

[...] I had been doing some painting when once again I seemed to see my brother Loren, as a monk in a previous life, wearing his old red robe, fall face down with outstretched arms upon the same dusty red road upon which I had seen him before. [...]

[...] In later life he will attain prominence if he carries through as beautifully as he did in the past. [...]

[...] Imagination allows you to enter into these planes, as when you imagine what another animal’s life would be.

[...] A seed “knows” that it will come to life in the middle of a pot in someone’s living room. [...] All cellular life is precognitive, in your terms. [...]

[...] A violet springs to life in the backyard, but the violet must stay there. [...]

[...] For one thing, any focus point of physical life is caused by a merging of probabilities. [...]

[...] There is no point at which you can say in basic terms (underlined twice) that an individual is alive,² though you do find it more practical to accept certain points of life and death. [...]

We will find in many cases, first of all, dreams originating in that layer of personal subconscious, the most simple being those that have immediate reference to daily conscious life. While such a dream is less complex than others, it is nevertheless an amazing construction, and when we break down the obvious perceived objects or events of such a dream, we will find that the immediate objects and events that have application in daily life, that may be rehashed versions of the day, have nevertheless been carefully chosen.

One dream object may represent simultaneously a simple daily and familiar portion of conscious life, a strong feared or desired portion of the immediately subconscious layer, an event or object from a past life, and a feared or desired future event or future possibility, as the case may be.

(A few notes: I have always felt that my early life, being so different than Jane’s, had a lot to do with my approach to painting, once I embarked upon it after meeting her when I was about 34. [...]

(I have for some time thought that Jane needed to sell her writings as a means of justifying her life—whether these writings were her best work was, in that sense, immaterial; she couldn’t possibly wait until her writing was a polished art before beginning to market it. [...]

[...] I had no idea of the bitterness or the depths of her resistance to, or feeling against, being sidetracked, as she sees it, from her main goals in life.)

[...] It is futile to say that life should not involve challenges. [...] You are seeing what happens when spontaneity becomes hampered through beliefs, and in your early life you believed you must hamper it in yourself. [...]

[...] Your way of life has been more natural to you than to Ruburt. [...]

Now: each person chooses his parents, accepting in terms of environment and heredity a bank of various characteristics, attitudes and abilities from which he draws in physical life.

[...] All of this applied to his mental, psychic, spiritual, and physical life, and his overall purpose.

Your mother represented the opposite in your mind—the emotionally explosive, suffocating immediacy, a female life and earthly ties, social commitment, homey chores and distractions that seemed to be directly opposed to solitary creativity.