“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This resulting feeling of powerlessness to act leads to a state of hopelessness of varying degrees — and that mood does not tie itself to specific details, but pervades emotional life if it is allowed to. [...]

[...] You cannot say, either, that Nature — with a capital N — will destroy man if he offends her, or that Nature — with a capital N — has little use for its own species, but only wants to promote Life — with a capital L — for Nature is within each member of each species; and without each member of each species, Nature — with a capital or a small N — would be nonexistent.

I am aware of your questions involving the sleeping and waking portions of life on the earth. [...]

[...] Damage to the rear portion of the brain, the cerebellum, had been announced after the operation attempting to save Senator Kennedy’s life.

If he can adapt in this life to another vital but different role, then he could live; but to some extent, basically, with a different alignment, in your terms only, taking on the problems of the next reincarnation without changing physical forms. [...]

[...] (Long pause; slower pace, eyes closed.) It is as he was in a Belgium life.

[...] When you change details of any kind in your life, to some extent you change your mental images. [...]

(Remind subconscious to be responsible to all of its life—)

[...] The life of its atoms and molecules and cells is translated into other living natural forms. [...]

The “you” that you presently conceive yourself to be represents the emergence into physical experience of but one probable state of your being, who then directs corporeal life and “frames” and defines all sense data. [...]

Often you fall into lapses in which you actually pull in your consciousness, so to speak, and experience life in a lesser fashion. [...]

[...] (Long pause at 9:10.) Previous life memories, existing electronically and magnetically, may carry such intense charge that they superimpose themselves in the present physical structure, and form memory patterns quite alien to those of the present ego personality.

[...] For various reasons having to do with past-life experiences, writing has become a structure within which the personality best operates. [...]

[...] When you have achieved this oneness with your own center, then you automatically free additional energy and vitality into your life.

[...] You will see the face behind that face, the image of the person as it was in a past life.

[...] Otherwise, life would not be “handed down” through the generations. [...]

You could not afford to identify too completely with such bodies until you learned how to survive within them, so in the dream state (pause) the true processes of life began as these new bodies and earth-tuned consciousnesses saw themselves mentally exercising all portions of the body. [...]

[...] The dream actually reviews the whole of Jane’s and my life together, our motives and actions, fears and beliefs, etc.)

Framework 2 brings about your desire, but also considers it in the light of your entire life situation, so that it comes about in the best way possible, fitting in with your natures. [...]

[...] Man could exult in nature’s energy, power, and splendor, even in the midst of the most fierce storm —in which, indeed, his life might be in danger.

[...] Tribal life became a series of ritualized activities. [...]

(I’ve spent perhaps one of the most uncomfortable weeks of my life, since I had the two back teeth extracted last Thursday, as noted in last week’s deleted session. [...]

The cured person becomes a convert to a new way of life. [...]

[...] Man’s inventiveness, often a partner to his duplicity, has also invented, then, a method to insure that no crimes can be hidden, and has taken steps to shine a spotlight upon those areas of life that blot man’s experience. [...]

[...] They died, quite simply, knowing beneath it all that they were not annihilating their consciousnesses, but bringing a given life to a conclusion in protest against certain conditions that exist to some extent among many others.

^* In Jane/Seth’s The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, which was published in 1981, I wrote: “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.” [...]

Individual life, or the life of the present 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 your dreams though they involve only a part of your life, so the entity to some extent directs and gives purpose and organization to his personalities during their existence. [...]

[...] To go into this a bit further, many men have said that life was a dream. [...]

[...] The physical construction of your universe, as I have said, is carried on by all life, not just human life. [...]

[...] For practical purposes, theory aside, you could not maintain allegiance to your plane, live out a normal life span for example (and this is necessary) while separate from the physical body.

The various species and the multitudinous varieties of life in your universe could with much validity be compared to cells, organs, or limbs of some gigantic creature. [...]

(Pause.) When you think, colon: “Life is earnest,” and decide to put away childish things, then often you lose sight of your own creativity and become so deadly serious that you cannot play, even mentally. [...]

The life that you consider real represents one narrow stratum of even your physical experience. [...]

[...] If they do, I remarked to Jane as I typed this session the next day, then Seth must have a great amount of extremely interesting information on those concepts in relation to animals, say, or birds, insects, and marine life — not to mention bacteria and viruses; perhaps, also, submicroscopic entities down to the molecular and atomic levels, or even “below,” are involved. [...]

[...] In this life, each of you come together and part, come together and part again, forming a counterpart relationship when it suits your purposes, as streams of consciousness mix and merge, and then separate.

[...] In the last life, as a medium, he had swung somewhat to the other side again, deliberately not using his intellect and giving the spontaneous portions full play. [...]

[...] In this life until very recently the personality has been involved with highly charged, volatile emotional personalities. [...]

[...] He was terrified of the vulnerability to pain, and yet he felt the ability to face and handle the pain was something he would run away from otherwise; that he had done everything to avoid it, and that it was one of life’s physical realities that he had refused to admit. [...]

[...] Seth has said again and again that these changes represent improvements growing out of our better understanding of our beliefs, our artistic/creative work, and indeed our whole life-style. [...]

[...] I knew she’s not in favor of it, but as I said at the time, this seemed to mean that she was indulging the idea of spending the balance of her life sitting down —quite immobile for all practical purposes. [...]

[...] The point is that our books reach all kinds of readers in all walks of life. [...]

(Jane’s dream about Oswego reminded me of a little episode that I think of every so often, and that I’ve referred to in a note in one of the books, I think—probably Mass Events: When I’d asked her once years ago what she wanted to do more than anything else in life, she’d answered quickly, “Change the world.” [...]

(9:27.) For centuries that is the main way in which man dealt with the events of his life or tribe or village.³ Your modern methods of communication are in fact modeled after your inner ones. [...]

In the next chapter I hope to show you the importance of value fulfillment in your own life, and give you clues that will allow you to take better advantage of your own subjective and objective opportunities for such development.