“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If you are presently experiencing a life in which you have chosen high emphasis upon physical locomotion, for example, then through vague dream memories of flying you can be inspired toward, say, the invention of airplanes or rockets; but if you actually understand the fact that your own consciousness can indeed travel outside of the body, then the impetus toward physical developments in locomotion is not nearly so intense.

[...] This applies not only to your own species but in many cases between species, and there are basic units in all living matter capable of forming animal or vegetable life, capable of developing the perceptive mechanisms inherent in any of these.

[...] Close your eyes after having read this chapter to this point, and try to sense within yourself the source of power from which your own breathing and life forces come. [...]

[...] In later chapters of this book, I hope to give you some practical information that will enable you to alter practically the very nature and structure of daily life.

[...] Irritability is indeed in its way a sign of life and vitality. [...]

[...] Ruburt is being led to discover that the answers to his intellectual questions about his abilities, my existence, life after death, the solution to his physical problems, can only be discovered through the appreciation and use of his intuitive and psychic abilities. [...]

Life and consciousness, without the means to express them, are not meaningless, for life and consciousness have their own purposes; and of these purposes I am not prepared now to tell you.

You understand the basic reality of subjective life. [...]

[...] Other myriad life forms have nothing to do with it at all. [...]

[...] Do not think in terms of perfection and nonperfection, but of bringing your ideas to life, and of using photographs to express those ideas.

(9:13.) A child may think “We will go to sleep now”—meaning quite happily that (pause) its own single consciousness also participates in the conscious life and activities of everything else in its environment, so it and the creatures of the night, say, sleep together, and waken together to greet the dawn. [...]

[...] The myth of the great CHANCE ENCOUNTER, in caps, that is supposed to have brought forth life on your planet then presupposes, of course, an individual consciousness that is, in certain terms, alive by chance alone.

Once more, your own inner psychological experiences, and the inner life of every individual, can lead you to some understanding along these lines. [...]

But as you cannot find life by dissecting a frog, you cannot find this sort of distance by exploring space. [...]

(Long pause.) “The church” was not a hypothetical entity, but was encountered through Ruburt’s experience with the priests who visited, their effect upon his life and his poetry, and with the entire fabric of a young intense daily life. [...]

[...] There are endless versions of life. [...]

I do not mean by such a description to minimize the importance of physical life, for All That Is endows each portion of its own transformed reality with a unique existence that is duplicated nowhere else, and each spark of consciousness is endowed with a divine heritage that is never extinguished—a spark that is apparent in all other corners of the universe.

[...] Since infancy for example Ruburt’s hormonal output has always increased in spring and autumn, and all of the important affairs of his life are initiated then. There are periods of quietude, flux and change then, in each individual’s life, that are to some extent connected with the point of emergence into space and time. [...]

[...] And suspense is the spice of life, so do not go looking for all the answers in one moment. [...]

[...] The selves are new but you have sat here for centuries, and in your aliveness springs the creativity from which all things are born and the joy and vitality that gives life to all worlds. [...]

[...] If this were not the case, for example, your interests throughout life would not change.

[...] Her very active dream life had evidently included a lot of preparation for it, she added, but I didn’t ask her any questions that might open up more channels.

[...] During break Jane received some insights from Seth as to what would follow in Chapter Eight — that, for instance, when good thoughts from an individual’s present life were activated, they would draw upon similar ones from his or her reincarnational personalities. [...]

[...] In physics it is “known,” for instance, that the proton, an elementary particle in the atomic nucleus, has an exceptionally long life in years — the number one followed by twenty-four [or more] zeros. [...]

(It might be noted here that the 87th session dealt rather extensively with Jane’s death from cancer in a previous life in Boston, and stated that she would not die of the disease again. [...]

[...] The young man (see the 816th session proper) was really comparing his life and the earth unfavorably with an idealized imagined world, to which he could never return. [...]

(It’s supposed to express my views of the Seth experience, and how it has influenced or changed my ideas on art, life, and so forth. [...]

[...] After all, hardly anything else could be worse in life than being attacked by her symptoms, so what’s there to lose?

[...] (A simile I often think of here compares Eastern and Western life and thought with the right and left hemispheres of the brain; they’re separate, yet united; each half performs functions that complement and to some extent overlap those of the other, and together they operate as a whole.) But we dislike the idea of nirvana in Buddhism and Hinduism, which calls for the extinction or blowing out of individual consciousness, and its absorption into a supreme spirit, usually after a series of lives. And we object to the notion that “nature,” in those terms of linear time, has so arranged things that the individual has to pay a karmic debt in one life as the result of actions in a previous one. [...]

However, the work we do deals with concepts that consciously we’d paid little attention to in earlier life. [...]

[...] So, we say, each reader can make his or her own sense out of what the Seth material has to offer on such questions as the meaning of life, its depths and mysteries, its infinite possibilities.

[...] Maybe I’m some distant ancestor of Seth’s in those terms, alive in my life but only a memory in his. [...]