“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You have not understood the connections between your work and your life. [...] You cannot separate your work from your life. [...]

[...] Since so much of Ruburt’s life was involved with yours, it felt that Ruburt must now toe the mark with you also—at least topside —so that he must not express any contrary opinions, or that you would abandon him also, in which case he would be utterly alone.

[...] I am not directly concerned with the exuberance, vitality, creativity, joys, sorrows, or tragedies of life.

[...] It rules her life more than ever before, since this year she became sicker than ever before. [...]

[...] The panic has to do with many issues involving Ruburt’s earlier experience, particularly with his mother and the church when he was a very young person, very determined to survive in life, and trying to learn what kinds of behavior added to or threatened that survival. [...]

[...] You demand more of yourself than you have ever demanded in your life. [...]

I tell you to examine what you see and what you hear, not only here in this room and in these classes, but to examine what you see in physical reality in your normal life. [...]

[...] I doubt it, but even then I’d rather spend my life in the quest for meaning, the search for learning, rather than ignore the messages and signals that have appeared within our world. [...]

So the frog spent all his life
Trying to understand.
While he grew old and feeble
The watch ticked on in the sand.

The experience of “coming to life during dreams” with any consistency, having some critical awareness, some rational control, some glimpse of other-dimensional reality — these events in the overall are bound to transform ordinary concepts regarding the nature of consciousness.

[...] She had finally been taken to another nursing home, and once again she entered my psychic life as she withdrew more and more from ordinary concerns.

She was connected with your father’s brother in this life. [...]

[...] Seth is correct in stating that my father’s older brother, my Uncle Jay, who is also dead, was connected with Ella in this life; he was very protective toward her, and after he died eight years ago his wife continued to watch over Ella.

[...] She loved life, if not the world, but she did not believe that death was really an end. [...]

[...] The soreness is a sign of life and vitality, of stimulation and response. [...]

[...] (A person) never becomes possessed unless he has requested it, (when he is not interested in, or afraid of life, and would like another to take over the job.)(Eve recalls that at this point, he added:)

The complexity of life and reality encompasses both positive and not-so-positive experiences within value fulfillment. [...]

1. I can note a good deal later that Seth’s material on our making further distinctions in the families of consciousness, beyond the nine he’s already named for us, is certainly related to the passages from a private session that I quoted in the last three paragraphs of Note 8 for the 732nd session: Seth stated that Peter Smith and I “are and are not counterparts” — that with another in this life each of us may often come together, then part, “forming a counterpart relationship when it suits your purposes….”

[...] They have a very brief “life” in your terms. [...]

Many people who have heart trouble feel that they have “lost the heart” for life. [...]

(Long pause.) Each person is so unique that it is obviously impossible for me to discuss all of the innumerable and complicated strands of belief that form human experience — yet I hope here, some way, to present enough “specific generalizations” so that you the reader can find many points of application as far as your own life is concerned.

[...] There have been tragedies that did not occur in your life and his because of your understanding.

[...] How events happen is perhaps one of the greatest “mysteries” that you will encounter in physical life. [...]

[...] I have been very careful in my use of the word love, because it is so bandied about and distorted—but all creativity, and any work of art, and any life, springs from love—a love that automatically brings all things into their own kinds of order. [...]

[...] A few are persons with whom she seemed to be superficially connected in this life, but the encounters provided deep emotional support that was not obvious.

[...] She has already begun a new life therefore, though presently her experience is being monitored to some degree by guides. [...]

The change in his subjective life is considerable, as the psychic work and his easy manner in the chapter clearly shows. [...]

[...] In the overall you have benefited by the vitality and life about you here, and even by the occasional clamor. [...]

In these terms, and giving the simplest explanation since your friend is not well acquainted with our previous discussions, my last growing-up period occurred in Denmark, in the same approximate period as the one given previously for a previous life of your own, Joseph, and of Ruburt’s.

[...] For your information Joseph, I was born in that existence in the year approximately 1486, and lived most of that life in the town called Triev, in the eastern part of the country, as a merchant dealing in spices.

[...] He as a personality has often been in the position of being distrustful of strong elements of compassion within himself in this life—

[...] And Jane’s resolve, her will that, according to Seth, “is amazingly strong” (in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, see the 713th session for October 21, 1974), may buttress the understanding and determination of one or more of her counterparts in this life; she may meet (or have met) such an individual; another may live across an ocean, say, with no meeting ever to take place in physical terms.

[...] It all seems very complicated, certainly, but as I manipulate in everyday life I don’t consciously dwell upon all of the ramifications I’ve mentioned in these essays. [...]

Granted that our species’ best human understanding of “the mystery of life” and of the universe is exceedingly inadequate, still Jane and I do not think that nature is totally objective, indifferently cruel, or simply uncaring, as science would have us believe. [...]

[...] For that matter, insects, birds, fish, and all kinds of life play. [...]