“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Gradually our eyes became adjusted to the very dim light. [...] She said that at times she could not see them in the dim light, although I could easily enough. [...]

[...] I was not particularly in the mood but I did not want to give up so easily, so we turned off the light and sat in the dark.

[...] She has no sense of light and dark. [...]

[...] The pursuit of art was considered egotistical in a negative meaning of the word—selfish, childish or adolescent, and indeed many psychologists of the recent past considered it in the light of prolonged adolescence, or saw it as a sign of the individuals’ refusal to fully accept an adult role in life. [...]

[...] You did so, however, in the light of that psychological climate, so that while you went your own ways you also reacted to the social environment: you tried to show other people that you were indeed responsible—more, that you worked (underlined) not only as hard as others, but often harder (underlined). [...]

This artistic sense of responsibility was given a thicker coat by what seemed to be psychic responsibility: it seemed to Ruburt that he should use his abilities primarily to help others, or to help solve the world’s problems, or to cast some light into man’s condition. [...]

If creativity itself was sometimes considered irresponsible, or “feminine,” or adolescent, then psychic activity, he discovered, seemed to be held in an even murkier light, in which the abilities themselves were sometimes thought of not as creative enhancements but as symptoms of feminine weakness and irresponsibility. [...]

[...] There the full light of consciousness did not shine. He alerted himself through the use of the hallucinatory radio, that made him question why the lights were off. [...]

To Ruburt it seemed that the lights switched off and on. [...]

[...] You wouldn’t say I’ll only flash the light in this direction because it’s a safe direction. [...] Usually we just flash our consciousness in one direction and say this is real, but in this experiment at least, let us flash that light down that pyramid in whatever direction we choose. [...]

[...] Your consciousness is like a light for you to use. [...]

[...] Here again is the old connection between the God of Light and the Prince of Darkness, or Satan — all distinctions made at various levels of development, and having to do with the nature of the origin of the present consciousness.

[...] In some of these philosophies the daylight is seen as pallid, for example, in comparison with the true brilliance of knowledge that illuminates the dream state, and black is the symbol then of secret knowledge that cannot be found with normal consciousness, or be scrutinized in the light of day.

The light of illumination is experienced as white, yet it often appears to delineate the darkness of the soul, or to shine in the black of night. [...]

There are ways of assimilating your inner knowledge, your contrasting values of light and darkness, good and bad, youth and old age, and of using such criteria to enrich your own experience in a most practical fashion. [...]

The same ingredients of your lives, yes, but with different light thrown upon them, so that newer understandings can sometimes appear that were not clear before. [...]

[...] This means also that you are bringing such an issue into conscious light, that you are not afraid of making such a choice, and that you are thankful that the choice itself is available to you. [...]

[...] It is, however, an excellent policy to seek out the available conscious decisions that can be made in your lives, for you see your own situations then in a newer clearer light. [...]

[...] You have both made some rather important connections lately (long pause), that can only serve to remind you of an important point: Ruburt’s “symptoms” should not be regarded as one black blot of a certainly reprehensible quality, sometimes seen in a quite hopeless light, but as a combination or result of quite changeable, quite moveable, quite separate characteristics that can also be dealt with separately, moved around and so forth, relieved or dissolved. [...]

[...] While we were in the discotheque ultraviolet lights were turned on when the entertainment began; this means the test object was viewed by us in this unusual light, and this fact shows in tonight’s test data.

[...] When the ultraviolet lights were turned on in the discotheque, some colors were activated more than others. The light was actually quite dim, but the ultraviolet made anything white appear to be blinding white-paper, socks, white shirts, etc. [...]

[...] When the ultraviolet lights were turned on however, we were surprised to see a large, bright yellow stain on the front of her now brilliantly-white blouse. This stain was invisible in ordinary light. [...]

[...] Where actually perhaps a sudden explosion had taken place, you would see a slow progression of light and motion.

[...] Your so-called mistakes exist as mistakes only in the light of your aspirations to perform better, to express more fully developed experiences, rather than to write better sentences.

It is self-defeating, therefore, to blame yourself for mistakes, so-called, simply because in the light of your present development they are seen as less-developed acts than those to which you now aspire. [...]

[...] The floor covered with a light-colored, textured rug. In the light it looks green. [...]

[...] In the first group of impressions Jane said the data “A light strip on this item. [...] She saw a wedge-shaped light strip, horizontally, but could tell no more than this.

This room, the office, has a large light-colored wooden desk, set out from a window—that is, not in the center of the floor—the chair between the window and the desk.

[...] A light strip on this item. [...]

[...] As I turned on a couple of additional lights in the living room, to see to write by, our friends in the fireplace began to sound off —adding a new sort of whistling or crying sound—and Jane made what may be a good point: light may leak past the closed damper enough that the raccoons respond to that stimulus. [...]

(9:10.) Psychic abilities, as such, were relatively unimportant to Ruburt when the Sinful Self was receiving all of this instruction, so in that regard they, taken alone, were simply seen in a somewhat worse light than the creative abilities. [...]

It allows the light of its personality to shine purposely down those paths from which it has come, in order to help others who will follow; but the light is the light of vitality, and carries with it traces of the personality who lets it shine.

You know that a star may light a dark universe, a dark landscape, and help a wayfarer on his way. [...]

[...] The star does not know upon whom its light falls. [...]

I say “sounds”—yet these inner body sounds can only be compared to an inner body situation where sound operates as light. [...] In those terms there is opaque light, and transparent light as well. Sound has light value, and light has sound value. [...]

[...] In any body difficulty, the light and sound frequencies become out of tune, so to speak. [...]

[...] First I had my usual thrilling sensation at the suggestion of lightness, once I had attained the desired state of light trance. Then, I became aware that I was watching and listening to a man in a light gray business suit. [...]

We have much yet to cover about various topics only lightly touched upon so far, including the nature of matter, the process involved in its continual creation and manipulation, and the truly astounding cooperation involved, as all living things contribute their energy to keep the physical universe in any kind of permanent, coherent form.

[...] I believe that I too was in some kind of light trance state during this delivery, since I felt quite lethargic. [...]

(Wednesday, 6/10, 8:15 PM: I experienced my usual sensation at my suggestion of lightness. [...]

[...] Cells are not just responsive to light because this is the order of things, but because an emotional desire to perceive light is present.

[...] The cellular structure at that point responds to light, and activates latent abilities in the cellular structure of the mother’s body. [...]

[...] He is aware of light and shadow, of shape and form, though he must learn to distinguish those portions of the available field of reality that you accept as objects, from the available field that you do not accept as objects. [...]

The desire appears on this other level in the form of these electromagnetic units, which then cause a light sensitivity. [...]

[...] Upon giving myself the usual suggestions in the beginning, I felt a definite and rather surprising surge of lightness, of a rising up, course through my body.

(In this experiment sound, light and sensation were involved. [...]

[...] She felt very light, she said, and willing to go along with whatever might develop. [...]

(Pause at 9:47.) The light-and-darkness contrast presents us with the same kind of picture. The good was seen as light, for men felt safer in the day. [...]

[...] There are kinds of perception with which you are not familiar, worlds in which your idea of light does not exist, where almost infinite gradations of thermal qualities are absorbed in terms of sensation, not of light.

Now: The symbolism of ascent or descent, or of light and dark, would be meaningless to other realities with different perceptive mechanisms. [...]

[...] Even investigative work involving atoms and molecules, or [theoretical²] faster-than-light particles, concerns the particle nature of reality. [...]

[...] Others will be willing enough to see science in its mythical characteristics, but will be most reluctant to see religion as you know it in the same light. [...]

(10:43.) Give us a moment… Most people interpret the realities of their lives, their triumphs and failures, their health or illness, their fortune or misfortune, then, in the light of a mythical reality that is not understood as such. [...]

They cast their light over historical events because they are responsible for those events. [...]

In the light of this discussion, now, that self was as unrealistic at its end of the spectrum as the Sinful Self was at the other, for Ruburt felt that he was supposed to demonstrate a certain kind of superhuman feat, not only managing on occasion to uncover glimpses of man’s greater abilities, but to demonstrate these competently at the drop of a hat, willingly at the request of others. [...]

In the meantime, since he was older, and in the light of our sessions, it seemed to him that he must have outgrown many of the beliefs of early childhood, and that he must have enough perspective so that those earlier feelings and fears no longer applied. [...]

[...] They were also bound to bring the entire concept into light, to bring the problem to the surface. [...]

[...] Now in that larger light, even the concept of the Sinful Self has its reasoning, for it is once again shared by millions of people for centuries. [...]

I do not light into you. I have not the heart to light into you, because you are also giving him (Theodore) strength and you represent a foundation of which he is sure. [...]

[...] Instead of hells, I find meadows—instead of darkness, I find light! [...]

(At this point Vera commented that Seth had not “lighted into her. [...]

[...] There are states of perception with which you are intuitively aware but that escape you in the light of day. [...]

[...] Eyes closed tightly but I saw a flood of light, same quality as daylight. In it, [as on a ceiling] a domed light fixture, unlike any here. [...] I opened my eyes—definitely had not seen the light fixture in room, it was entirely different.

[...] Exactly the same thing happened as yesterday, except that this time I saw a different light fixture, off to the left of my inner vision. [...]

(October 19, Monday, 11:15 AM: No results, except feeling of being light.