“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The list represented numerous small things we had needed for some days, but Jane had been prevented from picking them up because of steady rain while I was at work. The list grew and indeed Jane was to get some items and perform some chores I had forgotten to put on the list. These too play a part in test results, since she had these equally strongly in mind this evening. She was to do all the chores tomorrow, Tuesday. See Jane’s list on page 190.)

(One of Jane’s chores Tuesday, not on the list but performed along with the listed items, was to mail a package to Sarah Bernard, who along with her husband visited us from North Carolina over last weekend. See the last session. The package contained a sweater Sarah forgot. The Bernards had visited Florida a few weeks ago. Jane had made her own list of errands to run Tuesday, and this included a visit to the post office to buy stamps, as well as mail the package. See Jane’s list, page 190 also.

(“Smaller shapes, fairly dark, perhaps like leaves in shadow. A connection with a note or letter. At least a connection with writing that is not on the object itself. That is, other writing, either in a note or beneath these images which I believe are on the object.” This is good data, and refers to the list Jane made out herself to supplement my list. See page 190. Jane made her list out Tuesday morning, November 29, after I had given her a copy of the list used as envelope object Monday, November 28.

(The two lists were linked in Jane’s mind of course by images, common goals, etc, of many kinds. One item of similarity showing up on both lists is the “cash check" data, referring to a check I had received for a painting recently….The mail package data on Jane’s list refers to the errand package discussed on page 195 under the Florida data. I had forgotten to add this item to my list.

You may both make up the list. You need not have the whole list by the next session. [...]

(Within an hour after the session ended, we had fifteen questions listed. We’ll write a longer list for the session on Monday, April 5.)

[...] You may take the rest of the session to make up an excellent — underlined twice (humorously), list of questions that will appear in the next, question-and-answer chapter.

[...] Sure enough, he had listed a question-and-answer chapter. [...]

[...] Now I want you to make out a list of beliefs about yourself, and another list of beliefs about Ruburt. I want him to make out a list of his beliefs about you. I want him to concentrate, now, upon those beliefs that are working for him, to quite consciously build up the sense of his own worth by listing the uses to which he has put his abilities. [...]

Now if I were you two, making a list of resolutions, my list would include feelings and attitudes. [...] I would not presume to make a list of resolutions for you, but in an imaginative endeavor this is what I pretend I would list if I were you—meaning you both. Though this is a new year, there is nothing really new about the list.

[...] She is making her own list of things to do for 1979, including the point of power. [...]

Two: I will approve of and rejoice in my accomplishments, and I will be as vigorous in listing these—as rigorous in remembering them—as I have ever been in remembering and enumerating my failures or lacks of accomplishment. [...]

[...] The list I just gave you is important because if you do not value your abilities or approve of yourself, then you cut yourself off from using your own abilities. [...]

(The list is a summary of three other pages of detailed notes, which are on file. To my surprise, when Jane checked the list with her own pendulum at about 8PM, before the session, she received definite answers that agreed with each item on my list. [...] I definitely did not expect such complete agreement on Jane’s part with my list.)

(At the moment, 7:30 PM on Monday, June 12, pendulum tells me the above list is complete and correct. [...]

(Drawing in the air, Seth-Jane finished the list, then told me that I was to place a second one, with its own heading, opposite the first. [...]

(“Yes,” I said, although I didn’t have the opposing lists arranged as neatly as they’re shown here. [...]

[...] Note that Seth would give a complete list under one heading, then match its components item by item with their opposites — no small feat, I would say, considering the number of issues involved. [...]

(Copy of the list Jane made out Tuesday morning to supplement my list, which had been used as envelope object the night before, November 28. Jane’s list was on yellow paper, in dark ink the same color as mine.)

[...] A list on a gate toward the left. [...]

(Copy of the shopping list used as the envelope object in the 78th experiment, in the 304th session for November 28,1966.)

(As instructed by Seth in the last session, I had compiled a list of questions for this chapter. [...] The list included some of the many interesting questions Sue Watkins had asked; we had saved these, along with those raised by ourselves and others in connection with various older sessions. [...]

(Earlier today I told Jane that I was afraid the questions weren’t very representative of Seth’s book, and that to assemble a truly relevant list of them would require an intimate study of each chapter. [...] We were left hoping that intuitively the list would be an appropriate one.

(Humorously): Begin with your famous list of questions.

(“Well, first I’ll read you this paragraph heading the list: Some of these questions may refer to subjects you plan to cover in later chapters. [...]

I want each of you to write a list, yourself—and this involves work—a list of your conscious ideas about yourself, your conscious beliefs. [...] I then want you to make a list of your conscious beliefs regarding each other, and you are then to discuss these. [...]

Now I expect your joint and individual exuberance to spread in all areas of your life now—freely—but you must begin those lists and you must take what I have said this afternoon to heart, not bury it in the records.

[...] Your work with beliefs today was most beneficial and so were your evening lists. [...]

His list with the physical goals is excellent. [...]

[...] and a mimeographed list of various addresses furnishing technical help and supplies regarding the conservation of paintings. The list was also compiled by Caroline Keck; the book by Louis Pomerantz.

(Caroline Keck’s mimeographed list is also printed on cream-tinted paper the size of this page. [...]

(The equalization, Jane believes, refers to the book by Louis Pomerantz, that along with the object and the mimeographed list were mailed to her by Caroline Keck from Brooklyn, NY, in August 1964. [...]

(On the page opposite the title page is a long detailed list of Louis Pomerantz’s previous experience, places of study, etc. [...]

(After supper Jane and I went over a long list of reasons—beliefs—she had compiled today about the reasons for her symptoms. I thought the list contained accurate perceptions, the best she has done. Jane made the list because of some things I had said in recent days—that the same reasons for her symptoms were still operating, in spite of all the deleted sessions we’d had, in spite of all the suggestions, etc. Many items on the list seemed self-evident. [...]

[...] The situation is as you both saw it this evening (while reading Jane’s list), except that you did not see it in perspective.

[...] As I told Jane this evening after reading her list with her: No one, myself included, would have any right to expect another to pay a price such as her symptoms so that the other party would get anything out of the deal whatsoever. [...]

(I want Jane to include her list with this session—the one of December 17, 1973. [...]

(“A miscellaneous list or group of names or designations. [...] These can quite possibly refer to the pencil lists I am in the habit of making up, of materials I need at the Art Shop. I have the habit of making these lists for Jane especially with prices included. I almost always have a list when I go to the Art Shop, and so does Jane. I do not recall whether I had such a list on the day I bought the canvas which furnished tonight’s object, but the chances are that I did have. [...]

A miscellaneous list or group of names or designations. [...]

(Yes, I’ve started my famous list of questions for that “personality energy essence;” it’s based on this latest group of private sessions, that began on February 4, 1981. [...] Next comes my list of “pithy quotations” from the same group of sessions—positive statements from Seth [usually] that we can quickly review. I can already see that both lists could be almost endless.... [...]

[...] I ask a question or two about it in my list of questions for Seth.

[...] Her first massive sensations in March [estimated], 1962, were followed by these phenomena in 1963: our York Beach experiences in August; her reception of Idea Construction in September; her massive feelings in October [estimated]; the outline she produced for ESP Power [or The Coming of Seth] as a result of the Idea Construction adventure; and the beginning of these sessions in November, through our trying certain experiments listed in that outline [as Jane explains in Chapter 1 of The Seth Material]. [...] Listing them as I’ve done here is also apt to artificially set them aside from the flow of insights within the poetry Jane has written since childhood; actually, of course, all are related.

[...] (Several years later, Jane was to list nine such inner senses in Chapter 19 of The Seth Material.) Jane said that upon coming slowly awake from her nap she’d had the very peculiar feeling of ‘growing larger.’ The laughing phrase she used was that she’d felt as ‘big as an elephant.’ Her boundaries of awareness seemed to have expanded. [...]

[...] Now see the lists of our house connections.

(In closing: Our list of “house connections” is still increasing. [...]

In writing down your list of personal beliefs, therefore, leave nothing out. Examine the list as though it belonged to someone else. I did not want to imply that you make a list of specifically negative ideas, however. [...]

Now if you are honest with your lists, you will finally come to what I call core beliefs, strong ideas about your own existence. [...]

During the little time we’d spent thinking about such matters, Jane and I had considered the Biblical accounts of such great ages to be simply wrong, badly distorted, or perhaps epochal—that is, Abraham’s ancestors may be listed in the correct genealogical sequence, but with many gaps among the individuals named. [...] There are other epochal lists in the Bible.

[...] (Why isn’t Eve’s age given in the Bible?) Enoch, the fifth elder listed after Seth, lived for a mere 365 years, but sired Methuselah, who at 969 years is the oldest individual recorded in the Bible. [...]

In Genesis 11, the listing of Abraham’s ancestors begins after the Flood with the oldest son of Noah, Shem, living some 600 years. [...]

[...] See the notes preceding the 138th session for a partial list of such predictions. I will endeavor to compile a complete list of specific statements, by session number, and attach it to a succeeding session.

[...] One of the experiments she listed in the book for the reader to try led, of course, to the development of the Seth material in her own case. [...]

[...] Roger’s list contained a fourth question addressed to Seth; this one concerns the Bahai faith, was formulated by a girl friend of Pat’s, and will be answered by Seth at a later date.

[...] I merely showed Jane the list shortly before 9 PM. [...]

[...] Few people have seen Roger’s list, and none of these with one exception knew any math. [...]

(Since Jane looked at Roger’s list just before the usual session time we thought Seth might consider the questions. [...]