“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You live in private yet joint realities. [...]

[...] You have lived here some years yet purposely avoided thinking of it, this apartment, as anything but transitory lest you put down roots and become involved in ways that might distract you from your work and purposes. [...]

A house in town reminds you each of family living, and you of your neighborhood. [...]

(“Did you ever try anything like that while you lived on earth?”)

(“Why do human beings live only 75 years on the average?”)

[...] Between lives whole self.

[...] There is indeed a kind of communal dream life, then, in which each individual contributes—a dream life in which both living and dead play a part, in your terms. [...]

[...] What good were ornate cathedrals, replete with carved angels, saints, and gargoyles, gleaming with glazed colorful windows, when the people lived in hovels and labored in the fields? [...]

A man’s purpose seemed to be no more than to put bolts together to make an automobile, to spend hours in a factory, working on an end product that he might never see—and because many such people felt that there was little intrinsic value to their lives, spent in such a fashion, they began to demand greater and greater compensation. [...]

[...] Live with a sweeter touch. [...]

[...] On the other hand technology brings within your reach the great therapy of music; this activates the inner living cells of your body, stimulates the energy of the inner self and helps to unite the conscious mind with the other portions of your being.

[...] As physical creatures you will be partially changed by any chemical or element, or food or drug that becomes part of your living system, but those effects will follow the nature of your beliefs.

Your dreams and the physical events of your lives constantly alter the chemical balances within your body. [...]

Now: Your body is your own living sculpture — not only the shape, structure and nature of its form, but the miraculous sense-knowledge of its being and the unique effect it has upon others. [...]

[...] When women had too many children in the past, many did not live to adulthood. [...]

[...] They are natural communicators, gifted so that their works affect not only the conscious lives of others, but also change and alter dream patterns.

[...] We become important symbols, both in their waking and dream lives.

[...] I would like to make one remark: you do have many lives. [...]

[...] Each person has such a world view, whether living or dead in your terms, and that “living picture” exists despite time or space. [...]

[...] I mean it kindly — but Jane and I have never believed that a living individual could be in contact with a famous dead person; especially through the Ouija board or automatic writing. [...] The gist of our attitudes is that we find it most difficult to believe that “Socrates” — wherever he is and whatever he may be doing, in our terms — is willing to drop everything to give very garbled information to a well-intentioned, really innocent person living in, say, a small town in Virginia. [...]

It is quite possible to tune in to the world view of any person, living or dead in your terms. [...]

[...] Ruburt picked up on James’s world view, however, as in your terms at least it “existed” perhaps 10 years ago.⁶ Then, in his mind, James playfully thought of a book that he would write were he “living,” called The Varieties of Religious States — an altered version of a book he wrote in life.

[...] It would also begin (underlined) to give you a feeling for the magical support that upholds you both, and your lives — the support that Ruburt can count upon, and that can bring about the solution to his physical difficulties. [...]

[...] It seems isolated from your lives. [...]

[...] It should hold some of your current paintings — but in some way it should be tied in with your lives more.

You enjoy the living room for a nap because of its sensual reaches. [...]

[...] As I feared, they had come to call on the tenant who lived in the small apartment above our living room, where we were holding the session. [...]

[...] They were closely involved in other relationships in past lives.

[...] He had no intention of living to a ripe old age. [...]

[...] She had an impression of Midge in a robe, crawling on the floor near the oil stove in the living room. [...]

[...] At other levels of activity you realized that this could apply between lives also, and the path again opened—at both ends.

If you think of Ruburt’s normal flexibility as a creative endeavor, then automatically and easily, Ruburt first of all, and you, will find your creative abilities coming to the fore in that direction, bringing about results that are far quicker, easier, and executed in such a manner that Framework 2 adds immeasurably to that area of your lives.

(The envelope object for the 69th experiment was a colored postcard sent to us by Barbara Ingold, our neighbor who lives below us on the first floor. [...]

[...] Barbara lives in the downstairs apartment, beneath us.

[...] That card was sent to us by Leonard Yaudes, who also lives in the apartment house. [...]

[...] Merle and Lois Cratsley also live in the apartment house, on the first floor, and do own such a chair. [...]

[...] Many insects had accumulated on the screens of our living room windows, and a few had gotten inside the room. [...]

[...] Finally as Jane began dictating he cornered a larger insect and then began to play with it about the living room floor. [...]

I know your cat meant no harm, and would regret depriving him of his playmate, except that when it is possible it is not only wise but advantageous to help any living creature, regardless of its stature in your scheme of things.

There is something here we may as well consider now, having to do with the cooperation existing between all living creatures in the construction of the physical universe. [...]

[...] Some individuals will retain strong memories of their past lives, and others will not. [...]

[...] Our friend Ruburt feels triumph in this life to have lived as many years as he has, and to find himself strong and hearty—for he feared that adulthood would destroy him. [...]

Then how much more triumphant you will feel, when you realize you have lived and died many times and managed to survive, as indeed I have managed to survive. [...]

[...] This one (Sue) has abilities from past lives to deal with and to use—and a greater responsibility to use them. [...]

[...] In that regard, every person paints his or her own portrait in living color — a portrait that does not simply sit in a tranquil pose at a table, but one that has the full capacity for action. Those of you now living, say, are in the same life class. [...]

[...] Give us a moment… Your imaginations are intimately connected with your diseases, just as your imaginations are so important in all other areas of your lives. [...]

[...] He lived too much in the moment for that. [...]

[...] I suppose what I want to know is why we must question those characteristics—or at least why we, meaning anyone, cannot live in harmony with them. [...]

[...] They are challenges, highly characteristic of all living matter.

[...] You have both largely, except in your work, now, cut spontaneity from your lives; your habits are so set.

[...] Change your living room furniture, your bedroom, your kitchen or whatever you can—simply to symbolically and slowly break you in to the idea of change, and to break up the invisible bulk of mental patterns that are connected with your present state.

Quite literally, you live in the body of your beliefs. [...]

He received a phone call from a man who lived in another state. [...]

He was a study, a living example, of the effects of conflicting unexamined beliefs, a fierce and yet agonized personification of what can happen when an individual allows his conscious mind to deny its responsibilities — i.e., when an individual becomes afraid of his own consciousness.

But he was benign and jovial as a bishop
Someone might ask in for an evening of tea,
And when he let me peek out through his eyes,
The familiar living room seemed very strange.

[...] And yet, inside our small, lighted living room, we both felt we were making important inroads, gaining invaluable insights and finding a point of sanity amid a chaotic world.

When he said things like that, I’d get upset, and the familiar living room seemed strange. [...]

“Her parents weren’t there, and Sarah didn’t live there either!”

[...] You do live in a safe universe. [...]

[...] He senses the awe of creativity as it becomes physically apparent, and that force is being released in your lives. [...]

(Nabene is the name for a personality of mine that presumably lived as a male in the first century AD in Rome, Italy. We know little about that life; one evening with Sue Watkins, who also lived then, I managed to tune into that existence to some degree via images. [...] I also lived in Jerusalem.

(“It’s a real funny feeling, as though the sound could break through into the living room,” Jane said. [...]

You know that sound has an effect upon living things. [...]

[...] You call matter living or dead according to quite arbitrary designations. [...] In our last session, I mentioned that you considered live matter to be action in motion.

Actually, you consider action which seems to be at least partially self-directive as living matter. [...] It should go without saying that all action is indeed self-directed action to some degree, and therefore should be termed as living matter.

(From 1960 to 1975, Jane and I [and Willy!] lived in a second-floor apartment, No. [...] Here’s my July 1964 diagram of the apartment’s living room, where the activities in the 68th session took place.)

(By referring to the floor plan of our living room at the end of this session, the placement of the three of us can be quickly determined. [...]

[...] He determined to discipline himself much more carefully from then on, but from this point he threw himself wholeheartedly, for two lives, into lives of great restraint and overcontrol.

There are tendencies and conflicts that have been with the personality in other existences, that have influenced his nature as he vacillated between spontaneity, usually exaggerated, and overdiscipline; in some lives a great lack of concern for the welfare of others, that could be called an innocent callousness, a joyful, utterly spontaneous personality with little idea of practicality. [...]

[...] It has at one time or another in various lives been on the side of the strongly disciplined portions, in which case it was greatly given to dogma, and concerned with cultural problems of punishment and law; or followed the intuitive side, in which it emerged as mediumship, and high mysticism.

[...] I will at your request, at any time, give you the details of these lives. [...]