“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Many tribes believed, quite rightly, in the inner spirit that pervades each living thing. [...]

The Hebrews conceived of an overseer god, an angry and just and sometimes cruel god; and many sects denied, then, the idea that other living beings beside man possessed inner spirits. [...]

[...] Tonight’s session was being held in our living room, since the house was empty except for us. [...]

Before, the environment was effortlessly created and perceived by man and all other living things, knowing the nature of their inner unity. [...]

Many of the men involved did lead double lives then, known in their villages by one name, and in their brotherhoods by another. [...] Later, when the Christians were being persecuted, there were many safeguards taken — particularly by those who believed they had a responsibility to live long enough to see the new creed find fertile ground.

(The session was being held in our living room. [...]

(No doubt Seth’s amusement at the Vatican holding doctored records stems from his own brief tenure as Pope in one of his lives.

[...] When ESP class is held in the living room, I’m usually typing material in one of the rooms on the other side of the corridor. [...]

[...] So far she’s preferred to work before the picture window in the living room.

[...] From her own viewpoint Jane has already produced for Psychic Politics some very perceptive material on our move to the hill house: “So we made our own special place in more ordinary terms, by symbolizing that particular house and corner, marking it ours, stamping it with the imprint of living symbols which we transposed upon it. [...]

[...] Now when Jane and I drive past the old house we lived in on Water Street, close by downtown Elmira, we engender within ourselves mixed feelings of strangeness and familiarity. [...]

[...] One house might remind you of one a relative lived in years ago. [...]

[...] No information given to my knowledge that was unknown to any living person; some given that was not known consciously by Jerry but she could have picked up the knowledge and forgotten it.)

[...] Maybe some day I’ll write in detail about Jane’s and my lives — but not now!

[...] I know that my wife lives within me now, as I do within her “where she is now” — just as we shared ourselves with each other throughout the nearly twenty-nine years of our marriage. [...]

[...] How could it be otherwise, since no one can live in true isolation? [...]

[...] At 8:40 she surprised me by calling out from the living room — I sat reading a magazine at the kitchen table — that she’d try to have a short session. [...]

[...] You could not have a world in which the newly-risen dead mixed with the living. [...]

[...] His life was one of those lives that were finally used to compose the composite image of the biblical Christ.

[...] One of those former students, who now lives out of town, had a rather heavy cold—and now I think that for the first time in many years we too may be developing colds. [...]

[...] I’m also presenting it because it shows how an event on one day of our lives—a television program—influenced Jane’s delivery of one session of the Seth material. [...]

[...] When I got out to the living room to wait for the session, I found her watching one of those fascinating, multiple-subject science programs on the educational channel: Various experts were discussing topics like childbirth and sound, Kirlian photography, astronomy, particle physics, and so forth. [...]

Now, we will see to it that you live very adventurous nights, and those of you who do psychological time and take the physical time necessary to do the experiments, will find the mobility of consciousness—I am using that term because Ruburt likes it so well—that is necessary. [...]

[...] There is indeed a reason why you have been involved with personalities who have taken their own lives, and I want you to take this to heart. [...]

[...] You must use them as our friend here did, not only for your own benefit and edification, but so that you can change the world in which you live for no one will change it for you. [...]

Beaches sparkle under stars.
They’ll be there for a million years.
Seas leap up in endless waves,
But we live far briefer lives.

[...] The rest of our lives depends upon what happens. [...]

Death came in and took my cat
And passed right by my dog.
He chased her through the living room
Over the woolen rug.
I sat right there and never knew.
I sat right there and never saw.

[...] Jane and I think it most interesting that we were living in the same downtown apartment house as David was, and that Jane met—just that once—a person living in the house we were to buy two years later. [...]

Her relative, David told us now, had informed him that Mrs. Steffans had suffered bouts of deep depression while living in the hill house. [...]

(“Earlier today we were talking about the suicide of Mrs. Steffans, who used to live in this house—”)

[...] [Mrs. Steffans] tried to live on the outside, while she was always concerned with inner issues, and it was on your parts indicative of a creative tension between the two. [...]

[...] The beliefs were so contradictory that in living up to any one of them you actually seemed to be denying others in which you also believed. [...]

[...] A feeling of self-approval is absolutely necessary for any true sense of well-being; it is not (underlined) virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time.

[...] The energy and power that keeps you alive, that fuels your thoughts — and also the energy that lights your cities — all have their origins in Framework 2. The same energy that leaps into practical use when you turn on your television sets also allows you to tune into the daily experienced events of your lives.

1. Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality contains a number of references to Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who lived from 1875–1961.

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. [...] (We had lived at 458, three blocks from downtown Elmira.)

[...] 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. [...]

[...] They sit quite comfortably on their living room couch, with dinner on the coffee table, surrounded by all of the dear, homey paraphernalia that is familiar to your society.

[...] The cozy living room is quite safe from the imaginary catastrophes that are occurring just a few feet from the couch. [...]

In this case, the frightened perceiver knows full well that the terrible events on the screen will not suddenly explode into the living room. [...]

[...] You do indeed have to change all of your assumptions—and while living in a world that seems to work by different rules than yours—nor can you as yet make all of your own rules work, so to speak. [...]

[...] It takes some considerable psychological footwork, and yet the direction of your lives is now leading toward certain developments that were inherent from the beginning. [...]

[...] I would like you to try to feel the energy of Framework 2 in your daily lives, by reminding yourselves of its existence rather frequently—and again, by looking for hints and clues of its existence, for when you do they appear. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Identities take many roles in many lives.

There are periods, cycles if you prefer, through which such identities live and learn again within your system. [...]

[...] Compassion for living things in males was regarded as a weakness to be plucked out. [...]

[...] There are different kinds of creativity, then, that must be learned, and a specialization in energy’s focus and feelings that emerges—elemental energy becoming conscious of itself and aware of issues that did not exist for it “earlier;” millions of molecules momentarily united with living consciousness, filled with primal energy, now learning love and forming highly sensitive psychic patterns; electrical charges that now form emotions instead of clouds; the innocent chaos of undifferentiated personality that exists behind the highly specified and truly sophisticated mechanism of one thought. [...]

The stubborn part of his nature has been a characteristic of most of his past lives. [...]

[...] You are approaching some excellent periods in your lives, periods that would not have been possible had Ruburt not fully accepted, as he now has, the emergence of his abilities and his responsibility to develop them.

[...] You must actively practice what you both know in your daily living. [...]

[...] She had a military background in two past lives.

[...] They maintain that all of the earth’s living forms have remained essentially unchanged since that prime creative event; they can account for the disappearance of the dinosaurs, for example, and the vast number of other life forms we no longer see around us. On the other hand, evolutionary science believes that the universe came into being between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago; that the earth itself is about 4.6 billion years old, and that according to the fossil record and other evidence, its living organisms first arose and began evolving at least 3.5 billion years ago. [...]

[...] (More intently now:) Or how many fish flopped backward to the water, finding themselves in such an in-between stage that they could no longer live in the water nor breathe the air?

We begin again with a new book, and I am sure your own lively mind will bring questions to the forefront that will be of interest.

(Loudly:) Generally speaking (underlined), most of you live in your own world, with others of your kind. [...]

You choose the city or state or country in which you live. [...]

[...] So even in this moment Ruburt faintly feels a nostalgic memory for lives come and gone, as you might for fond dreams barely recalled.

[...] To some extent, my humor helps me avoid pitfalls, and lets me help others to see their lives in better perspective.

[...] Other members of the family live there some of the time. [...]

[...] Today Jane learned that his rent has not been raised, peculiarly enough, as of today, June 5. The lawyer never lived in the apartment, for whatever reasons of his own. [...]

[...] The elderly widow fears living alone now, and hopes her children will take her in. [...]