“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The news made us regretful in some way; it seemed to suggest answers to some of our own problems re living costs, locations, etc. [...]

[...] Jane talked to several people here today who reminded her that there was always a need to be filled regardless of location, about such things as reincarnation, dreams, etc; this also made us feel that we could work out here, in living arrangements and income, as well as anywhere else. [...]

[...] They are so a part of your existence that often you are not even aware of them, yet their absence would show you the relative darkness in which the majority of people live.

Seth also presented the entire work in such a way that the events of our daily lives were intimately connected with his material, serving as personal examples of how his theories actually work in everyday experience. [...]

As Seth continued dictation I was fired by his purpose to make the unknown elements of human life at least partially visible — an audacious goal, I thought — and I tried to do my part in recording all such disclosures as they appeared in our lives and were reflected in the experiences of our friends and students.

Where do the events of our lives begin or end? [...]

Section 1: “You and the ‘Unknown’ Reality” — Nine sessions describing how probabilities merge with the events of our private lives.

[...] They do not want to live under the conditions as they believe them to be. [...]

[...] They prefer to leave physical life in a blaze of perception, battling for their lives, at a point of challenge, “fighting” and not acquiescent.

(9:54.) Natural disasters possess the great rousing energy of powers unleashed, of nature escaping man’s discipline, and by their very characteristics also remind man of his own psyche; for in their way such profound events always involve creativity being born, rising even from the bowels of the earth, reshaping the land and the lives of men.

[...] They may not have found it earlier in their lives.

[...] And when I say to each of you, classes or no, that your lives be lives of quality, of beauty and of truth, I am not about to define beauty or truth for you. [...]

[...] And you become angry when people do not live up to your expectations of their capabilities. [...]

([Dickie:] “But will we be living in that City?”

[...] You will be a part of it whether you are living in it or not. [...]

A follower of Hay Chi-Chu (my phonetic interpretation) who was a combination outcast-commander and merchant for the foreigners who lived in the mountains; an outpost to the northwest, where it snowed severely in the wintertime.

[...] A Manchurian encounter here, with hordes coming from another country some 50 years previous, their descendants still living in the mountain passes.

In the past century you lived in this country in Oklahoma. [...]

He brought you up, and it is in that home that you lived. [...]

[...] Let us look at your lives.

[...] They were not considered beneficial in themselves—but only if they could be practically used as a way of making a living. [...]

Your lives, like everyone’s, have rhythms. [...]

Now people do the same thing in all areas of their lives. [...]

[...] You do not really trust yourselves to put these ideas into practice, to trust your lives with them and until you trust your lives with them, you will not see the fruits. [...] And do not ask me what I mean by props for each of you secretly know well what I mean, in your own lives. [...]

[...] And while I have been egotistical in many of my lives, I do not need you all to set me up as an authority figure to whom you can relate so I would like to see some freedom on your own parts directed and applied. [...]

They may, for example, become aware of their own reincarnational selves, recognizing quite readily personalities they knew in other lives, if those personalities are not otherwise engaged. They may deliberately now hallucinate, or they may “relive” certain portions of past lives if they choose. [...]

[...] Our black cat, Rooney, was scratching at the door of our living room. [...]

[...] The living do not know how to read it. [...]

For all of your complaining (Seth told us with some humor at 8:56), you understand in rather good measure the decisions and actions that motivate your lives, so that Ruburt is more than usually aware of the manipulations that psychologically and physically lie just beneath the material usually carried by what is ordinarily called the conscious mind. Therefore, a kind of momentary gap appeared between his life and his living of it—a pause and a hesitation became obvious between his life and what he should do with it, as his condition showed just before the hospital hiatus.

[...] Ruburt is now far more willing to make certain changes in his life than he was earlier, and he sees himself more as one of a living congregation of creatures—less isolated than before, stripped down from the superperfect (subconscious) model, and therefore no more under the compulsion to live up to such a psychological bondage. [...]

And as for books, early in August I returned to our publisher, Prentice-Hall, the page proofs Jane had corrected for her book of poetry: If We Live Again: Or, Public Magic and Private Love. Ordinarily that event would have delighted us, since it meant that before the year was out she’d have another work published. [...] At this time, Prentice-Hall sent us the first published copies of If We Live Again, but as proud as Jane and I are of that book, its appearance didn’t help her. [...]

[...] We were pleased to get it for, as I told Jane, if ever we’re to understand all of the events in our lives that led to the hospital experience, we must call upon every ability at our service. [...]

[...] Men believe that the gods live forever. Men live forever, but having forgotten this, they remember only to endow their gods with this characteristic. [...]

(“There were three men whose lives became confused in history and merged, and whose composite history became known as the life of Christ…. [...]

[...] All along we’d been thinking the three personalities making up the Christ entity had already lived and died, but now here Seth was talking about the third personality returning in the next century. [...]

[...] An open-ended consciousness will feel its connections with all other living beings. [...]

[...] This would represent a personal belief or interpretation of the events—not any scientific evidence at all—but personal conviction cannot be ignored—personality can’t be scientifically established with living personalities. [...]

[...] That news is already invisibly censored, and yet we’re supposed to live our lives in accordance with that official definition of experience.

“I can envision Seth’s material expanding almost endlessly just on a day-to-day basis, as he deals with events in the lives of Jane and me—and this idea conveys nothing about news of his reactions to and interactions with events on various levels of his own reality, plus other realities he may be able to reach. [...] But obviously, if Seth did take up every moment of our temporal lives with personal material, all else would be probable.”

I plan to mention certain secular affairs that I’ve kept track of while Jane has been producing Dreams, but mainly these notes will deal with personal and professional events in our own lives. [...]

In the meantime, early in August Jane had laid Seven Three aside once more and returned to the book of poetry she’d had in progress for a year.⁶ And on August 15 she happily announced that she’d come up with the complete title she had been searching for all that time: If We Live Again: Or, Public Magic and Private Love. [...]

[...] I urged her to give it a title and include it in If We Live Again. [...]

Fear of the self, itself, can lead people to the horrendous experiences mentioned in tonight’s session, so you are working with some revolutionary ideas, and trying to apply them to daily living.

[...] Experience as directly as you can within yourselves your own living reality, then go from that, if you can, to other living realities. [...]

[...] And you should sense within yourselves the energy that resides within your own identity and sense to some extent the unique vitality of every living organism. [...]

You cannot understand what makes things live when you must first rob their life. And so when man learned to categorize, number and dissect nature, he lost its living quality and no longer felt a part of it. [...]

[...] With the Industrial Revolution, however, even the elements of nature lost their living quality in man’s eyes. [...]

[...] Only then could he examine it, you see, without qualm, and without being aware of the living voice that protested (Jane now spoke in a much louder and deeper voice temporarily); and so in his great fascination for what made things work, in his great curiosity to understand the heredity of a flower, say, he forgot what he could [also] learn by smelling a flower, looking at it, watching it be itself.

[...] If the purpose of civilization is to enable the individual to live in peace, joy, security and abundance, then that idea has served him poorly.

[...] Old-time family doctors understood the patient’s sensitivity to family members and to the environment, of course, and they often felt a lively sympathy and understanding that the practitioners of modern medicine often seem to have forgotten.

[...] This is not always the case, by any means, but when such a person does recover fully, and maintains good health, it is because beliefs, attitudes, and feelings have changed for the better, and because the person “has a heart” again, comma, in other words, because the patient himself has regained the will to live.

[...] usually caused by those who request it or are too lazy to live their own lives within ... [...]

[...] The very beginning of the session is not recorded because I was working in the studio in the back of the apartment when Seth came through as Jane, Eve and Tam sat in the living room.

[...] Now I do not know offhand when St. Patrick was roaming—at a time however before Christianity was introduced—you lived in the country now called Ireland... [...]

[...] In Framework 2, for example, Marie, pregnant with Jane, could have decided with her daughter-to-be upon certain sequences of action to be pursued during their lives. [...] 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.

[...] (Yet, “Our lives and deaths are now,” Jane wrote in Chapter 10 of God of Jane, quoting herself from her own “psychic library.”)

[...] Marie was a brilliant, angry woman who lived in near-constant pain, and who regularly abused her daughter through behavior that, if not psychotic, was certainly close to it. [...]

[...] (We also have deep reservations about the theory of evolution and its “survival of the fittest” dogmas, but this isn’t the place to go into those subjects.) Far more basic and satisfactory to us are the intuitive comprehensions that this “nature” we’ve helped create is a living manifestation of All That Is, and that someplace, somewhere within its grand panorama, each action has meaning and is truly redeemed. [...]

Remember that reincarnation does not contradict the theory of the spacious present, for such lives within the spacious present are simultaneous. [...]

[...] (Jane indicated the living room in which we sat.) The senses serve to blot out many more aspects of reality than they allow you to perceive. [...]

(Jane said that when Seth talked about our living room and the spacious present, she had some kind of “weird” feeling that involved a concept of the thought. [...]