“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The material, in other words, is given by me, a living personality, to you, and you are living personalities. [...]

[...] And this is what you must realize and understand, for if my presence permeates this room, so does your combined presence permeate this room and any room in which you have lived. [...]

(Jane has been taking time off from God of Jane and If We Live Again to work on the Introduction for Sue Watkins’s Conversation With Seth. [...]

[...] As a result, many of the events of your lives that are the natural extensions of those feelings appear alien (pause), against your deepest wishes, or thrust upon you, either by outside agencies or by a mischievous subconscious.

In that regard, each person lives his or her life privately, and yet for all of humanity. [...]

[...] This makes him feel more a part of normal living, and sets his own creative mechanisms more vigorously into new directions. [...]

[...] If you continue then you attract from Framework 2 everything that you possibly need, and other areas of your lives will also improve, for to whatever extent they are somewhat shadowed by your attitudes resulting from Ruburt’s condition.

Faith itself then becomes an active ingredient in your lives in that regard. [...]

[...] All of the elements in your lives will now work to your overall advantage. [...]

[...] You can lift your lives upward, therefore. [...]

[...] I think that many of his suggestions are automatically falling into place in our lives, too, and that our “crash course in medicine” has served as an invaluable trigger and impetus in that regard. [...]

(10:06.) When you accept myths you call them facts, of course, for they become so a part of your lives, of societies and your professions, that their basis seems self-apparent. [...]

[...] Is the disaster the result of God’s vengeance?” A scientist might ask instead: “With better technology and information, could we somehow have predicted the disaster, and saved many lives?” He might try to dissociate himself from emotion, and to see the disaster simply as the result of a nonpersonal nature that did not know or care what lay in its path.

(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. [...]

[...] Simply as an analogy, it would be as if within physical reality you lived, say, the life of a rich man of great talent, the life of a poor man with entirely different talents, and the life of a mother and career woman. You would be aware of yourself in each of these three roles, and find qualities being developed in each of the separate lives.

[...] There will be a particular conversation of an evening, with I believe six people present, and during the conversation a project will be born, spontaneously, and it will to some extent change your lives.

[...] Among them were the resolution of some old family relationships — and nowhere in this note am I talking about past lives or probable lives, but just the working out of hard questions rooted in this present physical reality. [...]

[...] I might add that Mansfield is only 35 miles below Elmira, N.Y., where Jane and I live now.

[...] It was taken by an older lady friend who was treating her to an outing at a spa just outside of the New York State resort of Saratoga Springs, where Jane lived with her bedridden mother, Marie, and a housekeeper. [...]

[...] By then it seemed to threaten the joint structure of your lives. [...]

What we want is an altered approach to life itself, to one that follows the kind of natural approach to living that children unerringly possess, but to one that is also enriched with experience that a child does not possess. [...]

(Saturday evening the three of us sat in the living room discussing Marian’s recent dream, which she thought might presage her own death. [...]

[...] The living room can be closed off by old-fashioned glass doors, so we closed those and had relative privacy even though the children passed back and forth on the other side. [...]

[...] Beneath our living room windows, a carpenter pounded on an outside door frame as he repaired damage done to the ground floor of the house by the flood of last June [see the 613th session in Chapter One]. [...]

It is natural to live after death, and natural to return the body to earth and [then to] form another. [...]

(Long pause at 9:55.) I do not want to define for you an ideal picture to which you can never live up. That is, I do not want your practical experience of life to seem inferior as you are in the process of learning how to live in a new fashion. [...]

[...] Your early financial success also pleased your mother, and she felt that you had fallen from a high estate, not having lived long enough to see your financial gains. [...]

[...] As a rule, however, it is foolhardy to expect them to have a sense of the artist’s values, whatever the art may be, and then to become upset when they do not live up to that picture. [...]

First of all, you understand my message in theoretical terms, but then of course all of that must dribble down into your lives until it becomes more and more practical. [...]

[...] You brood about the experiences of this life, and then you want me to give you information about five other lives so you can brood five times as much. [...]

[...] Your music was your god and your purpose for living. [...]

The music represented your main interest then in several lives, but behind this has always been an interest in emotions translated into some kind of creativity such as music or art; but also, at times an oversusceptibility to emotions so that they drove you, and you could find no escape from them. [...]

[...] You were cultured for the times but without way, and made a living writing letters for other people. [...]

[...] It involves direct instantaneous cognition of the essence of living ‘tissue.’ I use the word ‘tissue’ with caution and ask you not to think of it necessarily in terms of flesh.

[...] You are not taught how to live with it. [...] The artist takes the very qualities of living itself and transforms them into a kind of rarefied esthetic reality. [...]

[...] As I’ve told Jane several times lately, the renewing rain reminded me once again of the wonders of nature, and I thought once again of living a natural life outdoors in the environment of woods and elements, summer and winter. [...]

Many such creatures merge their arts so perfectly into their lives that it is impossible to separate the two: The bee’s nest, for example, the beaver’s dam—and there are endless other examples. [...]

On Friday, October 9, 1970, I received a letter from a reader, Peg Boyles, about my book The Seth Material. With it she included an excerpt from Living Time by Maurice Nicoll, and another from a manuscript by Alice Bailey. [...]

Here is an exact copy of that material, delivered October 9, 1970 between 8:00 and 9:30 P.M., referring to Living Time by Nicoll.

[...] We go up a set of outside stairs and into an apartment which seems to have a large living room. [...]

[...] The episode is included in The Seth Material, but it was one of the strangest events of our lives.

[...] Jane was busy instead doing a program for a radio station in a western state, live, via telephone from our living room in Elmira. [...]

(Rain had fallen in a fine drizzle throughout most of the day; and now, I saw from our second-story living room windows, a heavy fog lay over the street corner below and the newly finished Walnut Street Bridge just south of the intersection. [...]

[...] His material is also an extension of much that he gave in the 679th session for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, when he discussed the early background of the probable Jane who chose to live in this physical reality, and how that Jane began to contend with her strongly mystical nature. [...]

Elements in your lives were experienced as negative simply because Ruburt was not sure of himself. [...]

A small frog for example may be more likely seen not as a frog isolated, but as one part of the pond in which he lives; and the pond part of the forest in which it lies; and the forest part of the earth; and the earth itself part of the universe, which is part of another universe.

[...] Miss Callahan is an elderly retired teacher who lives in the front apartment of our second floor here. [...]

(After leaving the hospital, Miss C returned home, to live with a housekeeper. [...]

[...] And some evening I will tell you that you should change your conception of the word “lives.” [...] But think of what you mean when you use the word lives, and see how limited the term is.

(Jim H.: “Could this be the key to the simultaneous existence of all of our lives, the key to nontime?”)

[...] In some areas of your world, isolated peoples live on past a hundred years, vital and strong, because they are untouched by your beliefs, and because they live in sympathy and accord with the world as they know and understand it. [...]

[...] The male in particular has been taught to separate love and sex, so that a schizophrenic condition results that tears apart his psyche — in operational terms — as he lives his life.

[...] That is all I will say for now—but apply the book dictation tonight to your own lives. [...]