“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The atmosphere in our second-story living room was very pleasant and prosaic this evening. [...]

[...] When they form living creatures they become a physical basis for species alteration. [...]

[...] For instance, if you believe that you can live to a healthy and happy old age, well into your nineties, then even in Western civilization you will do so. [...]

[...] He couldn’t lead other people’s lives for them (underlined), either—yet through the years I began to feel a greater and greater sense of responsibility for people with physical problems who wrote requiring Seth’s aid, or mine. [...]

[...] Other annoying events were occurring in our private lives. [...]

[...] It cannot sometimes have meaning, and sometimes not—or man’s life cannot have meaning while the lives of other species do not. [...]

[...] Again and again she knocked the ball down the cellar steps, raced down after it, carried it back upstairs and sent it flying down again—just as though, it seemed, she still had to perform for us while a recuperating Billy dozed on a comfortable chair in the living room.

[...] The self knows it has many lives to live. [...]

[...] We agreed that from now on the sessions, and Jane’s own sessions, will have to come first in our lives, even before books or deadlines, so we take it from there. [...]

(I remembered that Seth once said that if a dying person decides to live after all, they’ll seize upon the tiniest hope, and respond. [...]

[...] You were not pleased with his performance, he was not living up to your expectations. [...]

Ruburt dispensed with our sessions on a regular basis with a vengeance after Nebene showed himself, toward the end of the book (Seth Speaks) in the living room.

[...] You are not, therefore, at the mercy of any neurosis from a past life, nor are there any fears from your present lives that you cannot conquer. [...]

[...] Though he eats the same poor fare as the poor man, and lives in the same poor house for a day — or for a year or five years — he knows he has his mansion to return to. [...]

[...] The new individual has a deeply buried memory of its past lives, but the personal consciousness of the last reincarnated self must not be superimposed upon this new identity. [...]

[...] The question was really based upon our belief, indeed our certainty, that everything in nature is intentional and useful; therefore dreams must fulfill important roles in peoples’ lives—but how, in ordinary terms? [...]

[...] Ruburt wants to put up the window so that a porch can be added to living space. [...]

[...] She also informed Rob that I could contact the deceased for their living relatives if I wanted to, emphasizing that a good deal of trial and error would be involved as both of us learned to use our psychic abilities.

[...] Seth showed us in the next session that not only animals but all living things had their primary existence in this inner world. [...]

[...] In some ways, its living forces and consciousness are kept to a minimum. [...]

[...] The tree lives through its inner senses, experiencing many sensations and reacting to many stimuli of which you are unaware. [...]

[...] Many of the people involved couldn’t attend, since they lived in other parts of the country, yet Seth’s advice helped them, and the information he gave by mail concerning individual backgrounds was correct.

[...] Rob’s excellent notes point up the living framework in which the sessions take place. [...]

[...] These appointments are kept in our well-lighted, large living room, but in deeper terms they take place within the spaceless area of human personality.

[...] These people lived on a planet in the same space that your earth now occupies, “before” your planet existed. [...]

[...] Our ideas are as close to fact as you can get, granting the necessary translations, and as you build your lives on those frameworks you will no longer be programmed, reacting to erroneous “facts” as if they had a basis in reality. [...]

The system does not practically approach any lively sympathy for the masses of mankind, or any particular understanding of the more mundane events that mark man’s daily ways. [...]

[...] Your lives of course reflect redistributions of energy constantly. [...]

[...] Now he lives on land and travels across the oceans and in the air. [...]

[...] In your private lives you see many of the results of the unsafe universe. [...]

[...] In the “entire book of life,” however, just physically speaking, there are interrelationships on adjacent levels that you do not perceive, as other portions of your own biological consciousness or biological language relate to the entire living fabric of the world. [...]

[...] Even if two people encountered precisely the same events in their lives at precisely the same time, their experiences of reality would still hardly be approximately connected.

In that mental system, therefore, each detail is known with all of its probable variations, and in its relationship to all of the other multitudinous and indeed infinite living details that compose any given day. [...]

Your usual perception is of course blocked by time, and by your conscious understanding at any given point in your lives. [...]

[...] We were sitting at the living room table. [...]

[...] Today, also, Jane received a letter from her father, who lives in Florida. [...]

It may be advantageous, though this is a small point, to change the living room furniture to a position that it has not been in since his illness, you see. [...]

[...] You cannot say “I live in a safe universe, but—” —but anything. You cannot say “I live in a safe universe, but I am threatened by the economic problems of my state,” move to Pennsylvania, or to Timbuktu (humorously intent). [...]

When you begin to realize that you do indeed live in a safe universe, these patterns of reaction begin to break up. [...]

[...] (As far as “time” goes, some particles live for far less than a trillionth of a second.) I’m quite sure, however, that the meson, or any short-lived particle, searches out its own kind of value fulfillment while here with us. [...]

[...] I saw that each of us is a beloved eccentric not only because we have inner models of the self, but also the freedom to deviate from them, all of which makes the model living and creative in our time.” [...]