“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I have had some time with it through past lives, and found it very handy, indeed, so I am not prejudiced. [...]

[...] I simply wanted you to know that the dead can be quite lively, that they are not quiet and somber and that your mother only appeared tired because she knew you expected her to. [...]

[...] He lived in Germany in his reality. [...]

Our living room seemed twice as cozy that evening, with the warm lights and Willie sleeping on the rug. [...]

[...] Had they lived before? [...]

[...] Just before the sessions began the idea of “The Idiot” came to me as a symbol of inner truth that appears to be complete nonsense to the reasoning mind at times; or at best, highly impractical in normal living. [...]

[...] That is, the lust [for] killing is also a matter that brings dire consequences, regardless of the particular living thing that is killed. [...]

[...] According to Seth both of us lived in Boston before the Civil War, male and female then, as now.)

[...] Perhaps as living quarters of the minister.

[...] (Miss Callahan is an elderly spinster living in our apartment house. [...]

[...] For a while in later years, the house where you lived had front rooms converted into a barber shop. [...]

[...] You are seeing the image that you have projected upon him, and no one can live up to that image. [...] You will never have any relationship with the Dick Reed that you have projected upon a living human being. [...] You have no chance in a thousand lives of having a relationship with the man you think of as being Dick Reed, because you cannot have a two-way relationship with an image that is one-sided and has no flesh. [...]

[...] Some of these are obvious and have to do with this life only; others have to do with past lives. [...]

[...] Because you were a male in past lives, you resented this all the more strongly. [...]

[...] After three lives as a male, you have indeed acclimated yourself very well. [...]

Now you do the same thing when you sit in your living room, but you do not realize what you are doing; and presently you are somewhat restricted. [...]

[...] I can tell that her concern about it is much diminished, but also that her interest in it is as lively as ever.)

[...] A room, perhaps a living room, with a stove. [...]

(Jane said she well remembers the potbellied stove in the living room of her own house as a child, and she thought this fact might have been an association that at least helped bring about the above data.

(Pause.) The body is composed of organs, physical parts, living matter—but the body is also composed of processes, relationships that exist on all levels between various portions of the body and between the body and its environment. [...]

[...] I am certain that you know in what areas of your lives this material might be useful. [...]

Your intimate lives, your intimate experiences, suffered. [...]

[...] It is given, his loyalty, to very few, even throughout various lives.

When ideals are set more or less artificially, greatly divorced from man’s nature, he cannot begin to live up to them. [...]

The intent would transform your lives without any other specific effort; that is, without any extra programs—but each thing that you do would be magnified in its beneficial results.

[...] Listening, I felt a marked regret, and wondered that this other life had seemingly assumed such a strong place in our “own” lives. [...]

[...] The two of you, now, chose that aspect of your lives together in this life, to help you understand the meaningful relationship between spontaneity as connected with the emotions and creativity, and discipline as connected with the intellectual: to feel and understand the creative tension that connects them both, to learn the personal aspects of emotional relationships as they affect others, and the reflection of the emotions into creative endeavor. [...]

When the cycle is finished, therefore, you have complete knowledge of your past lives. [...]

In your terms they may be living dramas. [...]

[...] Each of your lives are miniature and yet gigantic episodes, mortal and immortal at once, providing experiences that you form meaningfully, opening up dimensions of reality available to no one else, for no one can view existence from your standpoint. [...]

[...] You are both indeed beginning a new, more productive, surprisingly pleasant and somewhat extraordinary period of your lives. [...]

[...] You will instead live in a world where events happen to you, in which you must do sacrifice to the gods of one kind or another, or see yourselves as victims of an uncaring nature.

(His delivery just above, about accepting the responsibility for one’s actions, reminded us of the personal challenges that have accompanied the roles we’ve chosen in our own physical lives. [...]

[...] You do not thoroughly appreciate emotionally your part in the production of our material, or realize that its direction and so forth must be, and is, colored by your own unique characteristics as well as Ruburt’s—and that at certain levels, the Seth material, as it exists, is a product of your lives together. Not as easily understood a product, perhaps, as a series of excellent paintings, not as easily categorized—and yet you are helping to paint a giant-sized picture of the psyche as it translates inner reality into the living fabric of the world.

[...] The Three Faces of Eve is an excellent title for the book, since the ego may quite legitimately be compared to the face that the identity turns toward objective reality, or the living mask that it dons.

[...] They are the result of psychological experience gained in past lives.

[...] During break Jane said she believed it referred to a brother of Maxine’s. The brother is the same approximate age as Jane, and lived in upstate New York near Saratoga; hence Jane got to know the members of Maxine’s family fairly well even though she seldom saw Maxine herself. [...]

[...] You live in a social world, so the symptoms also served as face-saving devices. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) In that regard indeed Ruburt felt as if he could not live up to my creative work—as if his physical being must embody all of the knowledge that came to him through our sessions—another important point. [...]

[...] The young woman (Jane) found herself extremely uncomfortable to find your family members living together in one house—astounded by the thought of the family together in a trailer, frightened of the camp get-togethers. [...]

(Part one: A table tipping session on Wednesday, November 22, 1967, in our living room, with the following: Jane and Rob, and Claire Crittenden and Carl Watkins. [...]

[...] Abruptly the table, still in Carl’s grasp, vaulted up toward the ceiling of our living room, very rapidly, until it was upside down to the floor and beyond our reach, except for Carl, who still held on. [...]

[...] Confined to the living room with its gathering, Jane finally let Seth come through.

(Pause at 9:06.) So-called empty spaces, either in your living room between objects, or the seemingly empty spaces between stars, are physical representations—or misrepresentations—for all of space is filled with the units of consciousness, alive with a light from which the very fires of life are lit.

[...] The connection was beneath, however, and also represented your feeling that even those people tortured to death did live again. [...]

[...] I knew, or saw, that these lights came from ordinary table lamps with columnar shades of white fabric, and that they sat on a round oak table like the one in our living room. [...]

[...] Under its banner of suggestion, however, the great parade of men and other living creatures are observed so that the hypothesis brings about its own hypnotic focus—so that creatures, man, and indeed the universe itself, seem to behave in certain highly ritualized fashions. [...]

[...] More than this, however, the theory’s vast suggestive nature forms a framework through which people then view the experiences of their lives, and through whose focus the behavior of their own species seems determined. [...]

[...] There is little difference, however, between private suggestion in your personal lives, and the power of mass suggestion in your society. [...]

[...] I may as well give you some idea of how these overall patterns operate within your lives, since we have a good beginning, and while we are on the subject.

What neither of you sufficiently (underlined) understood was the strong interrelationship between your personal lives and your work. [...]

[...] I simply wanted this evening to round out the discussion, showing how these tendencies operate in various areas of your lives.