“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I am merely encouraging you to focus your joint energies in that direction … You will be dealing with symbols, yet you will learn that symbols are reality, for you are symbols of yourselves that live and speak. [...]

[...] The quality of their lives is such that their abilities are challenged. [...]

Their lives became a way of avoiding pain instead of seeking out pleasure or satisfaction. [...]

[...] I’m glad you live on such a nice corner. [...]

[...] There are no rules that hold any living thing down to one form or one kind of existence. [...]

They are the living stuff of the universe, even as they form its boundaries and seem to divide it into labyrinthian ways, like the inside of a honeycomb. [...]

(Jim lives out of town and is now a traveling repairman for office equipment. [...]

[...] Also in the backyard were the girl who lives in the downstairs back apartment, Barbara, and her steady boyfriend Dick. [...]

[...] Jane believes these apply in the following manner: Barbara’s boyfriend Dick lives perhaps 25 miles away, and thus had to journey to see her on the night the three people were grouped in the yard, when Jane produced the poem used as object. [...]

[...] Now that those doors are opening, you will also see the results in other areas of your lives, bringing to you ever more fortunate events. [...]

[...] They simply show that the creative elements of the self are rearroused (long pause), and almost in a luxury of inspiration they show you how they can be applied to your artwork and to other areas of your living. [...]

[...] In the meantime I was impatiently waiting Frank Longwell who promised the Tuesday earlier that he’d be here before Sunday with the final plans for extending the living room. [...]

(10:44.) You live in a safe universe.

[...] She does not know in which world she lives. [...]

[...] And in return for Seth speaking, Dr. Guy staged his own little magic show for Jane and me—to our amazement and intense interest—as the three of us sat around the living-room table.

If you keep Framework 2 in mind, much of these stages can be vastly minimized, and the work with hypnosis that I suggested gives you such a method of inserting data, here, that accelerates motion in Framework 2, and greatly cuts down the time and effort involved in Framework 1. Of course, (with wry amusement) if you each are convinced that the venture was important-enough in your lives, and would get the results, you would have clamored to begin such experiments.

[...] Some such feelings could be expected, naturally enough, since you do not live in a perfect world. [...]

[...] If you live in one country, you often consider natives in other areas of the world as foreigners, while of course they see you in the same light. [...]

[...] Arbitrarily, I chose professional events from our own lives, and thought of all of them as happening at once (as, according to Seth, in a larger framework they do). [...]

Jane, then, wrote those two poems 16 days before she dictated the last session for Seth’s The Nature of the Psyche on April 4, 1977; one month before she began dictating Mass Events on April 18, 1977; two years and two months before she began God of Jane on May 6, 1979; two years and six months before she began dictating the Preface for Dreams on September 25, 1979; two years and eight months before she came up with the idea for If We Live Again on November 15, 1979; three years and five months before she began dictating Seth’s material on the magical approach to reality in Dreams on August 6, 1980; four years before she began dictating Seth’s sinful-self material in that book on March 11, 1981; four years and three months before she began coming through with her own sinful-self information on June 17, 1981; and four years and five months before, on August 26, 1981, she wrote the poem in Note 6 for Session 936 of Dreams: “Something in me / ebbs and tides, / as if I let myself / for a while / be washed away / out to sea / while leaving / some spidery shell / upon the shore /….”

(On December 13 Jane came up with her best title yet for the book of poetry she’s putting together: If We Live Again: Love’s Lives and Probable Selves. [...]

[...] I have lived many lives and I cannot prove, in your terms, my own existence. [...]

Within the self that you know there are countless combinations of selves that you do not admit, and in other layers of probable realities these selves have their say and live out their potential. [...]

It is indeed and also I mentioned that everyone who comes to this class has been involved with these problems in other lives and so you gravitate for that reason. [...]

[...] Now, I have been a very lively corpse many times, but then, so have you all. [...]

[...] And though he eats the same poor fare as the poor man for a day and lives in the same poor house for a day or a year or five years, he knows he has his mansion to return to and so he cannot relate. [...]

[...] Jane then noted that we live on Water St. This may be the connection with this impression, along with Jane’s memory of our old camping place. [...]

(Blanche Price is an old friend of Jane’s, living in Baltimore. [...]