“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In a past life you had no use for women, and therefore chose an existence in which you were feminine; not only feminine but endowed with those qualities that you had particularly disliked; because you feared those qualities you therefore lived with them, and to some extent learned to understand them, though you are still left with some impatience when you see them in others.

[...] As you learn to live spontaneously on a physical level, so automatically you will be able to build up such forms and when you do you must learn to train them. [...]

[...] Had Ruburt not been available, the material would have been given to a Speaker, living in your terms, who was also involved in the creative field.

[...] This whole self has lived many lives. [...]

Seth says that the physical body and its senses are specialized equipment to allow us to live in physical reality. [...]

[...] Neither of us have met Wendell’s business partner, Mr. Taylor, or know anything about him—not even if he is still living.

[...] All of the reunion participants live in the New York City and New Jersey area just across the Hudson River. [...]

[...] I lived in that area for a few years, some time ago, and recall no tunnels at the moment.

We think now that “Unknown” Reality could continue for the rest of our lives, really. [...]

[...] See the verse from her early poem, Summer Is Winter, which precedes these notes.) As I see it, her task with the Seth material is to place these basic artistic ideas at our conscious service, so that their use in our daily lives can change our individual and collective realities for the better; and by “artistic ideas” here I mean the deepest, most aesthetic and practical — and, yes, mystical — truths and questions that human beings are capable of expressing, then contending with. [...]

[...] (A simile I often think of here compares Eastern and Western life and thought with the right and left hemispheres of the brain; they’re separate, yet united; each half performs functions that complement and to some extent overlap those of the other, and together they operate as a whole.) But we dislike the idea of nirvana in Buddhism and Hinduism, which calls for the extinction or blowing out of individual consciousness, and its absorption into a supreme spirit, usually after a series of lives. [...]

[...] That is, our idea of real testing consists in watching to see how the Seth material can assist in practical, everyday living. [...]

[...] She then said that she’d picked up something from Seth — to the effect that we should live each day without worry as best we could, and let the future take care of itself. [...]

[...] Each person lives by their intent, which brings about the force of their being. [...]

(Strange, the way things work—today, July 16, 1984, before I reread this session, Joe Bumbalo’s daughter Judy told me that Joe has only 2 or 3 more days to live— bone cancer.)

The man who wrote wants to live largely in his own world. [...]

[...] She spoke as, following Seth’s suggestions, we sat at the round card table in the living room, waiting to see what might develop. [...]

[...] What you think of as your conscious mind is given the task of assessing the “facts” of daily living. [...]

[...] Also certain procedures on the borderline, concerning the house in which you live. [...]

(Joe Cernohorsky is the specialist mentioned on page 248, the man who keeps the apartment house we live in, in running order for the landlord. [...]

[...] Our living room was very warm, though, as we sat for the session at 9:25. [...]

[...] The living room cooled off nicely — and Jane finally did bring Seth down to manageable size. [...]

[...] His sister lives in a downstairs apartment. [...]

[...] Her voice had been average but lively, and her eyes had been open much of the time. [...]

[...] Children—change that to “infants”—dream of their past lives, remembering, for example, how to walk and talk. [...]

[...] Each man is born with the yearning to make these truths real for himself, though he sees a great difference between them and the environment in which he lives.

This sense, however, is concerned with the innate knowledge of the universe in its entirety; and particular data about specific areas of the universe often is given to a living organism to make manipulation in a specific area possible.

[...] I’ve always had the knowledge of Sumari, I think … Funny — I don’t know how to describe it, really, but I feel that through all of my lives at least one of my functions has been to act as a sort of catalyst between the Sumari and other families of consciousness. [...]

[...] As popularly understood, Eastern religions can lead to spiritual exhaustion, as the individual tries to level himself out, again, so to speak — and the popular understanding of a religion is far more important than the priests or the gurus understand it, for people directed their lives by following their own versions. [...]