“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] His personality is so constructed that he cannot give time, without conflict, to any matter to which he is not totally committed, or to any matter about which he has any serious doubt.

Also a legal matter, separate, pertaining to a man perhaps—perhaps—a relative. [...]

[...] Prentice-Hall is, of course, well-intentioned, and under their belief system it is nearly sacrilegious to be anything more than officially disapproving of medical matters. [...]

(Softly amused:) As a matter of fact — in case you may think sometimes that I am not fully aware of your mores — I did indeed temper many of my remarks in Mass Events on several subjects, so that the book would not be found too objectionable in the context of your times. [...]

[...] My stomach has been knotting up because I’m stewing over the reactions of those in charge at Prentice-Hall to Seth’s material in Mass Events about medical matters.

(She said all of this in that matter-of-fact voice she’d used the last time, that she’d told me similar things about her death, before Seth had said very recently that she wasn’t going to die now, no matter what she thought or said. [...]

[...] I also let loose with a few barbed comments, to the effect that she wasn’t about to let the body do its thing, no matter what it wanted.

[...] You would be if the rest of the week were cleared—and it would be cleared if you realized that what was involved was simply a matter of your own quite natural working habits and convenience, and made it clear that people were welcome at another time.

It does not matter that Friday night in particular is the time, or that one or two nights, or four nights, in a month are given to social behavior, but that you clearly differentiate, and make that clear.

[...] It does not matter whether you work all night, or so many hours a day, as long as you are satisfied.

[...] The action of the eyes is intimately connected with the speed and mobility of the body—intimately connected, for that matter, with all organs. [...]

As to facial expression, this again is somewhat the same matter, for in this case matter does not matter. [...]

[...] Characteristically, I operated in certain manners that resulted in the primary use of my left hand, when I was focused within physical matter.

When I am allowed to manifest myself again to some degree physically now, then I manipulate physical matter in my own characteristic fashion.

[...] The conditions have to do with the amount which Ruburt is willing to allow me to have of the physical matter of which he is composed, and of which he is naturally jealous.

In the matter of publishing, or selling paintings, others are involved—others who very rarely in their lives experience that important encounter between, say, the self as actualized and the idealized sensed self, between the painting or the poem as an ideal and the actualization of that ideal. [...] If you are concerned with such matters as covers that do not live up to your ideals of what covers should be, then you must begin your definitions. Ruburt has primarily been concerned with the ideal that is behind all of his books, and with the practical matter of getting those out into the world. [...]

Many ideals, however, must remain by their nature somewhat generalized, a matter of inspiration, for example, that cannot perhaps so easily be put into words; or sometimes the ideal exists simply as a yearning for a better situation, though no immediate steps come to mind that offer any concerted plan for action.

—that in the future I help our friend arrange his business matters. [...]

[...] F. Fell asked for clarification concerning Seth’s remark about helping “our friend arrange his business matters.” [...]

[...] Again and again it has been demonstrated to us that two succeeding bits of material, seemingly related, can refer to entirely different matters, separated in time and space.

Now—I see that it is nip and tuck with you both right now, so I will begin with Ruburt’s condition and allied matters—important ones.

The whole matter then comes down to building up your confidence, and making a creative effort to let nothing take it from you. [...]

As a matter of fact, however, many futuristic books and novels fictionally contain elements of such future knowledge. [...]

[...] The person that you seek is here, but he is with you, and has never parted from you, and even though he continues his existence in another dimension you are not divided nor separated; and you will gain from his added development, for he will telepathically let you understand matters that you did not understand before.

[...] I regret that through the channels of communication my voice does not always sound as genial as I desire—a matter of vocal cords and other mechanisms.

[...] The person that you seek is here, but he is with you, and has never parted from you, and even though he continues his existence in another dimension you are not divided nor separated; and you will gain from his added development, for he will telepathically let you understand matters that you did not understand before. [...]

[...] I regret that through the channels of communication my voice does not always sound as genial as I desire—a matter of vocal cords and other mechanisms. [...]

As far as the book passages are involved, it is indeed very difficult to write about complicated matters with a simple vocabulary. [...]

Your question about transmigration (in Session 903 in Dreams) was an excellent one, and did indeed make the matter clear. [...]

[...] You will not progress individually or as a race until you realize that you form your own physical reality from your thoughts and feelings, and that you can manipulate matter through you mind because your mind creates it. Alpha I is a very simple method of learning to control physical matter through realizing that you do yourselves make it and can direct its flow and direct the energy available to it. [...]

Now it may seem quite strange to our Lady of Florence to find herself within her body and working at such intimate terms with the physical matter of which she is composed, and yet you do this constantly. [...]

[...] Where you are to some extent if only momentarily, released from the compulsion to experience your own reality in terms of time and matter and physical form. [...]

Now I am not unaware of the progress that many of you are making, and if I do not have the time to speak to you personally, understand that I know and realize that the unsaid matters that rein through these hours are known. [...]

Although a discussion of constructions that are not material to your way of seeing things does not belong in a study of matter, nevertheless the two are connected, and I want you to understand that matter represents only those constructions which are perceivable through the outer senses.

[...] She had no idea of the subject matter for the session. [...]

I am still concerned with our discussion on matter, and will be for some time.

[...] The information on matter is a necessary preliminary to the understanding of other inner-sense information, and some of this will be given when I discuss your own experiences.

[...] They are not matter, but in your terms they have been matter.

[...] You know what positive matter is. [...]

[...] We are dealing with energy that is instantly transformed into action without matter.

It is their energy that gives energy to your own, and all other universes, and it is their energy that forms the matter of your own physical universe. [...]

[...] It is not a matter—if you will excuse my pun—it is not a matter of the consciousness escaping from the body. It is a matter concerning the fact that no physical body exists from which to escape.

[...] Our discussion concerning the nature of matter is important here, for I explained the pulsations that occur in atoms. Your perception of time causes many difficulties when you try to examine reality as it exists independent of matter. [...]

[...] A mechanism something like an afterimage allows you to see matter as continuous.

[...] No matter how fast he ran or how far he traveled, early man could not run out of land, or trees, or forests, or food supplies. If he came to a desert, he still knew that fertile lands were somewhere available, even if it was a matter of finding them. [...]

For that matter, there is far greater leeway in the behavior of animals than you understand, for you interpret animal behavior according to your own beliefs. [...]

[...] For that matter, your literal interpretation of childbirth is by some standards a highly limited one. [...]

[...] In classical physics the amount of matter in a given object is measured according to its relation to inertia, which in turn is the tendency of matter to keep moving in the same direction, if moving, or to stay at rest if at rest. [...]

Since the matter surrounding a black hole would also be drawn into it, some astrophysicists have suggested that this might emerge into another universe through its opposite — a white hole — where it would be seen as an extremely brilliant quasar, or quasi-stellar radio source. So there would be an exchange of matter-energy between universes or realities.

(“We are the strength in matter.”)

“Speaking of the dead hole in a galaxy, say ours, it emerges in what would be to us an atom of fantastic size, but the same thing happens on a different scale as far as the creation of matter is concerned within our own system.”¹²

[...] As you know, everything alive is conscious — and even so-called dead matter possesses its own variety of self-awareness.

[...] Other variations might seem amazingly quick — the perceptions following each other so swiftly that they would indeed escape your (underlined) perception entirely; yet in the wondrous marvels of inner nature, all of these rhythms are connected one to the others, and in a matter of speaking — excuse the pun (amused) — they each balance each other.

(This morning I called our lawyer, and got the necessary confirmation on several matters — the $10,000 exemption limit on donations, and so forth. [...]

A session, no matter how brief, does indeed help accentuate the healing processes.

You could imagine it for example as having a shape, but the shape would not be formed by matter, but by pattern masses; and all the multitudinous portions of it, the shapes on it, would be composed in terms of mass intensity. [...]

[...] The matter of the physical body will simply be used in other gestalts, in the manner that I have explained in earlier sessions.

[...] And for a reason too difficult now to explain, intensity, while having a certain sort of mass that is not matter, of course, does not have anything like your idea of size.