“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] True knowledge is only experience, direct experience, and a matter of the inner senses.

Even my explanations to you involve a verbal dissection, which in itself distorts the very nature of the matter under examination. [...]

[...] We will go into this matter more clearly at our next session, as it will lead us further into some new areas.

[...] That is, again, because the basic units of consciousness that build up matter—that form matter—are themselves endowed with a subjective acuteness. [...]

[...] In other words, of course, I hope to inspire both your imagination and your intelligence in this chapter and in this section of the book, devoted to such subject matter.

We will for the purposes of our discussion ignore, for now, certain aspects in Philip’s personality, such as a deep secrecy which is indeed based on fear, because this characteristic and others will not help us progress in our particular subject matter. [...]

[...] But their reactions are entirely different, and Philip’s past life experiences prepared him for the nature of his present occupation, where he is dealing with medicinal matters.

The matter of the surveys will be in due time discussed, Philip. [...]

I will not give any further information this evening concerning these matters, but he may check with me from time to time if he so desires. [...]

At the risk of sounding childishly simple I will say, and I will not be understood, that each creation of idea or matter, physical matter, is a first creation.

[...] Each dream, first of all, begins with psychic energy which the individual transforms not into physical matter but into a reality every bit as functional and as real. [...]

[...] Certain symbols are constructed into realities in the dream universe, then, in much the same manner that certain ideas are constructed into matter in the physical universe.

(At first Jane and I thought of calling this session a deleted one—but its subject matter fits into Dreams too well for us to do that.

[...] Thought, for example, has properties that you do not perceive—properties that not only affect matter, but that form their own greater patterns outside of your reality. [...]

[...] The shade of the closest lamp was fatter and taller than its companion’s, but this didn’t seem to matter: I soon realized that both lights were supernally bright—so strong, indeed, that although I was very tempted to turn my head to look straight at them, I refrained because I wasn’t sure I could stand facing them. [...]

[...] He’s a few years younger than I am (I’m 60), but as far as I can remember the two of us haven’t discussed such matters, even jokingly. [...]

[...] The nervous system itself is biologically equipped to perceive various gradations of physical matter, and there are “in-between” impulse passageways that are utilized while dreaming. From your point of view these are alternate passageways, but in the dream state they allow you to perceive as physical matter objects that in the waking state would not be observable.

[...] Dream images, therefore, exist at a different range of matter.

[...] Your own exterior space exists in precisely the same manner from the standpoint of any other reality (emphatically). For that matter, you yourself are so richly creative that your own thoughts give birth to other quite legitimate systems of which you have no knowledge.

The protoplasm is not entirely physical, however, but in a basic manner is a meeting ground between physical matter and inner vitality. [...]

There will be more said concerning this matter, since the same sort of mechanism is involved in the construction of materializations, in sessions such as this one, and in the construction of dream images.

[...] You may consciously give the suggestion to yourself, that you will constructively use such energy, for example, but then the matter should be forgotten and left alone.

You may take a brief break, and we shall consider other matters, and then perhaps return to this material.

[...] I was present, for that matter.

[...] An unpleasant episode, and a matter of money. [...]

A matter of importance approximately next Wednesday. [...]

Your space is therefore filled with incipient forms, quite vivid, but beneath the regular structure of matter that you perceive.

[...] You only perceive realities when they achieve a certain “pitch,” when they seem to coalesce into matter. [...]

(“That hardly matters. [...]

[...] The matter of time is highly important if you have any hopes of understanding the self in its entirety, or other personalities that do not operate within your system. [...]

[...] I have, for that matter, already been there once this evening. [...]

[...] There are far too many complicated discussions along this particular line, so we will not attempt the matter now, but merely note it as one we will develop in the future.

Now, there are some philosophical matters that I would like to clear. Ruburt has been somewhat confused concerning some of these matters. [...]

[...] Therefore, you are not able to perceive the true characteristics of the dreaming state except on those few occasions when you “come awake” within your dreams—a matter we will discuss later on in this book. [...]

1. We called those three very penetrating sessions private, or deleted, because they grew out of our own reactions to David Yoder’s challenges, to the illness of our cat Billy, to the playful antics of Billy’s littermate Mitzi, and to several other personal matters. [...]

[...] The bulk, or mass, is perceived whether or not the ideas have ever been materialized as physical matter. [...]

You organize yourselves out of other matter, you see. [...]

[...] When you create physical matter you are not aware of doing so, but you affect energy directly in such an execution, your own attention being focused primarily in the physical system.

[...] You cannot appreciate, for that matter, all the systems of reality in which the painting does have reality. [...]

An unpleasant episode and a matter of money.

[...] They had already seen one on the inside, as mentioned earlier in “Unknown” Reality.³ This manuscript, for that matter, was begun precisely at the point in time that Ruburt’s and Joseph’s latest adventure with probabilities began. [...]

[...] At any given “time,” depending on whatever information he’s given previously, Jane could just as easily quote Seth as placing Atlantis in our historic past, or in a probable past, present, or future — or all four “places” at once, for that matter. [...]

Jane and I regard Seth’s latest delivery on Atlantis as still being only a partial explanation of the whole question of myth and fantasy versus “physical fact,” no matter what time schemes may be involved. [...]

[...] In your usual terms of thinking, the earth does not exist at all (emphatically) — not if you are considering it as a chunk of matter occupying a certain position in a physical cosmos. [...]

Many of your technological advances — all of them, for that matter — are rather interpretations of the inner mechanisms of nature: sonar, radar, and so forth, as you attempt to physically or objectively reproduce the inner realities of nature. [...] You would have to have additional material, nonverbal, to approach an understanding of such matters.

[...] You do this by discarding ideas of unworthiness and powerlessness, no matter what their sources. [...]

(Long pause, eyes closed.) Within certain obvious limits, you will receive the same basic material whether or not you attempt to limit or specify the subject matter of sessions or not.

The personal matters, questions, affairs of daily concern, that may be mentioned because Ruburt’s emotional image triggers their inclusion—these will always be used as examples to give you material that you would receive in any case.

It does not matter that I am a part of more. [...]

[...] It is not apart from your so-called physical universe, for the dream universe, through its connection with the inner self, also helps to construct physical matter—and this is no trifling matter.

It matters more than you know, and I will tell you what the matter is. [...]

Time, physical matter, these are but portions of action as perceived in one particular fashion. [...]

[...] I will not go into any other personal matters this evening, however, as it was not my intention.

I suggest a short break, and I will continue with our other matters.

[...] She seems to think fifteen minutes is not quite enough for her to achieve results as a matter of routine, although she enters a trance state readily enough.

[...] By the 60th session he had gone into some detail on 9 inner senses, 11 basic laws of the inner universe, and 3 properties of physical matter, along with the many other subjects included in the sessions. [...]

Surely investigation should be done to probe into this matter. [...]

[...] This will not work to our disadvantage however, for his cautiousness in these matters acts as a strong balancing mechanism, so that he learns to deal with inner perceptions stage by stage. [...]

Ruburt will be in fine fettle by Saturday in regards to financial matters, and his kitchen. [...]