“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This morning she got up with me, and has spent a relatively peaceful day, taking her usual morning and afternoon naps.

(She called me for the session at about 8 PM, although it was later than that before I was seated opposite her and starting on these notes. [...]

[...] As Seth, Jane waited, staring at me, her eyes wide and dark, for some moments.)

[...] As soon as she’d read that passage on Tuesday, she’d begun to talk about it, to question me, so I knew it had struck a sticky point. [...]

[...] In answer to my question about material in the last session, she said that yes, she still felt to some degree that she had to protect her work from me and my feelings about Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] Your situation is much more important to me than anything Prentice may do or not do.”)

[...] An inclination to project a local symptom on the body in general—do you follow me?—is very poor, and takes focus away from very definite advances which go unnoticed.

If a specific local symptom arises, it will help if Ruburt says to himself: “Of course I know the reason for this; it will come to me as I go about my work.” [...]

[...] Do you follow me?

[...] Our landlord, Rich Elgersma, visited us this evening and told Jane and me about a trailer and lot that he could have acquired not long ago for $1300.00. [...]

[...] In addition, my pendulum told me today that my hand symptoms stemmed from my fear of failure as a fine artist—nothing else.

Now: give us a moment, and again let me begin in my own way.

[...] I had the feeling that something was trying to make me forget what I saw, so I quickly woke Rob and told him what I had seen. The woman did not remind me of anyone I know, or had known.

[...] These cards are mentioned on page 40 of the 243rd session; this gave me the idea of using them for an experiment. [...]

(I have long been aware that the yoga exercises have a powerful effect on me personally, and that I evidently end up in a dissociated state at times after doing them. [...]

Do you have an envelope for me, Joseph?

[...] I had to learn that if I shared a marriage in which my wife had developed a chronic illness, then certain portions of me had also participated in that joint creation. Eventually nothing made sense to me otherwise. [...]

[...] What they really signify for the long term is (as I wrote in the essay for April 16) a continuing program of intense study for Jane and me—and yes, for Seth, too—as we seek to better understand our chosen commitments in our present physical lives. [...] For if the information arouses such mixed emotions in Jane and me, surely it will do so in others too, serving as an impetus or goad to learn more even while it highlights one’s strengths and weaknesses. [...]

[...] Nor could she do that for me. [...] I deeply believe that her psyche would insist that she doesn’t need any sort of basic protection by me (or anyone else) to begin with—only understanding. [...]

[...] Her illness led me to question that premise, but now it’s back in place. [...]

[...] My body began to feel extremely light, but a thrilling enveloped me. [...] The thrilling enveloped me completely, but in waves of stronger, then less intensity.

(“Can you tell me something about my experience of seeing the young girl abusing the dog?”

(Seth stated that Jim Tennant is one of the group he expects to gather around Jane and me. [...]

[...] Ruburt came through for me very well. [...]

Some wanted me to identity their counterparts for them. [...]

[...] (To me:) You and Jack are counterparts, but you and Emma are not.

To me, beside whatever relationship it might have with counterpart reality, the soul-mate belief embodies strongly distorted versions of the ideas contained in the two Seth passages quoted above.

Sue Watkins, who had introduced Peter to Jane and me in 1973, was involved in the question through her friendship with all of us. [...]

[...] She did not tell me because she did not want to disappoint me.

[...] With one foot up on a chair she leaned toward me and spoke in a most amused voice.)

[...] I meant that both of your overall vital psychic reserves were being well utilized, and that your general health was, believe me, excellent. [...]

[...] But picayune comments find me most ungrateful. [...]

(I now described an effect that had started to bother me after the session had begun; it’s a good little example of the way beliefs can work. [...]

[...] [Briefly for those who have asked me: The pendulum is a very old method. [...]

[...] Do you follow me?

Now this may sound impractical, yet in your daily life you use your imagination and your emotions often at the service of far less worthy beliefs; and the results are quite clear — and let me add, unfortunately practical.

of me, for one day I will

[...] All of the mail doesn’t need answering, of course, but the other day we estimated that with very little help from me Jane now replies to around 2,000 letters a year. [...]

[...] (Long pause, then with humor:) It is very difficult for me to escape the sticky web of your beliefs. [...]

[...] The one that follows charmed me as soon as she produced it last May 31. [...]

No matter where I look, I seem to be
at the center of a world that forms
perfectly around me.
No lopsided vision ever shows
the world spread only to my left,
with my image on the last right edge,
nor has the world
ever appeared just ahead,
while nothingness began
just behind my back.

[...] “Wow, he sure had me out that time,” she said. [...] The noise upstairs really began to bother me, so Seth put me under even deeper.”

(To me): Are you tired?

[...] Because our windows were open traffic noise was rather bothersome to me. [...]

[...] The noise had bothered me, but Jane said that as she was speaking she was aware of no distractions.

[...] In the dream I sat waiting for some little time for the light to turn green, giving me access to the main highway, Lake Street. [...]

[...] My self-questioning was particularly intriguing because I could have chosen from a half-dozen routes to work; yet I had picked a course that enabled me to act out the dream of the night before, while not being consciously aware of the dream.)

[...] Note that the word “top” is penciled on the back of the Bristol; this was done by me after the experiment, but before Jane saw the objects, as will be shown later.

(A question had occurred to me as Seth spoke and I voiced it now: Were any of the results of our experimental data, involving either Dr. Instream or our own envelopes, the result of unsuspected projections on Jane’s part? [...]

Now do you have an envelope for me?

(At 10:13 Jane took the envelope for our 57th experiment from me without opening her eyes. [...]

(Jane had been facing me as she spoke from her prone position, and I had noticed that her eyes had appeared to be slitted, as though preparing to open. [...] She stared at me as she spoke for the most part, although occasionally she drew upon a cigarette that she had left burning in an ashtray beside her. [...]

[...] This manifestation reminded me somewhat of the deeper voice effect Jane showed in the 172nd session. [...]

(The material on buttons surprised me a great deal. [...]

We will go into the other questions that you had for me upon another occasion.

[...] For the test object I used the front of an envelope addressed to Jane and me by my mother. [...]

[...] After supper this evening Jane told me she thought Seth had come through twice, briefly, as she went about her daily chores before the session. [...]

Do you have a test for me?

[...] Jane took the usual double envelope from me without opening her eyes. [...]

[...] “I asked it to forgive me for not doing that. [...]

(Several times this afternoon Jane told me that she’d picked up Seth’s title for the next chapter of his book. [...]

[...] A small note: Your new (TV film) equipment is fine with me, and can if you wanted to serve us all quite well. [...]

[...] Jane was still very relaxed, even during the session her eyes had closed often as she spoke for Seth, or she had stared at me beneath very heavy lids.)

You (Jane and I) have to a large degree thrown aside old belief systems, and dared to rely upon ideas given largely to you by me. [...]

[...] It is also possible now that he can perceive me at a certain level of the dream state, and apart from himself.