“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The very fact that anyone looking at him sees he has not solved all problems is meant to portray exactly that message.

[...] There was no prepared message either. [...]

[...] But the teacher exists whether or not he is speaking at that time, and his message is legitimate … It makes no difference whether or not I am myself speaking through Ruburt now, or whether I did this last night in his sleep, and tonight is a film or playback. Again (with a smile): the medium is the message….

(Seth, then, would be a message from the source self except that in this case the messenger is the message, formed into a richly “worded” psychological structure instead of into dry words on, say, a telegram. [...]

(However, from Session 14 [for January 8, 1964], there’s other material that can be given here, as well as some that makes an interesting note at the end of this appendix.⁴ First, from my own note at 11:05: “Jane said that Seth was quite pleased with the new voice, and that she now knows what he’s thinking sometimes, even though he doesn’t relay it to or through her as part of a message.”

[...] Perhaps because this is not necessary, the psychological bridge is required to make my messages comprehensible to Ruburt. [...]

[...] Is it possible that we have read the message wrong?” All That Is is within each living thing. [...]

[...] Each of these has its own commercials or messages, which may or may not have anything to do with the programs given.

Ruburt acts as a receiver when I speak, and so I must make certain adjustments so that my message can be channeled under conditions that involve, among other things, his nervous system and physical apparatus. [...]

[...] In physical terms, however, the message given that evening is still to be presented through these books.

[...] As a youngster the messages from others came so quickly that he was diagnosed as having an overactive thyroid gland. Actually, he was receiving “unofficial” messages that are usually neurologically censored. [...]

[...] We might be better off than the way you treat us now,” or as if it were a kind of suicidal drama in which the messages read: “See to what ends your actions have led us!”

[...] When it is free in this manner, then there is no need to block messages or distort material. [...]

[...] All exist (long pause) in an inner webwork, and are held in the memory of an overall earthly knowledge — one that is biological, so that each smallest microbe has within it the imprinted biological messages that form each and every other microbe. [...]

[...] Yet all the time far more important messages are there for you if you would once forget your questions and simply listen. [...]

“MESSAGES” FROM GODS, DEMONS, HEROES,
AND OTHER PROMINENT PERSONS — OR,
MORE CONFLICTING BELIEFS

(To Mary Ellen.) You knew what the message would be before you came here on a subconscious basis and Ruburt, all unaware, has already delivered it to you, and it was in his terms to cool it because spontaneity must progress at its own rate and feel comfortable in both physical reality and inner reality. [...] Now, your own unconscious mind knew this and you were told to come so that the message could be delivered rather forcibly, so consider this a forcible delivery. [...]

[...] This is craftily done, for the inner self knows exactly what will impress the ego, and what kinds of personalities will be best able to personify the message at any given time. [...]

Ruburt began to feel a pressure as the books became better known to carry out a kind of responsibility, not simply to sell books, for example, but to get the message out into the world, to help others—all considerations that seemed to be—he thought—the acceptance of adult behavior on his part: actions that would be more or less expected of him. [...]

[...] At the same time those same worldly concerns led him to wonder about the validity of his own “messages”—and how responsible he was to the world for them—so the symptoms also served to give him a greater sense of caution, to temper creativity, for all the reasons stated in the Sinful-Self material. [...]

Now: I want to begin by mentioning one of the most important and vital messages in your glass-door dream (of two days ago),¹for its truth applies to the magical approach as well.

[...] I think that as I joyfully talked about my magical exploration in the dream, I was telling him something like: “Hey, there’s more than one way to explore the self, to be religious!” And I think that Linden and I were in correspondence in the dream state, and that in some way he got the message. [...]

[...] In the first place, if you imagine that a particular student will misbehave, you are automatically sending him a telepathic message to that effect. [...]

[...] Messages do not leap instantaneously through the nervous system. [...]

[...] His messages will be full of trivial but significant data that will make his survival plain to those he has left behind.

(She thought the last paragraph came about because our same friend had made some notes about authentic survival messages being given in “shorthand,” the letter “U” for the word you, etc.

Telepathic messages flash more quickly from one counterpart to another.

[...] One image had to do with an analogy involving plants and counterparts, she said; in it, the leaves of the plants “gave out” messages as counterparts did. [...]

She said things at that time that wounded Miss Healy, and her message is that she regrets the words deeply, particularly now. [...]