“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In a strange fashion desire promotes action seemingly without effort, or the effort seems so natural, so spontaneous and so joyful that it is not recognized as effort in the old fashion. The great artists did not use their abilities so much through the utilization of will and effort as they did through following their own natural impulses, desires, and intents. These form a true sense of purpose, so that the aspects of the will and the effort fall naturally into place to bring about the desires. [...]

[...] This letting-go happens naturally just before the initiation of any creative endeavor.

It was natural enough for a while that Ruburt be quite aware of bodily sensation when he tried to “give up all effort,” but he is beginning now to sense the body’s pattern of activity, its relaxation, its stretching periods, and so forth. [...]

[...] Actually of course the whole thing has to do with the nature of beliefs, not the nature of the muscles, for they will act as you believe they will.

[...] Having artificially separated yourselves from nature, you do not trust it, but often experience it as an adversary. [...] Your bodies then were relegated to nature and your souls to God, who stood immaculately apart from His creations.

More and more foods, drugs, and natural environmental conditions are being added to the list of disease-causing elements. [...] Indeed, man almost seems to be allergic to his own natural environment, a prey to the weather itself.

[...] Nowhere do any medically-oriented commercial or public service announcements mention the body’s natural defenses, its integrity, vitality, or strength. [...]

When man feels powerless, however, and in a state of generalized fear, he can even turn the most natural earthly ingredients against himself. [...]

[...] His natural inclinations, followed, allow for exercise when it is needed, and rest when it is needed, so that the natural resiliency of the muscles can be expressed without strain. [...]

This allows the body to move and relax more, and provides a natural tranquilizing effect. [...]

[...] In that regard this is quite natural. [...]

[...] Therefore it became much more feasible to approach earthmen during their dream state, when their natural fear reactions were somewhat minimized, and where the danger to the visitors was far less.

[...] Civilizations were often warned in advance of natural disasters that were apparent to the visitors with their greater viewpoint.

[...] It is not a point of them trying to invade a native stock; they simply understood the nature of individual existences, therefore they are able to choose from various physical systems those in which they would like to have experience.

The flu season intersects with the Christmas season, of course, when Christians are told to be merry and [wish] their fellows a happy return to the natural wonders of childhood, in thought at least. [...] A psychic depression often results, one that is deepened by the Christmas music and the commercial displays, by the religious reminders that the species is made in God’s image, and by the other reminders that the body so given is seemingly incapable of caring for itself and is a natural prey to disease and disaster.

[...] There is a natural religious knowledge with which you are born. [...] I am a unique, worthy creature in the natural world, which everywhere surrounds me, gives me sustenance, and reminds me of the greater source from which I myself and the world both emerge. [...]

[...] Man cannot mistrust his own nature and at the same time trust the nature of God, for God is his word for the source of his being — and if his being is tainted, then so must be his God.

[...] Sometimes, however, they suggest that their wares will protect you against the flu and colds, and against the vulnerability of your nature.

Now, you mentioned some important issues pertaining to the books yourself this evening, having to do with their particular nature.

[...] They do not naturally go into bookstores—but they will.

[...] Your purposes and the purposes of the three publishers all mix and merge, with unconscious knowledge of the importance of the books, and the ways in which they are to be presented—not that there won’t also be some “natural” misunderstandings here and there, also.

[...] The new, sought-for natural stance has not yet been accomplished, but it is now actively in the process of being attained.

There must, or should be, particularly in this season, an acquiescence toward growth and release in general, and this can be triggered, though such triggering should not, ideally, be necessary to the enjoyment of nature. For nature is fluid. [...]

[...] And yet this is in itself a division, so to speak, or a kind of value fulfillment, for the simultaneous nature of a given action is here experienced in slow motion, as a child must learn to walk before the child can run.

[...] It cannot be stressed too strongly that experience within the self can lead to at least some understanding of the nature of action in its pure form, for within your physical universe action is to some extent frozen, insofar as your perceptions of it are concerned.

Yet within your own psychological experience you can perceive its fluid nature. [...]

[...] I also am aware of your quite natural and human need to translate philosophy into daily life and action.

While such help may be welcomed, the kind of value I offer is of a different nature. [...]

[...] In my present book, The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book, I am including techniques that will allow you and thousands of others to use these ideas in normal daily living, to enrich the life that you know and to help you understand and solve your problems.

[...] When these built up into felt, violent eruptions, Augustus was only the more convinced of his unacceptable nature. [...]

[...] It must be swept aside, and recognized clearly as having no natural part to play, for it is an anti-natural concept, flying in the face of the good intent of each of nature’s individuals of whatever species. [...]

[...] Those habits were there, again, before the sessions began, and they have their basis in the church’s concepts of the sinful nature of the basic self. [...]

[...] Little wonder, then, that he felt he must alert all natural and normal controls. [...]

[...] He received some ideas of that nature from you in the past. [...]

[...] Those that have it will use it naturally. [...] (As Seth, Jane pointed to the Christmas amaryllis that sat on the coffee table between us.) It can be encouraged, watched and tended, but it grows as a natural part of the personality. [...]

[...] Your methods are not necessarily natural to him. [...]

[...] If he remembers his instinctive feeling for nature he will know that he belongs outside as well as inside.

[...] Our sessions have also had their basis in spontaneity and creative energy, and the spontaneous nature always shows itself. [...]

[...] To me this means that I am able to deliver to you information concerning the nature of reality which you can then pass on, and apply.

We will continue for now with the nature of perception.

[...] Its buried nature, the ulcer being hidden, is an added indication that he does not want to face his problem. [...]

The painting also, innately now, involves going outdoors, though you seldom paint from nature out in the landscape. [...]

Your father’s creativity, as mentioned [in earlier, unpublished sessions] had its side of secrecy, privacy and aloneness … you identified creatively with his private nature. [...]

[...] Your deepest natures called it out of the probable sequence into your joint reality — for a reason, because each of you knew that it could best help you to develop all of your respective abilities to their fullest, and also help others.

[...] All of this caused muscular tensions, but he was appalled at what he considered Dick and Ida’s laxness in so many areas, and it seemed that that was the natural human condition, so that you must exert great discipline to keep yourself aloft from it. It is not the natural condition of the species to begin with, and naturally (underlined) neither of you were that way. The truer you are to yourselves, and to your natural impulses, the less you will be that way (intently again).

[...] Ruburt is working with the nature of impulses, and old ideas about impulses, spontaneity and discipline rose to mind, for the family situation of your brother and his wife almost typifies the kind of situation that Ruburt was determined to avoid. [...]

Dick finds pleasure in golf, because it represents an area in which he has hope of performing with some effectiveness, of acting with a spontaneity that knows its own order, and of experiencing his natural sense of power.

[...] There are dimensions of activity, then, that do not appear within time’s structure, and developments that happen quite naturally, following different laws of development than those you recognize. It is not just that highly accelerated versions of time can occur at other levels of actuality (long pause), but that there are dimensions in which those [versions] are no impediments to the natural “flow” (pause) of events into expression.

[...] Master events of that particular nature bring about a completely new interpretation of historic events. Their intensity, power, and seemingly impelling nature exist precisely because their origins are not physical, but are drawn from the psyche’s deepest resources.

[...] Master events emerge from that reality of idea, now, from which all ideas originate, uniting these through the use of natural correspondences. [...]

[...] His back begins to arch more naturally. [...]

[...] Ruburt with his practical mind interpreted this more literally than you, and physical restriction was a part of his natural early environment, as it was not in yours. [...] This was a natural result of his method.

(11:26 PM.) The following is for Ruburt, yet also for others, and can serve as a brief essay on the nature of will.

[...] You were also intrigued, determined to travel into the nature of reality, and at least glimpse a vague picture of what it could be. [...]

[...] There are many more experiments that you can do, and I hope that you will, with the nature of plant activity and consciousness. [...]

[...] Such as, what is the nature of reality? [...]

[...] How is this related to the nature of reality, for it is? [...]

[...] To not set the bands or questions of any specific nature but to listen as you go about your day. [...]

[...] And here we see his translation of this rather natural occurrence into tragic forebodings. [...]

[...] This follows certain laws inherent in the field of nature as far as matter is concerned. [...]

Probable universes are by their very nature existing universes. [...]

[...] This is fine, a driving force, but his strength comes from among other things his very personal involvement with nature, and from his contemplation of it. [...]

[...] To us, much of the turmoil in the world results from our steadfast refusal to accept a major portion of our natural heritage. We project our inner knowledge “outward” in distorted fashion; thus on a global scale we thrash about with our problems of war, overpopulation, and dwindling natural resources, to name but a few.

Whatever or whoever Seth is, or whatever the nature of the Seth-Jane relationship, we long ago decided that we could learn from it. [...] In the material as a whole there are bound to be significant clues as to the nature of the human animal: creative clues that can’t help but enlighten us in many — and sometimes unexpected — ways. [...]

Long before I finished my part of “Unknown” Reality, Seth and Jane had started their next book: The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression. I recorded those sessions, of course, while keeping up with my own work. [...]

Yet we think now that such extensive notes have served their purposes for Seth’s material, at least for some time, so those books-in-the-works will carry minimum notes — as they do, say, in Seth Speaks. For one thing, as I write this Epilogue, Seth has finished The Nature of the Psyche, and has already begun still another book. [...]

He was also however symbolic of evil to Ruburt, and to some extent then conquered simply through the natural passage of events. With the death of Ruburt’s mother Rooney’s purpose was done as far as Ruburt was concerned; and Rooney did a final service, for through his death Ruburt faced the nature of pain and creaturehood that his mother’s life had so frightened him of.

[...] Ruburt must see his existence as arising from the natural cycle of his mother’s reality and his own—two different things but connected. [...]