“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Naturally we wondered what, if anything, Seth might say about the experience. [...]

[...] There is some instability of elements this evening, having to do with a natural, overall change taking place in Ruburt—a beneficial one, I add hastily (humorously); but his system is in a state of change.

[...] He progresses at a natural rate however, at his own rate. [...]

[...] I qualified this statement twice on purpose, for naturally your main focus is to be your painting.

[...] When his creative abilities found contemporary scientific thought also too narrow, however, and his natural intuitions had led him toward a new framework—one that, again, introduced values having to do with the nature of consciousness, or soul—then the new ideas began to conflict directly with the old buried ones, particularly those that had to do with the conflicts between creative expression, the church, and “forbidden knowledge.” [...]

[...] The natural self operates within a state of grace, by whatever name, a state that allows for spontaneity, and implies self-trust. [...]

The Sinful Self is “an artificial psychological construct”—thrust upon the natural self to some degree, and at one time it objected thoroughly against such conditioning, so with communication it will be glad to let those old beliefs go —as long as the entire affair is not allowed to go underground, of course. [...]

[...] That is not the nature of life or of existence.

[...] In any cases of great repressive nature, one part of the personality may act alone in the beginning but later it must get the cooperation of other portions.

[...] There are natural results, activations of hormones, quite necessary, that are released at such times that greatly benefit the system. [...]

[...] The repressed nature however came through, which is a definite advance. [...]

You may have become a part of the drama of a natural disaster, or avoided it as a result of other seemingly chance occurrences. [...] Before we go any further, then, we must look into the nature of Framework 2.

[...] It is this myth that hampers your understanding most of all, and that closes you off from the greater nature of those events with which you are most intimately concerned. [...]

[...] There are variances, however, when such activity is directed instead into the interior nature of reality. [...]

[...] He knows that only then can he dare to begin to understand its nature. [...] Yet it is no accident that greater discoveries are often made by “amateurs” — those who are relatively free from official dogmas, released from the pressure to get ahead in a given field — those whose creativity flows freely and naturally in those areas of their natural interest.

Ultimately your use of instruments, and your preoccupation with them as tools to study the greater nature of reality, will teach you one important lesson: The instruments are useful only in measuring the level of reality in which they themselves exist.¹ Period.

Give us a moment … Such gadgets can be useful only if they show you that such alterations are naturally possible. [...]

[...] You will not understand its living heart or its nature.

[...] The question was really based upon our belief, indeed our certainty, that everything in nature is intentional and useful; therefore dreams must fulfill important roles in peoples’ lives—but how, in ordinary terms? [...]

[...] One way or another, however, you will hit upon some kind of situation—a portion of a TV drama, perhaps—in which a tire is blown; or you will see an item of that nature in the newspaper, or you will hear a story, told directly or indirectly about the same kind of dilemma. [...]

[...] The doctor represents newer beliefs, and the spontaneous nature of the self, which can act so much more effectively with those new beliefs.

[...] The cats did not represent your physical cats (Mitzi and Billy Two), but old comfortable beliefs about the nature of the spontaneous self connected with ideas he picked up from his mother, in which cats represented the worst aspects of human behavior and impulses: they fawned upon you, yet were evil, and could turn against you in a moment.

Some people may have a stronger or weaker sex drive than others, and yet that drive is a strong part of any individual’s natural rhythm. [...]

There are so many other elements involved in human nature that I do not really want to point out any culprits, yet male-segregated communities are obviously notorious for encouraging that kind of behavior. [...]

[...] I would like you to attend to your lives as they otherwise appear before you, for a period of time to return to sessions because of your natural living curiosity and involvement with them, and to attend most of all to creative thought as it naturally makes itself known. [...]

Joseph recently had an experience that disturbed him, simply because it was difficult to interpret even in the light of his understanding about the nature of the self. You cannot explore the nature of reality, hoping to discover its unknown aspects, if you insist that those aspects correspond with the known ones. [...]

This book is concerned with the nature of the unknown reality, and the ways in which it can become known.

[...] As “Unknown” Reality is being produced Ruburt and Joseph are having their own experiences, and uncovering the nature of the unknown reality as it applies to them.

There is indeed a communication existing that joins all of nature, an inner webwork, so that each part of the earth knows what its other parts are doing. [...]

[...] The group worked on manuscripts officially, but our friend here and several others were bootleg seed finders, believing against currently held theories that questions concerning nature could be answered by examining nature.

[...] In theory it sounded fine, but naturally I knew he wanted Sally to live. [...]

[...] These personalities will explain the nature of reality to her in vocabulary that will make sense to her. [...]

[...] Everyone is on a first-name basis, and each of us wears whatever clothing is most comfortable and natural. [...]

The freshness of dream experience lies in its direct nature. Your cultural world view does not have any clear understanding of the nature of dreams, so that their direct, clear expression is not recalled often in the morning. [...]

[...] You may spend time trying to understand the nature of dreams and their implications, without ever realizing that your physical life is to some extent a three-dimensional dream. [...]

[...] Freedom from time and place, the wider kind of communication, the great mobility of consciousness — all of these experiences under dreaming conditions are characteristic of the basic nature of reality — whereas your waking experience provides limitations that are indicators of certain conditions only. [...]

[...] Any of your scientific or religious disciplines could benefit from a study of the dreaming consciousness, for there the basic nature of reality exists as clearly as you can perceive it. [...]

Before Seth began a discussion of dreams, and as a preliminary, he explained the natural mobility of human consciousness and outlined the main features of the “interior universe” that could be glimpsed in both waking and dream states and which underlie physical reality. This introduction offers a natural pathway into the area of dreams (part of the interior universe) and to the other states of consciousness possible within the dream framework. [...]

Now I remember that spring, recall sitting at my desk writing poetry, caught up in a feeling that nature was betraying us all with its promise of hope and renewal. [...]

Yet that same May, while I was writing the most pessimistic of poetry, I also remember a break in my mood, a quickening of spirit that was reflected in two poems of quite a different nature. [...]

[...] So while this book is devoted to Seth’s theories on the nature of dreams and his instructions on their use, it is not meant to be a definitive statement. [...]

This is a responsibility laid upon you by the code of limitations which the ego itself has adopted as a part of its own nature. [...]

[...] It does not apply to those other portions of the self, and it is through the inner self, through inner consciousness, that to some degree the nature of action can make itself known. [...]

[...] For there is that in the physical nature of your field that is automatically refreshing and renewing.

Within the framework of your disciplined nature, you must allow now for more spontaneity. [...]

The information brings, because of its nature, much more than you might think in its implications. [...]

This sort of experience does, for you, indeed have its unpleasant side, and the ego most naturally combats. [...]

The barrier, if it may be so called, is not so much in the nature of the two dimensions themselves, but in your own limitations, since presently you are focused mainly in one of these. [...]

[...] Projections in terms of reference points appear also in your dimension, and you have as little knowledge or understanding of their true nature, as inhabitants of other dimensions have of your own.

[...] You will be able to hold equally within your experience the vision of an “ideal self” and all those natural deviations from it.

When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you cooperate with others easily and automatically as a part of your own nature. [...]

Now: Dictation: Ruburt’s own beliefs in the nature of his consciousness helped bring about these sessions.

Ruburt and Joseph have both worked with the nature of creativity, and from an early age each of them sought for answers — but most of all they trusted the destiny and grace of their beings.

[...] He does have a very strong private nature, along with an ability to communicate to others—and as my material stated this morning, a greater understanding of his impulses would lead to a natural balance. [...]

[...] They are natural, but it is not natural to be ruled by fears.

(Jane’s Tuesday paper on her feelings is evidently a very important one, representing some excellent insights on her part about her repressed impulses, her fears about my reactions to various events, her private nature and public appearances, and related topics. [...]

[...] That is given—the gift of life brings along with it the actualization of that cooperation, for the body’s parts exist as a unit because of inner relationships of a cooperative nature; and those exist at your birth (most emphatically), when you are innocent of any cultural beliefs that may be to the contrary.

This is a given characteristic of life, regardless of the beliefs that may lead you to misinterpret the actions of nature, casting some of its creatures in a reprehensible light.

[...] As a result you forget your natural selves, and become involved in a secondary, largely imaginary culture: beliefs that are projected negatively into the future, individually and en masse. [...]

[...] I will work on one book one night and another one the next, if you prefer, or discuss private material or other questions of a general nature, or work twice a week on our present material—whatever suits your fine fancies.”

These are implied, however, in the nature of your own consciousness, which could not exist otherwise as you know it. [...]

(9:55.) What you are is implied in the nature of what you are not. [...]

[...] You do not trust the natural consciousness of the body, so that when its end nears — and such an end is inevitable — you do not trust the signals that the body gives, that are meant to free you.

[...] Under your present system, however, drugs are usually administered, in which case pain is somewhat minimized, but prolonged — not triggering the natural release mechanisms.

[...] Every time you say, I am helpless, and I am slipping into chaos, whether you get laughs or not, or whether you say it humorously or not, you are indeed pushing yourself further into the chaos you are creating with every breath you take because you make no effort to change the nature of your thoughts and this is what you must do, exert your own control. [...]

[...] There is no other place where you can lay the blame and it is up to you, to each of you individually, to watch the nature of your thoughts for with your thoughts you created the body that you have, the individual realities that you know. [...]

[...] You are given a natural protection but you weaken this protection when your conscious thoughts are negative. [...]

[...] It sounds simple and it is simple if you apply it, but it is you who has to know the nature of your own thoughts. [...]