“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You’ve been largely operating from a base that isn’t naturally yours but was taken on as a result of your sympathy for the world and for the problems of others. But that base doesn’t provide the kind of springboard or the thrust you need or your abilities require. It’s as if, at usual levels, you tried to be a doctor instead of a writer. At psychic levels, the qualities you need for sessions and your own work do not mesh with the overriding need to help others. You need the free joy of performance. Then, helping others follows naturally as your work helps others help themselves. In fact this is the only true kind of help.

Each person or act has his or its “proper stance,” or platform of intention from which to operate. There are healers, for example, who respond primarily to the needs of others. In the nonpsychic arena these correspond with your doctors and nurses and even to, say, social reformers. The framework is an excellent one for those who find it a natural extension of inner intent. It deals with utility, function, need, and the “righting of wrongs.”

Beyond that platform (which is not your own native one) is another that operates as “high art,” in which activity is for its own sake, for the joy and discovery of the performance or execution, a high play that sets the needs of the world at least momentarily aside, rises up above specifics into those vaster realms from which specifics emerge.

You need know—you need know nothing—you need know nothing in intellectual terms. [...] You do not need words. You do not need my words—but I speak them. I speak the words so you will realize you do not need them. [...]

[...] You do not need to enforce discipline upon it. You need not enforce discipline upon it. [...] You do not need to fear that if you allow yourselves freedom you will travel into evil ways. [...] Let the inner intuitive sense speak for it is the inner voice, and the magic that unites you has no need of conscious words. [...]

[...] There should only be a word that means, “I bless,” for when you bless you do not need to repent. And when you accept a blessing, you do not need to repent. [...] You only need repentance when you do not know joy. [...]

[...] My ceremony is a ceremony that does not need ceremony —for it speaks through all seasons and it rises and it speaks through you. [...]

Their need gives impetus to this work. They not only buy books for themselves and for friends, but they use the books like ladders, and if they were at the same point of development, so to speak, in the psychic field as you are, they would not need the books; and their needs, like yours, would be elsewhere.

Then you do not resent the afternoon rackets, but accept neighborhood noises as the world’s activity, and it becomes—though you will not believe me—a refreshing and needed counterpoint. [...] You deny yourselves, say, guests when you feel like having them, because you have already done chores that did not particularly need to be done, because you thought you should, when you felt like working.

You would not go shopping or do any chores you did not absolutely need to do. [...]

[...] You would not force yourself to work on those occasions, for your natural need for play of some kind —outings or guests—would then assert themselves. [...]

[...] You are manipulating in physical terms, but it should occur to you that you do not need the physical images. [...] Even in the body it seems to you that you need physical hands to manipulate reels, to change what you see when a thought would suffice. And so later on you will not need the journeys, but now the journeys act as educational television. Later you will not need them. [...]

[...] What you are going to see need not be the physical room in which you sit. [...] You do not need the electroencephalograph to let you know when you are in Alpha I. If you want, you may imagine a particular kind of pattern as being your waking consciousness, as in a graph with the very quick motions representing delta and then slowing out gently for the Alpha patterns, if you prefer. [...]

[...] You do not need them. You need merely to admit the vitality of your own consciousness. [...]

In order to do what we have just done we needed to manipulate Ruburt’s consciousness, to some extent, and so, in your terms, though these terms are meaningless, he was, say, four levels below those levels of which we spoke, and he is not used to it so we need to give him a boost up the rest of the way. [...]

[...] He does need to hold on, walking, with all of these changes. [...] They provide for the insertion of the required and desired beliefs for use when needed.

You have decided to acknowledge such needs, and to give them token satisfaction, so you have recognized that cavity, which in the past you both tried your best to ignore. Now it needs to be filled.

[...] Otherwise, regarding the tooth episode in particular, there is only the fact that you have used the idea of the tooth and George’s difficulty to organize certain elements of your own experience so that by having the cavity filled a need will be satisfied.

The need is a sexual one—your sweet tooth—for your sexual feelings have been rearoused by your intimate encounters with Ruburt, even while neither of you thus far have even been willing to devote time to sexual gratification in the deepest terms.

Ruburt need not fear becoming a new authority. [...] He need not fear others as authority, for the same applies. You do not need to protect yourselves against the world. It needs what help it can get, and you can only help it by being yourselves.

Ruburt then is now realizing there is no authority to fear, no need for the defense, and no one he need hide from. [...] You need to buy, not rent; there are further financial developments, windfalls.

Ruburt’s New York Times ad is delightful, but he no longer needs to depend upon that kind of prestige. [...] They do need people like you who are not so involved, who work in other areas, to help them.

Actually some of the responses to Personal Reality have helped him considerably, as he sees that so-called authorities are greedy for these ideas, and need them desperately. [...]

[...] Ruburt has a basic though well-disguised need for privacy, as you do Joseph, though your need is not disguised. This is a need for privacy from the outside world that I speak of.

Ruburt is flexible to a large degree, but beneath there are prerequisites that he needs. Many of his Florida contortions had to do with a simple need, basic for him, having to do with space, orderliness and privacy. [...]

He operates very well until these basic needs are jeopardized. I will tell you the reasons later, but regardless of his flamboyance and seeming disregard, he needs space division of certain activities, and privacy from the outside world. [...]

You are so consciously aware of your need for privacy and you are so consciously modest, that his very strong but mostly unconscious needs in these directions sometimes go unsatisfied, since he is not as consciously aware of them.

[...] He can do far better, and the way to begin is to allow the spontaneous self as much freedom as he can in daily life, and to trust its expression—that it knows his psychic and creative needs, his physical needs, his social and financial needs, and all of these can be taken care of.

[...] All of this boils down to what I have said unceasingly (whispering) about trusting the spontaneous self—for in the most simple of terms, you do not need poor mobility as a working method for any reasons, if you trust the spontaneous self in its dealings with the conscious personality and with the world.

If you trust the spontaneous self, then automatically you do not need such a framework, but you must learn to allow it its expression. [...]

[...] Ruburt is learning that even he went too far, but I do want you still to think of the symptoms as a well-meaning but distorted structure that can dissolve—and can dissolve overnight when Ruburt understands it is no longer needed or wanted. [...]

Those characteristics that kept you from contributing to those conditions are those that now are most needed, and will be most recognized. The books, and your drawings in their own way, bring out in people those qualities that they need and have needed to help combat the attitudes that initiated such economic “disasters.”

[...] He realized, as you have, that the race needs help, and that he has something to offer.

[...] In the future you may need some kind of organization, but you must preserve your privacy.

[...] Ruburt was not always the one who needed to be waited upon, for example. [...] He also saw you in a more realistic light, so that your needs could be viewed more clearly.

[...] Both of you needed that assurance. [...]

[...] The beliefs that you still need to change can put you in excellent, glowing health, but the body is not unresponsive, but highly responsive to your beliefs and attitudes.

To the extent that you enjoy the quality of life itself, you do not need to place demands upon it, for its abundance shows in profusion. [...]

[...] He needs the reminder. Again, as mentioned, you helped him the other night, bringing him into the moment constructively, and this is what is needed. [...]

What you need is a preponderance of constructive words. [...]

[...] He needs them. [...]

He was ashamed of needing you to do this for him initially, yet realized your support was necessary at that point. [...]

All Dick Bach needed that night after Robert Browning was another fancy tale. He needs that challenge, as I told you, so it was not Ruburt blocking.

The needs and desires of others naturally enter in, and some energy must be used to close them out. [...]

The more interested and excited they are of course, the more their own needs and answers ring out. [...]

With strangers the sessions often are personal, however, because their own needs and emotional reactions are initially so vibrant. [...]

[...] It only needs to have the faith that means are available—even if those means are beyond its own scope of activity. [...]

[...] His attitudes toward such activities may indeed be something else again, but he is working those out, and needs some time to do so. [...]

The realization that he need not be a public person, for example, is taking root, so keep this information at your fingertips. [...]

[...] Tell him that he does not need the symptoms as a set of checks and balances. [...] Behind the attitude is still the feeling that he needs to whip himself on in certain areas, and check himself in others. [...]

The symptoms have been kept therefore in case they are needed. A method of discipline that he no longer needs.

[...] He does not need to reinforce it with physical symptoms now. He does not need to fear he will be carried away through spontaneity. [...]

[...] Remind him, for the 100th time, that he can trust his inner self implicitly, and does not need to set up guards against its spontaneity, for spontaneity is his life, and the source of his creativity; and underline that sentence.

[...] Your own emotional need and impetus will however be made known to me. Therefore if that need is strong I would of course be here, even as you would not disregard the need of a friend. [...]

My entire essence however need not always be involved. (Pause.) I need not be entirely focused within your dimension in other words, but I am focused sufficiently to meet our appointments.

[...] But subconsciously you wondered what social environment your child would really (underlined) encounter, and whether or not you deprived him of the social and economic benefits that you have convinced yourself, consciously, you do not need.

[...] While there was a past family connection, you were not the closest of friends, and there was no need or desire on either of your parts for a family connection of any duration in this life.

(I added that I doubt if they really do, but that the views need integration for us to understand it all clearly as a unified theory—sort of like field theory in physics, perhaps. [...]

[...] But he didn’t. I said to Jane later that it seems Seth will tailor his material to suit our needs and/or moods of the moment, which may be one of the ways to integrate blocks of his material into a larger whole, which can display many facets or approaches.)

[...] You are simply human, and if you need any proof that you are a part of the human species, and not so isolated from others, that is it. [...]

His concern about your health also operated as a strong impetus, allowing him to break through usual frameworks, and the sessions did give you the knowledge you needed to recover.

[...] He also needed love, however. [...]

You both felt that the development of those abilities must be protected, lest the need for financial security lead you into full-time work on a long-term basis. [...]

[...] You did, however, both for years believe most firmly that your creative endeavors were dependent upon the need for protection from others, the world, from time, and even from any of your own characteristics that did not seem to fit into that overall pattern.

When, as time progressed, the need for constant decisions to speak here and there, to see thus and so, to do housework or write, or whatever, Ruburt simply began to cut down on the body’s availability to action, and he felt that that would take care of that.

I did not say that you need to remarry, I said there were others who needed your love. [...]

[...] Now though it seems to you perhaps at this point tragic, the facts are that the real tragedy would have occurred had the cat lived, in your terms, and had you curled up in it, in your house on the corner, and turned your love inward to the animal rather than outward, for there are people who need it. [...]

[...] You do not think in terms of those who need love and affection and who are more lonely than yourself, lacking children, and who are looking for not only affection but the simple courtesy that another individual can show by recognizing their existence. [...]

[...] However, when you love any one thing so strongly that it begins to exclude others then you need to think. [...]

[...] It is very important, again, that he follow his inclinations—for overall, when he feels like doing nothing but relaxing, this is what body and mind both need at that point. [...]

[...] Other such releases now however will be gradual, and unfelt to that degree, so he need not be fearful. [...]

[...] He needed the rest from it, and had he gritted his teeth and plunged back into it, he could have fallen into old frameworks—but following his inclinations, as I told him, he avoided that, and when he begins it again it will be with the relaxed attitudes that his dreams and his newer understanding are teaching him.

Mind and body both needed a rest, and both will benefit. [...]

[...] There are revelations within you that do not need words. They need to rise up like new planets into your own consciousness, and you need to treat them gently and not give them labels or names. [...]

[...] Now you need the sounds to remind you. [...]

[...] It is the language beneath touch, and you do not need words for it though you must translate your experience somehow. [...]