“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The rubbing expressed this feeling from you, and then acted directly on a sense-data level which both of you needed at the time to confirm what was an inner experience.

(Pause at 10:00.) The brain, as opposed to the mind, needs this correlation. [...]

[...] Most, however, have a need for enduring, close relationships. [...]

[...] All I needed was a simple prospectus and outline. Except for the dream, I would have spent considerable time gathering data long before it was needed. [...]

Even this data is available to the subconscious, however, if the need for it arises. [...]

You will need to use your wits carefully, for secondary realities will often appear to be primaries. [...]

What we need you see are various elements that usually combine spontaneously, but that can be caused to combine when they would not usually combine. [...]

Ruburt’s eyeglasses will shortly need changing, since he insists upon using them. [...]

As long as he uses glasses, the ability will not be utilized, and the glasses will shortly need to be changed.

[...] There is no longer any need for this. [...]

[...] And may I here add that his interest in psychic phenomena is precisely caused by this need to communicate.

You are blocking the energy—there is no need worrying about how to direct it until you realize it is there and free it. [...]

[...] There is no need for them.” [...]

[...] The mother’s hatred, Jane said, led to her need for protection — perfectly normal, I said. [...]

[...] A projection obviously need not be conscious. [...]

[...] Like any good teacher I realize that you need incentive, and I shall supply them, and in good measure indeed. [...]

They also felt that they were themselves, however; that as humans [they were] the manifestation of the larger expression of nature that was too splendid to be contained alone within nature’s framework, that nature needed them — that is, men — to give it another kind of voice. [...]

In nontime images need not have the seeming permanence of your own. [...]

[...] My characteristics as they are displayed through the Seth personality, therefore, come from you as well as Ruburt … Triggers were needed also to initiate my emergence into your world through that personality I display. [...] It was the practical impetus of your need at the time, however, that operated as the final emotional trigger — you recall the circumstances.³¹

[...] I was 44 years old — and, as I recognized after the sessions began, at a point in life where I greatly needed more penetrating insights into the meaning of existence. [...] We were driven to know more — about art, about writing, about the human condition, about everything. My own need, as well as Jane’s, struck deep responses within her psyche.

(From the 180th session for August 23, 1965:) Tonight’s (second envelope) test dealt with clairvoyance — I happened to pick up my information that way, although it could just as easily have been obtained through telepathic communication.¹⁹ In the future, tests will be worked out in whatever manner is needed.

[...] Therefore, I do not need to adopt a past ego [of my own]. [...]

[...] Time and space need not be connected, however — that is, the attractions that exist between a reality and any given probability cluster may have nothing to do with time and space at all. [...]

[...] Hanging up, he closed his eyes and imagined energy being sent out from a universal source through his own body, and directed toward the person in need. [...]

[...] He was not sure enough of his new world; he was still enough a part of the old one so that he often saw his life and abilities through the eyes of the “old world inhabitants” — the others who might scorn him, or set him up for ridicule.¹³ They represented portions of his own psyche still at that level of consciousness, not having quite assimilated the greater knowledge or experience, so he felt he needed protection — the protection that would … cleverly … serve all of his purposes, allowing him to go ahead as he wanted to … that would keep him at home working, and yet also serve as a control against too much inner spontaneity until he learned that he could indeed trust the new world of experience.

In sleep there is no need for it to be dominant, nor is there under survival conditions. [...]

I do not need therefore to adopt a past ego. [...]

[...] The strong focus of psychic energy needed to maintain the splendid physical image-organization is no longer given. [...]

[...] She had said it gave her a sheltered feeling that she appeared to need.)

[...] And with the three of you we will need dedication and discipline.

Mark, you need discipline, but it is discipline that you will acquire in living. [...]

[...] It is highly in need of both of your abilities, and will not reject them.

(All of this has to be turned to finding different methods quickly and an examination of the original theses, and the need for discipline to begin with. [...]

[...] If Christendom saw man as blighted by original sin, Darwinian and Freudian views see him as part of a flawed species in which individual life rests precariously, ever at the beck and call of the species’ needs, and with survival as the prime goal — a survival, however, without meaning. [...]

There are intellectual values and emotional ones, and sometimes there are needs of an emotional nature that must be met regardless of intellectual judgments. [...]