“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now the species does have its life-tasters, rising always out of any given time to check on the overall quality of life, to see what new ingredients should be added—what new directions should be followed, what new ideas or inventions must be planted for future harvest.

Ruburt once received a few interesting pages from a world view, in which the author spoke, in archaic terms, of being a person who was a “life-taster,” sent by God to taste the quality of man’s experience, so that God might know what new ingredients might be added.

[...] It was advertised in the National Enquirer: “A Doctor’s Proven New Home Cure for Arthritis,” by Giraud W. Campbell, Doctor of Osteopathy.Jane began to read through it at once, out of curiosity if nothing else, and discovered that it called for a very rigid diet. [...]

The cured person becomes a convert to a new way of life. [...]

[...] At certain levels—not all—you resented Eleanor’s visit, and Tam’s, because you wanted so to begin new projects. [...]

(The talk about the Wallaces reminded me, however, that a few months ago Irving Wallace’s daughter, Amy, had sent Jane a copy of her new book on psychic phenomena—particularly on healing.

[...] “A new movement,” I told her enthusiastically, and she could feel it. [...]

(Then she told me about a new nurse who fed her breakfast and made her mad by talking about Jane’s going to “another facility.” [...]

[...] After a cigarette Jane’s left foot began moving quite freely at the ankle in a new way. [...]

Some new developments should also occur in our sessions, as our reluctant medium finally comes to terms with me. [...]

I believe New York. [...]

Within a month, at the most two months, I believe, an offer, now to our Philip, of a new position. [...]

[...] In other terms, this can be likened to the discovery of a new world or land that has existed, of course, but whose existence was unsuspected. [...]

[...] An encounter, for example, that is a nuisance today may suddenly spark a new insight tomorrow, or appear in your own work in an entirely different form that you do not recognize, simply because you are not used to looking at such distractions in this kind of creative light.

[...] I can quite honestly compare such distractions with, say, the distracting thought that might take you from a familiar train of thought into another new mental territory. [...]

(This is Day 19 of Jane’s new campaign.

Ruburt has been trying too hard (pause), and it is not unusual for a period of new decision to be accompanied by a period of worrisome doubts.

The sense data is important, you see; the new balances that your separate personalities achieve lead you both to new expansions. [...]

[...] He will learn shortly, and without any real difficulty, that while his new schedule will be, as it should be, followed with discipline, nevertheless he cannot expect a new idea every day.

[...] They will prevent too much inner involvement, open new doors, bring psychic refreshment, and also provide our hungry friend with his diet of new ideas. [...]

You spoke about this plane, mentioning I believe the possibility that the plane had some specified but unknown end, after which the cycle began anew, with of course new personalities participating.

[...] As things now stand, his body is spasmodically jolting itself into new life, and responsiveness. [...] Your love for each other is coming to new fruition, and that, sensed by each of you, will give you an even greater impetus, for Ruburt creatively and physically; and for you this will bring about real breakthroughs in your painting and in your writing.

[...] Your accomplishments, despite all of the hassles, have accelerated to a point of new creativity. [...]

[...] They shed old beliefs as snakes shed skins, and they literally begin new existences. [...]

[...] Actually, the ligaments jerk as they attempt new motions. [...]

SETH’S IMPRESSIONS CONCERNING THE GALLAGHER’S TRIP TO NEW YORK.

[...] The soul, or this greater personage, does not simply send out an old self in new clothes time and time again (humorously), but each time a new, freshly-minted self that then develops and goes its own way. [...]

[...] I think we’re going to get some great new material.

[...] The identity of each living person is always “brand new.” [...]

New paragraph. [...]

(It happened shortly after Frank Longwell’s visit at lunchtime, during which we discussed a new arrangement for the stove/cooking area of the kitchen. [...]

[...] Your high-school art teacher, Miss Bowman, lent you the money to study art in New York City.

[...] Again, the New Year resolutions, really understood, can help you, for they will dissolve such thoughts.

(It’s my hunch that Seth’s New Year’s resolutions are perhaps the most potent material we could get, provided we keep them in mind as time passes. [...]

Off and on been doing Stonehenge poem—type up 6 new pages of it today.... [...]

[...] But it is also a barrage that makes man see his own activities, and even with the growth of the new nationalism in the Third World, those nations begin from a new perspective, in which the eyes of the world are indeed upon them.

[...] She’s writing some excellent new poems for the book, besides working on God of Jane. [...]

[...] As physical creatures, they focused upon what you think of as physical identities: separate, individual differences, endowing each physical consciousness with its own original variations and creative potentials, its own opportunity for completely original experience, and a viewpoint or platform from which to participate in reality—one that at that level could not be experienced in the same way by any other individual (all very intently). This is [the] privileged, always new, private and immediate, direct experience of any individual of any species, or of any degree, as it encounters the objective universe.

Your country faces the results of its own policies—its greed as well as its good intent, but it is out in the open in a new way. [...]

[...] They move now constantly, trying out their new freedoms and as they do they stimulate other positions of the body to one extent or another. The same applies to the right foot particularly as new ligaments loosen.

(Last Thursday afternoon as I lay down for my customary nap before supper, I had an experience that was new for me: I’ve been meaning to write it up, so this place will serve as a record. [...]

[...] To some extent the changing pressure accounts for the eyes’ protuberance, so that they have plenty of moisture and do not become dry as the eye muscles and other portions of the eyes exercise their new activity.

Hot water on the knees will help, as does his new practice of hot water on the forehead. [...]

[...] They are methods that you use as a part of all consciousness to form new experiences and new developments. [...]

Good evening to you all and welcome to our new friends. [...]

[...] Some of you do help persons who have immediately left this system to acclimate to the new conditions. [...]

[...] It has embarked upon new and higher organizations and is aware of greater abilities. [...]

The more prosaic elements of the personality then take whatever measures seem necessary at the time, while new orientation is tried out. [...] When the new sensed reality is strong enough to provide not only greater comprehensions but also to construct a new framework, then the old framework is seen as limiting, and discarded.

[...] 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.

[...] You do not understand that your system is indeed expanding within itself, bringing forth new creativity and energy (underlined).

New paragraph. [...]

[...] The workmen poured the cement for the new floor on Thursday. Today they installed the forms for the new porch steps, and poured again. [...]

The sight of the dying gave them visions of the meaning of life, and stirred new [ideas] of sociological, political, and spiritual natures, so that in your terms the dead did not die in vain. [...]

New paragraph: Despite all “realistic” pragmatic tales to the contrary, the natural state of life itself is one of joy, acquiescence with itself — a state in which action is effective, and the power to act is a natural right. [...]

[...] There is a natural compassion, a biological knowledge, so that the mother of an animal knows whether or not existing conditions will support the new offspring. [...]

[...] Jane told me that in hydro this morning she’d felt new movement in her right leg—the broken one—that it both tried to move more, and to straighten out more. [...]

(However, her new lower teeth were bothering her a great deal; her mouth was so sore she couldn’t eat part of her lunch. [...]

(Jane wants me to note that this is Day 2 of her new approach to life, based on the session for February 1. I do think the session is an excellent one, and I’ve copied it for use at the house, too.)

Again, do review Wednesday’s session often — and it is a good idea to designate Day 1 and so forth, as each of you try to make this a new beginning, and take each day as it is, one day at a time. [...]