“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Jane at break asked me to take down an oil painting of hers that, she said, represented her childhood home on Middle Avenue in Saratoga Springs, New York. [...]

[...] (New York.)

[...] This includes some new yellow curtains for the living room and Jane’s office, etc.)

The soul is too great to know itself, yet each individual portion of the soul seeks this knowledge and in the seeking creates new possibilities of development, new dimensions of actuality. [...]

[...] The crinkley sound seemed magnified tremendously and had a new dimension as if it were ripping up space, crinkling the edges of space in the kitchen. [...]

[...] There were new bursts of noise from downstairs at this point, and the image vanished.

[...] The affair served to remind them once more of my contact with them, to make them think twice, and it also serves as a new stimulus for further contact.

There is the other side of the picture, for his new thoughts physically regenerated the body, or allowed it to regenerate itself. [...]

3. In one way or another, once a day have him do something to act upon the new beliefs. [...]

[...] It is an entirely new environment. [...]

[...] You will be forming new gestalts of experience, using past, present and future as a painter chooses his colors, combining them into various paintings.

[...] This will be new to you to some large extent. [...]

[...] I was simply leading him rather gently into new dimensions. [...]

[...] You are also afraid to move, and both of you are wary of fitting yourselves into a new environment, and in a small but significant way, of making a new personal world.

[...] A good move physically represents an inner change that then seeks a new environment in which it is materialized.

[...] Briefly, the new environment next door aroused him, but the apartment, while representing expansion, as I told you then, also carried a built-in boomerang—the public hall, the lack of coordination, a divided place. [...]

[...] Although Jane’s father, and my own, had died the previous year (in 1971), our mothers were still living: Jane’s in a nursing home in upstate New York, and mine at the Butts family home in Sayre, Pennsylvania, which is only 18 miles from Elmira and just south of the New York State border. [...]

1. When Seth came through with “You get what you concentrate upon,” I remembered that he’d first spoken that sentence some years ago — and that soon afterward I’d made a little paper sign bearing those words and taped it to a wall in one of the two apartments we occupied in Elmira, New York. [...]

[...] And how could we go to Florida and leave all of our friends, and how inconvenient would it be to deal with a publisher (Prentice-Hall) headquartered way up north in New Jersey? [...]

[...] She’s become especially conscious of impulses while working on her new book, Heroics, for, strangely, she’s found herself confronting a series of seemingly contradictory impulses to do other things, such as paint, or reread her old poetry.

In those areas where you cut down on your impulses, upon their very recognition, you close down probabilities, and prevent new beneficial acts that of themselves would lead you out of your difficulty. [...]

1. Jane originated the key portion of the new title early last Sunday morning, when she got up at 4 A.M. to have breakfast and make some notes for her book. [...]

“Or, I thought suddenly, it was like seeing a new corner of your own psyche, transformed into trees, grass, flowers, sky and fog…. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Modern psychology was an attempt to make man conform to the new scientific world view.

The new psychology shut off mobility after death, while giving each individual an unsavory primitive past heritage — a heritage genetically carried, that led finally only to the grave. [...]

[...] In using the animal’s flesh, then, the hunter believed that he was giving the animal a new focus of existence. [...]

He feels as if his consciousness were stretched out of shape in a certain way, as muscles might be if you used them in a new manner.

[...] He has shown himself (Jane held her right arm out; in the last couple of days it has straightened out noticeably) that the body can change—that alternate realities can alter the present that you know, and that new intent can alter a life.

[...] You are looking through new windows. [...]

[...] Consider your present self as an actor in a play; hardly a new analogy, but a suitable one. [...]

(10:32.) Therefore it creates varieties of conditions in which to operate, and sets itself challenges, some doomed to failure in your terms, at least initially, because it must first create the conditions which will bring new creations about. [...]

(11:08.) To the extent, therefore, that you allow the intuitions and knowledge of the multidimensional self to flow through the conscious self, to that extent not only do you perform your role in the play more effectively, but also you add new energy, insights, and creativity to the entire dimension.

In old age the organism is, in certain terms, preparing for a new birth. [...] The situation includes all of those supports necessary to carry you through, not only with acceptance but with the great aggressive drive toward new experience.

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[...] The new director is a figure of authority, and insists in fact upon being considered in such a light.

[...] He may be superior in many ways, but certainly not in all respects, and his disdainful reactions would naturally affect the poor new director. [...]

At the gallery, Ruburt interprets everything now between himself and the new director in terms of implied superiority or inferiority.

[...] Tell him not to be frightened at any new developments in that area. [...] It will simply be a new environment. [...]

[...] The intuitive self presented the ego however with a new line of development that it was not prepared to follow.

10. This note is as much for my own edification as it is for anyone else’s. The definitions are from Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, Second College Edition, © 1970 by The World Publishing Company, New York and Cleveland:

[...] I don’t think those events directly led Seth into beginning his new material, but in retrospect Jane and I agree that they certainly played some considerable part in establishing a foundation, or impetus, for such a development.

[...] This is ordinary gravity — not some new kind.”

There are unknown gulfs that separate the private experience of a poor Indian, a rich Indian, a native in New Guinea, an American tailor, an African nationalist, a Chinese aristocrat, an Irish housewife. [...]

[...] Money was involved with both people, since my Miss Bowman had lent me the money to go through art school in New York City. [...]

[...] A new lady took Jane’s blood pressure, which was normal.

[...] Then this afternoon she picked up from Seth that in a new chapter he’d explain how physical deformities are, among other things, manifestations of the great range of abilities encompassed within our species’ genetic pool, and that we retain such flexibility in case wide changes are ever needed. [...]

When you are born, you understand that you have a new consciousness. [...]