“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“What do you think of my remarks about watching the news on television every day?”³)

It makes little difference whether you watch the news or not—but it makes all the difference in the world what you think of world events.

3. Earlier this evening I’d wondered to Jane why we keep dosing ourselves with the endless barrage of bad news the TV networks offer us as we eat supper each day. [...]

(“How is Seven going to do?” I was trying to get some good news to cheer Jane up. [...]

[...] Instead, for example, for news or for advice you watch your morning television news, which provides you with a kind of manufactured dream that to some extent technologically serves the same purpose. Instead of sending cameramen and newspaper people to the farthest corners of the earth, early man sent out aspects of himself to gather the news and to form it into [...]

[...] and my news won’t be big enough to justify it? [...]

Ruburt’s (very relaxed) condition today was the result of Friday’s news (about the very good sales of all of Jane’s books), and the body was ridding itself of a tension. [...]

[...] Seth’s parting remark concerned a news story in the New York Times today. [...]

[...] News telecasts acquaint you with conditions around the world.

[...] The news is slightly foreign, while it is still interpreted through the language that you know. [...]

[...] When you watch, say, the news on television, you must keep in mind several important issues. [...]

Some other more courageous souls might decide to balance their input, and if the news is bad to turn their attention to the joys of the day, which are indeed immediately present.

[...] For some reason this news served as a trigger to plunge me into a depressed mood of my own, which lasted for most of the afternoon. [...]

[...] He gave Jane the excellent news that wherever he went the Seth books were known, and that Jane truly was changing our society through her work. This sort of news always surprises us, I guess, because we must be more isolated than we know; also, the sales aren’t all that great, so I always wonder just what the person bases such statements on when making them. [...]

[...] We were both caught up in the same events as most other people were during that June and July — the hotter-than-usual nights and days, the drought in parts of New York State that touched our area lightly, the TV news drama as the political parties argued and planned for their conventions. [...]

[...] Rob and I took an hour’s nap, though, and ate supper at the coffee table while watching the evening news. [...]

[...] You begin to concentrate upon the negative (underlined three times) aspects of the news in the paper. [...]

[...] This was news to Jane and me; I’d forgotten that Jean Sweeney-Dun had taken me around to those places months ago. [...]

[...] She said that when I came in this noon she didn’t ask me how I made out this morning because she was going to wait until after her lunch, in case I had bad news. [...]

[...] As we waited I explained to her a few things about the political fighting in San Salvador; I’d just finished typing the last, 930th session, wherein I’d referred to the attached news clippings about that country’s travails. [...]

[...] I started talking to the people giving the news on TV [channel 13], and Chris’s mother [whom Jane has never met; Chris Hover cleans the house every other Sunday], and to you and other people. [...]

(She had more good news. [...]

[...] In the meantime the pesty fleas continued their household tyranny and all of this was somehow wrapped around a ribbon of excitement as we watched the Democrats and Republicans battle on the news just before we left for our respective work rooms.

[...] I consider myself an exuberant psychological explorer, finding myself, at my own request, happily set adrift among universes, able to shout with a loud hearty voice from the hypothetical shore of one to another, news of what I have found and am still finding.”

[...] “There’s only one answer,” I said in answer to her news about the hospital. [...]

[...] Her material, however, wasn’t influenced by the news story, for just about a year ago Seth-Jane delivered a session for Personal Reality on the mixing of animal and man: the 648th for March 14, 1973, in Chapter 12. [...]

[...] She also brought news of the fracas involving President Reagen on a southern golf course this afternoon. [...]