“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Again, when you are in a state that is not the normal waking one, when you have forsaken this daily self, you are nevertheless conscious and alert. [...] Creativity is one of the most important attributes and aspects of consciousness. [...]

[...] They will be together, I believe, and you should add them to your people series; for one you have known before, and the other influenced your life at one time, though you did not know him personally. [...]

[...] There is one large point, underestimated by all of your psychologists, when they list the characteristics or attributes of consciousness. [...]

(9:47.) One small point, not in the discussion:

[...] You have had quite a bit for one night, but each of you can creatively use these problems, and turn them to your advantage, and this is a learning process in which you are both involved. [...] Remind yourselves therefore of that fact, and do not tell yourselves that your situation in any case is a hopeless one.

Then, you thought, you could be quite free to use your mind and your other abilities, and no one could say a thing because you could always say, “Obviously, I’ve proven my womanhood, and I’m free to use my mind.”

[...] One is your environment, and the other is your physical experience for the last few years in particular—say, since you went to college.

Now a session for you earlier would not have had the impact of this one, or I would have given you such a session. [...]

It seems to you that you have, perhaps, but one chance as a species to solve your problems, or be destroyed by your own aggression, by your own lack of understanding and spirituality. [...] The reincarnational structure is but one facet in the whole picture of probabilities. [...]

[...] These civilizations were highly technological; the second one being, in fact, far superior to your own along those lines.

(One minute pause at 10:24.) Physically the civilization simply died out. [...]

[...] But because their purpose was so single-minded — the avoidance of violence — rather, say, than the constructive peaceful development of creative potential, their experience was highly one-sided. [...]

[...] Their contents are embodied in the two papers that are reproduced below; the first one, from the library, she received before placing a call to The Village Voice; the second, from Seth, came through after she made that call, and called a few people about visiting us next Friday night.

(Jane’s Tuesday paper on her feelings is evidently a very important one, representing some excellent insights on her part about her repressed impulses, her fears about my reactions to various events, her private nature and public appearances, and related topics. [...]

(“If you listen to your impulses and keep them clear—each one [in your sequence] will clear your path further. [...]

1. Learn to recognize and identify impulses, to separate one from the other.

[...] Certain events in the present will remind you of past ones, for example, and sometimes your memory of the past will color present events.

Association or no, physically you will remember events in time, with present moments neatly following past ones. [...]

(Jane said she felt somewhat tired before the session, and almost decided not to hold one this evening. [...]

On the one hand all of your questions have their answers. [...]

On the one hand, again, you know the answers. [...]

[...] Those who do not understand their abilities intellectually must one day be led to question them. [...]

[...] Ruburt should remember that his reaction is a normal one. Our next session will indeed be a full and excellent one. [...]

[...] One point here also: you pace yourselves differently in your work.

[...] Ruburt’s jesting remark this evening that he would suggest refreshing dreams was actually an excellent one. [...]

[...] She still sat with her head down, resting in one hand.)

[...] She said again that he was a poor farmer and that her life had been a lonely one, since she had few friends. [...]

[...] The session was a long one, and he began by emphasizing the fact that all physical sense data was camouflage.)

[...] No one has seen wind, but since its effects are so observable, it would be idiocy to say that it did not exist. [...]

[...] If you look at the observable world you can learn something about the inner one, but only if you take into consideration the existence of camouflage distortion. [...]

[...] I came across them in one of the books on ancient history that Shirley Bickford, one of Jane’s students, brought for us to consult on the very ancient civilization, Sumeria, in Mesopotamia, from 4,000—2,000 BC, I believe, without consulting dates.

[...] There is not a one-line development. [...] One is necessary for the other. [...]

[...] There were some deliberate experiments, that were in fact far more dangerous to the experimenters, always in which the experimenters tried in one way or another to advance man’ s knowledge.

The pyramids, the huge boulders etched out (I think Seth refers here to Baalbek; I didn’t interrupt to ask), all of this was done in one way or another through the use of, a knowledge of, both coordination points in space (described by Seth in his own book) and the use of sound. [...]

(4:41.) One of the attitudes detrimental to good health is that of self-condemnation, or dislike of the self. [...] Feelings of self-worth, self-esteem, and pleasure with one’s abilities promote feelings of well-being, health, and exuberance.

[...] Each person, simply by being, fits into the universe and into universal purposes in a way no one else can. [...]

[...] Before one group of muscles on one side would react in one way, while the other side would react in another way, so that the conflict between spontaneity and caution was objectified.

[...] A short session did develop however, after we sat for one at the usual 9 PM time. [...]

[...] A number, one three. [...]

He decided to head in another direction from the one first planned, to visit a friend. [...]

(In the first one, after lying quietly for some time, and approaching the necessary state [close to sleep yet not asleep, but unaware of my body lying on the bed], I saw myself; I was at a public swimming pool in the summertime, although I saw no one else. [...]

The evening is extremely enjoyable, and after having a total of two witnesses in one evening this seems like a very intimate and peaceful session.

[...] There is conditioning involved here, as with anything else, but this represents one of your very highest points so far, and I am certain that you will improve. [...]

[...] There is a transformation of energy from one location simultaneously to another location.

I am indeed one of many but not one of a kind. I am simply the only one of a kind that you know.

[...] Her eyes were open at times, her voice good but not loud except for one or two brief occasions. [...]

I think now of a woman who is eager, who intends you no harm, but who could convince herself that she was not harming you one iota while she stabbed you in the back.

[...] Not one to be on the angry defensive about, but merely alert. [...]

[...] For one thing, there is no such thing as heaven, and for another, if there were you would be bored. [...] For when one member of a species dreams such dreams, those dreams are transmitted to all other members. [...] For when one member of the species dreams, all members, to some extent, participate. [...]

[...] And I will tell you that no one and no fanatic leads masses of people. People follow because they want to and no one leads them. [...]

[...] For peace is active (to Sheri, Rick and Van Zandt.) And so if there is any message that I have for your students, as usual it is not a quiet one. [...]

([Van Zandt:]: “Could I just say one thing before....?”

[...] I told him that the affair would work out to his advantage, but again patience is not one of his virtues.

Strangely enough, it can be knocked down most easily, if you can think of me in terms in no way occult or mysterious, but simply as a personality engaged in an endeavor which science will soon come to accept, as simply one of the many facts of existence of which they have previously known but little.

(One of the questions Lorraine had at break, in relation to Seth’s statement about helping her, was whether Seth would help through Jane, or through Lorraine herself directly.

[...] You realize that they also have an electromagnetic reality, so there is no difficulty in their transmission from one dreamer to another.

[...] The cold symptoms began some time ago, and have been kept while he makes up his mind to dispense with the more familiar ones. [...]

[...] We were in Rochester October 6—8, 1972.) In Ruburt’s past a cold was the one quite acceptable symptom in childhood of escape, for example.

[...] The antibodies produced by the cold symptoms result in a body activity that has produced some fever—but a benign one that warms him up and increases circulation.

[...] Bodily the cold creates a diversionary tactic—still a stress situation, but an impermanent one that changes momentarily the hormonal output.

So as you alter the belief, the physical evidence will gradually begin to “prove” your new belief as faithfully as it did your old one. [...] While there are general categories of beliefs, and general reasons for them, you must become personally aware of your own, for no one person is completely like any other. [...]

[...] She had delivered a long and intense one Monday night, and in Tuesday’s ESP class she’d “been in and out of trance all night,” as she described it. [...]

For a time then you may experience a feeling of loss as you move from one group of beliefs to another. [...]

[...] You must realize that you are the one who produced that “physical evidence” that still faces you, and you did so through your beliefs.

[...] One had the feeling that behind it was a rather mediocre intelligence; one that did not try very hard to concentrate and whose interests were, and had been, rather ordinary and at times shallow.

(Before contacting Malba we had sat quietly for some time with but one dim red Christmas candle on, shielded by a curtain. [...]

[...] Everything included here was definitely remembered by one or the other; nothing was added. [...]

[...] She had no friends in town, no one to visit when they went shopping for instance. [...]

(Jane described a dream she’d had last night, a very positive one, she thought, in which she’d looked at her face in a mirror for the first time in a long while. [...]

You are both doing very well, and Ruburt’s dream—the one in which he looked at his face in a mirror—was excellent, and already shows a change of belief that will be most beneficial. [...]

[...] I think he stopped because I have one of those gas things, or whatever they are,” Jane said. [...]

[...] However, her statement prompted me to tell her that a few days before the insurance company had denied our claim for major medical benefits because they hadn’t received the hospital records, I’d waked up early one morning and lay there worrying about the possibility of a denial for perhaps an hour. [...]