“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I think it was that late morning that Margaret, our neighbor, dropped in late morning to tell us she and Joe would be heading for their cottage, but somewhere I got it in my head that it would be one of those summer weekends when people prowled around—found excuses to go to malls or visit strange towns or just wander the streets or through public buildings—or visit here, if there were any fans in the nearby locality. [...]

I hemmed and hawed, decided after talking with Rob that I really didn’t want to do any shows at all, so I wrote one letter so informing Prentice. [...]

[...] This one was at Rob’s suggestion.

[...] Still no Frank Longwell, but that afternoon I suddenly wrote one poem and began another that fascinated me. [...]

[...] He did not imagine impediments that might rise to prevent a next book being written—nor did he doubt his ability to write one, or any number of books. At times he might think of writing in one area or another, but his imagination did not set up barriers: it was always receptive to new ideas, casting about for new experiences, consciously involved in the process of creativity.

[...] Let us look then at the third area, for at one time you both also to some extent imagined impediments, changed your approach, and found new results. That area is the financial one, that indeed does now seem to come with an almost magical ease.

Before, earlier, there was a third concern—a financial one, but he did not come across those journals this evening. [...]

[...] In other words, his approach to these two main concerns is quite different—one opposite the other.

The physical explorations of your planet followed such dream information in one way or another. [...] The alternate waking and sleeping patterns—that is, one portion of the species sleeping while the other portion wakes—allows a clear division between waking and sleeping information. [...]

[...] The sleeping-waking division then is not only a human one. [...]

Cultures of diverse natures communicate in ways impossible otherwise, and all of the great explorations of one country by another have involved prior dream contact.

[...] The world mind, then, in your terms, could not be conscious all at one time, and the varying graduated waking-sleeping patterns—the overlapping between the extremes you mention—provide overall balance and allow for smooth communications of an inner kind.

[...] There are many packages, and delightful ones for you still to open. Take your time with each one. [...]

[...] I stand between what you are and what they are, in your terms, and that last phrase is a loaded one. Whenever I say “in your terms” the phrase is a loaded one, so be prepared and remember it when you read our sessions. [...]

Now I have said this before, that one of our most extensive travelers is completely unaware of her nightly adventures, and again I will not look at anyone in particular because I would not embarrass you. [...]

(During break a discussion of the reality of time and how one could try to explain it to someone else.)

[...] Now you have enough sense to know not to go overboard on the one hand, and not to inhibit your abilities on the other, and your own personality and your own true feeling must dictate where that point is and no one else can tell you. [...]

[...] Now all you do when you have an identity and focus on it, is grab out of your own bank of potentials a group of potentials and say, “these are the ones I will settle upon for now, and these I will call my identity, and so I will use these and I will ignore anything else.” [...]

Now, in our friends dream of probable reality what you have, though none of you will admit it for some time particularly this one (to Molly), is practical experience with probable reality as it exists with people that you know. [...]

[...] Therefore, the doubts that you voice are also his own unvoiced ones so do not be ashamed of them. [...]

[...] As participants within one system of action, you are to a large extent limited by the very participation that gives you reality within the action system.

[...] I have said that they are not continuous, meaning that they are not strung out in your time, one before or after the other. [...]

None of this goes on in any one level. [...]

[...] In actuality, her delivery had been so slow that at times she paced from one end of our living room to the other before giving voice to the next word. [...]

[...] The intent of one of them was pretty specific.” [...]

(Long pause at 9:02.) The Sinful Self shows itself in a period of transition from its religious to scientific format in science fiction or fantasy in particular, where you can almost trace the translation of religion’s self, tainted by original sin, to the Darwinian and Freudian concepts of the flawed self, bound to destruction one way or another, propelled by the unbridled unconscious or evolutionary defect. [...]

The creative abilities must revolve largely about man’s definition of himself, his source and purpose, and all of your Western literature and art has revolved about the concept of the Sinful Self in one way or another. [...]

[...] If the church became upset with what Ruburt wrote or read, then Father Ryan burned one of his books, or argued with his poetry, for example, so all of that was living emotional content. [...]

[...] They are one and the same. [...]

In time you will experience them as one. [...]

[...] And one day you will be more aware of me in, for example, projection experiments.

[...] Miss Price was to some extent a substitute mother image indeed, and a rather dangerous one potentially, in any case, because of the confusion in sex identity. [...]

Scientists say now that energy and matter are one. They must take the next full step to realize that consciousness and energy and matter are one.

[...] I’ve read halfway through one of the books, and have discussed it with Jane to some extent. After the session I suggested that she start reading it also, in order to acquaint herself with theories radically different from the “ordinary” scientific ones espoused by evolutionists. [...]

[...] It is one thing, for example, for a physical writer to produce a manuscript—and even that kind of creativity involves vast and hidden psychological maneuvers that never appear in the manuscript itself.

(A one-minute pause at 9:40.) Give us a moment…. [...]

[...] There are a variety actually of methods that can help him—various ones at different times, according to his circumstances.

[...] In a weekly period, for example (rather than a daily one), these suggestions if followed will show him his own rhythms and patterns, so that he may feel like going out impulsively because he wants to, after a bout of writing, rather than feel that he “should.”

[...] One point Ruburt missed, however. [...]

[...] The seeking toward birth is a spiritual stimuli that is then re-enacted, but in new creative ways: so that Ruburt in winter, particularly in late winter, is on the one hand working toward new births of energy and creativity; and on the other is aware of the very need for such new birth, that would be implied in a before-birth situation.

[...] Seth could develop this material, since I do not know how one of these men “influenced my life at one time,” etc. [...]

(Pete and Don drove to Elmira from Sayre in one car; “together”, as mentioned by Seth.

(Note: Jane’s own data mentioned an image of but one person, while she felt that two were involved, or “there.” [...]

[...] Three glasses of milk, whole, not skimmed milk, will also help, taken within one day. [...]

You may be in the middle of one or several very unsatisfactory relationships, none of which seem to be caused by you, while instead you feel as if you are an unwilling victim or participant.

(Long pause at 4:19.) In most cases, even the most severe illnesses or complicated living conditions and relationships are caused by an attempt to grow, develop or expand in the face of difficulties that appear to be unsurmountable to one degree or another.

[...] I think it’s an excellent one, and contains much that applies to our own situation, I’m sure.)

Part of me doesn’t want to contend with this material at all but last night I had one of the strangest, quite frightening experiences—all the odder because there are so few real events to hang on to. Anyway early after we went to bed I realized I was in the middle of an odd nightmarish experience, one terribly vivid emotionally, yet with no real story line. [...]

They were these; that the entire world and its organization was kept together by certain stories or one in particular—like the Catholic Church’s; that it was dangerous beyond all knowing to look through the stories or examine them or to look for the truth and that all kinds of taboos existed to keep us from doing this, since.... [...]

[...] One: She transferred stuff about excommunication into the loss of companionship — that nobody would want anything to do with you if you crossed them up. [...] And that had been a mistake on her part, a serious one, born, I said, out of her desire for protection and love.

(I hardly had time to discuss it with her, but I think the session is a breakthrough one that’s most valuable. It also showed me that even Jane’s poetry was suspect, where I’d been under the impression that the poetry was the one aspect of her creative abilities that was essentially free, or uncontaminated by fears or doubts. [...]

[...] Who’s to say it’s right or wrong, as long as one doesn’t injure another, or steal, and so on.

[...] Not so, I said — after all, I worked at commercial art four years full time at one stretch, and part time a number of other times. [...]

[...] I think that upon awakening in the present, one is much more likely to call a dream “just a dream,” and not assign to it a reality and validity equal to one’s “real” experience in the waking state.

I finished typing Monday evening’s session from my notes just in time to get ready for this one. [...]

[...] Those episodes, however, represent one of the ways in which man can actively seek suffering as a means to another end, and it is beside the point to say that such activity is not natural, since it exists within nature’s framework.

[...] I have but one more point to make: Each person’s experience of a painful nature is also registered on the part of what we will call the world’s mind. [...]

Some of the material in this session is extremely valuable in the handling of health problems, because of its clues in rousing the creative abilities from one area of life to another. [...] Before, his condition was the one area in which he was not creative, as far as his flexibility was concerned.

The mental patterns are all-important, yet you see you have initiated some new ones creatively, using both Frameworks 1 and 2. You are correct: the more activities of a natural kind that Ruburt performs, whether or not he can do them on his feet, the better off he is, and you are. [...]

[...] Driving now is good, for it represents one of Ruburt’s few connections with the natural outside world, and as he does improve, his impulses, natural impulses, will begin to show themselves. [...]

He should look over his clothes, for example, lay out his special ones, or whatever, so that he can begin to feel he is capable of choosing his own attire for the day. [...]

Your conversations, your drives, your mail, the television programs you watch—all of these are involved—involved in that you will be led to watch programs, for example, that in one way or another help the entire picture. The power of the universe is a personal one. [...]

[...] The piece was written by John Beloff: Psi Phenomena: Causal Versus Acausal Interpretation. Beloff is one to whom I want to send a copy of “Unknown” Reality when we receive copies from Prentice-Hall.

Following one’s own nature, therefore, would ideally lead to the greater fulfillment of the species and the world. [...]

[...] They could not then see the entire picture, or understand for example that a seemingly innocuous, or even a seemingly unfortunate event, that led from a move to one place from another, had anything to do with the search.

That is one of the body’s primary functions. A sick body is performing that function then, in its way, as well as a healthy one. [...]

[...] The aware mind is not any one event, for that matter; it represents various portions of the inner self that “surface” at any given time.

If all of your beliefs, not just your “fortunate” ones, were not materialized, you would never thoroughly understand on a physical level that your ideas create reality. [...]

[...] Jane’s hour-long trance had indeed developed into a profound one. [...]

(This remnant, saved by one of Jane’s students, is all that is left from one of the few class sessions that were either lost or not fully recorded. [...]

Because you are forced at this point to perceive actions in a separate and successive fashion you more or less naturally take it for granted that one thing causes another, or that one action could not occur before another that appears to follow it. [...]

Your intellect is a good one but we need more than your intellect in these sessions. [...] Your intellect is a good one, again, but darling it is no match for mine.

[...] I for one was quite upset by this. [...]

(The letter Seth referred to was one from Jane’s publisher, received today, concerning her book on ESP. [...]