“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

All actions in one way or another continue. [...]

[...] When your outer senses no longer perceive motion you call the action a dead one. [...]

If Ruburt will permit me one small note here. [...]

[...] I mentioned earlier that the art gallery experience was a necessary one. [...]

[...] Your own ideas and goals are worthy ones, and yours for a reason. [...]

Fifteen years of that at one end of the scale, he thought, and ten or fifteen in the middle with your mother on Sundays. [...]

[...] You can arrange this any way you like—in the place of one regular session, for example.

Your own discussions, and the improvement in your relationship as I told you, in one way is responsible for your latest developments in our sessions, and I include the Sumari—the songs, and the statement. [...]

(Only one session was held last week, and that was a long overdue, promised one for friends.

[...] She was in an excellent mood, even a hilarious one. [...]

[...] The inner situation is a fluid one, for you are always in a state of becoming. [...]

The interior drama, therefore, is always the important one. [...]

(I would now like to describe two effects, one of Jane’s and one of mine, that took place almost simultaneously some few minutes before the session began. In addition, my experience blended into another one after the session started — but more about that later.

[...] On one occasion I lay down and closed my eyes simply because it was easier to do this than anything else. [...]

[...] This one was new to me, and most interesting. [...]

[...] (Pause; one of many.) Consciousness has many characteristics, some of course known to you. [...]

Because of man’s great gift of imagination, however, the alarm signals not only invade a safe present moment, but go jangling into the next one and the one following, and are endlessly projected into the future. [...]

[...] The sponsor had sent her one for 1976, also, in which a passage from Seth was given. [...]

One animal chasing and killing its prey serves the greater purpose of preserving the balance of nature, whether or not the animal is aware of this — and again, the animal’s intent is not evil. [...]

When you are considering the future in your terms, constructive achievements are as realistic as destructive ones. [...]

(My remarks came about in response to Jane’s wondering comments about what, if any, part beliefs could play in one getting so ill at such a young age. [...] If one wanted to consider telepathy, that could have an effect. [...]

[...] To him sexual love must stand in direct opposition to spiritual love, so that his relationships with women put him in an impossible situation—and desire itself ultimately becomes a condition from which one must escape. (Dryly:) In the terms of earthly beliefs, there is but one escape from desire.

[...] If not, of course, one member or another may become ill, or the child might have a relapse. [...]

[...] We will hopscotch back and forth and with our friend Ruburt, for this is also one of his main lines of interest, but your own experience can be used to benefit by the class at large for you must be led to see that you can alter physical events in such a way. [...]

[...] You will leave it one day, nevertheless, and you had better get used to it now and learn the ropes. [...]

[...] You chose to become involved in your circle of acquaintanceships with those who have followed one particular line to the ultimate, where belief disappears like the shifting sand until there is no framework upon which the present personality can stand and until, in desperation, the individual leaves this plane of existence where on another level of reality purposes are then made known. [...]

[...] They sought their identity, therefore, in other realms of existence because they could not understand what it was in this one and so this is meant to lead you to open those gates, that you know exist, to your own inner self. [...]

His decision not to get weighed (some months ago) was a good one, and at the time it gave him some breathing space, so to speak, which he did use to advantage. [...]

Now, to resume: Your idea of using the sponges is an excellent one, and for now have Ruburt use that same imagery once a day for a starter. [...]

(I was greatly pleased that Seth answered one of my two questions, by saying that Jane did not have arthritis. [...]

[...] Before the foot [like the right one] had looked immobile and wooden, the skin stretched taut and dry and splotchy; there wasn’t any flexion in the toes, say. [...]

[...] “So I did that for a good part of the evening—massaged first the right arm, then the left one, after they started to improve.” [...] The session, then, is one of the major ones, signaling an excellent prognosis for continued improvement. [...]

[...] Jane started to read the session for yesterday, but had trouble with this one also, though not as much. [...]

[...] One of them was one of the last I’ve painted before Jane went into the hospital. [...]

[...] One can say that those knuckles look okay, everything considered. [...]

[...] It was also one of those occasions where I wondered why I hadn’t seen the obvious—obvious only when it was pointed out by another.... [...]

(I did not expect a session to follow the discussion, but at 10:15 Jane announced she could hold one. [...]

Ruburt was strongly committed to the sessions on the one hand, and highly skeptical on the other. [...]

[...] This was one of the reasons for the table developments, and these will be followed by others.

[...] (One of the points we discussed before the session.) Ruburt feels my presence now, and during many sessions, and he knows it well. [...]

Now, in primary constructions, a consciousness, usually fully aware and alert, adopts a form — not his “native” one — and consciously projects it, often into another level of reality. Even this is a rather complicated endeavor, and one seldom used for purposes of communication.

The same mechanism that causes a disturbed woman, say, to perform repetitive action such as a constant washing and rewashing of hands, also causes a particular kind of apparition to return time and time again to one place. [...]

[...] You thrust into the background telepathic communications that often accompany such forms, and you turn aside from all clues that other realities exist quite validly with your own, and that in the midst of one existence you are surrounded by intangible but valid evidence. [...]

(We see 1947 afternoon or early evening…an episode…a traumatic one for you.. An S and I believe G…you should understand…the initials and dates may not correspond…1947 especially important to you…the initials I gave apply either to one individual or first names of two…the second child something different now…February or initial F…a connection with second child…February or FB…I do not know which…a turnabout with the child…a complete change of plan or a turnabout…a 36 connection…someone perhaps 36 years old connected somehow with this. [...]

(Note: last thing she said was afternoon…one of the first things Jane asked Barbara when she was partially recovered was whether she had ever tried to commit suicide in the afternoon. [...]

(Resume at 11:15.) Though I am using numbers and classifications, please realize that I am doing this for the convenience of explanation, and that these realities exist one within the other. [...]

[...] The body is an artistic creation, and in certain terms you create many bodies, each one perfectly mirroring your beliefs. [...]

You form your own reality privately, yet one cannot enforce a joint reality upon the other. [...]

[...] It does not imply that one entity can control another. [...]

“All entities are in one way or another enclosed within themselves, yet also connected to others. [...]

[...] Later, had trouble coming from car to house; and I think my right leg had lengthened, so that it was longer than the left one (the other day it was the other way around). This would mean both have lengthened some; and that’s the side, the right one, I had the eye stuff and funny balance feelings on. [...]

[...] It may seem to you that ideally one should be so highly proficient that in one life you are gifted with excellent health, great abilities, power and wealth. [...]

So is Ruburt in all areas, except that one upon which he has concentrated negatively, and given up trust. [...]

One had to do with the in quotes “problem” of artistic creativity versus womanhood, and this along with personal background brought about a distrust of the feminine organs. [...]

One wrong or bad apple, you feel, can rot the whole basket. [...]

[...] There is not, for example, one particular physical object that deteriorates with age. [...] It does not exist long enough to do either, for one thing. [...]

[...] Growth does not involve one particular physical extension, in terms of one thing that of itself is permanent enough, in itself, to expand. [...]

[...] She resumed in the same manner; indeed her delivery became even slower and more careful and deliberate, so that at times she would pace from one end of our living room, where we hold the sessions, to the other end before voicing the next word. [...]

[...] Each re-creation after a certain point becomes from your standpoint, less perfect; and after many such complete re-creations, that have been completely unperceived by you, then you notice a difference and assume that a change in one object has occurred.

New paragraph: Your wars are fought, lost or won in the dream world first of all, and your physical rendition of history follows the thin line of only one series of probabilities. [...] In your skimpy (whispering humorously) comprehension of events there can be only one definite outcome of a battle, for instance. [...] Historically there will be treaties signed, yet in far greater terms you are perceiving but one small dimension, or one corner, of a much larger happening that quite transcends your ideas of the times or places involved.

(Since we’d missed both regular sessions this week, Jane decided to make up one of them tonight; she wanted to maintain her usual momentum on the book as much as possible. [...]

Again, in your dreams you work with probabilities and decide which ones will become your physical “true facts.” [...]

[...] In one way the family’s treatment of her like a child is accepted, for it provides the thrust for independence in the same way that a child wants to grow up and leave the house. [...]

The word excess may be a poor one. [...]

As emotional storms may be the result of a lack of discipline or of knowledge, or of control of one or more portions of the self, bringing about a corresponding exaggeration or growth of other portions of the self, so also erratic physical storms come from the same causes on a collective basis, but with the energy directed outward and often turned to a constructive purpose. [...]

A physical storm may, as you know, be far more disastrous than an emotional one. [...]

We shall, then, take a very brief break for Ruburt’s benefit, since I always give him one after this sort of material.