“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The session was a quiet one and was held in our small back room. [...]

[...] Her spiritual existence this time was a very happy one. [...]

[...] She was never a part of her century or her time, and she tried to protect her offspring according to her own limits, by seeing to it that his escape would be a more definite one than her own.

[...] Her vanity was perhaps the one characteristic that she shared with other members of the family. [...]

[...] As far back as the 613th session in Chapter One, Seth was making statements like this: “Your feelings have electromagnetic realities that rise outward, affecting the atmosphere itself,” but at the time we paid little attention to the implications behind such ideas. [...]

There is little difference between the currents of blood that flow through your veins, and the wind current, except that the one seems to be within you and the other without. [...]

[...] Obviously there have been earthquakes where there are no people, but in all cases the origins are to be found in mental properties rather than exterior ones. [...]

(Long pause at 11:54.) Yet with all of this there is always change, as with the experience of time in a linear fashion any event must “knock out” another one. [...]

On the one hand he cannot communicate with you clearly because of his own condition at this time. [...]

[...] The exchange between Seth and Bill Gallagher developed because last week, one evening, Jane succeeded in waking both Bill and Peg between 3 and 4 AM.

[...] We are not going to give you all this in one loving spoonful.

(Amused:) I am concerned with how you live this one, you see.

[...] Your plans are good ones and I will have more to say in that area.

[...] This can be compared in quite other terms to taking an object from one table and placing it in another room, and trying it out in various locations; but we will be working instead with feelings instead of vases, and psychological locations.

[...] There is a structure within the Sumari language, but it is not one based upon logic. [...]

[...] Now all of that is in one phrase. [...]

[...] There are private objects and public ones. [...] Such events involve psychological configurations on the part of all those involved, so that the inner individual patterns of those lives touched by each such event have in one way or another a common purpose that at the same time serves the overall reality on a natural planetary basis. [...]

Dictation: You must understand that in a manner of speaking, Framework 2 is on the one hand an invisible version of the physical universe. [...]

[...] Constructive or “positive” feelings or thoughts are more easily materialized than “negative” ones, because they are in keeping with Framework 2’s characteristics.²

(Even though he said he was through with Mass Events for the evening, the first subject Seth touched upon now — my dream of early yesterday morning — certainly was related to statements he’d made just before break, like this one: “When you enter time and physical life, you are already aware of its conditions.” [...]

Time, physical matter, these are but portions of action as perceived in one particular fashion. The basic stuff, or the basic action of the universe, is one. [...]

The ego is that portion of the self which experiences time as continuity, and to whom experience is a series of stimuli and responses carried on one after another. [...]

[...] Conceivably therefore one moment of your time would indeed be experienced by the whole self as centuries.

[...] Because there is always action within action, and because of the three dilemmas of which we have spoken earlier, the new personalities projected outward into other fields of perception, or other moment points, these other personalities in turn create new ones, and the cycle is again repeated.

[...] 20, I received psychically rather strong impressions about Nebene, one of “my” personalities in the first century AD. [...]

[...] Because for one thing it was general enough so that it did not bring any immediate details into your minds, and left plenty of room for action in an overall manner. [...]

[...] The ideas for Aspects, Politics, and the entire library experience germinated one evening in a flash of inspiration just before the flood (in June 1972).

[...] It is of course no coincidence that you have a writing room and a studio—not simply one or the other, so that the two rooms show the two important interests of your life.

On one level then the sessions were an attempt to retain your love and give him a right to it. [...] Now this is one of the most important sessions you have been given on your own affairs. [...]

[...] While he lived in one house, still the home itself was always in jeopardy. [...]

[...] One excuse was that he could not do it himself.

The term, woo back to health, is an excellent one, quite apropos to a large extent in all such conditions, and operating beneath most symptoms despite their nature.

[...] After her long session Monday night, she had come back with an even longer one in ESP class Tuesday evening — and with Sumari¹ added, too. [...]

The concept of original sin was a very poor, limited and distorted one, but at least along with it went rather simple procedures: Through baptism you might be saved, or through certain words or sacraments or rituals redemption could be found. [...]

There is one belief, however, that destroys artificial barriers to perception, an expanding belief that automatically pierces false and inhibiting ideas.

[...] Try to sense within yourself the deep feeling-tones that I mentioned earlier (in the 613th session in Chapter One). [...]

(One idea we think has promise is that witnesses attending the Wednesday sessions—we decided to keep Monday sessions private so that we could relax—first read the material in another room while the session itself is going on. [...] We keep but one copy on hand, so cannot let the material off the premises.

[...] I understand that Ruburt has been having his difficulties, and as I have said often, patience is not one of his attributes. [...]

This creation involves not merely the juggling of energy units and fields, from one form to another, but also involves the setting up of new fields. [...]

[...] There is much here that almost can be given to you only through conceptual patterns, and again this difficulty arises in words strung out one before the other.

At the beginning of these notes I wrote that three months passed after Jane finished Chapter 10 of Dreams before she held her next session—a private one—on November 9. In that short session Seth sought to add his reassurances to Jane’s own, and to mine as well.¹⁰ On the 12th Columbia was launched as scheduled, but only after another delay caused by the failure of an electronic decoding unit. Then within a few hours after lift-off, the shuttle’s crew had to deal with the malfunction of one of the ship’s three fuel cells. [...] That one too was short.¹¹

[...] Jane leaned back on the couch with her feet up on the coffee table, and I sat facing her with my notebook propped up on one knee; the fireplace was only a couple of feet in back of me. [...] Right away I learned that the session was to be one of her slower ones. [...]

We always liked the idea, however, that others were recording class events and were keeping tapes for us if and when we wanted them; we also liked the idea that it was safer to have the tapes scattered about instead of being kept in one place. [...] one of the few tapes we’d made together, or use our recorder when writing poetry. [...]

[...] In the second one he stressed that although Jane was still afraid of spontaneous bodily relaxation, “[Ruburt] is safe, supported and protected—that is, of course, the message that he is trying to get through his head at this time.” [...]

[...] The muscles in the high portions of the legs, in the back, are the ones that need to be strengthened to unite the body in the flexibility that various portions of it are achieving.

[...] The impulse had been a good one, to have company. [...]

Ruburt does the steps, something he does not do inside—a change for the body, and a good one—but in his position an exercise in itself. [...]

[...] With your attitudes, you would have been no more pleased, either of you, had you put it out in one. [...]

(In answer to some questions I asked, she said that when she reads with her right eye open and the left one closed, she gets no double vision. [...] Or she may see two images off her left knee if she isn’t reading, though one of the images is a good deal fainter. [...]

[...] No one showed up at the house to rake leaves this morning, as promised. [...]

[...] Even as she smoked Jane’s left foot moved around, with the right one doing the same thing in miniature. [...]

[...] It was the type of dream where one returns to it several times. [...]

[...] It seemed to be just like one of the many so-called cures that raised hopes only to dash them. [...]

[...] That statement is far more to the point than the one that says, “You are what you eat.” [...]

[...] Ruburt’s eyes continue to show their improvements, and those improvements mirror other inner ones that still have to physically manifest themselves. [...]

(4:26 p.m. No one had shown up to do Jane’s vitals — which meant that the staff was behind schedule. In fact, no one appeared to do the vitals for the rest of the time I was there — until 7:10. [...]

Unfortunately, the entire picture surrounding health and disease is a largely negative one, in which even so-called preventative medicine can have severe drawbacks, since it often recommends drugs or techniques to attack a problem not only before the problems emerges, but simply in case it may emerge.

[...] There are many techniques apart from medically conventional ones, such as acupuncture, the laying on of hands, or the work of people who may be known as healers. [...]

[...] One of them, I thought, probably related to her symptoms if one traced it back. [...]

[...] Once again in brilliant color — one of those you keep returning to. [...]

(After our talk about religious questions, I wrote a short note quoting Jane — one that I may use in the note for Dreams — and got her okay on it.)

Considering Ruburt’s challenges, he has done extremely well in all respects, but one area took the brunt as he cleared away the debris that literally surrounds the lives of most people.

He needs the help now more than you, but I will sometime, when you want it, point out the ways in which your own accomplishments have been made in the face of the negative beliefs and aspects that at one time you accepted.

[...] Yet because he was the one so involved, he had to test each strand, and in the meantime he still had his “old” consciousness, with its habits, to contend with.

[...] I suggest some version of class—a smaller one, beginning perhaps in June. [...]

I worked on the essays in succession, just as they’re given here, although I found myself adding to the earlier ones as I moved into the later ones. [...] This weaving things together to make them “fit” is only natural for one of my temperament, but I didn’t alter any of my original copy—that I’d have refused to do—and I kept intact those first spontaneous descriptions of the events attendant to Jane’s physical difficulties, as well as our deep-seated, sometimes wrenching feelings connected to them. [...]

Moreover, the choice of presenting the material in essay form proved to have one virtue that was more valuable than all the others combined: It allowed us to delve into the events I describe, and “our deep-seated, sometimes wrenching feelings connected to them,” a little bit at a time. [...]

[...] Part of this is personal, but part is also cultural, and shows the one area of cultural beliefs from which Ruburt has not freed himself. [...]

In any area, an attempt to alter an unfavorable circumstance will always find you, at one stage, flying in the face of all physical evidence to the contrary. [...]

[...] Those areas in which you have doubts are of course the challenging ones. [...]

[...] I know that one of my thoughts was that Jane’s simply getting up earlier might help break the cycle of repetitive thinking and action.

[...] When you come together, one or the other insists upon domination. [...] Often problems with one personality are worked out by relationships with another, different personality.

At one time you and the child were also brothers. [...]

You felt that you wanted to give a life for the one you accidentally destroyed, but it need not have been the life of the same personality, had you chosen otherwise. [...]