“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Not dictation: all of this should help you understand your own experience involving your father—and the later one with your mother, and Ruburt’s with Teresa; for your mother was sending out strands of consciousness in the directions that interest her.

[...] You can simply refuse to follow one habitual strand. [...]

[...] When I get a free minute I answer the next one on the list.

One episode like the sessions we sent you, held after those, turned out quite well; another, involving California, didn’t, as far as we know. [...]

[...] One remark or circumstance will be a cue to one or the other portions of the personality, which will then take over. [...]

There is one part of the self, confident, assured of its abilities, and somewhat demanding, rather powerful. [...]

[...] He sends out messages pressing for the success of his original book, and sends out equally strong ones urging that it not be accepted, that it is not a huge success. [...]

[...] No one in his neighborhood did, you see. (Pause.) He denies himself then out of fear. [...]

(The water, thick with topsoil, exuding a near-suffocating odor of petroleum effluents, became one foot deep in the yard, then three, then five…. Jane and I found ourselves experiencing a drastic new world, and although Seth hasn’t said so yet, I believe that to be one of the reasons we stayed. We sipped wine and used light self-hypnosis to take the edge off our tension, but as we watched the water crawl up the side of the old red-brick house next door, our new reality threatened to turn into a terrifying one indeed. [...]

(In August Jane held one session on the flood — in which Seth had time to just touch upon the reasons behind our personal involvement in it — and late that month and in September we had several house guests in connection with psychic work. One of them was Richard Bach, author of the very successful book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull.³

[...] Your thoughts, feelings and mental pictures can be called incipient exterior events, for in one way or another each of these is materialized into physical reality.

[...] The cells and organs have their own awarenesses, and a gestalt one. [...]

The one stability between self and what is notself, and the one and only difference, is not an identity that is part and parcel of constantly changing physical framework, not the outer ego whose conception of who it is constantly changes, according to its age and environment, but the inner self behind all physical constructions.

[...] As session time approached our cat Willy put on one of his performances, persistently diving at Jane’s legs and ankles; as usual he calmed down as soon as the session began.

Therefore a thought, surely one of the most intimate possessions of a self, does not remain within the self. [...]

[...] Here various problems set for the entity are worked out, problems that either are too minor to be handled by a primary self on your plane, or problems that for one reason or another could simply not be solved by physical constructions.

[...] Only one member of the family was missing at the gathering Sunday, and this was my brother Loren’s daughter Linda, who was at work in Scranton, PA. It was too far away for her to make the trip up to Sayre, and back, in one day.

[...] Interestingly enough, one of the three anthropologists heading the expedition is Dr. John M. Lonyear 3d, of Colgate. [...]

[...] I thought David’s drawing good for one his age, and added notes of my own. [...]

(The book mentioned by Seth is one on ESP by Harold Sherman.

[...] The body consciousness, for example, will react quite differently to, say, two slaps of exactly the same pressure—one an energetic love slap, and the other one delivered in ridicule or anger. [...]

[...] No one else was involved in the accident, though, and the truck did stay on the road. [...]

[...] One event or another would serve to connect all of those issues. [...]

[...] You did not think of yourself as an adolescent when you were one, for example, so follow that fine good sense now. [...]

The breaking up of patterns is also beneficial, and is of course one of the reasons I suggest your vacation.

The morning symptoms here represented in concentrated form the vanishing power of the illness that swept him through, the vanishing force of what was an all-day condition at one time. [...]

The personality holds its own after each improvement, you see, and then makes further ones. [...]

[...] This week could have been a bad one. [...]

[...] One rather large advertisement and two letters. [...]

[...] One held several pair of lovely pastel stockings, the kind you would ordinarily wear with high heels, slim and well-proportioned; they were wrapped together not in a box, with baubles of some kind. [...]

[...] but at the same time while I felt this physically I didn’t feel it in my physical knees, but definitely in what I suppose you’d call my astral ones. [...] On Wednesday night there was definite improvement in my right knee and leg particularly; and left one too.

[...] She said she “worked out” with some exercises in her room this morning when no one else was around. [...] No one in hydro has noticed any change in her motions, she said. [...]

[...] One of my own goals is to see her be able to turn over in bed by herself. [...]

[...] She had the same feeling I’d noticed when reading sessions one hadn’t seen for several years: that it was all brand new, and surprising, as though someone else had produced the work. [...] A very good point, though, and one I want to add a note on for the chapter.

[...] One of the nurses had evidently told Jeff that the open sores on Jane’s right knee were draining. [...]

[...] It increases the concentration upon whatever problem is involved, for one thing, and it has a self-hypnotizing effect. [...]

I want Ruburt in particular to take one day at a time. [...]

[...] Three-quarters of an hour is plenty for the pendulum, so that you do not have more to deal with than the “subconscious” can easily handle in one sitting.

[...] Seth called this one a semi-trance. [...]

[...] This experience, Jane said, wasn’t very enjoyable, whereas the one of February 8 had been great fun. [...]

[...] Such a pulling of one part against the other is psychically fatiguing.

Tonight’s session will indeed be a brief one.

Disconnected from that, two women, one older than the other, I believe related, perhaps though not necessarily sisters. One with brown hair. [...]

1938, an illness, I believe leading to a hospital stay, either an operation or thoughts of one.

The error having to do with the name Philip—the minister at one time in his life was called Phil. [...]

[...] The earlier incident, of which you spoke earlier to Ruburt, is connected with this one. [...]

(To Sue.) Now you met one particular woman at a supermarket this week, and you do not remember. [...]

(To Florence.) And you did, dear Lady of Florence, make one this evening. [...]

[...] I will be like a pied piper leading all of you in a toottoottoot and no one will shoot us down. [...]

(Jane didn’t know whether she wanted a session tonight or not, but I suggested she have at least a short one, so Seth could say something about her moving ability.)

Now: there is one main issue in particular that mitigates against a full life, generally speaking, and that shows itself in many instances in either physical illness, or in the “illness” of poor relationships, or lacks of fulfillment. [...]

Habitual patterns can be broken overnight with creative unpredictability, and creative unpredictability is of course one of life’s greatest characteristics. [...]

[...] One advantage would be that it would unite the art and writing aspects—particularly paintings of some of my dreams.)

In one particular dream, you created the circumstances. [...] In one dream you saw yourself moving closer to New York. [...]

[...] At one time she was his mother, and she did this with full inner knowledge. [...]

[...] One evening unusually cool and brisk. [...]

[...] Four plus one. [...]

Nor do we want to rid him of one illness so quickly that he still feels a need for it, for in such a case he would indeed very promptly develop another. [...]

[...] For one of the basic reasons for the difficulty lies in the fact that the ego of the present personality does strongly attempt to stand apart from action. [...]

[...] Nevertheless this intensification is a pretense that one part of the self plays upon the other part, for the very intensity of the emotional reaction on the part of the ego to even small stimuli, allows the ego to say to itself “I feel deeply, therefore I know the depths of myself.” [...]

The ego is indeed but one part of the self that speaks for the other portions of the self, but when it tries to speak for itself only, then indeed its words become meaningless, and the words become threats to the rest of the self. [...]

Before we discuss other more significant aspects of our friend’s condition, these physical matters should be taken care of, for the physical and mental are so dependent one upon the other. [...]

A relationship with one woman beside the mother here connected. [...]

[...] Everything has so much meaning that basically no one thing can have more meaning than another, because all reality is implied within each sample of it.

[...] (Long pause.) He seems now to be choosing between identities, but there is one waiting for him, and it is a probable ego that he did not adopt as a child.