“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(A close friend, one who used to attend Jane’s ESP class, had called our unlisted number to ask one of us some psychic questions. [...]

(It’s hard for us to believe that five and a half weeks have passed following Jane’s last regularly scheduled session, the 906th for March 6. She’s held but one private session, on April 9, since.

Your technology is one of the results of that reasoning mind. [...]

[...] (Pause.) They have loving emotional relationships, complicated societies,³ and in a certain sense at least—an important one—they also have their arts and sciences. [...]

You are as a rule aware of one system only and not generally conscious of yourself as anything but a creature of that system. [...]

There may be a strong feeling of oneness with All That Is. [...]

The ego indeed is a fiction, but a highly useful one. [...]

The psychedelic experience is a most fruitful one. [...]

[...] You may run from one religion to another, or from religion to science, or vice versa. [...] In some important areas this means that the mechanics of experience are actually becoming more apparent, for they are no longer hidden beneath one belief system.

(Jane’s poem can also serve as a symbol to show that she hasn’t held a session for Mass Events for 42 weeks, or since giving the 830th session last March; indeed, the summer, fall, and winter of 1978 have passed, and we’re into the next year [and a very cold and stormy one it is, so far]. [...]

(We held our first session for 1979 — a private one — on the evening of New Year’s Day. [...]

(9:35.) Men’s dreams were also different in those times, filled far more with metaphysical images, for example, more alive with saints and demons — but overall one framework of belief existed, and all experience was judged in its light. [...]

[...] If one were to set out consciously determined to go walking for a period of two hours, twice a week without fail, he might approximate somewhat what is involved. [...] So a more accurate performance might be for one to take a two-hour walk, talking constantly the while; the combination interspersed with perhaps three short breaks.)

[...] I take Seth’s reference to a friend’s apothecary shop to mean the one operated by our friend in this life, John Bradley, who has been a witness to several sessions. [...] One]. [...]

[...] At one time I mentioned massive units or blocks of intelligent energy, pyramids of psychic comprehensions, of which I cannot tell you too much at this time; but perhaps you can begin to perceive now how such comprehensions could be formed.

[...] This is not only a false belief but a dangerous and limiting one.

[...] When a thought or emotion attains a certain intensity, it automatically attracts the power of one of these subordinate points, and is therefore highly charged, and in one way magnified, though not in size.

[...] These coordinate points also act as channels through which energy flows, and as warps or invisible paths from one reality to another. [...]

[...] There is an ever-so-minute alteration of gravity forces in the neighborhood of all of these points, even of the subordinate ones, and all the so-called physical laws to some extent or another will be found to have a wavering effect in these neighborhoods. [...]

[...] She was in various altered states during some of the experiences, I’d say, and a dreaming one in others.

[...] At one time here she thought she was only four years old. [...]

[...] The “boxcar” episode represented his living at one level of physical experience, even while he also existed as the giant-sized self that peered over the mountain top and watched his progress. [...]

[...] The entire episode shows the way that the mind derives new experience through using more than one level of consciousness at any given time. [...]

[...] (Pause.) There is no doubt that the church cast the soul in a position of stress, caught as it was between its heavenly source and original sin — but there was a sense of psychological mobility involved, one that saw continued existence after death.

[...] Iran is an example for the world, in explosive capsule form, complete with historical background and a modern political one. [...]

(10:07.) I have been very gentle in my treatment of your mores and institutions — for I do not want you to be against your world, but for a more fulfilling one. [...]

[...] (Pause.) I want him to remember that relaxation is one of creativity’s greatest champions — not its enemy. [...]

[...] By then I’d answered two of the three letters we’d received today, for both writers wanted to come here—one from California, the other from Australia. [...]

(Long pause at 7:46, one of many.) If Ruburt once found himself imagining that he must be strong and perfect enough to help solve everyone else’s problems, now he found himself relatively helpless, and “undefended” —that is, his physical condition put him in a situation certainly where he felt helpless. [...]

[...] He could enjoy the cooling drink (Coke), the change of position, the sudden relief of turning from one hip to another. [...]

[...] It is one he can work with. [...]

(I learned the name of the enzymatic debriding agent, or ointment that’s been prescribed for the ulcer on Jane’s right knee, Travase Ointment [Sutlains Ointment], and copied down much of the information on the small tube one of the nurses had left lying on a table in 330. [...]

[...] She thought the discomfort stemmed from a bandage on one of her decubiti in that region. [...]

(Late in the afternoon Jane said she’d have a session after all—I’d thought she was going to pass it up today, since neither one of us seemed at their best. [...]

[...] A couple of weeks previously a check for some $3700 had arrived; the two go together to make one payment as billed by the hospital to the insurance company. [...]

The idea of using animals for experimentation has far more drawbacks than advantages; there is the matter of one kind of consciousness definitely taking advantage of another kind, and thus going counter to nature’s cooperative predisposition.

[...] You cannot divorce philosophy from action, and the cruelty in slaughterhouses would not be perpetrated if it were not for distorted philosophies dealing with the survival of the fittest on the one hand, and the egotistical assumption that God gave man animals to do with as man wished.

In fact, you may discover not just one you, but several you’s, so to speak, each pursuing certain purposes, and you may find out furthermore that some such purposes cancel others out, while some are diametrically opposed to each other. [...]

[...] Such individuals may try “to get ahead” on the one hand, in society or business or in the arts or sciences, only to find themselves taking two steps backward for every step they take forward. [...]

Unfortunately, there are also some particular teachings that are sexually oriented, and that therefore show their effects often on one sex rather than the other. [...]

[...] The bandages she has left are on one shoulder blade—her right—and some spots on her back. [...] In other words now, when one looks down at my wife, they see no bandages except for one on each hip. [...]

[...] There will be times when you are discouraged, each of you, but when one has confidence at any time, the other can use it. It is that one area where each of you believed you had no power to change events, and that belief could impede your progress, at least, even when both of you want a change.

When you see Ruburt going too far in one direction, and see him trying to alter that direction, you can indeed exert your energy, leadership and direction there, for the two of you also operate jointly as well as individually. [...]

No one physical effect caused Ruburt’s slow motion. [...]

Ruburt’s particular soreness will be quite transitory—at one stage only, occurring in fact at the first instances of freedom with any given portion of the body. [...]

Ruburt’s recovery is taking place now quicker than it seems to either of you, for the unseen events are the most important ones, and they are accelerating. [...]

Now, each of you had to recognize your own emotions and your own feelings this evening, to one extent or another. [...]

[...] I am referring, in the main however, to a deep feeling of oneness with other human beings. [...]

[...] Two in particular in the dream state and one involving him. [...]

[...] These blend one into the other so that the rhythm often goes unnoticed. [...]

(10:42.) A seeming duality is the result and a mistrust on one part of the self toward the other. [...]

In some cases you literally force yourselves to sleep when your consciousness could be at one of its maximum points. [...]

He himself took drugs under controlled conditions several times, first small doses and then larger ones. [...]

[...] On those occasions when you feel at one with the universe, or come upon an exceptional experience in which you seem to go beyond yourself, you can be said to be in a state of illumination, and this has many degrees and levels. [...]

[...] According to the state of illumination or grace, those mass memories may be activated that do not necessarily involve your personal experience — though your own involvement and the events of your life may appear within them in an entirely different framework than the one with which you are familiar.

[...] But to one extent or another such experiences are natural and a part of your heritage.

[...] One of the phrases that we think evocative is “bridge beliefs.”

I have often stated that the mind-body relationship is one system. [...]

When you refute such emotions or become terrified of them, you impede the flow of feeling from one moment to the other. [...]

[...] In any case, regardless of which method you choose, one will lead you to the other. [...]

(Elmira is on a cable TV system, and one channel presents a 24-hour weather report. Constantly, one after another, dials show time, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, rainfall, wind direction and wind velocity.)

[...] We know several doctors on a social basis, but for various reasons hesitate to ask one of them to perform these duties; we would also like to repeat these studies regularly, and could hardly expect a medical man to be available in this respect.

[...] One reason is that he gets up at 4 AM to work on the monastery farm.

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

In some cases of course the secondary personality would be a severely impeding one, stealing away the main energies. However, it must be understood that from the whole personality’s viewpoint, a strong ego, that is a dependable one, and one that will also allow necessary expression, is a necessity. Therefore from the standpoint of the whole personality, the adoption of a new ego, so to speak, with a more practical grouping of unifying principles, could be the best solution of the previous ego, the previously dominant ego, (if it) had been an incapable one.

[...] Without this basic acquiescence, actions would not have been given the freedom to break patterns down and evolve new ones of them. [...]

You cannot probe into the one system without affecting the others. [...]