“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(For last night had been one of her most uncomfortable yet. [...]

[...] But then, I thought, it must be getting in and out by itself all along, for at least three weeks now, and I was sure that late at night I could hear more than one voice chattering above the damper. [...]

[...] On a larger social scale the same thing applies in your wars (pause), in which the most drastic measures are considered as sane enough and reasonable if only the goal is “a good one.” [...]

[...] If Ruburt understands these issues the entire affair will resolve itself, for he will feel at one with himself. [...]

One individual however is more important than you have ever dreamed, for the intensity and emotion and intent is important here. One man, passionately willing, good or evil, can overbalance, literally, a hundred men. [...]

All of these matters, you see, and many more, from the considerations of health and the formation of destructive ulcers and tumors, to the construction of any simple physical object, to the construction of an apparition—all of these are in one way or another connected with inner focus and concentration.

[...] They exist mainly at one particular level, and they have to do with what you may call for now, world pictures.

[...] That is, dreams that are shared at one time or another by the majority of living persons on your planet.

Many people’s economic well-being of course was dependent upon the church in one way or another, and in reincarnational terms many millions of people alive today were familiar then with such conditions. [...] All of those factors were involved in one way or another in the fabric of Ruburt’s nightmare material. [...]

Behind such ideas is of course the central point of Christianity, or one of the central points at least, that earthly man is a sinful creature. [...]

[...] To do that is one thing, but to take others with you would be, he felt, unforgivable—and in the framework of those fears, as his work became better known he became even more cautious. [...]

[...] Those fears, however, have been pertinent, since they stood between old beliefs and new ones—that is, they prevented him from taking full advantage of his newer knowledge, and of the abilities and good intent of the spontaneous self. [...]

[...] Not in order necessarily here; at one time he feared a wheelchair, and has a long-forgotten image of his mother in one, with bent arms. [...]

Your suggestion that he arise at once is an excellent one, intuitively received. [...]

[...] They were based as you know on probabilities, and this tumultuous reaction, while a probability, was not a strong one. [...]

[...] Here a mark, one of the few small marks, of rebellion he allotted himself. [...]

If you try to do this from a dream state then you must set aside two and one-half hours, for the first portion will be used as preliminaries. [...]

[...] He will ignore the contented playful child on one side of the street, and notice instead a dirty ragged boy even though he be further away. [...]

[...] During break I had wondered, for instance, how long it would take to supplant a negative habit that had existed for say ten years, with a positive one.)

To replace it with a new construction, it is a good idea to suggest that the old construction has indeed vanished, and in its place a new more acceptable one is being built. [...]

[...] This particular latent biological ability shows itself only upon the rarest instances — because, for one thing, it represents a feat now scarcely desirable. [...]

Now: Love is a biological necessity, a force operating to one degree or another in all biological life. [...]

[...] This applies to lesbian and homosexual relationships as well as to heterosexual ones. [...]

When you look at the animal kingdom, you suppose that the male chooses blindly, led by “dumb” instinct, so that in overall terms one female will do as well as any other. [...]

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

The nearest field of reality outside of the immediately physical one is the area of dreams. [...]

[...] One of the main differences between the waking and sleeping states is merely the almost complete change of focus that is involved. [...]

[...] The individual involved would experience the aggressiveness, and yet he would hurt no one. [...]

[...] Neither is the right one.” [...]

[...] That was one of the wildest things I’ve done yet....” [...]

[...] She began reading the sessions—just the Seth material itself—from the first one for October 9. She did as well as she had done earlier today. [...]

It means that you are finally placing yourselves under the directions of a far more extensive organization—a psychic one, in which all things return to their most natural beneficial form. [...]

[...] Each person is born, however, with his or her—let me correct that—each person is born there with a private natural religion—one that rises from the springs of the individual psyche, and one that provides an easy, custom-made method of dealing with inner and outer reality. [...]

[...] I rubbed a couple of spots on her forehead, but got only a mild response from one on her neck.

When this natural give-and-take continues, the individual is happy, healthy, And feels at one with the universe itself. [...]

[...] Yet he still expressed sorrow, and asked: “Why?” He’s troubled by the challenges of one who has to live with a so-called deformed wife—and now a child—each day. [...]

[...] In back of her and off to her right, our cats, Billy and Mitzi, were crouching in the light cast on the rug by one of our homemade lamps from its position on a low bookcase: An insect, seemingly mesmerized by the illumination, was flying round and round inside the bright cone of the lampshade. [...]

[...] Throughout this book we will often be talking about experiences that are encountered in one way or another by most people, but are not given credence to on the part of the established fields of knowledge. [...]

When I began putting together Seth’s dictation for Dreams, and adding Jane’s and my own notes, plus excerpts from other relevant sessions, it soon became obvious that the entire work was going to be too long for one volume. [...]

(A one-minute pause at 10:28.) In one way or another all mythology contains descriptions of other species existing on the earth in various forms. [...]

(We held just one session last week, and it did not involve work on either “Unknown” Reality or the book on health. [...]

[...] When man knew no more than a simple tribal life, his brain already had the capacity to learn anything it must, for one day it would be responsible for the life of a planet.

Generally speaking, you use one particular frequency in waking life. Therefore it seems there is no other reality than the one you recognize — and no greater data available than those with which you are normally familiar.

[...] To one extent or another, then, you learn to constantly monitor your behavior, so that it conforms to the established criteria set up for sane or rational experience.

[...] The comfort of social discourse represents one of the great building blocks of families and civilizations. [...]

[...] You are one. [...]

Upon physical death you simply step out of the intense focus upon one self-constructed plane. [...]

It is as if an artist finished a painting, and instead of going to a new one he does countless variations of the original, without realizing what he is doing. [...]

(Long pause.) One point however. [...]

I mentioned space travel because I know that you are interested in it, but this is only one example, and a spectacular one to catch your interest, of the advantages of extension of self.

[...] Our living-room windows command a good view of our street, one of the main ones in Elmira, but a quick look told me the accident was out of our visual range. [...]

[...] I want to make these points to lead up to the main one. [...]

[...] Jane said that at times she is aware of as many as three separate, parallel streams of thought, at the same time as she is giving voice to one of them.)

[...] One of the nurses called her “a pain in the ass,” then laughed when she added that the woman did have hemorrhoids. [...]

[...] Each of his activities can indeed flow easily one into the other, and he should remind himself that the inner intelligence within him is indeed on its own always seeking his best interest, and always of itself working on his behalf.

Certainly he does believe that his body can begin to feel better and better — and that suggestion is a good one to use, for it implies continuance of input, without getting involved in absolutes.

[...] You make decisions as the result of feeling impulses to do this or that, to perform in one manner or another, in response to both private considerations and in regard to demands seemingly placed upon you by others. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Such a person is afraid to trust any one impulse enough to act upon it. [...]

(With gentle irony:) No one told it that it was impossible to grow from a tiny cell — change that to a tiny organism instead of a cell — to a complicated adult structure. [...]

[...] With all of this activity, I’ve managed to get in just one-and-one-half hours of work on the preface for Dreams, during the last three days. [...]

[...] I reminded her that I was available should she want to try for one. [...]

(Pause.) Separated from that — that is one heading — the next heading: “Your Multidimensional Reality in the Now of Your Being.”

(12:04 A.M. Jane was soon out of her trance, but it had been a very good one nevertheless. [...]

[...] As an analogy, the innate knowledge of probabilities that Seth postulates here may be related to the brain in the same way that memory evidently “happens” throughout its parts, instead of being localized in just one of them.

[...] One: you had to cut out distractions. And two: one of you had to make money with your art or you would not survive. [...]

[...] I also found out, though, that this time the pendulum gave me such a variety of responses —different ones each day, practically—that at first I didn’t know how much stock to put in its answers. [...]

(I should say here that one of the things the pendulum told me early in the week was that I was concerned because Jane wasn’t having regular sessions any more —that I felt she was missing something important in her life because of this lack. [...]

I said once that when an alcoholic tries to stop drinking there can be repercussions from beloved ones, who are conditioned to the old situation. [...]

(This is a refinement of the question, and a good one. When Jane and I wonder about Seth’s seeming availability, we mean the scheduled Monday and Wednesday evening sessions, an occasional appearance at one of Jane’s ESP classes, and an occasional dropping in at an unscheduled session, perhaps on a weekend, etc.

[...] 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. [...]