“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] We’ve heard of the theory before, by the way — but transmitting cancer in such a fashion seems to be one of the most deadly results that can follow from the union of a man and a woman. [...]

[...] After all, I said, man is but one species who creates his perception of the living earth in concert with nearly innumerable other species — and each other species does the same thing from its viewpoint. [...]

[...] Your psychologies, stressing “the norm,” made people frightened of their individual characteristics and abilities, because psychology’s norm did not fit the contours of any one human being. [...]

Many adults, sensing their own abilities in one field or another, deliberately play down those abilities because they are afraid of standing out from “the masses” — or they are afraid they will be attacked by their peers. [...]

[...] You are not just dealing with a one-line development of matter, but of an unimaginable creativity, in which all versions of your physical world exist, each one quite convinced of its physical nature. There are ramifications quite unspeakable, although in certain states of trance, or with the aid of educated dreaming, you might be able to glimpse the inner complications, the webworks of communications that connect your official earth with other probable ones. [...]

(The scientist in question may never answer my letter, but it’s already had one unexpected beneficial effect: Tonight, after he finished book dictation, Seth gave an excellent summation of his own version of what our species like to call evolution. [...]

This sense of division within the self forces you to think that there is a remote, spiritual, wise, intuitive inner self, and a bewildered, put-upon, spiritually ignorant, inferior physical self, which happens to be the one you identify with. [...]

[...] In those terms, the world came into being and the species appeared in a completely different framework of activity than is imagined, and one that cannot be scientifically established — particularly within those boundaries with which science has protected itself.

[...] “The best” idealist is a practical one—someone who realizes that most men like to work with specifics. [...]

Generally speaking, in those terms, the law is wise, for it forces you to make specifications, each one bringing about further definition, so that all parties at least understand (in parentheses theoretically [louder]) the meaning of the terms.

Dream one is in answer to Ruburt’s wondering whether or not it was a good idea to make out a will now, rather than to wait until a later date.

[...] There is a missing key, and the old man also possesses one to the mechanism, which he finally gives to Ruburt, who then operates it. [...]

[...] One thing that inhibited me is that I was aware, of course, of the predominantly negative context or tone of the whole idea of the list. [...]

[...] There is no need saying, “What a ridiculous way to feel” —not an attempt to disinherit the feelings, but to accept them as one’s own, and compassionately explain the mitigating circumstances and new knowledge that alter the initial circumstances that stimulated the feelings to begin with. [...]

[...] I mentioned to Jane when I read the session to her from my notes this morning that it’s one of those obvious things easy to overlook: Jane’s steady relaxation is bound to help....)

In other words, the psychic development is a part of his natural growth (long pause), a reaffirmation and restructuring of inner information that in one fashion or another was always available to him, but needed to find a conscious format, a conscious expression, a way to pierce the seemingly opaque habits of knowledge of the cultural world. [...]

(We had several questions for Seth, including the one noted at the end of the last session: Why didn’t the unconscious realize it was going too far in its protective role? [...]

[...] 2. This insight led Jane to an obvious one neither of us had ever made before: that when she gets a letter in which the writer threatens suicide if Jane doesn’t help him or her, this is like Marie threatening the young Jane that she will commit suicide.)

This is the same person who on the other hand used to put up barriers of bookcases at one end of the living room to protect himself from any neighbors or miscellaneous callers; who objected when Mr. Gottlieb dared to cross into his private working area and glance at a paper. [...]

(10:05.) In one way or another, both of Ruburt’s parents had little use for the world, and did not trust it. [...]

Ten pages is too much to do in one session with the pendulum. Look at your questions as if you were asking them of a person, so that in one session do not act as if an answer given before has not been given. [...]

Then he feels that he is in at best an ambiguous position, for the world continues doing as it will, and his correspondents, solving one problem, immediately write with another. [...]

The question about the subconscious’s view of the body will be answered along with the other one, and at our next session. [...]

[...] The first question Seth referred to was the one about why the subconscious didn’t realize it was going to far, when it imposed or brought about symptoms, as in Jane’s case, that were proving to be too damaging to the body, compared to what they were supposed to protect the body against.

[...] The final period was and is to be one in which your energies are directed to your work without the outside job, for finally you began to feel that you were not doing what you should do; this itself inhibited your trust in yourself further, and therefore the development of your work.

[...] The impetus to help you is a built-in one, also meant as a further stimulus to Ruburt in his work and in our work. [...]

[...] You were not one with yourself or with your course of action. [...]

[...] I did explain to her before the session my dislike of too brown a cast to features—this was one of the points we discussed, as mentioned earlier.

[...] At one time he felt his emotional spontaneity was indeed admired by you and encouraged, and he blossomed. [...]

[...] He became relaxed and psychedelic one day fairly recently when he washed windows and you made a remark to the effect that you would not like to be at the mercy of such things. [...]

[...] You have chosen this one, even as Ruburt has. [...]

4. A minimum of one session a week privately.

[...] One so-called event, therefore, may be a container of many others, while you only perceive its exterior face — and you call that face a symbol.

The other events within the symbol are as legitimate as the one event you perceive.

Basically, events are not built one upon the other. [...]

[...] You cannot change one belief but it alters your body experience. [...]

[...] We will begin however with primary and secondary ones.

What you consider your consciousness, or your self, or your thinking ego, represents of course only one portion of your entire consciousness, that part which you are using at this time. [...]

[...] You should see, then, that though you call a particular portion of grass one blade of grass, the matter that composes it is not static or permanent, and it is not a particular physical object growing, since the matter that composes it is neither static or permanent.

[...] Then understand also that the matter within one blade of grass is not the same.

I have come for one purpose, so that you could sense my vitality and sensing this, know that I speak to you from dimensions beyond those with which you are acquainted. The grave is not the end, for so noisy a one never spoke with the lips of death. [...]

[...] There are certain rules that my friend Ruburt places upon me, one that I hold my voice under control, and so I will endeavor to do so. [...]

[...] One need not block out the others. [...]

(One of the interruptions concerned the overflow of water from a cellar bathroom. [...]

[...] The resurrection and the ascension are indeed, however, the two parts of one dramatic event. [...]

[...] His life was one of those lives that were finally used to compose the composite image of the biblical Christ.

[...] There were many throw-away messiahs (with gentle amusement) — men whose circumstances, characteristics, and abilities were almost (musically) the ones needed — who almost [...]

[...] [They amount to much less than I’d figured on, incidentally—including estimated payments for 1979 —so one would expect me to respond to that—but I haven’t yet.

[...] The one with Bill took place on March 29, 1979. [...]

(“The pendulum repeated my insight of a couple of days ago—one that may be very important: that all of my upsets over the years, the stomach, the side, the groin, the shoulder—the whole bunch—stem from my consistent feeling that I’m a failure in life, that I don’t contribute enough, that I don’t help Jane enough, that I haven’t really made it as an artist or as a writer.

[...] You know the one I am referring to.

[...] This morning Judy and Gail Greene told her that the ulcer on her left elbow is about healed, and that the one on her left shoulder has a scab on it, which means it’s close to healing itself. [...]

[...] The day seemed to be a quiet one for us overall, although she did say she wanted to have the session.)

[...] The giant strides necessary involve striding across one’s concerns over impediments, and focusing upon ends. [...]

[...] One of us has to see that she either reads or hears it each day. [...] I think the session in itself is a form of hypnosis, and an excellent one.)

[...] People were coming and going in the room often — at one time there had been four nurses and aides there, laughing and joking. [...]

[...] She said Gail Greene and others told her this morning that the ulcers are all doing much better, and that the two on her right knee, especially the one on the inside, are almost healed. [...]

[...] One neck spot got a good reaction, her head pounding back and forth against the pillow. [...]

[...] I was surprised when she suggested the session, since for some reason I’d thought she wasn’t going to have one. [...]

[...] Our session, the August 2 one, helped lead him to that understanding.

[...] For example, Ruburt leading you in one, and you leading him in another area. [...]

[...] Some recommendations given in that one session still have not been followed, though an effort has been made to follow many suggestions. [...]

[...] And that this is one. [...]

[...] Usually we just flash our consciousness in one direction and say this is real, but in this experiment at least, let us flash that light down that pyramid in whatever direction we choose. [...]

[...] Your consciousness is merely one more of your abilities. [...]

[...] You both believe that Ruburt is sick physically in one particular fashion. [...]

One particular summer you each made joint effort at the kind of encouragement of which I am speaking, and you got definite results. [...]

(Humorously:) I am not the one who needs to comment on it—

The idea of writing his feelings down in one way or another is very good. [...]