“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

When I say that a person misinterprets sense data, I mean that the fine balance between mind and matter becomes overstrained in one direction. [...] If in the middle of the night, and fully awake, you believe it is sunrise in physical terms, and cannot differentiate between your personal reality and the physical one, then that balance is disturbed.

[...] Let us take a hypothetical individual — one who is convinced he has a healthy body, and is proud of mental stability. [...]

[...] This is true of individuals, but it also applies to many so-called survival groups, who congregate in one or another portion of the country, collecting supplies to carry them over the holocaust and to defend their families from those who might steal their provisions.

[...] Another version stresses the economic area, foreseeing the collapse of the economy, anarchy, and other conditions that pit one individual against the other.

[...] Once again, then, ideas of the most optimistic nature are the biologically pertinent ones.

Finally, since I opened the first essay with a line from one of Jane’s songs in Sumari, I think it appropriate to close the last essay with Sumari, too.

While you were
sleeping,
all the cupboards
of the earth
were filled.
Mother Earth
sought out each
need.

While you were
weeping,
your tears fell
as sweet rain
drops on small
parched hills
that rise in worlds
you cannot see,
though you are known
there.

While you were
sleeping,
Mother Earth
filled all the
cupboards of your
flesh
to overflowing.
Not one atom went
uncomforted
in worlds that
are yours,
but beyond your
knowing.

[...] One by one my mental connections fell into place as I searched for it, yet for a time I was quite frustrated while I tried to physically verify my unconscious knowledge of its location.

On one level, yes. However, this is a rather permissive relationship in many respects, and one of my primary concerns has been to allow both of you to recognize and develop your own abilities.

For one thing, I would like to know specifically what Dr. Instream has in mind, and prefer that we work it from that angle. [...]

(We had no idea of how to interpret such an experiment, or even whether there is a one best way. [...]

[...] This does not occur when he does not know in advance that a test is planned, when I speak spontaneously; as for example when on one occasion I gave definite details concerning your Mark’s vacation.

[...] Each dream has meaning to all levels of the personality, and one dream object is a symbol which is translated by all layers of the self, in a mathematics which is more complicated than any dealt with by your physical computers.

One dream will enable the ego to solve pressing immediate problems. [...]

[...] It is built up, on one level, of chemical components that have an electrical basis, and it is through these connections that transformation within the nerve structure of the physical organism is made.

[...] I do not grow weary of speaking to Joseph but it is good to have an audience, particularly when one is a Jesuit in spirit, although I believe he does not follow certain Jesuit rules.

[...] This session might as well have been given the day after the last one as far as I am concerned.

[...] Our old cat, Willy One, died last November 5. A few days later we obtained Willy Two from Stray Haven in Waverly, New York. [...]

[...] After Peggy left I read Jane the one line Seth had given. [...]

One small note: the book about Oversoul Seven is writing itself, so to speak, while you are devoting yourselves to these sessions. [...]

(Long pause.) The idea of rereading Personal Reality is an excellent one. [...]

[...] It is quite frequent for persons with those beliefs to discipline their bodies overmuch, take positions as police guards, or set themselves up in one way or another in control of their fellows.

[...] When one set of rigid beliefs threatens to make action appear meaningless, then another set of buried, repressed beliefs may surface, providing new impetus precisely when it is needed — but also forming a secondary personality with characteristics almost opposite to those of the primary self.

All of the negative beliefs just mentioned touch upon sexuality in one way or another. [...]

On occasions that you barely recognize, one of you has been in a doubting mood while the other was in a mood of faith, picked this up, and was able to change the situation also for the one who felt doubtful. [...]

Improvements could occur, and did, but at one time or another the portions of the body had to begin to break away from the overall blocked picture. [...]

[...] They move now constantly, trying out their new freedoms and as they do they stimulate other positions of the body to one extent or another. [...]

(With gestures, Seth simulated Jane reaching to one side while keeping her head and eyes facing straight forward.)

(To Sue.) For this one, you did not remember our encounter. [...]

[...] Was it a past life or this one?”)

It was, indeed, a past life, not in this one. [...]

[...] I answered one of your questions in our ordinary sessions, so Ruburt should have it for you. [...]

[...] You’re just so used to concentrating on this one part of you that you insist is yourself, that you are not able to make these shifts. [...]

[...] Each one of you...fantastic. [...]

([Bette:] “I want to say one little thing. [...]

[...] He wanted to know why, just what you said, we all gravitate in that particular area; why we just heard one voice over another, or did we or should we and so on; just exactly what you said ...I told you before class started.”

[...] But it developed that Jane had one of her most uncomfortable nights in years last night; she woke up often, very stiff, particularly in the dawn hours. [...]

[...] I for one have long reached the point where I expect little else from Prentice-Hall except shoddy work, and I think that by now Jane more or less agrees. [...]

He is in a period where he is trying to release impulses, but one look at that situation—momentarily, now—panicked him, so that he began to wonder if any discipline was not worthwhile to prevent what he considered that kind of intuitional and intellectual sloth.

[...] Whose version is the final one for a cover? [...]

[...] Our struggle, our challenge, and one that’s most difficult for us, is to understand his material as much as possible.

(A one-minute pause at 9:34.) Give us a moment…. [...]

(9:40.) Your historical time is, say, but one species of time that dwells upon the earth. [...]

[...] They happened at another level of actuality, and were inserted into your time framework—touching a character here, a definitely known historical event there, mixing and merging with the events of the time, until the two lines of activity were so entwined that you could not unravel one without unraveling the other (all very intently).

[...] There is some instability of elements this evening, having to do with a natural, overall change taking place in Ruburt—a beneficial one, I add hastily (humorously); but his system is in a state of change.

Your other question, to me, is a curious one.

[...] You cannot close one creative door without closing all of them to some degree. [...]

Ruburt is working out toward a complete symbolic understanding in a poem he began yesterday, and he will know the one to which I am referring.

Associations are highly personal, bringing together in thought and in dreams highly individualistic constructs in which actual events and fantasized ones come together. [...] Your world is first of all a mental one. [...]

(It may simply be that Seth was referring to a foreign publisher in any European country, as one of the ingredients in this story of the workings of Framework 2. Card from Carlos attached to this session for reference if needed.)

I would like Ruburt to make a red star each time during the day he finds himself thinking pleasant or optimistic thoughts, and a large one each day or time he feels a strong surge of faith or exuberance. [...]

[...] You are both highly reluctant to change your mental habits, much less your physical ones. [...]

[...] But the event provided us with an obvious clue—any body that can undergo so spontaneous a change can hardly be one that’s permanently fixed in a stiffened condition.... [...]

[...] The impetus further led him around the kitchen, usually in the chair, but often to take steps in a different way from one point to another. [...]

In between, there were periods of body soreness in one area or another, which he and you handled well, remembering what I said. [...]

[...] If you fully trusted what I am telling you, you would understand that that activity changes even as the muscles in the legs might be different from one day to another.

[...] It feels like my left leg is up higher than my right one, though I can see that it isn’t. And it’s straight. [...]

[...] Now the little men are doing it with my right leg, but they’re having more trouble with it than with the left one. [...]

[...] I saw a devil image walking away from me in one direction, and on the other side of me an angel image, walking away; and I knew I had both these images of myself. [...]

[...] Then one ovary had a little black spot on it, and they snipped it off—and lifted it up somehow—and I thought that’s why I haven’t had my periods... [...]

[...] I presume you are ready for one.

One other small point: Ruburt should continue the psychic and sensual contact with his body, listening to the messages that it gives him. [...]

You also wanted to have an excuse, and a good one, so that you would not have to go out with the couple, lest they become unmanageable. [...]

(To resume: Sue Watkins, one of Jane’s ESP class members, left three questions last night for Seth to answer when possible. [...]

[...] Energy flows freely from one to another, or rather permeates each. [...]

[...] This is an astonishing discovery, one that is impossible according to the laws of physics.

(10:30.) In one manner of speaking, you are fragments of your entities. [...]

[...] A man is not an animal, then, nor does he invade, say, the body of one.