“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] That Rob was having a “body vacation” or that his body was taking a vacation, a rest; and that the contrast between his floppy state and his usual one would let him know how tight he’d been.... [...]

[...] It was actually one I’d been trying to approximate ever since I’d begun to feel bad after finishing checking all the page proofs for the books we have coming out this year. [...]

[...] Nor were those episodes painless, for in one of them I put an unnatural strain on the deltoid muscle in my right shoulder. [...]

(But nevertheless, I knew I was having a most beneficial experience, and one that might very well head off other, deeper troubles. [...]

(Yet she could rotate her arms, one hand circling the other above her belly, in a way that she hadn’t been able to do for, literally, months—years perhaps—certainly since she began going into hospitals. [...]

[...] Each patient is supposed to have one, according to NY State inspectors who are at the hospital this week. [...]

(“Can I ask one tiny question?”)

(According to this material, I told her, if one paid attention to this sort of thing, good evidence for telepathy could be achieved. But one would have to train oneself to meet such situations and take action upon them, rather than hiding from them, as I tried to do. [...]

[...] The overall emotional coloration and vitality of all of the creatures, say, within any given arbitrary environment is highly complicated, so that there is of course a psychological climate to which you react, as there is a physical one. [...]

[...] For this is not a symbolic relationship but a practical one.

[...] It is the one self with its origins within your system, but its existence outside.

[...] Jane feels Crosson would have given the book a better review, and an entirely legitimate one, than it did receive. [...]

[...] Like now I’m afraid to pick up a cigarette—I think I’ve got one in my hand but I don’t at all.... [...]

For now I bid you a fond good evening—but your policy of sitting and waiting is a good one, at least several times a week.... [...]

[...] She’d marched along pretty well in the session, with her voice being much stronger than in previous ones. [...]

[...] The most intricate behavior is involved and calculations instantly made, for instance, before you can take one step or lift your finger. [...]

[...] “You” are the one who decides to walk across the floor, and then all of these inner calculations take place to help you achieve your goal. [...]

[...] In your terms, each decision you make alters the reality that you know to one degree or another.

[...] There is some anticipatory motion, in that while in one position the body anticipates new motions—better ones—that it cannot as yet take.

[...] The tragedy, if one wants to call it that, would make an excellent book in itself, and many probably will be written about it. [...]

[...] Always ask yourself: “Do I want to be the one who’s trying to do something, or the one who criticizes the efforts of others?”)

[...] When he fears his own nature, however, then the qualities are not put together as smoothly, so that one can appear contradictory to the other. [...]

[...] I guess the realization that the basic mistrust of one’s own nature could have such dire results was what triggered our conscious realization that we could do something about the whole business of symptoms, etc. [...]

(Pause, one of many.) As soon as the need for such data — aid, information, or knowledge — arises, then it is immediately forthcoming unless your own conscious beliefs cause a barrier. [...]

Inner sounds have an even greater effect than exterior ones upon your body. [...]

[...] For all practical purposes then the two are one. [...]

[...] One of its services will be to teach Jane to free her inner cognitions enough so that she can translate Speaker manuscripts without distorting them out of all proportion.

[...] But she needed the new one after the new girl on the floor had pulled it loose several times while taking care of her. [...]

[...] The hands are indeed beginning to accelerate their improvements — the right one in particular, so that the fingers begin to uncurl.

[...] The move here (to 1730) was a good one, because it exploded that framework. [...]

—though we will be quite satisfied generally with one session a week while you are busy on the book. [...]

(As far as I can remember, this will be the first time that we held two separate sessions during the same day—if one develops now. [...]

[...] Symbolically, however, the attitude itself is highly therapeutic, since it “stands for and represents” many important issues in his life—and in settling one you settle all in this regard. [...]

Ruburt’s mother hated cats, particularly black ones. [...]

One small postscript. [...]

[...] To me your time can be manipulated; it is one of the several vehicles by which I can enter your awareness. [...]

[...] The one thing about your plane that makes it such a tempting field of endeavor for us here is that some of us still have ties of an emotional kind, and we attempt, though often clumsily, to make contact with old friends. [...]

[...] As Seth I touched a begonia plant (one of my favorites) and said, “I like Jane’s plant. [...]

[...] I do not have the voice of an angel by any means, but neither do I sound like an asexual eunuch, which is all I’ve been able to make her sound like tonight … and Ruburt, if you want a cigarette, get one. [...]

[...] The idea of one God as a superman would not carry again the same weight as it had before. [...]

[...] An animal, say, in Ruburt’s position, feeling as much new activity in the body, new motion in the knees, new elasticity in the ligaments, would quite naturally accept the improvements with physical elation, even if it had more difficulty one day, or two, than it had in days previous. [...]

(10:58.) Darwinian concepts allowed the passage of no knowledge from one generation to another that was not genetically transmitted. [...]

Ruburt went from a strict religion, embracing both Darwin finally, and Freud also, as liberators from old doctrines—not realizing of course that he was substituting one dogma for two, period.

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

[...] A better procedure would be to hypnotize a subject, and you would need a good one, and suggest that under hypnosis he repeat the dreams of the night before. [...]

[...] The particular experiment may then seem to suggest conditions which are by no means general ones, but which may appear so. [...]

A tenuous one. [...]

[...] These clues are seemingly oddly assorted ones involving such issues as cheesecake, the repair of an old chair, old photographs and a photography shop, and the meeting of an old acquaintance after some period of time. [...]

(Long pause, one of several, at 8:31.) This is particularly pertinent in his feelings concerning the jaw and neck, and the eye connection and his sense of balance (all items Jane has mentioned often recently). [...]

It is highly important, however, that you read those sessions over together, and discuss them, even if only one session at a time. [...]

[...] The insurance company told him, I believe, that according to her medical records, Jane didn’t need to be hospitalized—a strange attitude, and one neither of us could believe. [...]

[...] “I got so mad I wasn’t going to have one.” [...]

It does not matter one way or the other—which may seem like an odd statement, but later you will see what I mean. [...]

[...] Jane said that she thought tonight’s session would be a short one.)

You might add very briefly to that material, one or two suggestions following what you have—that stress expression: “Do I feel safe to express physical vitality?” Or questions as to whether or not Ruburt and his “subconscious” feel safe enough to progress, generally speaking, into an area of psychic, creative, and physical expression.

[...] For one thing, his overall increased activity chairwise provides an overall general increase of strength and flexibility. [...]

[...] I suggested to Jane that she pass up the session but she wanted to have one if possible. [...]

You realize that when one of you is indisposed, you may of course cancel a session.