“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] On the other hand the recovery is assured, and will occur far quicker than you imagine when you are not thinking of an instantaneous, complete recovery between one moment and the next.

[...] I also suggest, only, class twice a month—a small one, in which you should find some most interesting developments involving experiences of your own. [...]

Mental activity does demand more energy of one kind than does physical activity, and the reason here is a rather strange one, in that in many respects creative work demands the extra energy used in a sort of repression. [...]

[...] In much the same manner as these atoms behaved, so also do other units behave, including large ones such as various field universes. [...]

[...] In many ways Jane regards this session as one of the best ever. [...]

[...] In the one case it is the wholesome and joyful result of the expenditure of psychic energy. [...]

First of all, the teaching ability is a good one, but it is being hampered and not developed simply because you are using vital energy in this counterfeit manner. [...]

[...] I seem to feel an unaccustomed excitement about it all; this hovers offstage, one might say, at the chance that she’ll make it after all. [...]

You do not seem to understand the importance of your organizations, particularly your habitual biological ones, for they dictate the ways in which you examine your reality, and they program also your biological reaction in very practical ways.

[...] That firewalker shares his reality with nonfirewalkers, in general terms, but in this one instance the firewalker superimposes a strong counterbelief, and it works

[...] (One minute pause.)

[...] The outflow of energy, the freeing of energy, into your work, automatically is determined by a general outflow of energy through all facets of your personality, that will automatically bring many different kinds of benefits, including financial ones.

[...] Or it will be received by one of your family or Ruburt’s. (Pause.)

[...] Something also about improving one’s station in life. [...]

[...] Around house once good—did john, kitchen & bedroom floors for 2nd time (still one short). [...]

[...] One can stand next to the elevator bank and look out at the parking lot for the emergency room at the back of the hospital. [...]

[...] This didn’t seem to be one of our better days. [...]

[...] It is a good idea for the doctor to question the patient sometimes, to make sure that the decision is not one of the moment alone.

[...] This is particularly true if one or two beneficial changes simply seem to happen in other areas of life.

This means, of course, that you do not fall victim to a disease, or catch a virus, but that for one reason or another your own feelings, thoughts, and beliefs lead you to seek bouts of illness. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) You are not one thing and illness another, for your thoughts and emotions are the triggers that lead to bouts of poor health. [...]

[...] It is not one of your favorite stations. [...]

[...] There will be some definite, beneficial changes in walking—but a gradual change so that no strain is put upon one part of the body or another. [...]

[...] At this time, the right side is particularly active from the head down, and one eye is therefore sometimes more active than the other, causing the image difficulties. [...]

The need is a sexual one—your sweet tooth—for your sexual feelings have been rearoused by your intimate encounters with Ruburt, even while neither of you thus far have even been willing to devote time to sexual gratification in the deepest terms.

[...] The conditions of which I have been speaking are one thing. [...]

[...] The word may not be the best one, but a shocking occurrence.

[...] She felt that her face was different in a strange manner, that muscles were relaxing into different forms but no one noticed any change. [...]

[...] If it is cut off in one area it will find another. [...]

[...] You both have a tendency to concentrate upon remaining symptoms, or intensified ones, and to give little attention to the improvements. [...]

[...] I was not happy, one thing led to another, and we did not resume the session.)

(9:46.) Some of the material (in this session) on pain should help clear Ruburt’s mind, but the past week’s blue periods and so forth simply represented one more example of a situation in which he tried to make himself get better by “realizing the gravity of his condition”—by contrasting his performance against “normal” performance, and by the old beliefs of not trusting the body. [...]

[...] Sharon didn’t give any sign that she noticed or heard anything unusual—and looking at Jane, one couldn’t tell that she was in trance. [...]

[...] Her right foot was flexing as the left one had been earlier. [...]

[...] Seth began to speak in a loud whisper or a very soft voice, however one chooses to define it, and maintained this aspect throughout the evening, with frequent breaks. [...]

(The session was a long one and will not be described in detail here, except for a couple of points I would note for possible future reference. [...]

[...] even though Jane suggested one. [...]

[...] I for one am in favor of taking a stand, as Jane well knows, but as I’ve told her, I don’t expect her to go along. [...]

[...] When you become enraged at Prentice you are of course enraged against the larger defects of the world—but Prentice’s defects are the ones that come of course to your own more immediate attention. [...]

I would give some thought then to my self-image, and to the image of an individual who is highly gifted as a painter, as a writer, as a thinker, and I would endeavor to loosen myself from any bonds that prevented me from using those abilities—in particular any sexual ones that defined my identity in terms of money alone.

[...] Thursday in the mail receive a letter all about the new home-sized computers, how they worked, and how one could be used to work with our records and sessions....)

2–3 PM: Finished James chapter one; very pleased.