“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Jane had a “scary” dream episode last night, one that was quite unpleasant, she said, and involved her seeing herself in different time frames and three different programs or movies on TV at the same time. [...]

[...] After supper we’d talked about questions 2 and 13, the same ones we’d asked that Seth discuss in another recent private session; he hadn’t done so yet, though. [...]

In one manner or another, each person mirrors the experience of the world, while also adding to that experience in an original way, impressing reality as no other individual could. [...]

You have been taught for centuries in one way or another that repression, generally speaking, now, was all in all a natural, good, social and moral requirement, that expression was dangerous and must be harnessed and channeled because it was believed so thoroughly that man’s natural capacities led him toward destructive rather than positive behavior. [...]

(I finished typing last Monday’s session just before we sat for this one. [...] I didn’t ask that she or Seth comment on the notes, but at least I’d made it possible for either one to do so. [...]

The person seeks a certain kind of expression while also feeling that the same expression is either dangerous, forbidden, or for one reason or another impossible to achieve. This applies to human personal problems and to political ones in which entire peoples are involved. [...]

(9:37.) Over a period of time you ended up with two exaggerated postures —artificial ones—with the spontaneous elements of the personality straining for the full use of their abilities (in parentheses: value fulfillment), and the reasoning one determined to pursue such endeavors—but with caution. [...]

[...] The program was fascinating, and was actually a sequel to a previous program of equal length that ABC had broadcast a few days ago; we’d seen much of that one, too. [...]

[...] (Pause.) A very small example: the smell of an orange may instantly provide you with a mental image of one, so that that received from one sense is picked up in a fashion by the others—all serving in one way or another to give you a more completed picture of the object or event involved. [...]

[...] I will try to answer all of your questions in one way or another. Ruburt is working through many issues now well, however I do want to mention that Framework 2 often involves such “displaced” targets, when one desired event may be blocked in one area, but a beneficial event of like consequence instead happens in an area seemingly quite divorced from it. [...]

[...] One even took us to task for “obscenities” in Volume 2 of “Unknown.” Jane and I have been talking about how best to deal with the implications of the mail—it often bothers her—but haven’t reached any conclusions. There may not be any simple one way to handle the situation. [...]

It is the conscious mind as it is trained in your society that deals with black and white thinking, apropos of one of your questions. [...]

[...] but only one real way. [...] and no one can tell you the answers. Now in one way, each individual will find his own answer... and yet all answers, in another way, are one.

[...] You have book one of the material. [...] but the experience is personal and the experience is subjective and the journey is one that you must make and that you must make alone. [...]

[...] He is a good one to answer them for you. [...]

[...] And had I really died with even one of those bodies, I would not be speaking to you now... [...]

Now there are many ways—but only one real way. And the way is to begin the journey, as Ruburt told you, into the nature of your own consciousness for the answers are within you andnot out from you—and no one can tell you the answers. Now in one way, each individual will find his own answer—and yet all answers, in another way, are one. [...]

[...] He is a good one to answer them for you. [...]

[...] You have book one of the material. [...]

[...] I can point you in the direction—but the experience is personal and the experience is subjective and the journey is one that you must make and that you must make alone. [...]

[...] For one thing, that scope includes levels that are consciously unknown to you. (Long pause.) Dreams serve as backup systems also, for example, in the important communications between various peoples or nations—and, particularly when physical communication is cut off between such groups, dreams provide the continuation of information’s flow from one part of the species to another.

[...] These include a kind of horizontal psychological extension, the translation of one kind of dream into another kind—the transference of information from one system to another, in which the symbols themselves come alive.

[...] It is instead one area of subjective experience that is everywhere prevailing within the universe.

[...] They are as important to the operation of that reality as electrons are to your physical one (long pause), providing inner pathways for the accumulation of wisdom and pleasure.

While probabilities do operate, your consciousness usually deals with one at a time. [...] This “second class” did not actually happen, however, after the first one, but simultaneously. [...]

[...] In those terms Pat, who did not attend the physical class, attended a probable one; and Carol, who was not present for the end of the official class, was a participant in the probable one.

To Ruburt’s experience the classes seemed separate, one real and the other probable. [...]

[...] There had not been one.)

(It certainly is a good one. I want to keep yesterday’s session and this one available for reference daily, for the more I think about them, the more I feel they contains the key knowledge we must put to use. [...]

[...] No one knows what her trouble is. [...]

(Jane did want to have a session, though neither one of us seemed to be at our best.)

[...] The others you ignore, and when the picture is finished that you want, then looking back you can see how the completed picture completely obscured the other possible ones, so that they disappeared entirely in the completed project. [...]

As with so many instances, these weren’t esoteric startling visions, but a kind of in-between event, difficult to identify, or one like the following, that was second-handed. [...] We talked to him for an hour (while, alas, dinner got cold), but he was one of those people pleasantly gifted in a variety of fields who hadn’t yet settled down to concentrate on the development of any one or two abilities in particular. He was like some kid admiring a box of chocolates; each piece representing one of his own talents, wondering which piece to nibble on first. [...]

[...] “Though I should stay in one,” I said, “because I was more comfortable than I’ve been all day.” [...]

[...] Sometimes I thought that if Rob said it was a terrific day just one more time, I’d scream.

[...] They represent a kind of mobility … a psychological motion, at another level than the usually conscious one.

[...] In your system it seems as if you chose one course, one main line of probabilities, and that is the end of it. In your system, only one ego predominates and you think of yourself as that ego. [...] In some, the inner self is aware of having more than one ego, of playing more than one role at a time. [...]

[...] ‘This is a probable system of reality, one of many. In the one I come from, I also know Jane and Rob Butts. [...]

In the meantime, one of the other people with Seth speaks with him. One is a large, jolly-looking monk. [...]

[...] We kick to the wall and push through up the fireplace, one by one, to surface. [...]

(“One eight four one.” On the page 11 side of the object there is a sequence of numbers: 189.95 at the bottom of the illustration, and one: 18, 14 ½ to 22, at the bottom of a box to the left of this on the same side.

[...] One eight four one. [...]

[...] Section One of the Times was many pages thick, as is usual on a Sunday. Therefore Jane and I arbitrarily decided to limit the interpretations and connections to the object itself, and the one page—11/12—from which it was torn. [...]

Now, my dear friend Joseph: Reincarnation and projection, you see, are one and the same thing.

This one, that one, is one of your favorites, and one of Ruburt’s, and for that reason I myself do feel a warmth. [...] Nevertheless, one of the problems for the personality is still the need for a more disciplined ego.

[...] Mark was one of your children in the existence of which I have spoken. One of Mark’s present brothers was a son of Mark’s when he was a woman in Iowa.

[...] One of the main reasons is one that has to do with Mark’s own personality and psychological makeup.

[...] It will be remembered that Bill had participated in the single seance the three of us have tried, on January 1, 1964; and was scheduled to be a witness to the 36th session, March 18, 1964, but couldn’t at the last moment.[See Volume One.]

“Now the scene changed, as one might change a slide in a projector. In another little drama, motionless like the first one, I saw my Roman soldier suspended in the act of falling from the tower. [...] One of them, I believe, ran a spear into the body.

[...] Seth referred to Nebene in the 721st session also.⁹ Here too, through that individual, the ramifications of authority are confronted again; if in a way less drastic than one involving death, still certainly in a very dogmatic manner, as expressed through Nebene’s rigid personality. [...] Counterparts all — three simultaneous lives in which I seemed to play a part, although, as explained below, I insist that I participated in each one of those existences in my own way.

[...] But I question, at least provisionally, any idea of past or counterpart lives that I lived one hundred percent. At this writing, I think that I am living my only one hundred percent life now, with the privilege of occasionally being able to focus upon scattered portions of those other existences emanating from my whole self, which has its basic reality outside of our space-time concepts.¹⁰

“Rob: In one of my own ‘past-life’ memories, I was a guard or sentry on a tower like the one in your drawings. [...]

Now my relationship with you [and Ruburt] is indeed a strange one, since you do not relate to me as you do to each other. [...] I have a reservoir of personality banks upon which I can draw, and as a teacher I use the one that is most effective in any given system of reality; this is the one I use here. [...]

[...] Now let me further excerpt Seth from that 14th session: “You mentioned earlier, Joseph, that you had the feeling I could refer back to myself almost as if I could turn a later page of a book to an earlier one, and of course this is the case.” With a smile: “Viewing a historical moment through your marvelous television, you can refer to much that has passed, [but] one minute of such a referral costs you one minute of present time. [...]

[...] One face looks out upon one world and one looks out upon another. [...]

(Then from Seth himself:) In one sense meeting with you costs me little energy, it is true. [...] And so you are not the only ones who grow weary in this respect. [...]

[...] Our interpretation may be a good one, but Barbara pointed out a better one. [...] [The postcard used as object for the session showed Mother Goose.] The Ali Baba display was quite impressive, Barbara said; so much so that she took a picture of Gary, her sister’s young son, in one of the large jars or vases belonging to Ali Baba.

[...] The other child being one of Barbara’s sister’s in Ft. [...]

I am saying that in a way the people alive on the body of the earth have the same kind of relationship, one to another, as the cells have one to the other.

(A one-minute pause at 11:48.) These are like psychic snapshots rather than physical ones, involving instances that are a part of your heritage — yours but not yours. [...]

(Now for two concluding paragraphs of commentary and reference: Jane’s statement that the four-fronted counterpart self persists outside of space and time implies a contradiction, of course — but this situation is one that we, as physical creatures, will in some manner always have to contend with when we encounter certain of Jane’s and Seth’s concepts [including that of the four-fronted counterpart self]. [...] To me your time is a vehicle, one of several by which I can enter your awareness. [...]

[...] One of them is about a world theater, made up of a particular century. [...]

You had a brief life as twins—some definite clear-cut divisions within yourself, have to do with this life when you were one of two—one going one way, and one going the other—one twin had a strong leaning toward military things—a soldier—the organization of the church now serves the same purpose, I believe—security within the organization—the twin who was in the military found his sense of identity as a soldier within the system, but he had great faith in the system—in what he was doing—the other twin was more given to a statesman-like sort of thing—and was in fact an orator, although he had another profession—it included oration to people—the two of you had a very strong telepathic relationship—and this time the church has provided the same kind of organization—you sort of resented the fact that this twin brother of yours had this organization in which he found support and in which he felt so a part because he was absolutely certain of the aims and goals of the organization and he was a good soldier within it—and at that time you envied him that security and that sense of identity within the system in which he believed. [...]

(A one-minute pause.) Each natural element had its own key system that interlocked with others, forming channels through which consciousness could flow from one kind of life to another. Man understood himself to be a separate entity, but one that was connected to all of nature. [...]

(Long pause at 10:26.) You are robbed, then, or you rob yourselves, of one of the most basic kinds of expression, since you can no longer identify yourselves with the forces of nature. [...] He no longer merged his awareness, so that he learned to look at a tree as one object, where before he would have joined with it, and perhaps viewed his own standing body from the tree’s vantage point. [...]

[...] I said that the language of love was the one basic language, and I mean that quite literally. [...]

(Pause at 9:35, one of many.) The language of love did not initially (underlined) involve images, either. [...]

[...] For that matter you can hardly remember one idea from one week to another on a conscious deliberate basis. [...]

(A curved line may be a complicated thought, a crooked or incomplete one—and a straight line may be a more simple, direct action or thought. It follows that there are more curved lines than straight ones, both in our art on this plane, in our lives on this plane, and in our habitat on this plane.

(Each line is one thought, one recorded or frozen bit of action; representing or capable of representing many things. [...]

[...] (Pause.) This is one of the most difficult terms to explain. [...]

One, the personality of the mother offered needed experience for Ruburt; and two, the paganistic personality of the father was in some degree like his own past personalities though in a much more vague and watered-down way. [...] He was at one time a brother. [...]

[...] I did incidentally watch Ruburt write one of his poems about the starlings, and though poetry was never one of my lines I have to admit that I was quite impressed.

[...] This is of course one of the main reasons for his particular reaction with the starling incident, and this quality has been a saving one in the past.

[...] As a child at one time he died from suffocation, and this also has its bearings here in the present, the panicky gulping of air being a mechanism of subconscious memory. [...]