“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Jane did receive a letter then from his secretary, but not a definitive one. [...]

Your dream was an excellent example, Joseph, of a clairvoyant one, in which definite new information was received. [...]

The sensation of cold was a clue to the title of the story, but one you would not have recognized on a conscious level. [...]

[...] I made no conscious connection with the dream in any case, and it seems to me I might have woken up chilly on more than one night last week also.)

[...] I have no whip; and I would not use one if I had one. [...] Now the small rules that you break, are indeed, minute ones. [...] This is perhaps the strongest point of my message to you this evening, the one I would have you take to heart. [...]

[...] For you have been, on the one hand, terrified of them, and on the other hand wanted a normal relationship. Give me a moment here —on the one hand you desire more from a relationship with a man than you have any right to expect. [...] At the same time, you hope and pray subconsciously that the man will disappoint you because this male in your mind has godlike qualities that attract you; on the other, you see him as all powerful and as one who gives out punishment and one who is unreasoning and cruel because you felt that your father was cruel. [...]

[...] It should make one thing clear. [...] You are seeing the image that you have projected upon him, and no one can live up to that image. [...] You have no chance in a thousand lives of having a relationship with the man you think of as being Dick Reed, because you cannot have a two-way relationship with an image that is one-sided and has no flesh. [...] While we are beginning a job, we may as well do a good one.

[...] I am sure that you realize that when you drive your car, you see yourself in a masculine role, as one of power and strength and one in which you consider yourself invulnerable. [...] On the one hand, you want him, on the other hand, as you had to escape from your father, you must also escape from the man and so you are caught in a dilemma. [...]

(I reminded Jane that since she belonged to no religion now [having left the Roman Catholic Church when she was 19 years old], her mystical nature would choose other avenues of expression than religious ones; as in these sessions, for instance. Perhaps, I suggested, it would turn out that one of her main endeavors would be to enlarge the boundaries of “ordinary” mystical experience itself, to show it operating outside of accepted religious frameworks. I added that within those religious boundaries, mystics across the centuries and throughout the world have given voice to the same ideas in almost the same words, and that as an “independent” mystic Jane was in a position to approach the situation from a freer; more individual standpoint: She would be able to add fresh insights to what is certainly one of the species’ all-pervasive, unifying states. [...]

[...] To me it’s a sort of … yes, sturdy connection of one person to the universe … a one-to-one relationship; a yearning to participate in the meaning of existence; a drive to appreciate nature and salute it while adding to it; but the knowledge that nature is also a touchstone to a deeper unknowable essence from which we and the world spring.

(She hasn’t undergone a classical religious conversion of the kind William James describes in his The Varieties of Religious Experience,⁴ yet more than once she’s known her own forms of ecstasy, or deep alteration of consciousness, or illumination — whatever one chooses to call such states. From two perspectives she rather briefly describes one such episode, which actually lasted several hours, in her Dialogues, and in Adventures in Consciousness.⁵

2. The mystical way is one of the natural feedback systems that operate between the body and the psyche, as Seth reminds us in Chapter 10 of Personal Reality. See the 640th session for February 14, 1973: “Natural ‘mystical’ experience, unclothed in dogma, is the original religious therapy that is so often distorted in ecclesiastical organizations, but it represents man’s innate recognition of his oneness with the source of his own being, and of his experience.”

[...] I’ve never been one to accept other people’s word about the nature of things, even though at times I have accepted more than I should have. [...] No one could have been more critical about his own experiences than I have—while still maintaining enough freedom to experiment. [...] One thing I knew: He was pretty tricky—sending me “out” without my prior conscious knowledge of what he was planning. [...]

For one thing, Seth does not agree on the existence of one historical Christ, though he grants the legitimacy of the Christ spirit—as you will see later in this book. [...]

One day while we were still up to our necks in tests, I saw an Associated Press article that really surprised me. [...]

We had a fascinating session one night, lasting several hours. [...]

(“Four plus one.” Usually one can make a connection with a number, without knowing whether it is correct. Four plus one could apply to the date Leonard wrote the note used as object. [...] Other connections could be made if one chooses to interpret the data as four plus one means five, etc. [...]

[...] The difference is a psychic one, and not a physical one as it appears. [...]

(Jane had one predominant image during the data, and this was of the greeting card. [...] The connection between the object and the greeting card is a legitimate and close one, and presumably would not have developed had Jane not correctly divined the nature of the object itself to begin with. [...]

(The 67th envelope object was a penciled note written on one side of a piece of white paper by our neighbor, Leonard Yaudes. [...]

[...] The “you” that you recognize is but one signal on one such station, tuned in to a certain frequency, experiencing that station’s overall reality from your own viewpoint — one that is unique and like no other, and yet contributing to the whole life of the station.

[...] In a manner of speaking, I am one personality and one program or station. [...] To do this, however, he has to alter his own consciousness, withdraw momentarily from the official station to bring in this one. [...]

[...] (As one correspondent wrote us: “Seth is also a Hebrew name meaning ‘appointed’ — i.e., the appointed one.”) However, some very early priestly genealogies omit Cain and Abel, and consider Seth as the oldest son of Adam; in the second century A.D., for instance, the Sethites, who were members of a little-known Gnostic sect, thought of Seth, the son of Adam, as the Messiah. [...]

[...] “Fuck you, Seth!” one girl screamed — which daunted that worthy not at all: Class members hardly agree with Seth or anyone else all of the time. [...]

There are diseases that people believe are inherited, carried from one generation to another by a faulty genetic communication. [...] The difference is one of belief.

The suggestions we have given so far are predictives; they actually predict dire events of one kind or another, following a given original action.

[...] Actually, the belief itself may have changed a healthy genetic message into an unhealthy one. [...]

People are not simply swung willy-nilly by one negative suggestion or another, however. [...]

Scene 3—These same women, myself, and at least one man are hiding though I don’t remember why. [...] As we move toward door shadows, almost same, I see one woman carrying Rob’s landscape (the one in our bedroom) pushing it ahead of her. When we almost have it made one woman says to hell with it, she can’t take it another minute; she’s just going to stand up and show herself no matter what. [...]

One small way in which I wanted to begin that quest was for me to teach Jane to write—print, actually—with her left hand, which functions much better now than her right one does. I thought this might be relatively easy for her to do, since she’s often voiced her suspicion that she’s one of those born “lefties” who at a very early age were forced to begin writing with their right hand. [...]

[...] He found a mixed world, one hardly black or white, one with some considerable give-and-take, in which under even the most regrettable of circumstances there was room for some action, some improvement, for some … creative response. [...]

[...] On occasion I was consciously aware of thinking how easy it might be on certain levels to let my desires drop one by one—there seemed to be few left in any case—and to let myself simply drift off into an unastonished death.

[...] Then with bewildering impact I found myself one day almost entirely deaf. [...] I certainly hadn’t planned on one sense suddenly turning off.

[...] The religious area in general, from time immemorial, has dealt intensely and sometimes one-mindedly with “the good ideal.” That ideal, however, different in one area than in another, was usually self-righteously applied with a vengeance and fanatical zest, so that all things outside it were seen as evil.

Topside, those people see themselves as a tiny group crying in the wilderness, unrecognized, unheeded, prophets to whom no one will listen. [...]

Your approach has been the correct one. [...]

[...] No one is going to mistake Ruburt for a fanatic, or a psychic nut, or whatever. [...]

It is often practical that entities or their various personalities visit one plane before another. This does not mean that one plane must necessarily be visited before another. … You could say also that an entity visits all planes simultaneously, as it is possible for you to visit one particular state, county and city at one time. [...]

[...] A plane may be one planet, but a plane may also exist where no planet is. One planet may have several planes. [...] A plane may be a time … or only one iota of vitality that exists by itself. [...]

[...] There are no rules that hold any living thing down to one form or one kind of existence. [...]

The fact that you slipped so easily into this frame should remind you of abilities that you had at one time in another life; then you misused them. [...]

These beliefs obviously have another reality beside the one with which you are familiar. [...] Therefore, they determine the entry of experienced events from an endless variety of probable ones. [...]

[...] We heard a television set sounding off in one of the downstairs apartments, though not loudly. [...]

Other probable events could just as well become physically experienced ones. [...]

[...] In one reality or another these will all be experienced. [...]

[...] Perhaps simply of one group of muscles, or one new motion.

[...] The teeth move about, the loose ones, as the jaw changes its positions. He may lose the loose ones in that procedure. [...]

(Seth considered the first two questions but not the third one; I didn’t realize this until the session was over. [...]

The impetus toward creativity is a loving one, and the natural processes in both body and mind as lovingly directed.

The four faces of Eve all represented various ego manifestations of one inner identity. The course of the ego is a precarious one, and any number of potential egos exist within any identity. [...]

[...] It is also true that on occasion one potential ego will take over from another. But this is all highly simplified, for the ego structure is not one thing, but a changing, never constant, actually quite informal grouping of psychological patterns. [...]

[...] The book should make one point plain: Identity, despite all appearances to the contrary, does not reside primarily in the ego. [...]

[...] When the dominating ego relaxes its control for any reason or becomes weakened, then according to their concept any one of the subsidiary groups may take over.

A platitude and two people, one distant and one near. [...]

(“A platitude and two people, one distant and one near. [...]

[...] The term ego, implying one phenomena, is therefore confusing. [...]

Only the last one was simple. [...]

[...] The table, the one usually used and belonging to Ruth Klebert, one of Jane’s ESP students, had been repaired less than a week ago by me; it had been damaged to the extent of losing a couple of its three legs by its violent movements in a recent ESP class.

[...] It was soon discovered that by balancing it at a certain angle with the fingertips, then exerting a downward pressure, one can have an illusion of a force from beneath holding the table up with one leg off the floor. [...]

[...] Both involve table tipping, and include one Seth session.

(Part one: A table tipping session on Wednesday, November 22, 1967, in our living room, with the following: Jane and Rob, and Claire Crittenden and Carl Watkins. [...]

[...] One girl asks me if Chuck stayed til nine last night and I say yes. Then one girl, not of the group, is crying. [...]

[...] I begin to mimic him then realize that she is the one who is doing this, and talking about Untermeyer, not I, and I become confused and embarrassed and excuse myself for butting in.

[...] One said, she’s in bad shape, or badly off, words to that effect. [...]

Earlier, one of the boys kissed me laughingly in front of the group and I laughed, delighted. [...]

I come here to renew my acquaintance with one of you (Florence) and to introduce myself to two of you. [...]

I wanted to make one small point. [...]

One part of the self is pure truth. [...]

[...] In one sense you are not divided or separated and you will gain from his added development for he will telepathically let you understand matters that you have never understood before. [...]

[...] One of the troubles is that too specific distinctions are made between the conscious and unconscious minds. [...] Hypnosis, used properly without the mumbo jumbo usually assigned to it, is an excellent method of inserting new beliefs and getting rid of old ones. [...]

[...] She started it in a “normal” state of consciousness and ended up in an altered one — “immersed in a high state of inner concentration,” she said. [...]

[...] I’m even making new words out of old ones, ‘fossiling’ out of ‘fossil,’ for instance…. [...]

[...] The one suggestion that can break through is this: “I create my reality, and the present is my point of power.” [...]

[...] The variations mentioned above are intriguing in themselves, and range from an account of an “overlapping double dream” — that is, the individual’s second dream began in the middle of the first one, and extended beyond the end of the first dream — to one in which the dreamer told me, “I knew I’d been having two dreams at once, but I remembered them almost as one dream.”

[...] And we told ourselves that Seth was perfectly capable of resuming work on “Unknown” Reality whenever we were ready to do so, whether the time lapse involved one week or six months.

[...] I retained conscious memory of one of them for just a moment before it irrevocably faded. [...]

[...] I wondered what connection, if any, might exist between the capacity to have [and/or to remember] more than one dream at a time, and those “portions of the brain now not nearly utilized.”