“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

While certain stages are occurring there may be an uneven quality, but not necessarily, where he walks much better one day and not another, until the entire system is aligned, when of course the improvements will be held. [...] I mentioned this only so that he understands, and is not disappointed if one day he does exceptionally well, and the next day does not seem to do as well. [...]

[...] He is allowing himself freedom by degrees, letting down repressions one by one.

The session, the late one, dealing with “work” attitudes, should be read at least twice a week now. [...]

[...] This is but one part of the process, however. [...]

[...] Rick’s publication of The Early Sessions, then, is a very important advance in the marvelous journey of discovery that, I think, each one of us is inevitably involved in, that each one of us has chosen to create, in whatever way and for whatever purposes.

[...] The sessions in one of the volumes published by Rick are accompanied by my drawings of the objects used in the series of “envelope tests” we conducted, both for ourselves and long-range with a well-known scientist, over some 11 months.

[...] The set is one more way to bypass the fragility of a lifework that’s so vulnerable on its brittle dimestore paper in those old binders. [...]

[...] He’s known many places on earth, and many loves as man and as woman, but I’ll bet that even now his experiences are still new, and that he reinforces Jane’s living feelings for each one of us. [...]

There is no one place to go. There is no one place to go and there is no one way to get there and there is no one ultimate truth. [...]

I have one small point before we close that I also wanted to mention. You are all remiss in one point here in that you give our Lady of Florence further negative suggestions that reinforce her own distrust of her intuitive self; so let us see that attitude suspended, and I will suspend the session. [...]

[...] Now, none of you clearly left your bodies, with one exception; but mentally you detached yourselves to various degrees. [...]

[...] But, in one manner of speaking, it cannot be told for you must have your own experience and recognize it. [...]

[...] There was something new here, though, I thought, when one postulated that Seth as we knew him was acceptable because of the symptoms. [...] Strange, I thought, if it turned out that personal work would be one of the most creative of all the uses to which the Seth material could be put, rather than grandiose pronouncements coming down from on high, dispensed by one who was in a position of superiority.

[...] How could you possibly understand people’s troubles unless you had pretty severe ones yourself—with my cooperation? No one can ever accuse you of handing down great insights from a position of being above it all.... [...]

[...] I reminded her of the stories one hears about the chronically ill, who run from doctor to doctor with no intention of getting well, because their illness serves purposes in the present. [...]

[...] I also had questions about some of my recent dreams, including the one of July 7 that Seth had promised to comment upon, but I had little hope that he’d get into that material tonight. [...]

(With one exception, which I’ll get to later, we’ve spent another long period — 9 weeks — without holding book sessions. [...] Once again, these were private or nonbook sessions, and once again they covered a wide range of subjects other than personal ones.

(Including the 806th session, those two blocks of material mean that in the last 20 weeks [or 4½ months], Seth has held but one session for Mass Events, and 28 on other subjects. [...] “Maybe it’s going to be his shortest one yet.”

(The two sets of material are also different in certain subtle ways, although one can always justifiably say that each subject Seth discusses is in some fashion a part of his overall philosophy. [...] In other words, it’s somewhat ironic that during the break in dictating Mass Events Seth-Jane actually produced the equivalent of another book, but one that we can’t do much about, at least at this time.¹

[...] Over the telephone three days later, Tam suggested that Jane do a children’s book, or one for “readers of all ages,” based on her dream about Emir;² the next day he called again, this time to give her the delightful news that he’d accepted James for publication.

[...] One of the latter may be miserably poor in one life, luxuriously rich in another, an intellectual giant in still another, a great athlete, and then a complete invalid. [...]

Since all is simultaneous, your present beliefs can alter your past ones, whether from this life or a “previous” one. [...]

[...] While this one contained elements similar to those described in earlier encounters, new ideas and questions were generated also. [...]

[...] One driver had already been severely injured (on Monday); and the race, put off on that account, and because of inclement weather (on Tuesday), finally began today.

[...] It has so many variations now in the world culture that it allows many individuals to move from one belief system to another while still safely cloaked in religious garb. If you move from sinner to saint or saint to sinner, from Buddhism to fundamentalism of the Christian kind, or from one sect to another, seemingly with a diverse belief system, your growth and transformations are still being provided for by a religious structure.

[...] I also told her I thought another reason applied, however, one that led to the swelling to begin with. [...]

[...] When Jane read her material of this afternoon to me, I thought she likened the Sinful Self’s renewal to reincarnation, meaning that she thought this renewal might account for many of our overt ideas of reincarnation—that at least some of our ideas about reincarnation were based upon our intuitive knowledge of the return of portions of one’s self to that earlier state of innocence—a rebirth, in other words, that we might translate into the idea of physical incarnation. [...]

[...] After being initially upset, I rather humorously thought that my idea wasn’t a bad one anyhow.

There are in a basic sense other universes within the one that you recognize, and constantly happening in those universes are other events of which you are unaware. The universes exist one within the other, so to speak, and their events also one within the other, so that while any given event seems itself only in the terms that you recognize, it is a part of endless others that exist one within the other, and it is impossible at certain levels to separate the “portions.”

[...] You have attracted them to one extent or another, and they have been attracted to you. Momentarily a field of relatedness is set up that is highly charged, one that provides an inner path by which probable events can flow into your area of recognized events.

[...] What I have called the predream state here is actually one in which you are always immersed whether you are waking or sleeping, or whether in your terms you are alive or dead. [...]

[...] On the one hand they represent other events of the predream state, events beyond your comprehension in their “natural condition.” [...]

[...] Hence, to some extent your difficulties with “Unknown”—that is, with the notes—for you are trying to fit one dimension into another. A bold venture, and one that fits in quite will with your intents jointly to understand and preserve fleeting reality, and one that conflicts with your attempts to do this in the context of one physical time that passes.

[...] One and one is two—that is a fact in your world, and you can use that fact in millions of ways, but it involves no truth.

He has not as yet changed his viewpoint to that of a normally flexible person, but it is vastly improved from the one he had only a short while ago. [...]

[...] On the one hand, they are living, these distractions. [...]

[...] Only one of them a day to begin with for a two-week period, and then the two of them may be done each day. The one where the individual lies frontward down on the floor, and lifts up from the arms, Joseph, you know this one.

Our session last evening was a rather serious one, for I believe it necessary that the terms of these endeavors be stated at once, and as clearly as possible. [...]

[...] The condition originating in one incident some time ago, and further aggravated by a second incident in more recent times. [...]

[...] Each individual utilizes carbohydrates and protein in a slightly different manner and what is good for one is not necessarily for another.

[...] I met two men this week; one in the library who I felt a strong attraction for, an older man of sixty; and another one who I was greatly upset by who I met this Saturday.”)

[...] There should also be communications in one way or another in the dream state. [...]

[...] And why do you need a language beside the one that you have? [...]

(To Natalie.) There is one element you have not thought of, you have another record keeper over here. [...]

How one chooses to define “spring” also enters in, of course. [...] She’s half English, one-quarter Irish, one-quarter French and Canadian Indian. [...]

[...] I found myself thinking that occasionally the trite phrase, “the howling wind,” was a very apt one.)

The psychic groups, however, overlap physical and national ones. [...]

[...] They are initiators, yet they make little attempt to preserve organizations, even ones they feel to be fairly beneficial. [...]

The spirit of Island One says: “I quite enjoyed my venture, and I’ve learned that the great explosive thrusts of creativity are good — but, oh, I yearn for my own quiet, undisturbed shores; and so if you don’t care I think I’ll return there.” [...] The spirit of Island One realizes that it would find the old conditions quite boring now, and the new alterations fill it with pleasing excitement and challenge. [...] For the spirit is convinced that it definitely improved the condition of Island Two, and there is no doubt that the spirit of the second island improved Island One beyond degree.

One day a bird flies out further from that first island than ever before, to another one, and comes back with a strange seed that falls from its beak. [...]

One strand of your mother’s consciousness — that one involved with you — is intertwined with your reality because of her interest in homes.⁵ Another strand of hers is involved because of her interest in families — and hence with the children of your two brothers, Linden and Richard.

[...] One may have no trees at all, and another be the home of a volcano. [...]

(8:32; eventually a one-minute pause.) The symptoms have served to “allow you” a certain privacy, A certain detachment from the world, while at the same time providing a way of relating to others, of sharing life’s misfortunes so that it might not be said, for example, that as artists or people you lived in an ivory tower, untouched by life’s usual dilemmas. Again, there were twists and turns through the years as the symptoms might serve one purpose more than another at any given time, but falling within the general category. [...]

[...] (a one minute pause at 9:06.) There is some reincarnational influence, in that you and she were acquaintances (long pause), of a minor variety, however—once in your Roman soldier existence, and I believe in the Denmark one. [...]

(One of the questions concerned Seth’s material on page 218 of the last session, when he referred to the feeling that Jane and I have, that we had “an even more unfair advantage” without children—this, as he’d stated earlier, on top of our already being set apart from others because of our creative gifts. [...]

[...] I’ve started a small oil painting based on the “chute” portion of the dream for July 7. I’ve also done a pencil sketch of one of the heads in the photos of myself in the reincarnational dream of July 17, in case I don’t get to paint it. [...]

I suggest that on the two evenings, Ruburt take a warm shower—not a hot one—before retiring. [...] Not a heavy one, but enough so the body is comfortable.

[...] Ruburt attempted too much last evening for one night’s work.

[...] One ESP class member, Sue Watkins, saw Seth in the room, etc.)

For your particular purposes you might imagine that you are walking through, or traveling through, one of your own paintings. [...]

[...] (Pause.) One of the purposes of this book is to tell you that no one is born to be a sickly person, so reading it can help you there.

Think of the greater you — call it the entity if you want to — as forming a psychic structure quite as real as your physical one, but composed of many selves. [...]

So the entity or “greater” psychic structure of which you are a part is aware of much larger dimensions of activity than you are, yet in the same way its more sophisticated consciousness rests upon your own, and one is necessary to the other.

In still other terms and at different levels this lapse occurs — this moment of reflection extends itself — as the self leaps clear of physical form (even as the cell at one time deserts the body).

(Long pause at 9:48, one of many.) It almost dissolves in the imagined light of super-expected performance. [...] (A one-minute pause.) We want to speak more of reactions between elements of the personality, so I do not want you to settle upon one portion as the villain. [...]

(Jane didn’t feel particularly like having a session last night, and the time just passed without our holding one.

[...] Last night she’d slept fairly well, although at one time she sat up and wrote some notes on the Speakers’ manuscripts. [...]

[...] During one of our discussions yesterday, also, I mentioned to Jane some of my own ideas about the power of the Sinful Self, according to Seth’s material. [...]

[...] Such a procedure is bound to lead you into one subjective trap after another.

[...] Imagine the experience present in one moment of time over the globe, then try to appreciate the subjective experience of your own that exists in the moment and yet escapes it — and this multiplied by each living individual.

Each reader, however, should in one way or another sense his own vitality in a way quite new to him, and find avenues of expansion opening within himself of which he was earlier unaware. [...]

I hope that in one way or another this book of mine has served to give each of you an introduction to the inner multidimensional identity that is your own.

Each of the twelve represented qualities of personality that belong to one individual, and Christ as you know him represented the inner self. The twelve, therefore, plus Christ as you know him (the one figure composed of the three) represented an individual earthly personality — the inner self — and twelve main characteristics connected with the egotistical self. As Christ was surrounded by the disciples, so the inner self is surrounded by these physically oriented characteristics, each drawn outward toward daily reality on the one hand, and yet orbiting the inner self.

God, therefore, is first of all a creator, not of one physical universe but of an infinite variety of probable existences, far more vast than those aspects of the physical universe with which your scientists are familiar. He did not simply then send a son to live and die on one small planet. [...]

There are many probable systems of reality, therefore, in which physical data predominates, but such physical probabilities represent but one small portion. [...]

These individuals were a part of one entity. [...]

Then a group (perhaps this one?) goes upstairs to our apartment. [...] It featured one of the girls in the group particularly. She thought it was a clairvoyant one, but I said no. [...]

[...] One was a Great Dane. [...]