“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I want to do them both—it isn’t that I prefer one over the other. I received the answer that I felt guilty over the conflict: when I wanted to do one, I thought I should be working on the other.”)

[...] On the one hand you see how they fit into the book. [...]

[...] She did not like to have her picture taken on the one hand because she feared disclosure, and on the other hand, because her sense of perfection was affected—particularly in later years by an imperfect image.

[...] Use the model, but let it be a flexible one, in which your ideals work with the material at hand, molding it. [...]

[...] The idea of discipline as you think of it comes into effect most generally when you try to impose a secondary kind of order over the primary one. [...] Such disciplines usually exaggerate and intensify one kind of natural spontaneous order over another. [...]

There is a gestalt relationship between all the sperm, say, in a man’s body at a given time, in which the sperm that do not connect still add their latent characteristics to the one that seemingly triumphs. In a fashion (underlined twice), they pool their resources, and climb aboard the one ship that makes it to the shore (animated and restless). [...]

(Pause.) In your terms man is of course still learning, and as he set up barriers between lands and formed separate nations, so he also set up divisions between aspects of his own consciousness and awareness, in his terms, so he could deal with them one at a time. [...]

[...] And what apelike female changed her genetic messages, knowing that her egg, if it matured, would literally give birth to an entirely new species, one that centuries later would read and write? [...]

[...] Ruburt for this class should keep one definite place at the table for his own. You have three or four small problems here, rather than one large one.

[...] We will describe one method at a time.

[...] (Pause.) Such objects may be moved without the help of any survival personality however, by the concentrated focus of psychic energy on the part of one or several individuals.

[...] The force field has definite space-time coordinates and a dimensional affect that permits the manipulation of molecules from one system to another.

[...] When this occurs the perceptions have already altered it, so that it is very difficult to perceive at the same time the present physical location and the past one. Usually the perceptions glide to one or the other: that one becomes shadowy or indistinct as the other becomes stronger and appears three-dimensionally.

[...] We are preparing for another one, and giving you a rest in between.

[...] The physical brain only perceives the appearance of matter in one of its many manifestations. [...]

[...] These exist all at once, but the perceiving mechanisms are tuned in to one characteristic channel, so to speak. [...]

Now: Much of the information, and the most pertinent part, is buried in your files—I tried to give the data in various ways, although it was quite definitely given also in terms of the physical relationship several times; and only at one particular period did you try to take advantage of it.

[...] He kept the symptoms for several reasons—and again, all given—to preserve what relationship you had, for one thing.

You were the one who could really hurt him if he let go, by your rejection of his emotional dimensions, he felt. [...]

[...] On one hand then, he did not want you to have to contend with them, particularly if he could take the tension. [...]

Love is naturally creative and explorative — that is, you want to creatively explore the aspects of the beloved one. [...] Because these are still attributes of the beloved one, even the seeming faults are redeemed. [...]

The span of a god’s love can perhaps equally hold within its vision the existences of all individuals at one time in an infinite loving glance that beholds each person, seeing each with all his or her peculiar characteristics and tendencies. [...] You cannot, therefore, honestly insist that you love humanity and all people equally if you do not love one other person. [...]

(The warmer weather now allows us to eat lunch at the picnic table we’ve installed in one half of our double garage. [...]

(Long pause.) Give us a moment… (A one-minute pause at 9:56.)

You had no problems with parents in the past, and my dear Yo-yo, you were an excellent father to me at one time, and if I may say so at one time I was an excellent father to you.

[...] That is, one life at least. [...] But the following lives should be relatively happy ones.

[...] You saved your father’s sanity at one point, and no one else could have done it.

The combination of bedroom, workroom, living room and dining room is a bad one. If it were strictly necessary that would be one thing. [...]

[...] Her first thought was one of acquiescence. Her second thought was one of panic, in that she wouldn’t know the passage of time as usual, etc.

[...] One of them was so long I thought she had fallen asleep. She sat motionless on her chair, her head resting upon one hand. [...]

(Then, lying down at 8:15 this evening, Jane felt that she went into a deeper trance state, one that was experimental and yet controlled. [...]

[...] For the most part she sat with one leg drawn up, an arm resting upon the knee, her hand to her head as though propping it up. [...]

[...] No one closes the door but you. And no one makes you close the door—and no one can make you open the door though I can certainly try!! [...]

Now I would tell you, take one tippy-toe out of your physical time (to Florence)—only one tippytoe, and you will be surprised at the results. [...]

[...] And a flower does not say, “Lo and behold, I am one small flower. [...] One flower cannot ask another flower for the sunshine—for the other flower cannot give it. [...]

[...] If I had gold stars, I would paste one on his (Theodore’s) forehead—but then he would be the one who would have to go to the bank and explain the strange star and not I.

You might decide, for example, to put all of your eggs in one basket in one life, knowing full well that in another you are taking a seemingly appropriate course of action. [...]

If you had but one life to live, it would surely be a tragedy if you made any important errors. It would even be a tragedy if you made none—for whatever road you took would seem to be taken at the expense of numberless, perhaps more promising ones.

[...] There are, as I told you, literally endless ways of relating to the body and to the world; each one will work—at least enough so that the system seems to hold.

[...] In many cases, whenever your culture and so-called primitive ones have met, inoculations worked, whether or not the natives believed in a particular inoculation, because they do believe in the “white man’s superior power,” and were as hypnotized by the white doctor’s mystique as they were by their medicine men.

[...] To a certain extent you do carry the knowledge of your forefathers within your [cells’] chromosomes,¹ which present a pattern that is not rigid but flexible — one that in codified fashion endows you with the subjective living experience of those who, in your terms, have gone before. [...] A completely different kind of focus was presented, in which the ancestors were understood to contribute to the “new” experience of the living; one in which the physically focused consciousness clearly saw itself as perceiving the world for itself, but also for all of those who had gone before — (gradually louder for emphasis:) while realizing that in those terms he or she would contribute as well as the generations past.

[...] That is but one line, however, covered by the chromosomes. You have “another line” of existence that also serves as a support for the one that you presently recognize. [...]

All of the leaves now growing on this plant could be thought of as counterparts of each other, each alive and individual in one time, each contributing yet facing in different directions. As one leaf falls another takes its place, until next year the whole plant, still living, will have a completely new set of leaves — future reincarnational selves of this batch.

Since one portion of your heritage is physical, in those terms, those memories can be translated again, back into emotional and psychological events, though usually they are not in your societies.

[...] One of the reasons why we have not gone into them as yet is that you have tuned into other realities, and the realities must be explained before your experiments can be discussed.

[...] Planes of actuality of one sort or another everywhere exist. [...]

[...] Others to you would appear physically lopsided, with all of their matter concentrated, so to speak, in one place. [...]

[...] All three must be opened at once, that is simultaneously, but any one door will automatically open the others.

One is some years younger, and one approximately, in any case, of his own generation. One has dark hair, one has blondish or white hair. [...]

[...] This is perhaps one of the most important bits of information I have given you; for if you are bright enough, and I think that you are, then you have a yardstick by which to measure the nature of primary reality, from which all other manifestations are spun.

[...] I would not like the matter of the sessions in general, and the subconscious influence question, to go by the board, and in one way or another we must find time for those matters.

One small point: I have never manipulated his subconscious, in any manner. [...]

[...] And a journey you have in one way yourselves all taken. [...] And if you will forgive me, we are giving you one quick boot and we will leave the sentence there so that you will not be able to use language as a hiding place any longer. [...] And suspense is the spice of life, so do not go looking for all the answers in one moment. [...]

I would leave an envelope, but no one would put anything into it except questions and I have plenty of those. Now who else do you know, except those two people (Jane and Rob), who would sit for one solid hour conversing in a language they do not understand? [...]

[...] After I said that this one [Mary Ellen] told me something that she has been thinking all week and all I did was mouth her words for her again.”)

[...] Some Sumari, and as you can all see I am closing Ruburt’s eyes so I am sure no one knows to whom I am speaking, do they Joseph? [...]

For a moment, think of your body as one large cell in the moment of its being. You, the larger self, have many bodies, each turning into the other as one dies and is reborn; yet You (capital Y) maintain your identity and your memory even as the smallest cell in your present body does.

[...] During break Jane received some insights from Seth as to what would follow in Chapter Eight — that, for instance, when good thoughts from an individual’s present life were activated, they would draw upon similar ones from his or her reincarnational personalities. This was a very interesting idea, aside from being a comforting one. [...]

(In our reality, the first law of thermodynamics tells us that energy [matter] can be changed from one form to another but that it can’t be created or destroyed. [...] In mathematical terms Einstein revealed that mass and energy are equivalent to each other — when one is “destroyed” the other is “created.”

[...] An alteration in just one cell is instantly noted by the body consciousness (the combined consciousnesses of the cells), and the future effect perceived. [...]

[...] In this one Joseph can choose whether to buy or not, so there is no coercion (by Stella Butts), for example. Joseph and Ruburt were also shown a second house in Sayre — one a good deal cheaper, but generally much like the one in which Joseph’s mother lived in this life. [...]

Now, give us a moment … In one way or another throughout this book, we will be dealing with history as you know it and as you do not know it. [...]

[...] All of the different variations that can be played upon human consciousness, all of the racial probabilities, are in one way occurring in ages past — but they are also happening in what you think of as your present. [...]

[...] Driving through Sayre,¹ Pennsylvania, one Sunday afternoon, Joseph noticed a house for sale in a neighborhood he knew — and remembered that it had belonged, in his memory, to a man of whom his mother had been fond. [...]

[...] One is to the effect that although Seth’s contact with Jane and me is his first venture into education on our plane, [which he had told us many sessions ago], he is also in contact with other groups on other planes. [...] Killing is not one of them however, nor are wars.

[...] All the windows in the apartment were closed with the exception of one kitchen window, because the night was extremely windy; this wind aggravated my hay fever. The candle burned with a low flame, one perhaps a quarter-inch high. [...]

(Jane’s maternal grandmother is on a midplane—at least one, and perhaps more, lives to come yet. [...] Later: we believe Bill’s mother is the one on the midplane.)

[...] The room was lit by a candle within three feet of us on another table, and by reflected light from the kitchen on one side of the living room, and from the bedroom on the other side. [...]

[...] Sometimes dreams that seemed nonsense contained one clear, important image that shortly — within a few days — would appear in a different context entirely. In several cases, two or more future events would be condensed into one dream.

[...] No one we knew even owned a cycle, and neither my father-in-law or myself had the slightest idea who the driver was. [...] There were family pictures in an old album showing him proudly standing next to one when he was courting Rob’s mother. [...]

[...] One night I had a confused dream about a celebration. [...] We shouted one word over and over again: “Kangaroo.”

[...] For one thing, records of your own precognitive dreams will convince you that you can perceive segments of the future. [...]

(A one-minute pause at 9:21.) In normal daily life, considerable natural therapy often takes place in the dream state, even when nightmares of such frightening degree arise that the sleeper is shocked into awakening. [...] The nightmare itself can be like a shock treatment given by one portion of the self to another, in which cellular memory is touched off much as it might be in such an LSD session.

[...] The last line in the poem he had completed just before dinner spoke of a light that would illuminate both worlds, one of the soul and one of the flesh. [...]

Part One of the book is to be called: “Where You and the World Meet.” [...]

[...] It knows precisely how many such “shocks” the psyche can take to advantage, which associations to animate through such intense experience and imagery, and which ones to leave alone.

[...] Put very simplistically, this “quantum approach” allows for the theme that each of us inhabits but one of innumerable probable or parallel worlds. Even the theory of evolution is invoked, for those other worlds are said to evolve in parallel with the one we inhabit. Yet there is no answer within quantum mechanics as to how or why one’s personal identity chooses to follow a certain probable pathway, and consciousness per se is not considered. (Some physicists, however, have implied that subatomic particles—photons—communicate with each other as they take their separate but “sympathetic” paths.) Pardon my irony here, but Seth has always dealt with the ramifications of consciousness and maintained also that we do not inhabit just one probable world, but constantly move among them by choice—and by the microsecond, if one chooses.

[...] There are as many possibilities—and probabilities—as one can think of. [...] If reincarnation is to be considered, their disturbed relationship this time might reflect past connections of a different yet analogous nature, and may also have important effects upon any future ones. [...] And Jane’s resolve, her will that, according to Seth, “is amazingly strong” (in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, see the 713th session for October 21, 1974), may buttress the understanding and determination of one or more of her counterparts in this life; she may meet (or have met) such an individual; another may live across an ocean, say, with no meeting ever to take place in physical terms.

I’ve written these passages knowing, of course, that many of Seth’s points and our own are at best theories, if very intriguing ones. [...] Very abusive responses are also involved, as well as surprising near-illiterate ones.)

[...] All is one, basically, as he knows—and can feel—far better from his vantage point than we can from ours. [...]