“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

But first: One day in late November 1963, Jane sat at her writing table in the living room while I left to paint in my studio at the back of the apartment. [...] When I went out to see what Jane was up to I was greeted with her breakthrough accomplishment—one that, to put it mildly, was to lead to very unexpected challenges and growths in our lives: Jane held up a sheaf of typewriter paper upon which she had scribbled in large handwriting an essay that had come to her as fast as she could write it down: The Physical Universe as Idea Construction. [...] She was exhilarated, intrigued, cautious, wondering about its ideas—that basically each one of us creates our own reality in the most intimate terms, for example.

Another part of my routine at 1730, a somewhat selfish one I saw in retrospect, involved first walking and then running late at night. [...] Jane was reluctant to see me go out late at night, but I reassured her that she would be all right in the house and that I would be all right outside of it—and each one of us always was. [...] I told Jane that my record was six deer at one time. [...]

[...] How much do we consciously know, or think we know, about that ultimately mysterious quality within which we construct our universe, our planet, the most minute portion of each one of us, mental or physical, during each moment of our lives? That ineluctable universe within which we swim so beautifully day and night, one that, according to Seth, we also create—and all at once, no less! [...]

I add that none of those books stress reincarnation, or any claims that Jane or I (or both of us) had or have psychic relationships with any one of that celebrated trio. [...] One personal example: for many years I carried a beat-up old paperback edition of James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience beside me on the front seat of my old Ford Taurus. [...]

[...] I had already done one and found I could not do it again because I had spent all of my creative energy on the first and could not do another one like it. [...]

[...] He has been trying to communicate with you, and you must indeed relax for you are the one that adds these symbols of death. [...]

[...] The voice that I can use on occasion could shatter the small image through which I speak and the spirit that belongs to your parents could not be contained in one bodily form or two. [...]

We are not having a long session this evening, a very short one. [...]

One session is not enough here. For the interconnections that exist between the two of you, several sessions would give you an excellent basis for understanding yourselves in relationship to one another. [...]

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

[...] This was one of my main reasons for suggesting strongly that you buy the specific property, a while back. [...]

(“A short one.”

(The search, then, is on for new unities and meanings; a convergence, one might say, of the realities of science, nature, religion — and, of course, mysticism. By mysticism I mean simply the intuitional penetration of our camouflage reality to achieve deeper understandings relative to our physical and mental environments — and such comprehensions are what Jane seeks to accomplish through her expression of the Seth material.²⁵ In that sense, it isn’t necessary here to discuss attaining “ultimate” knowledge — it will be enough to note that as one person Jane can use her abilities to help unify a number of viewpoints. [...] This realization alone can be a transforming one; as I show in the Introductory Notes for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, it can be a most useful one in practical, everyday life as well. [...]

There is a design and a designer, but they are so combined, the one within the other, the one within and the one without, that it is impossible to separate them. [...]

[...] No one denies the amazing structure or design of our physical universe, from the scale of subatomic particles on “up” (regardless of what cosmological theory is used to explain the universe’s beginning). The study of design as one of the links between “living” and “nonliving” systems would certainly be a difficult challenge — but a most rewarding one, I think — for science. [...]

13. A note added much later: Sometimes things develop in unexpected ways: One might say that several years later Seth continued the material just presented. By the time he did so he’d been through with “Unknown” Reality for quite a while, but I was still working on the notes and appendixes for Volume 2. As I wrote Appendix 12 in particular I discussed with Jane the passages on naïve realism; soon afterward Seth began to refer to the subject during scheduled sessions, and one of them contained the excellent information below. (Only one part of that session is quoted, but eventually it will be published in its entirety as part of a Seth book.) Very evocative, to consider how consciousness chooses to manifest itself physically, in direct contradiction to the mechanistic beliefs held so tightly — and with so little humor — by those adhering to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. [...]

[...] I’ve had several lesser encounters with relaxation effects since the massive one of April 24—the last one being last night. [...]

[...] I haven’t asked the pendulum many questions at all since the last ones I recorded on April 21. [...]

[...] Our main goal in wanting a home for the Seth material—or for a lifework, really—is one of preservation for future use. [...]

[...] Later you might see that many of your own decisions or actions that once appeared disadvantageous, and for which you berated yourself, were in fact the very ones that helped bring your own abilities to your attention.

You can direct the healing of your body, telling yourself that this will be accomplished by you at one of the other levels of sleep consciousness, and you may ask for the aid of a Speaker to give you any necessary psychological guidance that is needed to maintain health. If you have particular conscious goals and if you are reasonably certain that they are beneficial ones, then you can suggest dreams in which they occur, for the dreams themselves will hasten their physical reality.

[...] A knowledge of one state of consciousness can help you in other states. [...] In another layer of reality, of course, you will be creating one.

[...] Here a great creative synthesis and a great creative diversification takes place, in which any given dream image has meaning to various layers of the self — on one level representing a truth you have lived and on other levels representing this truth as it is more specifically applied to various areas of experience or problems. There will be a metamorphosis, therefore, of one symbol turning into many, and the conscious mind may only perceive a chaos of various dream images, because the inner organization and unity is partially hidden in the other areas of consciousness through which the reasoning mind cannot follow.

The Speakers help you in the formation of dreams which are indeed multidimensional artistic productions of a kind — dreams existing in more than one reality, with effects that dissect various stages of consciousness that are real, in your terms, to both the living and the dead and in which both the living and the dead may participate. [...]

[...] They exist apart from the physical world and in an inner one, and from this you draw those theories, ideas, civilizations, and technologies which you then physically translate.

[...] The Platonic, idealized inner world would ultimately result in a dead one, for in it the models for all exteriorizations were seen as already completed — finished and perfect.

Many have seen that inner world as the source for the physical one, but imagined that man’s purpose was merely to construct physically these perfect images to the best of his abilities. [...]

[...] They are ideals set in the heart of man,⁵ yet in other terms he is the one who also put them there, out of the deeper knowledge of his being that straddles physical time. [...]

You will do a series of portraits of one man, each one depicting a different materialization of his personality in various existences. [...] You will meet both men at parties in New York, and one man directly through the Miss Taylor who called this evening.

[...] There is not just one line of development, but many—all under one direction however, and for one purpose.

[...] ) Your own tendencies (to me) are general ones, against personal encounters, before such encounters are made. [...]

[...] One man in particular whom you have not yet met, will give Ruburt an idea for a book, through his questions, that will be most remarkable.

Your universe is only one of many such universes. [...] One universe does become another. However, the universes containing an almost infinite number of planes are therefore affected by the exchange of energies involved, and the interaction and continual movement even of one plane through another results in effects which will be perceived in various ways, again according to your own situation in them.

(Just before the session tonight we discussed the article under Science in Time for April 10, 1964; it dealt with the discovery of the most distant galaxy to date, one traveling away from us at a speed of 76,000 miles per second.

[...] Before one of our regular sessions as you know Ruburt often becomes nervous. [...]

[...] The inner sense that aided him in this instance is one that we have not yet discussed.

One can, of course, turn the whole thing around in various ways: The freshly dead person, still carrying his or her nonmaterial emotions, can feel a grief equal to that of the one left behind; their mutual sorrow can form a bond stronger, perhaps at least temporarily, than those created by either one in other lives with other people. Or the one still “alive” can turn away from the dead partner, relative, or friend in order to be psychically and physically free for new adventures. [...]

Time overlays are versions of master events, in that they occur in such a fashion that one “face” of an overall event may appear in one time, one in another, and so forth.

[...] For instance, I’d wondered, as I read her paper, how often does the newly deceased person’s meeting loved ones from other lifetimes “dilute” the love he or she had felt for the mate, say, who is left behind this time? How ironic, that the one still physical grieves for the departed loved one, while that newly dead individual is joyfully becoming aware of connections with other existences, other loves….

Those first days in March were mentally crowded ones for Jane. [...] The first one gave her information about a life she’d lived as a nun in the former province of Normandy, France, in the 16th century. [...]

(All with a rolling intensity:) I must of necessity tell this story in serial terms, but the world and all of its creatures actually come together like some spontaneously composed, ever-playing musical composition in which the notes themselves are alive and play themselves, so that the musicians and the notes are one and the same, the purpose and the performance being one, with each note played continuing to strike all of its own probable versions, forming all of its own probable compositions while at the same time taking part in all of the themes, melodies, and notes of the other compositions—so that each note, striking, defines itself, and yet also exists by virtue of its position in the composition as a whole.

1. My dream represented a reaffirmation of a stand I’d taken early in this life—one that perhaps I’d felt since birth. [...] My interpretation is that I saw the tree as the tree of life even then, and that I’d chosen to remain close to the world of nature and art instead of immersing myself in the safer industrial one. [...]

[...] I told myself that next summer the tree’s skeleton would remind me of the days that had passed since 1980 began, in our terms; I knew I’d be grateful for having physically experienced every one of them. [...]

For some time, in your terms, the sleepwalkers remained more or less at that level of activity, and for many centuries they used the surface of the earth as a kind of background for other activity.Their real life was what you would now call the dreaming one. [...]

(Jane sat quietly in trance while I left my seat to turn on the air cooler set into one of our living-room windows. [...]

[...] At one time connected with the school of ashcan art. [...]

A ten-hundred block referring to one of the locations given. [...]

The Jerry leads to Lewis, and there is a connection here, but not the one you would suppose. [...]

[...] One in the 1500’s or late 1400’s and one in the 1700’s. One as quite a cosmopolitan around Oslo. [...]

[...] I have also, however, been one of the ignorant masses, in your terms, who listened to the ringing through the centuries. [...] Now you are on one side of the fence, in your terms, but you have been on the other sides.”

I am not finished with you, I was simply speaking in terms of one particular phenomena. [...] These were simply examples of one case in point. [...]

Now we have here, for all of your benefit, some examples, both here (Davey) and here (Mary Ellen) and here (Joel) of one particular phenomena. [...]

Knowledge does not exist independently of the one who knows. [...] (Pause.) I am giving you the material through a personality that you can understand; one that is mine, one of my favorite selves. [...]

[...] One approach at one time does not negate the use of another approach at another time.

[...] If there are small side-streams now and then, they always return to the larger one. [...]

Now it makes no difference, basically, how you present the material, as long as it is presented; whether you let the stream flow on consecutively, one wave at a time, or whether you present it a bucket at a time, scooped up from various places. [...]

(A one minute pause.) We have mentioned this earlier. [...] On the one hand it set itself against spontaneity. [...]

The next one will be to use the abilities that he will then be free to use, correctly. Without the past challenge, or one like it, the various elements of the personality would not be sufficiently united, strong enough, to carry the abilities that have been latent within it.

[...] The pent-up spontaneity helped make our sessions possible, and in one way or another will always erupt. [...]

[...] They were adopted, for no one has treated him in that fashion.

[...] One of these developments will occur in our sessions, one in particular through Ruburt outside of a session, I believe, and another should take place initially Joseph through you. [...]

[...] First, Ruburt’s decision not to speak to Dr. Freudenberger’s class was a good one at this time (underlined). [...]

Another improvement, a considerable one, can shortly be expected in Ruburt’s physical condition, and I believe rather unexpected word concerning a book.

[...] You are yourself, and yet one of the spirals that form the circle. [...]

[...] Now you have settled upon one mathematical system to follow in your universe. Along with it you have settled upon one line of reality. [...]

[...] It seems very difficult for you to understand the fact that you live many realities at one time, simultaneously, and since the time scheme seems to be such a reality to you, the multidimensional aspects of your own consciousness are explained in those terms. [...]

But you must not think in terms of one line of development for creativity goes out in all directions, and All That Is having within itself the nature of all creativity cannot be static, cannot end and will always continue to create new development. [...]

I hate to tell you this, and I cannot follow through in one evening’s session, but the idea of movement and the idea of time are not at all connected in reality. [...]

[...] In one way he will not be making as much money as he could if he insisted upon changes in the contract. [...] The book will be an important one, and in the overall the money difference will not be great enough to tip the scales. [...]

The relationship with Frederick Fell will be a good one, although the present contract reflects the publisher’s caution, as well as the money already received reflects an impulsive belief in Ruburt on the publisher’s part.

He could indeed press for better clauses now, but in one way he would lose a certain advantage. [...]

[...] Because this contract is less than Ruburt could press for, the next contract will be a much better one, since the publisher will then feel rather embarrassed concerning this contract.

[...] You would insist he overreacted, that no one should be that suggestible. [...] If at the same time you seemed overly critical—to him, now—of a manuscript, say, or his missing sessions, then it seemed approval was denied him from the one person whose integrity he trusted.

[...] He felt that the last one was purchased by you in order to reach your parents, begrudgingly, that you would not have purchased a “new one” for him for example.

[...] If you or Nebene ever thought that objective details were important then see how important Ruburt thinks subjective ones area. [...]

Lighting his own cigarette in public was the one wild gesture of independence he allowed himself because you made such a point of lighting it for him. [...]

There is also a natural tension, then, between sexes that is based on far deeper causes than physical ones. [...] I have to some extent explained the fascination that one has for the other, as resulting from the inner knowledge of the whole self, that strives to attain true identity as it struggles to combine and fulfill the seemingly opposite tendencies that are a part of it.

The word “passive” is a poor one to describe the characteristics of the anima, in that it suggests a lack of motion, and this is hardly the case. [...]

[...] In simple terms the whole self contains male and female characteristics, finely tuned together, blended so that true identity can then arise — for it cannot, when one group of characteristics must be emphasized over the other group, as it must be during your present physical existence.

[...] The reincarnational pattern is generally speaking an open one, in that within it there is room for diversity. [...]