“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Consciously you deal with those problems of one given physical life. [...] Your earth identity (smile) in singular terms, is one existence. [...]

So while you operate in a one-reality field psychological structure, you do not on a conscious level even perceive its entire reality, nor your place in it. The word progression is a poor one, and again however I must use it. [...]

[...] Consciously you have the emotions of one personality to contend with and to direct constructively. One set of responsibilities and potentials. [...]

[...] Each exists to some extent where the other is, and yet the camouflage structures make it necessary for those within any given system to recognize the certain characteristics, only, of the one in which focus is to be maintained.

Now our friend, poetic Ruburt, wrote a poem about the Gods in the Rafters that I enjoyed, although poetry has never been one of my particular joys. And, yet, in one manner of speaking, the very air about you sings with its own joyful consciousness and does not know the same kind of burden of consciousness that often oppresses you. You are so frightened of death, in your terms, that you dare not turn your consciousness off for one second for you fear that if you turn it off, indeed, who will be there to turn it back on again? [...]

[...] Now we cannot cover one topic in an evening clearly, much less 101 topics. [...] In reference, however, to one remark you made earlier, you have always been involved strongly in what you would call religious endeavors in almost all lives. [...] And in one of these your friend over here (Daniel) was involved. [...]

[...] Now if it seems to any of you that one class member is monopolizing a session, then remember what I have said earlier. The questions that are spoken here by one are the unspoken questions of many, and so it has seemed to many of you that you were in some way from your birth tinged by evil. And in one of your particular past lives you not only believed this but taught it, and you believed it heartily. [...]

If you would look within yourself you would find out why, or if you ask for a private session sometime I might give you some hints, but you have not asked for one, and you have not asked for one for a good reason. [...]

[...] It is known that one disease can often cure another; sometimes, left alone, an individual will go from a serious disease through a series of less severe ones that are seemingly unrelated to the original problem.

[...] Beneath our living room windows, a carpenter pounded on an outside door frame as he repaired damage done to the ground floor of the house by the flood of last June [see the 613th session in Chapter One]. [...]

— to begin dictation: Physical existence is valuable for many reasons, one being that the flesh is so responsive to thought and yet so resilient. [...]

[...] If one virus disappears and another is found, it is never suspected that the first may have changed into the second; and yet through certain alterations of quite natural character such is the case.

[...] In the same manner there is no basic reason why one self, or rather one portion of the self, has its main experiences in one dimension, while other portions of the self experience reality within different fields.

The imagination can vaguely perceive, of course, some probabilities, but the physical organism can directly experience but one of these within physical time, and in terms of continuity. The probable events however are precisely as real as that one event which is chosen from them to be a physical experience. [...] As a sideline here, there are some interesting episodes, not at all understood, when a severe psychological shock, or even a deep sense of unendurable futility, will cause a short circuit, so to speak, so that one portion of the self becomes aware, and begins to experience reality as it exists for another portion of the self.

Now this event X is only one of a literally numberless amount of probable events which the conscious self could experience. For its purposes however the conscious self chooses this particular event X. But again, this event X, until the conscious self experiences it, is only one of many other probable events, different in no basic manner from the others. [...]

As I have explained the ego to you, within your system it can only perceive in terms of continuity, in a straight-line fashion so to speak, one event after the other. It can only choose to experience one event out of all the probable events at a time. [...]

(9:25.) The states of consciousness merge also one into the other, and it is obvious that I am using the terms of depth to make the discussion easier. [...] Each one, therefore, opens in great adjacent areas also, and there are many “paths” to be taken according to your interest and desire.

There are other layers of awareness beneath this one, but here there is a much greater tendency for one to merge into the other. [...]

[...] The experiences will all have to do in one way or another with nonphysical life, noncorporeal consciousness and forms, and the independence of consciousness from matter. [...] Out-of-body experiences will often be involved here, in which the projectionist finds himself in an unearthly environment or one of great beauty and grandeur.

[...] The alternate presents of which I spoke are not simply alternate methods of perceiving one objective present. There are many alternate presents, with you focused only in one of them.

Whenever, and for whatever reasons you block the normally free flow of impulses, you also curtail the exercise of free will, for free will involves you in the experience of choosing between the actualization of one impulse or another. [...] The telling itself makes the affair seem complex—but whether or not you are dealing with private behavior, with the treatment of one person in regard to his or her own impulses, or whether you are dealing with a mass event of political nature, involving the enforced blockage of impulses on the part of one group toward another, you are necessarily cutting down on the exercise of free will. [...]

[...] The only private fears he had were also old ones, having to do with the whole false-prophet syndrome, the fear of leading people down the garden path, and so forth. [...] (Long pause.) He was worried that his natural expression and search, publicly expressed at that point in history, was dangerous because it put him in the gaze of a growing band of fanatics on the one hand, and also roused old fears of a private nature, having to do with the overall validity of revelatory information. [...]

(This is the first session Jane has held since giving the deleted one for last January 7. Once again, she was very uncomfortable as she sat in her chair across the coffee table from me. [...]

(This week especially has also been one of emotional turmoil for us, and for many others, on the national scene: the inauguration of President Reagan; the freeing of the American hostages by Iran, and their return to this country in stages. [...]

The way the two of you relate to one another, and the way the two of you relate to one another and also the way you and you relate to one another. [...]

[...] When you set up blocks against the negative ones, you also set up blocks against the creative spontaneous ones. [...]

Now the one goal not only of my existence, and I feel this personally, but of all existence is creativity. [...] The consciousness and creativity of one, while seeming alone, is not alone but is a threshold upon which others may rest, and a framework from which others may grow. [...]

[...] Now one was mentioned by you earlier this evening (Gert). [...] The other involves this one over here (Bette) and brother Joel. [...]

(To everyone.) Now in one way you are all playing childhood games with yourselves, and if you will forgive me, I will use an analogy and remember it is an analogy. [...] You are all children in one way playing beneath the maple trees, dreaming in the long twilights of your adult state even as your adult selves now seemingly so independent would not know what to say to your childhood selves if you met them; but within you the childhood self must also grow, and allow it its growth. [...] You can travel from one box to another. [...]

[...] You are one of them. [...] The main answer is that you were one of the ones to whom I was speaking. [...]

Because you projected this upon her, and at one time it was a very safe place to project such feelings. There was a relationship in the past but not a deep one. [...]

[...] You (Valerie) can to some extent get relief from your own feelings of isolation not by reacting to others, but by opening up to nature on an emotional level, not an intellectual one; and also by relating to this one’s child. [...]

[...] The main one, the breakthrough session as I think of it, was the 367th for October 1, 1967. I read it over just before tonight’s session began, and was able to reaffirm my opinion that it’s still one of the best; at the same time it aroused questions, for it deals with causes in the past. According to Seth’s suggested use of the point of power, and his late deleted material, one isn’t supposed to dwell on the past, but go forward from the present—two major blocks of material, I told Jane this evening, that at first glance seem to contradict each other. [...]

Your struggles earlier, before you met Ruburt, involved relationships, in that you had no deep ones, allowing yourself to become close to no one. [...]

[...] I assume it will take lots of work to accomplish this, but am inserting these thoughts here as a remainder of one of the things I want to accomplish this year in this area. [...]

[...] I’m sure my own role in the whole thing is a strong one, and that in my own way I’m as badly off as she is, although it may not show physically. [...]

[...] Both took place before she started the sessions late in 1963; one in October, 1963, say, and the other one over a year before that perhaps in March, 1962. [...] She felt each one upon awakening from a nap, but with her eyes still closed. [...] Since she’d been alone on each occasion, she simply forgot to tell me about either one of them.”

(In that 39th session, Seth confirmed that Jane had been experimenting with one of the inner senses. Surprisingly, she’d tuned into one he hadn’t told us much about yet: Expansion or Contraction of the Tissue Capsule.)

[...] There is a continual exchange of energy and vitality, in other words, of actual atoms and molecules between one plane and another … the interaction and movement of even one plane through another results in effects that will be perceived in various ways … as necessary distortive boundaries, in some cases resembling a flow as if a plane were surrounded by water, or in other cases a charge as of electricity. [...]

[...] One day in April, 1973, she had a fine series of encounters with massiveness, many of them embodying those extra qualities; see her own account of the whole adventure in the notes for the 653rd session in Chapter 13 of Personal Reality.

(11:02.) Give us a moment … I told you (in the last session) that in one probability Ruburt was a nun, expressing mysticism in a highly disciplined context, where it must be watched so that it does not get out of hand. Because there is an unconscious flow of information and experience here, you have one of the reasons for Ruburt’s caution in some psychic matters, and his fear of leading people astray. There were three offshoots: one, the nun, with mysticism conventionally expressed, but under guarded circumstances; one, the writer who veiled mystical experience through art; and one, the Ruburt you know, who experienced mystical experience directly, teaches others to do the same, and forms through writing a wedding of the two aspects. [...]

[...] To paraphrase a remark one of my brothers made recently, I miss them in ways I couldn’t have anticipated before their deaths. [...] For those who are interested, I drew a likeness of my father for one of my pen-and-ink illustrations in Jane’s Dialogues, and incorporated an image of my mother in another one. [...]

[...] At one time, then, in your father’s past as you think of it, having met Stella, he did not marry her after all. [...] Whole regroupings of energy occurred, psychological and psychic implosions, so that two equally valid personalities were aware in a world in which only one could live at a time.

[...] (A one mimute pause.) Think of Ruburt’s living area in Adventures⁵ for example. Imagine that at age 13, three strong energy centers come to the surface of the personality — highly charged, so that one person cannot adequately fulfill the desires or abilities presented. [...]

[...] The plant is an old one, and one of our favorites. [...] I taped the leaves to one of the two pieces of Bristol used in these experiments, sandwiched it against the other piece, then sealed the two in the usual double envelopes. [...]

Now, form number one will spring out of an ordinary dream state. In spontaneous projections you may become conscious in form number one, legitimately project, return to the ordinary dream state, and project again several times. [...]

The excursions with form number one will be of your own system, and largely connected to the earth, although past, present and future may be involved. [...] This is at least possible, you see, using form number one.

I have the impression of two dark horizontal lines, one rather toward the top and one rather toward the bottom. [...]

When most people think of reincarnation, they think in terms of a one-line progression in which the soul perfects itself in each succeeding life. [...] There are endless varieties of this one theme, individual variations. [...]

(8:45.) Some, for example, choose to isolate various characteristics in a given life, and work on these almost exclusively, basing a given existence upon, say, one main theme. As seen from a physical viewpoint, such a personality would appear very one-sided, and far from a well developed individual.

(9:40.) In this one, as in no other reality, intellectual and intuitive abilities finally work so well together that there is little distinction between them. [...] The personality structures with which you are familiar are but one variety of the many forms of awareness available to you.

The probable system, therefore, is as complicated as the reincarnational one. Now I have told you that all action is simultaneous; therefore, on the one hand, you exist in both systems at once. [...]

[...] Physically you are like one country within your psyche, with a language of your own. People are always searching for master languages, or for one in particular out of which all others emerged. [...] Some words are entirely forgotten in one language, but spring up in altered form in another. [...]

[...] Otherwise you would know that language is dependent upon other implied ones; and that the two, or all of them, are themselves and yet inseparable, so closely connected that it is impossible to separate them even though your focus may be upon one language alone.

So the psyche and its source, or the individual and the God, are so inseparable and interconnected that an attempt to find one apart from the other automatically confuses the issue.

[...] During break she picked up that the Cézanne material from Seth would be in two parts — one of these being on world views, the other more on Cézanne-and-world-views. [...]

There is no one reality. [...] When beginnings and endings are spoken of, the implication is always there, that there must be but one reality, and that it must have a beginning in time and an ending in time.

Realities merge, one into the other. [...] The appearance of energy in one form could be said to end in that form were it not for the existence of the spacious present, in which all realities are simultaneous.

The Trinity concept in your terms was a masculine one, projecting to the one God concept the duality which all mankind feels, but because the theory originated with the male the duality is expressed in terms of the male viewpoint.

[...] This does not mean that any one field or plane is more valid than another. The closest field or plane is that one that you create, that you call the dream world, and that you imagine to be unsubstantial, impermanent, fleeting, having no reality except during your own contact with it.

He does have a purpose, that is one of several courses that he can follow, that will enable him to fulfill the purpose, which is his during this existence. He wanted to understand at one time the heredity of seeds and plants. [...]

[...] The experience was a split one, involving an accident in the past and one in the future, that were fused in his perception. [...]

The one accident, in answer to your question, occurred the evening of Ruburt’s experience, and it is the one that involved your friend Bill Macdonnel.

Another accident, a probability, is a future one, involving Tam Mossman’s Eve. Because of the similarity of names Ruburt fused the two accidents into one in his perceptive experience.

[...] from 86th to 74th Street to visit particular shops—one on 74th—one may have been on 82nd—one on 86th.)

[...] An appliance into which one places coins.

([The Gallaghers:] “The number 12 may be significant in that one night Bill spoke very loudly in his sleep, saying we had to make our way to 12th Street. [...]

([The Gallaghers:] “In one antique shop, I [Peg] pointed out two antique crocks which were very much like two we have and like.”)

([Rachel:] “I think I was one of the unfriendly ones.”)

[...] I was one who was friendly at that time. [...]

([Rachel:] “Who are the unfriendly ones?”)

([Sue:] “I’m the one across the field. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s decision in regard to his classes is a good one. There will be no difficulty in holding students, or in keeping the same income, with only one class.

[...] There will shortly be another equally remarkable improvement—another stage, in other words, and this one will be followed in a matter of two months or so by complete recovery —that is, two months after the next improvement.

You should recall that I told you that this one would occur.

[...] One of these will be a mental exercise, taking no more than ten minutes, and if done properly, only three times a week, will be of great benefit in keeping joints and muscles loose and free. [...]

Still however out of pity, the trap is still a probable one. It is a probable one simply because it does exist. [...]

[...] (One minute pause.) She realizes that Ruburt makes you an excellent wife. [...] In one way, when you were born, she was quite content that your father vanish. [...]

[...] (One minute pause, eyes closed.)

[...] It is almost like a reflex habit, a mechanical one, that keeps him now connected with your mother. [...]