“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Class was a very busy one, with over 40 people present. When Seth came through Sue had time for but one question: Was Grunaargh connected to any of the families of consciousness Seth had named in the 732nd session? “It is indeed,” Seth answered “It is related to one already given.”

Neither house expresses your own particular individualistic ways of life, of course, but each one comes close enough to intrigue you, and either one could be made to suit your purposes quite easily. [...] In the first house the stairs to the second floor were purposely steep, and never altered, because no one was invited to view the private family bedrooms. [...]

[...] Jane listed Seth’s families of consciousness last month in Session 732, but wound up the evening’s work thinking that several years ago, soon after she’d initiated the Sumari breakthrough, Sue had psychically tuned in on the name of a second family of consciousness — one that Seth didn’t give in the 732nd session. [...] One of the reasons for my failure to settle the matter right away was the lack of any immediate pressure to do so, for we hadn’t seen Sue since before the 729th session was held; that’s over five weeks ago now; newspaper work has often kept her too busy to make the trip to Elmira.

[...] Very seldom do they live in one place for long, although they may if their occupation deals with products from another land. Individually they may seem highly diverse in nature, one from the other, but you will not find them as a rule in universities as teachers. [...]

[...] Through the years the goals of one level of consciousness— though I am putting this simply—became tied to the goals of another level of consciousness. [...] Practically, however, this is like trying to build two pieces of furniture with different materials, then forming them into one cohesive whole. In both of your lives, those experiences, however valid, that did not fit both categories, gradually went to one degree or another by the way.

[...] Psychological events are automatically manufactured by each individual, and no one but the individual can really ascertain the quality of the product.

[...] There are certain considerations, quite pertinent, that occur in your physical times, so that while on the one hand you were involved in the highest adventures of creativity, pursuing the most profound questions of consciousness, you were also deeply involved in practical considerations of making a living.

When you try to use the insights of one level of consciousness to reach the goals of a “lower level of consciousness,” you run into difficulty. [...]

[...] You cannot disconnect one area of life from another. [...] There is no stratum of society that you do not in one way or another affect. [...]

A controversy related to that over mammograms, but one that hasn’t been nearly as well publicized, concerns “prophylactic subcutaneous mastectomy” — the process by which some women elect to have their breasts removed before they actually develop cancer in one or both of them. [...]

(Pause at 10:15.) Chapter 2: “ ‘Mass Meditations.’ (A one-minute pause.) ‘Health’ Plans for Disease. [...]

Many of my readers are familiar with private meditation, when concentration is focused in one particular area. [...]

[...] Your [reality] is simply not one that I have pursued, and one of the purposes of my participation in these sessions is to acquaint the one called Ruburt with inner travel. [...]

[...] “Ruburt’s range is an excellent one, and the plane of reality in which I have my existence is far beyond those to which persons in the physical system usually have access. [...] This [kind of material] has its purposes, and it does do some good, explaining reality in terms that people can understand, for the props and fantasies are familiar ones. [...]

“The Seth personality has been an intermediary and a legitimate one. The information already given to you regarding the nature of personality gestalts should make this development seem a fitting one. [...]

[...] Both of us felt almost sad, in one way. I think we were afraid that our regular Seth sessions were over, and that the new ones would take their place. [...]

I do not believe that there are any more dangers facing us in the interior universe than there are in the physical one. [...] The interior universe is the source of the exterior one, however, and traveling through it we will encounter our own hopes, fears and beliefs in their ever-changing form.

[...] The interior reality is clothed in dream images as, when we are awake, it is clothed in physical ones. [...]

[...] Perhaps one day we will move freely within it, alert, conscious and far wiser than we are now.

And so the exterior world emerges from the interior one even as this physical book materialized from the inner reality of inspiration, creativity and dreams.

It was in this session that Seth made the analogy of the “weird creature with two faces,” one turned to physical reality and one to inner reality, both conscious and aware, each representing one facet of our consciousness.

[...] The bedroom arrangement is fine, and if no one will blame Ruburt’s subconscious, then I would venture one further suggestion. [...]

(As we sat speaking with Mark, Jane finally told me that Seth wanted to have a session since we had missed last night’s regular one. [...]

[...] For that matter, I welcome a witness, and it is time you had one for your own edification, not mine, and it should do our nervous pigeon, Ruburt, some good.

[...] (Long pause.) At each moment, from the most microscopic levels the body (pause) in one way or another is ascertaining a constant picture of its position within physical reality. [...] You end up with a predominating picture of reality in any given moment — one that is the result of the activity of psychological, biological, and electromagnetic stratas. One picture is transposed upon the others, and calculations made constantly, so that all of the components that make up physical existence are met, and intersect to give you life.

One of the intellect’s main purposes is to give you a conscious choice in a world of probabilities. [...] (Long pause.) On the one hand you have been told to identify yourselves almost completely with your intellects. [...]

[...] I bought flea collars, and got one on Billy without trouble. When I tried to slip the other one over Mitzi’s head, though, I ran into a hornet’s nest of resistance, and Jane couldn’t help. [...]

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One small but amusing incident came up that illustrates my attitude during those early months. [...] We got a larger one for foods that we didn’t use every day, and this second refrigerator I put in our huge bathroom, a great old-fashioned tiled room that’s easily five times as large as the kitchen. [...]

[...] According to this, we lived several existences in the very distant past, including one in Denmark three centuries ago when Rob and I were father and son and Seth a mutual friend. [...]

Dr. Stevenson wrote us a letter much like one I would probably write today to someone else under the same circumstances. [...]

[...] For one thing I am a sensitive but disciplined and sensible—if somewhat irascible—gentleman. [...]

[...] I also began angling with one of the best-paying and most popular magazines in the country. The editor turned down story after story, assuring me each time that I was certain to sell him the next one. [...]

Trying to prove the existence of telepathy and clairvoyance to a self-professed “hard-nosed psychologist,” sell fiction to one of the best magazines in the country, and conduct our own tests in the Seth sessions was rather a bit to take on in one year—as I discovered.

[...] I wasn’t used to being comfortably seated in the living room one minute and in the back seat of a swiftly moving cab the next!

[...] A destination that is mainly to the right after one turn.”

[...] Now logically it may not be stable in intellectual terms, for it knows that one and one do not always give you two, but its great stability lies in its flexibility, its intuitions, and in its unending source of creativity.

In your relationship as a couple then you set up a framework in which freedoms allowed to one were compensated until certain adjustments were made. The creative aspects were given so much leeway, until out of fear one of you applied restraints of a restrictive nature. [...]

One of the reasons why he did not understand that the spontaneous intuitive self was the deeply creative and therefore deeply stable self, was that he identified it with his idea of femininity as he unfortunately misunderstood it. [...]

[...] This also has something to do with your private lives, for the feminine portions of that nature can quite easily be frightened into not showing themselves through the monthly function—that is so utterly spontaneous, so mysterious to the intellect, and the one main sign by which the female monthly shows her difference from the male.

[...] The planetary system of which we spoke in our last session was the first one within your universe, when you are speaking in terms of time.

It is very difficult to explain to you that the universes that you see, the stars and planets that you view, are one-dimensional, comparatively speaking. [...]

[...] (Pause, smile.) The possibilities that have come to reality within this universal system have each given birth to other systems and other realities, as one tree bears a thousand seeds. [...]

[...] The whole cosmic structure however was the materialization of one original thought, for the thought, the real reality, must always exist before the representation of it.

Specific creativity is but one important aspect of the psyche’s vast, almost incomprehensible productivity, for it produces your lives. [...] Ruburt has no one in that same manner. [...]

The apartment house was one thing, a mixture of various classes of people. [...] So reread that session with this one. [...]

[...] Among them was one from a Dan Curtis production company, who wants to option her life story for a possible movie for television. [...]

(While looking for a private session for Sue Watkins yesterday I came across the one dated April 12, 1971. [...]

[...] There are certain sessions I’ve labelled ‘fill-in’ sessions in my mind for some time now, or thought of them as covering ‘floating material.’ They aren’t book sessions or specifically personal ones. [...] And not specifically given to one subject.

(Long pause.) You have settled upon a system that seems to be naturally based, the exclusive results of your historic past, one in which your main activities are daytime ones. [...]

One important point, again, is to remember that in any given day his mood is often excellent for many periods of time. [...]

[...] Later, I will have some things to say about what I will call “the daily hypothesis,” for each person has such a daily hypothesis — one that might be quite different for, say, Friday than it is for Monday. [...]

[...] Such cultural models are present in society to begin with, because in one way or another they express in an exaggerated form certain portions of man’s psychological reality that he does not as yet understand. This applies to the “good” schizophrenic models and to the “bad” ones—that is, to the gods as well as to the demons.

[...] Some stood for forces of nature that could very well be at times advantageous, and at times disadvantageous—as, for example, the god of storms might be very welcome at one time, in periods of drought, while his powers might be quite dreaded if he overly satisfied his people. There was no chasm of polarity between the “good gods and the bad ones.”

[...] They present a kind of chain of command—one that is not usually permanent for any long period, however.

(A one-minute pause at 9:29.) Devils and demons have no objective existence. [...]

That fear led you to make, during your short drive, a quick and quite a desperate entreaty into Framework 2. Wanda had several errands, the bank merely one, and it was her lunch hour. [...] She never forgot the help you two gave her one night, when she was frightened, and that connects you to her in Framework 2.

[...] One or two out of every four or five sessions gets through to you, meaning both of you. [...] Both religion and science, parents and schools, stress that idea, and it is one of the most important causes of mental alienation, spiritual and physical distress.

Other people will refuse such a situation, and accept one mar, or one mar after another—an organ after organ. [...]

[...] So he spoke of his new chair and the Wanda incident and the piece of jewelry (from Frank) in one breath. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Another part of your whole identity is quite aware that you are delving into one concept of yourself. [...]

[...] (Pause; well over one minute long.) Your time is required… These communications change me as they change you, for they are action on both of our parts. [...]

[...] (Pause, over one minute.)

I will try in your future to explain basic systems of co-ordinates so that you will have some conception of how all creative and inspirational ideas always appear within your system; for only one portion of you appears isolated within it.

[...] One of the topics was the mail. [...]

[...] I did mention one good point, I thought: If she must be involved with ideas of responsibility, then let her think that she has already fulfilled her responsibility to help others, through the work/books she’s already done. [...]

[...] But I caught both of us talking about the “negative” letters rather than the positive ones.

[...] Our work should end up to some extent illuminating many fields of knowledge and interest, because it is not directed to one or another subject matter, and certainly not restricted to information that must be immediately utilitarian. [...]

[...] “Well, we got rid of one big problem,” she said. [...] She needs one-on-one care, and we can’t do that here. [...] Her doctor tried one medication, then dropped it to try another, and that didn’t work....” [...]

[...] I told her I had a question for her, and she said she had one for Seth. [...]

[...] A girl from Andrew Fife’s office called to tell me that Andrew had called one of the supervisors at Syracuse—Blue Cross—about our major medical claim. [...]

[...] Jane said she was the one who’d told her when she first was assigned to 330 that when Jane was transferred, other people wouldn’t have time to give her a smoke, etc.

(In answer to a question from a student:) A beloved trap is one that you set for yourself. [...] When you are tired of playing a Catholic priest, for example, you will fall into your own trap — in which your beliefs [as such a one] are suddenly worked out to their logical perfection, and you see what they mean.

[...] I challenge you now to be as creative in another reality as you are in this one. [...]

[...] But it is for each individual to decide which one he or she will follow. [...]

[...] This one is from an even earlier poem, Lorrylo, written when she was but 15 years old:)

They are closed enough to retain identity and separateness of characteristic natures, but because they are all formed from inner vitality, they are actually interrelated; and when I describe fields or systems I describe many portions of one reality, many faces of one reality.

[...] In his daily predictions he has begun to notice that one phrase seems to stand for more than one event in some cases.

First of all, let me make it plain that while I speak of separate fields and systems, you must remember that they are all one. [...]

All of these systems are intimately connected and delicately balanced, and an alteration in one sets up an alteration in each of the others. [...]