“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Jane and I had heard of this association in a remote way, but it had no meaning for us until we committed ourselves to the hill house; the agency concerned is but one of many we’d contacted; yet also involved is our friend Debbie, who works for another real estate firm, and who had first called our attention to the hill house. There are more intertwinings here [including some art elements] than it’s necessary to describe; but studying just this one complex house connection, then seeing how it combines with some of the others we’ve become conscious of; leaves Jane and me more than a little bemused by this interlocking reality we’re creating.²

[...] The area has brought together diverse kinds of people, united by love of nature, some airy spaces, and some privacy … The people are also achievers of one kind or another, and while [your goals may be different] you appreciate the fact that they are trying to do something with their lives. [...]

(And now verbatim:) The fireplace in the hill house is advantageous, as the one in the house on Foster Avenue would have been, simply in that the open hearth represents an inner source of strength and stability. [...]

[...] At some time I will give you information discussing the reasons why some people, after being flooded in one location, then move to another equally threatening environment.

The core beliefs and the resulting subsidiary beliefs are interrelated and work back to back, one to the other. [...] True, that is a subsidiary issue, but it is one where he has insisted upon keeping some physical freedom open.

[...] The method is important in that it is one alternate way, represents a conscious effort at solving the problem in a different way, and provides less stress while the preliminary beliefs are worked on. [...] Working together here (in Apartment 5) in the day is also one.

[...] But at the same time you must make efforts to act according to the new one that you want.

With Ruburt’s literal-mindedness, again, there is a big difference, a vital one, between freely imagining a trailer trip which then becomes a probable beneficial reality, and being told it will not work.

No one, Ruburt or myself, can have the experiences that you can have with your own consciousness. No one can learn to manipulate physical reality in the way that you can or understand the nature of their own consciousness in the way that you can. [...] This is your gift, and this is your responsibility, for if you let it fall by the wayside, no one can pick it up for you and it can never be replaced. No one can ever have it for you. [...]

[...] One portion of it faces physical reality, ordinary working consciousness, and usually it is here that you focus. [...] Let your muscles go, no one is going to attack you. [...]

[...] It will help all of you if you imagine it as a platform and see yourselves throwing all your fears off one by one, and it would help if you do this before you begin working on anyone else. [...]

You are hypnotized, and you hypnotize yourselves daily, to believe there is only one reality, the physical one that you know and so I would call it, you see, a state of being—hypnotization, where you are freed from a compulsive demanding focus upon physical reality, and where your consciousness is allowed some freedom to pursue its own nature. [...]

(Jane has already had one session — a short one — today. [...]

[...] Left alone, various portions of the identity rise and form the ego, degroup and reform, all the while maintaining a marvelous spontaneity and yet a sense of oneness. (See both sessions in Chapter One.)

(While we were eating supper this evening Jane received a long distance call from one of our visitors of last August. [...]

The realization that you form your own reality should be a liberating one. [...]

[...] There were other homes about, but each one had a feeling of privacy amid its thick insulation of trees. [...] It was a ranch-style, cedar-sided dwelling that had just been painted a dark green — a conventional one-story affair with white shutters, a fireplace, a picture window, an attached double garage in back, and many trees and shrubs. [...] Streets — without sidewalks — passed the hill house on but two sides, at the southwest corner, and each one dead-ended less than a block away. [...]

[...] In fact, both houses are pictured, one above the other, on the same page of the catalog. [...]

[...] One Sumari may have many deeply rewarding personal relationships. [...] One Sumari might enjoy performing in front of an audience, while another might not even be able to bear the thought. [...]

[...] During that period we held the 737th session [on February 17], but since we weren’t consciously concerned with that particular place then, we neither talked about it nor asked Seth to comment; instead, on his own during the session, Seth discussed the house on Foster Avenue as representing a probability, and a pretty likely one, that we could choose to explore. [...]

[...] In the analogy these future selves would dwell in other dimensions, and usually self one, or Jane, would be relatively unaware of their, existence or knowledge. In this case self one is able to make such contacts however.

[...] Now we as portions of one entity, have certain memories that could be compared to the general cultural ones that you and Jane share, even before you met. [...]

[...] There is instead not a working arrangement between various portions of one personality, but a working arrangement among many quite independent personalities. [...]

(Last week in one of her ESP classes, Jane found herself speaking as Ruburt, knowing she was doing so. [...]

[...] It never occurred to you that the two aspects could release one another—one illuminating the other—and both be fulfilled. [...]

[...] For one reason, you identified your painting creative self with your father, and you felt that he had had to protect his creative self in the household from your mother. [...] You spent more mental energy setting up barriers to protect it, so that any one instance, say, of interruption or conflict, would immediately arouse the power of the buried fear, and become a symbol for it. [...]

There are comprehensions, illuminations, that cannot be verbalized, that arise as a result of illuminations solving problems that on the one hand seem to have nothing to do with the problems. These however are fulfillments quite unpredictable, that come about as you solve what appears to be one main problem. [...]

If your idea of protecting your talent could be transferred to a plant, you would keep it in a corner, a dark one, in a room in which no one could enter, and spend your time worrying about drafts, no matter how well you had closed the windows and doors.

[...] The mountain itself is not any one of those rock layers that seemingly compose it, however. There is a relationship between the mountain and those strata but the term “mountain” is one that you have applied. [...] Again, however, it is not any one of those rock layers.

[...] It’s full of evocative statements that were new to us at the time, since the sessions were barely underway: “As to Jane’s feeling about trees having [a certain kind of] consciousness, of course this is the case … The tree is dissociated in one manner. It is in a state of drowsiness on the one hand, and on the other it focuses the usable portion of its energy into being a tree.

One of the Roman soldiers, Maumee, and Nebene are mentioned in Appendix 21; see the excerpts there from the private session for November 18, 1974, as well as Note 1. Then see the comments Seth made the next evening in ESP class: “There are, of course, future memories as well as past ones … As Joseph often says: ‘When you think of reincarnation, you do so in terms of past lives.’ You are afraid to consider future lives because then you have to face the death that must be met first, in your terms. [...]

(“Is ‘life’ the word you want used there?” This is one of the few times I’ve interrupted Seth during his presentation of “Unknown” Reality.)

[...] This simply means that he has taken several giant steps, necessary ones. [...]

[...] One point (to me:) You missed me at Ruburt’s classes. [...]

[...] The classes will expand, and with students who will fit in admirably, for now his position is a stronger one.

[...] I am now closely allied with Ruburt, and yet in another way, a new way, there is a balance so that his personality can be the surface, dominant one. [...]

[...] Try to realize that even in your terms there have been multitudinous cultures upon the face of the earth, each one defining for all time, with great moral rectitude, the roles of men and women. There have been freer, more exuberant beliefs systems, and there have been more limiting ones, so look at those of your culture as they influence you as simply one of the ever-varying social fabrications by which a man colors his days. [...]

[...] His position was a poor one, yet its freedoms and limitations were known, and his value, whatever it was, was accepted as his station in life. He might be a good yeoman or a poor one, but a yeoman he was. [...]

[...] Men in one section of a continent dreamed of animals they had never physically seen, that inhabited other geographical areas. [...]

[...] Men dreamed their own maps in the same fashion, one man dreaming perhaps a certain portion, and several dreamers contributing their versions, drawing in sand in the waking state, or upon cave walls. [...]

[...] “It’s got to do with understanding that one must protect or encourage personal integrity before anything else,” I said, “even if it means projecting one’s troubles out onto an entity like Prentice, the church, or whatever. [...]

Again, the issue is not some hypothetical one, but one that directly affects people’s most private actions. [...]

[...] The notion is an important breakthrough for her, and one that must be accomplished if she is to improve physically.

Most people operate at one largely exclusive state of consciousness. [...]

[...] Jane still hasn’t been going to the john more than three times a day, nor have we yet tried point 4 on my list: taking one step a day with the aid of the typing table. [...]

[...] I have said before that many creative people, highly gifted, have died young in one way or the other because their great gifts of creativity could find no clear room in which to grow. [...]

[...] The Sinful Self concept is a personal one for each who holds it, but it is also projected outward onto the entire species, of course, until the whole world seems tainted. [...]

[...] It is not possible to say in words what one person or another looks for in life, or what unique features best promote his or her growth and development. [...]

I am the one who should do the psychological study from inside—

[...] It would take care of the sessions’ organization, for one thing.

(And as we said at break, one of those ideas that seems so simple, once heard; so obvious that we wondered why we hadn’t thought of it long ago ourselves.)

[...] (Pause; one of many in here.) Mr. Mossman has a tendency to go overboard. [...]

On one level the deaths are a protest against the time in which they occur. [...] The reasons, of course, vary from one individual to another, yet all involved “want their death to serve a purpose” beyond private concerns. [...]

(Pause.) These are the reasons also for the range or the limits of various epidemics — why they sweep through one area and leave another clear. Why one in the family will die and another survive — for in this mass venture, the individual still forms his or her private reality.

Dictation: (Pause, one of many.) Now: To a certain extent (underlined), epidemics are the result of a mass suicide phenomenon on the parts of those involved. [...]

Individually, each “victim” was to one extent or another a “victim” of apathy, despair, or hopelessness, which automatically lowered bodily defenses.

[...] Let us consider our self one and time one. As a rule our self two can indeed view what may happen in self one’s future. However, our self two views probabilities, and some of these probabilities will indeed occur to self one. [...]

[...] Nor would your idea of one and only one event at a time be understood. [...]

[...] Now I am not certain whether this refers to the age of one of the women, or whether they live on a 34th Street in the same city. One has a connection with jewelry.

[...] Peggy has been hypnotized twice—one of these times by Dr. Milton Erickson—but this was Bill’s first experience. [...]

Instead of telling you that you take an airplane from a certain airport at a certain time for a particular earthly destination, leaving one latitude and longitude and arriving at another set; instead of telling you that you leave your country for another ruled by a dictator, or a president, or by anarchy, they will tell you that you leave this astral plane for any one of a number of others, ruled as the case may be by lords or masters, gods and goddesses. [...]

[...] At one time, in your terms, each custom had a meaning. [...] So there are psychic customs as there are physical ones, religious and psychic dogmas, guided tours of consciousness in which you are told to follow a certain line or a certain program. [...]

[...] It is a valid one. [...] It is not therefore unreal, but one of the appearances that reality takes. [...]

[...] As earlier mentioned,⁴ the conscious self generally focuses in but one small dimension. [...]

[...] As I’ve mentioned in past books, at one time the human personality was “more at one with itself.” [...]

One of the issues I want to discuss in depth is that of spontaneity in relationship to health and disease.

It is only because civilized man has somewhat overspecialized in the use of one kind of knowledge over another that people fear the unconscious, spontaneous portions of the self. [...]

Actually the people involved are repressing not violent impulses but natural loving ones. [...]

Producing
from it’s magical bag
of tricks,
one marvelous form
of life after another,
fish,
bird,
monkey,
man
(not just one dove
or rabbit)
with a skill and swiftness
so astute
that our wise men think
one turns into the other!

[...] And in the back of his mind was the improbable hope that one day, somehow, the coins would really go through the tabletop. [...]

[...] “But if someone else told me things about myself that no one could know. [...]

Rob replied, “That test was just one of many we did. [...]

[...] But we should be in one, and know it, and know ourselves in it. Or we should be in the other and know ourselves in it; and finally, while we are in one reality, we should be able, even in it, to hold our knowledge of the other. [...]

I am going to suggest that our friend take a walk when we are finished here, a brisk one. [...]

What we are looking for here, and indeed one of the purposes of our sessions, is efficient use of various portions of the self in the perceptions of their own realities, and of an overall perception of each of the various portions of the self by the whole self, which transcends the others even while it is composed of them.

[...] The state is an unhappy one, where sharpness of perception is extremely limited. [...]

[...] (Yesterday afternoon, Sunday, August 10, 1975.) In a state between usual waking or sleeping he found himself giving a session such as this one, where earlier he had only heard my words in his head.

[...] He forgot what the session was about, remembering only one portion that seemed significant. [...]

[...] You saw no one in this position (in the chair), and physically not even a chair was here. [...]

[...] Those affairs involved the delivery of a session from the projected image to the physical one. [...]