“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I think that the session tonight was one of those concentrated ones, where you get a lot in a short time….” [...]

[...] What can one person do?

[...] You will purposefully keep your ideals generalized, thus saving yourself from the necessity of acting upon them in the one way open to you: by trusting yourself and your impulses, and impressing those that you meet in daily life with the full validity that is your own.

On the one hand, they believe that the self is evil, and on the other they are convinced that the self should not be so. [...]

You carried with you in your heads messages and laws that had been given to one of your kind in a time that was already nearly forgotten. [...]

(The Essenes were one of the four known Jewish sects active in the Holy Land at the time of Christ. [...]

[...] One portion of the group traveled to the land we now call Palestine, and the other migrated, in the next century, appearing in southern Europe.

(Ten sessions after this one, Seth told Jane and me that we had been Speakers also, although he said nothing about dates or countries, or whether Jane, Ron, or I might be renewing acquaintances made in other, perhaps very ancient times. [...]

[...] He lived two other lives, one in Spain approximately 1341, and one in England in the 1800’s; this one as a banker in London. [...]

—and alternates between an over-reliance on discipline on the one hand and intuition on the other, not yet able to weld the two so that they become two edges of one reliable tool. [...] I cannot obviously in one evening cover all the matters that have been suggested here.

[...] In one of them Dee achieved a light trance state. [...]

(The session turned out to be one of the slowest I can recall. [...]

[...] Ruburt was aware of this on one level. [...] You felt it was depriving you, not only of, say, a private session if Ruburt did not hold the following regular one; you also felt that the sexual activity you were not getting from Ruburt was being channeled instead psychically where you were getting no benefit. To use this energy in private sessions was all right because it was a joint performance, a private one, and you both directly benefited.

[...] You distrusted spontaneous relations most of all, for those were the ones most likely (laugh) to produce the feared results. Therefore when you had relations you nicely and symbolically, with beautiful unconscious irony, made sure that they happened when you wanted them least, either on a scheduled basis or when one or you was tired, or when there was every good possibility to believe that you might be interrupted.

[...] When you approach either end of this area, automatic danger signals go off, telling you to move in one direction or the other, back to the symbolic center of your energy and abilities.

[...] Ruburt has strong seemingly contrasting personality characteristics, but seen in the light of the personality’s whole purpose, they are not contrasting but complementary, each one woven with the other toward the main goals. [...]

Many of the contradictory beliefs and negative ones discussed in yesterday’s session led to strong feelings of self-disapproval. The beliefs were so contradictory that in living up to any one of them you actually seemed to be denying others in which you also believed. [...]

[...] A high one, I think.

There is one other point in particular I wanted to mention, though it has, of course, been discussed often before. [...]

[...] It might help if you imagine balloons, one labeled insurance, another health, and so forth — then imagine them floating away, or popping open, or whatever. [...]

[...] Indeed, though he dislikes the word, he is finishing the first portion of his apprenticeship, in which he became acquainted with a different kind of reality, and had to learn how to equate it with the “normal one.”

Certain strains were involved that were in one way as natural as growing pains. [...]

In a way, on one level, a personality seems to be operating “blind,” while in another it is aware of its accomplishments and challenges. [...]

[...] They still provide however in one way or another a framework in which the personality feels itself free to pursue its goals. [...]

In your terms, practically speaking, probable events seem to make more sense when you think of them as latent future ones.

In such instances there is, as easily as I can explain it, a reaching into deep biological structures as they existed at one time; at that point the probabilities are altered, and the condition erased in your present — but also in your past.

[...] New memories are inserted in place of the old ones, as far as cells are concerned under such conditions. [...]

[...] If, in the present, one past event can be altered within your neuronal structure, however, then basically no event is safe from such change.

[...] This evening’s session will be a short one. [...] The emotional activity, the contrasts of today, exhausted him, not one thing alone.

[...] Action will never have one effect only. [...] Whenever an action seems to have but one effect, then there is a lack in perceptive abilities.

[...] One of the experiments she listed in the book for the reader to try led, of course, to the development of the Seth material in her own case. [...]

[...] You will both find the coming season to be a most beneficial one, in terms of your work, and indeed of your health.

[...] If Joseph had seen two people — one his brother and one an Oriental — he would not have recognized the stranger, so in the dream his brother’s known appearance dominated, while the Oriental affiliation is merely suggested. In your own lives you will use such psychic shorthand, or utilize symbols in which you try to explain the greater dimensions of one reality in terms of the known one.

It deals with a different kind of experience than the one with which you are physically familiar, although that experience is also a part of the psyche. [...]

[...] He or she chooses one area of concentration. [...]

[...] (Pause.) There is one place to begin, however: Try becoming better acquainted with the self you are now. [...]

[...] Dream events happen in a different context — one, you might say, of the imagination. Here you experience a valid reality that exists on its own, so to speak; one in which the psyche’s own language is given greater freedom.

[...] It is not that an understanding of your psyche is beyond you: It is usually that you try to understand or experience it in one of the most difficult ways — through the use of daily language.

[...] You might momentarily experience a great yearning or feel your own emotions suddenly filled with that same moving majesty, so that for an instant you and the sky seem to be one.

(Pause at 10:12.) Mundane language tells you, as you think with its patterns, that your imagination is running away with you, for obviously you are one thing and the sky is another. [...]

[...] I might add that I don’t think I for one believe any longer that worrying is the answer to very much, as Seth says Jane and I still believe, nor do I think that fear is going to act as a stimulus to positive action. [...] The call to Prentice today was an effort to free one area of life. [...]

[...] The first one came early this morning after I’d shoveled but a few scoops of snow in the driveway—no work involved at all, really, but I had to quit for fear of having an “attack” of some kind. [...]

[...] As we waited for the session to begin, I read her the first questions I’d noted down from rereading the 367th session—Seth’s first comprehensive session on her symptoms, and one that’s been referred to rather often lately. [...]

[...] They are individuals, doing their best to develop their abilities and their lives—but your indignation was moral in narrow terms, rather than in quite acceptable artistic ones. [...]

(There were two female dancers at the discotheque, and Jane felt that “a connection with another person” referred to one of these, although she couldn’t say why. [...] One was brunette, one was blonde. [...]

[...] We have now decided to present Seth’s hits and near misses only, plus Seth’s data on the Washington experiment, in one of the sessions falling due the week after this.

[...] Another room besides the one that has been planned.”)

[...] For the test object I used part of one of the paper napkins Jane and I were given when we varied our routine prior to the 213th session, and visited a local discotheque for a beer. [...]

[...] (One of our cats nearly killed a young robin today, and Jane is trying to nurse it back to health.) The episode however was one of a series of interruptions of your private hours, and I do seriously recommend that you be allowed your work period without disturbance.

[...] Our dictionary says monolith, while referring to one of a kind, also can mean one of large size. [...]

The idea shape itself is not one unitary thing, for example. [...]

[...] One, a fairly oval object, of an inserted brown background, and a raised cream-colored area.

[...] Yet though I speak of them as one beneath the other they are not actually so, and I speak only for convenience. They are in all places, intertwined with paths leading from one to the other and with the echo of the entity’s voice resounding through each interconnecting corridor.

[...] There are no rules that hold any living thing down to one form or one kind of existence. [...]

[...] Trickery is not one of my qualities, at least not trickery of that type, so you need have no worries on that score. [...]

The fact that you slipped so easily into this frame should remind you of abilities that you had at one time. [...]

[...] I do therefore on the one hand somewhat appreciate Ruburt’s reaction. In one of my more friendly moods, I might indeed have tried a materialization of my own that would have frightened the poor woman out of her wits.

[...] Nevertheless they harm no one. They listen where no one else will listen. [...]

His political movements are being closely watched by one man in particular, but the interest is being caused by his ability to organize, rather than because the political movement involved is a conservative one.

[...] But one of our salesman has an ulcer and the other man does not. [...]

For this reason I’ve chosen three full, though brief, sessions, and portions of several consecutive recent ones. This presentation shows Seth’s way of weaving one subject through another as he inserts new discussions and information while building on past sessions, and points up his method of using Rob’s and my own daily experiences as a launching pad for his own material.

[...] In one session, Seth discusses Jung’s concept of the unconscious. [...]

[...] You see him in but one stage of development. [...]

[...] There is one aspect here that I have not previously mentioned: Man was not allowed to play with the more dangerous toys until certain evidence was given that he had gained some control. [...]

[...] The personality is an excellent example of action in one aspect. It is important here also to realize that while the personality is always in motion, the motion involved here is not one of mobility in space as you know it. [...]

[...] Any seeming barrier is artificial, for all these realities merge one into the other, and an action in one affects the other.

[...] Her actual sensation was one of returning to it. [...]

[...] As usual my mind was on getting the next word on paper, rather than to critically appraise each one. [...]

[...] She talked about how the one priest who put her to bed when she was but 3 or 4 years old would “play” with her sexually, and how Marie finally figured that out. This was the one who called her up while we lived together; he was old and living in a retirement home south of Pennsylvania, I believe. [...] A nice greeting, and one Jane obviously still remembers. [...]

[...] One I can sign, and that’s it.

[...] Yet except for one time in a passionate moment she never had any urge to have a child. [...]

[...] An important point, and a new one, I think. [...]

[...] We did conduct one quite successful experiment on our own, however, involving hypnosis during my trip to the dentist. [...]

[...] Will I be greeted by gods or demons, enemies, or beloved ones? [...]

[...] For one instant your consciousness is “alive,” focused in physical reality. [...]

(“Do you have a title for Part One of your book?”)

[...] The behavior of Instream, the other psychologist at Oswego, the demand for credentials from Fell and others, the letters asking for help of various kinds—especially those from the unbalanced—all of these things and more added up in her eyes to an indictment, one might say, of one’s very nature. Clear indications that left alone without safeguards one would go too far for one’s own good.

[...] There is a natural desire to want the respect of one’s fellows, to avoid social taboos or ostracism. [...] The fact that I could also write books was of the greatest benefit, of course (dryly, almost with a smile) —and no one was more surprised than Ruburt to discover that I could do so. [...]

[...] Each one flying in the face of one kind of conventional misunderstanding or another. [...]

[...] No matter what he was taught in Catholic school or later in the public one, his intuitions, wedded to his creative capacities, led him to question established views. [...]