“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I will not now go into a discussion concerning your father, since there are several matters here, and the relationship was a fairly long one. He was a singer at one time. [...]

In two other lives there was instead the development of inner abilities to the exclusion of others, a closing down of the windows and a barring of the doors, and he would not look out and no one dared look in. [...]

[...] It is a good one and you like it, but you are still not allowing yourself to use it fully. [...]

[...] Now I am not saying, and do not mean, that you are narrow-minded in any way I am saying that your intellect is a fine one, but you have allowed yourself to be fascinated by its sparkling quality, and not used it thoroughly as a tool.

[...] In her case Dineen gave up the responsibility for action and initiative, yet because one must act the reasons were assigned to another. [...] You must stop trying to use one symbol against another, and look at your own life and your beliefs.”

[...] No one who decides upon death is saved from it by the medical profession, however. On deeper levels the quite normal desire for survival requires that the individual leave his or her body, in your terms, at one time or another. [...]

(But there was only the one ring. [...]

(Pause.) In all of these areas the problem, whatever its nature or cause, is in one way or another “magically” transferred to another facet of activity, projected away from the self. [...]

(At noon today Jane told me she thought Seth would give us a short session, because of the extraordinary one of Monday, 7/6. This was to help me get caught up on all the typing.

(Thinking this point over after Monday’s session, I did not recall Willy making any fuss, except for the one time detailed on page 211, during the session.)

[...] Now even though individuals only see their own constructions, as a rule, with the other factors in operation you will appear to see others’ constructions because there will be such a similarity in the various constructions of what appears to be one physical object.

[...] Therefore the construction was only seen by the one person to whom the inner clues were given. [...]

[...] No one perceives the same chair [all of the time], though perhaps a given chair will seem to be “the same one” seen from different angles.

[...] No one can be born for you, or die for you, and yet no birth or death is really an isolated event, but one in which the entire planet participates. [...]

[...] It does not bother you one whit that the physical substance of your body is made up of completely different atoms and molecules than it was composed of seven years ago, [say], or that your familiar hands are actually innocent of any smallest smidgen of matter that composed them [even in recent times past].

(Long pause, one of many, at 10:04.) Your sense apparatus determines what form that something will take, however. [...]

No man or woman consciously knows for sure which day will be the last for him or her in this particular life, that each calls the present one. [...] Birth and death contain between them the earthly experience that you perceive as happening within a given period of time, through various seasons, and involving unique perceptions within areas of space — encountered with other human beings, all to one extent or another sharing with you events caused by the intersection of the self and time and space.

[...] She had told no one about them, though, and wanted to know if we could ask Seth about their meaning. [...]

[...] You must indeed trust that your new beliefs will work as completely for you as your old ones.

[...] Yet no one is free of belief of any kind in that area. [...]

[...] All exist (long pause) in an inner webwork, and are held in the memory of an overall earthly knowledge — one that is biological, so that each smallest microbe has within it the imprinted biological messages that form each and every other microbe. The existence of one presupposes the existence of all, and the existence of all is inherent in the existence of one.

for one smile from my friend,

The environment, man, and the animals were all characterized as ferocious, hostile to each other, each one determined to attain survival at the expense of the other. [...]

(4:23.) Each organism is therefore helped in its development by each and every other organism, and the smooth operation of one contributes to the integrity of all. [...]

There is no one with a great talent who does not use it, for the drive is comparable to the talent, and the whole personality knows about it as the flower knows about blossoms. [...] There is one self.

[...] Your sexual lives, despite what you may jointly think, did not suffer on the level in which both of you were working at one time. [...]

[...] It does mean that he cannot sacrifice himself to one portion of himself, or he will lose even that portion.

[...] In one session—he remembers it—I told him to write for three hours daily. [...]

[...] One of the paintings you did many years ago clearly foreshadowed the development of your psychic endeavors. This was the one you sold, of the man that hung for some time in the position in which my portrait now hangs. [...]

(I asked the question because I thought Seth’s answer to number forty-six, in the last session, touched upon one of those propositions: “The Law of Infinite Changeability and Transmutation.” [...]

There is no one else presently alive in your system with whom I had any great rapport in the past, except yourselves. [...]

Such work does not only necessitate the choosing of one individual, but is also an endeavor in which many other elements are taken into consideration. [...]

[...] I thought it interesting that as I was completing work for Jane’s first book on aspect psychology, she was starting Psychic Politics, the second one in the series. [...]

[...] One is probably just the state of Jane’s recent exceptional psychic receptivity. [...]

(At one of our breaks Jane said that she had picked up the title of the James book from which she’d been “reading”: The Varieties of Religious States — with only States differing from Experience in the name of James’s book in our physical reality. [...]

[...] We were also quite aware of the humorous aspects of the situation, since Jane does speak for at least one of the “dead”: Seth. [...]

[...] That is, the living room in the hill house is now her writing room, and her one-time writing room at the back, north side of the house has become the living room — or call it the den-and-television room. The new arrangement seems to be a very comfortable one. [...]

(“I’ll tell you one thing,” she said as we sat for tonight’s session, “I don’t have an idea in my head…. [...]

[...] You must take small practical steps, often when you would prefer to take giant ones — but you must move (underlined) in the direction of your ideals through action. [...]

[...] If every reader of this book changed his or her attitudes, even though not one law was rewritten, tomorrow the world would have changed for the better. [...]

[...] I also want you to read those sessions, and the key one particularly—once a week or so, though he is to read the one each day.

[...] At one point he tried to insist upon the dominance of the conscious mind, and became pedantic. [...]

I will very shortly now be involved in our new book, and with Ruburt’s consent: and Richard’s visit, or one of other probable events like it, was to occur before the book continued.

[...] Before this, in those terms, he has chosen lives of great contrast and extravagance, with one or two characteristics relatively predominating, either for example extremely intellectual—genius—or idiocy. [...]

Our beloved books began to go out of print, one by one, as sales slowly declined. [...] I tried hard to answer each one of them. [...]

[...] How could it be otherwise, since no one can live in true isolation? Each one of us is an immortal portion, a spark of endless perception and beauty and feeling — and yes, of conflict and denial at times — within this probable reality that we’re all creating together, even when we don’t know we’re doing it! I watch with awe as within this reality each one of us expresses as best we can our creative understanding of this wonderful mystery.

[...] Many others have asked over the years, and I’m very grateful for every one of those caring questions.

(Before the session we discussed the one séance we’ve ever tried, and which is described in Chapter 3 of The Seth Material. [...]

(Incidentally, Willy One died on November 5, last year.)

[...] The day before Willy (One) died, his expectations were no different than they were when he was a kitten. [...]

[...] Under certain conditions in one area or another, or sometimes in many, you have dire expectations. [...]

Now—let me answer that one, and give a living example, a recent one.

[...] The last session I gave, in Florida, is very important, taken with this one. The suggestions given tonight are given for his present period, geared to the present state of affairs, and will bring results, and excellent ones.

One more remark. Your idea of getting up at five is (underlined) an excellent one. [...]

[...] Because he idealized you so, he projected the same kind of feelings from you to him, thinking then that you wanted an ideal mate, not a quite human one. [...]

One intuitional discovery will open into two others. Dissatisfaction, creative dissatisfaction, triggers in you new intuitive developments, and this one will be fairly important. [...]

(This session, for Wednesday, May 6, 1970, is deleted from the record, since it is a personal one for Jane and me.)

[...] When you do this sort of thing, one for the other, your love is added, gives extra force; and the love between you is relatively uncluttered, and can be directed well in this fashion.

[...] The book that you have just received from Prentice (Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain), will have an important effect upon Ruburt, and a beneficial one, helping to increase his confidence in his own abilities.

He is combining and alternating frequencies so that he literally brings forth a different creature of consciousness — one that in your terms is not alive, yet one whose very reality straddles the life that you know. [...]

[...] For no matter which brain rhythm may predominate at any time, that state is certainly an altered one in relation to the other three. [...]

I told you that you flashed in and out of the reality that you know.² In between one moment and the next of the waking day, there are, in your terms, long delta and theta waves that you cannot recognize. [...]

[...] All the recognized characteristics of consciousness are “inverted,” probing other realities than the one you know. [...]

Dictation: Your next question is easy to anticipate, of course, for you will want to know the origin of that “interior” universe from which I have said the exterior one ever emerges — and here we must part company with treasured objectivity, and enter instead a mental domain, in which it is seen that contradictions are not errors; an inner domain large enough to contain contradictions at one level, for at another level they are seen to be no contradictions at all.

[...] Since your universe springs from an inner one, and since that inner one pervades each nook and cranny of your own existence, you must look where you have not before — into the reality of your own minds and emotions. [...]

[...] That particular overall method of separation leads to such questions as: “Which species came first, and which came later, and how did the various species emerge — one from the other?” Those questions are further brought about by your time classifications, without which they would be meaningless.

The child, laughing with joy and awe at the sight of the first violet, understands far more in the deepest terms than a botanist who has long since forgotten the experience of perceiving one violet, though he has at his mental fingertips the names and classifications of all the world’s flowers. [...]

It is true there are no limitations to the self, and in one respect you can say that the self reaches out and encompasses the environment. [...] And so what you have, in effect, as I have said often before, is a one-dimensional psychology. You need a multi-dimensional psychology for identity operates in many dimensions beside a physical one. [...]

[...] Although each of you realizes privately the truth, and the truth is not easy to put into words, no one can do more than approximate it. [...]

[...] The strength of one adds strength to all. The weakness of one weakens the whole. The energy of one recreates the whole. The striving of one increases the potentiality of everything that is, and this places great responsibility upon every consciousness.

[...] I want to point out here that your friend Miss Callahan is taking an easier way out in one way, and a difficult way out in another. In the long run her way is a better one, however, than the manner chosen by those who prefer a so-called quick death.

[...] Jane was fairly dissociated, she said, except when she paused in her pacing to look out one of our living room windows. This window overlooks a very busy intersection, one house away. [...]

[...] One in particular. [...]

[...] It may seem to disappear from one system, but if so, it will emerge in another. [...] Yet, disappearing through one of the physicists’ black holes,⁴ for example, though structure and form would seem to be annihilated and time drastically altered, there would be an emergence at the other end, where the whole “package of a universe,” having been closed in the black hole, would be reopened.

At one time on your earth, in the way you look at time, there were many such species: water dwellers, with brain capacities as good as and better than your own. Your legends of mermaids, for example, though highly romanticized, do indeed hint of one such species’ development. [...]

[...] Jane had time to show her manuscript to one publisher — who rejected it — before the Seth material got under way. [...] We still talk about it every so often; we still think its basic premises are good ones. [...]

That kind of “death” is, then, natural in one way or another within your system. [...]