“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] There are those who can go from one spontaneous inspiration happily to another equally spontaneous one, and feel no desire to form any kind of art from it, or to order it along the ways of the world.

[...] The use of the word means one thing to you and one thing to him.

[...] He does, of course, for our communications do not just happen, and my voice (much louder, briefly) like his, is an inspired one.

The physical situation is a good one. [...]

[...] You always “favored” one foot more than the other, and you built up muscular reaction. [...] And without understanding, you can medically rid yourself of one condition, only to make ready certain that you have another one planned to take over! [...] You could have been quite as comfortable without the new shoe, but the symbol was a good one, and you used it and took advantage of it.

[...] You bring along your own “security blanket”, for one thing. [...] As you probably suspect, the overeating is the one great indulgence that you allow yourself, and even then you surround it with all kinds of taboos. [...]

One small point. [...] The idea of an operation, on the one hand, frightens you. [...]

[...] One having to do with the reason why you entered the service; a desire for order; a desire for excitement, but excitement within an ordered sequence. [...]

(One thing I’ve learned above all else: I’ll never again create a situation like this, where years pass before a book is delivered to the publisher. [...]

The would-be suicide’s problem is usually not one of suppressed rage or anger, it is instead the feeling that there is no room in his or her private life for further development, expression, or accomplishment, or that those very attributes are meaningless.

(4:20.) There are those who come down with one serious disease — say heart trouble — are cured through a heart transplant operation or other medical procedure, only to fall prey to another seemingly unrelated disease, such as cancer. [...]

Much loneliness results when people who know they are going to die feel unable to communicate with loved ones for fear of hurting their feelings. [...]

[...] A good one.... [...]

To one extent or another in your society you are taught not to trust yourself. [...]

[...] For some time he was simply between belief systems, discarding some entirely, accepting portions of others; but he was mainly a pioneer, and this while carrying largely unknowingly and invisibly the one basic belief of society that you cannot trust the self.

[...] His symptoms represent for him the one point of vacuum, comparatively speaking, where the acceleration that has otherwise occurred has not as yet clearly penetrated; and jointly they represent the area in which your combined beliefs have not caught up to your knowledge.

[...] One by one these problems are disappearing. [...]

[...] If it moved too fast I either held it back every few words until I had the message down, or wrote with one hand while keeping the other in position.

We borrowed the Ouija board from our landlord in the fall of 1963, when by chance he mentioned that he’d bought one but had never obtained any results with it. [...]

[...] Now she does not hear the material beforehand, but simply speaks it out, literally and consciously unaware of what she is going to say from one word to the next. [...]

[...] The question of my availability, again, is a pertinent one only when you think of personality in terms of one individual, who cannot be in two places at once in your time.

[...] Our sessions were one of these keys.

[...] You particularly (to me) had intuitional releases, rather delicate ones, that are in the process of taking place—that is, the process is still being completed. [...]

[...] I am on my way to answering one of your questions—

[...] For one thing, men who perform seemingly evil acts but who believe those acts to be right and justified, can be carried along in relative safety for some time before their errors catch up with them, because the power of their own self-approval is so strong.

[...] I have given suggestions for you to follow, many of them, and any of them followed with a sense of purpose —any one of them—would lead you in the proper direction.

[...] You berate yourself on the one hand for an intellect that it seems to you separates you from immediate emotional contact with painting and with others. [...]

Physical exercise becomes the area between, taking you from both your painting and writing, and furthermore is a reminder, an angry one, that the physical working area—the chores—are largely yours to do.

Action may show itself as motion, but it is much more than motion in the terms which you usually use, and motion is but one small dimension within action’s realm. [...]

There is no one particular pattern followed by consciousness in its perception of itself as action. [...]

[...] Jane likened it to the vibration one might feel through the floor of a house, say from traffic passing close by. [...]

[...] Consciousness is not one thing, therefore consciousness is not of itself limiting. [...]

[...] Actually, the sessions usually last anywhere from one to three hours, so I suppose that many people spend a good deal more time than that playing golf or tennis.

[...] Seth doesn’t answer mail though, or do any typing, and so as a result of those trance hours Rob and I spend a good deal of our conscious energy dealing one way or another with the effects of that trance life.

[...] I was finishing work on one of my own books, The God of Jane. [...]

I was glancing at one of several pages of notes that Rob had written. [...]

[...] It’s of one of my imaginary male heads, and I began it a week ago, following Seth’s material on art for me in the private session for April 9. [See Note 1 for the last session.] I explained to Jane that even while it’s incomplete, the painting contains improvements that I can already tell will be developed further in the next one. Once I start a work in a certain mode, it becomes somewhat set in that expression; this is inevitable if one is to ever complete the physical painting. Those sensed, additional improvements have to wait for the next effort: A creative tension between the present and the future is set up, then—one that I’ve often felt, an impatience to leap ahead to the next step even while I’m still working out the current one. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) I am simply trying to give you a picture of one kind of dream occurrence, or to show you one picture of dream activity of which you are not usually aware.

[...] In the larger framework of existence, however, it is simply one of innumerable methods of organizing data. [...]

[...] I now think that spontaneously starting to do that reflected my own intuitive understanding of her direct cognition, long before either one of us knew how to describe it. [...]

Christ dealt with myths, once again—potent ones that stood for inner realities. [...] I am using the name here, Christ, as one person for the sake of discussion, for that entity touched many lives, each leaping into a kind of super-reality as it joyfully played its part in the religious drama.

A man was crucified, but he was not one who made up the Christ entity. [...] They each died—one I believe in India. [...]

The message was “Do not condemn yourself or others,” for Christ well knew that self-righteous condemnation of the self or of one’s neighbors served to darken the door through which man might view his own potential and its greater source.

[...] It is, if you prefer, a spiritual landscape of far greater resources than the one you know. [...]

[...] This is the one Sue Watkins had “picked up on” several years ago; see the notes preceding the last session. [...]

[...] They will positively attract others, however, so the qualities in the houses that appeal to you two are precisely the ones that have turned off others, and prevented their sale.

[...] I am telling you that of the [Elmira] houses in your mind it really makes little difference which one you choose. [...]

[...] I suggest — and only suggest — that that be your choice, because it is the most daring of the ventures for you, and because the hill will give you a view in many more ways than one.

[...] She still habitually referred to “Unknown” Reality as a one-volume work — even as Seth himself did in the session this evening — despite the decision made 10 days ago to publish it in two volumes. [...]

[...] By far the greater questions, however, are those pertaining to the unknown reality of the psyche, and those that relate to the kind of being who perceives in one way or another an Atlantis, a Bermuda Triangle, a UFO — for in greater terms, until you ask deeper questions about yourselves, these other experiences will remain mysterious. [...]

[...] At the same time, I was thinking as I wrote that Seth’s sentence, above: “You cannot understand perceived events unless you understand who perceives them,” embodied one of his best ideas in “Unknown” Reality.)

[...] No one can predict the destination.

[...] The child knew that in one way or another its most intimate thoughts, dreams, and gestures were as connected with the natural world as blades of grass are to a field. The child knew it was a unique and utterly original event or being that on the one hand was its own focus, and that on the other hand belonged to its own time and season. [...]

[...] They constantly pretend, and they quickly learn that persistent pretending in any one area will result in a physically-experienced version of the imagined activity. They also realize that they do not possess full freedom, either, for certain pretended situations will later happen in less faithful versions than the imagined ones. [...]

For one thing, [the] Cinderella [tale] has a happy ending, of course, and is therefore highly unrealistic (with irony), according to many educators, since it does not properly prepare children for life’s necessary disappointments. [...]

In a fashion, they make quicker deductions than adults, and often truer ones, because they are not conditioned by a past of structured memory. [...]

(Jane was quite upset before the session this evening, and I’m the one who was responsible for her state. [...] We already had the perfect title for the book, one we’d jokingly originated following last Monday night’s session: Seth on Jonestown and Three Mile Island: Religious and Scientific Cults.

[...] There’s much debate already about the “cancer deaths” that may show up in the local populace, since no one really knows yet just what a “safe” dose of radiation could be in such a situation. [...]

[...] “I wish I had your confidence in me,” she remarked at one point. [...]

One remark: As far as your participation as of now in our books, it might be better, Joseph (as Seth calls me), if you do not think in terms of notes so much, but instead in terms of your writing contribution. [...]

[...] The physical senses can only perceive reality a little bit at a time, and so it seems to you that one moment exists, and is gone forever, and the next moment comes, and like the one before it disappears. But everything in the universe exists at one time, simultaneously, and the first words ever spoken still ring throughout the universe; and in your terms the last words ever spoken have been said time and time again, for there is no ending and no beginning. [...]

[...] One child now the present husband, and one a very distant relative.

[...] You are ready to learn about your past lives, and to prepare for your future ones. [...]

(Now Jane speaking as Seth, pointed to Connie.) One I have known vaguely in my own past. [...]

[...] The moment point on the one hand is of course a minute division of action. [...] There are subtle variations, as you know, in your known self from one instant to another as you affect your physical environment and form it, and as it in turn forms you. [...]

[...] Now, very slowly: your entire physical universe represents one moment point in a whole overall design. [...]

Your physical universe represents one thought in changing aspects of becoming, with all possibilities inherent within the thought unfolding into existence. [...]

[...] It is possible for an individual to experience a portion of one moment point in such a way that it seems (underlined) there is no end to it.

(Saturday, June 23, 1973, was the first anniversary of the flood caused by Tropical Storm Agnes — or, as the local newspaper put it in a flood supplement, the occasion was Agnes Plus One.

[...] Jane and I, of course, are very conscious of how our involvement in the flood interrupted the production of this book in the middle of Chapter One. [...]

[...] It then forms beliefs about reality, and these are used in the dream state as one of the main yardsticks, so to speak, that activate the emergence of certain probable events rather than others.

[...] And you are one of these.

[...] In Volume 1, see not only Session 681 between 10:22 and 11:47 for data on one of her massive experiences, but that session’s accompanying Appendix 3. Then in this section of Volume 2, see both Note 9 and Appendix 19 for the 712th session, concerning material on Jane’s long-sound trances; during one of these it could theoretically take her a week — or a century — of our time to pronounce just one syllable of one word.

[...] Such persons then become aware of a greater consciousness reaching over those gaps, and realize that earthly experience can contain [among other things] a knowledge of existence in more than one body. [...] This means that even biologically the species is equipped to deal with different sequences of time, while still manipulating within one particular time scheme. [...]

[...] I used Note 1 for that session to insert one of my favorite Jane poems: My Dreaming Self. She wrote it in 1965, a year and a half or so after beginning the Seth material. Now I can add that at the time Jane actually wrote two poems on dreaming; I’ve been saving the second one for use in Volume 2.

[...] One of hers that I’ll mention here is related to published material. [...]

[...] Some, because of excellent development, inner communication with the inner self, feel subconsciously secure enough to change focus spontaneously, as one might listen to one radio station and then another, still retaining knowledge of the basic “I” who listened.

(In line with the material of the last session, Jane had been studying her dream notebook with renewed respect, and I had resolved to begin one without yet doing anything about it. [...]

For one thing, there are basic similarities between an individual’s personality in various existences, so that quite naturally many associations of the same nature will arise.

It is from this layer that so-called secondary personalities may sometimes arise, usually due to one of the psychic earthquakes mentioned earlier. [...]