“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] One reason of course for the classes, and their success. But behind Ruburt’s outgoing characteristics you run into some rather restrictive ones that are more on the surface, generally speaking, in your personality.

(This noon, driving home from work, I pulled a muscle in my right side while wheeling the car around a corner—one of those painful things that you feel when you cough, breathe deeply, laugh, etc.)

Now it was on the one hand feigned behavior, but the symptoms had to be bothersome enough or they would not have served their purpose. [...]

Once someone gets through your surface restrictive tendencies, obvious ones, then your spontaneity flows to the surface. [...]

At one time he was highly interested, and I went along because it was a sort of proof that he found extremely necessary. [...] Whether it is proven, in those terms, to you or not bothers me not one iota. [...]

[...] I hope to give you the confidence to grasp the freedom then to explore yourselves, easily, freely and joyfully as one of our friends, the flowers, might suddenly choose to explore itself in all its uniqueness. [...]

([Joel:] “In one of the stories that Jane wrote, the guy went down to the beach with the wind chimes and (words lost) tree and he selected atoms and that somehow absorbed them through himself into another system until there wasn’t any physical world that we know of left at all, and then as I recall at the end he popped through his whole universe and isn’t that somewhat the same kind of thing? [...]

[...] You find it much easier to relate to the one than to the other because to relate to the other you think would demand too much of you intellectually. [...]

For one thing, while pain is unpleasant it is also a method of familiarizing the self against the edges of quickened consciousness. [...] Where the stimulus may be extremely annoying, and humiliatingly unpleasant, certain portions of the psychological framework accept it indiscriminatingly because it is a sensation, and a vivid one. This acquiescence to even painful stimuli is a basic part of the nature of consciousness, and a necessary one.

[...] In one manner of speaking this does not mean that the action is terminated, however.

[...] If the impetus is a powerful one, then the impeding action will be of more serious nature, blocking up large reserves of energy for its own purposes. [...]

[...] And knowing itself, it knows its basic indestructibility, knows its own oneness, and has no fear of destruction, for it is also part of destruction itself, from which further action will evolve.

The physical body is but one small aspect of the various inner forms of which you are personally composed. As the various portions of your physical body are connected and interconnected, so the various portions of your other forms are also interconnected, and one to the other. [...]

One such plant resembles the cotton plant, yet with very small yellow or yellow white seeds, and grows in certain portions of Africa. [...]

(“For example an analysis of an ancient Mexican drug, sinicuichi, has shown it to contain five alkaloids that produce giddiness, an illusion that surrounding objects have become very small, and a feeling of remembering events before one’s birth.”

(Pause, well over one minute long. [...]

[...] The experience turned out to be a complicated one. There were unexpected hits, and one not used.

[...] For one thing the change of environment is necessary—and I am speaking for you, Joseph, as well as for Ruburt; and here we shall let the matter rest.

[...] It is a good one.

[...] To me your past, present and future merge into one.

(3:40—3:48 yesterday: staff took Jane’s vitals, and a lady from housekeeping changed the curtains in 330 to much heavier and darker ones, trying to cut down the light that bothers Jane’s eyes even when the curtains are closed. I was afraid the new ones, a dark bluish color, would make the room too gloomy. [...]

[...] “Now the right one has pulled away from leaning against the left one. [...]

[...] But deliberately, she moved her right leg out to the right, away from the left one, crying all the while. [...]

[...] “That’s the most I’ve moved everything all in one day.” [...]

These two men are one, of course. [...] At one time or another you do not agree, or approve, of either set, and so you are always berating yourself about being different than you are.

[...] One cares little for the opinions of the world. [...]

[...] Commercial art is beautiful there, for at one time it allowed you to paint because (underlined) you were immediately repaid, and that made art legitimate. [...]

[...] You have a nervous stomach—and (heartily) I would have one too if I were forever taking sides against myself, and not approving whatever side I happen to be on at any given time.

[...] It also represents one area where neither of you truly believe that the point of power is in the present. In that one area you grant the power to the past.

[...] This gave necessary periods of solitude, and helped at one time to channel his abilities. [...]

The idea of a workroom, so-called—and I prefer studio—is a good one; excellent. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s physical condition is so noticeable and so has your joint attention, because it stands out alone as the one large negative in a period of positive growing achievement, abundance, and understanding.

These include emotional processes, of course, mental ones, emotional ones, and constant transformation of energy from one form into another. [...] What you read, however, is in one way or another translated into other terms, so that for example your stomach reacts in its way to your reading matter, as the visual information is translated into other terms. [...]

[...] There is no process that is not in one way or another related to others. In a fashion, any one natural process carries within it the implied existence of all others. [...]

[...] On the other hand, we haven’t forgotten Seth’s recent material about our being protected—and I for one really think that’s true. [...]

[...] The material need not be presented in one way only, as I have told you in the past.

[...] (Pause.) It is in one way the natural order of the material, but also your own development was my beginning point. [...]

[...] In the entire act of perception, however, there is a oneness and a unity between the seemingly objectively perceived event and the perceiver. [...]

[...] There is no place where one perception begins and another ends. [...]

[...] I have a reservoir of personality banks upon which I can draw, and as a teacher I use the one that is most effective in any given system of reality and this is the one that I use here. [...]

[...] The inner gestalt of the group has been opened, for one thing, and a better group unity will result. [...]

[...] The biggest secret that this one has over there, (Arnold), if you will forgive me, is a deep feeling of inferiority that is disguised sometimes as humbleness. [...]

Now my relationship with you, brought up quite cleverly by our friend over here, is indeed a strange one since you do not relate to me as you do to each other. [...]

Now: One event can be actualized by more than one probable self, however, and you will resemble some probable selves more than others. [...]

[...] You may know absolutely nothing about music, for example, and one afternoon while in the middle of some mundane activity be struck by a sudden impulse to buy a violin.

[...] I am not telling you to run off and buy one, but you could however act on the impulse as far as is reasonably possible — renting a violin, simply acquainting yourself with violin concerti, etc.

[...] The concentration can allow greater bleed-through and adverse identification, because that part will be one background that you have in common with any probable selves who sprang from that particular source.

[...] The realization is like one that comes at one time or another to many people in the dream state, when suddenly they “awaken” while still in the dream, realizing first of all that they are dreaming, and secondarily that they are themselves creating the experienced drama.

As long as you believe that either good events or bad ones are meted out by a personified God as the reward or punishment for your actions, or on the other hand that events are largely meaningless, chaotic, subjective knots in the tangled web of an accidental Darwinian world, then you cannot consciously understand your own creativity, or play the role in the universe that you are capable of playing as individuals or as a species. You will instead live in a world where events happen to you, in which you must do sacrifice to the gods of one kind or another, or see yourselves as victims of an uncaring nature.

[...] Indeed, our books follow their own rhythms, and this one is in a way a further elaboration upon The Nature of Personal Reality.¹

You can “come awake” from your normal waking state, and that is the natural next step for consciousness to follow — one for which your biology has already equipped you. [...]

You had a strong drive to use abilities, and not usual ones, where rules of conduct or professionalism were outlined. [...] You were saddled with the usual beliefs of your times, and yet trying to understand new ones. [...]

[...] The psychiatrist’s letter (Dr. Beahrs) represents but one communication, but many others read the material and use it, and do not write you, any more than you write to other authors. And again, a book may sell in the millions, and still go in one mental ear and out the other while our books literally do change lives—and to that extent the world—for the better.

[...] (One of my questions.)

[...] Some dampers were put there also, but not because one part of the self conspired against another part. [...]

Any one moment in physical time then is a warp, opening into these other dimensions of actuality, and any one moment can be used as a passageway or bridge. [...]

[...] One page of written material followed, given in the same way. [...]

[...] Because of the nature of the material, I thought I might be shown how to enter a probable moment from the present one. [...]

[...] I know that now the scene will not happen this Thanksgiving in physical reality — that I have helped choose another more positive one. [...]

At the time, no one thought anything in particular about Seth’s last sentence. For one thing, Rob was so busy taking notes that he didn’t really pay much attention to what was being said, beyond making sure he took Seth’s words down accurately. [...]

[...] There are two more physical Marks, one created by Ruburt, and one by your cat. [...]

[...] … You will understand that it is erroneous to think in terms of one physical universe. You now exist in four different ones at this moment. [...]

[...] We aren’t to think of it as a prison from which we will one day escape, or as an execution chamber from which all escape is impossible. [...]

3. In one way or another, once a day have him do something to act upon the new beliefs. [...] His idea of seeking out motion is a good one. [...]

5. Your suggestion of out-of-body activity is a good one, and diverts energy to a good goal.

[...] The area was one of hotels and large shops. I saw two street names and finally decided to enter the lobby of one of the hotels. [...] There were three books by Jane Roberts on ESP, and at the time of the experience (1967), I’d written only one.

Early in our sessions, Seth said that he once had a Turkish existence, but we have no information on one for us. [...] When Seth is involved with a block of sessions on one subject, we hate to upset the continuity of the material by asking him to go into something else, and besides, we’ve learned that Seth eventually answers as many of our questions as possible.

[...] On one level the knowledge was available to the man himself. [...] It was also one of many solutions to several problems. [...]

One night I had a frightening dream that seemed very real. [...]

As I mentioned in Seth Speaks, the Christ entity was too great to be contained in any one man, or for that matter in any one time, so the man you think of as Christ was not crucified (See chapters Twenty-one and Twenty-two of Seth Speaks.)

(11:52.) One of the Gospels is counterfeit — that is, it was written after the others, and the events twisted to make it appear that some of them happened in a completely different context than they did. Regardless, Christ’s message was one of affirmation.

[...] For one thing it is impossible. [...]

[...] When you say “no,” or deny, you always do so because in your mind and feelings, a present situation, or a proposed one, falls far short of some ideal. [...]

[...] (No one knew what we were up to, for that matter, except for one close friend. [...]

She is always slightly dubious and doubtful before a session … since she is the one through whom I speak. [...] Usually in our sessions, one inner sense is in strong operation. [...]

The inner senses, however, give much stronger impressions than those given by the outer ones. [...] As I mentioned earlier, you have at your command, even now, an inroad, a relatively accessible one, in what is termed psychological time.

[...] Only one experiment using the tape recorder showed us that our usual procedure was the best one. [...]