“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The inner beliefs are continually strengthening the ones of freedom, and the body is responding. [...] Yet at the same time all motions and actions reinforce the healthy body beliefs and dissolve the old ones.

Ruburt believed he could wear only one pair of shoes. This was highly symbolic, meaning that he could walk only in one way. [...]

I do not mean this will be a long drawn-out process either, but one in which he tastes freedom gradually, is not frightened but steadily encouraged, and in which there will be no backslidings, but understandings at all levels of body-mind relationships.

[...] The shoes are one of the rituals. [...]

This jumping off the radiator the other day, in one stroke disintegrated one such detrimental image that had impeded physical motion. [...]

One reason, you see, that I suggest the running is that any running at all prevents him from projecting into the future a nonrunning self. [...]

[...] Each time Ruburt finds himself making a movement that he thought he could not perform, then one of the blocking mental images loses strength.

It is true, again, that an initial corresponding inner freedom makes the motion possible, and that the motion itself already means that the mental image of new motion is replacing the old one. [...]

In the case of the apparitions and ghosts mentioned in that session, there was one main difficulty behind their situation. [...]

[...] One point: Ruburt’s whole personality did indeed protect itself, for unless it were integrated and fully committed it would not have the energy to sustain the activities with which it will now be involved.

In one of our earliest sessions I told you that trees have consciousness, and that consciousness resided within all things, as the plants within this room to some extent are aware of you, and the happenings here, can sense strangers, and can strongly sense emotional and psychic atmospheres, to which they do indeed react. [...]

[...] The murderer kills no one, yet if his intent is to do so then he must face the consequences of his intent. [...]

[...] Some of these are of such immense intensity that they form systems (long pause, over one minute) that contain what you would call universes.

[...] In your terms an intense experience can unite and spark developments encountered by one through many reincarnations. [...]

[...] And all of this is but the physical materialization of the inner reality within one system.

[...] She said she didn’t get the cone or pyramid effect after the one time noted before the session began.

[...] There are four objects that seem to be connected, four vertical wooden polelike objects, with one horizontal bar approximately in the middle. That is, one bar on the other side.

(Jane regretted having one impression while giving the above data that she did not give voice to. [...] She did not pursue this one. [...]

[...] Your ordinary standards of reality mean absolutely nothing when you leave the physical system, therefore you will encounter, simultaneously perhaps, images that are subconsciously formed; quite valid images that belong in another dimension; constructions created by others within another system; and for any control at all, you must learn how to distinguish one from the other.

(Eyes open, smiling, very emphatic with gestures.) Ruburt told one of your friends to respect physical reality. [...]

One small rather insignificant point, Joseph: the man for whom Ruburt works—the name, Miller—is also the name of one of his mother’s old friends, though she was a woman. [...]

(John also stated talent Clint Smith has one young brother-in-law who lives in Lancaster, PA, south of Williamsport; but as far as John knows there would be no connection here either.

[...] John heard Seth’s voice in warning one time when with June Fleming, and heeded the caution. [...]

[...] I am not clear here: 4, 2, and one or two other numbers, and something drive, you see—the name of a road or location. [...]

“Maybe between one and two thousand years after the Creation a worldwide flood destroyed practically everything, though some species, including man, survived. [...] Oddly, if you postulate a god in that fashion, a personified one, then you wonder why he couldn’t—or didn’t choose to—maintain the perfection of his original creation. [...]

[...] We think that either one of those belief systems is much too inadequate to explain reality in any sort of comprehensive way.

[...] (Long pause, one of many.) The universe will begin yesterday. [...]

[...] Consciousness and matter and energy are one, but consciousness initiates the transformation of energy into matter. [...]

On one occasion he did almost come very close to the feeling of freedom necessary, but all the suggestions need to be followed, not simply the ones he happens to remember at any given time. The suggestions are given in such a way that one makes the other easier to follow. [...]

[...] It’s still working as I type this, on a class night; one of Jane’s students bought another portrait. This one I’d finished but a couple of months ago. [...]

His idea of trying to help others was a good one. [...]

[...] But the contrasts were always stressed in early life, so that if you were not the one you were the other.

[...] One electrical pulsation can represent an emotional experience. [...]

[...] Therefore it perceives events in a peculiar manner, almost in slow motion, so that the whole effect is of a series of separate events, one happening before or after the other.

[...] It was spontaneous, the atmosphere was friendly, and the Gallaghers’ attitude is an excellent one. [...]

[...] Most of the wrong ones are not necessarily errors, but he has not made the proper connections, or gone far enough, but stopped short in processes of association. [...]

[...] But I say to you that literally no one has such a power. [...] But Ruburt has a highly symbolic mind as well as a highly literal one, so he has hidden behind closed doors.

[...] The exterior alterations always follow the inner ones. Ruburt is tired of tending the same old house, so he seeks a new one. [...]

Until lately he idealized authority on the one hand, and was frightened of it on the other. [...]

[...] He sees that no one else has anything better to offer the world.

[...] Let no one make God the Father look like a mere human, for example! [...] The point is that the images the artists were trying to portray were initially mental and emotional ones, and the paintings were supposed to represent not only themselves but the great drama of divine and human interrelationship, and the tension between the two. [...] If no one had seen Christ, there were pictures of him.

[...] As a result, one you see in art particularly, man became a heroic figure, then a natural one. [...]

[...] After David left we began to wonder if either one of us had ever picked up on such psychic lows, so to speak, either before or after we’d moved into the place. [...]

I was curious as to how often such a “negative psychology” operated—when, simply because of his or her own hang-ups, an individual [or more than one person] is attracted to a site where strongly negative events had taken place. [...]

Again, his condition does represent the one area where both of you have felt cowed, often hopeless, and as if your abilities worked in all directions but that one. The important point is, that that area was the one area in which you did not use those abilities—nor should either of you spend time bemoaning what has happened, or dwelling upon “what people can do to themselves.” [...]

[...] There is an overall picture you cannot see, in which you form your lives together, so that at one time you act, for example, as a unit, and on other occasions or times one acts out certain of your joint beliefs, while the other acts out another one.

The word combines all of his goals—physical and creative—into one clear focus in which there is no ambiguity. [...]

Since you both held those attitudes and saw those beliefs everywhere reinforced, naturally enough in your experience, then in the overall it would be most miraculously unusual if one of you did not physically retreat. [...]

[...] “This is one of those times when Seth could give a whole bunch of stuff on that book” — meaning, of course, that now she had more than one channel available.

You with your conscious mind are to discriminate among those thoughts as to which ones you want to form into your system of beliefs (intently), but in so doing you are not to pretend blindness. You may at times wish that a rainy day were a sunny one, but you do not stand at the window and deny that the rain is falling, or that the air is cold and the sky dark.

[...] In larger terms one of my most important messages is simply this: “You are a multidimensional personality, and within you lies all the knowledge about yourself, your challenges and problems, that you will ever need to know. [...]

[...] Think of one of the most pleasant events that ever happened to you and the reverse will be true, but the process is the same. [...]

[...] 24, as being one that could possibly see an unpleasantness arise for us. [...]

[...] I also decided it to the extent that if management insisted I increase my hours, I would leave the plant and try developing some other recent ideas I have acquired on making a living, one of them being teaching art by, perhaps, starting my own school on a small scale at first.

(I had thought that if there was a session tonight, and it was a short one, I would wait to ask Seth what transpired with Miss Callahan within the above time period. [...]

[...] Driving up to Maine, I noted that our car, which is an old one, was using quite a bit of oil. [...]

(Pause, one of many short ones, etc.) Now I was teaching him, and I went along with his natural interests and inclinations. [...]

[...] One question had to do with the oil showing two male heads which I painted in 1965. [...]

[...] And with enough freedom on the one hand, and training on the other, Ruburt, speaking for me, could give you the entire copy of The New York Times from a torn corner.

[...] One question: as I look at the painting, which of the two heads represents my whole self, for instance?”

[...] One of your children was a leader of a tribe. One became an important member of a Mongoloid tribe. [...]

(The session was also witnessed by Diane Sorino, a friend of Rich’s. Jane and I sat for the session by 8:45, to see if one would be held, etc. [...]

(“He’ll probably want one.”)

I would like the book, mine, to run approximately the same length as the one which he has just finished. [...]

One such image may represent one particular belief or it may stand for several. [...]

[...] He will replace an idea of illness with one of health. [...]

[...] The interactions continue with the patient trying to please the doctor, and at best merely changing from one group of symptoms to another. [...]

[...] But the framework itself is limiting; and again, while you may be cured of one difficulty, you will only replace it with another as long as your beliefs cause you to have physical problems.

[...] And when I looked at that one, I received the same wondrous feeling: It too was alive. In this portrait the man looks off to one side—yet those eyes too were on the point of moving. [...]

[...] It’s of a dream image I had on November 8, 1981, although I didn’t finish the painting until February 1983—one of the last I’ve done.

[...] But I’d had a unique experience, and one I resolved to describe to Jane. [...]

(One of the first thoughts that came to mind after I realized what was happening was Jane’s book on Rembrandt. [...]

[...] Instead, I see each one of us as traveling a most curious and branching-out or circuitous route, one that is creative in ways that are both known and, I’m sure now, unknown.

[...] The one can’t help but add to the other, increasing the marvelous complexity of both. [...] Hardly an original idea, yet one that I often see ignored in the surface activities of our daily lives. [...]

During all of this time, we told no one in the hospital what we were specifically doing — staff accepted our conventional explanation that we were writers and “just working.” [...]

[...] One point I want to mention: Ruburt’s mother tried to escape poverty through the calculated unrelenting use of her beauty, and it did not work. [...]

[...] The fears of time, the early fears that made him want to escape poverty, the feeling that all eggs must be put in one basket, and his reaction to you and your circumstances—these were all connected. [...]

[...] The writing abilities were always one manifestation of his own strong psychic nature, however, and his growth as a personality required the merging of both if even the writer was to succeed. [...]

[...] It held one to some extent aloof from society, being by nature an inbuilt superiority. [...]