“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The tree is of course dissociated in one manner. [...] It is in a state of drowsiness on the one hand, and on the other hand it focuses the usable portion of its energy into being a tree. [...]

[...] It maintains contact awareness and the ability to manipulate itself in two completely different worlds, so to speak, one in which it meets little resistance growing upward, and one composed of much heavier elements into which it must grow downward. [...]

[...] I am trying very hard, Joseph, because dissociation will answer more than one of your particular problems, and practical ones at that. [...]

[...] They experience this oneness with their own growth, and they also experience pain. [...]

[...] And if you consider the wires as forming cubes … then the cubes could also fit one within the other, without disturbing the inhabitants of either cube one iota — and these cubes are also within cubes, which are themselves within cubes, and I am speaking now only of the small particle of space taken up by your plane and mine.

One of the most fascinating was an experiment we tried alone one night. [...]

[...] The powder and bullets were kept separate until they were put into the gun, though one or two bullets were always kept ready. [...] They were big bullets — one of the reasons the guns were so large.

[...] And Sarah … the first one … if she hadn’t burned to death, she would have died anyhow at seventeen, of tuberculosis. One lung was bad. [...]

[...] One is a more angular quality in her mannerisms. [...]

However, let us begin with Chapter One. [...]

Chapter One

I do not speak through Ruburt as one might through a telephone. [...]

The intensities merge one into the other. Even the words which I use to describe them are at best poor symbols, for when I speak of an action, it would seem as if I spoke of one indivisible concrete completed issue, and such is not the case.

[...] And by exploring that which you cannot touch, you will discover that which is even closer to you than touch, for the outer sense of touch is one of the most close counterparts of direct experience that you have. And it contains dimensions and gradations and varieties that cannot be recorded by scientific instruments, and this comes near in its own way to the infinite varieties present within one electrical action.

[...] This idea of action within action, of distance and movement within action, is a fairly new one in our sessions.

No electrical reality is composed of simply one impulse. [...]

Fields, or p-l-a-n-e-s (spelled) of interrelatedness connect all kinds of life, supporting it not through, say, just one system — a biological one or a spiritual one — but at every conceivable point of its existence. [...]

There is no separate field that combines all of that information, or applies the facts of one discipline to the facts of another discipline, so overall, science, with its brand of rational thought, can offer no even, suggestive, hypothetical, comprehensive ideas of what reality is. [...]

[...] Basically (underlined), value fulfillment is one of the most important characteristics of existence, so that all things act individually and together in ways that best provide for the overall fulfillment of the entire construct.

[...] The intellect alone cannot bring about one motion of the body. [...]

[...] She didn’t particularly feel like one tonight, either, but she decided to have it rather than “sit around all night.” [...] Jane has been doing well, though, and yesterday walked three times — the most in one day that I can remember offhand. [...]

[...] It was not a conclusion based upon fact, but a conclusion based upon a reason that applied to one probability only, one series of probable acts — or based upon the probable act of a disclaimer being used to begin with.¹ So again, what we are dealing with is an overall lesson in the way in which the reasoning mind has been taught to react. [...]

[...] I told Jane that I felt the disclaimer planned for one of our books by the publisher could hardly be the end of such thinking. [...]

Now with the various people at Prentice, you will have such tendencies often appearing separately, so that one person will be highly conventional and dislike changes, while another might be responsive to work that was emotionally exciting, avant garde. [...]

I have mentioned this before, but your environment is a symbol of your inner life and beliefs; one appears physical to you while the inner life does not. [...] Ruburt’s newer activity enlarges the physical stimulation possible—the different view of your house and grounds, for example; or preparing one meal automatically reminds him of others that he will want to prepare.

[...] Then he thought only one lens was saved. This shows that he was worried for his vision, and thought that only the one right eye would operate properly. [...]

Ruburt’s way of forgetting past books is a natural and good one for him. [...]

[...] There are improvements, and considerable ones. [...]

[...] You are setting up a game of checkers—one part of you is playing one game and another is playing another game. [...]

[...] It is not enough to squint at yourself—to look at one motivation—to accept partially. [...]

[...] I can tell you how to meet your own identities, and I have told you, but no one can make you look into yourselves. [...]

[...] You try, instead, to explain how the blocks must be placed one upon the other, or you smile at their childish efforts. [...]

[...] The material itself has much more available on biological aspects, plus cultural and historical ones. It could also discuss the same question from the view of the growth of the human body and the development, say, of cancer cells that break out of a conforming pattern and superimpose a ‘new’ one, their own, on the unit structure….

[...] Note the difference between Seth’s heading for this chapter and the one Jane gave before the session.)

[...] As mentioned (in Chapter One), the ego, while a portion of the whole self, can be defined as a psychological “structure,” composed of characteristics belonging to the personality as a whole, organized together to form a surface identity.

[...] But that is a belief, and a limiting one.

[...] I’d planned a consecutive story line book including some of robs dreams with interpretations yet feel strain there now, showing how this detail or that one fits the picture, this noon it came to me that the approach seemed to rational at this time; i wanted one that was lighter in tone, quicker yet more expansiveso if anything the books technique would be magical itself…. [...] a possibility came to me of a part 1 consisting of the original abridged sessions one after the other with robs notes included but nothing of mine at all. This followed by a part 2 with chapters following an intuitive shape favoring more association, the sinful self stuff too, showing the portions of psychic motion, could start with a chapter 1 very like the one I have organized and then just have a session or so a chapter until part 2. i don’t know, its a thought…

I regard the first one of the four sessions Jane held before starting Chapter 12 as being a key session, an excellent one indeed for us. [...]

[...] I told her that Seth had said nothing at all about what I regard as the central conflict: the one between her sinful self, so-called, and her spontaneous self. I even agree that our challenges may well be successfully handled in one or more other probable realities, that in those terms that’s an entirely acceptable way for us to learn. [...]

[...] Our program of self-help gradually began to diminish, as had many of them before.⁸ Finally, in an effort to cheer up Jane one day as she sat idly at the typing table in her writing room, I tried a variation of a tactic that had worked so well for her inception of Seth’s The Nature of the Psyche almost six and a half years ago: This time, standing in back of her, I put my arms around her and rolled a clean sheet of paper into her typewriter—but here’s the note she wrote the next day:

It is a great mistake to imagine that the human being has but one ego, however. [...] If any kind of a thorough investigation were to be carried on, it would become apparent that during one lifetime any given individual will display several, sometimes quite different, egos at various times, each one quite honestly seeing itself as the permanent I.

[...] The personality, even as you know it, is never static, always changing, and even the ego is not the same from one day to the next.

These levels of the self have known self-consciousness in other existences, before the present one. [...]

In my communications to you, I speak as my whole self, and not on the part of any one of the egos which have been dominant in other existences. [...]

Energy cannot be imprisoned for long within one form. The individual whole self, by its very nature, will not restrain itself indefinitely to the particular set of necessities and perceptions necessary for survival within any one given field of reality.

[...] It involves something like a sleight of hand trick, played by one part of the whole self upon another part. [...]

In much the same manner, existence within the physical universe involves the most intense self-hypnotic trance, where attention becomes riveted and focused along certain lines while other realities are of necessity closed out of one’s perception and comprehension for a certain while.

[...] Neither can the vibrant, almost fanatical focus of the self within the limitations of one field continue indefinitely.

There are others behind you that Ruburt never saw, for you are not alone, nor the only ones involved. [...] The next one will begin as he is bold enough to walk out upon the plain with you.

[...] There may be a definite change to another department on her (Eve’s) part, and this would represent a slight advancement—a half step, but a good one.

We have been speaking of projections and experiments in them, and if you want to, know what other experiments are being conducted by yourself and others this is one way that you can at least briefly glimpse them.

[...] A strange man [or is it a conscious projection of one of us?] forms a tiny Colonial-type house in the air, and it enlarges until it’s regular size. [...]

[...] The world as you know it is the result of a complicated set of “codes” (as given at the beginning of the last session), each locked in one to the other, each one in those terms dependent upon the others. Your precise perceived universe in all of its parts, then, results from coded patterns, each one fitting perfectly into the next. Alter one of these and to some extent you step out of that context (underlined). [...]

(Pause, one of many, at 9:37.) While operating through the body structures, consciousnesses such as your own focus largely upon the three-dimensional orientation. [...]

To one extent or another, therefore, all of the potentials of the species are now latent within each individual. [...]

(Well over a one-minute pause at 10:30, eyes closed.) Give us a moment … You have not worked with the power of thought or feeling, but only with its physical effects. [...]

(Long pause.) He also felt that the questioning power of the intellect was not just one of its functions — which it is — but its primary purpose, which it is not. [...] Your society, however, has indeed considered the rational approach to be the masculine-favored one — so Ruburt had an additional reason in that regard to be such a proponent of the rational approach. [...]

[...] It’s one of my favorite notions, and one from which I draw — with my own kind of perverse humor, it seems — great comfort and stability.

[...] I knew the character type well because in the early 1940s, in ‘real’ life, I’d been one of the artists who had drawn the very popular comic-book hero, Captain Marvel. [...] I thought the head was too small, but well done, quite youthful with curly black hair and handsome features, as one would expect such a magical character to have. [...]

[...] One would expect the pages of the pad to be white, ready for drawing. Instead, as Mary lifted the cover of the pad, holding the pad out for Jane and me to see, we saw that the top page was covered by a lovely large floral pattern of leaves and flowers, as one might see on bedsheets these days. [...]

This is one of the main reasons why I suggested as a rule, at least one day if not two, a month, spent away from the familiar apartment props, and in short trips. [...]

Since the outer senses or their equivalent are the main perceptors of camouflage constructions, then the outer senses and the physical apparatus or its equivalent will habitually perceive its particular system as a closed one.

[...] A closed system is, in other words, the result of the limitations of the outward senses, whose nature it is to distinguish as a meaningful reality only one portion of an open infinite system.

[...] I will not at this time discuss the deeper issue of one infinite and open system, although this is reality which has indeed theoretically no limitations. [...]

[...] These concern my insight—a simplistic one to be sure—that one of Jane’s hassles results from her fear that Seth would take over if given the chance. [...]

(At the same time, Jane also liked my concluding material in the notes, regarding the integration of each portion of the personality into one whole, and so thus attaining the freedom to follow any chosen course of action in the world.

[...] There is some application there, but the larger one applies to his own ideas of what someone in his position should (underlined) be doing, and the idealized image is partially a construct to which you also added details unwittingly in the past. [...]

[...] Ruburt has been straining to live up to an unreasonable image—sometimes with your unwitting assistance—an attempt that certainly has made him drag his feet, and one that is exhausting. [...]

(Jane and I do have colds—full-blown ones, evidently picked up from one of our visitors last Saturday evening. [...] Literally, we cannot remember the last time either one of us had a cold.

More is always involved, however, for those viruses that you consider communicable do indeed in one way or another represent communications on a biological level. [...]

[...] That is one kind of statement. [...]

One note to Ruburt on vitamins: They are most effectively used for periods of two or three weeks, where they act as stimuli and reminders to the body. [...]

In one way or another, the more powerful truths or facts of this “higher” dimension were interpreted and set down. [...] Only his physical condition connected his reality with the known one. You can therefore inhabit the heroic dimensions in the most vital of ways while you still live on one level your recognized existence. [...]

Their time scheme is far vaster than the one you recognize. [...] They would feel no older after 5,600 years than one of you at 80. [...]

[...] On the other hand they followed a different kind of development, primarily a mental and psychic one that carried them into another kind of experience so different as to be alien in quality and degree.

(Just before the session, and after we’d sat for our own experiments at 9:00 PM, Jane reported several obvious improvements—one notably in the suddenly increased flexibility of her right thumb....)

[...] While we were there Dr. K. called him and gave him the results of the blood tests begun in the hospital the week before: One was normal, one said vasculitis could be present, the third one didn’t work—so after all of that the results were very meager and frustrating. [...]

[...] Dr. S. also described a couple of drugs—penicillin being one—that was used to reduce the clotting ability of the blood—and also reduced the body’s natural defenses.

[...] It was one hour’s experience, then, but of a very charged quality that aroused for both of you many of the issues, ideas and beliefs that had been simmering for some time. [...]

[...] Again, I suggest that several times a week you sit in anticipation of one kind of session or another. [...]