“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] [See the extensive notes for the 653rd session in Chapter Thirteen, describing her various states of altered perception last April 2. In one of those intervals she’d sensed giants standing about the rim of our world.] Now, Jane said, from their massive viewpoint these observers could see “everything happening at once in our world, from California to Russia — like astronauts looking back at us….”

[...] That’s why Seth is right: An outside event is an inside one. [...]

[...] The normal intellect, oriented so precisely by beliefs to the inevitability of a one-focused kind of perception, is limited.

[...] You will not use your spacious mind until you affirm its reality within yourself, and until you are ready to handle the additional data which will then become consciously available to one extent or another. [...]

of me, for one day I will

(Note: March 1, 3:05 p.m. Jane read this poem, and the one for February 29, quite easily without her glasses. [...]

[...] Part of it will appear in your daily experience in one way or another—in your conversation or daily events.”

“Great discrimination is used so that, for example, one newspaper item is noticed over others because a certain portion of that item represents some of the dream’s message. [...]

[...] One way or another, however, you will hit upon some kind of situation—a portion of a TV drama, perhaps—in which a tire is blown; or you will see an item of that nature in the newspaper, or you will hear a story, told directly or indirectly about the same kind of dilemma. [...]

[...] The flow of mail to our hill house is surprisingly steady throughout the year, as we’ve often noticed: We never take in 100 letters one week, for instance, and none the next, or 70 one week and 15 the next. [...] We have time to read each one. [...]

For one thing, you are dealing with different kinds of consciousness than your own. They are focused consciousnesses, surely, each one feeling itself at life’s center. [...]

[...] The web, however, in its way represents an actualized ideal on the spider’s part — and if you will forgive the term, an artistic one as well. [...]

[...] If you believe that your life has no meaning, then you will do anything to provide meaning, all the while acting like a mouse in one of science’s mazes — for your prime directive, so to speak, has been tampered with.

(Last August Jane received a letter from Nelson Hayes, who was one of her professors at Skidmore. [...]

[...] Creativity is the one thing not needed, for the products are to be put together in a fairly regimented fashion.

[...] Ruburt recognized that no one can teach you to write. [...]

[...] One portion of you is not blind to the needs of other portions. [...]

[...] Each one definitely has an effect physically upon any of the thousands of muscles, and usually the same fear affects the same area of the body. [...]

[...] One fear, expressed, will bring with it through association many others, relieving also various areas of the body. [...]

When one fear seems to be handled in such a manner, after a week or so it should be looked at again. [...]

[...] At one time he equated you with Walt in his dreams. [...]

Your relationship is a good one, compared to most an excellent one, but you know your inner potentials, and the potentials of that relationship, and how much you have to some degree failed it. [...]

[...] The whole problem however involves your work also, and solving one problem solves the other. Finding release in one gives you release in the other, and both of you chose therefore a life situation and framework in which precisely those problems you have tired to ignore should serve as challenges and impetuses.

[...] All of this serves to clear the air, opening the channels of communication, so that you do not have to be wondering what the other one is up to now.

[...] One of the deep disappointments that neither of you have faced is the difference between what your personal relationship is and what it could and should be.

(I finished typing last Wednesday night’s session after supper this evening; in fact, Jane just had time to read it before we sat for this one at 8:50.

[...] One in particular does not involve the dream state per se. [...]

[...] Imagine many other such paths, all converging; again, imaginatively take one of them in your mind and follow it. [...]

Suppose that you stood in one spot all of your physical life, and that you had to do this because you had been told that you must. [...]

In the back of your mind is one question that I have avoided for many reasons. One of the main reasons for my avoiding it was the necessity of giving prerequisite material so that the answer would be at least partially comprehensible.

The act of artistic creation is therefore one to study, since it involves the intricate workings of the dual self-consciousnesses of one personality, inner data being transformed through the subconscious and greater individuality being made possible because of this.

[...] During one session I mentioned that since self-consciousness even exists in all living things, then the question of the exact entrance be specified becomes irrelevant.

The laws of evolution were self-limiting laws in one respect, but involve a necessary discipline in formation. [...]

[...] One day he could run away from his mother, and he did. One day he could leave Walt, and he did. [...]

[...] When ordinary measures are not taken, then more drastic ones become necessary. [...]

[...] One worry then would automatically be associated with a pile of other buried worries, and an ordinary unpleasant stimuli could evoke the whole works. [...]

[...] Encouraging Ruburt to discuss his fears is important, but there is no one reason behind this. [...]

[...] This is one of the reasons, say, for the development of secondary symptoms of a medical nature, when one portion of the body is treated, and then other portions seem to develop symptoms. [...]

[...] There is no one reason why Ruburt has not used the hot towels with any regularity, or why you have not reminded him—rather, a combination of reasons. [...]

[...] In one more or less habitual position a few months ago, Ruburt could walk and move his head in a restricted way. [...]

[...] Her whole nighttime adventure here is a most practical one, and is worthy of an extended study elsewhere.

“The ways in which dream material becomes real, the processes involved, are the same ones by which the universe itself becomes objectified to our views and experience. [...]

[...] She isn’t holding back from doing so for any particular reason, however, and thinks she may eventually describe her psychic journey in one of her own books.

“Camouflage” became a familiar word to us in those early sessions, and we thought it an excellent one for Seth’s purposes — but rather oddly, except for using it once in a while in recent years, he’s largely dropped it from his vocabulary.

[...] If one family deals with the nature of healing, then you can slice it down to the healing of a toe … an ear … an eye.

The Sumari experience began when one family, the Sumari, learned that some class members felt alone in this world — bereft of family, often. [...]

[...] The death of the student’s father had taken place on Thursday, November 11 of that year; Jane’s father, Delmer, died without forewarning on the following Tuesday, November 16; Jane came through with Sumari in class one week later, on November 23; and the next night, in the 598th session, Seth discussed Sumari for the first time.

[...] Even now she could only link the release of her very creative Sumari attributes, the singing poetry, and prose [as embodied in her novel, Oversoul Seven, for instance], with Seth’s reference to psychic families as well as physical ones.

(Seth discussed generalized sinful-self material in only one of the five private sessions Jane has held since she came through with the 931st session for Dreams three weeks ago.¹ In some respects lately she’s felt a bit more at ease.²

One morning last weekend (Saturday) Ruburt found himself suddenly and vividly thinking about some married friends. [...]

[...] Then he became aware that those particular thoughts were intrusive, completely out of context with his immediately previous ones, for only a moment or so earlier he had been congratulating himself precisely because he had made no plans for the day or evening at all that would involve guests or other such activities. [...]

What you have is a kind of inner backbone of perception—a backup program, so to speak, an inner perceptive mechanism with its own precise psychological tuner that in one way or another operates within the field of your intent. [...]

[...] You may follow one of the schools of Buddhism in which great stress is laid upon the denial of the body, discipline of the flesh, and the avoidance of desire. [...] So you may leap from one to the other, shouting emancipation and feeling yourself quite free of old limiting ideas.

The concept of nirvana (see the 637th session in Chapter Nine) and the idea of heaven are two versions of the same picture, the former being one in which individuality is lost in the bliss of undifferentiated consciousness, and the latter one in which still-conscious individuals perform mindless adoration. [...]

[...] Man’s mind then struggled to contain many images — past, present, and future imagined ones — and was forced to correlate these in any given moment of time. [...]

The birth of imagination initiated the largest possibilities, and at the same time put great strain upon the biological creature whose entire corporeal structure would now react not only to present objective situations, but imaginative ones. [...]

(Jane now took one of her frequent pauses. [...]

[...] In your physical field you merely look away, or turn your focus from one point to another.

[...] Why has no one suspected that dream locations, for example, have not only a psychological reality, but a definite actuality?

This would seem contrary to your known laws, yet no one has looked into the reasons for this seeming contradiction. [...]

People are propelled to act in highly individual ways: what makes one man go forward can make another go backward. As a general rule the production of any kind of art is a private one initially. [...]

[...] Earlier today she’d said she would have one tomorrow night instead. [...]

[...] On the other hand, given our present work orientations the sessions would have to happen sometime during the week—at least twice—and it didn’t seem reasonable to think that Jane would have every one of those on the spontaneous spur of the moment. [...]

(Long pause at 10:38.) The earlier ones saw the two of you as apart from society’s inner workings—not divorced, now, from society—but you had both pursued policies of not following society’s mores. [...]

[...] The urge to learn, perhaps overdone, may be one of the Nebene characteristics, [and as an aside I thoroughly wish the Nebene character did not exist.] But regardless of that, I didn’t think my wish to excel in my chosen field necessarily a poor one. [...] Each one has been a trial. [...]

[...] On one level he would not care, if only he felt you were really (underlined) painting what you wanted, and pleased with it; but you do not seem pleased.

[...] I also have an attitude that is quite personal, whether it is a good one or not: I don’t care too much what others think about my painting. [...]

[...] He is ashamed because at one level he begrudges the food you eat, so he will not eat to punish himself.

One word. [...] (Pause.) A change of environment would be good, not in an overly permissive atmosphere but one in which some personal freedom is tempered with the expectation of definite achievement of some kind. [...]

Now Joseph (pause), neither of you should overlook the fact that in one way or another, and regardless of the psychic development, such a crisis point (Jane’s symptoms) would have appeared in Ruburt’s life as a result of personal characteristics, present-life background, and past-life characteristics.

[...] The cleavage between discipline and spontaneity had long existed; given the all-or-nothing attitude of the personality, there was bound to be a swing, a complete swing from one to the other until the personality learned to combine the two and become more thoroughly integrated.

[...] Old fears would make him gyrate, panic-stricken, from one method of operation to the other.

[...] He must learn to isolate these, separate one from the other, and then try to understand the laws that govern them. As he does so, he learns that some of these realities nearly coincide with the physical one, that on certain levels events become physical in the future, for example, while others do not. [...]

[...] Some other civilizations experimented with a different kind of science than the one with which you are familiar. [...]

[...] (Intently:) It is not only as valid as the exterior one, but it is the origin for it. [...]

(9:53.) The true art of dreaming is a science long forgotten by your world.¹ Such an art, pursued, trains the mind in a new kind of consciousness — one that is equally at home in either existence, well-grounded and secure in each. [...]