“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You can only focus upon so many things at one time, and your language structure is not given to the communication of intricate, simultaneous experience.

[...] The entity is the overall identity of which his personality is one manifestation — an independent and eternally valid portion. [...]

(Long pause, one of many. [...]

That is the end of Chapter One.

[...] I guess I was thinking that it’s even okay to have fears, even strong ones, without going all the way with them so that they end up rendering one helpless. In larger terms I even understand why one would choose to carry certain behavior to ultimate extremes. [...]

It may store urine to retain minerals at one time, and urinate seemingly to excess in another. [...]

I’d looked for the shape of a rabbit last night, hopping across the silent road like an upright shadow casting a shadow, as I’d seen one do the other evening. [...] Because of a combination of mechanical failure and human error, one of the two reactors at TMI had come very close to a meltdown of the uranium fuel in its core. A potentially disastrous situation had developed, one that could have involved many thousands of people and several thousand square miles of land. [...]

[...] My father had taken my brother and me into the woods one night, at first tracking one of the insects by its sound, until finally he’d been able to illuminate with his flashlight the katydid as it perched on a branch at just the right height for us.]

[...] He believed he needed strong mental barriers as well as physical ones, set up against his own spontaneity. He is beginning to understand that the spontaneous and creative aspects of personality are the life-giving ones. [...]

Emir is Jane’s children’s book—or the one for “readers of all ages,” as she puts it. [...]

[...] Mankind did at one time have what you may call a heavier body than at present. (Long pause, over one minute.) This particular body type has not vanished entirely by any means. The mental body, sometimes called the astral body, is the next one that you will inhabit. [...]

(Jane was especially logy before the session, and remarked that she didn’t feel much like having one. [...]

[...] One or two small white objects, perhaps dice. [...]

A large round circular shape, perhaps inside of a rectangular one, and crisscross lines in the shape of a cross. [...]

[...] Long before a child learns to place one playblock on top of another, it has already learned to mentally stack one thought upon another, so to speak.

[...] But tonight, when we wanted to have one to get back on the ball, she said she didn’t have any feeling for a session at all.

[...] He found it—his occupation—to be a responsible one, befitting an adult. [...]

[...] No one has to tell a child to play, for playing comes naturally. [...]

[...] In the overall however while you were delighted on the one hand to have the sessions, you were jealous of the part Ruburt played.

[...] It is impossible for his personality therefore to do anything he feels (underlined) would hurt the one person in the world with whom he feels close.

[...] You both had something very strong working for you, still strong enough to help, and that was the creative intuitive nature, which would have in one way or another made the facts plain.

Now, one brief explanation here, for this sort of thing operates in good as well as poor circumstances. [...]

[...] The gist of it had to do with how far one wanted to carry one’s personal challenges, and that these limits or extents would be different for each individual. [...]

[...] Instead, I’m the one who tries to initiate these things. [...] As I said during our conversation, evidently after one has entertained certain feelings and ideas on unconscious levels for a long while, they take on a life of their own, and eventually actively come to resist being dispensed with: They are living, and do not want to die. [...]

[...] He hasn’t gotten a guitar yet—he’d sold the old one years ago, thinking he’d never be good enough to become a professional. [...]

A short session but I hope a profitable one, and perhaps now you can both to some greater degree begin to appreciate the love by which you are really surrounded, in my realm and your own as well. [...]

[...] In this realm of consciousness an entire book may be written, or one’s life plans thoroughly scrutinized. Your present time is one of many dimensions that help form this particular stage of consciousness. [...]

[...] You may focus upon one object almost to the exclusion of everything else at times, so that you literally are not conscious of the room in which you sit.

[...] Working in one direction the soul, using its consciousness, expresses inner reality through as many symbols as possible, through living, changing symbolism. [...]

[...] This in turn is “later” discarded for one still less physical, but the idea of the form is so important a symbol that you carry it through all of your religious literature, and stories of hereafter.

(This is the first session for Mass Events since the last one, obviously — but with an 11-week gap between the two. [...] What were Jane and I doing all of that “time” — that nearly one-quarter of a year of our physical lives?

You must remember the creativity and the open-ended nature of events, for even in one life a given memory is seldom a “true version” of a past event. [...] Each one brings to it his or her own background, temperament, and literally a thousand different colorations — so that the event, while shared by others, is still primarily original to each person.

[...] This realization brought up questions we’ve encountered before: Which sessions apply to a particular project, and which ones don’t? [...]

[...] You form your past lives now in this life as surely as you form your future ones now also.

1. According to the Seth Material, one chair is perceived by 5 people as

8. There is no one in class named

[...] Nothing exists in any universe or on any plane that does not have form of one sort or another. [...] Direct experience of a concept therefore involves the transformation of one pattern into another.

[...] He also wanted to borrow my studio for an hour to make up a chart for one of his medical displays. [...]

[...] She was satisfied that the approach was a good one.

[...] Promptly at 9 PM Jane rose to her feet and began dictating in a voice that was quite firm and clear, and somewhat stronger than her normal one.)

[...] Not one that will take him from the firm, but one which might take him further, in some way, from his immediate department, while he still remains connected with it.

[...] A book, or an object resembling one. [...] (Long pause.) The patterns resembling imperfect circles—shapes—perhaps red, orange or yellow, but more than one color.

(“Black, rather clear lines, one on top, bottom, and two sides. [...] Thus lines that were vertical at one time would become horizontal, and it seems this would apply whether in relation to her as the clairvoyant observer, or the floor or whatever. [...]

[...] Peggy was given the out-of-town assignment one day earlier, Tuesday, March 15.

(While she ate I told Jane of another question I’d had in mind for some time, and asked that Seth comment: Our situation, for which we’re both responsible, is one of extremes. [...] I granted that one could always say that the same end couldn’t be achieved by not going as far, but then, I told Jane, if one followed that line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, physical death would result — that state would be the final extreme of any form of behavior.

[...] “I don’t know whether the $20,000 represents all we’ll get from donations — the fund — whether it’s from one person, is a start of something larger, or what,” I told Jane. [...]

[...] Robert, the male nurse, had taken her blood pressure, and had to stop and readjust her position to a more comfortable one before he could proceed.

One of the greatest detriments to mental and physical well-being is the unfortunate belief that any unfavorable situation is bound to get worse instead of better. [...]

“Sunday, June 8, 1980: As I went about the day, showering, doing my hair, reading the paper, doing my exercises and so forth, I kept getting stuff from Seth on … the next chapter of his book, I think to be called ‘Master Events and Overlays.’ There can be overlays of one civilization onto another, so that a ‘real’ civilization in one sphere of existence can appear as myth in another…. Our civilization appears as myth in other worlds; that kind of thing represents only one kind of overlay.

In a fashion man also is equipped with the ability to initiate actions on a nonphysical level that then become physical and continue to wind in and out of (pause) both realities, entwining dream events with historic ones, in such a fashion that the original nonphysical origins [are] often forgotten. [...]

[...] For one thing, the genes themselves are conscious, though in different terms than yours. [...]

[...] (As an example, I doubt if this one will be referred to in the index for Dreams.) But I also think that intuitively we know the truth Seth so briefly expressed here, and that it never has been or ever will be really lost.

[...] Two happened today, or at least I felt that one happened today, and we heard about the other one today. [...]

The firewalker’s performance involves one overall clear-cut performance, in which faith has already been achieved, as in Ruburt’s writing, say. [...] A sensation here, another one there, a pull of tendons, a sudden softening of tissue—such matters cannot be consciously interpreted. [...]

[...] There are individuals who go through many lifetimes with one main interest or desire, attaining finally a culmination that they have sought for. Cézanne was such a one. [...]

A note: at one time I had wooden teeth, put in with glue that never stuck correctly.

(10:36.) Your medical technology may help you “conquer” one disease after another — some in fact caused by that same technology — and you will feel very efficient as you do heart transplants, as you fight one virus after another. [...]

Give us a moment … The complete physician would be a person who learned to understand the dynamics of being, the soul-body relationship — one who was healthy in his or her own body. [...] Sick ones cannot teach you to be well. [...]

[...] Your methods make them invisible, so here I am suggesting ways in which the unknown reality can become a known one. [...]

(Once again now, Jane wondered why the “more elaborate or complicated qualities” of her trances [she couldn’t really explain what she meant here] were necessary in order for her to deliver this book, as opposed to the “easier” ones she’d experienced for Personal Reality. I suggested she forget such comparisons and think that “Unknown” Reality simply required a different approach, for whatever subjective reasons, and that perhaps her constant questioning would be taken care of as her work on it progressed.⁵

[...] They are on the one hand completely involved in their activity, yet on the other hand they are quite aware of their “normal” environment. Yet the adult often fears that any such playful unofficial alteration of consciousness is dangerous, and becomes worried that the imagined situation will supersede the real one.

Focusing the senses in time and space is to some extent an acquired art, then — one that is of course necessary for precise physical manipulation. [...]

[...] You possess an unconscious environment, a given psychological world attuned to the physical one, and your learning takes place in it subjectively even as objectively you learn exterior manipulation.

[...] The brain itself is never satisfied with one version of an event, but will always use the imagination to form other versions in an activity quite as spontaneous as play. [...]

(“Six plus one.” Bill Gallagher’s birthday is on July 1—six plus one for a total of seven. [...]

(“A small square, and perhaps a larger one.” [...] However we are not sure now whether the card was enclosed in a square envelope or a rectangular one. [...]

It was of course an upsetting one. [...]

His abilities took in one way a giant step forward. [...]

[...] I then rubbed a second spot just to the right of the first one, and again her head pounded back and forth against the pillow. “That spot and the other one must be like acupuncture,” she said. [...]

[...] She’d had a large HVI last night, a smaller one this morning. [...]

(“I was hoping he’d explain that red spot on top of my knee,” she said, adding her statement of earlier in the afternoon that she hoped it wasn’t another ulcer starting, like the previous one that had finally erupted on her knee. [...]

[...] I said that was an excellent sign, for it showed the body was starting to move out of its safe schedule of doing movements at just one time of the day. [...]

[...] But all of you do hope for illumination, greater vitality and understanding in one way or another, and wonder what methods might help you achieve these ends. [...]

The next chapter will, actually, deal with a further discussion of some subjects that have been mentioned in this one: How aware can you be, as an individual, of your own greater reality? [...]

4. I’ve always thought Seth’s term, “value fulfillment,” a particularly evocative one. [...]

[...] If growth is one of the most necessary laws of your camouflage universe, value fulfillment corresponds to it in the inner-reality universe.”