“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] We have said that to some degree even atoms and molecules have consciousness, and each one of those minute consciousnesses forms its own dreams, even as on the other hand each one forms its own physical image. [...]

[...] In the waking state the conscious mind must focus rather exclusively upon that one particular point of concentration that you call reality, simply so that it can direct your activities properly in temporal life. [...]

The 92nd session for September 28, 1964, was a basic one for information on dreams, and Jane quotes various portions of it in chapters 5 and 14, as listed above; I ask the reader to review that material especially (and in both books). [...]

[...] Not a reflection, therefore, but a by-product involving not only a chemical reaction but the transformation of energy from one state to another.

Those that do are chosen with great discrimination, dreams serving as one of the methods by which you ascertain the desirability of any given probable act. [...] Those events that you do not accept as physical ones, however, also exist and join their own organizations. [...]

[...] You always recognize one package of psychological reality as “you.” [...]

[...] The surface numbers, or the familiar ones, would still serve to explain the dream in the context of your own world. [...]

[...] In the same way, it does not help to compare your own consciousness to one of starlike psychological or psychic properties. [...]

(With all of our outgoing activities, though, the month of November was also a sad — and educational — one for us. [...]

[...] He’s so small, he still almost fits in just one of my hands. [...]

[...] Yet I come to your reality by a strange route — one that does not involve roads or highways but psychological dramas that wind backward like paths into the “psychological history” of your species. [...]

I am not speaking here of gods, but of psychological structures different from the ones you know. [...]

[...] In your arena of events, obviously, one man’s good can be another’s disaster. [...]

[...] The steps were the ones mentioned earlier (in a number of sessions in Part 3), as those involved with any cult. [...]

[...] The Jews’ idea was also a dark one, in which their own rules and regulations were set to preserve the soul’s purity against the forces of evil. [...]

(Long pause.) Despite himself, and despite his followers, Hitler brought to flower (long pause) a very important idea, and one that changed your history. [...]

I have one small but important personal note for Ruburt….

(“Yet each individual must eventually realize that you can’t give up power in one area without … ultimately threatening the inner core or psychic territory of power to some extent…. [...]

(And: “A chapter on a person’s ‘Effective Personal Reality’ — about the private purposes in one’s life, and the bounds of creaturehood as set by your body; what you choose to be born with as far as health, disease, poverty or wealth, ability, etc., are concerned.”

(“Last night I also felt that Seth’s Appendix — if there is one — could deal with notes on particular chapters; methods of using natural hypnosis in certain cases; work on beliefs, etc.”)

[...] The one instance however will serve as a pattern upon which other further improvements will develop. Relief and understanding in one area bleeds through into others, as before the belief in the body’s inefficiency also carried over.

[...] More than this however, in this one case Ruburt realizes that the body remembers how to sit down properly, once the suggestion that it cannot is broken down.

Has that one been answered to your satisfaction?

The potentials of the true self are so multidimensional that they cannot be expressed in one space or time. [...] Mama and Papa, in our analogy, represent the infinite potential within one basic unit (CU) of consciousness.

Now: Think of your ancestors, yourself, and your children as members of one tribe, each journeying into different countries instead of times. [...]

[...] The family tree exists at once — but that tree is only one tree that appears in the land of time. [...]

[...] It is rather futile to ever wish that you were both “at one with the world,” or to imagine yourselves following its beliefs blindly, but in blissful ignorance.

People have difficulties with their teeth in modern times, particularly, for many reasons—but mainly because it is one accepted area for the difficulty to show itself, and because the dentist’s cosmetics can indeed repair the appearance. [...]

[...] Its problems are the results of your own inner ones, and meant to lead you toward inner comprehensions. [...]

[...] In addition, Jane also has tooth trouble—one of her bottom teeth is loosening....)

[...] He had changed jobs and left Elmira at the time we were interested in his house, in June 1964, however. Seth dealt with the purchase of this house in several sessions, saying it would be a good one for us psychically. [...]

The past exists as a series of electromagnetic connections, held in the physical brain on the one hand, but it also consists of the same sort of realities retained in the nonphysical mind. [...]

[...] This is an actual recreation, and not a symbolic one. [...]

[...] Again, I do not speak symbolically, and I am leaving myself open to many strong critical remarks which cannot all be answered in one evening.

[...] It can be said that all consciousnesses and all identities are but one. [...]

[...] In one sense, identity is always a becoming, and it can never be a static, finished thing. [...]

Your own personalities will set the pace, for they are well-balanced ones. [...]

[...] But the self who faces the tree one moment is not the self that faces it the next moment, and the operator of the wheel is never in evidence, you see.

It is an extremely interesting one, though somewhat complicated. This ability is a natural one, operating to some degree or another within every personality. [...]

[...] We used part of it to copy the 179th, 180th and 183rd sessions, plus Part One of the 184th, to send to Dr. Instream. [...]

[...] I did not mention a test to Jane, but she is well aware that they are in the offing now; earlier in the day she casually mentioned tests, without asking specifically whether I had one planned for tonight.

The term mechanism may be a poor one, but I use it now to emphasize the physical aspects of its nature. [...]

(Yesterday we received Dr. Instream’s letter of October 11, in which he asked that Seth try giving data on one location and one object in the clairvoyant tests.

[...] On the one hand I didn’t want her to feel I was pressuring her for a test every session; on the other hand I wondered whether she would think I was taking it easy on her if I skipped the test. [...]

The effect of any thought is a quite precise and definite one, that is set into motion specifically because of the nature of its own electromagnetic identity. [...]

Now we come to see one of the main points of this discussion. [...]

(So I felt a keen regret, actually, that the idea, one of the best I’ve ever had, will probably never be used. [...] Also, how would one explain to a family that with Seth’s ideas in mind certain other family members had chosen, or planned, their deaths? [...]

[...] This had even showed up in one of my dreams. [...] I won by one dream according to Jane.

[...] A good sign, of course, and one we’re well aware of.

[...] He had sired his children, loved as well as he could, done his job—but there was no contemplative life to look forward to, no greater love than the one with his wife—and that love while conventionally sound enough, did not content him.

One portion of the personality therefore set itself aside and therefore was unable to use the abilities and energies inherent in the personality as a whole, constructively; and erecting barriers in one respect, the barriers were erected in all important regards.

[...] Jane’s voice still persisted in the light, gentle, almost lilting quality, quite different from the usual deeper Seth voice.) The Seth personality has been an intermediary, and a legitimate one. (Pause.) The information already given to you regarding the nature of personality gestalts should make this development seem indeed a fitting one.

[...] Therefore it is apparent that connections exist between us also, and that this development is a natural one. The apex point in Ruburt’s personality is an extremely fortunate and unusual one, and the reason that such communications can take place.

[...] (Pause over one minute.)

[...] The increase of ability on his part will be a qualitative one and a general one; that is, not one limited to psychic affairs. [...]

[...] Thus it has two display windows, one on each side of the door. The so-called disputed painting is in one window. [...]

[...] Just to the right of this sculpture is another egg-shaped sculpture; this one is of polished silvery metal and is perhaps ten inches across. It stands on a wooden pedestal; the polished reflections in it seem to move as one’s viewpoint changes. We believe this is the oval shape Seth refers to, in light of his answer to my second question.

[...] The session was a comparatively short one and Seth did not go into each point in the data. [...]

[...] I made two of them on May 10,1966; I dated one of them and used the other in the envelope. [...]

[...] One of the main purposes and goals of the whole self is to become aware of all such existences, and to correlate them into an identity structure.

[...] At one level of the dreaming state it is possible for you to recognize and align yourself with that portion of yourself that is aware of itself within fourth-dimensional reality. [...]

[...] Widely woven, rather than one with small spaces in it. [...]

[...] As soon as she began to speak she closed her eyes, and to my continuing surprise she kept her eyes closed throughout the session, except for one brief instant that shall be mentioned later. There followed a rather strange procedure, for when Jane addressed either Bill or myself she kept her eyes closed but faced the pertinent one, and gestured in the correct direction also. After a while one tended to forget that her eyes were closed, since there was no evidence of confusion on her part. [...]

[...] I also saw that he had drawn, upon the closed upper eyelid, an iris, thus superimposing upon Jane’s closed eye an open one. [...]

[...] But the paintings, especially the late ones which are so much improved over his earlier efforts, are new to him. [...]

Nor is it any accident that those certain people come to the sessions, the ones who did come, just as it is no accident that Philip's mother is also a bed-ridden arthritic, just as Ruburt’s mother is.

[...] One interesting bit: Seth named Claire’s birthday correctly—as falling on February 13, but missed the year by one. [...]

(“Four plus one, and an equalization, or equal elements of design.” No connections for four plus one.

[...] A bound one, with a dark color such as brown on the cover. [...] Quite possibly the book is Louis Pomerantz’s modern one, as described. [...]

Four plus one, and an equalization, or equal elements of design. [...]

Later, for the book, I will use this sort of explanation to show for example how various groups of people, planning say a vacation to one spot, will all choose two or three airplanes for the journey—knowing unconsciously quite well that one very well might crash, even though the final decision is not made until the last moment.

[...] One aspect not covered, and which I forgot to ask about, involved Rusty’s meeting with the president of Prentice-Hall; will try to remember to ask about this next session.

I said that I did not want you to compare his condition to the ideal one, and that certainly still stands. [...]

[...] She might have looked at a map and said “Someone in one of those houses must have had a personal contact with the Buttses, in case we do not meet them. [...]

(Also on Saturday evening Jane and I attended a set of Japanese Noh plays at Elmira College, at the invitation of Bill Macdonnel, who had a part in one of them. [...]

[...] The crisis itself was a psychic one mainly, which will of course have physical consequences. [...]

It is really necessary that the young man get a dwelling place away from his family, and in one respect, the attack involving the lungs represented an attempt to put off responsibility. [...]

My earlier remark that the weather affects your moods even as your moods affect the weather, is an important one. [...]