“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In those terms, the male-oriented intellect wants to order the universe, name its parts, and so forth. [...]

[...] When the [Biblical] passages were written, the species had come to various states of order, achieving certain powers and organizations, and it wanted to maintain the status quo. [...]

[...] It is extremely difficult for a psychological structure to view itself, for in order to do so it must lift itself from the limitations and abilities of its own nature. [...]

Gradually psychological structures are able to focus upon vaster areas, and in order to achieve proficiency in this manner you do indeed begin to build up layered selves that have been independent identities. [...]

[...] Ruburt thinks of a money order. [...]

[...] For if the authors say that oftentimes a subordinate or potential ego will take over control when necessary in order to insure the survival of the whole, then this implies a decision that has been made; and who has made it?

[...] The inner self or identity must express itself through its ego in order to manipulate within physical reality. [...]

[...] The potential egos within any given identity therefore retain their own individuality and self-knowledge, regardless of their relative importance in the order of command.

[...] Everything seemed to work together in perfect order—table, our moods, etc. [...]

[...] I am tempted to say that it probably was not as strongly present as at other times when we frankly requested pressure in order to experience it. [...]

(One must exert the downward pressure in a manner directed away from the body while experimenting, in order to maintain the balance and center of gravity, and at least when experimenting this necessity to push down and away from oneself is quite noticeable. [...]

[...] In that regard, Ruburt’s response before such a session is natural, and to an extent magical, because he knows that no matter what he has been taught, he must to some degree (underlined) forget the questions and the mood that accompanies them with one level of his consciousness, in order to create the proper kind of atmosphere at another level of consciousness — an atmosphere that allows the answers to come even though they may be presented in a different way than that expected by the rational mind.

What we will be discussing for several sessions, with your permission jointly — and, I hope, with your joint enthusiasm — will be the magical approach to reality, and to your private lives specifically, in order to create that kind of atmosphere in which the answers become experienced (underlined).

The rational mind alone, as it is presently used (because it is a rather artificial construct, a function given prominence), can never understand the dream measurements that you undertook in order to come up with the Brenner dream.⁵

[...] There have been segments, not necessarily distorted, but given in different terms than I would have preferred; for at times I try to accommodate the material in order to get it through.

I have avoided it in order to steer clear of a stereotyped image. [...]

[...] He had to see the book in its completed form in order to perceive the inner condition.

[...] I’ve organized most of the material in a roughly chronological order. [...]

It’s not that my mind knows less
than it did before, but that
its reason finally deduced
the magic of its source, and
sensed beneath the logic of its
ways the deeper spontaneous order
that powers its own thought.

[...] Instead of clear impulses toward action that intersect directly with consciousness, you have bursts of impulses that emerge as orders to act, coming from another source, or from other sources. [...]

There is always an overall order to the personality, even though it is in the background, so that in any given case all of the separate “selves,” or other sources with whom the individual feels in contact, would together point toward the totality, or unity, that lies beneath. [...]

[...] If it involves a circumstance that cannot be altered in physical terms, then you have settled upon it as a framework in order to enhance and use other abilities in concentrated form. [...]

[...] Until he understood the inward order of events⁸ he would not be able to meet me there — so the library can serve us both in that regard.

[...] Jane devoted Chapter 15 of Adventures to a discussion of the inner order of events and “unofficial” perceptions.

[...] There is no such thing as true psychological invisibility … The physical world is dependent upon the relationship of everything from electrons to molecules to mountains to oceans, and in the scheme of reality these are all interwoven with exquisite order, spontaneity, and a logic beyond any with which you are familiar.

[...] In the inner order of events it has occurred, and Tam, not knowing I have said so, has picked it up. [...]

[...] These personalities willingly take roles, knowing that they are roles, in order to lead the others toward the necessary realization and development. [...]

[...] In order to do this you must, of course, momentarily at least turn your attention away from the constant activity that is taking place — turn off the physical senses, as it were — and switch your attention to those events that have escaped you earlier.

[...] Thoughts are initially psychoelectric patterns in pure form, productions of the inner self that must be translated in order to be used by the physical self.

[...] The inner self adopts an ego in order to allow manipulation within the physical universe, and yet part of the ego is composed of portions from the inner self, while the bulk of the ego is allowed to develop through physical heredity and environment.

[...] An attempt was made to find a suitable substitute, you see, and a particular group of circumstances then seized upon, in order to initiate the proceedings. [...]

[...] You are in effect putting the responsibility for your own development where it does not belong, and turning your destiny over to another person in a very real manner, in order to escape taking full responsibility for your own destiny.

(When, for instance, would the personality be born, in order to have time to bring about such tremendous changes? [...]

[...] Christ was crucified near Jerusalem at the order of Pontius Pilate; Herod had John beheaded; and Paul was beheaded near Rome during the reign of Nero.

[...] There was a package of something he ordered that came after his death, connected with the initials N A R or the letters. [...]

[...] C B told Jane a package did arrive; it contained something Buff had ordered for a nephew.

[...] In fact, Jane and Seth are the ones who so beautifully bring these notes to their conclusion; and in that order — Jane with some excellent material about her relationship with Seth, and Seth himself with his new letter to correspondents. [...]

[...] As he told us in the 743rd session, a few days after the visit of Tam and his associate: “This book had no chapters [in order] to further disrupt your accepted notions of what a book should be. [...]

[...] Not only would the reader be constantly involved in looking up specific items, but we felt that the shorter notes especially would be too far removed from their intimate positions within the sessions; we wanted these to enhance individual sessions directly without getting in the way, so I worked out a compromise which offers some sort of orderly presentation without being too rigid.

[...] These pieces can be read at any time, but I prefer that the reader go over each one when it’s first mentioned in a footnote, just as he or she ought to check out all other reference material in order throughout both volumes.

(Seth continued:) He also began to see two poles in society one highly conventional and closed, in which he would appear as a charlatan; and another, yearning but gullible, willing to believe anything if only it offered hope, in which his activities would be misinterpreted, and to him [would be] fraudulent … There was a middle ground that he would have to make for himself … to make a bridge to those intellectuals who doubted, and yet maintain some freedom and spontaneity in order to reach those at the other end. [...]

[...] You are working through the subconscious, and you must work through the subconscious in order to clear the channels. [...]

[...] You must work through this in order to make communication with other layers. [...]

[...] You may, therefore, for example, choose to be an intellectual giant in one life and an emotional idiot in order that you can concentrate upon intellectual abilities. [...]

[...] The idea also being that outside of the known order provided by these stories, there were raging forces working against man’s existence. [...]

[...] I ordered more of the product today, in case we do decide to give it a longer trial. [...]

They may even seek the experience in order to put their own lives in a different, larger perspective, many such people are not fully aware of such decisions, and so many face-saving psychological devices are used by the individual, and certainly by society, to smother the recognition of such unofficial motivation. [...]