“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The fact remains that much basic material should be comprehended in order for us to continue in the line of suitable explanations. [...]

[...] When we divide action in order to discuss it, we in no way change the reality of action, nor alter its nature.

[...] In order to perceive other realities, you must therefore switch from your outer senses to the inner senses, for the inner senses are clearer, and are equipped to perceive action and reality as it exists independently of the distortions given to it by the physical senses.

[...] When she returned Judy told us that Dr. G had written an order for a different ointment than Silvadene to be used on the knee ulcer; the new ointment would help debride the wound and promote faster healing. [...]

[...] I also said that on a larger, more inclusive scale I can understand a person choosing a life of illness, say, in order to learn and to explore consciousness in certain ways. [...]

[...] As I have said before, spontaneity knows its own order. [...]

“Ruburt had considerable difficulty with church doctrine even then, and the rules of the order as actually practiced were later considered to hold their own seeds of heresy. As an old woman, Ruburt was forced to leave the order that he had initiated. [...]

[...] Since then I’ve packed full these notes for Session 931, in order to round out our personal, professional, and secular situations—yet, looking back, I wonder if I’ve properly put everything in perspective: There are other sessions I could have quoted instead of the ones chosen, other notes I could have written; there are other questions Jane and I could have asked, and, perhaps, other conclusions we could have drawn.

[...] But in some newish way I seemed to understand how much seemingly mental work is dependent upon physical vigor, flexibility and so forth; and then rather strongly—emotionally it came to me that I’d thought it my duty to clamp down physically, to cut down mobility in order to … have mobility as a writer; that is, to sit down, cut down on impulses, distractions, to make sure I’d ‘do my work,’ pursue my goal undeviatingly; that new [book] contracts instantly led me to that kind of behavior and that I really see that such behavior carried to its extremes would end up smothering my writing, defeating the purposes it (seemingly) meant to protect. [...]

[...] Her sacrifice of physical motion in order to have greater creative motion is a “bargain” I shrink from making. [...]

“Besides,” Rob said, “Seth didn’t order you to do anything. [...]

[...] He has given us excellent, psychologically sound advice, but he never tried to give us orders.

[...] My hand was in fact tiring, but I denied it because I thought Seth wanted to continue in order to make some particular point.)

[...] The dream means something to the individual who originates it, selects its elements most carefully, but in order for him to use it he must create it.

[...] When the physical system is in good operating order, then the various portions of the self are operating properly. [...]

[...] I was very pleasantly surprised to find this canvas there, for I had thought I would have to order it from New York City.

(I’m bypassing the lengthy notes I wrote prefacing this session in order to get the material typed up itself the next day so that Jane can begin studying it. [...]

[...] They will be something of a hodgepodge, not always in chronological order, and are intended only to summarize our discussion before the session.

With yourself and Ruburt, I was amused to think that a scientist was conducting experiments on a serious level in order to discover whether or not dreams actually exist.

[...] They return more frequently however to periods of near wakefulness, in order to check their physical environment, since they are not as sure of it as adults are. [...]

“The universe is not dependent upon your belief in it in order that it can exist. It contains within itself its own comprehension of its own knowledge, its own magical recognition of itself, its own harmonious laws and orders, its own cabinetry. [...]

[...] I wondered whether a part of her might be viewing her childhood in order to remind her of that mobile heritage, to help her regenerate it in the present.⁵ “see myself jumproping [again]… but the places themselves seem more significant to me [today] rather than people,” she wrote. [...]

[...] (She began to slack off from Magical Approach early last October—two months ago—after working well on the first three chapters.) Tonight, I even speculated, admitted my fear, that in a way she’s embarked upon a long-range campaign to at least drastically reduce, if not eliminate, her communication with the world, for one sacrifice follows another in an order that can hardly be accidental, Jane revealed that she’d had similar thoughts.

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.

This deprives body and mind of the zest and purpose needed in order to enjoy any pursuits or activities. [...]

[...] I stopped at the bank to buy a check for the IRS and money orders to pay bills. [...]

(Jane was already on her back when I got to 330 this afternoon; Gail Greene had had to turn her in order to check the catheter, which at first had refused to irrigate. [...]

[...] His conscious and unconscious mind had to be acquainted with certain ideas to begin with, in order for the complexity of this material to come through.

[...] He has an inner sense of order which may not be apparent, and a strong feeling for what he considers sacred or private functions.

[...] These are merely suggestions to be considered, not orders to be followed.

If an inhabitant from another reality outside of your own physical system entirely were to visit it, and if “his” intelligence was roughly of the same degree as your own, he would still have to learn to focus his consciousness in the same way that you do, more or less, in order to perceive your world. [...]

[...] Therefore your world has a stability that you accept, a certain order and predictability³ that works well enough for daily concerns. [...]

[...] Certain portions of it, however, choose to take different focuses in order to bring those aspects in more clearly.

[...] For man alone the arrangement goes in this descending order from the most inclusive: The kingdom Animalia; phylum Chordata; class Mammalia; order Primates; family Hominidae; genus Homo; species name Homo sapiens; common name Man.

As soon as they learned of the rescue attempt, the furious and contemptuous leaders of Iran announced that they were dispersing the hostages around their country in order to block another such endeavor. [...]

[...] Some people will choose “defective” bodies purposely in order to focus more intensely in other areas. [...]

[...] Jane had a cigarette in order to stay awake: “I keep dozing off and having these itty-bitty scenarios,” she said.

[...] I’d also ordered an extra pair of glasses to experiment with for painting and writing—not bifocals.