“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It is believed that the self must shed its ego and die symbolically in order that the inner self can be free.

[...] Order trucks to come and carry the garbage to a trash heap, where you may see it burn and disappear in smoke.

Even though making our wills led us to think of our deaths, in ordinary terms, still that making implies both order and things accomplished during our lifetimes. [...]

[...] The physical body exists within an electromagnetic order.

(11:15 p.m. I chose a break in order to see if Jane still wanted me to ask Seth about the ideas she’d talked about before the session. [...]

[...] This follows with impeccable spontaneity and order. [...]

(Her talk veered around to the fact that once again she said she was thinking of dying — in her sleep, maybe — in order to get some peace of mind, and to give me some. [...]

Questions are in order.

In order to rationalize, this personality and all personalities, to give to the present identity a more or less logical explanation for a symptom that is of past origin, the personality will bring forth an actual incident which can then be pointed at by the personal subconscious as a scapegoat.

The incident, and I will mention it but consciously it will mean nothing, the incident represented the individual’s final success after many failures to bring forth circumstances that would then allow, or seem to cause, the peculiar set of symptoms that he felt necessary in order to repay old debts.

[...] Inherently, each individual knows that he or she must die physically in order to survive spiritually and psychically…. [...]

Right now I’d bet that man will most certainly try with all of his might every technique he can devise in order to prolong physical life as long as possible — so great is his conscious fear of death as the consummate extinction for all time to come. [...]

[...] Retaining its own consciousness of reality it can now afford to step out of itself momentarily in order to gain further experience.

[...] They’d ordered it made downstairs in dietary. [...]

[...] (Dr. Mandali told us that the hormone dosage has to be increased very slowly, over a period of months, in order to avoid strain upon the heart and the endocrine system.)

[...] Spontaneity knows its own order, and will see that it flows in proper, free, orderly directions. [...]

[...] I “travel” to many other levels of existence in order to fulfill my duties, which are primarily those of a teacher and educator, and I use whatever aids and techniques serve me best within those systems.

[...] Spontaneity knows its own order, and in the spontaneous expression of each spirit—you find what you consider discipline—and there is no other. [...]

[...] So much more evidence is available to you: the order of nature; the creative drama of your dreams, that project your consciousness into other times and places; the very precision with which you spontaneously grow, without knowing how, from a fetus into an adult; the existence of heroic themes and quests and ideals that pervade the life of even the worst scoundrel — these all give evidence of the greater context in which you have your being.

[...] Are laws made to protect life, to protect property, to establish order, to punish transgressors? [...]

[...] Automatically condemned, you must do good works, or be baptized, or believe in Christ, or perform other acts in order to be saved or redeemed.

[...] The body finally became so desperate to free itself of that rigid Sinful-Self superhuman image that it took itself into the hospital for a month—even if it did almost die in order to get itself in there. [...]