“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As temperatures in various depths of ocean change, and as even the color of the water and of the flora and fauna change, so too in our value climate there are quality changes, and senses equipped to project and perceive the changes. [...] The inner senses inhabit directly the atmosphere of our value climate; and they see through the evervarying camouflage patterns, and the flux and flow of apparent change. In our sessions to some small degree you plunge into this ocean of value climate, and to the extent that you are able to divest yourselves of the clothes of camouflage, to that extent can you truly be aware of this climate.

(We were by now more used to our new schedule, and felt more alert for the sessions. [...]

[...] By plunging into our ocean of value climate you can dive beneath your camouflage system and look up to see it, relatively foundationless, floating above you, moved, formed and directed by the shifting illusions caused by the wind of will, and the force of subconscious concentration and demand.

[...] This will be one of our experiments together and will not be too far in the future. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Our version of reality had to emerge in the midst of that environment. [...]

[...] It might have seemed sometimes that our ideas were fanciful projections, hoped-for but unreal hypotheses that had their own important intrinsic creative value, but did not necessarily stand for any real statements of fact about the physical universe. [...]

[...] Our ideas are as close to fact as you can get, granting the necessary translations, and as you build your lives on those frameworks you will no longer be programmed, reacting to erroneous “facts” as if they had a basis in reality. [...]

(Jane asked that I read her some Seth material, so I picked the last nine sessions — starting with our new resolve and intent on July 30, after the long layoff since July 4. They’re all short sessions, but now carry all of our hopes for the future, and so far have been paying off. [...]

[...] She was quite uncomfortable at times through the afternoon, but all in all I think she was better, which means that our approach these days is helping considerably.)

[...] Kubler-Ross’s hassles —at least some of them—remind us of our own. [...] Jane wouldn’t leave our private number. [...] According to our phone bill, Jane’s last attempt at contact was on December 5, 1980. [...]

(Our family of raccoons was stirring a bit in the fireplace behind my chair as I sat facing Jane on the couch. [...]

Both represent systems of belief quite different from our own material in many respects. [...]

[...] Bring it to my attention by stating the question before our next session. [...]

[...] Twice today we had rather short discussions about our ideas of why the symptoms linger after all these years: nothing new, I’m afraid, although she said she felt better afterward—before getting blue again. [...] Our talks reminded Jane of a group of private sessions Seth gave in 1973, so she looked those over before I came out to see if she wanted a session tonight. That old material concerned the work ethic, she said, and our attitudes about it.

(Today I mailed to those in command at Prentice-Hall eight copies of our letter to the legal department, in response to their letter of November 24 explaining the disclaimer they want to use in Mass Events. [...] Then this afternoon Jack Joyce visited to help determine our estimated NY State tax payment for this year. [...]

His early writing, and his best later writing, spring alike from that realization, when he forgets ideas of our work’s responsibility, or how respectable he should appear, and simply does it because it is a natural expression of his being —one expression among others. [...]

[...] The accident probability is more closely allied with our Jesuit than with our cat lover, and he has been driving himself too hard.

[...] Whether or not our Jesuit even knew of Ruburt’s impressions, that probability was altered. [...]

[...] Our cat lover’s knowledge of the impressions has the same effect as the Jesuit’s knowledge.

Our Jesuit would want to hurt himself, and become therefore the victim in such an accident, or be the victim of some kind of one-man affair. [...]

[...] Our joy forms universes. [...] Our joy forms the universes that you know and dances through your molecules. Our consciousness gives fuel to your own. [...]

[...] Our main focus is our conscious personality... [...]

Now I wish you all a fond good evening, so youcan all relax and not worry about our friend or about me vanishing in the superior mind of our superior friend. [...]

[...] Are we limited in our ordinary consciousness by what we think we might see and this would... [...]

[...] This material came through even though we had our first viewing of the “hill house” yesterday; see the notes [added later] at the beginning of tonight’s session. Seth’s information on the Foster Avenue place, and our present and potential relationships with it, was very illuminating. [...] Some of those present and potential relationships, incidentally, actually stem from our childhood days.

[...] Our friend in real estate, Debbie, had directed us to it from a photograph in the same catalog she’d used to point out the Foster Avenue place, which we had inspected Monday. [...]

[...] We rather casually surveyed the place in question from our car. [...]

[...] I’m inserting the material here to continue the record of our house hunting in an orderly way, and to show how even an important perception [in this case of a house] can at first make hardly any conscious impression upon the perceiver — although here two perceivers, Jane and I, were involved.

[...] I do not force my perceptions upon the woman through whom I speak, nor is her consciousness blotted out during our communications. [...]

Ruburt makes his verbal knowledge available for our use, and quite automatically the two of us together cause the various words that will be spoken. [...]

Some of my energy is also projected through Ruburt, and his energy and mine both activate his physical form during our sessions, and now as I speak these sentences. [...]

There is within his personality a rather unique facility that makes our communications possible. [...]

Now: I travel a long way in vital terms for our meetings, and those encounters have been going on for some time now.

The continuity should tell you something about our relationship, and also serve as a kind of reassurance. [...]

Ruburt found our last session extremely depressing, as he saw how the two of you conspired to bring about his physical condition. [...]

Then I bid you a fond good evening, with a note: I plan to finish our next book very shortly, and I hope this meets with your joint approval.

[...] She’d had intimations of it Sunday afternoon before our guests arrived. [...]

(“Sunday afternoon before our visitors came,” she wrote, “I’d begun reading a book by Ralph Waldo Emerson [the poet and philosopher who lived from 1803–82]. [...]

Their massive lives straddle ours,

but our lives are like

[...] This proved interesting to us and we understood it while Carl was speaking; later however because of our lack of background in math we found it difficult to recall what Carl had said.

[...] Thus one of our questions was answered, if vaguely. [...]

(To our surprise, Seth now came through when the session resumed. [...]

—I will come in to close our session, and let you know that I have been in attendance. [...]

[...] This caused him to think of our sessions in stereotyped ways, putting an either-or aspect to our relationship, and closing his mind to my own explanation of my existence.

[...] (Pause.) Our friend Ruburt must be entirely committed (pause), in order to succeed, but once committed his success is assured.

Instead Ruburt is involved in our endeavor, and his daily life entwined in the search that fiction cannot approach. [...]

[...] It will become well-known first because of our sessions. [...]

[...] It is true that much of our work is done outside of session time. Session time often represents the end result of our work. [...]

[...] The painting I’ve done of Seth hangs on an inside wall of our living room. Jane saw Seth’s painting move, intact, to and then through our large center window in the living room.

[...] (Peggy G.) Our friend Ruburt learned something from that article, in that a simple presentation works very well.

I will thank our friend personally for the work that went into the article.

(This is our first session since December 15,1965. The rest was our longest since the sessions began two years ago, and did us both much good. [...]

I am going to give you a break, and we shall begin then with our material for Dr. Instream, and see what we can do with our time systems.

[...] And if our friend had been able to stay later we could have done rather well with her, for again our conditions were right.

(The session was held in our large front room. [...]

[...] Our recorder was set up in case we had to rely upon it, so I laid these notes aside and started up the recorder. [...]

Now: You have the psychological bridge of which I have spoken in our session... [...]

[...] When you begin to get to the other side, continuing our analogy, and with good luck and perseverance there will be someone else on the other side constructing their own bridge to meet yours. [...]

Now taking our analogy of a long bridge, you are now here. [...]

[...] He recognizes the vast complexity that lies behind our relationship, and therefore is ever aware of psychological issues encountered by few other people, relatively speaking. His relationship with me, and mine with him, is bound to be interpreted in multitudinous ways by our readership, the public and so forth. [...]

[...] What it means in the context of tonight’s discussion is that he feels there is no established framework that he will accept to explain our relationship in, say, the public arena outside of the books, which allow him to make considered statements, and provide room for reasoned thought. [...]

[...] He thinks that ideally he should want to be a public person, to give and enjoy giving interviews to the press or television, that he should (underlined) carry our message out into the world, have sessions on television so that people can see how I operate (with amused emphasis). [...]

[...] In all probability, however, someone who was that publicly attuned would not be able to have our own kind of sessions to begin with, for the mixture of abilities would be of a different sort. [...]

These probable personalities are further removed from us than our reincarnational selves, more like distant relations who bear a family resemblance. According to the information we have so far, some of them have methods of perception different from ours.

[...] According to Seth, each of us has counterparts in other systems of reality; not identical selves or twins, but other selves who are part of our entity, developing abilities in a different way than we are here.

In our system, for example, Rob is an artist. [...]

[...] He is an older man in his system of reality than Rob is in ours, and while he is engrossed in his painting, this interest is subordinated to his medical work.

We will therefore close our session. [...] And from what our Mr. Gallagher is doing at this moment, I must say that I think he would make a poor Jesuit indeed.

(Last Monday noon, October 18, our friend John Bradley visited us while making his rounds as a traveling drug salesman. [...]

(The session was held in our small back room. [...]

Your friends, my friends, the Jesuit and the cat lover, are sleeping in a different room than they were at our last session.

[...] It seemed at different times since our sessions began that there were disruptive conflicts, for example: was Ruburt a writer or was he a psychic? [...] What about the writing you did—both for our books, and the writing that you sometimes plan to do on your own? [...]

(Pause.) The two of you thought of yourselves specifically as a writer—or rather a poet—and an artist before our sessions began. [...]

[...] Poetry and painting were both functional in ways that I will describe in our next book (humorously, elaborately casual), and “esthetic.” [...]

(9:09.) He did indeed pick up from me a partial list of the subject matters to be covered in our new book—which will be called Dreams, “Evolution,” (in quotes) and Value Fulfillment. [...]