“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

([Kyle:] “Then we choose our lows and our lows are necessary?”)

(To Joel) Now, I want our friend over here, our spontaneous friend, to grapple with the ideas of the soul and reincarnational probable selves. [...]

[...] First of all, I mentioned in our last class session that you are not tied to a neurosis from a past life, or because you set certain challenges for yourself in this life this does not mean that you cannot conquer them. [...]

(Bobby remarked that we impose our projections on Seth.)

[...] I am addressing this to our friend over here (Arnold) and partially to our friend over here because you should understand what I am speaking of. But, then, no one asked me about the nature of evolution before until recently when our friend, Joseph, read a book. [...]

Now think physically again of our onion, but imagine instead, psychic realities forming its skin, each interconnected with the other. [...]

[...] These secrets, as our friend here told Ruburt, that you have told in class, that have had such weight to some of you, how dare any of you hold these secrets up between yourselves and All That Is and the experience that is waiting for you and available? [...]

(To Florence.) Now last week when Ruburt was speaking about the natives who are such expert dreamers, you asked, our Lady of Florence, then why are they not more progressive? [...]

(Jane said she had an image within when talking about our seeing but part of the atom in our system. [...]

[...] When Jane and I went for our leaf-gathering walk in October of 1965, we picked up the maple leaves in our collection beside Aunt Mabel’s home; this is the section of the street where the maple trees grow, and one of these leaves made up tonight’s object.

We will shortly have something to say here concerning the apparent death of stars, as this will tie in with our quasar material.

[...] The red circle then is the portion of the whole atom seen in our own system. [...]

We will indeed close our session, and in our next session I will continue with this evening’s discussion.

[...] Seth’s material upon resumption stems from the fact that Jane, housecleaning lately, had switched our bed from a north-south axis to east-west. [...]

[...] I will give you a break before our Instream material. [...]

Now, give us a moment for our Instream material.

I am most pleased with the chapter that Ruburt has written to open our book, [How To Develop Your ESP Power], and as you shall soon discover, events will work out as I predicted they would in the late summer.

I am holding a rather brief and quiet session this evening because of the effort involved for Ruburt in our last session. [...]

It is difficult, rather, for me to leave you so early, since I enjoy our sessions. [...]

[...] The fifteen-minute limit for psychological time experiments should be kept until our next session, at which time I will give other directions according to the situation.

(I haven’t had a chance to talk it over with Jane yet—not until I get this session typed—but I’d like Seth to talk about the part others play when we, for example, do change over our accounts. That is, I need information on how our changeovers will affect others, perhaps leading them to alter habitual patterns of thought and operation so that we get what we want. [...] I don’t see simply Jane’s and my wishes having the power to change the behavior of other groups of people to that degree, I guess—unless our change of thought shifts all else into another probability.)

[...] I hadn’t expected him to use our bank accounts as analogies, but saw at once what he was up to. [...]

(As far as changing our mental accounts re Prentice, I don’t know whether I can bring myself to do that or not, especially after the foreign mess. [...]

[...] The girl I spoke to knows our case, so I explained what I wanted to show Andrew. She said the claim denials were “ridiculous,” and that our lawyer “will get a good laugh out of them.” [...]

[...] At first Jane and I wondered why Sue would give us such a book, knowing our views on evolution. [...]

And I bid you congratulations on your anniversary (our 29th). [...]

[...] But this way, I said, we could publish works without delay, and stay even with our output. [...]

[...] I was getting out of a car, with a man, and we were on our way toward a house in which a healer or physician lived. [...] someone who knew our way of thinking and what I was up to. [...]

[...] These are people we have come into more or less regular contact with in our own small circle in the hospital. [...]

[...] I worked on Dreams this morning, and mailed our letters to Maude Cardwell on my way to the hospital this noon. [...]

[...] Our Billy was there also. [...]

[...] Our friend sees a shaman. [...] Our friend, the Jesuit, is here, and five others have gone this same way earlier and he knows this: it is his reason for going, you see. [...]

Now more personally our friend, the Jesuit. [...]

[...] There is a light behind him also and he stands at a partially opened door, and our friend the Jesuit speaks to him. [...]

[...] And our record-keeper over here (me) will also understand what you are doing.

[...] You are well aware of any changes that occur as far as Ruburt’s own abilities are concerned, or any offshoots, say, from our sessions or work; and so though you were not here physically, you did indeed participate.

(A reduced version of the on-the-spot drawing I made of my vision after 10PM on Tuesday, November 23, 1971, as I sat typing in our second apartment across the hall from where Jane was holding her ESP class. [...]

[...] In our second apartment across the hall? [...]

For myself, I think of reincarnational selves as having their roots in the physical reality we know (whether in simultaneous or linear terms of time), but of probable selves as having much wider and more complicated ranges of existence: I believe that even though we create them on an individual basis, our probable selves can reach into a multitude of other realities, both physical and nonphysical. I don’t remember Seth discussing such “probable” possibilities in just that way, especially, and they would be much too involved to go into here, but I’ve often felt that some of our probable selves move into realms of being that are literally incomprehensible to us, so different — alien — are they and their environments from our usual conceptions of “solid” physical existence.

[...] We tune in to these models, and our intersections with them alter them at any given point, causing new dimensions of actuality that then reach out from that new focus.”²

[...] Even though her state of awareness was still growing, Jane decided that she wanted to ride downtown with me after we’d finished eating; I planned to pick up one of our typewriters at a repair shop, then buy some groceries. [...]

(We searched the glove compartment of the car for paper and a pencil or pen, so that Jane could make notes about some of her perceptual changes — but to my amazement we could find nothing to use in spite of our efforts to keep writing tools in that very place. [...]

[...] We only see our own constructions. So-called empty space is full of constructions not our own that we cannot perceive. Our skin connects us to other physical constructions, and through it we are involved in the complicated fabric of continuous matter. [...]

[...] But on the night of our return to Elmira, I awakened suddenly with the memory of a disquieting dream which bothered me so much that I awakened Rob. [...]

[...] Our television set hadn’t worked the night before. [...]

Space is where our own idea constructions do not exist in the physical universe.

The other still-lingering symptoms will quickly vanish also; the pendulum sessions, quite apart from our sessions, should be maintained as a kind of personal psychic hygiene until the habit of communication is thoroughly established. [...]

[...] You must not take too literally that which you read, but leave it to the inner self to interpret and decide, and leave it to our material also. [...]

You see during Ruburt’s past period of adjustment, our sessions were not cut off. [...]

[...] What is said in our sessions must be utilized, and for the sake of others as well as for yourselves.

2. I’m presenting the private portion of tonight’s session for two reasons: Seth comments a bit upon the creative production of the sessions, and he shows how we can habitually impose upon our physical selves our conscious ideas of what we “should be doing”—not paying enough attention to our impulsive, natural, bodily messages.

[...] Recently we received an excellent, rather lengthy paper about our work in which the writer, a psychologist, discussed among other things the import of Seth’s material, as well as various explanations of his origin. [...] Those implications are usually in the background of our joint awareness, however.)

[...] Ruburt has his own creative abilities, and uses them well, and it is to a large extent because of those abilities that our contact first took place (in December 1963). Scientists like to say that if you look outward at the universe, you look backward in time. [...]

The infinite ranges possible to human capabilities would be explored — and those who chose that route said, quote: “We will trust that our creativity will find its own way, and if there are nightmares we will waken from them. [...] We will dare to push aside the dimensions of being into those realms in which only the gods have gone before — and through our utter vulnerability to experience, discover the divinity that gives our humanity its meaning. And (whispering) through the compassion that we have learned, will we be able to understand the divine errors⁶ that gave us the gift of our birth. [...]

[...] She added that she didn’t think she’d held anything back; but at the same time, she had sensed information we weren’t ready for yet — or that, to put it another way, lay in our future.)

[...] For whatever reasons, he sounded too much like I had at the supper table tonight, right after I’d scanned the headlines of the front page of our daily newspaper.

[...] Now, I did not come through this evening for a long lecture but it behooved me to make a few comments to our friend (Stan) over here. [...]

(To Sue.) And I thank you for the typing you have done for our friend, Ruburt. [...]

[...] I have told you that it is space, since this was the beginning of our discussions. During our earliest session I used the term space for simplicity’s part for your sakes, while still explaining most carefully that this fifth-dimensional space was far different than what you consider space to be.

You will need perhaps to reread your material on the spacious present, since our explanation here will be necessarily in terms of sequence of events, when as you know in the spacious present events are actually simultaneous. [...]

[...] An explanation for this you will find in our discussion of the nature of matter.

This is one of the difficulties with our sessions, in that you cannot take in concepts directly. [...]

[...] (The name of VV’s book is Our Cultural Agony.) In his case the drugs are being used so that they can be blamed for a malaise that is spiritual. They give our friend the excuse physically for a retreat from the world. [...]

Some scientists and people in parapsychology will learn of our work through your friend because of his travels. [...] I will not begin dictation this evening, but hopefully we will begin again in our next session.

[...] Tonight I asked that Seth at least comment upon the visit, since I had the feeling it marked a turning point for us as far as our attitudes went; about meeting others, etc.

And we will have a quiet session, after our last extravaganza. [...]

Now (to Ned) I will let you take your break and one word to our friend here. [...] I may have to put up with Ruburt’s long hair nowadays, and flouncy skirts, but we all have our troubles. [...]

[...] Our Ned chose a fish, subconsciously, for many reasons. [...]

Now, the point that our friend over here (Sue) was trying to make earlier is related, to some extent, along these lines in that you can become so afraid of violence that you overemphasize its effect. [...]

[...] Your poor little innocent flower, when it rains and thunders and storms come, does our little flower look up and say, “Here comes that evil lightening and thunder?” It does not think that the thunder and the lightening and the wind and the rain are out to get it. [...]