“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I think it was that late morning that Margaret, our neighbor, dropped in late morning to tell us she and Joe would be heading for their cottage, but somewhere I got it in my head that it would be one of those summer weekends when people prowled around—found excuses to go to malls or visit strange towns or just wander the streets or through public buildings—or visit here, if there were any fans in the nearby locality. [...]

[...] No sooner did they leave, and we began dessert, though, than Debbie arrived at the door to tell us about a pretty nutty character who had just called her, looking for our address. [...]

[...] Tells me a big shot at Bantam called liking God of Jane and inquiring about paperback rights, assures me our paperbacks are selling okay. [...]

We will, indeed, return to our discussion of the inner senses. [...]

[...] Also that whenever possible you both read our material, and that you do continue now with psychological time, following the directions which I have given you.

I will not bother to make any comments on your lack of decision in following my suggestion during our unscheduled session, nor upon Ruburt’s change of position at the gallery. [...]

[...] Our material speaks for itself, and many of Mr. Cayce’s comments are extremely valid and should be helpful to you. [...]

Our session last evening was a rather serious one, for I believe it necessary that the terms of these endeavors be stated at once, and as clearly as possible. [...]

The session last evening was to some extent inhibited because of the emotional climate that affected our good Jesuit (Bill Gallagher). [...]

[...] I do not know if this is our young friend’s grandfather, or the grandfather’s father, you see.

With the father, our friend’s father, a connection with motors. [...]

[...] My choices are personally arbitrary, of course—yet why don’t we have a Rembrandt contributing to our current reality? [...] To link the “great masters” with our species’ reincarnational intents and drives, as Seth mentions in this session, opens up a new field for understanding my question, and a very large and intriguing one indeed.

Our many excellent “modern” painters inevitably work within a different world ambience. Our species’ art is just no longer the same—a fact I both applaud and mourn. [...]

The last evening of the month was quite warm for our area at this time of year—66 degrees—and we had front and kitchen windows of the hill house open so the cats could go out on the porches as they pleased. [...]

[...] The time of the great masters in the fields of painting and sculpture is a case in point (humorously and louder)—so you see, I am getting to one of your favorite questions,² and we will continue the discussion at our next session.

[...] Nor was I quick-witted enough to ask if he had a family, if anyone knew where he was, or what he did for a living—if he worked, or could—or how he found our house in the first place. [...]

[...] When I asked him again what he would do if he didn’t get into our place, he said, “Why, I think Fred will die. [...]

[...] “Fred has read some of our books,” I said. [...]

[...] Even in his drastic situation, I thought at the time, our society in some fashion had a way to take care of him, hopefully. [...]

[...] Thirteen of us had gathered in our living room for one of the weekly get-togethers that Jane and I enjoy so much. [...]

[...] When our conversation began to range over psychic phenomena, leadership, history, and language,¹ Jane went into trance; then Seth came through strongly. [...]

(Fortunately, class member Sue Watkins managed to tape all but the first few paragraphs of the session, but even the sense of those was taken down in longhand by another student while Sue got our recorder going. [...]

[...] As Warren made similar remarks about the development of individual consciousness through historical times to our point of civilization, Seth suddenly and unexpectedly came through loudly and forcefully:

These will include material that directly follows from our previous sessions; and also a few comments concerning experiments which you have been carrying on, more or less on your own.

[...] As certain conditions were met, however, before our sessions began, so certain conditions must be met before your experiments in other directions bear fruit. [...]

[...] Under some circumstances, as our sessions, this makes no difference.

(Sunday night while we had company Jane and I got out the recorder on the spur of the moment; to our surprise we found that it worked perfectly. [...]

(Our landlady, Marian Spaziani, visiting with us this evening, left at 9 PM. [...]

(Once again one of our cats scratched at the door for admittance. [...]

[...] And again, your purposes will be served if you make a habit in our sessions of asking me to check into immediate probabilities as far as health is concerned.

Our next session will be concerned with the discussion which we earlier began, rather than with personal concerns. [...]

(“Let’s take another look at that house up here on the hill,” I said and our car began the long steady climb toward a certain dead-end road … So we looked at the hill house again — if from the outside only — but this time we really looked at it. Our inner cogitations about it were beginning to flower. [...]

(Seth had used more than half of Monday’s session to discuss our house hunting in connection with Sayre and Foster Avenue. [...]

[...] Every so often someone wants to know about the extent to which we follow Seth’s advice or information, and I suppose a good answer is that we may decide to go along with it if it suits our conscious purposes to do so. [...]

[...] We sent the notice not only because of Seth’s material in the session, but because we felt that on our own we’d intuitively resolved a certain probable course of action — just as we’d done concerning the house on Foster Avenue in Elmira. [...]

[...] To some extent in these pages our realities meet. [...]

(“2. In our terms of time: What were some of your other activities, in other realities, while you were giving ‘Unknown’ Reality through Jane for well over a year?

(“3. I suppose it’s quite evident why you finished ‘Unknown’ Reality right after we moved into our ‘new’ house, but will you reassure Jane by commenting on this, and on future works?”

[...] Our cat, Willy, jumped up into her lap. [...]

[...] Now following through with our analogy, imagine yourself A. We will start you off in physical reality at thread A, though you have already traversed many other threads to get where you are. [...]

(Our telephone rang, interrupting.)

I was ready for our break.

[...] So there are answers that I cannot give you, for they are not anywhere known in the system in which we have our existence.

[...] Since interruptions have evidently become something of a hazard because of Jane’s deeper trance state, we have decided to move the sessions into our bedroom. We have room for a desk and chair there; but better yet, the room is isolated from our entrance by three doors. [...]

[...] The nature of the thought that is received by our sender B is determined by many factors. [...]

With our new system of communication, interruptions are shocking to Ruburt. [...]

[...] This morning I took David Yoder home from the hospital, and this afternoon I took our tiger cat, Billy, to the veterinarian. [...] Jane and I wondered what role Billy’s illness might play in our affair with David—surely a way of thinking that would have been quite alien to us before the advent of the Seth material.

[...] But we will discuss those matters later in our book.

In reply to another of my questions, she said her emotional charge was also involved with the death of our cat, Billy One, in February 1979. [...]

—and a few remarks to clear up some issues in our last session.

[...] Evidently it had been inspired by our conversation after the last deleted session, about Seth’s material on animal-man and man-animal. [...]

Someday you may want to leave money to insure that our books continue to be printed after your deaths. [...]

[...] That is the end of our session. [...]

(But then at 12:05 Seth Two returned:) You are vi-tal be-cause we hold you as a part of our experi-ence. You triumph because we are, and in our areness is the source of all vitality—(whispering:) a dim trans-la-tion.... [...]

[...] Our focuses are different, yet the overall coloration of your experience does come through to me, and through this delightful personality (humorously), I can to some extent relate to it.

[...] Our mes-sage is direc-ted through your psyches from prob-a-ble futures and pasts, in which we are the par-ents of your experience....

[...] You are quite free for example in your relationship with our friend Aerofranz (Tam Mossman), and you were with (Gene) Bernard, and more than fair with Instream. [...]

There will be developments and friendships that will emerge that will directly concern our work in general, and help spread the material. [...]

Despite all your own tendencies to avoid such contact, you are bringing it about through our sessions, and the importance of the material—the inner self placing you in a position where such contact will come about. [...]

(Long pause at 10:30.) There is another man who could share the program with him, the one mentioned in our earlier session (the 496th), that was thought not available. [...]

[...] Now a number of scientists tell us that long before the end of this century we’ll have the ability to prolong our physical lives forever — or at least indefinitely, to be more “practical” about it. We’re told again and again that technically we’re on the verge of producing artificial versions of many bodily parts, as well as microcomputers that will be implanted within the body to regulate its performance; these advances, plus our “conquering” of disease, pain, and suffering, plus genetic engineering, will soon make it possible for human beings to live indefinitely. [...]

[...] In view of our present world challenges, it might even be said that there are already too many people in the world. [...] Perhaps in their own collective wisdom the animals will look upon us as though we’ve altogether given up our powers of intuitive understanding.

(As he had during the 801st session, our cat, Billy, roused himself from a snooze and walked over to Jane. [...]

[...] I’d been thinking about those passages, and when Seth returned to the subject tonight I decided to have some fun with our accepted social and scientific establishments by writing this note.

[...] The question was really based upon our belief, indeed our certainty, that everything in nature is intentional and useful; therefore dreams must fulfill important roles in peoples’ lives—but how, in ordinary terms? [...]

(A few days ago Jane and I had looked at another apartment, one much bigger than ours and also more expensive. [...] Personally, I would like our next move to be to our own place in the suburbs or the nearby country.

[...] Although our house is separated from it by quite an expanse of lawn, our new neighbor is quite obvious as he walks back and forth before his picture window in his undershirt. [...]

(And of course by now both of us felt better, being more used to our new schedule. [...]

[...] Our plane would be one circle; and at the moment we were marooned on it, unable to leave it for another circle.

[...] According to Seth all of us have been reincarnated, and when we are finished living our series of earthly lives, we will continue to exist in other systems of reality. In each life we experience conditions that we have chosen beforehand, circumstances and challenges tailored to fit our own needs and develop our own abilities.

According to Seth, we choose our illnesses and the circumstances of our birth and death. [...]

[...] All of these questions came into our minds when Seth began speaking about reincarnation. [...]

[...] “He must have told you that I don’t give readings but concentrate on our private work and the Seth sessions.”