“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In Personal Reality I stressed many of these points for our readers, but you yourselves forget to apply them in that one important area of your lives. [...]

[...] I suggest you read the late sessions again, and I imagine that by our next session you will both be in a better frame of mind, unless you allow your discouraging feelings to predominate, which would be a vast mistake.

Over the last few years, we have spent many hours with our dream records, though the daily time spent in keeping them up to date is negligible. For our own benefit, we frequently kept simple journals of daily events also, so that it was easier to check dreams against daily and weekly happenings and to connect dreams with past, present and future events.

[...] (Actually, I do not drive because of poor eyesight.) The car approached our corner, at Walnut and Water Streets. [...]

[...] When he recovered, he offered to drive us to the garage to pick up our car.

[...] Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic. [...]

[...] They did not know about Seth but were somewhat familiar with our work in ESP, and of course would learn of Seth’s existence when Jane’s ESP book is published. Probably we would have preferred that our friends, two young men and two young ladies, do more background reading before meeting Seth; on the other hand, with the coming publication of Jane’s book we have been somewhat curious as to the reaction of interested friends to Seth. [...]

(Although they were surprised at first our guests did not stay surprised long, and began to bombard Seth with questions. [...]

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

Now we can as you prefer, Joseph, go more deeply into this now, or at our next session.

[...] I doubt it, but even then I’d rather spend my life in the quest for meaning, the search for learning, rather than ignore the messages and signals that have appeared within our world. And I do believe that we are in contact with a source quite beyond our normal comprehension.

“Our priests,” he mused, “have spoken
of Man Who made our pond.
Perhaps He left this as a token,
Between us, to be a bond.”

[...] One night while experimenting in the dream state, for example, I found myself standing in a room about the size of our bedroom, but it was obviously being used as a closet. [...] Suddenly, I knew that the house belonged to Bill and Beverly Gray, previous tenants in our apartment house. [...]

[...] And I don’t believe that our world, like the watch, is simply a discard from another greater reality, though certainly it is a part of one.

[...] I was balanced on an arm of our davenport talking to our company. [...]

(We had been speculating about spending our immediately-past lives in Boston, since Seth had hinted at this in the last session. [...]

[...] I hope our little session last night wasn’t too much for you.

We have, I believe, used the analogy of air, comparing it to the vitality of the universe in one of our previous sessions. [...]

(At 8:50 a friend of ours, Howard Kimball, arrived. [...]

(Howard bought a small tempera of mine picturing two apples; and then to Jane’s surprise he bought off the wall of our apartment a small abstract oil that Jane and I had produced jointly, in a humorous attempt at working together. [...]

[...] I will however continue along the lines of our previous discussions.

Our friend Ruburt prides himself that his conscious self, before the sessions began, started a book called The Physical Universe as Idea Construction. [...]

Still, Jane and I do have our cats inoculated against feline distemper and respiratory viruses; pets acquired at humane societies (as ours often are) have already shared an infected environment. [...] It’s very difficult in our society to rely upon beliefs alone where other people are involved, particularly in the face of medical and scientific propaganda. [...]

[...] During our private and book sessions Seth’s voice effects are usually quite conversational in tone and emphasis, and he speaks slowly enough so that I can comfortably take notes. [...] Such manifestations are practically never carried that far in our regular sessions, however. [...]

[...] As I wrote in Note 2 for the first session of Mass Events, which Seth-Jane gave a week ago, we’re having the front porch of our hill house rebuilt. [...]

[...] I talked with our tax man, Jack Joyce, on the telephone today; we may get our forms Thursday. [...]

(In Session 725 Seth discussed the spiritual aspects of our biological nature, and in Note 4 for that session I presented brief excerpts from the material he’d given in ESP class the night before, on the truly limitless “ceilings to the self” or identity.

(In that same class, however, Seth also brought our biological nature “down to earth” in most literal terms. [...]

(I told Jane that we have to follow it — that we simply must dump all else and trust the body, that nothing else makes any sense any more, that it’s the key to our futures. [...] But part of our success will depend on keeping these simple goals always in mind, before us.

Now: If you examine your feelings about parenthood in general, you will see that they bear an astonishing similarity to your feelings about your painting and our work. [...]

[...] Following this in a period of usual activity (the same evening), he sensed his own image speaking for me and sitting across the couch from him in our (Seth’s) accustomed position. [...]

[...] At the same time it illustrated part of our relationship as it happens in sessions, in which Ruburt allows a portion of himself to step aside. [...]

[...] Ruburt sat physically on the couch, yet at another level he did sit here (in the chair facing the couch), and in our relationship that was a fairly “sophisticated” kind of manipulation, involving the projection of a form outward—the double. [...]

[...] I’m going to work out those beliefs for myself and for our readers.”)

[...] Until our sessions began, he followed the official line of consciousness, and though he railed against those precepts he could find no other solution. [...]

(Our friend did not have cancer. [...]

I told you in our last session that one member of a family could accept the symptoms for the whole family. [...]

[...] Except for our sessions there has been little freshness in your environments because you would find it, both of you now, threatening. [...]

[...] Seth returned almost at once, after I said that I wasn’t interested in solving our problems by simply changing jobs for more money – the problem was that I wanted time to paint, etc., and time for Jane to write.)

First we will have our fireside chat.

[...] (Pause.) By changing the names of objects you automatically look at them in a new fashion, yet certainly all objects will not be given names, for this would defeat our purpose. [...]

[...] Our use of the language will not be heavy-handed. [...]

[...] Your closer relationship will have its effects upon our sessions also, for your energies are at peace (louder:)—and now I bid you a fond good evening, cordella and all.

[...] They would have to appear in line with our idea of personhood, though their own reality might exist in quite different terms. [...] It wasn’t that I mistrusted the Seth personality, but I felt it was a personification of something else — and that ‘something else’ wasn’t a person in our terms … Yet in an odd way I felt that he was more than that, or represented more; and that his psychological reality straddled worlds … I sensed a multidimensionality of personality that I couldn’t define.”

[...] For instance, your sophisticated techniques allow you to say that conditions are right for a tornado, and you will have a tornado watch (as we had in our Elmira area not long ago), or your instruments will pick up faint earthquake tremors, and following fault lines you will then “predict” that an earthquake will appear in another area. [...]

[...] The Aspect self that appears in our reality is the focus personality, “earthized” in physical form. [...]

[...] I was angry and disappointed; I was fearful that Jane and I would never be able to rise above our problems and fulfill our potentialities, which I knew to be excellent. [...]

[...] The pent-up spontaneity helped make our sessions possible, and in one way or another will always erupt. [...]

It was, then, the burst of spontaneity caused by the letter that also freed him for the next natural development in our sessions. [...]

Our sessions are experiences in the expansion of consciousness. [...]

With our methods the ego is taken into confidence, you see. [...]

It goes without saying that in our methods the ego is changed rather completely but gradually in many cases, and only through its own willingness to do so. [...]

[...] Since our sessions began, for example, it has expanded in both of your cases. [...]

(There came a knock on our door just as I finished asking this question. This was our first interruption during a session. Our living room opens on the hall entrance so we thought we could be heard through the door. [...]

(At the start of the session our cat Willy became very frisky. [...]

(“Is it possible for us to contact our own entities?”

[...] You are right in supposing that I ran after him, grabbing his shirttail so to speak, in our beginning sessions. [...]

Now, this class worked for our young friend because she was ready to use her abilities and open to use her abilities and prepared. [...]

When I said that our simple little exercise last week was a preliminary exercise, that is exactly what I meant but you are the ones who are placing the interpretation upon it that you are. [...]

(To Joel) Now our friend behind me is running with great sprints away from (words lost) . [...]

I will shortly end our session. [...]

[...] And: “… our dear, politically minded, crooked old Pope….” [...]

For our analogy, now, think of the various ledges or levels of the mountain as different time periods. [...]

[...] Returning to our analogy, however: You are like one violet, born in one spring on one ledge, and we will call the ledge, here, 1940. [...]

[...] The violets on our hypothetical mountainside contribute to the life of the mountain even while they have their own independent reality, and the overall cycle of the seasons regulates the growth and development of the mountain and all of its manifestations.