“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I asked this question because of the episode of last Saturday afternoon, when I caught our unexpected visitor from the Bronx sneaking in through the living room window, while I lay taking a nap on the couch.

We will begin in our own way.

Not only is our own work rather unique, but you have no academic credentials. [...]

[...] Our books are being read by many “important people” in medicine, science, religion, and the arts. [...]

We learned the methods
so long ago
that they’re unconscious,
and we’ve hypnotized ourselves
into believing
that we’re the audience,
so I wonder where we served
our apprenticeship.
Under what master magicians did we learn
to form reality
so smoothly that we forgot to tell ourselves
the secret?

They are done for you in Framework 2, and further discussions of Framework 2, incidentally, will be interwound throughout our present book. [...]

[...] I will work on one book one night and another one the next, if you prefer, or discuss private material or other questions of a general nature, or work twice a week on our present material—whatever suits your fine fancies (with much humor). [...]

[...] Actual dialogue, where included, is not precisely accurate, since we have tried to fill in words that were not clear in our memory. [...]

We will be treating this same topic in our own sessions...imagine the ill plant as being able to use sunlight more effectively during the day and continuing to make use at night of that energy which has been absorbed. [...]

Now I will end our session unless you have questions.

[...] She thought the chair was several feet to her own right, closer to our wall-to-ceiling bookcase. [...]

[...] These class excerpts, which I’ve rearranged somewhat for easy reference, may be used when considered with book material still to come, since Seth will occasionally use the class format to supplement his dictation in our “regular” sessions. [...]

1. I can note a good deal later that Seth’s material on our making further distinctions in the families of consciousness, beyond the nine he’s already named for us, is certainly related to the passages from a private session that I quoted in the last three paragraphs of Note 8 for the 732nd session: Seth stated that Peter Smith and I “are and are not counterparts” — that with another in this life each of us may often come together, then part, “forming a counterpart relationship when it suits your purposes….”

[...] (Our cat, Catherine, has recovered from his broken hip.)

[...] I have given you most beneficial material this evening and I will close our session. [...]

[...] If you like, I will give you a more detailed explanation at our next session.

“They are done for you in Framework 2—and further discussions of Framework 2, incidentally, will be interwound throughout our present book. [...]

[...] I will work on one book one night and another one the next, if you prefer, or discuss private material or other questions of a general nature, or work twice a week on our present material—whatever suits your fine fancies.”

[...] We held the last class in February 1975, as we prepared to move to the hill house from our downtown apartments.)

[...] He felt the impulse to do the floors with your sweeper (while I was mowing grass) and because of our Saturday session he ignored the arm difficulty enough to do the kitchen. [...]

[...] Our books are a part of the culture. [...]

(Later in the day, Jane said she’d received some very interesting insights—possibly from Seth—about her mystical nature as it reacted to and with our world. [...]

[...] Prentice-Hall was bound to be confused about our motives and intents, and also there was the latest evidence that the uncertainty or resistance would lead to aggravated symptoms on Jane’s part. [...]

[...] That tendency became stronger as our “work” became better known. [...]

[...] The public format requires a kind of social shorthand that does not allow for the development or expansion of ideas or creativity, so that the attempt to explain anything like “our work” would be extremely difficult in that regard. [...]

[...] Your own difficulty with notes on our books or whatever comes mainly when you forget your own self-directedness and sense of enjoyment, and replace those with a sense of responsibility. [...]

[...] I don’t know whether to get mad at our friends, or ourselves, or both.” [...] I remarked about the opinions of others when they read our deleted material after our deaths, for instance, whereupon Jane said that more than once she’d had the idea of destroying all our personal material when we were older.

[...] All of this, you see, must be considered in the light of our last session, for it involves varying degrees of self-disapproval and polarities of thought, so that the contradictions occurred in your experience—though there were more, of course, in basic terms.

I do not particularly like the word “spirit” because of several implications attached to it, but it (ot) suits our purposes in that the word does imply an independence from physical form.

(By now I was sitting tensely on the edge of our couch, bending over the notebook as it lay on the coffee table before me. [...]

In our demonstration, to which of course Joseph gave his permission, he allowed his consciousness to retreat, and to some degree began to cut off its physical expression. [...]

Now: You also drew upon some knowledge, Joseph, from past experience in our demonstration, when in your final illness motor function was impaired. [...]

I would like to add to the discussion we began in our last session. [...]

I would rather tie this into our information on the fetus.

[...] I told Jane the session was again very good, like yesterday’s; it’s obvious that much of it fits our own situation. I heard a nurse pushing the medicine cart outside our door as we talked. [...]

[...] Although I feel very scary about doing something like yelling or pulling my hair or something like that—I don’t know—losing control, and yet when I look around our room I never fail to take note of the room and the red couch cover, and how beautiful it is.” [...]

(“Youth and innocence must have been on our side, back there at York Beach,” Jane said, “when we felt so terrible. [...]

To obtain this verbatim record: In the first few sessions Jane and I sat facing each other with the board on our laps, and with a desk close beside me on the right. [...]

We borrowed the Ouija board from our landlord in the fall of 1963, when by chance he mentioned that he’d bought one but had never obtained any results with it. [...]

We will now begin our next chapter. [...]

[...] My “now’s,” beginning a sentence, are often simply cues to you, and need not necessarily go along with our script.

[...] There are observers, as you will see later in our book. [...]

Then I will indeed bring our session to a close, with my heartiest regards to you both.

Now regardless of the nature of our sessions, their legitimacy and my own reality, only certain peculiarly gifted personalities would be able to make consistent contact, to obtain such information over a period of time. [...]

These elements would then be put together in such a way that they would give the impetus and the psychic challenge, the need to know, that could result in work like ours.

Now when I gave the session for our lady of Venice, I spoke as an authority, as myself, and there was no representative of the college present. [...]

On the positive side to some extent it even led to our sessions, for he knows that my material, the material, can help prevent people from hurting each other. [...]

[...] But Jane asked me to get pen and paper, so the session got under way in our living room. [...] The curtains were open, it was still light out, we could hear people talking downstairs and in the hall outside our door. [...]

[...] Standing in the middle of our living room and looking at various objects, such as a vase, a painting on the wall, a plant, etc., I had attempted to let my mind’s eye travel around these objects so that I could picture within the far side of them.

[...] And I am not just making promises about our little party, either.

[...] I have spoken to our Lady of Florence over here many times and you could have explained to our new student what I mean. [...]

You said earlier that everyone is looking to find themselves, and as our regular students should know, there is only one place to look, and you begin with yourself. [...]

Now as class members should know, our friend Ruburt is not possessed and no energy has taken him over. [...]

[...] Our friend over here will know who grades me. [...]