“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is simply a well-specialized part of the personality, fully equipped to operate under certain circumstances²¹ … When those conditions no longer exist [after “death”], then other layers of the self take over the dominant position, and the personality realigns its psychological components. [...]

(From the ESP class session for February 16, 1971:) I [come through so forcefully] for several reasons: because that is the way I am, in the guise that I choose to use in my communications, and to get everyone over the idea that so-called spirits must be sweet-faced, quiet, sober, and dignified. [...]

(As she probed the Jane-Ruburt-Seth relationship in Adventures, Jane found herself developing her own nomenclature, separate from Seth’s, for many of the concepts she and Seth had experienced over the years. [...]

[...] But that “invisible” Seth would send out an actual psychological structure that takes over in place of Jane’s, as her own structure voluntarily steps aside during sessions. [...]

(“Well, for someone who wasn’t with it too much, I did okay,” Jane said when the session was over. [...]

Your joint library experiments helped initiate the Cézanne material, which in a way then took over, and you will know when to resume those experiments.

[...] Jane was much relieved after talking to Peg, saying that before the call she had been “very uptight” over any probabilities involving accidents and the Gallaghers.

(To Ned.) Though we had an honest answer from someone over here in the corner, I would still like a more adventurous spirit so when you ask yourselves the questions during the week then allow yourself, my dear friend, to feel the uniqueness and the integrity of your own personality as you now know it and realize that there is none like it, in this universe or any other. [...]

(She also had a profound healing session last night while in bed — she “swooned” in a state of near-ecstasy, she said, for over two hours while she felt healing effects surge through her. [...]

[...] He became overly cautious because he thought he should be that way, though he was not by nature. [...]

Ideas form reality, so the body is used to reacting to some “imaginary” situations in which, for example, the mind conjures up dire circumstances which do not physically exist; but these still force the organism into an over-activation, setting up a state of stress. [...]

[...] He had been closed up in that house over there, and went wild and terrified.

We cannot cover everything I had in mind for this evening, or this session would run well over its ordinary allotted time.

[...] An ego that is overly rigid will inhibit the intellect from perceiving various portions of physical reality, and therefore distort the appearance of reality, limiting the intellect’s abilities.

[...] It seems also that your subjectivity has a mysterious unknown quality about it, and that even your mental life has a sort of insidious dropping-off point, a subjective cliff over which thoughts and memories fall, to disappear into nothingness. [...]

[...] Realizing this, you will understand that you are not at the mercy of a past over which you have no control.

[...] I want if possible to get the idea over that this system involves realities that are directly experienced and vivid, and also that in some ways emotions and thoughts are more directly perceived in that field than your physical field. [...]

[...] However, I immediately switched to chewing on toothpicks, and kept this up for well over a year. [...]

[...] Perhaps as a barrier to your own motion, or perhaps as a propelling agent, over which you have little control. [...]

[...] In your terms you worked out this possibility by weaving, over a period of three years, a dream framework in which you learned exactly what your life would have been, had you gone into medicine.

[...] Those statements are self-evident to me, while you of course are still in the process of thinking them over, and trying to fit them into the context of life as you know it. [...]

[...] His literally tremendous energy, given spontaneity through his confidence in you, is to some degree then turned over to you, and can be used in your work.

[...] We are concerned over your growth and your nourishment. [...]

[...] It is important that you see that clearly also, so if you have questions on it ask me when you read this over.

[...] Although I took a moment to think it over.)