“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] After our meal I’d reread some of these late private sessions, and had planned to go over some of those from 1973, but various distractions prevented me from doing the latter. [...]

[...] The session and others dating from that time offers very good insights into Jane’s choice of actions over the years. [...]

[...] This makes you dwell upon any difficulties, so that any blemishes are overly emphasized, any accomplishments taken for granted, and you are left with a sense of disapproval. [...]

[...] You have the tendency to rest after you have been doing well for a time, but the period of rest is over. [...] Our Cousin over here, for example, has had a rather active week. [...]

Our cousin of Richelieu (Bette) over here should have a meeting with an old friend in the dream state this evening, so remember. [...]

[...] This after the pendulum had insisted many times over the past few weeks that the teeth were perfectly all right. [...]

[...] When your mind is confused, and when you are quite concerned over a given problem, then you do not dip down far enough, say, into the psychic level.

[...] We’ve heard of him before—Donald Hebb, now 72—and his own story is a classic case of self-suggestion over the years.)

(We had no real opportunity to talk with Dr. Instream until Sunday evening at his home, after the symposium was over. [...]

[...] Over coffee Monday, Dr. Instream asked if we had read F. W. H. Myers’ Human Personality. [...]

[...] However, if we are overly concerned for effects then the spontaneity disappears. [...]

([Dr. Instream:] “I’m in over my depth... [...]

Breezeway PM: Response right knee new, left forefinger healing all over—talked to parent of my being. [...]

[...] In other words, you are perturbed over what is the proper direction for you to take—not trusting yourself to make the proper decision automatically, but wanting to force a quick conscious decision so that you will know what to do, and have it over with.

[...] Yet I step out of my Jane-self in some indescribable way, and step right back into it when the session is over. [...] Once the almost instant transformation is over, ‘I’ become Seth or Seth becomes what I am. [...]

[...] These pieces can be read at any time, but I prefer that the reader go over each one when it’s first mentioned in a footnote, just as he or she ought to check out all other reference material in order throughout both volumes.

[...] Originally I hadn’t planned on dealing with such material in these notes, but after talking it over, Jane and I agreed that it should be given here after all. [...]

[...] Jane delivered these for Seth over a period of a little more than 14½ months. [...]

[...] You do not recognize them as negative because they are so familiar that you glide over them. Some of these operated in your reactions over the raising of the rent.

[...] The woman in the back over the garage, the whole family, is also involved. [...]

In that regard he becomes overly conscientious. [...] Because of that attitude, however, and because of the critical—or, rather, overly critical stance—he has held himself more aloof than necessary from using the material itself. [...]

[...] Looking it over, I saw at once that it contained the key to Jane’s solving her challenges with the symptoms. [...]

(A week has passed, and I’m still surprised: Not only has Jane helped me considerably in planning the notes for Psyche, but the other day she switched over to my Introductory Notes for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality and began organizing them in the same loose way.

[...] That was some 18 months ago, but actually to one degree or another I’ve been involved with “Unknown” Reality for four years now; I think that temporarily I’ve simply grown tired and overly concerned about the whole project, even while I still have a considerable way to go to finish certain notes and appendixes for Volume 2. Not that I haven’t worked on a number of other things at the same time, of course — but my labors on those two books represent the prolonged, intense focus I always search for in my creative life, and without which I feel incomplete. [...]

[...] You constantly process those data that come to you in your private life, and that information includes bulletins from all over the world, through your news broadcasts and so forth.

[...] I thought she’d probably not have a session, but eventually she decided to after we had talked it over. [...]

[...] These can now begin to fade as the newly activated muscles begin to take over.

Gradually the body will right itself position-wise, as the newly activated muscles take over. [...]

Your own annoying physical symptoms have been caused largely because of the matters just mentioned—either worry over “Unknown” Reality, or painting, or Ruburt. [...]

(Perhaps, I thought as I wrote these notes, I’d become badly conditioned over the last 15 years, so beset by constant worry and frustration that a “simple thing” like the expression of love became lost somewhere amid all the rubble. [...] I couldn’t believe that after all this time and effort over the years, we were back to square one, trying to figure it all out. [...]

(She wasn’t too clear as to what she was panicky about, but as we talked I began to understand that she was re-experiencing the same round of fears that she had many times in the past, and that many of these private sessions have been devoted to over the years: her mother, her need for love, her fears of abandonment, the conflicts involving success and the psychic work, our relationship, and so forth, if anything’s left. [...]

[...] To me, I said, the sinful self is more active and domineering than ever before, and after all we thought we’d learned over the years. [...]

[...] It always has been and it always will be; she has expressed her way over and over again in her deceptively simple poetry, as well as in the sessions. [...]

It’s quite clear, of course, that the nations of the West, including that “Great Satan,” the United States, are, with Japan, keeping the fanatical Iranian mullahs (Moslem religious teachers) in power, so that their country will not be taken over by the Tudeh, Iran’s Communist Party; that most unwelcome development could place Iran under Russian domination. [...] The Iranian-Iraqi war promises to be the bloodiest one in centuries between the two countries; the West is working for a stalemate that over the years will degenerate into “harmless” border clashes. [...]

[...] No matter what other challenges we had created for ourselves over the last two years and four months, the knowledge that Dreams was in process had served as a comforting foundation in our lives. [...]

My own role in the physical production of Dreams is far from over, however. [...]

[...] The feeling lasted for well over a minute, I would estimate; finally it began to diminish or fade out, and I fell asleep again. [...]

[...] I wanted to try turning over astrally, and I wanted to try reaching up toward the ceiling astrally, to see if I could touch it. [...]

[...] The enormity of the stones in these buildings left me amazed; I didn’t see how blocks weighing 1200 tons could be moved without machinery, let alone fitted into place over twenty feet up on foundations, etc. [...]

(By coincidence—?—Seth’s book has just come back to us from Prentice-Hall for us to go over the copy editor’s suggestions before it is set in galleys, which we will see in April. [...]

I have heard each of you say, at one time or another, that you did not know if you would do it over again—if you knew that Ruburt would have developed his physical difficulties. [...]

[...] Ruburt should look over his dream material again, to find further correlations between it and the stages of his recovery, further correlations between the inward and outward sequence of events.

[...] (A person) never becomes possessed unless he has requested it, (when he is not interested in, or afraid of life, and would like another to take over the job.)(Eve recalls that at this point, he added:)

(Note: earlier that week, I had a dream in which I had crawled through the air, wearing a light, felt-like beige cloth over my shoulders. [...]

[...] “I thought that me, the whole bit where I’m sitting, and me, it seemed to me that I was over there,” she said, pointing to her right side. [...]

[...] It was as though there was a very elongated pyramid over the penis, she said.

[...] It is as if (underlined) you forget particleized boundaries for a while, and allow the greater capacities of your being to take over. [...]

The anima, therefore, is an important safeguard, preventing the male from over-identifying with whatever cultural male characteristics have been imposed upon him through present background, environment, and education. [...]

The same applies to a male when he over-identifies with what he believes to be male characteristics, for whatever reason. [...]

[...] They operate as compensations and reminders to prevent you from over-identifying yourself with your present physical body.

[...] She then seemed to project—she felt that she was hovering in the air over the Glen campground, which we know so well, and that she was looking down at the darkening green trees as they would appear at the present time—at about dusk.

[...] Jane’s lips moved over soundless words several times. [...]

[...] Her arms had fallen heavily over the arms of the rocker before the session ended. [...]