“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Given your beliefs, the period is a “more or less natural” transitory stage that is meant to bring out those beliefs, so that they do not remain invisible, or as blocks, preventing you from entry into the safe universe.

[...] This period is also necessary for Ruburt’s creative processes. [...]

[...] It is quite natural, then, that during a lifetime you experience various assorted periods of temporary illness.

At the same time, you could not enjoy such enforced idleness—far be it from that—so the period was highly unpleasant. [...]

One, along with the recent irregular periods, is fairly obvious. [...] We have then pressure pains, extended abdomen, and irregular periods. [...]

Later, with certain issues that arose between you, fairly well understood now, I think, he felt his womanly qualities a threat to you both, and the habit of mistrust became manifested in a suspension of monthly periods. [...]

In his “as if” game, have Ruburt imagine he is having his period, buying his Tampax. [...]

In, I repeat, conventional ideas of evolution,¹ this would be a period in which your kind of consciousness experimented with a water environment, with fins instead of lungs. [...]

[...] In your terms the fetus lives in primeval conditions, reminiscent of periods in the species’ past. [...]

[...] They return more frequently, however, to periods of near wakefulness in order to check their physical environment, since they are not as sure of it as adults are. In deep periods of sleep, children range further away, as far as dream activities are concerned.

[...] These periods mark not the onset of dreams but the return of the personality from deeper layers of dream awareness to more surface ones. [...]

[...] This process can also result in a similar approach on my part when I discuss his dictation, so I’ll initiate a summary of Volume 1 by using four sources presented by Seth himself: a key passage from his Preface; the headings he gave for the three sections that comprise Volume 1, along with a few elaborations of my own; a brief description of the appendixes which I assembled over a period of time; and a passage from the 762nd session, in which, eight months after he’d finished “Unknown” Reality, Seth speaks further about his purposes in producing it.

[...] Period. [...]

[...] (I’ve often wondered how much one’s ordinary bodily aging processes are either slowed or superseded during such periods of great focus.)

In this confusion of thoughts and fears, the goal of Ruburt’s recovery, or even of a considerable improvement within a foreseeable period of time, is lost. [...]

And when you sleep you are in accelerated periods of creativity and concentration, making with thoughts and images the world you know, forming from inner experience the physical story that will unfold, the events that you will encounter physically.

We want to do away with the normal punctuation of your experience, for you put periods and question marks and dashes where they do not belong. [...]

Then a give-and-take period began in which Seth corrected Carol’s notes as she read them, added several remarks to clear certain sentences, and bantered back and forth with her. [...]

As of December 1969, my husband, Rob, and I have held over 500 Seth sessions, over a period of five years. [...]

(Pause at 9:44.) There was a necessary period of time in which Ruburt and yourself experimented in several areas of psychic exploration, quite rightly picking and choosing those areas that suited you best, and ignoring others that you found for whatever reasons unsuitable. [...]

At the same time, however, over a period of time he began to hold back creatively to some extent on inspiration itself, wondering where it might lead him, and this caused part of his physical difficulties (long pause), the physical blockage of course reflecting the inner one. [...]

While Jane has been enjoying many periods of ease and relaxation, she’s also had bouts of blueness over her general stiffness and walking difficulties [her “symptoms”]. [...]

To some extent that emotional reality is also expressed at other levels—as your own is—in periods of dreaming, in which animals, like men, participate in a vast cooperative venture that helps to form the psychological atmosphere in which your lives must first of all exist.

[...] Now, in certain conditions, however, the inner self abandoning its usual reliance upon the physical senses is aware of these periods that would seem to you to be negations. [...]

(To Gert) These periods, therefore, of seeming disappearance and this is what you were perceiving at that time. [...]

In withholding his periods he also felt he lessened the pressure upon you, for he gave up the biological badge of femininity, and was saying “You will never have to have a full-time job to support a child.” [...]

The monthly periods unconsciously served as a constant threat by reminding you each of his femininity and ability to bear a child.

[...] Sue Watkins, a member of Jane’s ESP class and our personal friend, has been very helpful; she has loaned me books on the period so that I could be sure of historical references.

[...] Excavations in the Judaean desert nearby soon revealed the ruins of a monastery which had been occupied by a divergent Jewish group, for varying periods, between 180 B.C. and A.D. 68. [...]

[...] Period. [...]

[...] This vision is quite able to perceive the difference between the practical and the ideal, so that in ascendant periods of love the discrepancies in, say, actual behavior are overlooked and considered relatively unimportant.

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[...] My own interpretation, I told Jane now, was the same is it had been then—that since the checks looked so small, it meant they weren’t that physically close to us yet—in other words, a waiting period was involved in which, hopefully, they’d move closer and closer to us. [...]