“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The peculiar relationship existing between you and Ruburt was also a prerequisite, and so your permission and acceptance was also needed.

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. He was not aware consciously of his permission, simply because this kind of demonstration could not be held if the normal waking consciousness knew. [...]

(9:25.) There was a definite separation, however, in that the focus personality was able to sense its own greater extensions—or rather, those extensions to which it gives permission. [...]

This does not mean that people pick up the symptoms of another willy-nilly, without their permission. [...]

[...] Later tonight I want to offer a little more about this overall development—but people speak for their Seths entirely without Jane’s permission. [...]

—and I thank Ruburt for the class sessions. (Elaborate, courteous amusement.) He learns as much from them as the students, but of a different nature; and he also knows that if he did not give his permission, such sessions would not be held. [...]

[...] You could try the permissive request first, and if this failed use the command technique.

[...] I want to loosen him, Ruburt, up in regards to you, however, for I intend to indirectly look in on you, with your permission, during some of our sessions.

I assume from the earlier conversation that we have your permission.

Permission, and a very airy attitude indeed. [...]

[...] With your permission I will look in on you from time to time before our next scheduled session, simply because I enjoy your company.

[...] It is extremely important that he become more permissive, particularly in the dream state, and to change his attitude about dreaming, to go along with his experience and forget how he can make it understandable to others.

I use Ruburt’s body with his permission because he is a friend of mine. [...]

I have been here, as Ruburt knows well, through your class this evening, and he has given me permission, for I would not dare peek into this class unless he told me that I could do so. [...]

I use Ruburt’s body, with his permission, because he is a friend of mine. [...]

[...] On that day Tam Mossman of Prentice-Hall called Sue Watkins to ask her permission to publish Conversations With Seth in two volumes; Sue’s account of Jane’s ESP classes is now too long for a single book. [...]

[...] (Pause.) A change of environment would be good, not in an overly permissive atmosphere but one in which some personal freedom is tempered with the expectation of definite achievement of some kind. [...]

[...] Suggestions should be permissive rather than commanding: you can improve, I know you can, for example; rather than, you will improve, you must. [...]

With your permission I am hurrying on while Ruburt still goes along with me, and will suspend our discussion of matter for a while longer.

(“Did you have his permission to contact us?”)

Regardless of who or what he is, then, with Jane’s permission Seth adds his material to the information possessed by her reasoning mind—and thus offers it to the reasoning minds of others.

(At times Jane and I have speculated about eventually publishing the class sessions—with the permission of those involved, of course—but have been so busy we haven’t tried to follow through.

[...] Consciously neither of you are aware of the subtle permission or refusal of permission that you yourselves give. [...]