“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] For by then I knew that she had no intention of producing an English version: Some childlike and naive, yet deeply stubborn portion of her psyche, some “perverse area,” as Seth, her trance personality, jokingly characterized it long ago, had simply taken over and decided not to do any more on that subject. [...]

[...] She’s a very perceptive person with many abilities, a fine intelligence, and an excellent critical sense. [...]

[...] They show up as wars and social disorders on national scales, and as household crises, as illnesses (pause), as calamities on personal levels as well.

(7:35.) As I write this Introduction I am recovering from a group of illnesses, recuperating from a month’s stay in the hospital, and now I’m trying to see where my personal situation fits into Seth’s larger views. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) In that probable reality, to which each of you can belong to some extent, each person will recognize his or her inherent power of action and decision, and feel an individual sense of belonging with the physical world that springs up in response to individual desire and belief.⁷

(Loudly and with amusement:) I have plenty of comments about your personal situations, but I wanted to get back into the book first.

[...] You can follow any road you choose, but — until you realize that as individuals you each form your own personal life, and have a part in the mass creation of reality — there is much learning ahead for you. [...]

[...] Early in that appendix, then, see the quotations from the 580th session for Chapter 20 of Seth Speaks, and from the 634th session for Chapter 8 of Personal Reality.

[...] “I don’t know whether the $20,000 represents all we’ll get from donations — the fund — whether it’s from one person, is a start of something larger, or what,” I told Jane. [...]

We will not concentrate upon these, but we will indeed discuss them, so that each person can understand the relationship between poor beliefs and poor health, for through understanding these connections the individual can re-experience the great mental variety that is possible. [...]

[...] It should be a simple matter to separate personal material from book dictation.

[...] There are too many variations in personal experience. [...]

[...] But all of this may have little to do with the artist’s interpretation of his own symbols, or with his personal experience, so he may wonder how the critics could read this into his work.

Personality differences then obviously have a great deal to do with the kind of illness adopted, or the “mars” you may inflict upon your own living sculpture.

(Seth went on to explain that with the exception of me everyone else in the room, including Jane, still had doubts as to what he was, that I accepted his explanation of his personality, and that this was a help in the sessions. This led to an exchange concerning secondary personalities. [...]

[...] A fifth person had also appeared, causing the end of the session after one set of witnesses had left. [...]

Do the exercises in my book, The Nature of Personal Reality, to discover what conditions of a mental nature, or of psychological origin, are causing you distress. [...]

[...] If you learn to trust your basic integrity as a person, then you will be able to assess your abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them or underassessing them.

[...] If the ideal of loving your neighbor like yourself seems remote, you will at least absolutely refrain from killing your neighbor — and your neighbor is any other person on the face of the planet (louder).

[...] My own thought at the moment was that something different, or at least not the same, was involved with the Cézanne events—less personal.

[...] Mrs. Trafzer has promised to personally put the proper figures into the computer, thus ending the billing confusion. [...]

If he is considering his own personal situation, however, let him remember that the firewalker utterly believes in his ability. [...]

[...] The books require personal questioning. [...]

The paperback Personal Reality will be highly important in the ultimate changes that do take place. [...]

[...] “Unknown” Reality will do far better than even Personal Reality did.

[...] I am personally interested in returning to our own material, with personal data being given at your request and when I think it necessary.

[...] It seems that a very young boy, a survival personality, has met her on these occasions. [...]

[...] Each person will vary in this regard. [...]

(Jane thought she was experiencing the results of her own work with bridge beliefs, since receiving the material in advance, so I asked her if Seth would say something about her personal reactions for this chapter. [...]

[...] But if that idea of yourself remains limited then it may preclude, say, even being a wife to your husband, deny you many complementary interests, and prevent expansion of your personality in other areas.

[...] Each reader can utilize the same method whether or not artistic achievement is also involved, through objectifying personal beliefs in a dialogue form. [...]

[...] One person may find sexually stimulating thoughts delightful and a most enjoyable kind of diversion. [...]

[...] According to your own belief system, you may trust the integrity of your body and instead project this guilt out upon others — onto a personal enemy, or a particular race, creed or color.

(11:10.) In this case the other person has no idea as to why you reacted in such a fashion, and is deeply hurt. [...]

(Long pause.) Because you believe that physical self-defense is the only way to counter such a situation then you will say, “If I am attacked by another person, are you telling me that I cannot aggressively counter his obvious intent to destroy me?”

The Nature of Personal Reality [our last book] is there for others to follow. [...] He should remember that many people have far greater hassles … with health, personal relationships, finances and vocations, and without any satisfying accomplishments to offset their misfortunes.

(Yesterday Jane received from her publisher the galley proofs for her book of poetry, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time.¹ The story of that work’s creation is interwound throughout Personal Reality.

[...] Now Seth took off into some areas involving Jane that were more personal; at the same time he gave material on the third and then the first of the questions I’d listed during break for the last session. [...]

[...] There are people who undergo a series of highly unsatisfactory relationships, for example, while another person might experience a series of recurrent diseases instead. In spite of all problems, the life force operates continually in each person’s life, and can bring about at any time the most profound, beneficial changes. [...]

(My own activities, then, have aroused in Jane the urge to try the same approach, and I’ve suggested she think of her own women numbers 1 and 2. It seems that she confronts the same basic challenges I do, I told her, so she could delineate the two opposing portions of her personality well enough to understand that many of her cultural beliefs have been imposed upon her natural, spontaneous, free, creative self, and to such an extent that the acquired beliefs have turned into detriments rather than aids, that she envisioned as helping her obtain what she wants in life. [...]

Personal, now: both of you know all that—that is, the material I have just delivered. [...]

(10:11.)The Nature of Personal Reality is there for others to follow. [...] He should remember that many people have far greater hassles, not only with health but with personal relationships, finances and vocations, and without any satisfying accomplishments to offset their “misfortunes.”

We could have presented Dreams as is, or at least have avoided mentioning certain less-than-advantageous circumstances surrounding its production by Jane and by Seth, the “energy personality essence” she speaks for while in a trance or dissociated state. [...] Since we’ve always wanted to make sure that our “psychic work” is given within the context of our daily living, I’ve undertaken to present in these essays intensely personal material relevant to the creation of Dreams. (The mechanics of Jane’s still-fascinating trance phenomenon have been described in some detail in the six previous Seth books she’s produced—with my help—and they’ll also be referred to, if briefly, in Dreams.)

The demand for greater, and if you will permit a personal opinion, sometimes needless attention to detail, he also construes as a hampering or further restriction, added upon the personal supervision that he is now under.

[...] At this stage personal blocking of this sort is stronger during such situations, and this is entirely natural.

—at the thought of taking one person’s word as standing for absolute truth. [...]

[...] This leads to ego confusion since the personality, trying hard to act in what it thinks is a reasonable manner, cannot understand the vehemence of its rebellion.

The realization that he need not be a public person, for example, is taking root, so keep this information at your fingertips. [...]

End of session, and from now on we will have regular book dictation, and personal information as well.

[...] His references to my own material being valid concerned my insights that many of the heads I paint represent my own psychic searches, or efforts, to obtain understanding of the dimensions of the psyche through reincarnation and counterpart depictions of those various personalities.)