“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You need, each person needs, that kind of touch. [...]

[...] He needs the verbal expression of love and affection, not only in regard to his work, which he appreciates immensely, but in terms of his person. [...]

I would like both of you to read the chapter on affirmation (in Personal Reality), and to keep it in mind daily. [...]

Now, we will have some dictation and some personal material—and I will change my mind and give you the personal material first.

He also comes through as a young woman with some problems, with a repressive tendency that is physically materialized, with dogmatic and somewhat rigid distorted ideas that have only lately really been understood by the personality. [...]

[...] Jane had allowed Seth to talk about the whole situation in a more personal way than she usually does; the result is that we already have more data on Stella Butts than on the earlier deaths of Jane’s own parents [in 1971 and 1972], for instance.⁴ We knew that Seth wouldn’t continue describing my mother and her present reality indefinitely; such a study could easily grow into a book by itself. In addition, Jane holds deeply felt convictions about giving material on survival personalities; the information in Appendix 10 has a bearing here. [...]

[...] In contrast, her involvement with Seth’s last book, Personal Reality, had been much more intimate during its production.

[...] You may be depending upon another such person too strongly, trying to live your own life secondhandedly through the life of another. [...]

[...] Embedded within it were these lines: “Ruburt’s idea did come from me, about your reincarnational episodes involving the Roman officer, and your personal experience illustrates what I am saying in ‘Unknown’ Reality — the individual’s history is written in the psyche, and can indeed be uncovered.” [...]

1. The reader can also refer to Seth’s material on dreams in chapters 8 and 10 in Seth Speaks, and chapters 10 and 20 in Personal Reality.

Such a person’s days may be so crowded with desperate activity that there is no time with which to even contemplate suicide, because the struggle for life itself is so intent.

Such persons can help themselves, however, and they can be helped by others.

[...] The will, again, operates according to the personality’s beliefs about reality, so its desires are sometimes tempered as those beliefs change. [...]

[...] Each person lives by their intent, which brings about the force of their being. [...]

(To Arnold.) I want you personally to consider what I said about sounds on the other side of silence. [...]

([Gert:] “If a bull says you may go into his pasture, you may go into his pasture, but when a person wishes to heal there are three things; the physical, emotional and psychological, is that correct?”)

[...] For each time, they had to ring true to those left behind, adding those necessary personal touches, and references and little stories, to match the personal history of the newly deceased.

[...] Yet there is no answer within quantum mechanics as to how or why one’s personal identity chooses to follow a certain probable pathway, and consciousness per se is not considered. [...]

[...] As I wrote to a fan just last week: “No matter what he or she may think of it personally, no reputable scientist is going to publicly espouse a belief in the Seth material. [...]

In our ceaseless search for answers to an unending list of personal questions, we discussed the notion that in her own way Jane has described a circle from her childhood: Her parents, Marie and Delmer, were married in Saratoga Springs, a well-known resort town in upper New York State, in 1928. [...]

Whatever the initial course of action agreed to in just this probable reality by everyone involved, from whatever point in the “past,” in Framework 1 the participants have subjected it to an almost infinite variety of choices and modifications through the years: but always—always—within nature’s great structure, and accompanied by the utter freedom of each person concerned to accept, reject, abort, or change the whole affair from their individual perspective at any moment….

[...] And yet it is the driving personality and force in your world, and you use its energy as you construct your camouflage patterns.

[...] The outer ego as a rule is not aware of what you may think of for now as the thoughts or communications of the inner ego; but the inner ego knows every step you take, every particle of air you breathe, every dream you have; and it is the source of your own personality and is the representative of the entity of which it is part.

[...] You can for a while fake the sort of disbelieving belief required, but your ability to sell is based upon your own confidence as an integrated and principled personality. [...]

There are personalities who are naturally equipped to understand if not to flatter, while having at the same time keen minds. [...]

Both of you were sure of your love, but each of you at various times were quite willing to let its personal aspects take second place, and I am not speaking alone of physical love-making. [...]

[...] But this meant in his case: should he try to exclusively be the literary person again? [...]

[...] In your particular personal relationship Ruburt began to feel that when you looked at him you were comparing him precisely with “that perfect physical self” that seemingly so eluded him, and in the face of that image, any improvement at all began to seem so insignificant as to be meaningless.

[...] Ruburt felt, finally, that you saw him at his worst in the morning, and did not turn away from his as some crooked, broken, grotesque physical person. [...]

I’ve become quite interested in such an achievement in view of my recent but very limited successes in touching upon several personal “past” involvements: the two nameless Roman soldiers, and the woman called Maumee. The idea of trying to reach a future self has been with me for some three and a half years, though, or since I first encountered Nebene, that male personality who inhabits a distant niche in my psychic past.

Other related material on reprogramming the past can be found in Chapter 14 of Personal Reality; see sessions 653–55.

[...] And the same tree will recognize the same person who passes it by each day….”

[...] In a way, then, each thought bears the same relation to its materialization in fact as the sperm bears to its possible materialization as a person. [...]

[...] Persons in various fields will put our ideas to work.

(The last page of the 241st Session, containing the personal material omitted in the regular notebook copy.)

[...] All of this boils down to what I have said unceasingly (whispering) about trusting the spontaneous self—for in the most simple of terms, you do not need poor mobility as a working method for any reasons, if you trust the spontaneous self in its dealings with the conscious personality and with the world.

It worked for a while as a way of avoiding distractions, but the personality no longer needs such artificial “aids.”

All of the suggestions in this chapter can indeed help break down those habitual thought patterns, however, and if such a person is seeing a therapist, it is an excellent idea if the entire family join in the therapy.

[...] They are often triggered, finally, by a traumatic life situation — the death of a spouse or parent, a major disappointment, or any experience that is particularly shocking and disturbing to the particular person involved.

Each person, for example, is born with his or her uniquely individual set of characteristics and abilities, likes and dislikes. [...]

In time’s reference, the private purposes of each individual appear also in the larger historical context, so that each person forms his corner of his civilization—and all individuals within a given time period have private and overall purposes, challenges that are set, probable actions that they will try to place within history’s context.

[...] It is true that you are each versions of the universe, or even that every person alive is somehow a version of each other person, and it is true that a great unity underlies the basis of life, as you know it, that all things are interrelated. [...]

[...] Other personalities would not.

Fragment entity, uneasy with present personality. [...]