“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Each person or act has his or its “proper stance,” or platform of intention from which to operate. There are healers, for example, who respond primarily to the needs of others. In the nonpsychic arena these correspond with your doctors and nurses and even to, say, social reformers. The framework is an excellent one for those who find it a natural extension of inner intent. It deals with utility, function, need, and the “righting of wrongs.”

Beyond that platform (which is not your own native one) is another that operates as “high art,” in which activity is for its own sake, for the joy and discovery of the performance or execution, a high play that sets the needs of the world at least momentarily aside, rises up above specifics into those vaster realms from which specifics emerge.

A-1 may be used as a side platform, so to speak, from which you can view physical events from a clearer standpoint. [...]

[...] Jane has already discovered that she has very good abilities using A-1 as a “side platform.” [...]

[...] Then from this adjacent platform of A-l consciousness, you perceive the mental thought patterns of yourself or the other person in whatever way you find characteristic of you.

— this will help you understand about the platform that Ruburt imagines, and the inner procedure required for a session without a session.

[...] She said she’d tried to reach the platform Seth had described in the last session, and as I’d suggested she try to do, but with limited success. [...]

There is also something else you can do at such times—and try all of these suggestions of mine, for one or another may be particularly effective, while another simply does not suit you as well: one way or another, imagine a kind of neutral platform, a subjective platform. Imagine yourself standing upon it, and see it as being a certain distance away from the platform of your usual beliefs. [...]

Now Ruburt has managed to find a platform, lately, that has allowed him a good deal of freedom from his usual worries. [...]

[...] There will also be certain beloved traps set about the city, that will be of an enlightening nature … Now listen: You think there is nothing intrinsically impossible about building a platform in [your] space … I am suggesting, then, a platform in inner reality. [...]

Give us a moment … Time periods themselves, then, are somewhat like platforms — natural platforms — that serve “time and time again” to bring forth fresh life. [...]

You are only aware of your own position within time, or your own place on the “platform,” or the ledge as you understand it.¹ Not only do these ledges or platforms of time exist simultaneously, but each one brings forth its own batches of personalities in its own different seasons. [...]

[...] that the establishment will just cut off your platform.... [...]

Now imagine anything that you choose but have a line or a platform that represents Alpha I. Have it in your mind as a symbol of adjacent consciousness at the same level, perhaps, as your eyes. [...]

[...] Most artist, painters, do not feel the need, then, to “later” examine the moments of creativity themselves, nor to form still another subjective platform from which to examine the creative process.

[...] (With gentle humor:) My books represent vast creativity, and yet you perform your own additional subjective leaps, forming subjective platforms that then deal with the circumstances of the books.

[...] “Unknown” simply became the platform. [...]

(10:00.) It also formed a platform for the ways in which you misunderstand each other, and therefore has served as a symbolic road of contention. [...]

[...] Perhaps this isn’t a good analogy — Seth is far from a dream character, and in fact I hardly ever dream of him at all — but he is a personality whose platform of reality isn’t the same as ours, a personality who writes books through me, but from his standpoint, not mine.

[...] Then there was a brief point of psychological rest, an almost neutral psychological platform in which Seth’s outline began to emerge.

[...] It is as if you set up a small healing station, or platform and from that vantage point the body is then able to use its healing abilities far more effectively than usual.

You have with all of this the natural need, again, to be accepted to some degree by your fellows, to find a point of relation, an accepted platform for relationships.

[...] Science fiction for a while offered science plus writing—a convenient platform. [...]

[...] The poised framework of physical existence requires a particular platform of experience that you accept as valid and real. [...] That platform or focus is the result of the finest cooperation. [...]

[...] They meet and merge, and form platforms for action.

[...] As long as you are dealing with Framework 1 only, there will seem to be no platform of an objective or subjective nature that will allow you to view reality in any other way than the way it appears to be. [...]

[...] A missionary here with a watch, and five people on a platform. [...]

[...] It demands much more of its people, however, for in a large manner each must pick and choose from amid a variety of life-styles and beliefs his and her own platform for daily life and action.

[...] The hostage situation (now in day 53) is a materialized mass dream, meant to be important and vital on political and religious platforms of reality, meant to dramatize a conflict of beliefs, and to project that conflict outward into the realm of public knowledge. [...]

(Pause.) You value rather “set” habits that serve as more or less steady platforms for the pursuit of the uncertain nature of both your arts and psychic activity. [...]