“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I am very pleased that we did not appear on the TV program, but I knew, you see, that we would not do so.

[...] RFB.) …I will at all times —and this is for your benefit, Joseph—I will protect your Ruburt, as I saw to it that he did not appear on the program. [...]

[...] You should have your own program, since you now have a medical one. [...]

There are some things most difficult to say in prose, for they appear in too-cliché terms, but within this program daily you must each make it a point (underlined) to express your love for each other more frequently. [...]

Ruburt began the new program with a sense of determination and faith.

[...] Joe was living with us; the three of us were eating supper as we watched a program on TV. [...]

[...] The program I outlined will be of great value, as will the book for you.

(Jane was on Edna Bartlett’s program over WELM on Monday, May 15, 1967, in Elmira.

[...] Reverend Crosson did not refer to the WELM program, of course, but in his letter offers Jane an opportunity to lecture to a group on ESP in Massachusetts, which is the same type of activity. [...]

For the newspapers also act in a suggestive fashion, further programming your expectations. [...] When you read the news or hear it, however, because of cultural beliefs you are programmed to behave in a certain fashion, in a fashion that validates, seemingly, the concepts of Freud and Darwin, and the most unfortunate aspects of Christian pessimism.

[...] You cannot ask questions of a newspaper, or of a news program. [...]

[...] Programs, his weekly programs for example, are often a benefit to him, if they are not too extensive, because they give him a short-range challenge which he enjoys.

The question that you asked concerning the (TV) program was symbolic in your mind to other information—

(Jane has written down her feelings each day since we began the new program, and we’ve then discussed them. [...]

[...] Continue your program, and when the suggestions have been pared down into a clearer kind of statement, then Ruburt should indeed—alone this time—read that material after lunch.

[...] And in a gathering of three people watching the same TV drama, say, each of them might be interpreting different portions of the program so that those portions correlate with their individual dreams of the night before, and serve to bring them their dream messages in ways they can accept....”

[...] A program has been worked out whereby Cathy is to see Jane on Sunday and Thursday evenings for regular massages for a while, to see if they help her. [...]

Your home station¹ does not simply present programming for you to view. Instead you help create the program, of course, even while you are part of it. [...] Yet within that loose framework you create the program of the day according to your own world view.

[...] Experience is programmed, highly specialized, and attains a seemingly tight organization only because (intently) it limits so much of reality. [...]

(On the TV program, In Search Of, we watched a presentation of Cleve Backster and his work with plants reacting — or not, as the case was sometimes — to human emotions. [...]

The television program, about the communication of plants, also served as an impetus, so that Ruburt was able to sense the continuous “inner world” flow of love and cooperation within which all of life is couched. [...]

(This morning, following the suggestions Seth gave in the session Saturday night, Jane and I embarked upon a new program of suggestion through using the pendulum, writing down feelings, and so forth. [...]

I want briefly to explain a few more reasons why I suggested a change of program. [...]

[...] If you do or do not like television programs, it makes little difference, as long as you understand your attitudes.

The intent would transform your lives without any other specific effort; that is, without any extra programs—but each thing that you do would be magnified in its beneficial results.

The populace has embarked upon this strong exercise program because of a mixture of very unfortunate beliefs. [...]

[...] The body seemed to progress along its own intuitive program of working one part after another. [...]

[...] I left at 7:05 after checking TV programs for the evening and reading the prayer with her. [...]

(This Saturday evening we’re to be visited by Scott and Helen Nearing, who are spending the day at programs for a homecoming festival at Mansfield.

[...] I said I needed reinforcement myself over my fears about her condition, and she answered that she might have to initiate a program of walking with the table, soon, if she didn’t spontaneously start doing more walking.

(Long pause.) Parents who are actually quite worried about their childrens’ susceptibility to illness often go overboard, stressing all kinds of sports and sports-related projects, but the children sense their parents’ unspoken fears, and they try to reassure their parents through achieving high goals or merit in sports programs.

At the same time, in psychoanalysis you are often programmed to believe that the “unconscious,” being the source of such dark secrets, cannot be counted upon as any bed of creativity or inspiration, and so you are denied the help that the inner portions of the self could give to your consciousness.

(“I’ve never felt just this way before — like I’ve been programmed in advance. [...]

[...] The program was fascinating, and was actually a sequel to a previous program of equal length that ABC had broadcast a few days ago; we’d seen much of that one, too. [...]