“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

“These counterparts are psychic relationships, formations that in the deepest terms flow into historic time and out of it. [...] Others represent psychic encounters that happen between two individuals at several points, say, but are not continuous. [...]

[...] Now psychically the same applies in terms of counterparts. [...]

These counterparts form psychic families. [...]

[...] There are also psychic counterparts of races — families of consciousness, so to speak — all related, yet having different overall characteristics or specialties.

Any two or more individuals living together, live in a psychic environment formed by all involved. It is true that one in a period of illness habitually, to one extent or another, becomes susceptible to negative psychic environmentals. The other can indeed telepathically help change the inner climate by inserting ideas of confidence and strength, and thus changing the psychic climate enough so that the ailing personality can then do more on their own behalf.

The change in his subjective life is considerable, as the psychic work and his easy manner in the chapter clearly shows. A psychic and spiritual openness will now help on his part. [...]

[...] Now we wondered whether this feeling would be transferred to the sessions held by Seth himself, and to other psychic endeavors.)

[...] Ruburt’s psychic climate has indeed changed for the better, but in periods of physical symptoms beyond his present norm, you can greatly assist in such a manner, for these are simply—or not so simply—miniature pitfalls. [...]

[...] The god concept will operate as a psychic and spiritual blueprint just like the architect’s plan, only at a different level. [...] They are valid, again, psychically and biologically. They will serve as biological patterns to the cells, as well as psychic stimuli in terms of consciousness.

[...] In psychic terms it is also true. [...]

[...] (Pause.) A people’s recognized god represents such a psychic plan, projected out as an ideal. [...]

[...] For now simply let me mention that any gods appearing among you must always be of your time, while expressing ideas and concepts that must shoot beyond your time into the future, and serve as psychic stimuli strong enough to effect future changes. [...]

I have been speaking about the Lumanians in some detail because they are a part of your psychic heritage. [...] While they were not able to solve the problem of violence as they understood it in your reality, their passionate desire to do so still rings throughout your own psychic environment.

[...] There are often bleed-throughs in the psychic atmosphere. [...]

As the various qualities of the Lumanians are still present in your psychic atmosphere, as their cities still coexist in land areas now called your own, so other probable identities coexist with the identities you now call your own. [...]

[...] You may instead, “pick up” an event in which a probable self is involved, according to your inclination, your psychic suppleness, your curiosity, your desire for knowledge. [...]

[...] In the dream state you are much more aware of them, although there is a final process of dreaming that often masks intense psychological and psychic experience, and unfortunately what you usually recall is this final dream version.

[...] Some dreams themselves do take place in psychic or mental areas connected with your daily activities, in which case no dressing-up process is necessary. [...]

[...] You process daily experience, project it into what you think of as the future, choose from an infinity of probable events those you will make physical, and begin the mental and psychic processes that will bring them into the world of substance.

The deepest biological and psychic structures are altered. [...] When periods of transcendence are felt under such conditions, they represent the psychic birth of a new personality from the sources of the old, and from the death, psychically, of the old. [...] (Strongly:) This is psychic slaying in a technological framework.

[...] Psychic motion always excites the molecules. [...] Under the enforced psychic assault of massive doses of LSD, the very comprehension of the molecules tries to split open. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) The psychic “rebirth” may leave you with a completely new set of problems, rising on the bed of the old and as yet undecipherable.

[...] All of this treatment rests upon the idea that the conscious mind is highly inadequate, that deep problems are unknown to it, that it is meant to be simply analytical, and is unable to handle very intuitive or psychic material. [...]

[...] (As Jane said also.) Because he now decided to do his own thing also, he was free to do his psychic thing also—hence today the out-of-body experiments conducted. (Quite successfully.) Once he saw himself simply (underlined) as a psychic, he became prey to all of the conventional psychic ideas, afraid of the sexual-demon characteristics connected with out-of-bodies, for example.

(“You mean by my pendulum?” When I learned not long ago that Jane’s symptoms were caused by her fear that her psychic work was not letting her do her own writing—that she was failing as a writer, that she wanted success as a writer first, not as a psychic, etc.)

[...] Ruburt was upset with the psychic reputation, not because it was psychic but because it was not the one he wanted. [...]

Adventures served as the vehicle that brought to light many of his feelings against the psychic field, or rather his part as he saw it in it. [...]

Here you see, psychically and electromagnetically, something close in concept to your birth process, but without the eventual death of the parents. For this psychic creation is spontaneous. [...]

I have told you that energy always regenerates itself, but the implications here psychically are astounding, as the inward energy forms gestalt after gestalt; and each gestalt itself then continues to go on, itself regenerating, forming new personalities which are never destroyed.

[...] In your universe they began with the psychic possibility of a world of physical matter, born in consciousness.

[...] There was also therefore from the beginning here a negative field, and as they weaved matter in and out of this psychic beginning meshwork, they formed both the world of matter and of negative matter.

[...] The enforced rest also gave him time to gain back his psychic resources. All of this could have been dealt with on mental and psychic levels. [...]

[...] His own native resiliency and your combined psychic reinforcement protected him. [...] With his illness he was not able to reinforce the cat’s condition by his own psychic creativity.

You chose, both of you, the two people who are the most psychically gifted of your acquaintance, and you called them here. [...] The whole affair was psychically logical, and followed inner patterns that aided all of you.

The overall psychic and mental problems were concentrated into physical symptoms—

[...] Every least alteration of psychic and emotional existence immediately alters the nature of the physical environment through instant interaction.

The change itself is the direct reflection of inner psychic and psychological alterations; but you have actually altered the nature of the physical environment and the quality that pervades it. [...]

[...] In psychic terms also there is something that can be loosely explained in terms of spatial relationships, but having to do with intensities. [...]

[...] The first explosion of psychic energy in an ungeneralized dimension sparked the birth of specifics.

I found you in certain physical circumstances, some of which were psychically unfavorable, but before a mutual trust was developed I could hardly make any such suggestions. [...]

The fact is that regardless, Ruburt, of the smallness of your kitchen, it simply is not physically sanitary or even psychically healthful to keep food in a bathroom. [...]

[...] These changes in your physical situation, believe it or not, will save you both some psychic difficulties and even physical ills. [...]

[...] This avoids entanglement of psychic energies, and I will go into the reasons for this during one of our regular sessions. [...]

[...] It is only when you make a differentiation, and basically an artificial one, between other natural abilities and psychic ones, that you think of his psychic activities as a conflict.

[...] You can specifically say that this has to do with what you call your psychic work, but even before “it” began he was aware of that energy of his, concerned about using it, focusing it, delighted with it, and afraid of it at the same time.

[...] The fact that psychic books, so-called, do not give him what he thinks of as conventional literary praise is annoying but not basically pertinent.

[...] These brakes have been applied in what you think of as the psychic arena because that is the chosen situation. [...]

[...] You are learning now, in a three-dimensional context, the ways in which your emotional and psychic existence can create varieties of physical form. You manipulate within the psychic environment, and these manipulations are then automatically impressed upon the physical mold. [...] The naturally creative aspects are the materializations of the deepest psychic, spiritual, and physical inclinations of the species, set up in your terms eons ago, and a part of the racial bank of psychic knowledge.

[...] However I am speaking of psychological and psychic atmospheres, and this area is sufficiently distant from Ruburt’s physically oriented self so that the communications can be relatively understood.

[...] But the intensity, the condensed psychic strength of our psychological natures forms new dimensions of activity. [...]

[...] As I stated before, that part of the world was filled with would-be messiahs, self-proclaimed prophets, and so forth, and in those terms it was only a matter of time before man’s great spiritual and psychic desires illuminated and filled up that psychological landscape, filling the prepared psychological patterns with a new urgency and intent. [...] (musically) filled the psychic bill, but who were unfitted for other reasons: They were of the wrong race, or their timing was off. [...]

[...] Nor can it be disputed that Christianity was based upon great religious and psychic vision. [...]

[...] You must understand man’s need and capacity for fulfillment, dramatization, and psychic creativity.

[...] So there were in those days some rather disconnected events that served as the focus point for great psychic activity: People wanted to believe, and their belief changed the course of history. [...]

Your psychic work will also help them question the values of their lives. [...] You are not moving into a closed psychic area, then, where everyone sees the world as you do, even generally speaking. [...]

“As your body senses temperature changes, so it also senses the psychic charge not only of other human beings but also, believe it or not, of animals, and to a lesser extent … of plants and vegetative matter. Your tree builds up a composite of sensations of this sort, sensing not the physical dimensions of a material object, whatever it is, but the vital psychic formation within and about it.

[...] You will also have another kind of freedom: Your psychic and other creative work will be easier simply because you will not have others so close to contend with in terms of thought patterns.³

The proximity of so many trees also has considerable health value, and to those doing psychic or other creative work the effects are particularly conducive to a peaceful state of mind. [...]

[...] According to the chronology of events that Jane made up from her old notebooks last year, the symptoms began before the psychic manifestation of her abilities. At the time this knowledge was a surprise to us, since we’d fallen into the habit of thinking the symptoms were an outgrowth of the psychic abilities.

[...] My question simply wanted to explore the relationship between the onset of symptoms before the psychic work, and the fact that a psychic “failure” had the ability to deepen them. [...]

[...] She often went into detail concerning the suspected session, without saying anything about the fact that a psychic experience could make worse symptoms that had begun before the psychic work, per se, had become conscious knowledge to us.

[...] He had hoped to be a great psychic, in his terms, about then. But a great psychic, you see, should have been able to raise the dead and save the living. [...]

[...] He would quite literally do anything to retain your love—hence his feelings sometimes that you sent him out on this psychic pilgrimage. This feeling however, having its roots in “lack of rights” and his alliance with you, also provides him with the unity upon which his life is based: the poetry, the psychic work, and yourself. [...]

When he began to doubt the writing self in this new alliance with the psychic, then the framework became shaky. Some of this was a creative psychic and artistic endeavor that had to be worked through, whether or not it shook the foundations, you see.

He did not feel they had served that particular purpose, yet he felt the sessions too legitimate to drop then, and the psychic work too fascinating to disown. [...] You had received the cover, and the writing self was facing its own conflicts also: was the psychic work its natural fulfillment, or a disastrous side trip? [...]

[...] In the psychic realm therefore he dared not voice any feelings that you did not voice. [...]

During those 21 months in the hospital, Jane, Seth, and I said much about her physical/psychic condition, and I recorded it all in my homemade shorthand as best I could under often very stressful conditions. [...] For weeks after her admittance in April, I didn’t know if Jane would ever do any “psychic” work again, but three months later she surprised me by beginning a series of dialogues similar to the “world-view” material she’d produced for her books on the psychologist and philosopher William James, and the artist Paul Cézanne. [...]

[...] Why hadn’t Seth gotten her out of her dilemma, turned the magic key in the proper psychic lock? [...]

[...] Jane was a human being first, and a very gifted psychic second. [...]

[...] In some stubborn and psychically grounded way we each are going to make our own choices, as human beings always have. [...]

The development of his psychic abilities frightened him, for the very simple reason that in his mind a psychic did not have the same kind of status. The writing abilities were always one manifestation of his own strong psychic nature, however, and his growth as a personality required the merging of both if even the writer was to succeed. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s brains however gave him much more leeway than his mother’s beauty gave her, and his intellect came with a counterpart—an intuitional and psychic counterpart that enriched it and kept it from becoming bitter or even ingrown.

A concentration upon your plans, daily life, writing, and free psychic activity, will best now allow the body to continue its improvements without being watched at every moment. [...]

[...] Contemplation of an abstract nature often leads further into valid psychic experience. [...] There must always be a balance between necessary conditioning, ritual and habit, and spontaneity, freedom, and what we will call instantaneous psychic relaxations.

[...] Therefore, such simple activities as walking in the rain, lying upon grass, walking in windy weather, all represent gateways to psychic experience.

I am not minimizing the necessity or power of intellect, but any activity in which the individual momentarily forgets the props of identity, and immerses himself, such an activity allows him to dispense with the practical limitations inherent in a closed system, and refreshes his psychic ability.

[...] A reminder to the subconscious as to your purposes, whether they are psychic or practical, will be most helpful before immersion such as a walk, and so forth.