“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Among other things, the poem is a passionate declaration of psychic independence, written in response to Seth’s ideas in this book.)

[...] At no time however did I blame a virus, feeling that the real cause was psychic, thus permitting the virus to come to the fore. I was somewhat embarrassed at having “goofed” psychically. [...]

[...] They were drawn by your predicament, and psychically aware enough to be sensitive to it. However, they were not able to rally any noticeable psychic force of their own.

In regard to your illness, no healing of any sort can ever take place without inner understanding and psychic comprehension. [...]

However it is your duty, and the duty of every individual insofar as it is within his power, to maintain his own psychic health and vitality; according to the strength of this vitality he will protect himself and others. [...]

[...] While the psychic reality behind physical matter is ignored, then you cannot use those methods effectively that do exist, nor can you take advantage of them. You cannot understand the psychic reality that is the true impetus for your physical existence unless you first realize your own psychic reality, and independence from physical laws.

[...] They act as psychic generators, propelling what is not yet physical into physical form.

[...] The psychic abilities are a basic part of his personality—bound to show themselves, as he was determined to express and use them. [...] His psychic experience brought him into contact with much of the stupidity of mankind. [...]

[...] Ruburt was used to his writing abilities, and he was used to subordinating his psychic abilities where they could be safely enough handled through the guise of art.

His psychic experience has grown and expanded, yet all the while controls were used. [...]

As her psychic abilities began to rapidly grow, following her initiation of the Seth material late in 1963, Jane couldn’t help but become more and more concerned about consciously enlarging her “scope of identity.” It became obvious to us later, of course, that even her first doubts and questions about things psychic made it inevitable that she would confront such a basic issue. [...] Very understandable, then, that Jane, both for herself and for Seth, would write so eloquently about the disparity between her psychic abilities and “the currently scientifically-oriented blend of rationalism,” as Seth describes that quality earlier in this Session Six for The Magical Approach.

[...] As she researched Jane’s published and unpublished notes, journals, and books for The Magical Approach, Laurel learned that my wife had originally intended to call this book The Magical Approach: A Jane/Seth Book, and wrote of it as being “a psychic-naturalistic journal.” [...]

[...] In greater terms you can “cut the pie” however you want to, but you will still share an emotional and psychic feeling of belonging with the family of which you are a part. And (with broad amusement) most of you here are Sumari, and it demands great discipline for Sumari to take down lists — even of psychic families!

Besides the physical relationships that each of you know, therefore, you have other brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, on a psychic level; and to that degree, you are not alone. [...]

[...] Even now she could only link the release of her very creative Sumari attributes, the singing poetry, and prose [as embodied in her novel, Oversoul Seven, for instance], with Seth’s reference to psychic families as well as physical ones.

[...] On the other hand, psychic abilities have generally (underlined) been held in such poor reputation for centuries (with gestures), so discouraged, that you might think it quite a wonder that they still show themselves.

No mainline Western culture for centuries has granted the validity of psychic abilities. [...]

[...] Your own psychic abilities, and Ruburt’s, saved you (as I remarked after supper) at the time of your physical difficulties. [...]

The psychic abilities are (underlined) the creative abilities—natural extensions of what you think of as the creative abilities. [...]

Now: The animus and the anima are, of course, highly charged psychically, but the origin of this psychic charge and the inner fascination are the result of a quite legitimate inner identification with these personified other-sex characteristics.

The anima in the male is, therefore, the psychic memory and identification of all the previous female existences in which the inner self has been involved. [...]

(Pace slower.) They not only have a reality in the psyche, however, but they are imbedded in genetically codified data by the inner self — a genetic memory of past psychic events — transposed into the genetic memory of the very cells that compose the body.

[...] They are a part of your psychic heritage, however. [...]

Now: creativity is basically a mental proposition, a mental or psychic activity. It is also, like physical exercise, an energizing phenomena, one that expands and extends the mental and psychic properties as surely as physical exercise develops the body’s being. (Pause.) What you are dealing with, then, in creativity is a continuing kind of psychic play, an activity that probes into the nature of inner reality and explores it with as much sheer vitality as that with which the child explores physical reality. [...]

[...] (Pause.) That kind of mental and psychic expansion in one way or another constantly occurs. [...]

That applies even more of course to Da Vinci, who was a social dilettante besides, but a man of incredible vision—a psychic if you prefer, who invented in his mind gadgets that would not physically come into your world for centuries. [...]

[...] They are meant to be creatively stacked, not just to be combined for example in conventional terms, but the abilities naturally are psychically merged. [...]

This is an instance of true traveling, or psychic motion. Now this quality that could be said to be a substitute for your space and time, this quality-depth, represents the perspective in which this sort of psychic traveling or psychic motion, or any psychic action, occurs; and its depth can be understood not in terms of downward action, but perhaps you can comprehend it if you think of a deep trance, for example, as definitely having motion, though the body may be motionless.

[...] At one time I mentioned massive units or blocks of intelligent energy, pyramids of psychic comprehensions, of which I cannot tell you too much at this time; but perhaps you can begin to perceive now how such comprehensions could be formed.

It has to do with not physical growth, of course, but with psychic fulfillment, which is as you know value fulfillment. [...]

It is the perspective in which psychic motion occurs. [...]

The psychic work meant that these would be united. [...] Intuitively and as a woman he would naturally have longer hair, wear earrings and jangly jewelry, which fits the inner feminine image, and also the inner mystical, psychic image of the seeress, the prophetess, and in your own relationship, the mistress.

[...] In the beginning of the psychic work you were concerned at spontaneous sessions, and while you were highly intrigued by the developments. [...]

You gave him quite a lecture, but it was nothing like the lecture he gave himself, and it rearoused old fears of giving in spontaneously to impressions or psychic data. [...]

[...] Without the psychic development, your combined background could have quite undermined your creative abilities entirely. [...]

Your belief otherwise automatically shuts you off so that the necessary climate, the psychic climate, is a barrier to what you want. [...]

[...] I cannot put this emphatically enough: your beliefs form a psychic climate that in itself attracts and forms the materialization of those beliefs.

[...] Your situation could be bettered financially while you retain basically the same schedule you now enjoy, if—and a very large if—if changed expectations were creating the psychic climate in which supply would flow. [...]

Instead of a steady flow of electromagnetic current, generally speaking, there is a rather erratic bombardment that affects such psychic affairs as ours. [...]

[...] Man’s language, and the sound of the words, brings the greatest sense of accomplishment, biologically and psychically. [...] There are many obvious simple examples, such as the word “home,” which can automatically organize psychic, emotional, geographical, natural, and time information.

[...] You felt Ruburt’s psychic abilities, particularly in the beginning, so extraordinary, once you accepted them, that you each felt they must be protected—not only from himself, until you understood the abilities, but particularly from anyone who might scoff, ridicule, or attack. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, you encouraged him to become more dependent in that way, while encouraging him to use his mental and psychic abilities. [...]

(10:24.) An exercise such as this evening’s simply allows you to unify your will with your body, and bridge the gap of separation artificially formed, to quiet the panic, to unify the so-called conscious and unconscious, and such exercises will release energy, not only for Ruburt’s recovery, but will automatically revive your psychic lives. [...]

[...] The very nature of the work that you are involved in implies uncertainty—and this aside from psychic activity. [...] The psychic work brings in a further extension, both of a do-it-yourself element, and the creative uncertainty. [...]

[...] It is important then that he begin using his psychic abilities to help heal his own body, and he will begin doing that as he understands that it is indeed safer to let that tension go, and to free his psychic and physical motion. [...]

(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. [...]

[...] Now because of these uncertainties—financial, creative, and psychic—other certainties become highly important, as a framework for such seeming unpredictability. [...]

[...] She scored some remarkable “hits” psychically and made some errors — yet she ended up thinking that her demonstrated abilities often collided with what our society teaches us is possible in human activity. [...] And Seth, very briefly commenting upon the search while it was still in progress, remarked to an out-of-town group of visitors that Jane was endeavoring to use her psychic abilities on her own; and that the assurance she was gaining through her efforts would be much more valuable to her than any she might derive from Seth himself “doing all the work.”

(1. “Sometimes,” she said to me recently, and with no hint of smugness, “when I talk to a group of people — say on a Friday night, when psychic stuff may or may not be involved — I get the weird feeling that I’m operating on nine or ten different levels at once: The meanings and understandings that are being exchanged, at least between me and the other individuals in the room, are all so different. [...]

Now, it is true that Ruburt possesses strong psychic energy, as you do. [...] In any case Ruburt’s psychic energy becomes at times undisciplined. [...]

I do not want Ruburt’s psychic energies soaked up in trying to fight these needs, however. We need all of your psychic energies for our work, and you will learn in the future to use these energies well, and also to draw upon energies from the basic vitality.

[...] The messages were to the effect that “Ruburt’s psychic energies could be dangerous if he [Jane] does all his living in one room.”

(Jane had also mentioned to me yesterday a flash she had received about the self-conscious self behind the ego; this in addition to the material on Ruburt’s psychic explosions. [...]

Finding you Joseph, as a partner, and a complete psychic and sexual partnership, also helped deliver him from such an eventuality. He would have finally used his psychic abilities in any case, but they would have under those conditions been tools, or used as tools of the personal subconscious in diverse ways, shattering beyond repair the unity and integrity of the personality.

[...] These may be called self-unifying associations, since merely by their presence in the uppermost layers of the subconscious they provide a unifying sense of psychic continuity; of which however the ego is not aware.

These various stages of the subconscious represent what was once the conscious ego of an individual, left now almost like living archeological heritage, from which the present individual may draw both knowledge, psychic continuity and balance.

It is from this layer that so-called secondary personalities may sometimes arise, usually due to one of the psychic earthquakes mentioned earlier. [...]

[...] The mental and psychic energy which you have expended in the physical system does continue, to some varying degree, to sustain it. [...] I do not mean necessarily that in all cases communication will occur, but a psychic return can be made at will.

[...] The coming sessions will of necessity involve us thoroughly in the nature of human personality in its psychic electromagnetic properties. [...]

[...] The psychological reality, the psychic reality, always forms it own environment. [...]

The psychic development was hardly as alien to him as he supposed. [...]

[...] Myth-making is a natural psychic characteristic, a psychic element that combines with other such elements to form a mythical representation of inner reality. [...]

[...] Myths are vast psychic dramas, more truthful than facts. [...] It must be clearly understood, then, that when I speak of myths I mean to imply the nature of psychic events whose enduring reality exists in Framework 2, and forms the patterns that are then interpreted in your world.

[...] Myths are originally psychic fabrications of such power and strength that whole civilizations can rise from their source. [...]

[...] They mix and merge the inner, unseen but felt, eternal psychic experience of man with the temporal events of his physical days, and form a combination that structures thoughts and beliefs from civilization to civilization. [...]

[...] So that in any psychic development or work that you do, you do not only have your own emotional strength or current, but another with you. [...] Also, as a result anything that one of you do will have an effect on the other, and you will notice this in psychic work. [...]

You can also find many connections between psychic activity and color and painting in which you are interested. [...] Now you do not need to feel that his psychic abilities close you out, or that you do not have your own: or that his abilities will draw him away from you, for they would only bring him closer. [...]

[...] You are weaving threads of psychic energy, insights, and realizations, and also certain personality characteristics to form this bridge outward. [...]

([Tam:] “On the other hand I wouldn’t want any psychic development to come between me and my wife... [...]