“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your genetic structure reacts to each thought that you have, to the state of your emotions, to your psychological climate. [...] It is like a splendid ship, the body, that you have chosen ahead of time for a splendid challenging adventure—a ship that you have personally appointed that is equipped to serve as much as possible as a physical manifestation of your personhood.

I also believe, however, that generally speaking science still views our genetic systems in mechanical, deterministic, and reductionistic terms, and will continue to do so for a long time: So that evidence is being accumulated to support that overall view that at this time science has no need to seek for other, larger, and more unsettling frames of reference encompassing consciousness, intent, and genetics. [...]

[...] I am using the word “norm” here for your convenience, though I disagree with the ways in which the term has been used, when it has been set up as a rule (underlined) of measurement, psychologically speaking. [...]

(Long pause.) I am not simply saying that genetic activity can be changed, for example, through something like a nuclear accident, but that highly beneficial alterations can also take place in genetic behavior, as in your terms the genetic structure not only prepares the species for any contingency, but also prepares it by triggering those characteristics and abilities that are needed by the species at any given time, and also by making allowances for such future developments (all quite forcefully).

[...] The long working time—perhaps three years—spent on “Unknown” evidently allowed that project to accumulate strong psychic charges on my part; when doubts or challenges arise in conflict with the work on the book, I would react in uncomfortable ways occasionally.

(9:27.) When you feel that way, you deepen a sense of isolation, while at the same time robbing yourselves of the true pleasures of accomplishment and creativity that a light isolation provides. [...]

[...] The looking-for creates the activity also, you see, for it serves as a psychological focus.

[...] Those sessions will help in other ways also, for they also provide a certain psychic boost at certain times.

Your own choice will dictate the way you die, as well as the time. [...]

[...] For various reasons, you hold beliefs that you can alter at any time. [...]

Individual reactions follow this innate knowledge, for while man fears the unleashed power of nature and tries to protect himself from it, he revels in it and identifies with it at the same time. [...]

[...] They light and start psychological fires, and are as transfixed by the results as any arsonist. [...]

The practice of psychological time will allow you to reach these portions of the self. [...]

[...] You may be convinced that a given episode is the result of subconscious fabrication, simply because the time sequence is not maintained, and this could be a fine error. [...] Yet you may be straddling time in such an instance, perceiving, say, the room as it was in the 1700’s and the street as it appears in your present. [...]

To a large extent in the physical system, your habit of perceiving time as a sequence forms the type of experience and also limits it. [...] Time, in other words, cannot be counted upon to unify action. [...]

[...] At other times, you may find yourself swept from place to place, with little control. [...]

[...] Its condition perfectly mirrors your subjective state at any given time. [...]

[...] Therefore to protect yourself, to protect your subjectivity from drifting, you erect various psychological barriers at what you suppose to be the danger points. [...]

[...] If there is any point where your own consciousness seems to elude you or escape you, or if there is any point where your consciousness seems to end, then these are the points where you have yourselves set up psychological and psychic barriers, and these are precisely those areas that you should explore. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been deeper this time; she hadn’t been bothered by any kind of noise. [...]

We will take a good amount of time to cover this and allied subjects, as we must also deal with the pattern and its source. Since matter is constantly re-created, and instantaneous, many of your ideas of time are of course distorted, since you have taken it for granted that matter changes with, or in, time. You have judged a time interval by the seeming changes in a given material object.

(While trying psychological time I had the following experiences:

[...] Although she still chose her words carefully, still there was not the straining and searching attitude so noticeable last time. [...]

[...] I had indeed intended initially to have a short session last time, but because the material — please appreciate my pun—on material was coming through so well, I continued.

And this part that you see and that appears in this room and can show joy, and show its existence and reality; that can call to you beyond space and time; that shows such energy; that shows you what energy can blow through such a small and slight frame—that self is a small part of my reality. For some time yet, you will need its familiarity. [...]

[...] When you immerse yourselves completely in physical reality, then you have no time for the inner voice. [...]

[...] You must realize that within this room, and within any room, at any time there are other personalities that you do not perceive. [...]

[...] The child (Sean) was a girl—1432—France—and at one time your sister—strong literary abilities—some interest in music—should not be pampered for the personality is already given to indulgence. [...]

In the beginning there was instead, once more, a divine psychological gestalt—and by that I mean a being whose reality escapes the definition of the word “being,” since it is the source from which all being emerges. That being exists in a psychological dimension (long pause), a spacious present, in which everything that was or is or will be (in your terms) is kept in immediate attention, poised in a divine context that is characterized (long pause, eyes closed) by such a brilliant concentration that the grandest and the lowliest, the largest and the smallest, are equally held in a multiloving constant focus.

[...] The Moslem militants released 13 of our citizens—5 white women and 8 black men—who returned home by Thanksgiving Day, but this time they kept in bondage the remaining 53 Americans. [...]

[...] We do this all of the time, of course, individually and collectively.

[...] You accept only those data that fit in with your ideas of motion in time. [...]

Using emotion from the present, let him now imagine the event only defiantly, saying to hell with the feelings he had at that time about the dumb psychologist. [...] The two selves momentarily become merged in a psychological synthesis, and the past self, no longer at that point momentarily immobilized by fear, instead follows through and performs adequately.

[...] The events that you recognize as happening now are simply specific and objective, but the most minute element in any given moment’s experience is also symbolic of other events and other times.

At times he is standing straighter. [...]

[...] I will help keep him from concentrating on the times when he does not feel that good. [...]

[...] So those of you who speak on my behalf, let there be times of boisterous activity. [...] Let there even be time for discord if that is what is needed, but never, and I know you would not, never impose an artificial ceiling of peace. [...]

[...] Highly impractical, it seems at this time. [...] And so now records are being broken all the time. [...]

[...] Sexuality in your time means what is American. [...]

([Sheri:] “Seth, are you still with us, because I waited to express this for a very long time.

(Today she was much improved, psychologically, at least, and so was I. We talked off and on for much of the day, between interruptions like Rusty and Hal dropping in, my going shopping, etc. [...] She was restless and quite nervous, lapsing—for the first time—into periods of what approached a sleep state. [...]

(Long pause at 8:43.) Deplorable as world conditions seem, for example, as man’s desperate need for self-understanding is made known to himself, so in that world also there is a time of sensed change: new values that “will take this time.” [...]

[...] That has passed, but Jane is in poor shape; her decubiti are much more aggravated, and have been for some time. [...]

It will be enough to reestablish the sessions, and Ruburt’s confidence this evening, continuing tomorrow if you prefer—but certainly not wasting any too much time. [...]

[...] Over a period of time Ruburt’s anxieties brought about a like condition, but not observable in the same fashion.

Many of the sensations or stages that are definitely considered negative at such times, and certainly appear so in your experience, are the result of misunderstandings because of ingrained beliefs about body behavior, or the result of your lack of confidence. [...]

[...] They are the result of body language, smiles or frowns, muscular attitudes—but you live surrounded by a psychological environment of suggestion. [...]

[...] Ending our material for Ruburt and yourself, I want you both to arouse your own creative daring, and dare to believe that the body does know what it is doing, even if at times you must admit your own confusion, or even dismay, because that dismay is usually the result of your misunderstanding of events.

[...] It is not a psychological arena composed of crime and punishment. [...]

[...] There are also, again, highly gifted people, physically or mentally, people who seem to be at times as far from the ordinary person on the gifted scale as an idiot might be [on] the other. [...]

[...] We estimated that at the proper time I’d just quit painting for the morning and was washing my brushes at the bathroom sink—a routine task I perform each day, and one that could leave a portion of my psyche free to engage in other adventures. [...]

[...] A certain portion of your mind was drifting at the time.

(Pause.) You are, I hope, coming toward a time of greater psychological synthesis, so that the intuitions and reasoning abilities work together in a much more smooth fashion, so that emotional and intuitive knowledge regarding the meaningfulness of life can find clearer precision and expression, as the intellect is taught—as the intellect is taught—to use its faculties in a far less restricted manner.

Just before the session she showed me a page of notes she’d picked up from Seth today, about the subject matter for tonight’s session—but we had no time in which to discuss them.)

[...] Your greatest achievements have been produced by civilizations during those times when man had the greatest faith in the meaningfulness of life in general, and in the meaningfulness of the individual within life’s framework.

[...] The true motion of the species, however, has always been psychological, or psychic if you prefer, involving the exploration of ideas. [...]

(Long pause.) I am taking my time here, for there are some issues that I would like to clear up, that are difficult to explain.

[...] The probabilities with which you are not consciously concerned remain psychologically peripheral: They are there but not there, so to speak.

[...] Except for those you settle upon, all of the others will remain psychologically peripheral, in the background of your conscious experience—but all of those possible versions will be connected in one way or another.

(“I read them several times a week.” [...]

[...] Ruburt naturally can learn and is learning to control his responses to such conditions, and incidentally this week he has made a few strides as far as the quiet times he has spent in using psychological time.

[...] If you will both practice correct use of psychological time you will greatly aid such inner data.

You should continue your own experiments in the use of psychological time, Joseph, as we also depend upon your abilities in these sessions.

If at any time in the future there is even the necessity for a deeper trance on Ruburt’s part, I will let you know at the time and there will be nothing to worry about. But as a rule this will not be the case, and at all times Ruburt can use his own volition, giving or not giving his permission. [...]

[...] As we ate breakfast early Friday, Jane and I were astounded by television news reports that in the predawn hours of the 25th, Iranian time, American commandos had failed in a very complicated attempt to rescue the hostages. [...]

At this time Jane and I think the missions failure is a blessing: Based upon our limited knowledge of the factors involved, we do not see how it could have succeeded. [...]

(Long pause.) The most important aspects of individuality are those subjective characteristics that on the one hand distinguish each person from the other, and that on the other hand are each like sparkling psychological mosaics, giving separate, exquisite individual versions of that larger pattern from which mankind emerges. [...]

Those questions help bring out psychological maturities and insights about the nature of the species in general. [...]

[...] I sat motionless for minutes at a time, bathing in a most beneficial, relaxed state. [...] But at the same time I wanted to know more.

[...] As Jane talked I fell asleep a number of times. [...] These reflexive reactions continued for some time, even later in the evening when I began to come out of the heavy sleep periods. [...]

[...] I could have cheerfully collapsed at any time. I bumped into walls and door-jambs, or leaned on tables for support for minutes at a time. [...]

[...] Indeed, I lost my balance twice while helping Jane undress, and each time collapsed on the bed beside her, to her evident concern. [...] So even in that state of deep relaxation, in which I could move only with effort and concentration, I learned something that I fully realized at the time: Even though I was far out on a “trip” of some sort, I could still feel pain. [...]

[...] While trying psychological time on June 18,1964, I had a very startling experience in which I was told by a thunderous voice that John’s trouble lay really in a “bad tongue.” [...]

(During this part of the impromptu session Jane’s voice became very loud and strong at times; it did not match the effects of the recorded 170th session, but came close once or twice. [...] At times Jane got to her feet and tipped her head back, as she had done in the 170th session. [...]

The voice became very loud at times. [...] My eyes were open a good deal of the time.

(This is the first time she has tried to reconstruct a session from her own viewpoint. [...]

[...] There were many factors behind the long layoff: Jane’s sheer need for rest; problems and questions of our own that we had wanted to deal with, but had put off for a long time; some work with others; a vacation; and the acquisition of several more rooms across the hall from our original apartment. Jane held ESP classes for some of this time, though, and gave a few sessions within that format.

[...] The actors may “return,” time and time again, in different roles. [...]

The third personality, mentioned many times by me, has not in your terms yet appeared, although his existence has been prophesied as the “Second Coming” (Matthew 24). Now these prophecies were given in terms of the current culture at that time, and therefore, while the stage has been set, the distortions are deplorable, for this Christ will not come at the end of your world as the prophecies have been maintaining.

(9:05.) Psychic or psychological identification is of great import here and is indeed at the heart of all such dramas. [...]