“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I want you to understand that in this moment in your time, your very cells respond to what I say, not because I say it, but because your cells also speak through my voice and the forgotten portions of you to which you do not listen. The voice that cries in the wilderness is your own, and the voice that answers from eons of time, that you do not understand, is your own. [...]

[...] Where all the time he’s got it, and he knows he’s got it. [...]

([Joel:] “The reason that Bill didn’t come through a long time ago was precisely as Jane says, and I don’t care what anybody says anymore.”

[...] I will tell you what I have tried to tell you a million times in my own way, and what I try to show you through those aspects of my personality that come through to you, and what in my teachings differs from any others, and it is this. [...]

[...] There is no time lag, then, between a feeling and its “exteriorized” condition. [...] If you dream of or yearn for a new house in physical life, for instance, it may take some time before that ideal is realized, even though such a strong intent will most certainly bring about its physical fulfillment. [...] Again, there is no time lag there between desire and its materialization.

[...] Generally speaking, then, you agree to objectify certain inner data privately and en masse at any given “time.” In those terms the airplane objectified the inner idea of flying in “your” time, and not in A.D. 1500, for example.

Instinctively you leave your body for varying amounts of time each night while you sleep, but those journeys are not “programmed.” [...] If you are alert you may even take snapshots — only as far as inner tours are concerned, the snapshots consist of clear pictures of the environment taken at the time, developed in the unconscious, and then presented to the waking mind.

[...] This was the first time I’ve had such an experience. [...]

“I come here as though I appeared through a hole in space and time. There are walks in space and time through which you can travel, and in dreams you have been where I am. [...]

[...] Seth addressed himself to the students for the first time, yet he touched upon several issues that appear often in the Seth Material: The personality is multidimensional. The individual is basically free of space and time. [...]

I was so used to thinking of myself as a physical creature, bound to space and time, that I almost refused to accept the evidence of my own experience. [...]

[...] I berated myself at times, thinking that even my Irish grandmother would have found spirits in the living room rather hard to take—and I used to think she was superstitious! [...]

Sometimes Rob prepared the envelopes just before a session, and sometimes way ahead of time. [...] Pieces of paper Rob picked up in the streets, leaves, beer coasters, chunks of hair, photographs, sketches, bills—all were used at one time or another. [...] Other times he purposely used neutral objects. [...]

In the meantime, I’d left my gallery job and was writing full-time. [...] The editor turned down story after story, assuring me each time that I was certain to sell him the next one. [...]

I had just enough time to see the cab driver’s neck from the rear—it was thick and stubby. [...]

[...] And consider this puzzler: Granted my consciousness traveled from Elmira to San Juan in space, what about time? [...]

[...] This has been a highly formal, ritualized behavior pattern, a psychological dance, so formalized on a subconscious level that it left little leeway for spontaneity, and threatened to freeze you both in highly unconscious regimented behavior. [...] For some time the behavior worked. [...]

[...] Remember some time ago I mentioned your feeling about oils and the emotions. [...] At such times you became more alarmed working with your oils and colors, and wanted a retreat, and sought for greater distance in your paintings.

[...] You do not dare allow your intuitions full reign even when you paint at such times for fear that they will carry up with them these repressed feelings.

[...] At the same time you adopted a more hard line in your relationship with those in the family, trying to avoid all emotional situations which might trigger a release of the repressed feelings.

[...] Many people, long before the time of printing or reading, learned to read nature very well, to observe the seasons, to feel out “the seasons of the soul.” [...]

(Long pause at 9:22, then intently yet humorously:) When you stand at your physical doorstep you look inward at an incredible glowing psychological venture. [...]

In time, you see, the (smile) various ego memories will become part of these. [...]

[...] It may accept the challenge of great change on the other hand, and allow a reorganization of psychological processes, in which case identity is not only saved but renewed. [...]

[...] Several issues are involved: Ruburt’s own mood at the time, for one thing. [...] For a short period of time, Ruburt turned his creative energy, as he knows, I believe, inward rather than outward, knotted it up, misdirected it, did not focus it properly, and turned it into destructive energy.

[...] One is the psychological book. [...]

I would like to devote a little time this evening to a matter that concerns Ruburt rather deeply. [...]

At the same time the animal was denied the usual constructive psychic atmosphere in which it usually is allowed to operate. [...]

You believed that you should be outgoing, vigorous, somewhat competitive, and you believed you should be socially oriented, while at the same time you believed that those things conflicted in a basic way with other drives. You felt you should be introverted, have periods of isolation, time to sit and think, to write and paint, to look inward rather than outward. In periods of intense inner activity that were enjoyable and productive, you disapproved of yourselves because you were not at the same time socially oriented, vigorously involved in exercises, or physically oriented pursuits, and so you disapproved of yourselves.

[...] She has walked faster at times, and there has been improvement in the musculature definition of her knees.

Since you are obviously able to enjoy physical activity at times, you chose to remain alone rather than “play with the others.” [...]

[...] At one time, however, you briefly curtailed physical activity for what you considered the sake of your subjective freedom. [...]

(Actually time plays an important role here. To type up notes from a recording means I have to spend as much time, again, listening to a session. This expenditure is then increased each time I have to stop and rerun a section to pick up a missed word, or because the dialogue simply runs so rapidly, etc.

[...] At times the almost deafening power of her voice, and its emotional content, were indeed thrilling. [...] She said she was subjectively aware of the gestures she executed with her left hand, yet she felt the hand was not really hers at the time. [...]

We will not indeed at this time go into all the circumstances involved in the illness about which we have been questioned at this time. [...]

[...] Her voice had been strong and varied throughout the delivery; she had smiled much and used many gestures, half of the time sitting on the edge of her chair. At times her voice had boomed out.

[...] But in some session in the near future we will have a less formal and more friendly time. [...]

[...] Facts indeed that make such a universe possible, facts that would revolutionize science, and most of all the science of medicine, and the field of psychology. [...]

[...] Nor can it be much aided in times of physical difficulties, for the basic causes of the problems is not known, and treatment at best is haphazard.

As you know, at one time it was necessary for the ego to focus exclusively upon outer data, but the channels never closed between the inner self and the ego. [...]

Now there are ways you are not using that will enable you to take advantage of that psychic and psychological gestalt formed by the two of you. [...]

Now that many psychological frictions between you have been eliminated, you will do well in any ventures that combine your talents. [...]

[...] The very deep love that you have for each other, my dear friends, is in the overall a bisexual love, for you have known each other many times, and in different sex roles.

[...] As noted, at times I’d felt that that was the case. [...] Our challenges in this physical/nonphysical existence reign supreme, regardless of other possible long-term influences like reincarnation or time travel, for example. Or—yes—even religion: a subject I would like to explore in depth if ever I can create the several years of camouflage time necessary to do so. [...] Seth did offer insights, excellent ones of certain very creative depths that we more than welcomed, while all the time being quite aware, I think, that the beautiful young woman through whom he spoke—who let him speak—had her own agenda at the same time. [...]

[...] Talk about the elasticity of “time,” as Seth often did! [...] As Seth told us in Session 20, on January 23, 1964: “Time and space, dear friends, are both camouflage patterns, therefore the fact that the inner senses can conquer time and space is not, after all, so surprising. To the mind with its subconscious, and to the inner senses, there is no time or space....” [...]

[...] Strangely, the traveling aspect of the symptoms bothered us the least: we were too immersed in our daily lives with either full-time or part-time jobs (in the beginning), but always with writing, painting, the Seth material, ESP class, seeing friends, and so forth. [...] We made dated notes and times of her impressions so she could check them when our friends returned. [...] Jane did have direct hits listed, but for other impressions Peg and Bill couldn’t agree on the accuracy and/or timing of certain activities. [...]

[...] I helped out when I could after typing sessions, often doing commercial art at least part-time, and trying to paint. [...] Time travels for sure; travels not only through the psyche but through time—even if Seth did call that quality we were so used to “camouflage time!”

[...] For the second time I heard a gentle scratching-rapping at our front screen door. [...]

[...] As long as you are not bothered, as long as you do not have to mix with fools—the same fools who compose the various psychological, scientific, or medical societies—the same fools whom you sometimes say do not bother contacting you as long as the Enquirer, that rag, does not annoy you for interviews, and as long as people are not personally affected enough to bother you in any immediate fashion.

[...] Their understanding goes so far at this time. [...]

[...] Before the session I’d torn a page from the New York Times for June 22, 1977. [...]

Such a belief in extinction, such a certainty that identity is about to be blotted out in the next moment, is a severe psychological experience, that in itself can bring about unfortunate reactions. [...] Joseph chose subconsciously to interrupt those methods of expression he was using at the time simply so that their interference would claim due notice.

(At times the interference had covered a wide enough area so that I had a difficult time seeing the drawing paper before me, for instance, or the pencil I felt in my hand. [...]

[...] At the same time Jane began to describe the smile she perceived in the painting; I could see the painting well enough when she asked me to check it, although my vision effect was still building. My suggestions were very beneficial, though, and by session time at 9:05 I realized that not only had my experience gone as “far” as it was going to go, but also that it was on the retreat. [...]

[...] Consciousness, yours and mine, is quite independent of both (poth) time and space. And after death you are simply aware of the greater powers of consciousness that exist within you all the time.

[...] At first the date had been November 2. The idea of mother spending some time with Dick is not new of course, and this particular visit, postponed several times because of a bus strike, has been in the wind for a long time.)

[...] On Jane’s part this would instead be an extension of her personality into areas far beyond the personality’s own capabilities at her time and in her space.

[...] Jane saw the scene clearly, and among other facts realized that in this ancient time both she and the student were existing as males in that life. [...]

[...] But in larger terms, quite unacceptable at present to psychology, all of us are part of the same entity. [...]

[...] I hope to revive those early successes, and to make much more practical use of them this time.

[...] 3. Concentrate upon psychological, psychic, and physical motion. [...]

Psychologically, your impulses are as vital to your being as your physical organs are. They are as altruistic, or unselfish, as your physical organs are (intently), and I would like that sentence read several times. [...] You would not spend time wondering what your purpose was, for it would make itself known to you, as you perceived the direction in which your natural impulses led, and felt yourself exert power in the world through such actions. [...]

[...] When such natural impulses toward action are constantly denied over a period of time, when they are distrusted, when an individual feels in battle with his or her own impulses and shuts down the doors toward probable actions, then that intensity can explode into whatever avenue of escape is still left open.

[...] The last time I’d suggested that she consider getting medical help had been at Christmas time, when I asked her to think it over and let me know. [...]

[...] I think it came to a head yesterday, when I finally realized that for the last few days Jane had cut down her visits to the bathroom to just two times a day—upon arising, and before going to bed. [...]

(She spends a good deal of her waking time on the couch watching TV, or sleeping away part of the day.

(Several times during recent weeks I’ve said that I wished we’d withdrawn Mass Events from publication, using the disclaimer controversy as a ready-made excuse. [...]

[...] He’d taken up jogging some time ago and was now running 15 miles at a time, three days a week. [...]

[...] I cannot stress too thoroughly the fact that the beliefs of those times structured individual human living, so that the most private events of personal lives were interpreted to mean thus and so, as were of course the events of nations, plants, and animals. The world’s view was a religious one, specified by the church, and its word was truth and fact at the same time.

Each time someone we know gets in serious trouble, Jane and I start questioning anew our own values, and those of the society we live in, for such challenges seem to come unbidden and unwanted from way out in some far corner of each person’s reality. [...]

[...] Logical minds at one time found those diagrams quite convincing, and patients with certain afflictions in certain areas of the body would confess to having committed the various sins that were involved. [...]