“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

During this session hiatus I’ve been spending much time upon a series of letters to the publishers of Seth Speaks in Switzerland and in the Netherlands, as well as to those in charge at Prentice-Hall.¹ Last Saturday night we had a very interesting meeting with a psychologist from New York City. [...]

With all due respect, your friend [the psychologist] is, with the best of intentions, barking up the wrong psychological tree. [...]

Our visiting psychologist left us a couple sets of the tests Seth referred to. [...]

[...] He is in a way a different kind of psychologist, examining the nature of psychological reality from different viewpoints. [...]

[...] Simply that the whole hassle Jane and I are involved in first showed itself—clearly—when we met with Instream in Oswego, and encountered the disbelieving young nameless psychologist. [...]

1. Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality contains a number of references to Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who lived from 1875–1961.

[...] Later I thought that I should have asked Seth what kind of interpretation of the dream a conventional psychologist would have given. [...]

Many psychiatrists and psychologists now realize that a disturbed client (long pause) cannot be helped sufficiently unless the individual is considered along with his or her relationship to the family unit.

[...] Psychologists usually see people who are already in difficulty. [...]

[...] The spontaneity of such sessions do indeed seem to present psychiatrists and psychologists with a map of the psyche. [...]

Your young man gave you an excellent instance—a “case” that the most noteworthy psychologists or psychiatrists, if they had time, would find fascinating. [...] Your young psychologist was a case in point, with his “crazies,” your Andrija Puharich, your young people with the child, about Christmas time.

We identify with our bodies, as indeed the psychologists tell us that we must. [...] This is the orthodox view of many scientists and psychologists.

As to who or what Seth is, his term “energy essence personality” seems as close to the answer as anyone can get. I don’t believe he is a part of my subconscious, as that term is used by psychologists, or a secondary personality. [...]

[...] The psychologist, the priest, the physicist, the philosopher or the guru, can explain your own psyche to you only insofar as those specialists can forget that they are specialists, and deal directly with the private psyche from which all specializations come.

Individuals can go from psychologist to psychologist, from self-therapy to self-therapy, always with the same question: “What is wrong?” The question itself becomes a format through which experience is seen, and itself represents one of the main reasons for all limitations, physical, psychic or spiritual. [...]

[...] I assure you however that in any discussion with your psychologists on this matter, I shall hold my own. [...]

[...] But you speak of proof, and your psychologists speak of proof. [...]

[...] And as a practical personality (loud) I am as sly as any psychologist ever thought of being. [...]

Let it not be said that I do not cooperate; and before twenty psychologists, my dear friend, we shall be most willing to comply. [...]

[...] But the ESP books we’d read all advised that anyone having such experiences contact a qualified psychologist or parapsychologist.

[...] Could the psychologists tell us? [...]

[...] But with the envelope tests we weren’t trying to convince scientists or psychologists of anything. [...]

Trying to prove the existence of telepathy and clairvoyance to a self-professed “hard-nosed psychologist,” sell fiction to one of the best magazines in the country, and conduct our own tests in the Seth sessions was rather a bit to take on in one year—as I discovered.

[...] 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. [...]

[...] Your idea, or psychologists’ idea of environment for example, will come close to what I mean. [...]

These secondary personalities, known to psychologists, have a much more important place within reality than is suspected. [...]

[...] The psychologists hoped to bring about a cure for various emotional difficulties, to literally introduce a “state of grace.” [...]

[...] Think of the subconscious now merely as an academic psychologist might; as that inner portion of the self who is concerned with physical survival. [...]

Association is not clearly understood, because psychologists, at present, believe that it works only in connection with past events. [...]

[...] Psychologists, generally speaking, have not yet accepted the theories of your own physicists, and they continue to consider time as a series of moments. [...]

[...] A psychologist might explain the reaction by presuming that some unpleasant event from the past was connected with his perception of the perfume. [...]

[...] Then, after it became obvious that the Seth sessions were going to continue, we kept constant check on my personality characteristics and went to a psychologist — as any sane, red-blooded American would do under such circumstances in those days. Seth seemed far more mature and well-balanced than the psychologist, so finally I stopped worrying. [...]

Your psychologists are dealing with one-dimensional psychology at their best. [...]