“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Often such people are in a very depressed state of mind, so that they have already closed their thoughts to the reasons for living, and only keep reminding themselves of the availability of death.

[...] All of the reasons had to do with Eleanor and Rich Bed, and Adventures, Tam, Jane’s feelings of being cut off by Eleanor and Dick, etc. [...]

— to begin dictation: Physical existence is valuable for many reasons, one being that the flesh is so responsive to thought and yet so resilient. [...]

For various reasons, such a personality has not learned to assimilate its own experience. [...]

[...] (Pause.) It seems to you that any naturally aborted fetus has no physical life at all, that such life has been denied to it for some reason. [...]

[...] The young dog won’t live long, yet I think that in its own way it must understand that great “risk”; for specific reasons its consciousness decided upon its brief look into temporal reality. [...]

[...] She did so, I quickly learned, for both practical and intuitive reasons.)

[...] They usually set up fairly stable, fairly reasonable governments, schools, fraternities, although they do not initiate the ideas behind those structures.

[...] It simply does not use it, and there are several quite sufficient reasons for this, reasons that have to do with the necessary apart manner in which the ego, when it operates as a separate unit, views the physical universe.

(Long pause.) I am not denying the importance of true reason. [...]

[...] When I checked the 724th session, I affirmed the reason for that reaction: Seth had stated therein that Peter and I were not counterparts, although “closely enough allied so that in certain terms you ‘share’ some of the same psychic memories….” [...]

[...] From a deleted session that I prefer not to date here because of other, personal reasons: “I may have slipped up, but I do not think so: I do not believe I gave the information about you and Peter in book dictation (for ‘Unknown’ Reality), in order to keep the material simple enough for the reader — although you chose to include that (724th) session in the book anyhow. [...]

[...] You follow one melody of yourself, and for some reason you seem to think that the true, full orchestra of yourself will somehow drown you out (intently).

[...] Then see Note 2 for Appendix 22, which contains some of the reasons why we often find it difficult to return to a certain session to flesh out a certain subject.

(I should add that those reasons do not involve any particular unwillingness on Seth’s part to do this, nor is it that those data we want may have evaporated beyond his recall.)

(“Well, assuming that my intuitions were reasonably accurate when I picked up on those two personalities,” I said, “there have to be explanations.”

[...] I want to repeat the first verse of it for obvious reasons, although all of the poem is an excellent creative exposition of counterpart ideas:

(In Chapter 19 of Personal Reality, I found this line of Seth’s in the 667th session for May 30, 1973:) For reason and emotion are natural counterparts.

Ruburt has, for many reasons, as I have said before, hypnotized himself into the physical condition that is presently his. [...]

[...] When Seth began saying that Jane would resume walking in reasonable comfort, I at first believed him, but soon came to not believe him, for I saw no sign of such a change even beginning. [...]

(I suppose that one can find all sorts of variations within counterpart situations, all sorts of reasons for such affiliations, so I can merely hint at a few here as they rise out of the class framework or orbit around it:

[...] For this reason we had let the candle-flame tests go for the moment, even though they appear promising.

There is no reason why the test results cannot be repeated, intrinsically. [...]

[...] When the dominating ego relaxes its control for any reason or becomes weakened, then according to their concept any one of the subsidiary groups may take over.

[...] But identity does exist, and the ego is but a pseudoidentity formed for utilitarian reasons, and as such it is of course a part of the basic identity from which it springs.

(Pause at 9:44.) There was a necessary period of time in which Ruburt and yourself experimented in several areas of psychic exploration, quite rightly picking and choosing those areas that suited you best, and ignoring others that you found for whatever reasons unsuitable. [...]

[...] In Ruburt’s case, there are no definite boundaries, in certain ways, to the dimensions of that creativity —no specific methods, no specific pathways, and it is for that reason that he tried to exert such balancing force. [...]

[...] I recall at the time being especially intrigued that such a small space between table leg and floor was leading, for whatever reason, to so much human effort being expended.

[...] We mourn the table’s withdrawal for obvious reasons. [...]

[...] It was seen in human terms as inhumane: life without reason, life with no purpose except its own repetition, life in which the individual was dispensable. [...]

[...] There is no reason to feel that you should (underlined three times) “be out there selling books.” [...]

[...] Or it can just be left alone during a life, for whatever reasons.” [...]

[...] After lunch we used the pendulum to try to find out something about the reasons for her panic, but had little success. [...]

[...] This is one of the reasons why some projections are so confusing, particularly when the ego is taken along for the ride. [...]

For all of these reasons I suggest the letter be mailed. [...]