“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Her manner had been concerned and careful, with many pauses and searching for the right words.

All of the available data coming into the organism would be sifted, weighed and valued in a precise search for the material that would give physical emphasis to those beliefs. [...]

(Long pause, eyes closed.) I am quiet simply because I am searching for future suggestions here. [...]

Now: you went beyond your family’s beliefs individually, searching for yourselves and trying various roads. [...]

[...] It has always been your individual and joint search —a private determination to glimpse what you could of the nature of man, that was not glimpsed before.

This time in a strange way the circle returns and yet opens, for you find yourself searching out anew the truths that you once copied with such great faithfulness. [...]

[...] Many spend a lifetime searching for that recognition with another human being, or achieve it but briefly. [...]

I’m learning that both elements are important in my work and in Seth’s. And perhaps my own refusal to accept pat answers leads me to search so intensely, and is responsible to some degree for my “bringing in” a Seth instead of a Mad Hatter.

[...] Your trouble of yesterday and today does indeed originate because you have not been painting, but one of the reasons that you have not been painting is that energy has been used as a searchlight into the past, searching for certain origins.

A portrait must contain a searching and a deep statement of the human condition, a reaching out toward the mystery that is another person, whether the person exists in your mind, or physical reality, or both. [...]

The money is being achieved or accumulated as a result of your search for the ideal, so it appears twice as ironic to you that the funds for taxes be used to pursue national goals bent, it seems, upon the most gross, shortsightedly practical conditions. [...]

[...] He need not go about at the time searching for an antidote, you see. [...]

(As I wrote at the start of the 736th session, we first encountered the hill house on February 4, on just our second day of searching. [...]

[...] These serve as beams searching the universe, but the conditions of manifestation also exist. [...]

[...] But in your own searches you are literally leading millions of people, many who will never write you, and effectively inserting ideas into the society, that will in their time come to flower also.

[...] It will always be “undermined” by creativity, and the search for another, newer version of reality. [...]

[...] One very unusual way these showed themselves began on the evening of October 31, when four younger people who had been members of ESP class visited us from New York City.⁸ They’d been scouting the Elmira area for other ex-students, to see if any of them had old class tapes of Jane speaking for Seth and/or singing in Sumari; they had had some success in their searches, but we didn’t play any of the tapes that night.⁹

[...] For if past, present and future exist together (and continue to develop), then I see nostalgia as expressing a legitimate searching by the conscious mind as it seeks to grasp that the past exists now, and is not “dead.” [...]

[...] Strange it may be, but Jane and I have never conducted a search for class artifacts, as our friends had just been doing, and as other former students had done before. [...]

Science, of course, insists it searches for such knowledge, while at the same time narrowing its acceptable field of definitions so that it effectively blocks any information that does not agree with its own precepts. [...]

[...] You have been searching for a larger-than-life technique—looking for the greater dimension in which beloved details rest—and only your own ideas of economy have hampered you. [...]

[...] Men have committed crimes in misguided searches for an ideal. [...]