“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It need not belong to you, but it should have some meaning for you, to get the best results. [...]

There is some material I would like to give concerning the examination of dreams, and some instructions that you should find of interest. [...]

[...] Three nights out of a week for a certain number of weeks should be sufficient.

His hypnosis experiments have a unique effect or success, that should be meaningful to him by the time he reads this material.

(I had another question for Seth: What should Jane do about her walking on days when she doesn’t feel like doing so—as today? [...]

[...] As to Ruburt: first of all, he is at another stage, and one in which motion should be gently—persistently but gently—encouraged. [...]

[...] He should not forget that.

[...] And now after this weighty session I bid you a fond good evening—with the point that the eyes should show more improvement now as the neck ligaments are loosening.

Yoga breathing will be of therapeutic value when you need it, but the knowledge gained in this evening’s session should go a long way toward minimizing the symptoms. (Smile.) You should avoid the color red in decorations during the season. You should take steps to realize the connection with your mother and red, so that our friend can use his red curtains at Christmas with immunity.

[...] They should be utilized for your own benefit. [...]

[...] You cried, and you clearly heard Emma Martin tell your mother that she should not go to you, and then you would be quiet.

[...] You should not eat salads at your parents’ home, that are mixed with oil, during the season.

[...] For a while he should have nothing to do with the college.

He should also, for personal reasons, stay away from the monastery. [...]

That affair should not bother him, nor did the Methodist group. [...]

[...] The Friday episodes should probably be discontinued therefore. [...]

We will resume dictation, and the following session should be particularly taken to heart by Ruburt (intently).

The session should, on its own, clear up some of Ruburt’s difficulties and increase his pleasures.

So if you did not give it as freely as you thought you should to Ruburt, then you would also keep it to the same degree (underlined) out of your work. [...] You would be led to question why you were not pleased with your work as you thought you should be, and hence back to the original problem.

(“We should have been smart enough to try it without following it up with the aspirin right away,” I said. [...]

[...] Ruburt should also be patient with himself, for he is indeed improving, and further improvements are definitely in store. [...]

[...] You should both have creative breakthroughs of your own in response to these sessions—and again, this session continues at other levels of your being. [...]

I do not mean that ill children should not be treated with kindness, and perhaps a bit of special attention — but the reward should be given for the child’s recovery, and efforts should be made to keep the youngster’s routine as normal as possible. [...]

[...] It is like using your physical muscles, but beyond the playing that you are doing there are also more important issues, and you should learn of them. There should be questions in your mind besides, what was I in the previous life? [...]

[...] There is nothing wrong and much good to understand and receiving such information, but this is not all you should be concerned with. [...]

[...] One, that you should be in Rochester, as you were, dealing vocally with your mother. And two, that you should have been here, reaching out to the world at large through your painting.

Hinged to this is the belief that this felt lack of communication is wrong, and that for anything wrong you should be punished. [...]

[...] The hand’s motion is not as automatically smooth as it should be. [...]

You should both become equally aware, and consciously and alertly aware, of the beneficial ideas and their importance in your lives — and this will be a portion of the book for others also.

[...] We had discussed the matter earlier in the day but she had not given me an unequivocal yes or no answer, as to whether we should make such tests an everyday procedure during sessions. [...]

[...] He should think of other matters at least briefly, and concern himself with innocent pleasures so that he may be renewed.

[...] This may involve somewhat more than you suppose, but nevertheless you should learn to handle the sleep state well enough so that some success is achieved.

[...] You should find the material highly interesting.

There is an issue, Joseph, that I should like to mention.

[...] It should be noted here that the dream book was rejected last week by the first publisher to see it, Doubleday; but oddly enough Jane feels the idea was at least partly sparked, for the new book, by this rejection.)

[...] There will be a group gestalt operating that should result in very definite benefits to them and to Ruburt. [...]

These points however should be made when they most apply. [...]

Why should another man know better than you what is within your own consciousness? With what power do you invest him that he should know better than you the feelings that are within your own heart? [...]

It would be easy for me to tell you what you should do. [...]

[...] No one, and I repeat this, no one can or should make decisions for you. [...]

([Jane:] “Brad should look into the reasons why he felt it necessary to stay with his wife.”

(4:37 p.m. “On those days when I don’t feel like having a session, you can rest,” Jane said as we talked, “but on those days when I feel like having a session, I think I should do it —”

(“You feel like you should do it, or when you want to do it?” I asked.

The new arrangement should work out well, now, although it would not have in the past.

[...] You should be able to see many implications here when you read this material over. [...]

[...] This should be obvious.

[...] Here again consideration of dreams in terms of action should make this point fairly clear.

The endeavor should be begun realistically. [...]

Ruburt should expect to do well, and he shall. [...]

Considerable thought and contemplation should be used here, and as much energy devoted as would be given in the search for a job, for the potentials are far greater. [...]

[...] The matter should be given primary energy, concern and interest. [...]

[...] Perhaps I should mention that in your terms (underlined) he is an older man.

(“Should Jane go back to the dentist?”)

[...] This should answer more deeply the questions that you asked me.

[...] He should understand it does not have this meaning to other people necessarily. [...]

[...] He became angry, and still is, when you show normal criticism of Prentice and their dealings with our books, or his, because he feels that you do not really understand how difficult it is to market creative work, and since you do not sell your paintings you should not criticize his admittedly worrisome efforts. The fact that some of your criticisms are justified makes him worry the more, that he is not doing as good a job as he should.

Your body can now perform better—that should be used as a morning and evening suggestion, and anything you can say will be of help in that regard. [...]

[...] Concentration should not be on “work,” but on aspects, poetry, his ideas. [...]

Unless physical pain is involved, drugs should be avoided — particularly for those in depressive states.

[...] Such drugs should also literally be considered dangerous for use in old-peoples’ homes, for those considered senile, or even demented. [...]

(Very long pause at 3:14.) Doctors should be extremely cautious in the prescription of mind-altering drugs of any kind, and certainly not encourage their use for people in depressed states. [...]

[...] What she should be stressing, I said, was that she trusted her spontaneous self—then the body would automatically react to the release of tension, to her trust in that spontaneous self. [...]

[...] This fear of future developments ties in very well with her natural concerns about becoming a public figure, one that should be able to solve the world’s problems. [...]

(I should add, too, that this latest insight ties in well with the paragraph of Seth’s that I’ve copied from the deleted session for January 28, 1981, to add to my list of quotations from these recent private sessions: Seth discussed Jane’s fear of letting go —not because she is afraid of relaxing per se, but because she fears she will go too far. [...]

[...] He should try to talk with you, however, when he is anxious, to foreshorten such periods. [...]