“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

“You should desire good health because it is a natural state of your being. You should trust in the innate intelligence of your own being. [...]

“You should tell yourself frequently, ‘I will only react to constructive suggestions,’ for this gives you some protection against your own negative thoughts and those of others. [...]

[...] In other sessions Seth makes it clear that these should be recognized and faced and then replaced.

“Ruburt should remember to recognize resentment when he feels it, and then to realize that resentment can be dismissed. [...]

[...] (In the area of my condition we aren’t creative, daring,or innovative.) Improvements should not be considered against absolutes, but in the light of my position. [...]

[...] There is even an acceleration of thought and inspiration, much like that experienced in the adolescent years, that suddenly brings a new understanding to the aged individual, and provides an impetus that should help the person to achieve greater comprehension — a comprehension that should quell all fears of death.

(I should add that our dear friends, Bill and Peg Gallagher, visited Jane rather late last night, and brought with them a bottle of wine which the three of them proceeded to drain. [...]

(I should also add that Sue, one of the aides we’ve become acquainted with, showed us pictures of her two young sons. [...]

You should together discuss your plans so that they become more a part of your reality now. [...]

The suggestions should definitely be renewed, with a light touch, but they will make the exercises much more effective. [...]

[...] Do you follow that or should I elaborate?

The understanding that the artistic self was not being threatened should allow you to relax sufficiently for the suggestions to take effect more. [...]

I bid you all good evening and you should be a lot smarter next week than you are this evening for there should be some interesting Sumari dialogue going on in your dreams. [...]

After eight o’clock on the night of a session, Ruburt should take steps so that he is not concerned over the question of whether or not particular visitors will arrive. [...]

The whole thing should be handled on a subconscious level, so that he seems to automatically prepare himself in advance in response to an inner knowledge as to whether or not witnesses will arrive. [...]

[...] There are abilities on your visitor’s parts which are not being utilized, and which certainly should be.

The material should be read from the beginning, with the exception of personal material which has been delivered this evening. [...]

(9:25.) When the projects were done, particularly with Ruburt, there was still the cultural belief that time should be so used (underlined), that creativity must be directed and disciplined to fall into the proper time slots. [...]

[...] The assembly-line time and the beliefs that go along with it have given you many benefits as a society, but it should not be forgotten that the entire framework was initially set up to cut down on impulses, creative thought, or any other activities that would lead to anything but the mindless repetition of one act after another (intently).

[...] What he needed to do was really relax, not prove that he could or should or must immediately begin another book. [...]

[...] As far as Ruburt’s present situation, he should not wear, say, one pair of jeans for a week, but instead alternate, with two or three pairs that can be worn of course many times.

Now the question cannot be answered simply in one evening, but each living consciousness has its own defense system and its own vitality, and you should trust your own. [...] You need to learn the power of thought and emotion, but this should fill you with the joy of creativity and the possibility, not frighten you out of (words missing) of responsibility. [...]

[...] But the fact that I exist and can communicate should show you in simple terms, and in your terms of reference, that other “higher aspects” of your personality can help you out on occasion and do exist. [...]

([Molly Pearson:] “Should we not believe in precognitive dreams?”)

[...] Now you know yourselves, with no unkindness meant, your own weaknesses and failures, so why should you suppose that the self that you know is the only self that you are. [...]

I should frighten you by saying, “Chapter One,” but I will not. [...]

[...] They should be drawn much more tightly, for example, not so loosely. [...]

You should be getting some more reincarnational material on your own.

(“That should be interesting.”)

(I should add that we never did see Cec and Jim Lord last Saturday night. [...]

(I should also note that when I met Curt at the lumberyard I never really got to talk much with him, because I was so busy running down parts and asking clerks for help. [...]

[...] This should take care of your own difficulties. [...]

I should not be here, according to what you have been taught. [...] What happens in this room should not happen, according to what you have been taught, and yet it happens. [...]

Now according to what you have been taught, my friend Ruburt should be mad (crazy) but he is not. [...]

[...] I should not joke about him for he is indeed as he said earlier, delighted. [...]

[...] What I have said, however, should serve to remind you when you question that these things were created by yourselves as you forgot your true beginnings, and only when you remember your beginnings will these cease. [...]

You all should definitely have a basic understanding of the material, for it is the material that will help you discover your own identities and which will make other realities meaningful to you as you are now. [...]

[...] They are not equipped to handle other realities, nor should they be expected to do so.

[...] I realize that it is frowned upon to speak in terms of a limited intellect, which cannot understand a whole reality because of a built-in deficiency; nevertheless while it is true that the intellect by itself cannot grasp or comprehend inner reality, this should not be thought of as a deficiency inherent in intellect.

The dream objects and activities will then be interpreted at other subconscious areas, so that to understand a dream properly we should first discover at which subconscious area it originates. [...]

Your mother sat in the dream before a higher bar, symbolizing your own inner conviction, based on early rather puritanical bases, that your mother and her actions should be judged, and a child’s natural but unfortunate vindictiveness: “She who has hurt me, particularly if my mother and a female, shall meet justice.” [...]

[...] It was simply that it should be possible for Jane herself to ask Seth questions, then go into trance to answer them. She agreed that it should work, especially if she was capable, as Seth, of carrying on a conversation with three other people, almost simultaneously.

It should be obvious that there is nothing strange in the fact that the dreaming self and the waking self appear so unfamiliar to each other. [...]

[...] It should be remembered however that hypnotism is also an action, and as such hypnotism will change the personality to some extent, as all action changes and affects other actions.

[...] It should also be borne in mind that all aspects of the personality are part of the whole self. [...]

[...] He should feel well in the morning. [...] The two of you should, when financially feasible, go out for an evening of enjoyment once a week. [...]

“In that time, you did not leave the group and you should have. [...] It is as if in your terms, you see, you could go back to a period of this life where you should have acted in a different way and didn’t. Well you have the opportunity now to go back into that existence and make it different in the present. [...]

[...] It should be obvious that the new activity is extremely beneficial—and extremely can be underlined. [...]

[...] I’ll go for that,” she said when I told her that Seth had said her new arousal of energy should accelerate.)

[...] You should allow yourself to travel. This is a physical form of expansion that should not be overlooked. [...] There is no reason why you, or any man, should not be strong and vital until death. [...]

Part of what I am about to say may sound callous, but you should see that such is not the case. [...]