“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Again, the injunction had to be flexible enough to cover any situations in which the conscious species could become involved. The animals’ instincts and their natural situations kept their numbers in bounds; and with unconscious, unknowing courtesy they made room for all others.

[...] It needed the existence of a sophisticated memory system in which new situations and experiences could be judged against recalled ones, and evaluations made in an in-between moment of reflection.

[...] Any violation against nature would bring about a feeling of guilt so that when a like situation was encountered in the future, man would, in that moment of reflection, not repeat the same action.

The situation made, you examine your own beliefs also, and to realize that you are generally in a state of excellent, practical health. [...] You took a temporary situation, then, and chose it for those reasons. [...]

[...] Whole areas of communication were cleared, areas pertinent to your current situation.

[...] If you honestly trust life and your situation in it, all seeming problems disappear. [...]

[...] One way or another, however, you will hit upon some kind of situation—a portion of a TV drama, perhaps—in which a tire is blown; or you will see an item of that nature in the newspaper, or you will hear a story, told directly or indirectly about the same kind of dilemma. The magnitude of the physical stimuli with which you are surrounded makes it possible, of course, for any number of like situations to come to your physical attention during any given day. Even then, you might not recall the dream, but the situation itself as it comes to your attention might make you check your tires, decide to put off your trip, or instead lead you to inner speculations about whether you are going too fast in a certain direction for your own good at this time. [...]

In one way or another the material has indeed been given in our deleted books—but the organization of that material has often followed instead the situation that was at hand at any given time. (Long pause.) The panic Ruburt senses is of course the feeling that is behind all of his symptoms—and you must remember as we continue that such situations are not unusual in your world. [...]

[...] For now, however, I simply want to make the point that additional stress was added to the situation. A struggle for survival, it seemed, came more immediately closer, particularly in the light of the hospital situation. [...]

[...] The “sinful-self syndrome” (long pause) was activated or heightened or highlighted in the last year or so in particular as you saw yourselves in a crisis situation (long pause), and to one extent or another Ruburt felt that he would be forced to ask for medical help if he did not further help himself. [...]

Within Ruburt’s present physical situation there is a degree of freedom for the trip and for enjoyment—an opportunity for manipulation, and understanding this will add to that freedom. [...] If you both understood all I have said about the point of power, you would not compare the present physical situation with what is desired, and set the present situation in an unfavorable light, but as a progressive series of stepping stones toward the desired state.

[...] You should each be ashamed of yourselves for ignoring the abilities, the freedoms and the pleasures that you have, and instead concentrating on the one area in which lacks are apparent, while at the same time not utilizing the methods I have given you to fully help yourselves in that area—and instead focusing your imagination to continue the situation.

In such a situation all enthusiasm becomes taboo, unrealistic, and only fear is realistic or logical. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) The entire situation bothered him deeply. He valued the relationship with Prentice (long pause), and he valued the idea of distributing the books in foreign lands, even if that venture meant misunderstandings or quite deliberate translations such as the shortening of one book, feeling that Prentice, while negligent, was not deliberately negligent, and that the situation would be righted and the material restored. [...]

[...] By all means let Ruburt continue to express his feelings to you about the situation, however, and reassure him of his body’s competence. [...]

[...] He valued the relative permanency of the association, judging it in his mind against other situations in which time might otherwise be necessary to find a different publisher for each book, or an agent with whom Ruburt might feel rapport. [...]

[...] Slow delivery here.) If he will maintain a daily work schedule—his need not be rigorous, but habitual—and if you will try to provide a warmly supportive role, as you have, then the situation can be largely remedied.

This is hardly unusual in such situations. [...]

[...] A day or so following, the clamps were again applied however, and the old situation returned.

[...] It made the situation worse, of course. You both managed at the end to not fall into the kind of situation that in the past you might have, considering the conditions.

[...] He went to the bathroom, and as he did he knew at once that his bodily situation had changed. [...]

[...] You interpreted his situation precisely as he did, and for the same reasons, so of course there was no answer for this manufactured crisis, except that he ignore these bodily messages and act in spite of them.

Now in the drug situation the state of consciousness desired is brought about by altering chemical properties. [...] Consciousness must stay out, you see, until the chemical situation has changed.

[...] The closest example in your experience of this mobility is the dream situation.

I mention such possibilities because such situations have not been dreamed of, and they should be taken into consideration. [...]

[...] Naturally my feelings of being ashamed at the whole deal stemmed from my much deeper fright at the situation, and my growing fears that we weren’t getting far in coping with the situation. [...]

[...] She likes them better, she said, and so do I; at this time they seem to fit our situation. [...]

Now: you both handled the entire interview situation well.

“While such situations as Sally’s illness are chosen by the personality, the individual is always left to work out its own solution. [...] The general situation is set up in response to deep inner involvements.

Seth answered, “This is characteristic of that entity, an impatience and yet a daring, because the situation represented such a challenge. All the weak points are intensified, hence the gravity of the physical situation. [...]

“Such a situation allows the personality to telescope experience needed into one life situation, to delve deeply and face at once problems that could otherwise take several lifetimes. [...]

[...] To my mind, our situation has steadily deteriorated. [...]

(A remark she made yesterday probably had helped crystallize my own new determination to do something about what seemed to be a badly eroding situation: She said that Tam had recently told her that Mass Events was due to be published on the 13th—today—with God of Jane due out early in May. [...]

[...] She was upset of course, and so was I. I went to bed very unhappy with our situation—and I suppose that that feeling helped lead me to the group of statements below the next morning, and this session.

If you are in such a situation, do remind yourself that it is far more natural and probable for any problem to be solved, and that every problem has a solution. [...]

[...] These same attitudes are apparent in a lesser degree to varying extents in periods of mental or bodily illness or in unsatisfactory life situations. [...]

All of the suggestions given here will also help in lesser situations, in ordinary bouts of worry, stress, or poor health. [...]

(Lest some hypothetical readers of this material in the future regard Jane and me as idiots, incapable of learning, I’d like to note in our own defense that we’ve made many efforts to put the symptom situation out of mind as much as we’re capable of, yet it doesn’t leave us. [...] As I asked Jane the other day when she talked of resuming work on that project: “Can you stand any more complications?” I meant of course, that after 17 books, we’re at our present situation, so I have difficulty understanding how doing another book will suddenly, magically, turn anything around for us as long as we stay on the same old course. [...]

[...] I’d been concerned lest Jane become involved in an unpleasant situation that would have repercussions via symptoms —the idea of publicity, of public display, which she doesn’t want—just when we were trying to learn more about the subject as she reacted to it. [...]

[...] I got her up at 11 PM, made her something to eat and drink, got her situated in the writing room, and went back to bed. [...]

[...] This means that you are far better able to utilize unconscious knowledge, and also to acquaint the unconscious with your present physical situation.

Such a procedure can bring you in contact with wisdom you have been denying yourself, help unify your entire life situation, and release your energy for practical everyday purposes. [...]

As your present situation with all of its challenges, joys and problems is contained in condensed form within each of your days, so the same applies to your life. [...]

[...] There are numberless other such situations, and I mean numberless. Comparatively speaking however, the situation is unique.

[...] The situation could arise (underline could) when others here suggest you go somewhere. The situation does not seem planned, in other words. [...]

[...] There seems to be a situation that could arise, that would be highly unpleasant to him, and therefore to you.

[...] You meet your own denied power, you see, whenever you find yourself in a situation where you feel weak in comparison to another person or situation that frightens you.

[...] The entire framework of a prison — with its bars — is a constant reminder to the convict of his situation, and reinforces his original difficulty.

[...] Yet many people have physical symptoms or suffer unpleasant situations because they are afraid to utilize their own power of action, and equate power with aggression — meaning violence. [...]

[...] A salesman placed her in what seemed to be a very humiliating situation, and yelled at her in front of a crowd of people. [...] She stayed home from work, and that situation culminated in the loss of her job.

[...] She realized that she had indeed set up the situation by not dealing honestly with her own conscious ideas.

[...] She has been told often that a woman without a man is in a very difficult situation, particularly a woman with children. [...]

[...] One way or another, however, you will hit upon some kind of situation — a portion of a TV drama, perhaps — in which a tire is blown. [...] The magnitude of the physical stimuli with which you are surrounded makes it possible, of course, for any number of like situations to come to your physical attention during any given day. Even then, you might not recall the dream, but the situation itself as it comes to your attention might make you check your tires, decide to put off your trip, or instead lead you to inner speculations about whether you are going too fast in a certain direction for your own good at this time. [...]

[...] 1 had already been shut down for refueling.] By now the situation is much more serious, however: There’s a chance of catastrophic “meltdown” of the uranium fuel rods in the damaged reactor’s core — the worst possible accident that can occur in such circumstances short of an explosion, and a kind that proponents of nuclear power have long maintained “almost certainly cannot happen.” [...]

[...] This rather unusual situation came about because after lunch today she wrote excellent analyses of two dreams I’d had recently. [...]

[...] To speak in terms of mastering a situation already phrases a situation in poor terms. (A remark I made during discussion, etc.) You choose situations in order to learn and understand. [...]

[...] You also picked your father so you could watch a family situation under those terms, because you knew you weren’t going to have any children in this life. [...]

[...] Some situations, drawn, might be of highly charged areas—the Spillane strips, for example—yet the release of the emotion was stereotyped. [...]