“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(A week or so ago I forgot to buy gasoline, and this led to a situation that could have been dangerous. [...]

[...] I usually make a point of watching this closely, and it is interesting to speculate as to how I failed to see the warning light go on, since it is situated on the dash in front of me. [...]

[...] And when you can do this under that stress, you see that you can also do it in other situations. [...]

Now your situation is not only entirely different but contrary, for to you a car represents, because of your father, an image on one hand of perfection. [...]

[...] The situation in the bedroom was not important in itself. [...] The situation was simply the point at which the cat, in self-defense, threw back the destructive energy which it had received, and I must say in fury and full measure, and in the only way it knew.

[...] He knows the emotional situation with your mother, and will not object.

[...] To some degree historically speaking, that sort of situation operated in the past when — comparatively speaking, now — people realized that there was indeed an inner world of complexity and richness that could be approached in certain fashions, one that existed alongside with the physical world, so that the two intersected. [...]

All of this applies to your situation, for I want you to thoroughly understand, intellectually and emotionally, the errors of current thought, so that you can see that our material is indeed providing you not only with “creative material,” but with a more factual presentation of the framework in which you have your existence.

[...] Your metabolisms are different, quite naturally, and under the usual situations, given your lunch hour, Ruburt needs a good meal, sometimes certainly between five and six at the latest. [...]

To some extent, then, the situation has served you both well for years. Ruburt finally became so depressed, however, about the symptoms that his work was involved—an intolerable situation, presenting an instant dilemma. [...]

I will at some time go into the reasons why all of you chose that house and the flood situation, for it fit into your joint and private purposes. [...]

[...] The situation however is such that almost any clear emotion is automatically denied expression, shunted aside and often replaced completely by an opposite—all under the guise of the idea of (in quotes) “being good and understanding.”

[...] The situation’s roots lie so in the past, and so pervade the present, that practically little can be changed without the greatest efforts. [...]

[...] You gave yourselves as adults situations with your families, mainly with yours, in which you had to relate on an entirely different level and in a different kind of role. [...]

[...] I am at present at odds with my aunt, a female relative, and I know I should be handling this situation better. [...]

[...] When you read the reincarnational information, (about the Roman captain on September 12, 1977), it triggered the Nebene material because of your own personal situation at the time—your mood, and so forth (on September 20, 1977). [...]

Each portion of the entity is unique and independent, and through its own beliefs determines what it will accept in terms of influences within its immediate life situation. [...]

You often excel in situations that utterly escape you at a physical level. [...]

[...] A small segment this evening on television gave you a picture of the confused activity that can take place in exaggerated situations—the segment dealing with the abused children, for there you have parents reacting in the worst possible way to the religious dictums as interpreted by “Sinful Selves.” [...]

[...] So the individual will also respond according to the cultural situation. [...]

[...] Any one such particle can be where it “is,” be what it is, and be when it is only because the positions, relative positions, and situations of all other such particles are known.

That analogy will help you at least intuitively understand the existence of situations such as suffering, and poverty, that otherwise seem to have no adequate explanations (as Jane and I were discussing today). I hope also to account for behavior on the part of nature that certainly seems to imply the survival of the fittest in a tooth-and-claw fashion, or the punishing acts of a vengeful God on the one hand and the triumph of an evil force on the other.

[...] They didn’t stay too long after being filled in on our situation, but the next morning Hal returned to offer his help. [...]

The nighttime situation will shortly change also, of course, and in a beneficial way. [...]

(Neither Jane nor I could remember what last Thursday’s session was about, and I had but one page of it typed from my notes — a situation quite similar to that prevailing before the last session. [...]

[...] Because you have a conscious mind, then, other portions of your being rely upon it to give them an adequate picture of your situation, and to give the conscious orders for action. [...]

[...] The individual insists upon growing or upon death, and forces an artificial situation in which growth itself becomes physically disastrous.

So women, accepting these ideas often, seek for a situation in which they too can feel free to express their sexual desires openly, whether or not any love is involved. [...]

[...] Jane and I also plan a list of questions for Seth on the whole situation, and I see these as accumulating into a notebook to accompany these sessions. [...]

[...] It seems that essentially our situation is unchanged, 12 years later, which doesn’t say much for our learning capacities, I’m afraid. [...]

[...] When any contact is attempted in so-called mediumistic situations, then it is expected that the survival personality will “remember,” in quotes, events as you do; but events no longer exist in that way.

You must understand that in any way your situation, and any that you know of physical reality, is highly artificial. [...]

[...] And I am hoping that the exercises I have just suggested will take care of the situation. [...]

[...] The situation is (underlined) as I have given it. [...]

Now I could and will whenever you wish, discuss your personal situation, whenever you want me to do so...

For Jane’s situation continues to be a time of testing. [...]

[...] I know that to some we’re sure to have appeared slow in putting to use much of the material, but in a most basic respect we’re way ahead in the situation: If we hadn’t almost instantaneously begun to encourage the flow of information from Seth when Jane started to express it some 18 years ago, and to write it down, then it wouldn’t even exist—at least in its present form. [...]

[...] That such feelings are rearoused in us at this time is hardly coincidental in view of our lifelong habits and belief systems; our tendencies toward secretiveness and our desires to be as self-sufficient as possible—even with Jane’s very dependent situation. [...]

I should add that I don’t think Jane has started to “set … aside” the medical interpretation regarding her “arthritis situation,” as Seth suggested she might do when he came through on April 12. [...]

[...] The purpose was to set up a situation in which both strong facets of the personality could emerge; the intellectual, reasoning, rather practical and controlling aspects, hand in hand with the highly volatile creative spontaneous portions.

[...] (Pause.) Understand that the whole situation, on a very deep basis, was protective as it tried to reproduce to some extent, though to a far lesser extent, those early conditions that allowed for the controlled and disciplined growth of strong creative abilities. [...]

[...] If he is consciously adding instructions to relax on top of this he worsens the situation, for the muscles cannot relax and contract at once.