“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt and Joseph chose to specialize, so to speak, in precisely those excursions or explorations that are secondary to others. [...]

[...] Now this altered ego retains its highly specialized self-consciousness, and yet it can now experience itself as an identity within and as a part of action.

[...] Once it has formed its characteristics, it has already become too specialized to do more than observe certain limited fields of activity. [...]

[...] A special group in which he is highly interested. [...]

“Albert liked to hunt, but he couldn’t get much because the ground was too rocky … deer and rabbits, a special kind of rabbit, no big tails, gray hares of some kind. [...]

It should be obvious also that within your dreams a special location that belongs to the present physical time can be experienced in the past or in the future within the dream framework, and again, there is much more here also than meets the eye; so watch out so that you can catch these developments.

[...] The species chose to specialize in certain kinds of physical manipulation, to devote its energies in certain directions. [...]

(I’ve taken the time to write the above notes as much as for a reminder to myself as for anything else, and to start off this session as something special. [...]

[...] A specially designed video camera will be inserted into the core so that the actual damage to the pencil-thin fuel rods can be assessed; and hundreds of thousands of sonar readings, taken through openings already present in the reactor, will be assembled by computer into images of the core. [...]

[...] I also felt that in each of us there is a deep connection with “magical” elements of our nature—magical in that they rise like poetic inspiration, filling the mundane world with a special living, personal meaning. [...]

[...] Socrates and Plato — and William James (note that I smiled) — specialized in certain fashions. [...]

1. A note added a couple of weeks later: Session 738 and Appendix 27 (for Session 739) contain additional material showing the special meaning that Grunaargh has for Sue Watkins.

“To me,” Jim wrote, “it would be a special opportunity for you to make whatever statement you might wish about Jane and her work. [...]

[...] Seth has remarked in the past about the special value and character of unscheduled sessions.

[...] It seems that we can feel his concepts—intermingled with our own questions, ideas, and accomplishments—constantly turning within a kind of special excitement and revelatory insight. [...]

[...] Instead, you always carry the inner knowledge of innumerable available futures (emphatically). Your emotional life at certain levels is enriched by the unconscious realization that those who love you from past or future are connected to you by special ties that add to your emotional heritage and support.

As many have supposed, particularly in fiction, love relationships do indeed survive time, and they put you in a special correspondence. [...]

[...] In atomic physics, for example, no special meaning or place is given to any particular moment, and fundamentally the past and future all but merge in the interactions of elementary particles — thus at least approaching Seth’s simultaneous time.¹⁰ At that level there’s change, or value fulfillment, but no evolution. [...]

[...] It is simply a well-specialized part of the personality, fully equipped to operate under certain circumstances²¹ … When those conditions no longer exist [after “death”], then other layers of the self take over the dominant position, and the personality realigns its psychological components. [...]