“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The old idea of spirits pervading all physical matter actually represents an intuitive glimpse into reality that your sciences will finally arrive at in a long labored manner.

[...] The spirits are displeased.
Look how the bare branches rustle.”

[...] Now simply in a spirit of fun, you see, you can use your abilities, and I will give you hints if you request them. [...]

[...] You must honor yourselves and see within yourselves the spirit of eternal vitality. [...]

I wanted to go into the invention of the soul, using mankind’s own terminology, the soul and the spirit being thought of as one and the same thing. [...]

You have read of so-called mediums—and I detest the term—speaking gibberish, the explanation being given that the so-called spirit could not come through. [...]

Obviously I’ve avoided calling Seth a spirit and leaving it at that. [...]

[...] Some connection here also with Dr. Instream’s book on spiritism; that is, his own book.

[...] He went on to say at 10:06: “These feeling-tones, then, pervade your being They are the form your spirit takes when combined with flesh.” [...]

This is not the adventurous spirit they told you of, and you heard every word. [...]

[...] You had a natural affinity with things behind nature, that is you sensed the spirit of nature, and at the same time you had a tendency to distrust what you could not actually see, smell or touch.

(Then Seth came through with this aside, as he referred to a guest:) One small note to our astrologer-in-spirit over there. [...]

(Jane was particularly bothered by people’s attitudes about Seth, for they often considered him as a “spirit guide” in conventional spiritualistic terms. [...] She was certain, she wrote, that far more than Seth’s being a spirit guide was involved, that “in larger terms the abilities of living personality are connected with … other facets of creative consciousness.”

(From the ESP class session for February 16, 1971:) I [come through so forcefully] for several reasons: because that is the way I am, in the guise that I choose to use in my communications, and to get everyone over the idea that so-called spirits must be sweet-faced, quiet, sober, and dignified. [...]

For one thing, Seth does not agree on the existence of one historical Christ, though he grants the legitimacy of the Christ spirit—as you will see later in this book. [...]

[...] When he was finished with the discussion, Seth began joking with Rob and Bill and showed such high spirits and vitality that Rob had trouble taking notes—he was laughing so hard.

I look forward to our Wednesday session, and though I feel in high spirits myself, I will here take pity upon you both and terminate our visit.

I have said more than once that I am no spooky spirit indeed. [...]

It should be remembered that the intellect, in the light of this book, is as perfect then as any other manifestation of what is termed divine spirit. [...]

(Jane’s delivery had been becoming more spirited. [...]

[...] Somehow, I begin a discussion of the Seth Material with them and go into a talk on physical reality and such, and discover that a few years ago, they had received some strange messages through Jane from ‘someone claiming to be a dead spirit.’ ‘But it was ridiculous,’ Jane says, ‘so we dropped it.’