“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

To study the human body from only the physical standpoint, or to consider it as exclusively a physical phenomenon, is to severely limit your perception of it, and of reality as a whole. To study psychology exclusively in terms of the brain’s effect upon the physical body is likewise hampering and limiting, for the brain is merely that portion of, that very small portion, of the mind which is apparent within matter. As such within your physical field the brain is subject to the laws of your field. The mind, having its existence within the scope of the physical field but independent of it, is a much more fruitful subject for study; and not of course study through means of physical instruments or of operations performed. In any case the mind cannot be found by such procedures.

The mind will be found to be closely allied with the spacious present. The mind’s capabilities, if studied, would lead man into a realization of these other fields of actuality of which I have spoken. The mind deals with intangibles, but it does not deal with unrealities. Again, the validity of an actuality is not to be determined by its appearance within matter alone. The ingredients of matter are first of all intangible ingredients, and the study of the mind and a study of the processes by which the mind creates its dream images could lead to a basic understanding of the manner in which man subconsciously produces the physical images of his own material universe.

These clues could lead to proper understanding, so that it would be known that the physical body does exist in many fields of actuality, and through the study of various portions of the body many glimmerings could be received concerning the various fields of actuality themselves.

This study alone would involve an introduction into a knowledge of other fields of actuality. Biology has made many strides, but it must finally be concerned with that intangible which is behind all organisms, and it will be forced to the initiation of an entirely new field, along the lines of basic organic psychology. It will be forced to recognize the innate ability of all cells for what we may call telepathy, for there will be no other solution in answering many questions.

This could be studied to some degree if proper suggestions were given to the individual that he would awaken at the exact point when a dream ends. The dream state and dream conditions could also be studied quite legitimately, and to more purpose, using hypnosis. [...]

[...] It is impossible to study dreams when an attempt is made to isolate the dreamer from his own personality, to treat dreams as if they were physical or mechanical. The only laboratory for a study of dreams is the laboratory of the personality.

[...] Your scientists would learn more about the nature of dreams if they would but train themselves to recall their own dreams, and then study them in relation to their own normal activities and physical events.

Dr. Instream might find such a study would bring him much satisfaction. [...]

[...] The study of hypnotism will greatly enlarge man’s understanding of human personality in general. [...] Hypnotism is merely a method that allows you to study the personality directly.

[...] You have been studying it in the past in a very superficial manner. [...]

[...] The nature of reality, uncamouflaged, can be glimpsed to some degree as you study the personality in the dream state, where awareness does not operate in an ego-directed manner.

We will be dealing rather extensively with a study of space and distance and time as they appear within the dream state, and with the freedoms that are possible for the personality within it. [...]

[...] Why, I wondered, couldn’t the nations of the world set up cooperative studies to verify its existence? [...] In deeper terms, of course, such a study would actually validate the sources of science and religion [just as it would confirm Seth’s material on dreams, incidentally!]. [...]

Setting up such a global organization to study dreams, I told Jane, with some amusement, would probably require a decade of arguing among nations. [...] Actually, it would be quite an advance if we could even agree to begin talking about such a study.

[...] Such information was then aired and shared, studied and examined along with all physical considerations that applied before important decisions were made (all intently).

[...] It is simply that you must do your studying. [...]

[...] It is very important that you read and study the material and that you not be satisfied by superficial answers and that you question, for by questioning you will learn. [...]

[...] Because I am the source of material I tell you: study it. [...]

Now, I speak jokingly to you, telling you that I am the origin of the material, and therefore you must listen to it and study it. [...]

[...] The study of so-called extrasensory perception is now considered an isolated bizarre domain, unrelated to other fields of knowledge. The reason for this is that the data that would connect such a study to all other fields of interest is not recognized. The study of the inner workings of the self is closely connected to the study of the universe as it exists in all its levels of reality.

This is not to say that such surface reality is not vital and important, or that some information about its own nature cannot be gleaned from its study; but only a small amount can be so obtained. [...]

(I told Jane that the farther back the author could reach for his studies, the better, so as to have more room for study as far as the passing years were concerned —say that he interviewed a man of 40 whose father had been killed while the boy was 19, say. [...] A detailed study of one large family group so involved in a tragedy could easily take up an entire book. Another approach would be half and half: First the family story in usual terms; then that same family story studied with Seth’s ideas in mind. [...]

[...] It would be for the author to conduct a survey of the surviving members of families involved in such accidents, to study the after-effects, see what changes the tragedy had brought about in their lives, their habits, ways of thinking and looking at life—in short, the detailed study of each family case history would comprise an intimate, in-depth probing of all the complicated effects that had resulted from that single tragic event.

[...] A true realistic exploration of the nature of experience would automatically study that kind of emotional interrelationship, but while your society delineates the inner particles of matter, it avoids the inner psychological “particles” that form the most intimate experiences of your lives.

[...] For example: Scientific advisers to the government’s National Cancer Institute, which is conducting elaborate studies of many thousands of women of varying ages, have called for a halt to the routine screening of younger women. [...] It will be difficult to alter those studies because of entrenched belief systems. [...]

[...] Involved here are recent diagnostic procedures: the study of the “patient’s” family history, the study of the “density” and structure of her breast tissues as determined by mammogram patterns, and the detection of possibly premalignant cellular changes. [...]

[...] Studies upon the healthy are not carried out.

[...] Large scale studies, including one by the National Cancer Institute, are planned to explore the whole question of prophylactic mastectomies.

This could be studied if proper suggestions were given to an individual that he would awaken at the exact point of a dream’s end [as in our own experiments]. The dream state and conditions could also be studied legitimately using hypnosis. [...]

It is impossible to study dreams when an attempt is made to isolate the dreamer from his own personality, to treat dreams as if they were physical or mechanical. The only laboratory for a study of dreams is the laboratory of the personality. [...]

[...] So far, scientists have been able to study electricity only by observing the projections of it that are perceivable within their terms of reference. [...]

[...] A study of dreams, for example, would make many of these points clear, yet many scientists consider such work beneath them.

If you had read more of the material and if you had studied the information more carefully on action and identity, then you would know what I mean. [...]

[...] You have here a provocative study or demonstration in the nature of personality for your club. [...]

As we progress and pick up the study of our dream universe once more, we will be involved also with the study of mental events as they occur within both systems. [...]

A study of the correlations with their distortive effect would seem to yield entirely different data. [...]

[...] The study of the dream universe will require a journey inward, through the subconscious and beyond. [...]

Now we are beginning to study my material. [...]

[...] Your own intuitions will guide you, and they shall awaken as you study. [...]

[...] There are joys and advantages that will come as a result of your studies. [...]

Studies of space and distance as they are experienced in dreams will be helpful, and our material will indeed deal with such discussions. For investigation into the nature of space and time as they are experienced within the dream framework, will tell you more about the real nature of space and time then you can ever learn through studying their distorted appearances within physical reality. [...]

[...] This field has been given very little study. [...]

[...] When you are using intellectual methods alone you will necessarily fall short in any study of the dream reality. [...]

[...] But our creative work is everything, and so it, and whatever pertains to it, go to a place where all will be preserved and protected, yet made available for study by researchers and lay people alike as it is transmitted there.

At first we thought of keeping the collection closed until after our deaths, as donors usually request to be done, but we’ve decided to make everything accessible as soon as we can, both for scholarship and for study by the public. [...]

[...] We don’t know when our work will actually be ready for study: First we must get it to the library, and then the staff must see to its processing—which will be quite a project in itself. [...]

Study and learn.

(“What do you want us to study and learn?”)

Now, I have treated you all very gently in class, and I have used simple language, and I have explained things easily and coddled you, Now, 1 want you to study the material that you have. [...]

[...] To the extent that you extend yourselves, your abilities will automatically be developed, as you read and study the material. [...]

[...] There is more in the material then, than what is there, and you will discover what else is there as you study the material, because of itself it will lead you into inner journeys that are your own. [...]

[...] Consciousness is just as amenable to having some of its physical manifestations scientifically studied, its parts manipulated through “genetic engineering,” as it is to encompassing Seth’s material. All of our species’ actions represent our keen and creative interests in studying ourselves in the finest details possible. [...]

[...] The intent of such procedures is to promote the quality of human life, to study the nature of diseases, and hopefully apply what is learned to some of the lives of human beings. [...]

[...] We think that every reader of this book has benefited, and still does, from animal experimentation, some of it most cruel, in ways that he or she can hardly suspect, let alone specify: even benefiting from the use of animals in the study of medical and chemical, beauty and recreational products that can be found in practically every home in the country. [...]

[...] It still has value, and recently has been employed in some remarkable scholarly studies that show how, in scientific terms, evolution can take place through means other than natural selection and chance mutations.)

Records of individual dreams are not enough, nor are studies of the physiological effect of dreaming. [...]

[...] I personally think that these distorted ideas about the nature of the inner self represent the main impediments to dream recall or to any real study of the subjective personality.

[...] Even studies dealing with the conscious state are usually superficial, dealing only with ‘upper’ levels of egotistical awareness. [...]

[...] In one study of eight hundred of my own dreams, I was really surprised to find that only seventy of them took place in my old hometown, and even here, as a rule, the action involved the present rather than the past. [...]

(Now here is the reply Roger wrote to Jane on December 21, 1968, after he’d studied sessions 449 and 450. [...]

[...] A Study of the Psyche as It Is Related to Private Life and the Experience of the Species. [...]

[...] The reader is invited to experience his or her own “unknown reality” through the study of dreams and practice elements, and to try for psychic travel into other realities. [...]