“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There is one small point I wanted to mention this evening, merely for future reference: We have hardly begun any thorough study of the dream universe, and have dealt with it mainly in connection with other discussions. We will however discuss it in detail, and we will use dreams from your own notebooks as examples in this study.

[...] We may also, indeed, begin at least a partial study of the framework of the personality as it is related to action, for such a discussion will follow along well with our material on suggestion.

[...] It is a time of study and comprehension. [...]

[...] Since a session was due tonight, Jane studied the letter in the event Seth would choose to deal with it this evening. [...]

(Now Jane lay the letter on the table and bent over it, studying it.)

[...] He has always attempted to objectify, to separate whatever realities he could from himself, to hold them in his hands, so to speak, so that he could observe and study them.

[...] Now, even in his scientific studies he discovers that his senses have often misled him, his precious solid objects for example found to be solid only to his senses, an appearance given by the limitations of his sensual perceptions.

[...] Then you can study them.

[...] I’d like to study this first though.”)

Physicists are beginning to study the characteristics of “invisible” particles.⁴ They seem to defy space and time principles. [...]

[...] “I don’t know who’s going to read this book but they’ll sure find a lot in it to study.”

4. I doubt if by his statement Seth means that physicists are attempting to study his CU’s (see Note 2) — certainly not yet, although a few scientists who have written us thereby show that they’re familiar with Seth’s thinking here. [...]

[...] For another thing, because of the program format the trance was cut short, and this gave me the opportunity to study the trance phenomenon from a different angle.

You could say, if you wanted to, that Seth intruded himself from some unconscious dimension into my conscious life, yet now he is such a part of my professional and personal experience that much of my time is spent studying and interpreting his theories. [...]

[...] I write this book during the day in my study, looking out the wide bay windows at the street and at the mountains and river just beyond. [...]

[...] Certainly, it was because of Seth that I found myself studying the dream reality that comes into focus while the body sleeps.

To that extent a study of the dream state gives you some important insights as to the nature of the psyche. [...]

[...] In the dream or sleep state, when you do not meet as directly with physical activity, there is the opportunity to learn more about the psyche by a study of dreams — those events that are so like and so dissimilar to your waking experience.

[...] The whole self as it exists at any given time can be glimpsed through studying the actions of the physically-oriented ego, as seen in physical manipulation, and in studying the activities of the inner ego as seen in dream experiences. [...]

[...] First however it is necessary that the nature of identity itself be studied more carefully. [...]

[...] Told my class last night the whole bit, and said that from now on classes were to be focused about the material; we were going to study it from scratch; this was my life work, my direction, what I was meant to do. [...]

I have often told you of the possible dangers involved in approaching experiments without the safeguards of discipline and study. After attendance at an initial session, those interested should then begin a study of the material. [...]

[...] Any results or so-called demonstrations will be the result of training, study, discipline and exercises.

The material will always be the basic tool for study. [...]

[...] We do intend to spend the rest of our lives studying the ramifications of that “unique, still-growing view of consciousness.” [...]

(At the same time, Jane and I are extremely grateful that we have the opportunity to study ideas about consciousness with Seth, and this opening up of our individual realities is something we couldn’t have conceived of before 1963. [...]

(I also think that Seth himself could have some pretty funny things to say here to Jane and me — some day I’ll ask him — words with which he’d humorously caution us not to take the whole affair too seriously, to leave room in our daily lives for the simple, uninhibited joy of creative expression and living even while we study his unending outpouring of material. [...]

[...] I do believe that prolonged study of the Seth material would yield great results toward our understanding of ourselves….”

[...] And as your physical eras of time may be deduced through studying the physical fossilized layers of rock, so can the time and place of past lives be deduced through studying the layers of the subconscious.

(In line with the material of the last session, Jane had been studying her dream notebook with renewed respect, and I had resolved to begin one without yet doing anything about it. [...]

I thought I would write this out instead of calling, so that you’d have the record to study at your leisure. [...]

[...] Studies involving the psychology of the fear of nuclear power, irrational and otherwise, are growing, so once again consciousness proliferates and explores itself in new ways: When will a meltdown happen? [...] These studies are accompanied by the horde of challenges surrounding the still unresolved, unglamorous disposal of a constantly growing accumulation of nuclear waste products.

When you view the animal kingdom, you also do so through your specialized sexual beliefs, studying the behavior of the male and female, looking for patterns of aggressiveness, territorial jealousy, passivity, mothering instincts, or whatever. [...]

[...] When you think of a scientist, the majority of you will think of a male, an intellectual, an “objective” thinker who takes great pains not to be emotional, or to identify with the subject being examined or studied.

A scientist examining nature studies its exterior, observing the outsideness of nature. [...] He certainly does not pursue the study of its soul.

[...] These abilities are then studied thoroughly by the entire personality, both the benefits and the detrimental aspects of the intellect weighed carefully. [...]

[...] The events may be used in any way the individual chooses; altered, played back the way they happened for contrast; the way, perhaps, an actor would play an old movie in which he appeared over again in order to study it. [...]

Now: Under these conditions the personality manipulates events consciously of course, and studies the various effects. [...]

[...] The sound penetrated the two closed doors between Jane’s study and the living room, where we were. [...]

(On July 20, Jane and I received a letter from Dr. Instream, in which he mentioned the possibility of a session with another doctor at Oswego State University College; the other doctor also wanted to consider the study, within limits Seth may feel advisable.

What Jane has to offer results from the study of consciousness itself, as it’s expressed through her own experience and abilities. [...] She doesn’t enjoy the protection a scientist does, who probes into a particular subject in depth, then makes a learned report on it from an “objective” position that’s safely outside the field of study. [...]

Seth’s Preface is in Volume 1, of course, and it too should be studied again; to me, such acts of referral between the two volumes help the reader mentally unite them.

[...] As I show below, putting this Volume 2 together has represented a process of discovery for me — just as I hope studying it will for the reader.