“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Man will not learn the basic nature of reality by studying the physical universe alone, nor will he learn it by studying the personality as it operates within the physical universe alone.

Most studies even dealing with the conscious state are extremely superficial, dealing only with those upper layers of egotistical awareness that are immediately concerned with the manipulation of the self within physical reality.

[...] If your psychologists and scientists would begin a study of their own dreams, they would learn much through personal experience.

If such a study is conducted however with preconceived ideas, then each experimenter will find only what he has been looking for, for all else will appear meaningless to him.

Ruburt has been intellectually involved in a strong manner with our whole relationship and experience, as he studied the galleys for his book. [...]

Ultimately your use of instruments, and your preoccupation with them as tools to study the greater nature of reality, will teach you one important lesson: The instruments are useful only in measuring the level of reality in which they themselves exist.¹ Period.

[...] In studying the deeper realities within and “behind” that universe, the instruments are not only useless but misleading. [...]

[...] The true scientist is not afraid of identifying with the reality he chooses to study. [...]

Generally speaking, if you are fairly content about physical reality, you are in a better position to study these inner environments.

[...] You should not embark upon such a study if you hope to substitute inner experience for physical experience.

(Today Patty filled Jane in on her studies in operant conditioning; how, with a simple Yogalike technique, monitored by an electroencephalograph, she learned to “turn on” her alpha brainwaves. [...]

(Patty enthusiastically told us that Seth’s material on the various stages of consciousness, in the 569th and 570th sessions in Chapter Seventeen, closely agreed with her recent studies. [...]

[...] Both of you, before you met, knew that you wanted to study and observe from your own viewpoints. [...]

[...] Your high-school art teacher, Miss Bowman, lent you the money to study art in New York City.

[...] We spent two days of concentrated labor studying those, and I returned them to Tam on the 24th. [...]

[...] I mentioned how worthwhile it would be to throughly study the continuous global healing processes that I believe constitute one of the earth’s major forces, so that we could consciously use them to “help our species lead itself into new areas of thought and feeling.” Now I enlarge upon that idea by stating that such processes should be studied amid the earth’s even larger life-and-death cycles — those making up that “flickering gentle glow” my mythical observer would see from space. [...]

[...] I’m making a collection of these for study. [...]

[...] She is developing her gifts through study and practice. [...]

[...] The most parsimonious view — the simplest, stingiest one — would be that through studying the Seth Material Valerie subconsciously divines the replies I want from my dead wife, and in all subjective innocence comes through with her trance messages for me, to fit my own stubborn belief in Jane’s survival.

(9:01.) Ruburt’s intuitions, his nature, his creative abilities, and his intellect, have led him into a study of the nature of reality, as, again, he sought to find a larger framework of reference. [...]

[...] I wanted badly to study this session with the idea of basing future questions upon it. [...]

[...] The energy caught him quite unaware, you see, so that he could study it with some objectivity afterward.

The level and period of your energy can be seen from a study of your dreams. [...]

[...] The systems with which we deal are too delicate, too finely balanced, to operate with any efficiency unless there is constant study, application, and devotion to the attempt. [...]

[...] It should be studied with determination and dedication. [...]

[...] Its inner mysteries—which are indeed the mysteries of consciousness, not matter—cannot be explained, and must remain incomprehensible, if you try to study them from the viewpoint of your objective experience alone. [...]

[...] If you are to understand the characteristics of the species, then you cannot avoid the study of man’s consciousness.

[...] The studies done on men and women dreamers are already prejudiced, however, both by the investigators and by the dreamers themselves. [...]

[...] Such beliefs invisibly affect all of your studies — and worse, they help you misread the activity in nature itself.

[...] For this reason a study of the outwardness will never result in true comprehension of the inwardness. [...]

(Both of us have kept strict records of our psychological time studies, for example, with the hope that Seth will eventually discuss them. [...]

(November 23, Monday, 8:15 PM: This was my most active experience since resuming psychological time study. [...]

[...] In his own family he made sure that the male domain, the study, was separate from the family rooms, not to be shared. [...]

[...] He considers studying dreams feminine, and to paint pictures of them presents a second mystery (intently). [...]

Your light, again, represents only a portion of an even larger spectrum than that of which you know; and when your scientists study its properties, they can only investigate light as it intrudes into the three-dimensional system. The same of course applies to a study of the structure of matter or form.

(I sought to reassure her, but later when I went into her study to ask about something else, I found her looking quite distressed as she sat at her typewriter. [...]

[...] Their “truth” is to be found by studying the objective world, the world of objects, including animals and stars, galaxies and mice — but by viewing these objects as if they are themselves without intrinsic value, as if their existences have no meaning (intently).

[...] Our species should study the whole subject of global healing, so that it can use the knowledge gained to lead itself into new areas of thought and feeling.

A study or investigation of inner reality was not the purpose of the intellect. [...]

[...] The results of another kind of investigation may be given to the intellect, which may then be able to register the facts involved, but only with some difficulty since the intellect is bound and determined to study facts in the light of so-called cause and effect, which appears so logical to the intellect, since it deals so often with appearances registered by the outer senses, then trying to interpret them into some kind of order.

[...] In order to study dreams properly you must indeed immerse yourself in that medium in which dreams occur. [...]

(Jane has not yet resumed her study of psychological time, even though Seth said it was all right for her to begin again on a daily fifteen-minute basis. [...]