“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It happened so quickly that Ruburt’s old dog of an ego was taken by surprise almost completely, and the whole affair might have been successful, as far as its purpose being achieved, had not a quick preliminary sensation caused the ego to rouse from its pleasant doze.

[...] We knew little about operating the recorder yet, although the night before Jane had successfully recorded a hypnosis session in which she had helped me with my back trouble.

[...] It takes a peculiar set of abilities and interests for such work to be even partially successful or even accepted by the personalities involved; and for many personalities it would be difficult to maintain discipline and balance, while allowing for the necessary freedom that is necessarily involved. [...]

Where your physical survival, in those terms, once depended upon a narrowed focus while you learned physical manipulation, now the success of that manipulation necessitates a broadening of focus — a new awakening into the larger existence of the selfhood, with what will be a corresponding rerecognition of neurological activity that is now only briefly sensed by some (like Jane), but present in the heritage of your corporal structure.

This data is often wound by the dreaming self into a dream drama, which informs the subconscious of dangers, or of the probable success, of any given event which is being considered by the subconscious as suitable for physical actuality.

[...] Recently I have been using suggestion rather successfully on hay fever, following Seth’s ideas. [...]

He will have success with part of the experiment, having to do with an S. What he plans is entirely feasible however, and quite possible. [...]

[...] Both had the same mother although they came from successive litters.)

[...] If so, it would give me rudimentary glimpses into two of the inner senses, since I have already had some small degree of success in feeling sound.)

[...] Each of the ten egos travels along an egotistical time of successive moments. [...]

[...] This quality has sustained her throughout all of her challenges as well as her successes, and I think it must have been particularly important during her early frightening years with her mother, Marie. [...]

(Seth briefly discussed the candle-flame effect mentioned in the 182nd Session, saying the phenomenon was so successful because Jane had no forewarning of it.

[...] I even agree that our challenges may well be successfully handled in one or more other probable realities, that in those terms that’s an entirely acceptable way for us to learn. [...]

[...] Jane and I discussed various ways that All That Is could have seeded life on earth through the roles of probabilities, and how certain successive forms could take root upon the earth when environmental and psychic conditions were right, and so give the appearance of an evolutionary progression. [...]

[...] However this takes more out of Ruburt, since he must then, with my help, translate direct experience-concepts into a succession of meaningful words.

One reason for the success of our communications is the peculiar abilities present in you both and the interaction between them, and the use that you both allow me to make of them. [...]

[...] (I noticed this particularly, since I have tried dictating letters into a recorder, with noted lack of success. [...]

[...] The notes refer to our attempts to use the board early in November 1963 also, without success.)

[...] Those of you who read my two other books in this field know that the experiments were astonishingly successful and led, through the Ouija board, to our first contact with Seth.

[...] Half humorously, we attempted to increase the height of the candle flame by concentration, with no success. [...]

[...] Her hands still bothered her also; she had taken off one ring at the start of the session but had left her wedding ring on; now she was trying to get that one off too, but without success.)