“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This does not mean that any person, spontaneously, with no instruction, can suddenly become a great artist or writer or scientist. [...]

[...] Specifically, though, this is what happened: Quite suddenly in the predawn hours of December 11 she began to write an automatic script that purported to come from the artist Paul Cézanne, who lived from 1839 to 1906. [...]

[...] If you shovel you are not suddenly going to decide to devote yourself to a life of physical chores, and “meaningless” activity, and ignore your creative work. [...]

If Ruburt walks, he is not suddenly going to turn into a television personality and ignore his inner work. [...]

So-called human consciousness did not suddenly appear. Our poor maligned friend, the ape, did not suddenly beat his hairy chest in exaltation and cry “I am a man.” [...]

[...] This does not mean that your arms will suddenly fall to the floor. [...]

Now: In the same way that a member of such a society can go [askew], blow his stack, go overboard, commit antisocial acts, so in the same fashion such a person can instead trigger the viruses, wreck their biological social order, so that some of them suddenly become deadly, or run [amok]. [...] It is not so much that a virus, say, suddenly turns destructive — though it does — as it is that the entire cooperative structure within which all the viruses are involved becomes insecure and threatened.

[...] Why should such a seemingly perfect young creature suddenly become that sick, for no observable reason? [...]

[...] It may come to you later in altered form as a hunch or sudden intuition, or an urge for action. [...]

[...] Practically speaking however, muscles suddenly released from tension need first to simply relax and gain strength, and resiliency, practically. [...]

[...] If you dwell on ideas of danger or potential disaster, if you think of the world mainly in terms of your physical survival and consider all those circumstances that may work against it, then you may find yourself suddenly aware of precognitive dreams that foretell incidents of accidents, earthquakes, robberies or murders.

[...] Our rich man just mentioned may suddenly realize that his belief is limiting, in that he concentrated upon it exclusively so that money and health became his sole aims. [...]

(Pause)… Or a severe and rather sudden illness or accident. [...] A sudden attack of another sort, or accident.

The same applies to the arms, where certain motions will seemingly be easy suddenly, while others will appear difficult. [...]

Suddenly I had a whole bunch of thoughts that I wanted to write up regarding this … “magical orientation” Rob was speaking of. [...]

[...] Suppose — just suppose — I couldn’t start up again or I lost the knack as suddenly as I’d acquired it (17 years before)? [...]

[...] The disapproval was still present, however; yet now and then through the years would come a period of release, of sudden ease and sudden physical improvement—each time when he suspended self-disapproval, and when for your reasons you began to suspend your own.

His sudden desire to dance and the freedom came fairly quickly after you started going out again. [...] Ruburt’s sudden desire to dance was also based upon desperation and defiance, which you recognized and reacted against.

But beside this, as Seth was dictating this present book, I also found myself suddenly writing a novel, The Education of Oversoul 7, which was produced more or less automatically. [...]

Seth first mentioned The Nature of Personal Reality in Session 608, April 5, 1972, only shortly after Rob and I had finished reading proofs for his previous book, Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul. He actually began dictation on April 10, 1972, but our personal reality was suddenly disturbed when we were caught in the flood caused by Tropical Storm Agnes. [...]

[...] There is even an acceleration of thought and inspiration, much like that experienced in the adolescent years, that suddenly brings a new understanding to the aged individual, and provides an impetus that should help the person to achieve greater comprehension — a comprehension that should quell all fears of death.

(“Remember what I used to say years ago?” I suddenly asked. [...]

(8:46.) In many instances, you “get the session” whether or not it seems to you (much louder suddenly) that it has any important material at all. [...]

[...] But at my words Seth suddenly boomed through very loud and clear with no voice problem, and quite humorously:)

[...] The car may suddenly disappear before your eyes, to be replaced by an animal or the whole street may turn into a field.

[...] A man may suddenly appear, and be then replaced by a small girl. [...]

[...] Inner stability of response is suddenly swept away. [...]

[...] That Sunday as we were out driving, the idea suddenly struck me that there might be a force coming up from the earth, in opposition to gravity. [...]

[...] To take focus away from the smoking problem, our Ruburt suddenly decides to go “a la naturel” as far as hair is concerned.

On this hazy, lazy day
All thoughts drop to sudden end,
As if the sullen air
Into itself a puncture drew,
So trees and houses and all we know
Were gently drawn to follow through —
Then quickly, like a holocaust,
A container tipped at end at last —
All our thoughts slide away
Into a hole that time has made.

Two days later, I sat at my desk, idly watching the sunshine on my bare arm, and was suddenly astonished by the miracle of skin. [...]