“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Any healing brought about from the outside may be advantageous in the short run, and I would be only too willing to help in a situation involving illness, particularly of a serious variety, even though the advantages of my help would be surface ones.

I realize that such surface help at times could be most desirable. [...]

[...] The two of you can best help each other above all (long pause at 8:29) by communicating as honestly and clearly as possible, for expressions of your love will then come to the surface where on both of your parts that certain emotional expression often goes hungry. [...]

It brings to the surface some other physical feelings, however, that are connected with the usual symptoms. [...]

[...] Let Ruburt forget a book for a change, so that creative ideas of all kinds can surface. [...]

[...] You perceive—in other terms—the 1, say, as a flat line on a flat surface, and are unable to imagine the existence (pause), the intensity, within that simple unit number.

[...] If you paint a picture within three-dimensional existence, then the painting must be on a flat surface, merely hinting at the complete three-dimensional experience that you cannot insert into it. [...]

Had the emotion been honestly faced and brought to the surface it would not have been hidden. [...]

[...] Again, you live on the surface of the moments, with no understanding of the unrecognized and unofficial realities that lie beneath. [...]

I told you (after 10:26 in this session) that you presently perceive only the surface of the moment; so you also perceive but one line of the species’ development. [...]

(9:49.) Those other characteristics, say, then, of the probable eggs and sperm, provide an infinite bed of personality characteristics and abilities that can ride to the surface if they are needed. [...]

[...] Instead, in the majority of cases they consist of quite conscious decisions, made at one time or another on quite surface levels.

[...] First of all you deeply feared that in rearranging her house she was merely playing with surface arrangements, and would not touch the deeper dilemmas of the family.

[...] But for a long time—months—I lived with tears just beneath the surface, you might say, as I wondered what was going to happen to us, why you were so sick, what we’d done wrong all those years, and so forth. [...]

[...] You believed them, and you did not examine them, except when you brought to the surface of your mind arguments that reinforced them. [...]

[...] There are here indeed other psychological and surface reasons for the illness, and also deeper reasons for the tendency toward this particular type of illness.

[...] I would like to make it plain here, however, that on a surface psychological level, the personality plunges into activity, and it is for the present this portion of the personality with whom we must deal. [...]

[...] When it surfaces you may then project it outward from yourself again, but in a different fashion. [...]

At this writing, an electron microscope can magnify the surfaces of tissue samples from 20,000 to 60,000 times. [...]

[...] Many will now surface most likely on their own in response to current events, as per this morning: the memories will not be frozen, but will move naturally into present experience, and take their natural place. [...]

(At the same time, on the occasions when she’d come half awake, Jane told herself that she remembered Seth’s material on expressing previously buried fears, and made strong efforts to go along with it by letting the feelings surface where she could encounter them. [...]

[...] The individual in physical life shows his surface face, so to speak, outward. [...]

Do not let the fear he told you of this evening go below the surface again.

Give us a moment… The consciousness that you have, as generally described in psychology, is in a strange fashion like the bright shiny skin of a fruit — but with no fruit inside; a consciousness with a shiny surface that responds to sun or rain or temperature, and to its surroundings; but for all of that a psychological fruit that has no pulp or pits, but contains at its heart a vacancy. [...]