“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The task of trying to maintain specific states of consciousness is enough work and effort to convince anyone having the experience that far more than simple dreaming or imagination is involved.

[...] And the part of himself that did teach him to see still guides his movements, still moves the muscles of his eyes, still becomes conscious despite him when he sleeps, still breathes for him without thanks, without recognition, and still carries on his task of transforming energy from an inner reality to an outer camouflage.

[...] For a scientist he is himself rather long-winded, and can hardly afford to take me to task on that particular point.

[...] Under such conditions the body can perform tasks and often maneuver with an amazing sense of balance. [...]

[...] Besides, I didn’t like Seth taking you to task in front of Mark. [...]

[...] You know well, you should know, and now I do indeed take you to task. [...]

The material did not come through clearly because the man who sought to come through has not been trained enough to perform the particular task which he set himself.

[...] See the verse from her early poem, Summer Is Winter, which precedes these notes.) As I see it, her task with the Seth material is to place these basic artistic ideas at our conscious service, so that their use in our daily lives can change our individual and collective realities for the better; and by “artistic ideas” here I mean the deepest, most aesthetic and practical — and, yes, mystical — truths and questions that human beings are capable of expressing, then contending with. [...]

[...] She was not aware that she had been taking herself to task so vehemently. [...]

[...] While amusing myself I’m simplifying to a great degree: If traces of one’s “successive” lives are genetically embedded, sorting them out would be an enormous task.

[...] You are trying to redefine the very definitions of personal identity—no easy task. [...]

(To go into modern knowledge of the components of the atom can be a very complicated task, so I’ll note only that such particles are regarded as actually being packets of energy, or “probability patterns,” that can also manifest themselves as waves; both the particle and the wave aspects are legitimate in space-time. [...]

[...] As I finish, I realize how much physical activity and energy is required for even that seemingly sedentary task, for I’ve been uncomfortable, sitting, switching my weight, body soreish, eyes not seeing properly and so forth…. [...]

[...] They took care of Marie’s physical needs—tasks that in her later teens Jane would often take care of herself. [...]