“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Television becomes a threat because he feels he is being asked to prove the unprovable, and yet since this is his life’s work he feels responsible to do so.

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

[...] Among them was one from a Dan Curtis production company, who wants to option her life story for a possible movie for television. [...]

(Jane turned on the television after a very brief discussion. [...]

Examine the literature that you read, the television programs that you watch, and tell yourself to ignore those indications given of the body’s weaknesses. [...]

The walking after dinner would be excellent, of course — the idea being, however, that if he became uncomfortable from sitting that he lie on the bed, perhaps before watching television for the evening.

(Last night we watched on television Alan Neuman’s show on the paranormal. [...]

From all the available physical data of newspapers, television, letters and private communication, he or she will concentrate only upon those issues that “prove” that point. [...]

(As mentioned by Seth in the last session, I have begun keeping a record of outside weather data from our television weather channel. [...]

Tonight, during a pleasant supper time, our friends Ruburt and Joseph watched a television production based upon the Cinderella fairy tale. [...]

3. “After last night’s (845th) session,” Jane wrote, “I watched television while Rob went for a walk. [...]

[...] The crisis at Three Mile Island has passed — or so the governor of Pennsylvania announced on television this morning. [...]

Only a few days before it took place, Ruburt was offered a television engagement in Baltimore, and refused it.³  Their car was submerged. [...]

[...] I have told you, for example, how you and others construct say, a television set, a chair, an image or a table. [...]

Now, the television screen represented your abilities—it transmitted the messages. [...]

Dreams, then, operate as vast mass communicative networks, far more effective at certain levels of the psyche than, for example, television is at a physical level.

(Long pause at 9:13.) The use of the Frankenstein monster and so forth in television dramas, and the merging of strong destructive tendencies intermixed with the psychic abilities in current psychic horror stories, shows again the potent mixture of religion’s Sinful Self and science’s flawed self. [...]

Now: Ruburt’s teeth further followed through, and were a kind of safeguard, for if he lost his symptoms, still he would not look good enough to go on television.

(While eating supper this evening Jane and I watched the television reports on the series of devastating tornadoes that had struck northern Texas and southern Oklahoma — an area known as “Tornado Alley” — late yesterday afternoon. [...]

(3:49.) Ruburt began to wonder about television and so forth for publicity. [...]