“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] (In parentheses: I am speaking in your terms of time.) Watching television, you are aware of events that occur on the other side of the earth, so your consciousness necessarily becomes less parochial.⁸ As this has happened the whole matter (smiling) of probabilities has begun to assume a more practical cast. [...]

[...] Instead, for example, for news or for advice you watch your morning television news, which provides you with a kind of manufactured dream that to some extent technologically serves the same purpose. [...]

[...] You choose books rather than television appearances, because of your feelings of secrecy and safety. [...]

[...] The particular, brilliant, intensified flowering of painting and sculpture that took place, say, in the time of Michelangelo (1475–1564) could not, in your probability, have occurred after the birth of technology, for example, and certainly not in your own era, where images are flashed constantly before your eyes on television and in the movies, where they are rambunctiously present in your magazines and advertisements. [...]

[...] Ruburt does not yet know what his response to the world will be—whether he wants, for example, television shows and so forth, or not—but he is now determined to respond, to be responsive, and not to simply retreat.

[...] The television program you saw about monasteries and privacy to some extent applies here, for in the hurly-burly of medieval life there was no privacy for thought.

[...] She immediately turned on television to get her mind off the feeling. [...]

[...] Now I have been on television and now I am to be on radio and I am to be on the movie screen and I must remember to be decorous and quiet. [...]

[...] You might imagine it, if you want to, as a station indicator on your own radio or television set, but your subjective recognition of it is your own cue.

[...] Therefore, I will call secondary experience that information that comes to you through, say, reading, television, discussion with others, letters, and so forth.

[...] That condition was also related to the telephone one, adding the extra difficulty of clearly hearing a television—or rather radio—program, and the hearing difficulty was aggravated along with the hands. [...]

Television at your dinner hour is advantageous, as long as it is not news. [...]

[...] This is not diversion such as television, you follow me.

[...] Now, you have far more decisions to make, and in a world of conflicting beliefs, brought into your living room through newspapers and television, you must try to find the meaning of your life, or the meaning of life.

[...] He just wanted to watch television and forget it all, and hidden in that crankiness is a good point: The sessions are an expression of your private and joint curiosity, a high and excellent curiosity about the nature of reality, a result of your desire to know; to know whether or not the knowledge can be held in your hands like a fruit, whether or not the knowledge can be dosed out to an ailing world as medicine.

[...] Below her, then, was an upside-down television screen, and a pair of windows with the café curtains at the top instead of the bottom. Not only that, but with her double vision Jane sometimes saw two television screens and four windows! [...]

[...] I turned off the television’s sound. [...]

Your television repairman has 3 children, a kind heart, and something wrong with his left foot. [...]

[...] Television on Wednesday night doesn’t offer that many attractions after all. [...]

[...] I thought the simple services in which our President and Vice-President were sworn into office were extremely moving: Unable to speak because of my emotion, I sat beside Jane on the couch while we watched the ceremonies on television, and had soup and crackers for lunch. [...]

[...] She could read and write, paint, have sessions, watch television, do a little simple housework, call or see a few close friends, and answer some of the mail. [...]

[...] We watched television replays of the shooting over and over again during the rest of the afternoon and into the evening, as for the second time within a generation the overall consciousness of the United States struggled, through our leaders, to meet one of the great challenges to our democratic way of life.

[...] After breakfast she wrote a very rough account of what she can remember.¹⁹ She thinks the experience was triggered by a television movie she watched last night. [...]