“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause.) It might help here if you imagine the psyche again as some multidimensional living television set. [...]

Like this imaginary multidimensional television, the psyche contains within it other programs than the one in which you are acting — other plots, environments, and world situations. [...]

Now imagine that the picture on the television screen shows your own universe. [...]

[...] Otherwise you are simply flying like an insect around the outside of the television set, trying to light on the fruit, say, that is shown upon the screen — and wondering, like a poor bemused fly, why you cannot. [...]

[...] I’m also presenting it because it shows how an event on one day of our lives—a television program—influenced Jane’s delivery of one session of the Seth material. [...]

[...] And yet, I added, because of the very nature of the Seth material, I’m also bound to think that beneath that simplified explanation there are “deeper” connections—in which the television program, her reactions to it, John’s appearance, and tonight’s session are all related. [...]

You are right not to take on more shows (television and radio)for now.

(Pause.) The feeling of responsibility to help those in desperate need is but one facet, however, for he has felt a responsibility (underlined) to get our material to the people as soon as possible—a responsibility to appear on television or otherwise, to promote our ideas, or to present them to the world—a responsibility that I have not encouraged. [...]

(Long pause at 9:22.) Now nothing is all that simple, so there would be changes in his attitudes: He would tell himself, for example, that television or whatever would fritter away his time, or at other occasions other fears would rise so that the Sinful Self would think “Suppose such activity succeeded only too well, leading whole groups of people away from established systems of belief?” (Long pause.) There seemed to be little resolution. [...]

[...] Watch television or whatever, but imagine—lightly, now—a pyramid with each of you at its base, going upward into Framework 2. The energy you sense in whatever program you watch imagine almost like a generator, as energy here drawing power from Framework 2 into the room, into Ruburt’s body and your own, activating both your physical and psychic existences.

[...] Both of us tried Seth’s energy suggestions as we watched television. [...]

[...] That is, the living room in the hill house is now her writing room, and her one-time writing room at the back, north side of the house has become the living room — or call it the den-and-television room. [...]

Your thoughts and beliefs and desires form the events that you view on television. [...]

[...] You understand what television is. [...]

[...] So the reasoning: “Get better, then you can go out into the world to go on television or whatever,” or “Once you get better, you will be delighted to go on television and tell your story”—those directives simply make the issues more muddy. [...]

[...] So often he told himself that if he got better he would only be too glad to go on television or whatever, or to do whatever he was supposed to do. [...]

[...] (With humor:) I believe that Sadat on television this evening said (louder) that it takes time for old ideas to change.

[...] The event had been televised. [...]

If it were not for television, you would not know much about Anita Bryant, you would not know much about the Reverend Jones, who believed he was God and led (in quotes, out of quotes), “his followers into folly”. If it were not for television and technology and the official line of consciousness, you would not know of the fanaticism of Anita Bryant and our Miss America, American apple pie, good religion and all the rest. [...] And each person who views her on television must look into their own beliefs. [...]

[...] To divert the conscious mind can therefore be of great import —enjoying television, relaxing in whatever fashion, allows the desired activity to occur. [...] Television also. [...]

[...] I’ve felt that I should “push” the material, go on television or whatever to demonstrate and promote it, but that is the “wrong” level for me.... [...]

Familiar images become imprinted, as your television games can be imprinted upon your TV screen.

[...] A small segment this evening on television gave you a picture of the confused activity that can take place in exaggerated situations—the segment dealing with the abused children, for there you have parents reacting in the worst possible way to the religious dictums as interpreted by “Sinful Selves.” [...]

[...] She didn’t know whether to watch television or have a cookie and milk, or go sit on the bed and make a few notes. [...]

(This will be the first time Seth has appeared on television since we did some promotional work for The Seth Material after its publication in 1970. [...] I might add that since Seth launched “Unknown” Reality in February of this year, Jane and I have fulfilled another television commitment, and that she was the subject of a lengthy radio interview. [...]

(Last Tuesday afternoon, in our living room, Jane and I participated in a filmed television interview that is to be aired by a New York City station. [...]

(Since Seth mentions such episodes tonight, I’ll note here also that lately Jane has had a number of dreams involving television programs that we’ve seen—shows like Dallas, TV movies, etc. [...]

He has used the materials of your culture—the television programs and so forth—to excellent advantage in the dream state and otherwise, so that messages of his own psyche come through. [...]

[...] A king could travel through his own lands and not be recognized if he wanted it that way, for no television screen flashed his image into the homes of his people. [...]

[...] In opposition, he carried the belief that he should go on television, make tours, and so forth, and expose himself in direct opposition to those fears. [...]

It is very easy of course to expand our analogy, changing the radio to a television set. [...]

In greater terms you are a part of the same “set,” and at another level someone sees you as a character in a living room turning on a television set. [...]

(Seth proceeded to name three currently famous television detectives.)

[...] Now these characters exist more vividly in the minds of television viewers than the actors do who play those roles. [...]

[...] He thinks that ideally he should want to be a public person, to give and enjoy giving interviews to the press or television, that he should (underlined) carry our message out into the world, have sessions on television so that people can see how I operate (with amused emphasis). [...]

Twice a week when evening comes (as most of my readers know) while our neighbors go to movies, or shopping plazas, or just have friends in to watch television, I go into a trance,¹ “become” Seth, and take on a kind of a second life, or a life within a life. [...]

[...] Some nights the (singing) bugs in the small back woods were louder than the sound of our television set. [...]

[...] There is no need either, however, for him to imagine that he has any responsibility to go out into that mixed social arena to do tours or appear on television.

Under certain conditions, I would certainly appear on television, for I have done so. [...]