“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] If you do or do not like television programs, it makes little difference, as long as you understand your attitudes.

[...] Ruburt’s favorite television programs are good for him, and allow his mind to rest. [...]

[...] We developed the habit of watching certain television programs on Wednesday evening, but since we’ve gone back to holding sessions regularly, we haven’t been able to see them. I suggested to Jane that we shift Wednesday night’s session to Thursday night.

[...] “I just want to watch some dumb old thing on television tonight and forget it all.” [...]

[...] For that matter, their natural television operated better in some ways than your technological version, for their mental images allowed them to perceive events in neighboring areas or in other portions of the world. [...]

Physically you have at your fingertips certain accumulations of knowledge, objectified through the passage of information verbally through the ages, in records or books, and through television. [...]

[...] … Now when you watch, say, educational television, you see the teacher, and he speaks. [...] So now see Ruburt as my television screen. [...]

You know where physical reality is, then, on the dial of your multidimensional television set. [...]

First of all, in your own world those travelers into unknown realms were considered outcasts, so to speak, as if they were picking up television programs that no one else saw.⁸ If their stories of their experiences did not jibe, who would believe them? [...]

[...] You prefer to identify with the part of you who watches television or cooks or works — the part you think knows what it is doing. [...]

(The second game of the World Series started at 8:30 — I think — tonight, although I hardly glanced at it on television as we made ready for the session; the set went off after the first [scoreless] inning anyhow. [...]

Men and women are born with a desire to push beyond the limits—to, in quotes (amused and loudly): “explore where no man has ever gone before”—a bastard version of the introduction [to a famous television program], I believe. [...]

[...] We heard a television set sounding off in one of the downstairs apartments, though not loudly. [...]

I recognize the difficulties, for example, that you encounter quite personally as you struggle with Ruburt’s physical condition, or those you experience, say, watching television news as you see spread before your vision unfortunate events that seem to portray most clearly evidence of man’s flawed nature. [...]

[...] Once again she was very comfortable on the couch after supper, watching the news on television; in fact, for some days now she’d had her best times, as far as feeling better go, while relaxing after supper. [...]

[...] One television station exists in the same manner, for if one could not be tuned in to, theoretically speaking, none could.

[...] We thought the television adaptation contained many fine things, though—a number of excellent individual performances, although the story line was hard to follow over four episodes. [...]

[...] I spoke on television, and you were both appalled at the gulf between what you saw as the idealized message of our work, and the ludicrous (pause) lack of integrity of the environment in which that ideal was expressed. [...]

(This afternoon and evening, and somewhat to my surprise, Jane has been talking about discussing her physical symptoms in her new book, God of Jane. I thought her changed attitude stemmed from her long phone conversation with Tristine Rainer, of Dan Curtis Associates, a television production company that wants to option her life story. [...]

[...] Involved here also is Jane’s sinful self and “its” attitude concerning the requests she receives to go public through radio and television interviews, lectures, records, tapes, and so forth. [...]

[...] To go on public television, join the workshops and so forth would not be Ruburt’s way, even while he felt that such a course was expected of him. [...]

Now: on your television screen this evening you saw a little girl (in a European country). [...]