“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I wanted to go into the invention of the soul, using mankind’s own terminology, the soul and the spirit being thought of as one and the same thing. [...]

[...] I am trying to put over the thought here in one way or another that as the inner senses come more and more within the field of the whole self on your plane, they take on its characteristics while yet retaining within themselves their own characteristics.

[...] While we talked after supper tonight, however, I discovered to my surprise that Jane did entertain some doubtful thoughts on our places within this great organization of things. [...]

[...] At the same time I thought she might be putting up barriers to the idea of another Seth book so soon, since we still have editorial work to do for the last one, Personal Reality [see Note I for the 682nd session]. [...]

(A one-minute pause at 11:20.) While you were so concerned with protecting what you thought of as the boundaries and integrity of one selfhood, as a race you actually arrived at a point where you were beginning to deny your own greater reality. [...]

[...] It is one thing to play with concepts of multidimensionality, or probabilities, and quite another to be practically presented with them, even briefly, when your thought patterns and neurological habits tell you that they cannot be translated. [...]

[...] As he grew older he thought of the ego as a balancing agent against an inner spontaneous self that always, it seemed, got him into trouble. [...]

You must realize that Hitler believed that any atrocity was justified in the light of what he thought of as the greater good. [...]

[...] I thought for a moment my eyes were open, but they were not.

I have avoided such discussions mainly in the past, until I thought you were ready for them. [...]

[...] We thought the session ended with the first 20-minute delivery, but after a break Jane returned as Seth for more material. [...]

[...] I’ve often thought, and hesitantly told her, that I think she saved me after Jane’s passing. [...]

[...] Left alone now, Ruburt’s thoughts are more positive, and the worries not as frequent. [...]

[...] At the time I thought the brief appearance a little odd, but when it developed that Timothy Foote wouldn’t be staying for supper, as we had planned, Seth’s appearance made good sense.

[...] You wanted what you thought of as adequate discipline maintained, and in other areas as well. [...]

[...] You would have thought it a surface book, because you would not have understood clearly the premises beneath. [...]

[...] She thought he would have more to say on the subject of notes later in the book.

He thought of that realm as eternal and unchanging, a perfect but frozen composite that must indeed inspire men toward achievement on the one hand, and on the other reproach them for their failure, since their achievements must necessarily seem puny in contrast. [...]

[...] This noon Jane told me she thought Seth might have something to say tonight about the attempts at communication with Dr. Instream.

(Yesterday Jane told me of the message she thought she had received from Seth. [...]

[...] However, because of the attitude in the scientific world at large, these sessions should have a more sober climate, in that I do not want either of you to be thought of, in Ruburt’s words, as a pair of nuts.

(Jane hadn’t operated well yesterday.¹ She did tell me that she was somewhat surprised to realize Seth might be closer to completing his work on Dreams than she’d thought he was. [...]

[...] At break Lillian commented that she thought Jane’s delivery as Seth sounded Germanic. [...]

(I’d just finished typing the last few pages for Monday night’s session, and I asked Jane what she thought of my final note: I’d speculated about any reincarnational connections that might tie her abilities to speak for Seth, without help of any modern kind, to the abilities ancient man had displayed, when, according to Seth, he’d been able to carry all of his history with him mentally. [...]