“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] If information is thought to come to the self only through physical means, then of course heredity and environment must be seen behind human motivation. [...]

[...] “I’ve thought of it before, but finally I’m getting it through my head that the sessions are much better when I don’t have any concern — and when I feel concern, I find it harder to get into it. [...]

[...] During it, Bill said he thought the information from Seth was sure to be pretty fragmented. [...]

(“Frank Watts, is Jane receiving your thoughts now, besides your answers as you spell them out on the board?”)

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

(“Then I thought: I didn’t want to give real book sessions while I was asleep — who would take them down? [...]

[...] I had not given it much thought, beyond wondering where I had gotten the idea for the painting to begin with. [...]

[...] To some extent he thought of that as punishment, of course, of being abandoned, forced to take charity as well, and the home reinforced all of the Catholic beliefs, particularly stressing the sinfulness of the body. [...]

[...] No definite thoughts came to her about the sense of unease, and she had difficulty putting it into words.

[...] And with each portion of your thought and desire you can leave it as freely as a vagabond who can then find peace and joy and contentment in any corner of the universe and reform your body as well with joy and exaltation, and not fear it will disintegrate or disappear while you are gone. [...]

4. In earlier days, Jane and I only thought of the cell as a result of its past, too. [...]

[...] He said,
“I thought you knew.

[...] You tried to fit the sessions into the scientific context, as you thought was right, with the testing and so forth. [...]

[...] Emotions and thoughts have their own structures, that may be manipulated in the same manner that physical objects are manipulated, generally speaking.

[...] He promised something Jane and I could really focus upon … an exciting yet thoughtful time of “work” and new information. [...]

[...] And that his thoughts go inward, though he does not speak of them. [...]

Some of this has to do with current mass beliefs, based on the idea of the mechanics of the body being more important than the thoughts behind the body’s working. [...]

(To Gert.) Now I thought my pictures were very good, and our movie-taker over here, if not expert, most acceptable. [...]

Seth’s almost casual remark here: “So does it appear to my consciousness,” embodies a new thought for us in connection with Jane’s adventures with massiveness; it’s the kind of clue about the Seth phenomenon that we’re always interested in getting. [...]

(Long pause at 9:37.) That idealism, however, ran smack into the dark clouds of Freudian and Darwinian thought. [...]