“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Jane read the four questions over—the formulae were meaningless to her—before the session, but we doubted if Seth would have time to deal with Pat’s letter and the questions in one session.

[...] The challenges can be met at another time and in another life, this is true, but the particular people that you can help and the particular good that you can do, can never be done in precisely (underlined) the same way.

[...] He would limit the ways in which life expressed itself through him, or at times he felt he would not operate at all. [...]

Now I do suggest that our friend contact Edwards, and Ruburt can explain the reasons rather than taking session time to do so. [...]

(Seth’s material above could explain the strange malaise she has been aware of in recent days, and we believe prompted Seth to call for the time off in the first place, in the 250th session.

(Jane’s eyes had been opening at times. [...]

[...] Seth cut the session short, and after the five witnesses had left Jane was physically sick to her stomach three successive times. [...]

[...] A series of numbers, and an indication of the passage of time. [...]

(Jane began speaking in trance while sitting down; she was smoking; her eyes began to open soon; her pace was rather fast and her voice quite loud, comparatively—the loudest it has been in some time.)

As I have mentioned many times, at present you focus your attentions and consciousness within the physical system. [...]

[...] I refer here to humanity at this time. [...]

[...] Either four numbers, the number four many times, or four separate indications on the item or object.

[...] Biological, sociological, or even economic factors may be involved, in that for a variety of reasons, and at different levels, whole groups of individuals want to die at any given time — but in such a way that their individual deaths amount to a mass statement.

On one level the deaths are a protest against the time in which they occur. [...]

[...] It may appear that left alone the body would surely develop whatever disease might be “fashionable” at the time, so that the specific victory might result in the ultimate defeat as far as your beliefs are concerned.

[...] Specific diseases have certain symbolic meanings, varying with the times and the places.³

[...] It is composed of rocks and trees, grass and hills, and in your terms of time you can look at it, see it as such, give it a name, and ignore its equally independent parts. [...] It is not invaded by the trees or rocks that compose it, and while trees grow and die the mountain itself, at least in your terms of time, exists despite the changes. [...]

“What selves do you encounter in time? And what makes you think that those selves exist in time as you understand it only? [...]

[...] In fact, we’ve had trouble keeping up with our experiences, and little time to study them. [...]

[...] It takes up no time. [...]

[...] I cannot help speaking humorously, but you must die many times before you enter this particular plane of existence. [...] And I, who have died more times than I care to tell, write this book to tell you so.)

Now, we can also take several forms at one time, so to speak, but you can also do this although you do not generally realize it. [...] So consciousness is not limited as to the forms it can create at any given time.

[...] The reading offered no specific insights into the causes behind Jane’s troubles, although this would be difficult in such a short time span.

[...] We thought the tape contained a number of negative suggestions, though how one deals with physical troubles without sounding negative at times may be a problem in itself. [...]

[...] I have mentioned these steps many times, because they are so vital in clearing the conscious mind, and bringing some sense of relief to the frightened ego.

These steps will allow you breathing time, and actually help minimize the pressure of your situation, whatever it is. [...]

[...] We talked about other similar situations and things, and she was near tears at times — so there definitely is emotion there. [...] I explained my position that she didn’t need to make bargains with herself, as she used to tell me she did — that it was perfectly okay to be healthy and talented at the same time, using one’s abilities as one chose. [...]

[...] At the same time she’d felt a responsibility toward helping her. [...]

(Afterward, she said several times that she wanted to have a session. [...]

[...] In the 170th she also spoke for several hours and had time to build up to it; I would estimate she spoke for less than half an hour before break this evening, and but a very few minutes after resuming.

[...] A long break was taken after the first delivery; Jane’s voice was good, her points very emphatic, and her eyes wide open some of the time as she answered questions. [...]

[...] I am personally not much enthused about such informal sessions, although Seth has said at various times that they can be beneficial in ways that regular sessions are not. [...]

[...] More often than not after such an experience we wish it hadn’t taken place; at the same time we feel that such sessions are another facet of the Seth experience, and as such should take place at least to some extent.

[...] At the same time it illustrated part of our relationship as it happens in sessions, in which Ruburt allows a portion of himself to step aside. [...]

[...] It is true —the psyche is not restrained by time, yet there are rhythms in which each psyche is involved. [...]

[...] The healthy person is one who is balanced at any given time in your terms, as far as his or her relationship with the psyche is concerned; with the world and its relationships.

[...] It meant that you understood yourselves and the temper of the times, and understood the rhythms of your own growth, even if consciously you may have railed against the conditions and poor sales.

It is not true, of course, that before the time of modern psychology man had a concept of himself that dealt with conscious exterior aspects only, although it has been written that until that time man thought of himself as a kind of flat-surfaced self — minus, for example, subconscious or unconscious complexity.

[...] I didn’t want to sit around waiting, and wasting my time. [...]

[...] There is no doubt that the accepted dimensions of psychological reality began to shrink precisely at the time that modern psychology began. [...]

[...] Then on the morning of March 10 — the Sunday before last — we learned that we may have to rethink the idea of Seth-Jane producing more than one major work at a time; for on that day Jane received the outline for another book, along with the knowledge that she’d need Seth’s help in producing it. [...] Jane wrote at the time, then told me, that she almost felt “the book could be Personal Reality Number Two.” [...]

[...] I quoted her as saying she believed that “Seth could do three books at once, a chapter at a time on each, and with no confusion among them.”

[...] I can’t tell you how frustrated — how blocked — this made me feel at the time.

[...] At such times as now, the ego imprisons him, and he does not allow himself inner freedom. [...]

[...] This was the second time recently that her eyes had opened while she gave experimental material; perhaps this will become more usual.)

[...] Or the plane lands at this time and the people are dismissed then.

Something takes an inordinate amount of time. [...]

[...] He cannot be so concerned about Work capitalized, and underlined four times—that it devours his being, or there will be no work. [...]

In your terms, the ideal itself arises because of the intimate daily chores and activities of living; the sacredness of the body’s motion and all of those questions that arise between its motion and the time when it will be silent. [...]

[...] It largely works independently of normal time. [...]

(Jane told me this afternoon that she wasn’t uncomfortable after giving yesterday’s session—the first time she’s felt good following one. [...]

(The time passed before we could realize it. [...]

[...] It’s worth noting, also, that she hasn’t taken any Darvoset in the daytime now for some time—a fact easy to forget but quite important. [...]

[...] At the same time, Jane almost cried as the right leg tried to move. [...]

[...] Yet the motion was noticeable for the first time—good progress, I told Jane. [...]

[...] Language, as you know it, is partially and grammatically the end product of your physical time sequences. You can only focus upon so many things at one time, and your language structure is not given to the communication of intricate, simultaneous experience.

[...] To some extent, then, I enter your reality through a psychological warp in your space and time. [...]

[...] For some time he was simply between belief systems, discarding some entirely, accepting portions of others; but he was mainly a pioneer, and this while carrying largely unknowingly and invisibly the one basic belief of society that you cannot trust the self.

[...] At the same time he did not realize how all-pervasive was the belief that the self could not be trusted. [...]

[...] Nor have you really, with feeling, except for certain times, allowed yourselves to clearly work jointly and together to clear those effects—with faith in your abilities to do so.

(“It’s hard to be sure,” she said, “but I think from the time I was in the hospital [last February].” [...]

[...] Then I get the feeling that scares you even more—that you’re scared to death of the hospital, and yet you’re afraid to dismiss your doctor and say to hell with the whole bit—I must be hiding stuff, see, because I’m getting ready to cry, because the time might come when you couldn’t stand it any more, and you’d have to do it—go back to the hospital—go through it all again—then I just tell myself I’d make out again, just like millions of people....” [...]

[...] I had a hell of a time last night—I went into dream states and hallucinations the whole night. [...]