“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

A child might result in your working out full time, in which case you would never, he felt, develop as an artist. [...] At the same time his own abilities would be concentrated upon also. [...]

[...] These were apparent also because at the same time he had begun going out more, giving in some to previously denied impulses, and putting himself in positions that he had not before. He was, in a small period of time, encountering his beliefs in reality as he knows it, therefore.

(For the record: This last material may have come through because I got angry yesterday when I discovered that Prentice-Hall had run a two-page ad in the NY Times Book Section, for Sunday, December 2, without mentioning any of the Seth books. [...]

[...] Some long time ago your own belief that good work could not be financially relied upon put up enough of a barrier so that Ruburt became frightened about his own work (a fact I have long suspected, and recently discussed with Jane), and set up a physical situation that would force him to stay home, literally, work, and prevent him from trying any longer those other avenues that you were still adopting. [...]

The ego, which must manipulate most directly with the everyday world, takes time, clock time, quite seriously. Even the ego however realizes to some extent that clock time is a convention; but it does not like such conventions broken.

[...] The deeper portions of the self do not have to take the ego’s idea of time into consideration, so these portions of the self also deal with data that would ordinarily escape the ego’s perception, perhaps until a certain “point” of ego time was reached.

[...] I leaned out of a window just in time to see a large formation of geese fly over, obviously southbound for the winter. [...]

Your own idea of the perilous nature of existence becomes so strong that the ego allows this data to emerge, even though it is “out of time,” because your fearful beliefs convince it that you must be on guard. [...]

(At supper time this evening I told Jane that tonight she was going to  start dictating a new book for Seth, the “energy personality essence” for whom she speaks while she’s in trance — and that she was going to do the notes also. I’d record the “sessions,” adding times, dates, and the barest sort of other material, so that Jane could build up her own notes around those ingredients. [...]

In private life and on the world stage, action is occurring all the time. [...]

[...] The physical sciences pretend that the centuries exist one after the other, while the physicists realize that time is not only relative to the perceiver, but that all events are simultaneous. [...]

This will not be a dry treatise, studiously informing you about some hypothetical structure called the psyche, but will instead evoke from the depths of your being experiences that you have forgotten, and bring together from the vast reaches of time and space the miraculous identity that is yourself.

[...] I have told you many times in the past that Ruburt did not have arthritis—and I still take that stand. [...]

His decision not to get weighed (some months ago) was a good one, and at the time it gave him some breathing space, so to speak, which he did use to advantage. [...]

[...] This time, also, she could reach up in the air higher, especially with her left hand, than she’d been able to do yesterday. [...]

[...] I can already see how her healing is going to influence future books, or notes I may write—for I’ll have to explain how the diagnosis of arthritis came about in the medical profession, how erroneous it was, and why we went along with it for so long, while all the time knowing, or at least feeling, that it wasn’t so, that there was more involved than Jane having “an incurable disease.” [...]

[...] Seth also included suggestions for Marian regarding therapeutic dreams; at breaks Jane and I explained what we could, but left feeling there was much we didn’t have time to include. [...] The last time she was a female she was childless; Seth stressed quite often that this subconscious memory had much to do with her strong desire for children in this life.)

[...] The session came about after the three of us had spent some time discussing a recent vivid dream of Marian’s, and her telepathic adventure described in the 234th session. [...]

(After we had talked for some time Jane told me that she felt Seth “buzzing around,” and that he could explain Marian’s dream to her should she be willing to listen. [...]

[...] Jane’s eyes opened at times, and she smoked an occasional cigarette. [...]

[...] Each time the symptoms would return; today, after breakfast, then lunch, etc., so that we spent the whole day coping with them. I finally asked Jane after lunch if she could have a session regardless of whether she was bothered [as she was at the time of the session, to a lesser degree].

[...] He wouldn’t let another editor hold a book on such terms for such a time. [...]

You think such fears foolish; Ruburt does, so he tried to talk himself out of them while at the same time pretending that they do not exist. [...]

[...] During the evening as I worked in the kitchen, I heard her sing beautifully in Sumari several times; Seth spoke also, much more forcefully that he had this afternoon. [...]

Simply that this time he must work harder to accept the abilities that last time he took so for granted, and misused.

[...] For the first time, however, Jane gave voice to some doubts about the sessions that I had not realized she entertained. [...]

[...] He misused such abilities in a past life, and this time he is having to work for them.

[...] The conscientious self becomes much more pleased as time goes on and others are helped.

[...] There are built-in guidelines so that the body consciousness itself, while mirroring your negative images at times, will also automatically struggle against them.

[...] The physical body will often let down its own barriers to these, knowing they will counteract certain others that are not beneficial at the time.

[...] You are very rarely vulnerable to any but a small percentage, though you carry within you traces of the most deadly of them all of the time. [...]

So viruses can be beneficial or deadly according to the condition, state, and needs of the body at any given time. [...]

The same mechanism that causes a disturbed woman, say, to perform repetitive action such as a constant washing and rewashing of hands, also causes a particular kind of apparition to return time and time again to one place. [...]

[...] Or the individual might send you a thought-form at the same time that he telepathically communicates with you. [...]

[...] Her voice was quiet, almost conversational in manner and pace, although the speed varied at times. [...]

[...] The length of time an individual has been dead in your terms has little to do with whether or not you will be so visited, but rather the intensity of the relationship.

Ruburt has found again what you never really lost—the sense of daily joy of existence—which he allowed himself unknowingly to relinquish for some time. [...]

Now this helper, as time goes by, can be counted upon to help you in whatever ways it can, as long as Ruburt continues in his present frame of mind and habit, for this itself is bringing about improvements in all areas of your lives.

I will have more to say concerning this at another time, for Ruburt can use the information. [...]

At one time therefore Ruburt’s fears greatly overbalanced his hopes. [...]

[...] All time is simultaneous. Only the illusion of time on each of your parts keeps you from greeting each other. [...]

[...] Controlled Environments, and Positive and Negative Mass Behavior.’” I told her I thought Seth would not only have plenty of time to cover our respective questions, but would come through with some book work too, and this was the case.

[...] You move in and out of probable selfhoods, while at the same time — usually with the greatest of ease — you maintain an identity of yourself. [...]

[...] That’s why I wrote those notes — but I didn’t take the time to discuss them with Jane.”)

[...] And while in the Jewish books [of The Old Testament] Jehovah now and then came through with great majesty to save his chosen people, he also allowed them to suffer great indignities over long periods of time, seeming to save them only at the last moment — and this time, so it seemed, he did not save them at all. [...]

[...] For the first time the modern world realized its vulnerability to political events, and technology and communication accelerated all of war’s dangers. [...] For the first time, again, the species understood that might alone did not mean right, and that in larger terms a world war could have no real victors. [...]

[...] You do each create your own reality, however (intently), and en masse you create the realities of your nationalities and your countries — so at that time the Germans saw themselves as victors, and the Jews saw themselves as victims.

[...] The intent to save American lives was certainly “good” — at the expense of the Japanese this time. [...]

[...] Ruburt needs the free time, meaning relaxed time, in which to allow the body’s continued healing, and your new suggestions tuned into all of the reasons behind the slowness of progress, as it seems to you. [...]

[...] She likes them better, she said, and so do I; at this time they seem to fit our situation. [...]

[...] At the same time, she said she’d felt pretty good today. [...]

[...] He sees himself at such times in an inferior physical situation, so that it seems to him that physically “he is not a good specimen,” but obviously flawed. [...]

[...] They all would add to your work load, though none of them alone would take much time. [...]

[...] Constantly, one after another, dials show time, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, rainfall, wind direction and wind velocity.)

[...] I believe that you will note some rather significant correlations, if you find the time to carry any of these investigations through with any regularity. [...]

[...] There is so much that can be done, and I know that you have little time to do them. [...]

You “were” right, then, when you worked on the book before your bout, and during that time you trusted yourself—but then your ideas of the comparative nature of your ideas intruded, triggered at that time by (news of) Crowder’s death, and the ensuing beliefs about the male role in society, and as that applied to your own talents. Left alone, ideally, you might have taken a week of joyful painting, during which time your mind refreshed itself, and new ideas about your notes accumulated. [...]

[...] In his spare time, however, for a lark, simply because he wanted to, he wrote his Alice in Wonderland—a book that is a masterpiece at many levels. [...] He believed (underlined) that he should devote all of his time to his work, and could hardly forgive himself for his regrettable lapses into writing—and he was writing, after all, not even for adults, and not for young males either.

(Jane said that she’d felt like having a session several times recently, but that obviously I didn’t since I’d fall asleep on the couch, and so forth. [...]

Now: the man who wrote Alice in Wonderland was, I believe, a mathematician of note in his time. [...]

Second: “The Bible is a conglomeration of parables and stories, intermixed with some unclear memories of much earlier times. [...] Such Bibles existed, not written down but carried orally, as mentioned some time ago, by the Speakers. [...]

[...] In man’s very early history, however, and in your terms for centuries after the “awakening,” as described in our book, people lived in good health for much longer periods of time—and in certain cases they lived for several centuries.¹ No one had yet told them that this was impossible, for one thing. [...]

In those times great age was a position of honor that brought along with it new responsibility and activity. [...]

[...] There comes a time when the experiences of the person in the world click together and form a new clearer focus, provide a new psychological framework from which his or her greatest capacities can emerge to form a new synthesis. [...]

(At the same time, I’d been a little concerned to learn of the affair lasting for three years, because that gave something plenty of time to become well entrenched. [...]

(In our first talk I’d suggested to David that he write us a letter describing his attraction to this woman, and he called today to say that he was mailing such a missive, after rewriting it a couple of times. [...]

[...] She reread the letter several times, as did I. We must wait for John Nelson’s return from Europe at the end of the month for some details to be resolved, however. [...]

[...] As I told you last time, you have indeed turned a corner of probabilities into what can only be a new era—which you have, incidentally, prepared for yourselves, as within the integrity of your beings you came to your own decisions. [...]

Now: In all cases the decisions have been made ahead of time, as I told you. [...] And while it may or may not choose to enter at that point, it is drawn irresistibly to that time and point in space and flesh.

(2. What procedures are available to the nonphysical personality when it decides to incarnate physically for the first time? [...]

(Since I’ve been curious about these questions for some time, I thought the readers of Seth’s book might be also. [...]

[...] As I mentioned, Seth suggested Jane lay the book aside on October 19, before she had time to finish it. [...]

Some very old religions understood the hallucinatory nature of the devil concept, but even in Egyptian times, the simpler and more distorted ideas became prevalent, particularly with the masses of people. In some ways, men in those times could not understand the concept of a god without the concept of a devil.

(Jane felt very relaxed and sleepy by session time, yet she didn’t want to miss a session. [...]

(Pause at 9:26.) The inner reality of the message was told in terms that man at the time could understand, in line with his root assumptions. [...]

[...] The Crucifixion and attendant drama made sense within your reality at the time. [...]

[...] I can do this in a conscious manner, and yet still, as I have mentioned, when I am here I find a difficulty in looking at you and relating to the selves that you think you are within your given moment of time; for I see the composites. So it takes some training on my part to pinpoint you in the time and space with which you are acquainted.

[...] It is a meeting ground in which personalities from any time or place or probable system can communicate with each other in clear terms understood by all.

[...] The great artists have always been able to communicate at this level and while living literally operated at this level of consciousness a good deal of the time. [...]

[...] Jane was aware that her pace had been quite slow most of the time. [...]