“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

We are directing energy toward your member. (One minute pause.) And toward your hand. (I was surprised at this. Another one minute pause.) And now toward the whole physical image.

Now toward the elbows; and now toward the shoulders... the left shoulder particularly. (Pause.) Now the right foot; and now both knees. (Pause.) Now toward the fingers, and the arms in general.

From behind you energy is now being directed toward Ruburt, toward his whole physical image. (One minute pause.)

[...] Your world view includes your attitudes toward your parents, and toward their parents. It also includes your own attitudes toward your parents’ aspirations, and your views of your brothers and their families. [...]

You must be more understanding and compassionate toward yourselves than you have been. [...]

[...] You grow toward pleasure. [...]

[...] Some show great ability in dealing with their contemporaries, while others naturally lean toward solitude and private meditations. Look back toward the impulsive behavior of your childhood, toward those activities that mostly pleased you.

(Pause.) Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings toward action, rising from that deep inner knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams. [...] The urge to be came from within, and that urge is repeated to some extent in each impulse, each urge toward action on the part of man or molecule. [...]

[...] Even if they appear contradictory at any given time, overall they will be seen to form constructive patterns toward action that point more clearly towards your own clear path for fulfillment and development.

[...] The book’s title is The Way Toward Health. [...]

(As quickly as she could once she became aware of what was happening that Sunday morning, Jane typed a 3-page summary or outline of the contents for The Way Toward Health, including chapter headings, then wrote a very condensed statement about how the whole thing came to her. [...]

[...] I do believe it possible for Jane to deliver “Unknown” Reality and The Way Toward Health concurrently through Seth, and to carry on her “regular” writing, for I think we have yet to learn the limits of her abilities [although as she continues to develop them she increases our knowledge of human potential]. [...]

(Long pause.) When you are born you possess a group of attitudes toward yourself and toward life. [...]

(I told Jane that Seth’s opening line for Chapter 2, about possessing a group of attitudes toward oneself and toward life, at birth, runs directly counter to establishment theory that the newborn is like a blank slate, to be imprinted through teaching and experience. [...]

[...] Even as infants, then, you are predisposed naturally toward certain feelings, thoughts and attitudes that are meant to insure your healthy survival and emergence into adulthood. [...]

Dictation: Impulses, therefore, provide impetus toward motion, coaxing the physical body and the mental person toward utilization of physical and mental power.

[...] In the case of the Jonestown tragedy, for example, all doors toward probable effective action seemed closed. [...] The desire for suicide is often the last recourse left to frightened people whose natural impulses toward action have been damned up — intensified on the one hand, and yet denied any practical expression.

[...] When such natural impulses toward action are constantly denied over a period of time, when they are distrusted, when an individual feels in battle with his or her own impulses and shuts down the doors toward probable actions, then that intensity can explode into whatever avenue of escape is still left open.

[...] (Long pause.) He also, as he stated, was afraid that your attitudes would splash over to color your feelings toward future Seth books, and toward your future contribution toward them. [...]

He felt that he was at certain times caught between you and Prentice: more worried about dealing with your attitudes toward Prentice than he was about dealing with the situation itself, with Prentice. As he tried to comprehend it, he also felt that certain attitudes of yours toward the marketplace would spill over and threaten the unimpeded clear channel that he felt has been formed to convey his writing to the public realm. [...]

[...] Make Rob ill, or contaminate his feelings towards Mass Events and Seth’s latest book: [See last PM Seth session, which Rob is typing as I write this.]”

An added note: When you can, a gentle massaging of the tops of Ruburt’s^* toes, by the nails, and perhaps down a bit toward the first joints, will help increase the body’s entire circulation. [...]

(4:56 p.m. Jane said that as soon as she gave the last sentence from Seth she thought the title of the book would be The Way Toward Health. [...]

(Upon checking, I verified my original guess, that she’d first done an outline for The Way Toward Health in Volume One of The “Unknown” Reality. [...]

(9:50.) Give us a moment… You were born with the impetus toward growth built in — automatically provided with the inner blueprints that would lead to a developed adult form. Not only the cells, but the atoms and molecules that compose them contained a positive intent to cooperate in a bodily formation, to fulfill themselves, and they were then predisposed not only toward survival, but with an idealization leading toward the best possible development and maturity.

[...] It is not simply a neutral dimension, therefore, but contains within itself an automatic predisposition toward the fulfillment of all patterns inherent within it. [...] It is automatically predisposed, again, toward the creation of “good” events. [...]

(10:40.) To some extent or another, your intuitions acquaint you with the fact that you have your own place in the universe, and that the universe itself is well-disposed toward you. [...]

[...] On the other hand (pause), I feel a leaning toward psychology. [...]

[...] Luckily, the child usually walks before it is old enough to be taught that impulses are wrong, and luckily the child’s natural impulses toward exploration, growth, fulfillment, action and power are strong enough to give it the necessary springboard before your belief systems begin to erode its confidence. [...]

[...] And in terms that you do not understand, even those atoms and molecules made their own decisions as the result of recognizing and following those impulsive sparks toward action that are inherent in all consciousness, whatever their statuses in your terms (all with intensity and feeling).

[...] It was a current between you, for she did not recognize her feelings toward you when you were a child, as sexual. Therefore she permitted herself to show more affection toward you than she did toward her husband.

The psychic abilities appeared precisely when he needed an extra drive toward success, and a way toward success that would not be instantly recognized as such.

You identified with your father because he seemed free, in that she did not direct actively these strong affections toward him. [...]

[...] Such idealizations provide their own impetus; that is, they will grow toward their own greatest fulfillment.

[...] They move toward like thoughts, and you have as a species an inner mass body of thought. [...]

[...] You are the judge and the final word in that regard, so that as your ideas change, as you move toward one probable self and decide upon that as your official³ self, you will always have a rich bank of probable actions to choose from. [...]

(11:30.) The condition becomes more worrisome because it now bears the brunt of an unspoken or unexpressed love that is hidden behind his conscious attitude and behavior toward his father. Frank’s father himself was afraid of showing unseeming love, in his terms, toward his family. [...]

When he learned to write, he thought of writing to express such thoughts, and was always tempted to use writing as an expression of those subjective feelings he felt were forbidden—not just directed toward his father, but feelings of which he felt his father would disapprove. [...]

2. I think that tonight, when he started talking about the inclination of Framework 2 toward good or constructive development, Seth began to elaborate a bit on his statement after 9:50 in the last session, when he told us that the universe “is automatically predisposed … toward the creation of ‘good’ events.”

[...] Again, however, Framework 2 is not neutral, but automatically inclined toward what we will here term good or constructive developments. [...]

At birth, each person is automatically equipped with the capacity toward natural growth that will most completely satisfy its own abilities — not at the expense of others, but in an overall context in which the fulfillment of each individual assures the fulfillment of each other individual.

[...] (Pause.) Impulses also provide the natural impetus toward those patterns of behavior that serve you best, so that while certain impulses may bunch up toward physical activity, say, others, seemingly contradictory, will lead toward quiet contemplation, so that overall certain balances are maintained.

Some people are only aware of — or largely aware of — impulses toward anger, because they have inhibited those natural impulses toward love that would otherwise temper what seemed to be aggressive desires. [...]

[...] They provide in-built spiritual and biological impetuses toward your most ideal development (underlined). [...]

The Way Toward Health is more than an account of the stay — and death — of my wife, Jane Roberts, in a hospital in Elmira, New York, just 13 years ago. [...]

I think this book shows, then, that the ways toward health can and do vary tremendously. [...]

[...] She finished that series on January 2, 1984 — and began The Way Toward Health the next day.

Remind Ruburt further (pause) that he did his best to help your mother, making efforts toward love and communication (long pause) that he felt you were not able to express toward your mother at times.

[...] Then I read the session for July 30 — at Jane’s request — the first in this series regarding her death, the end of The Way Toward Health, and so forth. [...]

[...] Also remind him that he did not deal with malice toward his own mother. [...]

[...] The seeking toward birth is a spiritual stimuli that is then re-enacted, but in new creative ways: so that Ruburt in winter, particularly in late winter, is on the one hand working toward new births of energy and creativity; and on the other is aware of the very need for such new birth, that would be implied in a before-birth situation.

[...] While the reasons and beliefs as discussed in such sessions will still be valid, the suggestions that I give will be geared toward their application in given circumstances.

The condition itself, then, and his attitude toward it, have complicated issues. [...]

[...] Feel toward us rather than think at us, and let us see how we do. [...] Turn your emotions towards us, and I think we’ll be able to pick up your objects.

[...] The intellect can be used most handily in tabulating our results, but it will not help us to get our results, unless it is utilized as a means toward discovering how best to harness the emotions for communication purposes.

[...] And if you yourself have a more flexible, easier, less intellectual attitude toward our tests, this will make our task easier.

People yearn toward freedom naturally, as the plants do toward the sun. [...]

[...] Jane could also turn her head to the right, on the column of her neck, to look towards me a bit, in a way she can’t usually do. [...]

[...] It is back toward their dimly remembered exuberance that many adults look with a sense of loss and nostalgia. [...]