“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If the universe were a painting, for example, the painter would not have first painted darkness, then an explosion, then a cell, then the joining together of groups of cells into a simple organism, then that organism’s multiplication into others like it, or traced a pattern from an amoeba or a paramecium on upward — but he or she would have instead begun with a panel of light, an underpainting, in which all of the world’s organisms were included, though not in detail. [...]

(Pause at 10:30.) When Seth Two speaks, Ruburt initially is aware of the following: His consciousness strains upward, following an inner psychic pathway, an energized funnel, until quite simply it can go no further. [...]

[...] It seems to you that there are divisions within it, but it is only because from your point of view, you are working upward. [...]

[...] Ida married him because she believed his educational status, and his Anglo-Saxon background, meant a step upward for herself and her children. [...]

[...] Part of this becomes more noticeable as he looks upward more, say, in the cupboard, and as he changes the positions of his neck far more often.

[...] It will form a basis for an upward thrust of mental activity and understanding.

It is foolish to say “Why does it take so much time to learn?” For each learning process is highly unique, and contains within it particular achievements that you yourself want; and these achievements not only rise above the difficulties, but in the greater view the steps are seen as steps “upward”—the individualized problems understood as the same kind of challenges you might set for yourself to conquer in a painting, or as part of the entire creative process.

(A recount since last session reveals that the total number of poems should be revised upward, to 63, produced in the same amount of time. [...]

[...] The phenomenon lasted for upwards of an hour, and we have the drawings of it, made by the witness, Bill Macdonnel, on file. [...]

[...] Then, begin to imagine this inner self rising upward. [...]

It may, instead, be a rushing upward. [...]

[...] The numbers 7 and 3, perhaps facing upward. [...]

There were tribes who never learned to write in Africa and Australia who also knew these secrets, and men called “Speakers” who memorized them and spread them upward, even throughout northern portions of Europe, before the time of Christ.

[...] Old guilts held regularly in normal balance concerning his mother then leapt upward. [...]

[...] On some of those occasions all of the areas from the hips upward were stretching, while the legs would more or less be bent in the usual fashion. [...]

[...] Then feeling of change of direction, more straight upward, yet still retained bedself. [...]

[...] It does not turn its head upward and say, “Yes, but does the rain exist, or does it not? [...]

[...] If you must, then think of that earth consciousness as grading (spelled) upward in great slopes of awareness from relatively “inert” particles of dust and stone through the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. [...]

[...] They are familiar with the most insignificant motion of the earth about them.³ They grow downward even while the stem grows upward — and the flower has not yet seen the space into which it will grow. [...]

The knees, incidentally, I can help him here: in Saint Vincent’s punishment took the form of having the child kneel straight upward, and doing so Ruburt’s knees often became sore. [...]

[...] The amount of new motion there was minute but vitally important if his stance upward were to improve. [...]