“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] [However, Jane and I freely admit that on occasion we’ve made the wrong choice in deciding to ignore what Seth had to say; in retrospect we’ve seen that he gave out very valid material.]

[...] But I’ve reassembled the remainder in the proper order, and it’s more than enough to show how closely such “objective” things as houses can be bound up with beliefs and emotions.

[...] I’ve come to think of those data involving Sue and “her” family as cropping up every so often like counterpoint to other themes in this 6th section.)

(“No, I think you’ve already answered them all for now.”)

[...] “I’ve learned something this afternoon,” Jane said during a brief, unannounced break. “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. [...]

[...] We’ve driven the much longer road distance comfortably enough in one day. [...]

[...] But I’ve got a couple of points to make….

[...] So I wonder how often I’ve missed out on some good stuff by doing it that way. [...]

[...] I believe that’s the first time in well over a thousand sessions that I’ve forgotten to type one. I’ve deliberately let a few go for a while because I was busy on other things, but haven’t simply forgotten any. [...]

[...] And I’ve already thought of using the “technique” with faces.)

[...] [Others, I’ve often speculated, couldn’t realize the depth of Jane’s challenges.] As we talked, Jane laughed and said she picked up from Seth that “the best books are yet to come.”)

(“I’ve been wondering lately about how much of a role his psychic abilities have to do with the intensity of his reactions to his childhood experience. I know you’ve gone into aspects of that before, but—”)

[...] These sessions have surely helped, as I’ve been hoping they would.

I’ve had my own hassles with impulses, following only those I thought would lead me where I wanted to go, and drastically cutting down those I feared might distract me from my work. [...] As a result of such beliefs, I’ve had a most annoying arthritis-like condition for some years that was, among other things, the result of cutting down impulses toward physical motion.

[...] He’s speaking of our normal impulses here, those that we’ve been taught are dangerous, chaotic, and contradictory. [...]

[...] But when Seth kept repeating “Trust your impulses” in this book, I finally got the message through my head — and I’ve already had considerable physical improvement as a result. [...]

[...] Not that Seth claims any kind of omnipotence, because he doesn’t. His material, however, is clearly providing such translations of unconscious knowledge, and intuitive disclosures; disclosures, according to Seth, no more remarkable than those available in nature itself, but we have forgotten how to read nature’s messages; disclosures no more mysterious than those available in our own states of inspiration, but we’ve forgotten how to decipher those communications too. [...]

[...] It clearly illuminated his material in this session, as can be seen in the excerpt I’ve put together for this presentation. [...]

[...] I’ve always found the quality of her Sumari expression to be of a high order. [...]

[...] When they’ve been recorded she can do the same with her Sumari songs and her verbal prose, as I call it. [...]

[...] We’ve been thinking about counterpart ideas since Seth introduced the concept two months ago; see the opening notes for the 721st session. [...] Yet I felt no strong surge of emotion, for instance, to learn that Norma Pryor [whom I’ve met but a few times], Peter Smith, and Jack Pierce are counterparts of mine — nor did they when I read Seth’s material to them during ESP class six nights later. [...]

[...] Some of her characteristics, which I’ve just begun to glimpse, complement some of mine; others are opposing. [...]

(Today I mentioned to Jane that I’d like Seth to go into some of the elements of question 17 on the list I’ve compiled so far—especially those parts of it pertaining to why didn’t the overall personality know when it had gone far enough, or even too far, concerning the symptoms. [...]

(Following those items, I wanted Seth to comment on question 2, having to do with the good things we’ve accomplished over the years.

(As for myself, I’ve been trying to get in four hours of painting each day, without succeeding, by the way, but it’s still a real treat. [...]

[...] Mass Events was supposed to come out on March 13, but this date is evidently in error, since we’ve just learned we won’t see front-matter proofs until next week. [...]

(As for myself, since I mailed the corrected galley proofs for Emir back to Delacorte Press five-and-a-half weeks ago [on April 9], I’ve been keeping up with the new sessions for Mass Events, as well as those on other general subjects and for ourselves. I’ve also been painting several hours a day, recording dreams, writing extensive notes on a variety of subjects, filing reference material I’d let pile up, and, lately, working in the yard of our hill house each day.)

[...] “It’ll have a lot of poetry, though, stuff I’ve been saving for years. [...]

[...] “I discovered I don’t want to spend the time being concerned, so I’ve changed my beliefs. [...]

[...] I’ve felt that way for some time, now—that our understanding of what human beings are is minute at best. I think it’s very dangerous to take too hard a position at this time on anything we think we’ve learned, for I can’t imagine that in future millennia we’ll ever cling to very much of what we think is ‘true’ today—especially about things like illness. [...]

[...] I couldn’t remember her doing this in any of the more than one thousand other sessions we’ve held. [...]

[...] I think a strong part of you is now so against the whole psychic thing that you’ve ended up in an awful position physically because of the conflicts involved—pulling you this way and that. [...]

(“I’ve thought more and more lately about what happens when a person is born with very strong gifts—but can’t stand to use them, or has to pay a very high price indeed if they do try to use them. [...]

[...] Yet I’ve always known that these ideas conflicted with official ones—it’s just that before the “attack” was less direct....

(Lately I’ve really been working with ideas of safety, saying and believing that I am safe, secure and supported and that I do trust my natural spontaneous motion.... [...]

[...] I’ve started a small oil painting based on the “chute” portion of the dream for July 7. I’ve also done a pencil sketch of one of the heads in the photos of myself in the reincarnational dream of July 17, in case I don’t get to paint it. [...]

[...] “It’s like you’ve got to atone for being “better” or different than others, according to that kind of thinking,” I said at 8:10. [...]

(Note: Lately I’ve been thinking I would like to do some new reading and study of the first century A.D. in the Middle East and Europe, particularly Italy. [...]

(The story of what we’ve been up to the last few days can be found in Jane’s records of her pendulum sessions since March 28. [...] I’ve helped her somewhat, but plan to do much more. [...]

(It appears that we’ve already made a small beginning; through the pendulum we’ve arrived at several categories of belief to explore. [...]

[...] Tonight’s session was excellent, and should of course be studied in connection with the material we’ve already accumulated through pendulum work.)

[...] “I’ll start to do something, then I’ll find myself thinking that I’ve already done it—but that means that I’ve dozed off in the meantime, and didn’t do it at all....”

[...] Lately I’ve more or less given up bugging her to have sessions, since it seemed that that activity was beyond her means at this time. [...]

[...] “I’ve been telling myself....” [...]

[...] It may even be, I’ve often thought, that one cannot really leave the body alone, nor be meant to—for the physical body would be a portion of the reality each individual creates, and so is bound to be intimately involved with individual fears, desires, intents, successes, etc.)

[...] Now Jane’s feet and ankles began to move in rhythm—just as though she were pedaling a bicycle, she said—and as she grunted and groaned with the effort the feet began to easily move the fastest I’ve seen them do yet. [...]

(I’ve been speculating and hoping that this is the case since this series of sessions began, I told Jane after the session. [...]

[...] “But at the same time I’ve been afraid to think such thoughts....” [...]

[...] I’ve long wanted to see it published while feeling, knowing, that it has much else to offer, too. [...]

Our lives, I’ve learned, don’t simply proceed nicely and directly from “birth” to “death.” [...]

[...] Yet what great, unexpected convolutions we can encounter in those challenges we’ve created! [...]

[...] Since we’ve always wanted to make sure that our “psychic work” is given within the context of our daily living, I’ve undertaken to present in these essays intensely personal material relevant to the creation of Dreams. (The mechanics of Jane’s still-fascinating trance phenomenon have been described in some detail in the six previous Seth books she’s produced—with my help—and they’ll also be referred to, if briefly, in Dreams.)

[...] Since I’ve completed the essays, all I have to do now is “refine” the session notes (and addenda) as I type the finished manuscript. [...]

(I have been definitely under the weather since the day after this session was held, and my pendulum tells me that I’ve felt this way because of my reactions to this session. Although I’ve been delayed getting this typing done, I’ve read the session to Jane each day; we have discussed it, etc.)

[...] But I’ve reached the conclusion that I can no longer bug her about such things; she’ll be in charge of her own body and destiny. [...]

[...] “I almost feel as if I’ve made some kind of completely different kind of orientation....”)

[...] I’ve had several lesser encounters with relaxation effects since the massive one of April 24—the last one being last night. I’ve enjoyed them all. I’ve also slept well now for some time. [...] In the meantime, I’ve let myself go, not working hard in any direction, relaxing while working on the files, or in the yard, or shopping or painting or whatever. [...]