“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You are in no way diminished because other quite-as-official selves are “offshoots” of your own experience, making the choices you did not make, and choosing, then, alternate versions of reality.

[...] They also involve you in the most productive of enterprises as you begin to play with versions of events that are being considered for physical actualization, as on a personal level you “view” the probable events which your family, tribe, organization, community and country will actualize.

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask. [...]

(Notes from Jane’s version of the Father Trainor experiment of February 11, 1965.

[...] He grapples with, and manipulates and juggles these inner psychological shapes before constructing them, his version of them, into physical form.

[...] Poor people saw lesser versions of religious paintings in their own simple churches, done by local artists of far lesser merit than those [who] painted for the popes.

[...] Some version of that method would be most effective, for it directs him most effectively toward physical ends. [...]

The situation occurred in a facsimile, a lighter version.

[...] It is a highly simplified version of the truth to say that I am a spirit, in those terms, though in those terms I am indeed. [...]

Or worse—what comic book reader wants Clark Kent to shout out from the phone booth, or wherever “You can do this too, or your version, because we all have a reality in which we are Clark Kent and Superman at one and the same time?” Such people simply want Superman to perform his miracles.

[...] These are the Christian versions; but a certain fanaticism often goes with them that I would find most distasteful. [...]

[...] You seldom realize that the present state of your language, whatever it is, will for others someday seem to be an archaic version. [...]

The City simply represents, in your terms, an idealized version of a reality that can be physical. [...]

[...] Before you can pick up the “next” station, for example, you may see ghost images in your mind, or pick up distorted versions from your own home station. [...]

(Pause.) The third island, startled, replies: “I am myself, and you must be imperfect versions of my reality. [...]

[...] But if you allow those experiences to overcloud your present, valid intersection with reality, then you speak and act from a position not your own, and deny the world whatever benefits your own present version of reality might allow you to give.

(I picked the symbol above because Seth had dealt with a version of this in the 68th, 75th, 83rd and 84th sessions, in connection with Bill Macdonnel’s trip to Provincetown, MA, last summer. [...]

I have some things in mind myself, but the atmosphere is to be relaxed, a more intelligent version of Friday night, in which Ruburt feels he can be at ease, and does not need to make a great production. [...]

[...] He chose a mock version of those early restraints. [...]

[...] I found that I could write out rather easily an abridged version of the material Seth covered, and did not miss any of the major points. [...]