“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Either a partial projection was made to places which were not visited by the Gallaghers on the islands, or these were distortions, highly dramatized.

[...] There was some slight disagreement between the Gallaghers’ written notes and remarks made during conversation about the Seth impressions, which I took down on the spot. [...]

(It was 33 degrees, with light snow and much dampness on the day after Thanksgiving. Jane was comfortable in room 330, though. [...]

[...] She was able to grasp the edge of the paper with her left hand, though—something she hasn’t been able to do before. [...]

(Jane said she was nervous, now, about resuming dictation after the layoff. [...]

[...] The other two civilizations were in many ways more successful, and yet the strong intent behind the Lumanians’ experiment was extremely volatile. [...]

[...] This material was never received. [...]

[...] She did not smoke except at breaks and the hoarseness was minimized. [...]

[...] Such a suggestion was not my intention. [...]

Because Ruburt’s background in this life was particularly bizarre in a way and certainly unpleasant, he became beautifully efficient as far as sensing the approach of psychic storms is concerned and very adept at sensing moods, and also amazingly efficient in learning self-protective devices. [...]

[...] My handwriting was very fluid. [...]

[...] This was the result of your own suggestions, for you said that Ruburt’s body would continue to relax as he slept.

[...] Some of the relaxation was not apparent, either, until Ruburt began to use his body. [...]

[...] The process was only noticed today. [...]

Your love-making last night was highly beneficial for both of you. [...]

[...] Once, a man who tailored clothes was named “Tailor.” A man who was a robber was called “Robber.” If you were the son of a man with a certain name, then “son of” was simply added, so you had “Robberson.” [...]

(We’ve had several guests since the last session was held. [...]

[...] “I got such good information through,” Jane said, “that I thought the session lasted much longer—I felt way out, as though I was transcending time, like I was tuning in to a nugget of information that seemed endless. That was a great feeling....”)

You should understand that we have been talking about Framework 1 and Framework 2. Ruburt felt, and so did you to some extent, that it was easier to experience Framework 2’s spontaneity in the mental realm of imagination—but you each felt that the physical body was tied somewhat more rigidly to the dictums of Framework 1, to cause and effect. [...]

[...] The level you reached was one that responded to that fear, that perhaps the teeth were bad. You say that of course you wanted to know the truth—but the pendulum responded to the part of you that was afraid, by trying to soothe your fears, as for example a mother might say “No, do not worry, everything will be all right,” while on the other hand she might be making rapid calculations as to what should be done, but first she will soothe the child.

In the case of the teeth in particular, the pendulum’s answer was not “devious.” [...]

[...] (Eyes closed.) The letter I wrote to [Michael] Kosok does indeed apply, and in its way so does the article about the psychologist that Ruburt was telling you about. [...]

The psychologist believed most heartily in his theory of mental disintegration with age, and he set out to prove that he was right, bringing about self-predictive difficulties. [...]

The material Ruburt thought was from me, was. [...]

[...] I have been in one life not only black but a woman in a civilization where neither was appreciated. [...] And I believe that I learned very much in those lives in which I was both unlettered and uncouth. [...]

(The first part of the class session was devoted to the playback of a counseling interview Brad had with Dr. Gilbert Holloway. [...]

It was not particularly good advice. [...]

[...] On the psychological level, you need to know why the relationship between you and your wife continued as it was for so many years. [...]

[...] I saw that our conversation was taking up much more time before the session than I wanted to spend—but then I’d known it would, I suppose. Her main concern at the moment was to express puzzlement that she could be so consciously unaware of what her real desires were, if I was right about her wanting to quit the sessions. [...] The delays had merely accelerated since then, so now it seemed to me that the real desire was pretty obvious, given the episodic method of holding sessions these days.

(Now, in the midst of another long pause, her eyes closed, Jane began snoring: She was asleep—briefly. [...]

[...] The cigarette event was bad news, I saw at once, let alone Jane’s sleeping after stating that she wanted the session. [...]

[...] I was about to leave Jane sleeping for the evening when she woke up. [...]

[...] Jane’s pace was now slowing considerably after a fast start.)

[...] Jane was out of trance almost immediately. [...]

Your earth was very dear to me. [...]

[...] Jane was again out of trance very quickly, yet she couldn’t remember any of the material.

[...] The bonding to cultural beliefs of religion (long pause) was very strong to make up for that initial lack. [...] In a curious fashion, however, that circle of safety provides each individual with the freedom and curiosity to go ahead and test independent theories and situations—so it also serves the purposes of creativity and knowledge, and even allows for the acquisition of new knowledge that was not in the original belief structures. [...]

[...] It was almost dark. [...] The situation was reminiscent, I thought, of other sessions we’d held on warm summer nights with the doors and windows open, and listened to the distant sound of fireworks....)

[...] Jane said she thought Magical Child contained ideas reminiscent of her own and Seth’s ideas, and was also remindful of a book idea she’s considering at the moment, on the magical self. [...]

The Sinful Self material represents those ideas that were strong element in the original belief structural of a cultural nature, to which Ruburt was “bonded.” [...]

[...] There was an initial encounter with a man in the company, in the immediate past—two weeks ago. The man, according to John, was also strongly connected to John’s feelings about the company [or attitudes toward it] for he felt that the new man, a regional director, has some of the same attitudes he has.

[...] Jane received her check from publisher Fell today and was pleased.)

(Concerning the new product mentioned; John said that fellow workers recently visited the laboratories in Chicago and told him about one scientist in particular who was testing, or wanted to test, or experiment for problems of the central nervous system, but the budget insistence made this difficult. [...]

[...] She was very upset over trouble with her husband. [...]

[...] In it I was telling him to sit down, and I was trying to talk to him, but I couldn’t, but finally I did and what I’m wondering, because I’ve had this three or four times in the dream state, trying to talk. [...]

[...] Also because I have said what I wanted to say, and I hope you heard our friends’ interpretation for it was a good one (Joel) and this was a good one also (Wally). [...]

[...] You are trying to order her to be something—a female—when in your heart you wished she was a male, and so when you try to order her about in the dream instead you speak to the brother who is a male, and your words do not make a physical impression. [...]

[...] Bette asked Buddy if he was using the knowledge he had studied so long for. [...]

[...] It was as though she drew extra energy from John and put it to immediate use.)

One of Ruburt’s students wondered whether or not there was any kind of organization in the immediate after-death experiences. [...]

[...] For a certain period of time, therefore, you can manipulate this form so that it takes any appearance that it had when it was connected with your physical form in the immediately previous physical life. [...]

Most individuals after death choose a more mature image that usually corresponds to the peak physical abilities, regardless of the age when the physical peak was reached. [...]

[...] The Cézanne material was from the past, yet future knowledge is quite as accessible. [...] Future information is theoretically available there, just as the body’s “future” pattern of development was at your birth — and that certainly was practical.

[...] That book required much more work on Joseph’s part, and that additional effort itself was a demonstration that the psyche’s events are very difficult to pin down in time.

It did not occur to him that those experiences had anything to do with this book, or that in acting so spontaneously he was following any kind of inner order. [...]

[...] Ruburt has been wondering about the contents of the mind, curious as to what information was available to it. [...]

(I was also puzzled about our problems because, as I told Jane before the session, I couldn’t see where as individuals we were doing anything so terribly wrong. [...] There was much more, which need not be repeated here. [...]

[...] Our original understanding was that the eye condition would pass rather quickly once Jane began to loosen up—but now it appears to be another fixed state in the general scheme of our lives. [...]

[...] It should be easy for you to see that when Ruburt was ready you were not, or vice versa.

[...] He picked up your joint fears like a sponge, and was highly frightened because of his own fear.

(At this point, however, Seth requested that I lay my notebook aside for a bit, saying he regretted that I was kept so busy writing during sessions. [...] Jane’s eyes were wide and dark, her delivery lively; it was easy to sense the immediacy of Seth’s presence. [...]

[...] My question concerned a hypothetical experiment in which, say, a hundred such writers would be hypnotized without being told what the purpose of the experiment was; once under, they would be queried about past-life memories. [...]

Now this is a living endeavor, and therefore we take advantage of those happenings in your own lives, and it was I myself who prompted Ruburt to pick up the book (containing Jung) in the first place.

[...] Nor, I was sure, had Jane.)

Since holding the last [897th] book session nine days ago, Jane has delivered three remarkable private sessions for Seth.¹ Tonight she was quite at ease, and had been tempted to skip the session and just paint. [...]

[...] In it I’d been a woman who was the same age as my father. [...]

[...] But in a manner of speaking, it is true to say that the universe was created in the same fashion that your own thoughts and dreams happen: spontaneously and yet with a built-in amazing order, and an inner organization. [...]

[...] “I was sort of getting that it would be something like that after supper,” she said. [...]