“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The body was resting, its activity more or less at a state of balance. He cleaned portions of the house, and was quite active.

[...] Jane said the first thing she thought of when she read the article was that the stranger might have been on his way to see her for help. [...]

[...] Jane has been extremely sore in her arms, shoulders, rib cage, and so forth today, yet she was able to stand taller, by leaning against the bathroom door frame, than I’d seen her do in a very long time. [...]

[...] It was natural enough that he has periods of disorientation walking—but overall he has handled this well. [...]

The last evening of the month was quite warm for our area at this time of year—66 degrees—and we had front and kitchen windows of the hill house open so the cats could go out on the porches as they pleased. Incredible, Jane and I thought, that 1980 was already four months old. [...]

There are those who overrelied upon religious beliefs, using them as crutches, and in [later lives] then, they might—such people—throw those crutches away overreacting to their newfound “freedom”; and through living lives as meaningless they then realize, after death, that the meaningfulness of existence was after all not dependent upon any religious system. It was there all along, but they had not seen it.

(I was amused to see that Jane paused in trance just long enough to add a little wine to her glass. [...]

[...] “I got something about genetic dreams while I was doing the dishes tonight—just the phrase,” she said. [...]

(This was a short session. [...]

[...] Jane’s pace was rather slow, with pauses. [...]

Not dictation: all of this should help you understand your own experience involving your father—and the later one with your mother, and Ruburt’s with Teresa; for your mother was sending out strands of consciousness in the directions that interest her.

[...] He is open enough to receive concepts that will be important to his health, but his acquiescence was first necessary.

Seven was available, for Ruburt did realize that Seven represented legitimate playful, spontaneous and creative elements that he often inhibited. [...]

[...] When he does find himself worried, he should feel free to speak to you, however, as your conversation about the dentist was illuminating to him. [...]

[...] For both of your benefits, it is important that you realize he has improved since that picture was taken that you saw tonight, and that you understand that the physical condition can be remedied. [...]

(The photo in question, in color, is not dated, but was taken in 1973. [...]

[...] There are personalities who have traveled through the centuries, literally, without an understanding, and if this was their reality and if it was their own making, still be glad that it is not yours and accept those relationships that you now have and realize their potential and do not close yourselves off to stupid pride and through barriers of your own making. [...]

It can, indeed, and I was wondering when you were going to come up with that one. [...]

(During break class agreed Seth was more formal tonight.)

...But it was not more than Seth usually does. [...]

[...] My writing hand was tired — one of the few times this has happened in the sessions. [...] I thought the material was excellent. [...] In fact, she was ready to resume in a few minutes, but I asked her to wait a bit until my hand rested somewhat. [...]

[...] The sponsor had sent her one for 1976, also, in which a passage from Seth was given. [...] Leafing through it yesterday to see if Jane was mentioned — she wasn’t — I began reading some of the short items. [...]

(Now Seth came through with some personal material for Jane, then ended the session at 11:59 P.M. Jane was ready for still more work, and even thought of using our recorder. I told her I was willing to take more notes, also, but she finally decided against prolonging the session.)

(In this session Jane’s delivery was often faster and more intent than usual, with many loud intervals, a few of which are indicated. [...]

[...] Most of his material is deleted here, but I can write that her situation was tied in to her work with the challenges presented by her physical symptoms [as described in Note 8 for the 679th session, in Section 1]. [...] In the personal part of this session, then, Seth explained how her very beneficial state of ease “now began in a dream state last night, was further accelerated this morning, and further so in the relaxation just before the session…. [...]

[...] “And it’ll be on the book … I’m not used to being so relaxed beforehand, though …” What developed was a very short session, and contrary to her expectations, Seth devoted half of it to Jane herself. [...]

The 92nd session for September 28, 1964, was a basic one for information on dreams, and Jane quotes various portions of it in chapters 5 and 14, as listed above; I ask the reader to review that material especially (and in both books). [...]

[...] The piece was about a European psychologist, and included his considered opinion that “dreams are the junk of the mind.” [...]

I last discussed the cleanup at Three Mile Island, and nuclear power challenges in general, including safety and costs, in the opening notes for the 936th session, with its Note 2. That was almost three months ago, in November 1981; see Chapter 11. [...] The “unusual event” was not serious, although a small amount of radiation was released into the atmosphere through a ventilating system.

9:37 P.M. After she came out of trance, Jane and I simply stared at each other. Dreams was done at last! [...] Even though Jane had remarked at the end of last Wednesday evenings session that Seth was close to the end of the book, his actual completion of it still hit us. [...]

[...] I think Magical Approach would have been a fine book as she planned it—but that it ended up squelched by at least two major factors: She was too inhibited by the subject matter [her physical symptoms] out of which the magical approach material had grown, and she was bothered because she had chosen to emulate the plodding way in which I put together the Seth books. [...]

5. Jane has worked with Tam ever since he encouraged her to write The Seth Material 13 years ago; that book was published a year later, in 1970. One of Tam’s many generous acts was his initiating our contact with officials at Yale University Library just over three years ago. [...]

(“I don’t know whether that was Seth or not,” Jane said in answer to my obvious question. [...]

It was as close as we could manage to get to the Seth recommendation. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance was a good one although she came out of it quickly at break. “I sort of had images while that was going on,” she said, “but I couldn’t tell you what they were.” [...]

[...] An idea he had earlier this week along those lines was intuitional, but he did not put it into practice.

Emotionally you saw this as the death of your mother’s hopes, and felt on the one hand that it was up to you now, so that this reactivated older feelings from the past that you had pretty well handled.

You were more affected by your friend’s (Curtis Kent) departure than you realize, wondering if you yourself should find a better-paying commercial job, and yet angry that you even had such thoughts when what you really wanted was to stay home and paint.

[...] Jane said she was really under while giving this data.)

2. For those who are interested: As soon as Seth mentioned the “psychological activity” of atoms and molecules, I was intuitively and strongly aware of connections between his statement and at least two principles of modern physics. [...] “I know my feelings are right,” I told Jane, “but how do I explain them in a few words and make any sense?” I was also constrained by the limits of my own knowledge. [...]

[...] Albert Einstein, whose own work was rooted in strict causality, found a notion like the free will of an electron untenable, even though much earlier (in 1905) he had laid the foundation for quantum mechanics in his special theory of relativity.

[...] This was the main reason for his difficulty regarding the arms last night in bed.

[...] A point here involving Ruburt’s hands and his mother’s sweaters: he knew that knitting was a therapeutic measure suggested in the past to exercise his mother’s hands. [...]

[...] On a few occasions such material was partially uncovered, and you both ended the session. [...]

(“And with Walter Zeh’s?" [Walt was Jane’s first husband.])

(The session scheduled for Wednesday, March 8, was not held. No envelope experiment was held this evening.)

[...] Going out was then an escape rather than a pursuit of pleasure, as I suggested.

[...] Jane’s pace at the beginning of the session was quite active and fast, her eyes open often. [...]

You sent vital healing energy and resolution to his physical body, and the heat he felt was the result of this energy. [...] The rubbing expressed this feeling from you, and then acted directly on a sense-data level which both of you needed at the time to confirm what was an inner experience.

[...] Jane said Seth was thinking of something having to do with moment points; she had some images, “like star shapes, only layered thick..”

[...] This was not basically because of the physical action involved, though in this case the physical actions were necessary for your own expression.

(8:59.) You both believed it was quite possible to have clairvoyant dreams, out-of-body experiences, creative adventures in the arts — but to some extent both of you doubted that the same power or energy could be directed effectively in the physical realm, so-called, of bodily health, or situations of the nitty-gritty (with emphatic amusement). [...]

(“I was just going to ask you about that.”)

(“No, I was just going to ask about Prentice-Hall.”)

(“I was so aware of my body today,” she commented, “that I wondered if I’d be aware of it during the session, but all I remember is drinking wine — which is the kind of thing I usually remember.”

(Seth:) ...this was in your inner senses and perceiving a different kind of reality in the same way that you formed what you saw on an unconscious basis, in your terms, so you form the physical matter that forms the room on an unconscious basis. What you saw therefore was as valid as what you see in the room, if you understand the connection between the phenomenon. [...]

[...] We perceive your present room, understanding that you consider it this indivisible reality and yet our presence was sensed. [...]

[...] I can tell him, you see, “Well, I was there,” and he cannot say anything. [...]

[...] She or Seth, hadn’t been bothered by an eruption of noise from the apartment over us; several people entered there after the session started; there was much walking about, banging of furniture, etc, that I found quite irritating. At break now some of the people left the upstairs location, so it was quieter. [...]

(Before the session tonight Jane told me she thought Seth was getting ready to start another book of his own soon. [...]

(Jane’s pace this evening was rather fast, but quiet.)