“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

14) something about the 6TH grade—another watch perhaps.
* The 6th grade was significant in the mind of Don although it is not likely he received another watch then. He has owned several other watches in his life though.

4) a connection with someone else beside Don with the watch.
* correct—the watch was a gift from his wife.

(The following are the impressions Jane received at 10:22 while holding Don Wilbur’s watch:)

5) small stupid incident immediately before or after the purchase.
* correct—It was a Christmas gift and he had bought the same item, a watch for his wife. They both knew what the other had bought and decided to open them Xmas eve because they knew.

You are practically aware in everyday life now of a self who watches the self. [...] For later you will be aware of a self who watches this self, and I want you to note the difference.

You have by now become acquainted with a self you did not know before our sessions, a self who keeps watch upon both the ego and the subconscious. [...]

[...] It is the I who is aware and alert within the dream state and who watches the dreaming self. [...]

Let us return to our friends, Ruburt and Joseph, watching Star Trek as each of you watch your own favorite programs.

[...] When you watch your ordinary television program, perhaps on a Saturday afternoon, you view the program as an observer. [...]

Ruburt and Joseph often watch old Star Trek reruns (humorously) as they eat their evening meal. [...]

[...] So watching such a program, you may feel slightly threatened yourself, yet still largely unconcerned.

I bid you a good evening, but I want you to watch your conscious thoughts for a different reason this time. I’ve told you to watch them in the past to become aware of what you are thinking and what negative suggestions you are giving yourselves. But I want you now to watch them to catch your limiting intellectual concepts about your own reality and what is possible and what is not possible. [...]

(Seth II:) Fantasies are the realities your intellect does not perceive in other fantasies, therefore, those others who watch you and who watch without any awareness of the intellect as you understand it. [...]

[...] We watch you as you watch others, yet so vast is the distance, in your terms, that communication is difficult. We do not watch as human forms. [...] We watch it as we watch others. [...]

[...] Now there is nothing to prevent you from watching the watchers, you know, and this should intrigue you, and you particularly. [...]

[...] That day we watched the events on television. [...]

(After watching the televised events from all over the world, Tuesday night I dreamed that in the future all households would be connected to interconnecting computers, keeping track of all inhabitants, actions, goods, and so forth. [...]

[...] The main thing to remember is not to watch the body too closely.

Now: watch television and have a snack. [...]

[...] Watch television or whatever, but imagine—lightly, now—a pyramid with each of you at its base, going upward into Framework 2. The energy you sense in whatever program you watch imagine almost like a generator, as energy here drawing power from Framework 2 into the room, into Ruburt’s body and your own, activating both your physical and psychic existences.

Watch the suggestions you give yourself about your own writing and “Unknown”. [...]

[...] Both of us tried Seth’s energy suggestions as we watched television. [...]

(This idea reminded me of one I’ve mentioned rather often to Jane lately about watching the news on TV—a recent habit that it seems we’ll soon dispense with. But I found it at least roughly reminiscent of Seth’s idea of simultaneous time to watch the color broadcasts from different areas of the world each day, and then to mentally hold all of those actions, especially the backgrounds, in mind at once, visualizing them as simultaneous happenings at different places on the planet.

(Then when we watched the news while eating supper at the coffee table, we soon found the mayhem and related misdeeds recited by the newscasters so depressing that we switched channels to an innocuous Mod Squad show several years old—even though those color backgrounds—Nicaragua, Israel, Russia, etc., were still so fascinating. [...]

[...] You watched the events on television. [...]

[...] “Watch the mound,” Seth repeated with more than a little satisfaction. “Watch the mound. [...]

(“Now the three of you see your reflections in the mirror, just as you should… Now watch closely, for I am going to change Jane’s image in the mirror, I am going to replace it with another. Watch the shape of the head. [...]

(Then Jane suddenly announced in a firm, clear voice: “Watch the hand.” [...]

[...] He began by telling us to watch Jane’s thumb. [...]

[...] As he must watch himself before the world, he must watch himself before you.

[...] He watched and waited to see if you would bring in his rackets when I suggested it—to him a symbol that you would tolerate frivolity in terms of such a game.

[...] You are watching the self in motion.

It goes without saying that the part that watches also belongs to the self, but it does not belong to the self as the self is thought of in usual psychological terms. [...]

[...] When you find yourself, so to speak, watching what you think of as the ego, then you are in contact with this portion of the self. [...]

[...] Through the open patio door she listened to the first bird calls, summoning her outside to watch the foggy dawn unfold. [...] “No one else was watching what I watched from my personal viewpoint that morning,” she wrote an hour later. [...]

I only suggest that you watch Ruburt as he moves; and I must remind you that upon other occasions when results had been achieved, your minds had been focused along these directions for a long period of time, comparatively speaking, and whether you realized it or not your psychic energies had been so focused. [...]

I suggest you watch Ruburt’s face. [...]

[...] When I got out to the living room to wait for the session, I found her watching one of those fascinating, multiple-subject science programs on the educational channel: Various experts were discussing topics like childbirth and sound, Kirlian photography, astronomy, particle physics, and so forth. [...]

“I don’t think I should have watched that program,” she said. [...]

One point before I close for this evening: He was quite correct in his interpretation as he watched your expression one evening while you slept—and it was no coincidence that he awakened to see it. [...]

[...] The idol used to be placed in the center of a circle, and carefully watched. [...]

Careful watch was also kept on these smaller sticks. [...]

[...] And you watched it alone until finally you learned its message. [...]

[...] It was almost an inside-out process of going into trance, and as I watched Seth a few minutes later it seemed that Jane’s consciousness was rushing past her open eyes, beyond my comprehension of what speed is. [...]

[...] Sue was on the edge of the couch, watching Jane closely as she came out of a deep trance. [...]

(Again Sue watched Jane expectantly as we waited for Seth to return. [...]

[...] She sat very quietly, watching Jane. [...]

In news watching—which does satisfy a natural need—you also run into a barrage of cultural beliefs and attitudes that are secondary. [...] The body consciousness, watching the news, would think—if it thought as you do—“What activity, what commotion, what excitement (almost laughing), what a conglomeration of smells and sights, what a congregation of my fellows, running and chasing, rising and falling, even living and dying. [...]

[...] It is quite natural then, for example, to want to watch the news on television, and in the same way and for the same reason. [...]

[...] If the skirmish is not at the front door or in the neighborhood, the animal consciousness simply watches all with a wary or amused mental attitude. [...]

[...] We were watching grown men discuss the end of the species—with means given to politicians by science. [...]

[...] As Jane was having dessert we watched the shuttle craft land in California—still a thrilling site even after so many have taken place. [...]

We will call the world as you physically experience it, Framework 1. In Framework 1, you watch television programs, for example. [...] You watch all of these dramas, hardly understanding how it is that they appear on your screen to begin with. [...]

There is no need in my outlining in detail the multitudinous events that must occur so that you can watch your favorite program. [...] Many others are watching the same programs, of course, yet each person will react quite individually.