“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] She was not frightened, although uneasy when Bill and I first told her of what we saw. There was no doubt of what we did see. The effect lasted for perhaps a minute or two, the room was sufficiently well lighted [although not blazing with light; during her deliveries Jane usually has one 60W light on, but at break we turn more lights on; and if this bothers Jane while talking she automatically snaps them off as she paces about.] and Bill and I had plenty of chance to make sure of what we were looking at.

[...] What I have recorded here is done with the utmost effort towards objectivity. [...] We are engaged in it and with it, and we record what we learn. [...]

[...] You are both quite fussy about what you will see and what you will not see. [...]

Generally speaking however, no physical object can be constructed, and no action can occur, without what you are pleased to call suggestion. [...] Behind every action and every construction there is indeed what you are pleased to call suggestion.

[...] You could not therefore enter into what you felt to be the hypocrisy of the season. [...]

[...] This does not mean that these do not represent symbolic realities.

Now we shall see, again, what we can do. [...]

[...] Jane’s father is of course “someone who visited here,” but we do not know what “A photograph” means, particularly, in the test data, since Seth did not elaborate.

[...] What was not said was as important as what was said as far as the interview itself was concerned, for implied there was always the authoritative picture of the progress of certain symptoms, ending in the most dire pictures. [...]

(The irony of the whole affair is that during the visit I thought he’d helped Jane by advocating doing nothing about the finger at the time—which was what we wanted also. [...]

[...] I felt caught between these opposing ideas, and didn’t really know what to do. [...]

[...] The interview ended up as a highly-charged psychic and practical version of a reality as seen by medical science. [...]

[...] The Three Faces of Eve is an excellent title for the book, since the ego may quite legitimately be compared to the face that the identity turns toward objective reality, or the living mask that it dons.

[...] The inner self or identity must express itself through its ego in order to manipulate within physical reality. [...]

[...] These separate identities form what we call the inner self, which retains its individuality even while the energy that composes it constantly changes. [...]

(“What did you mean by something suitable?”)

This is what I am leading to. Outer constructions are always translations of actions from inner reality into material. [...]

[...] What if Jane and I go to York Beach in Maine again, and meet those fragments we created; what will happen, if anything?”)

I mentioned that the change in Ruburt’s features was authentic, and also that what you prefer to call an apparition did indeed exist.

For the time being the word will serve, since I know what you mean by it. [...]

[...] Only those very sure of their reality can afford to take pleasure in small things and to enjoy them. [...]

You know you have nothing to fear, but you do not know what you have to gain. [...]

[...] If you stop and turn around to see what is bothering you and you find a small dog, then you take a deep breath of relief and wish you had turned around sooner. [...]

[...] He often perceived what you would call the products of the imagination as sense data, for example, more or less objectified in the physical world.

[...] In that light, and with that understanding, nature’s disasters do not claim victims: Nature and man together act out their necessary parts in the larger framework of reality.

Your concepts about death and nature, however, force you to see man and nature as adversaries, and also program your experience of such events so that they seem to only confirm what you already believe. [...]

[...] Therefore I am concerned with, and I emphasize, the importance of inner knowledge, and see physical symptoms for what they are—a reflection of an inner reality.

The reality may be a problem. [...]

[...] Whenever I mention a “past life,” this is what I actually mean. [...]

[...] Consequently what is cited isn’t in order, either, although this doesn’t seem important in this case. [...]

[...] He would have gone, and has gone, to considerable lengths to allow you to freely begin to express your emotional reality to him.

The foot (when Jane lost a large part of a callous)is an excellent sign, and it also shows you both what suggestion can do. [...]

Consciously you didn’t know what you were up to but unconsciously you knew very well. [...]

In your York Beach experience had you not been able through your peculiar creative abilities to form those images outside of yourselves, and so endow them with a physical reality, you might very well have instead turned yourself into schizophrenic personalities. [...]

Many people are unable to endow fragments with such physical reality, and thus shove them more or less harmlessly away at arm’s length. [...]

While I am with you I am in a way that I will explain later attached to Jane, in that I see what she sees, and so forth. [...]

I had intended to further our discussion concerning dream reality. [...]

[...] The personality however was never entirely centered within physical reality, and was able to cope with it only by remaining relatively aloof.

[...] But he is bitter against it, and wants what it has to offer despite himself. [...]

[...] She had saved the buttons from his garments also, and she would say, “Do you remember when you wore this suit, and where we were, and what we did?”

Because he has not built up the good trust of his body, however, any new discomfort, regardless of origin, alarms him—an alarm that causes him to tense his muscles, withhold his weight, become hesitant—actions that of course themselves bring about stress, and prolong what should be a fairly minor adjustment. [...]

[...] He can begin to change the focus from which he usually views his reality, in whatever way possible, and in the point of power as I suggested. [...]

[...] I had asked the pendulum about it today, but didn’t tell Jane what I had learned. [...]

Transformations of self-images occur back and forth from dream to waking reality, once he made his conscious decision. [...]

The—I don’t know what you call these ... (When I said I didn’t know how to write down what she was telling me, Jane said:)Just put: the minus numbers represent negative charges, and mark the activity of ions’ negative flow. [...]

(Jane doesn’t know what Bainbridge means, whether it is Roger’s mother’s maiden name, a place, or what. [...]

[...] What followed was surprising to us in several ways, and raised many questions that we will now search out answers for.

[...] I said she could wait and let Seth deal with the data, and she rejoined that she didn’t want to interrupt what she was getting. [...]

(At noon, as we ate, I asked her what she thought the Sinful Self might make of the Speaker manuscript material she’d been getting in recent days. [...]

[...] It represents what is left over of Ruburt’s questioning and doubts, those unresolved areas that were emotionally charged not only because of, say, Church doctrine, but intensified because of emotional episodes with his mother, or other such issues. [...]

(8:30.) They actually represent very complex matters, and complex ones to explain, for in themselves they contain the seeds of material necessary for any understanding of the nature of reality and beliefs. [...]

(“We were wondering what the Sinful Self might think about work on those Speaker manuscripts. [...]

(Thus, Jane found his offers of help at the house to be just what she’d have asked for, given an “ideal” situation. [...]

[...] It is easy enough to at times look at others, perhaps now—for I am not saying that you do this—but perhaps romanticizing them, thinking that you would after all prefer a much simpler, more overtly physical existence, freed of any deep concerns about the nature of reality or the plight of the race.

Nothing is worth what Ruburt has put himself through, you both say (as I did Saturday night), yet Ruburt has put himself through nothing, in those terms—that is, his condition is not from the result of, again, your psychic activities. [...]

What you have then was Ruburt’s desire to have his teeth fixed, when it was obvious that he must, and his fear that he could not perform adequately at this time. [...]

[...] As atoms and molecules give your chairs a reality within your system even though the atoms and molecules come and go, so this planetary system still retains its reality. (Pause.)

[...] The fact is that they can never be condoned, and yet they must be understood for what they are: man learning through his own errors. [...]

Your astronomers may receive a ghost image of it at the edges of your universe, but only a reflection from a reality that you cannot perceive. [...]

“Do what you want,” Rob said. “I’ve got gumboils, but so what? [...]

When Seth paused, Rob asked, “What do you have to say about Dr. Stevenson’s idea that this may all be Jane’s subconscious?”

“We have gone into this before,” Seth said, “and I have no doubt that we will on endless occasions; and if I succeed in convincing you of my reality as a separate personality, I will have done exceedingly well. [...]

Later elaborations on the above statement gave us a pretty fair idea of what inner processes go on so that Seth and I can make contact. [...]

[...] And Malba didn’t sound terribly bright; at least Seth is intelligent and knows what he’s talking about. But what’s the use in speaking for anyone else? [...]

But when I read the session, I thought of Rob sitting there, listening to what I thought of as criticism, while his wife paced the room “telling him off” in another voice and supposedly for another, invisible personality. [...] “I mean, suppose that’s really what I think, subconsciously — the idea that your ego is too rigid at times and closes you off. [...]

“Oh, that’s what the sense of outrage is about,” Rob said. [...]

[...] See what Seth has to say about Malba in our next session. [...]

[...] He has put to the test much of what he has learned. [...]

You form your private and joint realities. [...]