“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now neither of you know what difficulties are, in the terms with which most people speak. [...]

(At the same time, I couldn’t help wondering just what human beings were, why they acted as they did, etc., and why the organism didn’t seem able to take better care of itself at least intuitively. [...]

Now what are your questions?

It was only too easy for you to accept this withdrawal without recognizing it for what it was, because of your own background, and I mentioned some allied material here in the near-contact session. [...]

[...] The body’s systems know what diseases are in the air, so to speak, and will often set up countermeasures ahead of time, giving you what you experience as an indisposition of one kind or another—but an indisposition that is actually a statement of prevention against another condition.

[...] Any steady use of vitamins is not to your overall benefit, for you give the body what it needs too easily, and its ability to produce such material on its own becomes sluggish. [...]

[...] There are decisions made in periods of time so brief you cannot imagine them—reactions that are almost over before they begin, reactions so fast you cannot perceive them as the body responds to its inner reality, and to all the stimuli from the exterior environment. [...]

[...] They knew precisely how much you would work for, and to what ends you would work. They also knew that you did not want more money—this is precisely what you did not want. [...]

[...] That is like a slap in the face that she must tolerate, and because of her own actions and stress laid upon what was right and proper at the expense of true feelings.

[...] You should know what they were. [...]

[...] The family relationship therefore served and serves to give you a kind of contact, an enforced education, as it were, so that you can understand what goes on within such relationships.

[...] We still hadn’t told anyone what we were doing, except our friend, Bill. In fact few of our friends even knew what we were up to until the book was out. [...]

[...] He wrote as fast as he could, so he could also look up now and then to see what was going on. Now I stood almost in front of him, the un-Jane-like open eyes staring at him as if to make sure he understood what was being said.

[...] When survival is more or less satisfied through attention, then you can afford to perceive other realities.”

“I enjoy speaking with you for a few moments of what you might be pleased to call normal conversation. [...]

[...] You may succeed so well that you literally do not know what you are feeling on a conscious level. [...] To that extent you are divorced from your own reality and disconnected from your own feelings of love. [...]

[...] What the child is really saying is, “I love you so. Why are you so mean to me?” Or, “What stands between us and the love for you that I feel?”

[...] Regardless of what you have been told, hatred does not initiate strong violence. As covered earlier in this book, the outbreak of violence is often the result of a built-in sense of powerlessness. [...]

[...] Seeing these bloody results, they became even more frightened, more awed by what they thought of as this terrible energy that sometimes seemed to drive them to kill.

[...] I tried to remember what Seth had said, and follow the feelings through so I wouldn’t repress any of them....” [...]

[...] He felt free, and he immediately leapt toward what you can generally think of as the scientific viewpoint. [...]

[...] If the church became upset with what Ruburt wrote or read, then Father Ryan burned one of his books, or argued with his poetry, for example, so all of that was living emotional content. [...]

[...] Also an accomplishment that clearly stood out as a direct challenge to religion and science, that not only contradicted their theories but offered an alternate framework through which reality could be experienced. [...]

[...] I don’t even know what I think about it.... [...]

The poem represents the unity of inspiration and of healing, the wedding of art and reality. [...]

(Long pause.) Since ancient times religion has tried to help man understand the nature of his own subjective reality — but religion has its own dark side, and for this reason religion unfortunately has fostered fear of the spontaneous.

[...] She is still on the Darvoset-aspirin regime, plus the calcium and the other extra vitamins — we don’t know what they are. [...]

[...] What you perceive as change or growth in a living physical structure is not change or growth as you conceive it. [...]

[...] She said that Seth was pushing her to the utmost, although she didn’t know exactly what she meant when she said that. [...]

Again, growth and deterioration are what I will call apparencies. [...]

[...] The third actual property of matter is what I will call pattern assumption. [...]

[...] It is only the outer senses which cannot perceive what does not fall into their own domain. [...]

[...] This leads to ego confusion since the personality, trying hard to act in what it thinks is a reasonable manner, cannot understand the vehemence of its rebellion.

(Because she had been upset by the gallery situation, Jane at this point wished aloud that Seth could help her out as to what the future held; this is something we have scrupulously refrained from doing in any serious way, yet this time we sincerely felt we could use all the help we could get. [...]

—because you will understand that fearful expectations greatly color your perception of reality, and your construction of it.

[...] Since very often the vitality or stuff of the universe seems as innocuous as air might seem to you, then look for what you do not see. [...] What you see clearly with your outer senses is camouflage. [...] I am saying that what seems vacant lacks camouflage, and therefore if this is explored it will yield evidence. [...]

[...] I merely want you to examine your own ideas as to what is practical, because often your ideas have been practical for the short term only, and in many cases though not all Ruburt’s seemingly unpractical notions have been based on very practical psychological knowledge.

[...] In his case this amounts to a stubborn refusal to see what he does not want to see. [...]

[...] She also admitted that she had been somewhat upset with Seth because of what he had told me the last two sessions; this I had not known. [...]

[...] I don’t know what to do with it, it feels funny.” [...]

[...] At last I knew what it was like to be a great painter, and I loved it. [...]

[...] But I’d never do that again, even in this reality. [...]

[...] I read to Jane what she’d already given. [...]

[...] If you will forgive me, she was more a male than you were, in reality, and the Germans to you now still represent arrogant masculinity.

([Barbara:] “What was my first name in the Oklahoma life?”

([John:] “What will be the result of the communication sent by me to Philadelphia today?”)

[...] You know what you should do, and the decision must be your own.

You wrote recently that to some extent or another your daily reality was being changed by your dream recall—an excellent point. [...]

You can, of course, always use the pendulum, as you used to, both of you, to indicate what portions of the house you each personally prefer to use for certain activities. [...]

[...] What more could anyone ask of life, I demanded ironically?

[...] He was fairly young, then, however, when he first encountered conflicts between creativity as such, intuitive knowledge, and other people’s ideas about reality. [...]

[...] No matter what he was taught in Catholic school or later in the public one, his intuitions, wedded to his creative capacities, led him to question established views. [...]

[...] As our readership grew, as you heard from readers or from some members of the media or whatever, it seemed to Ruburt that what he did best—have sessions, write his books—was not enough, that he was expected to do far more. [...]

[...] When you came here (to Pinnacle Road), to a more lucrative kind of middle-class America, Elmira-style, you wondered what people thought, that you were home all the time. [...]

[...] Bringing such issues into the open does help, for the more consciously you become aware of what you are saying through a physical condition, the more adequately you can state it verbally, or in other ways. [...]

(Pause.) Painting should be enough, you may think sometimes, but you chose to be the kind of person who wanted to explore the greater reaches of reality, from which art itself emerges. [...]

(“Like what?” I asked.

Ego’s concept of itself as a rock of unchanging identity is highly ludicrous, since its perceptions constantly change it from what it was. [...] It enables the inner self to manipulate within physical reality. [...]

[...] We agreed not to mention it during sessions, no matter what took place. [...] When the flame subsided however at break, I did not know what to think, and decided to merely record what I saw without being concerned.

[...] If this information was misplaced in the earlier Gallagher material, then what accounts for it? It appeared in the Gallagher material before the envelope test was held, and of course Jane could not know what the envelope test object was beforehand, by ordinary means. [...]

[...] We shall see what we can do. We have been trying to see what we can do.

(“What do you mean—a few weeks, a few months, or what?” I’d thought we would soon be moving.)

[...] A serious error, for at that time she instinctively knew what was best for her. [...]

[...] Before all of this, as the very first symptoms began, before the ESP book, he was already deeply frightened by the novel rejections, the Playboy rejections after they raised his hopes, the poetry book acceptance that fell through with Continental, and what he felt to be your joint deteriorating relationship.

[...] I am digressing here to bring you another issue: the strong responsibility he always felt toward his writing ability, he naturally felt toward the psychic ability—but without the necessary sense of discrimination, since he didn’t realize what such activities involved.

[...] Actually, she had converted my original typed sessions making up Psyche into standard manuscript form for the publisher; I still have to do many of the notes for the book after I finish my work on Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality several months from now.

[...] You will interpret the private events of your lives, and the spectacular range of history, in the light of those assumptions about reality. [...]

(10:19.) The myths upon which you base your lives so program your existence that often you verbally deny what you inwardly know. [...]

You form your own reality. [...]

(Although this is a private session that Jane and I are filing separately from “regular” material, we’re also presenting it in Mass Events because of the many insights Seth offers into individual and mass events in general, and into our personal realities in particular. [...]

[...] So what often happens in your society when men and women have creative bents, and good minds to boot?

[...] That work, providing the artist’s preparation, now belongs to the male-world manufacturer, you see, so as a male in your society the artist is often left with what he thinks of as art’s feminine basis, where it must be confronted, of course.