“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I wondered about the countless times counterparts had unwittingly gathered on similar occasions, and what sort of numberless exchanges had taken place on unconscious levels between those who were psychically related in some fashion.

[...] See the material on the double dreams of Sue Watkins, Lee R. Gandee, and myself in Session 692, with its Note 2, for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality.

Reality, then, is viewed through this system of beliefs. [...]

[...] Drugs are often used as depressants, clouding the clarity of what seems to be distorted vision. [...]

[...] This era could be more advantageous to the individual and to the race than any other period, were it recognized for what it is and understood.

The peculiar chemical changes that occur are often precisely those that lead to greater conceptions and experience, but these are free from what you think of as practical application. [...]

I want to tell you what I know about your days, and then I will tell you what you must do to change them, You are beginning to organize your life about your lack of hearing. [...] Now you are obviously doing this because you are getting something out of it, and you must discover what that something is and I will help you.

[...] “What is there to hear?” “What are they saying?” “How bad is my hearing today?” You must instead sensually enjoy those sounds that come to you, and even imagine sounds when you are alone. [...]

Regardless of your farm, you, in your own mind, feel “scattered”—that you are not doing enough in other directions, and you are not sure what those directions are. [...] The other part of you is saying: “I do not want to hear!” “I do not want to hear what you have to say.” [...]

[...] I don’t know what to tell my doctor when I think he’s going to suggest an operation. And I don’t know what to tell him. [...]

[...] Therefore, while this time one of continuous moments is no longer experienced after death, it is still a reality within basic time itself, a reality toward which the personality simply is no longer focused. [...]

The difficulty lies in making this communication, which is direct from me, to what would be Ruburt’s time three self, clear to the time one self of Ruburt’s, which must speak these words, in what could be called Priestley’s time one.

All in all however they came much closer to reality than most; and therefore there is an added dimension in their works. [...]

[...] Priestley’s individual, after death, with his dominant time two consciousness, has available to him what was time one during physical life.

[...] Jane said she would be glad to try, although she had no idea of what Seth would say.

People have not seemed to have confidence in the woman, or she does not feel that anyone is confident of her ability to cope with reality. [...]

[...] Again, I will direct what healing energy I can in the patient’s direction. [...]

I am laughing because they fly through, in your terms, the very core of what you presume to call solid earth, which is not solid to them at all. And in certain instances as you attempt space travel, you will travel through what inhabitants on another plane will think of as their own particular “solid”—in quotes—and you will never know the difference.

As I mentioned, the sixth inner sense involves something that can be likened to what you call the instincts, except that it is a property of the inner self. [...]

What you have in the spider’s activity amounts to a demonstration of the sixth inner sense almost in its pure form. [...]

[...] In its particular existence the spider is not aware of all this knowledge, but it uses what is necessary of it to construct its web. [...]

[...] With them, the desire for peace was almost what you would call an instinct. [...] Now psychologically you can see vestiges of this in certain individuals, who will faint, or even attack their own physical system, before allowing themselves to do what they think of as violence to another.

[...] However, they also continued on the reincarnational level as long as they inhabited physical reality. [...]

[...] Therefore much of their knowledge was instinctive with them, and this particular group then went through what you would call the various technological stages very rapidly.

[...] So we’ll see what develops in this continuing saga. [...]

Now, what would that extreme behavior consist of “at its worst?” He felt that if he were a person given to extremes, then to use his abilities he must apply due discipline so that his head was not turned, so that he did not become a victim of fame, as many other writers and artists did—or so it seemed. [...]

[...] You were afraid that you were doing everything backward—specifically with “Unknown” Reality, and that the affair would be a disaster—or the car would crash.

(“What do you think of Prentice’s reaction to the Emir thing?”)

[...] It would help here if the reader remembers what has been said about natural guilt earlier in this book. [...]

[...] This is still being done in modern society, of course, when each child inherits the beliefs of its parents about the nature of reality. [...]

Philosophies that teach denial of the flesh must ultimately end up preaching a denial of the self and building a contempt for it, because even though the soul is couched in muscle and bone it is meant to experience that reality, not to refute it.

[...] They will also represent culminating experiences, in that you have been progressing in other levels of reality in the dream state, for some time.

[...] You will not only understand it intellectually, but feel what it means. [...]

[...] In that probable reality however your doctor friend did not meet a probable Jane.

(Seth’s material on page 204 agreed with what I had learned myself by using the pendulum, both today and earlier in the week. I hadn’t told Jane what results or answers I obtained through the pendulum.

[...] They both talk, so I tell Rob to come into the hall so he can see what I see. [...]

(Jane’s notes concerning the dream: The actual separation from physical body is the most vivid experience of the whole sequence—if separation is what it was. [...]

You will learn to manipulate and control various levels of awareness, and the habit will carry over into other aspects of reality. [...]

[...] In any case the session is translated into other aspects of reality, so that it affects you both on many other levels than those you recognize. [...]

(“I guess what I mean is that I’m really encouraged,” she said, elated. [...]

[...] Those of you who have left organized religions may feel relatively free from what you consider to be the adverse connotations of original sin and the like. [...]

[...] It seems obvious, but the full enjoyment of life would be impossible in the framework, now, of earthly reality without the knowledge of death.

[...] It should be helpful, and certainly somewhat comforting, to realize that even unfortunate birth conditions were not forced upon you by some outside agency, but chosen at inner levels of your own reality.

[...] What kind of heaven does this leave those healthier individuals to look forward to, then? [...]

[...] It would depend upon what terms one chose within which to view the situation.

^* Maude Cardwell publishes a Seth-oriented newsletter, Reality Change, from her home in Austin, Texas. [...]

[...] We were anxious to hear what Seth would have to say about this material.

Ruburt in his own way recognizes the charge behind what you say. [...]

He then began to mistrust any improvements himself, and to think “So what? [...]

[...] He felt that you wanted one but that you were refusing to do what you could do—move to a rented place, and that did excite him.

[...] You would be if the rest of the week were cleared—and it would be cleared if you realized that what was involved was simply a matter of your own quite natural working habits and convenience, and made it clear that people were welcome at another time.

[...] You must manage it with conscious decisions, even if you go on trial basis with different methods, working toward what suits you best. [...]

“Unknown” Reality, Volume 2, and Psyche, will come out fairly close together. [...]

You live through desire, and behind all desire there is love—love of being what you are, and love of being part of the fabric of existence that you know. [...]

[...] What, we wondered, was necessary to bring about a reasonable remission?

[...] As we waited for tonight’s session, Jane said she thought that Seth was organizing material about the four of us, our years together at 458 West Water St., and the flood of 1972—but that when we decided upon the questions listed above, Seth changed his tactics: he began to organize that material instead—“reorganizing what he’d already planned, in order to put it all together,” as Jane put it. [...]

[...] Ruburt was the leader of such a group, and you were what could be considered his lieutenant, or closest at hand. [...]

You simply decided to know what you were doing this time, and an over-conscientiousness on both of your parts led you to rein in your joint spontaneity.

What we have here is a deep struggle between various needs, a struggle between various portions of the personality, each with their own demands and interpretations of reality.

(July 14, 1971: When sessions resume, check with Seth about what Jane might have blocked in this session—as well as what she revealed. [...]

[...] The High-Low book of poetry as contrasted to perhaps the idiot poems will explain what I mean.

[...] Because of its very nature it wants to attach itself to, and work for, what it considers the good. [...]

[...] When the interference had been strong, covering most of the field of vision, I had experienced a peculiar sense of both darkness and light, with the objective world indistinguishable within what I can only describe as a field of patterned, alternating lightness and darkness that possessed a velvety depth.

[...] Subsequent notes, and Seth himself, explain what transpired as the session progressed. [...]

[...] To show what was happening I’m including, in parentheses after the corrected word, some of the mistakes my notes contain.)

[...] I didn’t ask him what was happening. [...]