“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In later years it’s become impossible for me to close my eyes to the multiple pressing differences that exist between Seth’s explanation of the nature of reality, and of our own private experience of it. [...]

[...] I became extremely busy after my wife came home, making what seemed like endless calls and trips about getting prescriptions filled, about trying out various kinds of beds and mattresses and chairs and hospital gowns, about insurance, about a commode, about having a speaker phone hooked up to our regular phone so that Jane wouldn’t have to hold the standard bulky handset to her ear. [...]

[...] While they still allowed him to pursue those activities in which he was interested, the conscientious nature, the questioning mind that led him to investigate psychic realities, and that led him to learn so much, did not change overnight. [...]

(“What do you think will happen with the next two books—the one he’s finishing now, the dream book, and your own book?”)

In the Old Testament, you did what you were told to by the almighty. [...]

[...] But heaven meant an inner reality for Christ, not an exterior one.

The discipline, for Mark or for anyone else, is difficult to achieve, in that what is necessary is a passive discipline rather than an aggressive discipline. [...] It also helps prevent the conscious ego from snapping too quickly back, as is what happens often in Mark’s case.

(“Does Frank Watts know yet about what is happening to Miss Callahan now?”)

Our witness, our Mark, has had many experiences, as far as what you call apparitions are concerned, and in his case these have been of various types and he has seen them for various reasons.

[...] What is needed is additional inner confidence, and even the development of inner discipline.

[...] Often they are resolved regardless of what you do or believe, simply as a result of the vast creative energies within your being, and the system of checks and balances with which you provided your body at birth.

[...] Your beliefs about the nature of your own reality do. [...]

[...] In what you think of as you, it mirrors one condition with great faithfulness and abandon. [...]

[...] Also, one not only has to penetrate the reality of the person being read, but that of the medium doing the reading. [...]

[...] So what was it doing, behaving in such a fashion? [...]

[...] The ego is now under the control of what may be loosely called the inner self. [...]

There is the same sort of disorientation that the ego experiences within physical reality when an individual dreams. [...]

[...] I made a quick drawing of what I thought she was indicating, with both hands. [...]

[...] What’s the connection with the envelope object?”)

[...] I certainly advocate that the body of the material be made available to the public, and indeed its purpose is to help mankind understand himself, so that he may understand the world which mirrors his inner reality.

[...] These levels are indeed filled with what may be termed life-giving and death-tempting differentiated and undifferentiated impulses acquired in the present life of an individual. [...]

What Freud did for the personal layers of the subconscious we and others like us must do for the furthest reaches.

[...] I say that I am an energy personality essence, since that is what I am.

The illness did represent, however, a needed warning, materialized into physical reality as illness. [...]

(I spent eight or nine days in bed, the victim of what is generally called a virus. [...]

His nature is independent, but the independence is blunted when he is not sure of what he is dealing with. [...]

[...] What I want, here, is the balance. [...]

This firmness on his part saved the situation, for your parents clearly understood what could be expected and what could not be expected. [...]

[...] And you will have to take my word for what I am saying for the present, regardless of how impatient you may be.

Our tests must be considered in the light of action, for this is what they are. [...]

[...] You will find yourself enjoying the Christmas season, even with your relatives, for you understand now that a basic reality is involved.

Perhaps you will see how expectations are indeed translated by the individual into concrete reality. [...]

I know that this next suggestion will meet protests on both of your parts, for what you suppose to be practical reasons. [...]

[...] He has attempted much more fully than ever to meet what he considers his responsibilities than ever before willingly, and can use an exuberance. [...]

[...] It is meant to assess the reality that is unconsciously formed in direct replica of your thoughts and expectations.

[...] In such cases what you usually have is a situation in which one child is acting out unfaced aggressive behavior for the whole family. [...]

[...] You can comment very briefly on the small glimpses you have been given of another’s reality. [...]

He naturally knows what fits his temperament, abilities, and disposition. [...]

Various portions of the self therefore face physical reality at any given time as the ego. [...]

[...] What was ego today may belong to the subconscious tomorrow. [...]

Egotistically he forced other aspects of his personality to accept what they feared. [...]

[...] It was a piece two yards long, and the proprietor of the Art Shop sold it to me for half price; it was just what I had in mind for an experiment, as will be seen. [...]

[...] The dream was loaded with psychic energy, and literally produced reality. [...]

(“What color is the object itself?”

(“What is that written note?”)

(“What shape is the object?”)

I could write many windy pages about the mysteries of life, I suppose, and how each of us does the best we can, although often we may not understand what we’re doing; but what I really want to do is simply note that in her case, fortunately, and even if she may think she’s failed in certain major areas of life, Jane has achieved some remarkable insights into her own situation (as I have into mine, being her marriage partner). [...] We insist upon knowing what those reasons are. [...] What challenges she and I have to meet! [...] You are learning how to form reality from your own beliefs, while having at the same time the freedom to choose those beliefs—to chose your mental state in a way that the animals, for example, do not. [...]

[...] Certainly Jane chose all of her challenges in this life, just as I did, and as we believe each person does, but a major concomitant of focusing upon certain activities involves how one copes with them (often in close cooperation with others) as the years pass: What new and original depths of feeling and idea are uncovered, layer by layer, what insights, what rebellions, and, yes, what acceptances….

For all of your complaining (Seth told us with some humor at 8:56), you understand in rather good measure the decisions and actions that motivate your lives, so that Ruburt is more than usually aware of the manipulations that psychologically and physically lie just beneath the material usually carried by what is ordinarily called the conscious mind. Therefore, a kind of momentary gap appeared between his life and his living of it—a pause and a hesitation became obvious between his life and what he should do with it, as his condition showed just before the hospital hiatus.

We do not want long drawn-out discussions of why and what exactly happened, simply to understand the dynamics of the activity. [...]

[...] She is interested in learning what other abilities she may have, however, outside of these sessions.)

[...] As a rule the ego chooses those elements from this repository which it feels will be most beneficial in dealing with physical reality.

[...] Actually what happens here is that the ego sells the personality short, out of fear, and denies those very abilities that are needed, and in practical terms.

When I refer back to myself or back to what I have said in an earlier session, I do not expend an identical amount of time in doing so. [...]

[...] It is therefore still a reality of some kind to me. [...]

(Jane also said that Seth was quite pleased with the new voice, and that she now knows what he is thinking sometimes, even though he does not relay it to or through her as part of a message.

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

[...] [She’d slept ‘till noon.] The material had begun to flow quite effortlessly because of her concern over what I’d written in my notes for Monday’s session, about her being unable to take care of herself physically any longer. [...]

[...] The Sinful Self’s material is too long and complicated to describe here, except to say that it contains the Sinful Self’s own view of reality and its relationship to Jane’s background and work, it’s regrets, its defensive attitudes, its questions, and its genuine puzzlement that man has for so long —perhaps for most of history, indeed—persisted in the creation of and reliance upon such entities as the Sinful Self. [...]

I have no idea, of course, what physical state I’d be in if the Seth phenomenon hadn’t appeared in my life (in late 1963), or if I hadn’t had those sessions to rely upon. [...]

[...] I could keep track easily enough, I thought, of my own progress as I worked directly with my body, without drugs to confuse the issue, and with no one else between me and the reality I had so cunningly created. [...]