“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause at 9:35.) You know what sound is, yet as Ruburt knows, what you consider sound is only one of sound’s many spectrums. [...] You have no words for the kinds of images I am speaking of, for they are not objects, nor pictures of objects, nor images of images, but instead the inner dimensions, each separate and glowing, but connected, prisms of knowledge, that have within themselves more reality than you can presently begin to imagine.

[...] What you had — what you still have, though you are not nearly as aware of it — was an excellent give-and-take between the inner and outer senses. [...]

[...] “That really hits me: you can tell you’re out there so far, with all of this energy, but you can’t go any further, you know what I mean? [...] My feelings are that I was different, although I don’t know about what different things you might get down. [...]

(I’d just finished typing the last few pages for Monday night’s session, and I asked Jane what she thought of my final note: I’d speculated about any reincarnational connections that might tie her abilities to speak for Seth, without help of any modern kind, to the abilities ancient man had displayed, when, according to Seth, he’d been able to carry all of his history with him mentally. [...]

[...] You do not seem to have time in a day to do what you want. [...] Ruburt is trying to say “There is nothing basically wrong with my body, though in my reality there seems to be.” [...]

[...] At the risk of your considering this Pollyanna, you get what you concentrate upon. [...] You wonder what is wrong with him, that he cannot understand what he is doing.

[...] He wonders what would have happened had he done something else. [...]

[...] You make your own reality. [...]

[...] She scored some remarkable “hits” psychically and made some errors — yet she ended up thinking that her demonstrated abilities often collided with what our society teaches us is possible in human activity. Jane told me that at times she felt a distinct yearning for understanding by the others involved in the affair; yet, because of her participation in it, her confidence in knowing what she can do was strengthened significantly. [...]

He (Ruburt) was bound and determined to explore the nature of reality.¹ … He wanted to protect himself until he had enough knowledge to know what he was doing. [...] I could have helped him further, but I was [part of what he was investigating] …

[...] I do think I’m a lot more aware of this than they are, because of the very nature of what I can do — but I can’t explain that to every person I speak to. [...]

1. Some of Jane’s confrontations with reality are explored in various parts of my Introductory Notes, and in Appendix 1.

[...] When you attach your attention say to a flower, it is not only a matter of imagining yourself as the flower, or trying to sense what a flower is. [...] They must each suggest the reality of the overall pulsating vitality that makes their appearance possible.

[...] For you paint reality from within.

[...] Whatever objects were shown in the painting automatically presupposed the existence of spiritual realities, and other universes, though these presuppositions were highly ritualistic.

[...] Each of the great masters’ paintings somehow suggest the existence of far greater realities, of which the paintings were a part. [...]

If they chose to do so together, how did Jane and Seth explore the new reality they were committed to? Could I have briefly joined that reality, and perhaps recorded a few aspects of it in my own dream reality, aside from the afterdeath paintings of Jane that I was to produce over the next several years? What, I could ask, did Seth really think of the portrait I’d painted of him way back in June 1968? [...]

[...] But she didn’t ignore it at all, I learned along the way, for she created and explored a spontaneous and innocent reality that freed her from all other concerns. [...] It was, after all, an epitome of what our reality has led us to create and enjoy. What could be better? [...]

[...] When I went out to see what Jane was up to I was greeted with her breakthrough accomplishment—one that, to put it mildly, was to lead to very unexpected challenges and growths in our lives: Jane held up a sheaf of typewriter paper upon which she had scribbled in large handwriting an essay that had come to her as fast as she could write it down: The Physical Universe as Idea Construction. [...] “What does it mean?” she asked as we discussed it. She was exhilarated, intrigued, cautious, wondering about its ideas—that basically each one of us creates our own reality in the most intimate terms, for example.

[...] What more could she have accomplished in our camouflage reality had she chosen to live physically for, say, even another decade? [...]

[...] They do not understand what they are. You exist in more dimensions than you know and your own reality transcends your own understanding and intellect. [...]

[...] You (pointing to Andrea), in 1572—Poland, what is now considered Poland, a boy—relatives from Russia. Majurak—last name—ended up in what is now Warsaw—a trader, a merchant—4 children —a French wife—earlier in 1242—a Dutch existence. There was a Spanish life in the 17th century and one in what is now California in the early 1800’s. You have been twice a woman and three times a man. [...]

[...] This is what I meant by not moving each other to tears or laughter. By this small encounter this evening you showed your willingness to proceed, and also clearly showed how little you understood about what I really meant.

[...] If I told you that the skin had its own alphabet without what I have already explained, it would not have been nearly as clear. The word cordella, used in the same fashion, frees you from limiting conceptions of what an alphabet is.

[...] A bridge is a valid reality, regardless of its architecture or the type of symbols that may be written upon it, or its color, or the material from which it is made.

[...] The Sumari language in those terms will be used as a method of carrying you further into the nature of inner cognizance, and then allowing you to return again, retranslating what you have learned, not automatically into the stereotyped verbal pattern.

When it accepts an illness as a part of its own self-image, then the illness becomes an actual part of the reality that is the self. The personality must therefore be considered as a biological reality. It must also be considered as an electrical reality, as a psychological reality, for any experience is automatically translated into all these systems.

[...] You can like it or not, but buy what I am selling.” But he believes in what he is selling.

As we mentioned in our last session, the personality cannot be considered alone, but it must be thought of in its relationship to action and to all those aspects of reality of which it is a part.

What is required of them both in their daily working lives is in many respects precisely the same. [...]

You know by now that emotions even change the physical cells, sweeping through them as wind through branches, and leaving imprints in many realities, leaving imprints within the reality of dreams, the physical reality, and in electrical reality, in terms of coded systems.

[...] What will vanish is any feeling on his part of being subconsciously drained, as he does feel occasionally, and only when he is perturbed at something else.

Emotions also are electrically coded, and also have an independent electrical reality. [...]

[...] Jane clearly did not know what had happened exactly; she appeared to be dazed. [...]

(What I’m trying to do is to let the information Seth has given in the last several deleted sessions for me, starting with that for April 4, sink in so that I can achieve a synthesis of it all both consciously and unconsciously. [...]

[...] “Here I thought we were going to have a nice peaceful week, with some sessions on Mass Reality, maybe, but now, who knows....”

[...] We don’t think that Yale can have much of an idea of what’s involved with Jane’s abilities, or the subject matter of the Seth material. [...]

You make your own reality. [...]

[...] In such a version of inner-outer reality the back-and-forth mobility, the give-and-take between inner and outer, is ignored. [...]

[...] Through various exercises in this book, I hope to acquaint each of you with the inherent oneness of the inside and outside realities, to give you a glimpse of your own infinite nature even within the bounds of your creaturehood — to help you see the god-stuff in the man-stuff. [...]

2. Seth talked very briefly about such blueprints in Chapter 20 of Personal Reality — see the 672nd session after the end of break at 10:28. [...]

“When you are working with your beliefs, find out what you really think about the dream condition, for if you trust it, it can become an even more important ally because of your conscious cooperation.”

(“This afternoon I was wondering how Jim Poett was making out—not when the article will be published [in the Village Voice], but what he thinks of what he’s doing.”)

[...] I described what I’d read to Jane, and later she looked at some of the material. [...]

[...] But she changed her mind, obviously; then at 9:25 she told me she knew what Seth was going to talk about: “The horizontal consciousness.”)

The creation of your particular variety of cultural reality is quite complex and its own unique achievement. [...]

He wants to know in what dimension dream locations have their reality, and indeed he has considered all of the possibilities save the correct one. [...]

[...] Now this gives rise to what you may call mass-perception, with a hyphen between the two words.

The question however, in what dimensions do dream locations exist, was simply based. [...]

[...] He hit upon something, and if he had continued working, then he would not have needed to ask me in what dimension dream locations exist. [...]

[...] since on the other side so to speak there was an incomprehensible frightening chaotic dimension, malevolent, powers beyond our imagining; and that to question the stories was to threaten survival not just personally but to threaten the fabric and organization of reality as we knew it. [...] which meant more than mere ostracism but the complete isolation of a person from those belief systems, with nothing between him or her and those frightening realities.... [...] This was what damnation really meant. [...]

[...] The idea of the stories was to save each man from having to encounter reality in such a frightening fashion.... [...]

[...] It has a definite reality, although it may not have a physical reality. Because you experience it, and you are partially physical, it does have some basis of reality in physical terms, even though it may not exist full-blown in physical terms.

[...] Nevertheless the dream location does exist in its own legitimate reality, and its reality is to some extent dependent upon physical reality.

All such projections have an electromagnetic and chemical reality that has its origin within the field of the given personality. [...]

It is well known that emotions have a chemical reality, but it is not generally realized that dreams also have the same sort of property. [...]

I suggest that first of all you ask yourselves what you really want, and what you really believe. (Amused:) I will tell you what you want, my dear friend: you want the books to sell very well, and the message to go out clearly to all. [...]

(To me:) For all of your complaints, if you will forgive me, you have exactly what you want from Prentice. [...] You might find yourselves amazingly uncomfortable, despite what you think your reaction would be, if Prentice suddenly began initiating publicity campaigns, ad campaigns.

[...] When we came home from shopping this noon we found the first five copies of Volume l of “Unknown” Reality waiting for us. [...]

[...] I thought it a good sign, actually, since these young people would one day be playing roles in society; at least, I thought, they’d have been exposed to what we thought were good ideas in their formative years.

Now I can tell you what the light is, but when I do that, I am a poor teacher, for a good teacher knows how to let others discover meanings for themselves, and that is a part of your experience. [...] The question is not, what is the nature of the light? [...]

(To Edgar) Now, and I say this with utmost kindness and good nature, you can tell Ruburt that you have no feelings, and you can tell the class that you have no feelings, and you can tell others that you do not care what is said or done to you, but do not tell me. Now in your position, you of all people, should recognize feelings within yourself, the effects of others upon you and be even more vigilant of the effect of what you say upon others. [...]

[...] You are dealing with an old wise experimenter right here, and you saw what you needed to see. [...] In this instance you saw what you saw when you scanned. [...]

You are in a trance state now, and you have all hypnotized yourselves into believing that this is the only reality and your constant suggestions continue the emotion, and that is the basis of your physical reality. [...]

[...] What is not understood is that emotional attitudes, conscious and subconscious, have an electromagnetic reality that operates very efficiently, either as an open system which attracts new stimuli, or as a closed electric force that is supercharged.

[...] Nevertheless, if you have a test for us this evening then we shall do what we can, since it is not good particularly for him to refrain through fear. [...] Therefore, if you have a test for us we shall see what we can do.

[...] Jane was also curious to hear Mr. Fell’s voice, to see what impressions she might pick up.

[...] For emotional contacts are what we are working with, and when you block off the contact from your end, then I would not presume, you see, to attempt to break it. [...]

[...] What is your idea of being responsible? [...]

[...] You will not look out upon physical reality with the wonder of a child any more, or with the unstructured curiosity of an individual, but always through parental eyes. [...]

[...] You may narrow your life still further, all information of any kind finally becoming relatively invisible to you unless it touches upon your parental reality.

[...] Ask yourself what ideas these pieces represent. [...]

[...] You have been told that there is a point where all dimensions and systems of reality merge. [...]

[...] There are ways of finding what I will call this center of yourself. [...]

[...] What memories are mine?

[...] From here repeat to yourself what you have learned, and whatever data you have received, reminding yourself that this is also a part of your identity. [...]