“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Man has always feared what he could not objectify. He has always attempted to objectify, to separate whatever realities he could from himself, to hold them in his hands, so to speak, so that he could observe and study them.

Those things, those realities which were most intimately connected with himself, those realities which he could not objectify and hold in his hands, he feared. He attempted to deny the existence of such realities, yet he cannot. [...]

[...] So also are there other realities that cannot be examined through the use of the physical senses, realities so close to the self that they cannot be separated from it and objectified.

[...] A.J. replied on November 22, stating that before he could answer Jane’s questions he would like Seth’s answers to three questions: “When was the last time you grew up?”, “What do you love?”, and “When is the self born?”

The soul, however, does not need to follow the laws and principles that are a part of the physical reality, and it does not depend upon physical perception. [...] The soul’s perceptions are not dependent upon time, because time is a physical camouflage and does not apply to nonphysical reality.

[...] It also follows that your experience within the physical system is dependent upon a physical form and physical senses — again, because these interpret reality and translate it into physical data. [...]

[...] Dreams, however, may later the same evening be formed from the information gained during what I will call the “depth experience.” [...]

[...] It simply means that the soul knows that good and evil are but different manifestations of a far greater reality.

Regardless of your circumstances, your condition in life, your training or your aptitudes, at your own threshold you stand at the center of all realities—for at your center all existences intersect. [...] Each portion of the universe carries the knowledge of all other parts, and each point of a reality is (underlined) that reality’s center. [...]

[...] I could sympathize with their writers, though, for each one had communicated with us out of a deep need, and is searching for insight into the creation of a personal and mass reality. Often I remind myself that each note I write in connection with the Seth books, or send to a correspondent, represents my attempt as I compose it to grasp a little bit better the interior and exterior realities I am creating for myself. [...]

[...] What do you have to say about this?” We don’t feel like justifying ourselves.

(9:30.) I do not, therefore, want you to concentrate your efforts in memorizing methods of perceiving other realities, but to realize that such insights are everywhere within your grasp. [...]

Smoking represents among other things, to him, a blanket of insulation, not only between himself and exterior reality, but a blanket between himself and interior reality. [...]

Action does not always move in what you would consider a straight line. [...]

Any action that affects the physical individual also has its reality within many other fields, and its effects and its nature are felt within them. [...]

[...] Jane was dissociated as usual; that is, she retained a very general idea of what she had been speaking about. [...]

[...] This time there is on the part of the personality an awareness of inner realities, of which the personality was not before concerned with. [...]

[...] I am merely saying that the personality only now is discovering the inner reality of which so many are ignorant.

In general in the present, the personality should relate firmly with outer reality, and also come to grips with the whole self. [...]

[...] In one action, basically, we can see all actions, and through one action we can reach the reality of all actions.

[...] He began in his own way to form his own theory concerning the nature of God and reality at a young age. [...]

[...] I have given more material than I can say on the subject of Ruburt’s attitude toward creativity and what happens when he emphasizes the idea of work as work, or as a career, above his spontaneous creativity. [...]

[...] Those fears are then not admitted, for he thinks that they must indeed be beneath a person whose entire life work is devoted to a search for the nature of reality, and therefore a person who must possess, or try to possess, the answers to all of the questions.

[...] That is what happened for a while to Seven. [...]

[...] Above all, you are from this point to stop structuring your lives upon the bedrock reality of Ruburt’s condition. For that “condition” is not a permanent thing, but a changing reality, an improving condition.

[...] Ruburt feels free enough to go to Florida, if he feels he does not have to face what he thinks of as your idea of absolute freedom, in which he is performing as normally as anyone else, or nearly so. [...]

[...] It means that within the gradations offered you will not have a good time, but will compare what you have with a “perfect” freedom that Ruburt now does not possess. [...]

[...] If you both understood all I have said about the point of power, you would not compare the present physical situation with what is desired, and set the present situation in an unfavorable light, but as a progressive series of stepping stones toward the desired state.

[...] In those terms, the psyche contains many other levels of reality. [...]

[...] If for a moment you try to imagine that you were able to carry your own time with you on such a journey, all packaged neatly in a wristwatch, then you would be quite amazed at what would happen.

[...] Different portions of the psyche are familiar with all of these mentioned occurrences — because the psyche straddles any of the local laws that you recognize as “official,” and has within itself the capacity to deal with an infinite number of reality-hyphen-experiences.

The psyche, however, while being earth-tuned in your experience, also has many other systems of reality “to contend with.” [...]

[...] Your feelings represent the inner reality behind what you think of as purely natural phenomena, such as weather.

[...] In the same way, interior events can appear in physical reality in a quite different form than the original.

[...] When I speak to them I am thinking of them, and to some extent I can indeed enter into their psychological reality. Therefore I can phrase what I want to say in a way that is highly meaningful to them.

(A note: After the session Jane told me that she knew what Seth was going to tell me when I had finished the painting under discussion. I asked Jane just how she knew this; was Seth telling me one thing, and Jane another; did Jane divine the information from Seth as he spoke through her, or what? [...] But as Seth told me about the painting Jane knew what he was to tell me.)

[...] As to your remarks of a few moments past: I always knew what I was up to in class.

[...] I am perfectly free to communicate what should be communicated. [...]

[...] The child may think “My teeth are fine, why yell at me to brush them?” Ruburt thinks “What is there that allows you to speak your concern more actively than your love?” He is verbally oriented. [...] It involves a method of expression, and a primary stance of my life, regardless of what it brings or does not bring. [...]

[...] On June 22 the pendulum told me that my stomach bothers me not because I don’t spend enough time painting, but because I feel guilty at spending the time I do, in view of all the other work with Jane that I feel I should be doing: working on sessions, “Unknown” Reality, etc.

(2. Did I go overboard on “Unknown” Reality? [...]

(5. On the decision we made—Rob to finish “Unknown” Reality, then Psyche, perhaps with my help. [...]

[...] Regardless of what better deals businesswise you may or may not have made in the past, both of you would have been highly discomfited by any frequent change of publishers. Part of your personal problem now is because you feel you have cut off the easy flow of creative energy into your painting and into Mass Reality, and even to some extent—on your part, now—because the contracts are unsigned, and the flow in that area momentarily is somewhat impeded. [...]

[...] There is some material of course that I have not given, though I will, because it would seem to you initially that in the light of what is possible, you were doing poorly—where instead in the light of your reality at this time, you are doing well. [...]

[...] What you do is less important than what you think of what you are doing. [...]

[...] We’ve learned to our sorrow and rage that both entities have cut their versions of Seth Speaks, without our permission or knowledge, and have struggled to exert what force we could in order to rectify the situation. [...] As I’ve said to Jane more than once, “I wonder what we ought to know that Tam hasn’t told us”—meaning of course that every time a hassle develops with Prentice-Hall we find out a new batch of information that Tam has known all along but never relayed to us. [...]

[...] The deeper dimensions of reality are such that your thoughts and actions not only affect the life you know, but also reach into all of those other simultaneous existences. What you think now is unconsciously perceived by some hypothetical 14th-century self. [...] Your life is a dreaming experience to other portions of your greater reality which focus elsewhere.

If, however, you learn to know yourself better in daily life to become more fully aware even of your earthly life, then you will indeed receive other information that hints of a deeper, more supportive reality, in which physical existence rests. [...] These can add up to an alternate set of facts, pointing toward a different kind of reality, and give evidence for an inner existence that takes precedence over the physical assumptions. [...] Basically the inner reality is the creative source of the physical one. [...]

There is little use in trying to discover other levels of your own reality if you insist upon applying the laws of physical life to your own larger experience. [...] It was quite real, however, and at another level of reality it was operational, suited to its environment.

[...] Death is a physical reality. [...] If you accept those terms as the only criterion of reality then surely it appears that death is an end to your consciousness.

We have to some extent explained the reality of the personality within the electrical system. We have to some extent explained its basic origin within inner reality. [...] But during its alliance within the physical system, it is diffused within the cellular structure, and interrelating actions between the biological system, the electrical system, and the personality structure actually form the reality of the human individual.

The personality itself exists in many dimensions, as you know, and it has its reality within many other fields than the physical field, and is indeed basically not nearly as allied with the physical field as you may imagine. [...]

[...] In many cases it may appear as if exterior circumstances formed such inner shifts, changing the whole unifying structure of the personality, and shifting the personality into what would appear to be entirely uncharacteristic activities.

[...] The personality, as you know, has also a reality within the dream universe. [...]

Now see what you can do with the acceleration now and how far you can follow it. [...] And what other paths lead you forever outward and outward into what realities that bring you once again inward? Then sense the acceleration, and see what you can do with it and use it in your own way for the voice is also a symbol of that acceleration as well as the energy. [...]

[...] I will not tell you ahead of time what experience you can expect but follow through upon the next instance as I suggest. [...]

([Gert:] “But when I went through, in other words what I was doing ....”)

What you were doing was making the previous personality very happy. [...]

As I have said before, your thoughts are reality. [...] What you do, of course, is to isolate a group of people who are filled with negative beliefs about illness. [...]

Again, you make your own reality. [...]

You are convinced of the reality of illness. [...]

[...] If you think that you must come and go at everyone else’s beck and call, then you are like Dineen, who believes that she must do what this “hypnotist” tells her to do. [...]

“He did not mean to stay within physical reality. He only came to show you what was possible, and to bring you both to an understanding of inner reality. [...]

[...] And what about children who die young, or servicemen killed in war? [...] If we lived before, I thought, and if we can’t remember, then what good does it do? [...]

Seth gave more information concerning the past lives of all involved, then added, “I am giving you what I believe is the most important information, whether you can check it out or not. … Your inner selves digest what I have said, and this is more important than ten pages of notes and dates that you cannot check, since these lives were so long ago.”

[...] Jon wanted to know what was happening to her in this state. [...] And what happens after death?” In a recent session Seth answered these questions. [...]

(In mentioning my “sportsman self,” Seth referred to information he’d given about three of my probable selves in a private session on January 30, 1974 — just a few days before starting “Unknown” Reality. [...] I’m not writing here about rationalizing the existence of one or more probable selves to account for personal shortcomings in this reality, however, but of simply using the idea to enlarge our basic notions of the human potential. [...]

[...] These, however, are quite unpredictable fulfillments that come about as you solve what appears to be one main problem. [...]

[...] Your deepest natures called it out of the probable sequence into your joint reality — for a reason, because each of you knew that it could best help you to develop all of your respective abilities to their fullest, and also help others.

[...] The inside senses led him to a reality he could not manipulate as easily as he could a camouflage world, and he feared what he thought of as a loss of mastery.

What you experienced is difficult to explain until we have a thorough discussion of the inner senses, however I will give you a somewhat superficial explanation for now. What you experienced was an onrush, or should I say onslaught, of data in its pure form, rushing through the inner senses like a wind in kaleidoscope, because you did not know how to control or disentangle the data.

Usually in these sessions only one inner sense is in strong operation, but as I mentioned in our last session, man does not trust anything which occurs to him or in him unless he is consciously aware of what he is doing, how he is doing it, and why. [...]

[...] Your own inner senses will add greater reality than you can imagine at this point.

[...] Therefore the whole self is not only the sum of the personality as you know it in your time, it is also the sum of what it has been and what it shall be. [...]

I am particularly concerned however with carrying our discussion further concerning dream realities.

(Jane said she heard the knock itself and was aware of what it meant. [...]

[...] The nature of reality, uncamouflaged, can be glimpsed to some degree as you study the personality in the dream state, where awareness does not operate in an ego-directed manner.