“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I am sorry that this involved Ruburt with so much work voicewise, and that it involves you Joseph with so much hand work. [...]

[...] The transference of my data is automatic and instantaneous on Ruburt’s part and is performed through the inner workings of the mind, the inner senses and the brain.

[...] Like me, he didn’t believe that Fred flew here from Denver—that is, talking a stewardess into giving him free transportation all that way—yet Fred got here somehow, and I explained that the manuscript of Fred’s that I’ve looked over contains descriptions of his landing in Pittsburgh, PA, and working his way east through a series of stops at restaurants, in which he’d add to his manuscript each time. [...]

[...] As Seth said, she did not appear; her planned activities at the newspaper where she works were changed unexpectedly; she was taken out of town Wednesday night, the time of the 242nd session. [...]

Our friend Ruburt is picking up again, and in his own work as well. [...]

[...] We did not get to work, really, with the Ouija board until later in the month; Seth made his appearance in December 1963.

[...] The first two episodes cost me work time of several days each. [...]

(Following the conference with her editor late in June, Jane has devoted herself to finishing her manuscript for Adventures, while I’ve worked steadily on the diagrams for it, as well as on the drawings for Dialogues. [...] Next comes the finished work for publication, which I’ll produce by placing a sheet of clear acetate over each guide, then rendering on that untouched surface the final version in “line,” or pen and ink. [...]

[...] It had been raining then, too, on that day last March — and as I wrote at the time, in some half-romantic fashion I’ve hooked up the flights of geese with Jane’s and my work on the Seth books. I’m still surprised that I’ve done so, for whatever reasons; but we’re ready to dig in for a winter’s work.

(Jane and I hadn’t realized it at first, but we were to take a long rest from work on “Unknown” Reality following the 707th session, for July 1. We were busy during the next 14 weeks, of course; there follow a few notes about some of our activities, grouped together by subject matter rather than chronology.

[...] We’re no longer into that activity for a number of reasons; yet when the host for a Miami, Florida, radio show called Jane early this morning [September 30] about the possibility of a taped interview, she impulsively suggested to that rather startled individual that the tape be made then — and so for half an hour she exchanged with him a free, unrehearsed dialogue about her work for later airing.

[...] At one time I had decided never to sell the portrait, but gradually changed my view on this in the light of my own feelings, along with Seth’s statements concerning my using my work to influence others. [...]

[...] And in other ways to lesser degrees, through abstract thought, through art of any kind, the physical human being, having been formed by consciousness, in his own way then working through and with matter, constructs other fields or planes of attraction, which according to their abilities expand.

[...] Had been working on such a landscape today.

(Seth’s recent statement that my psy-time experiences would shortly become more vivid seems to be working out. [...]

There is still considerable coloration, but this is to be expected, and you will work through it. [...]

When you are working alone in psychological time experiments, you do not so fear emergence of the subconscious, and you trust your material more. [...]

[...] This second possibility therefore is a good one and would work highly to your advantage. [...]

[...] In fact, as Tom remarked, “She doesn’t even know what my job is, except that I work for a bank.”

This automatic procedure works both ways, then, constantly. [...]

[...] But the unit selves retain their identity, as in a nation the citizens retain theirs, even though the nation at times may act as a unit, and share particular mass characteristic drives and desires, and work toward various goals.

When I began putting together Seth’s dictation for Dreams, and adding Jane’s and my own notes, plus excerpts from other relevant sessions, it soon became obvious that the entire work was going to be too long for one volume. [...]

[...] And Jane and I look forward with intense interest to the final version of Dreams, for as always this work will be as revealing and educational for us as it will be for anybody else. [...]

[...] She added that she often thought of trying something that way, but that she hesitated to ask me to take the time to sit around in case nothing happened, since she knew I was trying to work as much as I could on the intro for Seth’s Dreams. [...]

[...] She’d just spoken a phrase I didn’t understand as I worked on these notes—something in answer to a question she’d thought I’d asked. [...]

[...] He is working with beliefs, juggling them. [...]

[...] A note added after Jane’s death in 1984: she worked upon her most interesting autobiography, From This Rich Bed, periodically over the years, but never did finish it. [...]

(Yet I think more is involved than choosing among the belief systems offered by Eastern or Western cultures, for instance — that is, in more basic terms each personality would make that kind of choice before physical birth, with the full understanding of the vast influence such a decision would have upon a life’s work. [...]

[...] The interested reader will also be able to compare her composition with certain passages in her long poem, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time, when that work is published in book form in September 1975.

[...] It will be published, but Ruburt will also work with it in the psychological workshop of the classes.

[...] The workings of the personality led to the science fiction direction, and could have short circuited him, ending far before the inner goal was even glimpsed. [...]

(I was somewhat dubious about Jane’s hypnosis attempts since we haven’t had time to do much work in this direction lately. [...]

[...] In such a system however, as in your own, the perceiver is also a participator and a creator, but he does not work with your conception of time, but with probabilities. [...]

[...] It takes time for memory to begin to work. [...]

Perhaps she works in a jewelry shop. [...]

[...] The goal is to be achieved through hard work, and as long as you believe this you do not understand what the spirit is.

I keep returning to natural analogies — but plants do not work at developing their potential. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Play brings you a needed rest from your distorted concepts of selfhood, and many of the world’s finest inventions have come when the inventor was not concentrating upon work, but indulging in pastimes or play.

[...] Those counterparts that you meet will be working, playing, and being more or less within your own culture. [...]

[...] The energy of the action, the workings of action within and upon itself, forms identity. [...]

[...] Action must, therefore, of its very nature, of itself and from its own workings, create identities. [...]

This first dilemma results in action, and from action’s own working upon itself we have seen that identity was formed, and that these two are inseparable. [...]

[...] You are free to finish my book or not as you prefer, but not to finish it thinking that such an action will help solve your difficulties would not work. [...]

(I should note that Jane seems to misunderstand my attitude here: the aim is not to use halting work on Seth’s latest book as a curative device, but to at least keep things from getting any worse. [...]

[...] It would make a lot of sense, I said, if it were true, and would account for things like an obsession with work, giving up other life activities, etc.—all done in a disguised attempt to appease that Sinful Self that merrily carried on year after year.... [...]

[...] I make no attempt, for example, to inspire Ruburt in his own creative work. However if he did not have such an outlet, and if you did not have such an outlet in your own work, then indeed we would have had much more trouble, because this layer of personal subconscious would then be not merely a receptive channel but one that also radioed its own noisy and demanding stations.

[...] Ruburt will improve, and is improving, as far as distortions are concerned; because, again, we are not using a deep trance state, because we are working in cooperation. [...]

[...] Yesterday in particular, however, provides an excellent example of the way approval and self-disapproval work, and of the ways in which the habit of disapproval can cause you to misinterpret events, and then of course act accordingly.

[...] That meant that at that point newly activated portions of muscles and joints were working more or less in unison. [...]

[...] Your own improved mental habits of the week, your pendulum work and his own improvements, released energy that under those conditions sought release—and his impulse showed him in what direction.

[...] The dream personalities are indeed fragments, projections of the self, all working out various roles, seeking various experiences, searching for solutions and gratifications.

Much work has been done in the attempt to interpret dreams. [...]

Upon proper suggestion the personality will work out specific problems in the dream state, as earlier mentioned. [...]

There is no reason why Ruburt cannot work on his own book simultaneously, and from his viewpoint. [...]

[...] Let them work for you.

[...] The state of your inner physical organism, viewed from another perspective, is a chaotic one, but it works to find purpose.