“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] But each time I start visualizing the results, I end up with two notions: First, that as I work with those intermediate forms I’ll become involved with myth and fantasy, rather than ‘fact.’ Just how did reptiles change into birds? [...]

(All intently at 9:40:) No methods will work if you are afraid of your own impulses, or of the nature of your own being. [...]

[...] The psychedelic drugs alter the neurological workings, and therefore can give some slight glimpses into other realities.

[...] You were to work out problems and challenges, but you were always to be aware of your own inner reality, and of your nonphysical existence. [...]

[...] And so you must work out the violence that violence has wrought. [...]

[...] You would think it idiotic to image what happened to the ball when youcould see it no longer, for habit would work in such a way that the disappearance of the ball would seem natural and normal, and a part of the nature of things.

[...] Perhaps the man works for Dr. Instream in some capacity. [...]

(After the session was over at 1:30 AM, Marian’s husband Jimmy arrived home from work. [...]

[...] On some other planes the mental enzymes are unnecessary, since the personality on a conscious level can work such transformations; and here again we run into an apparent contradiction, because while these transformations occur consciously on certain levels it is also true that the personalities concerned do not have to be conscious of the transformations. [...]

[...] It takes a peculiar set of abilities and interests for such work to be even partially successful or even accepted by the personalities involved; and for many personalities it would be difficult to maintain discipline and balance, while allowing for the necessary freedom that is necessarily involved. [...]

Your next-door neighbor may work out well. [...]

[...] Our friend Ruburt has finally discovered the works of Dunne, I see, and he has also been reading Priestley on the subject of time.

[...] We have heard of Dunne, of course, but have yet to read any of his works; for some reason the library here has none of his books.

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

[...] The “connection with four other people” works out well, since the letter concerns a situation involving both my parents, my brother Loren and my brother Bill, other than Jane and me.

[...] While I worked on mail her left foot came up again—a good three inches this time, as she grunted and her head moved against the pillow. [...]

[...] She had some bladder spasms, and finally laid aside the session to have a cigarette while I worked on mail. [...]

(Jane remembered my dream, and we recalled my saying at the time that we hoped it didn’t work out. [...]

[...] In the meantime the pesty fleas continued their household tyranny and all of this was somehow wrapped around a ribbon of excitement as we watched the Democrats and Republicans battle on the news just before we left for our respective work rooms.

“I am not such a philosopher that I can compare my own thoughts and works with those of the noted professionals of whom [your correspondent writes]. [...]

Nevertheless these relationships have a cause, basically, in past relationships having to do with other lives in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and fourteenth centuries, when this family was unfortunately involved in other relationships which are even now only working themselves out.

[...] Nevertheless, I felt that it was legitimate to take this extra time to speak with you, since there are few occasions when Ruburt’s psychic abilities and energies are sufficiently attuned so that we can work together in this manner.

[...] I must work along the lines of his development. [...]

Since we are involving you in such additional work, I will leave it to you to tell me when you are tired. [...]

To some extent, it is because you have accepted the newspapers’ view of reality as real, that you have allowed yourselves to dwell upon certain attitudes about your fellows—so that for example sometimes the world does not seem to deserve great art; or that you even feel you do not want to share your work with the stupid bastards (Seth said, staring at me. [...]

[...] They point precisely to those areas in which both of you heartily agreed, though Ruburt’s way of getting work done was not yours. [...]

[...] At the same time he let his conscious mind wander, and to compensate saw himself as all-powerful, contemptuous of his fellow human beings, and able to work greater vengeance upon them for their misunderstanding of him. [...]

(This was the end of book work for the evening. [...]

(Now that we could relax a little, however, we had every confidence that Seth would easily resume work on Chapter Eleven of his book, even though Jane hasn’t looked at it for quite a while now. [...]

[...] Some will refuse to accept the idea of further work, development, and challenge, believing instead that conventional heaven situations are the only possibility. [...]

[...] Thoughts of expansion will help your work, so that the energy and vision are not imprisoned by form but are within form, even while in the process of change.

We are working on it. [...]

[...] Oh, all right,” she finally laughed as I worked on these notes. [...]

[...] This reminded me of the bitterly cold days when I did the same thing years ago while working at Artistic Card Company—the job that brought us to Elmira. [...]

[...] And understand you have done very little work along the lines of your future in those terms. [...]

[...] Now that he’s finished the front porch, our contractor is free to begin work at the back of the house as soon as possible.)

My own work is such an investigation. [...]

Seth went on to say that I had given my permission for such an arrangement, and that much of our work went on while I was sleeping or otherwise engaged. [...]

“All the channels are not yet working on this set, you see,” Seth said humorously. [...]