“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Since at the time I was working as a typesetter,² I figured my impression had derived from that. [...] In the plant where I worked at the time, I ‘recognized’ several people in the Grunaargh family — all were printers — and with a feeling quite as strong as the recognition I had for Sumari.

[...] I write ‘were’ out of habit, because I have this delightful feeling that my printing, writing, and newspaper interests now are what led me to be drawn to the same things back then, even as my work there caused me to be interested in the same things now — an exchange across the board.

[...] He had fingers like sausages; people in town were always amused that he was so big and worked with such small pieces. [...]

[...] This is hard to specify, but he had the same feeling I have now about newspapers — the daily spreading out of ideas, and the kind of tremendous power behind that ability … I can see that corner of his shop/work area clearly in a half-light, illuminated by a candle in an enclosed mesh lantern sitting on a tabletop. [...]

We don’t know how things work re turning in a thesis, etc., as you mention in your letter, but you have our best wishes. We assume it means you have done all your work and are now just waiting for formalities, etc., re that great day! [...]

[...] Jane has been snowed under with work, correspondence, classes, etc., so I have taken it upon myself to help her out re letters. [...]

This allows the inner self to work much more quickly and effectively. You can trick normal consciousness quite easily with baubles, take its attention into other areas so that the inner self is left alone to do its work. [...]

He pulls out part of the thorn but not all of it, working with the pendulum, in some cases. [...]

[...] See it as a form, then as you work with the pendulum close the eyes and see whether the form or the shape is disappearing. [...]

When this is working well the emotion will diminish as the image fades; an episode such as this latest one should be considered as a local condition, and not exaggerated. [...]

[...] The sexual implications last evening, generally under several various areas of personality, could not have come into consciousness, for example, without the consent of the conscientious self, which says often “No work, no sex.” [...] It must go into ‘good’ creative work.”

[...] Jane talked to several people here today who reminded her that there was always a need to be filled regardless of location, about such things as reincarnation, dreams, etc; this also made us feel that we could work out here, in living arrangements and income, as well as anywhere else. [...]

Some of your own energy has been held back then from your work for that reason. [...]

[...] Your full energy for work and your creative drive is released, and will be, as you creatively use and understand your problems, but not concentrate upon them, not let them close your eyes to the joys and freedoms that you have. [...]

[...] (In sleeping.) His performance last evening showed however a greater participation of the overly conscientious self in the psychic work, showing itself as authority and confidence. It is not of itself limiting in our work by any means, but there has been constant and deep misunderstanding that came to a head last winter, was somewhat resolved, but still continued. [...]

[...] The overly conscientious self demanded that this was not work enough. It did not pay penance enough for the fact that you were working at Artistic. [...]

[...] When the overly conscientious self and the spontaneous self are working well together there are no difficulties, and Ruburt has the full use of his remarkable energy, and it is well focused.

[...] The fact that he has worked without reprisal on his dream book shows this.

[...] The work is close to the way Seth would present it; it probably stems from her efforts last night, we think, to see what she could do with “book work” on her own:

(Apropos of the notes preceding this session, concerning Jane’s nighttime work on Seth’s book last week: the same kind of effects returned when she went to sleep after this session — but this time she decided to try an experiment. [...]

[...] People confuse this with power over their environment, or others, then wonder why power over doesn’t work….

(“Last night I also felt that Seth’s Appendix — if there is one — could deal with notes on particular chapters; methods of using natural hypnosis in certain cases; work on beliefs, etc.”)

[...] He will have to work for success, but this is the kind of success he is personally equipped to work for and achieve.

[...] There is an acceleration process here that will work to your advantage as larger and larger blocks of symptoms disappear. For with each day, he has greater vitality, you see, that he did not have earlier, that works for him and for complete recovery with ever-growing strength.

It will take, perhaps, some work to maintain your relationship at this necessary level, but for your own health and Ruburt’s, such effort is more than worthwhile.

[...] These include works of poetry, fiction, and psychic matters as experienced from her own conscious viewpoint. [...] It’s safe to note, however, that now all of her work bears upon that unique, still-growing view of consciousness expressed by Seth and herself. [...]

[...] She was also working on her own The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View of William James. [...] It’s always a pleasure to work on a Seth book, to explore with him his unique view of reality, and to try to put at least a few of his ideas to use in our everyday, “practical” world. [...]

2. I don’t mean to confuse the reader by using the titles of Seth’s “old” books, but rather to show how Jane’s and my work encompasses a number of projects at once. That is, we have yet to manage to work on just one book of any kind at a time; that would be too simple! [...]

That progression in Jane’s endeavors (and in my own to a lesser degree) may reflect her strong writing and psychic abilities, but it also reveals the way we constantly work with her work, and how we go about presenting it in the form of physical books so that we can show others what we’ve been up to.

Now an old friend of mine from days at Pratt came to either work with me or visit. [...] In the dream Ralph, who is quite tall (6’4”) and thin and wiry, needed some shorts to wear for work. [...]

[...] I not only owned the station which serviced cars, but did the actual work; my clothes were worn and greasy. [...]

[...] You have the freedom to add varieties to your schedules, to alter some of the time in which you work, but you do not take advantage of that freedom.

There are many variations now possible with your present “work loads” that are not visible to you because you are not used to looking for them. [...]

Because your work does involve you with both painting and writing inside, then any other variety you add to it can help make up for the varieties possible to others who have a daily change of environment as a matter of course. [...]

[...] (Pause.) A steady rather than too spasmodic application to his work is needed. He will always work quickly and intuitively, this is beneficial and characteristic of him. Thought and planning can be utilized however, when he is not working well. The thought and planning will then show itself even in the intuitional work.

[...] You help others through your work. [...]

The added sensitivity will show in your work, and the flexibility will aid you in many ways. [...]

[...] And in a matter of speaking, again, man becomes the earth thinking, and thinking his own thoughts, man in his way specializes in the conscious work of the world—a work that is dependent upon the indispensable “unconscious” work of the rest of nature, a nature that sustains him (all very intently). And when he thinks, man thinks for the microbes, for the atoms and the molecules, for the smallest particles within his being, for the insects and for the rocks, for the creatures of the sky and the air and the oceans.

[...] Along with Dreams, Jane is back working on If We Live Again and God of Jane. [...]

[...] Besides this, it seems to you that such encounters involve a simplification and distortion by their very nature as far as your work is concerned, along with a unique kind of psychological disclosure that could be humiliating, lacking the proper frame of understanding. [...]

[...] You were also afraid that spontaneously you would want to do public encounter work, that you’d be tempted, that once begun, you’d be swept along and that the circumstances would be volatile. [...]

That is, trance work you feel requires a safe framework and stresses a private stance even though its messages can be shared. [...]

[...] You are doing very well, as you know, in your dream work. You are doing well in your creative work also, and in your writing. You forget there are problems you must work through, and that in the struggle to create further creativity results. [...]

[...] Now, this has to do in some regard to work you did in the past when it was highly dangerous to speak of your beliefs or to remember this code of ethics. So try to allow yourself greater freedom for the two of you can work very well together. [...]

Now if I had my own eyes to work with you would have something to complain about. [...]

Now, the deliberation with which you speak, in class and to those with whom you work, has to do with the fact that in the past, as I mentioned earlier, you memorized a code of ethics, and you had to be deliberate as you recalled this code and then told it to others. [...]

[...] He also felt he had to discipline himself because he could not trust himself, and his symptoms served, again, to keep him at his work. [...] If you use it, it works. [...]

[...] Ruburt tried to put his understanding to practical use in terms of daily life, your relationship, work, finances, his classes, yet he found himself with definite physical hassles. [...]

[...] It was necessary in the old frame of reference, that he believe his body could not work properly. [...]

In your system insanity means uncontrolled behavior largely, so he began putting more and more control upon his physical actions, so that no one could say his work was the result of instability. [...]

[...] When possible think of these persons also when you discover them so that in your daily waking life you can receive some more intuitional information as to the kind of work and endeavors in which you are all involved. [...] You are using abilities in that work that you are not using as yet in your conscious lives, and I want you to become aware of what these abilities are. [...] You may find several of you involved in the same work in the dream state. [...]

[...] This is involved, therefore, with previous experience that you have discussed and simply means that you need more work along those lines to clear your own feelings. [...] I suggest, however, that you use your own means to probe into those feelings so that you work them out for yourself. [...]

[...] And you perform work of which you are unaware as you go about your daily way. [...]

[...] Now, however, you should also become aware of other personalities who work with you when your normally conscious ego is quieted. [...]

[...] The world is being changed through our work—but because that work is primarily a creative endeavor in the fullest, deepest meaning, now, of the word creative. [...]

[...] It also made him think, however, that he was not changing the world in any way that mattered in any important degree—that those in authority did not even read them, and that even my latest work (Mass Reality) would make no inroads. [...]

[...] Greg simply wanted to say thanks for the work Jane is doing, with my help. [...]

[...] It is quite safe, therefore, to criticize them in that regard, to see how a story or a painting is constructed—or more importantly, to critically analyze the structure of ideas, themes, or beliefs, that appear behind, say, the poem or the work of fiction.

[...] Before that it had worked well. [...] A new catheter had been inserted, but that one wasn’t working when I got there. [...]

[...] Two new gals—one a student, stopped in to see if they could get the catheter already in place working again. I worked on mail. [...]

[...] They decided they had it reinserted far enough so that it would work. [...]

(While I’m doing my own work on Mass Events we’ll hold the sessions for Seth’s Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, of course. My own long-range goal in working with the Seth books is one that I’ve found very difficult to achieve: I want to catch up on the backlog of work involved with the books so that I can devote most of my efforts to whatever the current Seth book is — while Seth is still producing it. [...]

[...] She’s written the first drafts for many of the chapters of the book by now, and has planned most of the rest of them — although she may change any of her work at any time. [...] And her third Seven novel, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time, waits for her to return to work on it.

[...] Jane and I had expected him to finish his work soon, yet when the moment arrived we still felt a certain surprise, a certain nostalgic letdown: Something we’d counted upon as part of our weekly routine wouldn’t be there any more.

[...] Somewhat ruefully, I considered all of the work I still had to do to prepare the manuscript of Mass Events for publication.

At the risk of being repetitive: if he concentrates upon his work, the morning issue will take care of itself, and by work I mean not only his writing, but his own individual psychic endeavors. [...]

He still feels guilty about you going to work in the morning, and not getting up just rubs his nose in it further. He is saying “I may not have to go out to work like you do, but I am punishing myself for it, so do not blame me.”

(This noon, driving home from work, I pulled a muscle in my right side while wheeling the car around a corner—one of those painful things that you feel when you cough, breathe deeply, laugh, etc.)

You are apt to forget about it simply because in your childhood home you had to work for emotional isolation.