“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Now: We are going to resume dictation on our book, so (humorously to Carl) you can see an author at work — an authentic ghost writer if you prefer.

[...] I had grown concerned lately that Jane was overdoing weekend psychic work, including sessions for visitors. [...]

[...] All work dealing with other people generally will be done in whatever room class sessions are held.

[...] There were natural changes occurring in our work, and overall Ruburt has done well in handling them. [...]

(Since the 806th session was held 10 weeks ago [on July 30], then, I’ve worked steadily on Volume 2 of “Unknown.” Late in August Jane interrupted her work on James to move all of her writing paraphernalia into her new room at the back of the house. [...] Jane, who was to work on James all through September, prepared a presentation for that book so that in the meantime her editor, Tam Mossman, could show it to his associates at Prentice-Hall. [...]

(Finally: Just before tonight’s session Jane said she thought Seth might do some work on Mass Events. [...] [See the excerpts from Session 211, in Appendix 18 of that work.] However, Seth didn’t answer my question.)

[...] I do when I’m writing, editing, or rewriting my own work. If I do any of that work as Seth, it’s so unconscious and fast that I’m not aware of it. [...]

[...] While Ruburt was working at one of his books a few days ago, he heard a public service announcement. [...]

[...] You work these out whether you know it or not. Ned and Sue work them out. Alison and Joel work them out. And you all work them out through your own relationships, for even these are symbols for other realities and each move you make in this reality is made in another and still another, and this does not deny the integrity of your own individuality which continues by its own nature. [...]

[...] You are working toward certain kinds of development that can happen, in your terms and in your terms only, only in your space and in your time. [...] Not only to you, but to other realities that you do not presently understand, and that in working out one simple challenge in this existence you work out other challenges for other selves in other realities. [...]

[...] But you will work with organizations and as a director within them. [...] That is for you to work out with other... [...]

[...] That you think these secrets are that important, that they can stop the energy of the universe from working its way through you when that energy gives you your vitality and strength. [...]

[...] “My skin was too tight and they worked all over it. [...] I feel like I’m a giant to those little people, with this method of self-perception I’m using; now they’re back working under my knees.” [...] Then they worked on my shoulders.”

[...] The little men were working on my knees when I heard the kids upstairs leave. Before that they’d worked on my shoulders real fast, shaking my astral shoulders around and around....”

[...] I went to work in the studio on the illustrations for Oversoul Seven. [...]

[...] At 8:45 she came over to the living room for a session; I was still working. [...]

The present owner, even, of the Foster house thinks of it as “work,” since she herself is a … working [real estate] person. Ruburt finds the rugs there out of place, however, because they do not fit in with his ideas of work areas. [...] Her work in that respect is to decorate, and the rugs represent her idea of what belongs in the house.

Since you both work at home, those houses do not fit you, generally speaking.¹⁴ Work is not incorporated into daily family life, but certainly exists apart from it — something you find, each of you, relatively inconceivable. You can see farms better, though you are not farmers, simply because there also work and home life are one.

[...] Jane listed Seth’s families of consciousness last month in Session 732, but wound up the evening’s work thinking that several years ago, soon after she’d initiated the Sumari breakthrough, Sue had psychically tuned in on the name of a second family of consciousness — one that Seth didn’t give in the 732nd session. [...] One of the reasons for my failure to settle the matter right away was the lack of any immediate pressure to do so, for we hadn’t seen Sue since before the 729th session was held; that’s over five weeks ago now; newspaper work has often kept her too busy to make the trip to Elmira.

The first (in Sayre), mentioned far earlier in “Unknown” Reality, you thought was definitely sold, and today you discovered that the sale was not that final.¹⁰ As you discussed these issues a rather important main point escaped your minds: The man who owned the first house (Mr. Markle) was a dealer in antiques and precious stones, utterly devoted to his work and engrossed in it, considering it his art. [...] He had his office downstairs and he often worked at home. [...]

[...] It also means that he is “working alone,” in that there is no other healer or physician or system. He is working intimately with subjective and objective experience, correlating dream events and physical life.

His dream work, again, is highly important and significant —not only for itself, but also because it represents his reliance upon the inner world of his being. [...]

[...] Few work so intimately with body and mind. [...]

[...] When the conscious mind is so diverted the intuitions can do their work. [...] One point here also: you pace yourselves differently in your work.

[...] She is very eager to get to work on her next project, but keeps struggling among many ideas, notes, etc. [...]

When he is working his plunge into creativity is deep. [...]

[...] I here suggest most strongly that until the following Monday at the earliest, he does not work at his writing or his records, that he does not consciously brood over them, and that he divert himself by changing the focus of his conscious awareness.

All people want meaningful work. All meaningful work means in the meaningful and productive relationship between oneself and the natural world, that contributes to both one’s own survival and fulfillment, and to the survival and fulfillment of the natural world. [...]

[...] The same applies to Ruburt’s bouts with “work,” sometimes directly opposed to his ideas of creativity. He has to be “working” all the time, so people will see he is not just a dumb housewife. [...]

(Jane finished reading last night’s deleted session at 9:00 PM—I’d worked most of today typing it from my notes. [...]

A man’s purpose seemed to be no more than to put bolts together to make an automobile, to spend hours in a factory, working on an end product that he might never see—and because many such people felt that there was little intrinsic value to their lives, spent in such a fashion, they began to demand greater and greater compensation. [...]

(Then today, Saturday, my pendulum told me that I felt guilty about using painting time when I should be working on Seth’s “Unknown” Reality, since the painting wasn’t bringing in money, etc. This was a subtle but important change in my knowledge—for I saw that I wasn’t so much concerned about the amount of work I had to do on the books, as that I felt guilty about doing other things. [...]

[...] You have believed that so much time “spent” had to produce “so much” creative work, or creative product. [...] It takes a certain amount of “time” physically to work with a brush. [...]

[...] If Ruburt becomes so spontaneous, then you must be able to make money from your painting, for he might not spend sufficient time at his work.

[...] The reason the pendulum suggestions do work is that you are both jointly changing a status quo that you have jointly—though you may protest—previously accepted.

[...] Some of this is most difficult to explain in any terms that will make sense, because the entire belief system of your times bears physical evidence of course, that such inoculations work.

[...] There are, as I told you, literally endless ways of relating to the body and to the world; each one will work—at least enough so that the system seems to hold.

[...] In many cases, whenever your culture and so-called primitive ones have met, inoculations worked, whether or not the natives believed in a particular inoculation, because they do believe in the “white man’s superior power,” and were as hypnotized by the white doctor’s mystique as they were by their medicine men.

[...] Infants carry a strong telepathic connection with the mother, which is not severed for some time, so that inoculations given the infant can work in that regard, even as a child can also be protected in other systems when the mother calls upon the appropriate spirit.

Now: you worked with the pendulum yesterday. You did not work with the pendulum however regarding those specific events (since they all took place after our morning pendulum work). [...]

Again—Cézanne did not show in any way on the outside, yet the “work” was largely prepared before the first line was written. [...] Whenever the two of you manage to free your creative abilities, and set them to work on the physical situation, you do see some results.

[...] Ruburt has two old lists of such suggestions that can be used as a model—and those lists worked well, incidentally, at the time.

[...] According to the day, the situation, you may then want to work with the pendulum, considering some specific event or issue from that day—but this need not be a lengthy session at all. [...]

[...] Once in a while Jane or I recast his sentence structure for clarity’s sake, or we eliminate a repetitive phrase — for all of this is verbal work as opposed to prose work, which can be easily revised on the spot. [...]

[...] The work produced would be different from the “same” work delivered over a longer time. [...]

However, the work we do deals with concepts that consciously we’d paid little attention to in earlier life. [...] Much of the response to her work that Jane receives by mail and telephone indicates this is happening. [...]

[...] We thought the new work would probably be a long one, but we hardly expected that it would require publication in two volumes.

(Pause at 10:05.) Even poetry did not seem to be work for a while, for example, nor did psychic activity for its own sake (Long pause.) All of this in its way fits together with other material—but no writers of merit, for example (intently), outside of Richard Bach, have written him to applaud his work, and to the writing community it seems he does not exist. [...]

[...] It wasn’t that her psychic work, and the books, weren’t good, I said, or that they didn’t help people, but that they didn’t fit into the world as she saw it. [...]

[...] I added that I supposed now she’d work it so that she only went to the john once before going to bed after the session. [...]

[...] He managed to get some of his work published, however, so that as he reached his early 30’s he had some apprenticeship under his belt. [...]

Your own behavior with your parents, with Ruburt, your attitudes toward your painting and outside jobs, Ruburt’s attitudes toward children, his work and you—all of these were so influenced. [...] That was years ago, when you were working full time. [...]

[...] Head and back more flexible; eyes not quite so red—“in and out” of focus in a period of minutes, yet Jane could see to work part of the time today, as Seth suggested.)

In other kinds of systems, great premiums would be put upon your work. [...]

The work of the jaws necessitates the actions occurring, and if the new jaws end up with new teeth (humorously), that must not be considered a failure or a tragedy. [...]

He has worked at this several hours daily. This is not his job, and it will work against our results. [...] His work in attempting to tabulize the test results thus far, will only hamper our results. [...]

[...] These actions, walking, talking, working, any conceivable dream action, these require energy. [...]

He has worked with human beings and cats. [...]

[...] Here you are working with the mind itself as your material, and merely suggesting that it operate in a certain fashion. [...]

[...] Great work stands alone. [...] As an egotistical creature, alone, you would not choose the experience, even though great work resulted from it. [...]

[...] He must be indeed fully committed to the experimentation and work in which we are all involved. [...]

His work with the material can and should weld his emotions and intellect together in a strong powerful force, but not when he attempts to copy others, or on his own uses words that personally annoy him, to express or interpret the material to others.

[...] It was his problem and he worked it out in his own way. [...]

[...] Events will work out as you and Ned have already decided they will work out, and they will work out for the best. [...]

[...] Far be it from me to monopolize the conversation, but I expect you all to work and the work can be joyful as many of you know. [...]

[...] You will do well working together. [...]

(This morning while working on the tax questionnaire for the CPA who handles our affairs, I had cramps in my back and stomach. [...]

[...] It seems not only as money taken from you, or from Ruburt, which annoys you more, since you think he worked so hard for it—but worst of all, the money is being spent to promote national stupidities of distorted beliefs, to which you are diametrically opposed.

On the one hand, our work and yours is largely devoted to poking holes into the official one-line consciousness, and on the other you find yourself financially responsible to contribute to its policies.

In your mind you creatively envision the ideal—the sanity of some future culture that, hopefully, our work and others will bring about: if not tomorrow, some “time.” [...]

[...] He has also done well in trusting his inclinations toward work, exercise, and relaxation, for the mind-body relationship will work as a unit. [...]

[...] Work on many physical systems is being carried on at once, while balance overall is maintained. [...]

[...] Frank Longwell just went out back again, to finish working; the huge yellow back-hoe moves outside the kitchen window; the air suddenly turns dark; the sun disappears; an odd cast of light covers everything; stormy, evocative. [...] this all continues; I feel a twinge of guilt—Rob’s typing reminds me that I was to do my three hours—but this IS writing; cataloging body-mood changes; I want to sketch the men working—eyes, sinuses, ears and neck strongly “working.” [...]