“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(9:49.) There are qualitative leaps that exist impossible to bridge with the intellect alone that separate, say, well-meaning, adequate-enough attempts toward artistic achievement, and works that are of themselves naturally artistic exhibitions. [...] Techniques may improve, the work may become more polished, but the quality of the poetry itself is what is important.

(Jane said she’d first called me for the session at 8:20, but I had been working in the studio closet and hadn’t heard her. [...]

[...] Those connections are worked out at all levels of reality, in the waking state through your communication devices and culture, and through the far more complicated arena of the culture of dreams. [...]

In your times the individual problems of masses of people are bound up with such issues, and as they work toward their own solutions, then in their own ways they help solve problems at the level of world action. [...]

[...] From the Irish side, a woman who worked for others, you see, was a domestic. There was, in the family history, always a struggle to work for oneself, this being a matter of class pride and independence.

[...] This happened this morning when Ruburt allowed his true feelings toward the work situation to emerge on a conscious level. [...]

[...] He felt guilty at turning down the yoga classes, yet he felt that to match your performance he was expected to work five afternoons. [...]

For various reasons, the men in his family, his grandfather on his father’s side, whom he did not know, his maternal grandfather and his father, were highly independent, insisting upon working for themselves. [...]

(I’m also trying to whip up some enthusiasm to begin work on Seth’s latest book, Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, for which we recently signed the contract, and took money. [The contract was countersigned on March 22.] “Don’t worry,” I said to Jane in the hospital, “I know who’s going to do the rest of the work on the book....” Meaning that I could see she wasn’t going to be able to contribute much physical work on it at this time. Therefore, actually producing the physical work for the publisher was going to be up to me, and I was anxious to begin work on this once we’ve established some sort of viable daily routine revolving around Jane’s nursing care, sleeping schedule, medication, etc.

[...] She did this work herself, presumably in a sort of altered state, and has made a good start here. [...]

[...] Ruburt can work with the self-image he has now. [...]

(Seth’s statement at the end of dictation for the 815th session, “I will try to begin work on our book in a more predictable fashion,” reflected his good intent, but things didn’t turn out that way. Jane and I let the holiday season intervene to some extent, and Session 816, which came through the day after Christmas, didn’t concern book work at all. [...]

1. Those “other projects” included work by Jane and me on Emir and Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, respectively. [...] Then yesterday Jane received from her publisher the copyedited manuscript for James, so during the next week or so we’ll be very carefully going over that work, too.

[...] Even investigative work involving atoms and molecules, or [theoretical²] faster-than-light particles, concerns the particle nature of reality. [...]

[...] All of this works at a certain level, to a certain degree. [...]

[...] The exercises which Ruburt is barely beginning will be of great help in our work, and in the development of his abilities. [...]

I will tell you this (pause, eyes open):Neither of you realize as yet the full extent of Ruburt’s inner change of mind, his commitment now to our work, the commitment of his abilities to these matters for his lifetime.

[...] Enough in fact to show itself considerably in new impetus in your own work.

[...] Value fulfillment is always working, yet there is between those two statements—you realize the ones to which I refer—the idea of judgment as an impetus and spur against the inner self’s knowledge of the growth that must come.

[...] He remembers his early lack of discipline in working matters, but he is well disciplined now. On session nights particularly his working day is elongated, and regardless of my efforts there is some physical and mental strain involved, though these are greatly minimized.

Monday he also worked, and the following day he did not immediately begin another story. [...]

It is ridiculous for him to so punish himself, and does not help matters, as his joyous spontaneity is so important in his working habits.

Because of his rather intense mental work, I would suggest walks and other physical activities. [...]

[...] Working with the Ouija board, they received messages telling them that they could indeed have a part in a great mission. One young lady wanted to quit her job, stay at home, and immerse herself in “psychic work,” hoping that her part in changing the world could be accomplished in that manner. [...]

[...] He took a routine job in a local business and stayed with it for over 20 years, all of the time hating to go to work, or saying that he did, and at the same time refusing to try other areas of activity that were open to him — because he was afraid to try.

[...] Had he begun the work of actualizing his ideals through his own private life, he would not be in such a situation. [...]

[...] That energy could have sustained him far more than it has, however, had he counted on his natural interests and chosen one of those for his life’s work. [...]

[...] to finish my book, start up a definite dream schedule, that is, two or three scheduled long naps plus suggestions as I used to do for various kinds of out-of-bodies and dream states; a session a week as of now with the dream work perhaps making up for the second session we don’t have; and painting. Maybe just the permissiveness is a sign of loosening checks and balances that have had physical reflections—not just because of psychic work per se—but because I haven’t learned to trust the self I was working with....

[...] Walter Buhr has had his work shown in numerous galleries in New York State as well as in Pennsylvania. He is starting a sculpture class as well as working at his own sculpturing. The media he works in range from terra cotta to bronze to wood. [...]

[...] He has had his work exhibited in many galleries in Buffalo, including A.M.A.’s Gallery, J.N.’s Gallery, Encores Gallery, and Carl Briedmier’s Gallery. His work received favorable reviews in both the Buffalo Evening News by Trevor Thomas [well-known English art critic], and in the Buffalo Sun Bulletin by Larry Griffis.

[...] I thought her work was better than ever, surprisingly so, and that her ideas were good and her extremely personal handling of them in paint very fresh. [...]

[...] Jane, Bill and I were eventually left alone, and since Bill is also an artist, the three of us joined a rather animated discussion of Jane’s latest work. [...]

[...] When you are working with Framework 2 you are indeed working with nature in the most basic way. [...]

Once you begin consciously working with Framework 2, help, support, solutions, all begin to come, for you line up your conscious faculties with your unconscious ones, in the most beneficial way, and your conscious goals fit in with your unconscious natural goals—the primary ones given you at birth. [...]

[...] The work done there is out of all proportion to the effort expended once your intent is clear, and the clear desire stated. [...]

(Evidently our concentration on increased sales is working. [...]

[...] She quit after a few minutes while I worked on mail. [...] I told her I’ve tried Seth’s suggestions about enhancing my close-up vision, given in a recent session, and that they’ve worked very well. [...]

[...] I told Jane I also felt that Jean was somehow dissatisfied in life, perhaps confused, perhaps caught between her artistic leanings and her upbringing to lead the more conventional life — working at the hospital, and so forth. [...]

(As we talked, something triggered Jane’s memory of a time in her teens when she’d hiked all the way out to the garage where her grandfather had worked in Saratoga Springs — “way across town.” [...]

[...] Evidently our psychic communication works very well …)

[...] The work done in the kitchen last weekend helped him, for the reasons given. Through motor activities he rids himself of identification in a vigorous and aggressive matter, the symbolism worked out in physical terms. [...]

[...] While the overall stability of working hours and arrangements should be largely maintained, he should make an effort to vary his activities and routine. [...]

[...] He should when possible, for now, wear yellows and greens to work. [...]

[...] Part of the late afternoon symptoms at work, lately, have been caused by a simple fear that difficulty would strike him on his way home. [...]

Ruburt’s body is then magically and naturally repairing itself in a function just as creative, of course, as the inner work that goes on in the production of a book or a poem — a fact he is finally getting through his head. [...] We can also expect some improvement in vision, as that area is now being worked on.

[...] I’d forgotten to do it last night, so absorbed was I in working on the copy-edited Mass Events. [...]

[...] …” She sipped wine while I worked on these notes.

[...] Ruburt is beginning to hold a more “realistic” picture of how overall reality works. [...]

[...] This morning, we’d asked a series of pendulum questions about material in Monday’s session, concerning work, inspiration, protection, and so forth, and obtained some illuminating answers.

[...] I was after an understanding on various levels of the fact that Jane had created something that certainly assumed equal billing with her other creative work—that the personality may have been quite aware that this would happen, and was willing in some sort of terms for the situation to exist for a number of years.

[...] It takes your time, and his now, to encourage his walking, and if this is in “working hours,” both of your old beliefs are directly challenged.

[...] The arms were not just shortened, but only worked in certain restricted positions, where they were relatively reliable. [...]

These images continue to work out problems that you have set for them, in the same manner that you work out problems as your present personality in one incarnation after another. [...]

[...] The two witnesses this evening have worked out very well. It is possible that the wife in question may work out well also, but the approach to her should not be overly impassioned, as this would be a mistake.

In your dreams, when the conscious ego is stilled, you often and continually work this transformation, and we have gone into this problem. [...]

[...] Secondary personality problems that cannot be taken up by the personality in regular life, for various reasons, are worked out as you know. [...]

(Head-neck area “working” during night.)

[...] working.

Involved with this simple statement, however, as background, all of the material I have given you should be at least somewhat understood, particularly the sessions Ruburt is working with in the late summer of 1980 onward. [...]

[...] But we will let it go for the moment, refresh ourselves and allow the energy of creativity to work upon the paragraph till we return to it.” [...]

[...] A program has been worked out whereby Cathy is to see Jane on Sunday and Thursday evenings for regular massages for a while, to see if they help her. [...]

[...] There are people in any organization who are in the habit of sloppy work. [...] But even the sloppy workers will indeed pick up your ideas of excellence, and try to translate them, finding even a new satisfaction in their work—but only if you think of what you want as a product, and not what you fear you will get instead.

[...] She also knew of my questions about counterparts that I’d come up with as a result of my work on The “Unknown” Reality: were Jane and I counterparts; and, to resolve a contradiction—in two different sessions in that book, were George Rhoads and I counterparts, or weren’t we? [...]

The rest of the body, however, had to work around these difficulties. [...]

[...] Ruburt is aware of many of these sensations, so that he consciously will have some knowledge of how his own body works, and will be able from now on to have a greater conscious knowledge of its condition. [...]

(Seth reiterated what he had said before about my healing powers.) When you pass people in the street, go to work immediately. [...]

[...] You ought to try to work with plants also in the early hours of the evening. [...]

(As I have said before, Seth has a way of answering questions that come up in conversation or even confirming or clarifying thoughts I have worked out for myself, without mention to anyone. [...]

I should emphasize that it would be better for you not to play with tables at all, except here or in the company of others who are already familiar with such work.

The main work, meaning basic work with the neck ligaments, should soon be over, so that the eyes will be far more comfortable, and the other changes largely show in the body’s lower portions. [...]

[...] The eye on the working side must readjust. [...]

[...] They do not require then the full artillery of your defenses—a great waste of your time and effort that could, of course, be devoted to your work.

The men, working here (on Jane’s back room and porch), are distracting. [...]