“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We should consider such changes as a part of our working life, to provide refreshment; otherwise we just stew because we’re not “creative or working” or whatever....even furniture rearranging or changing whole rooms to different functions can be considered a vacation of a sort, and while I’ve always felt guilty at involving Rob in changing furniture—but do, anyhow. [...]

(Tam has rejected Stefan Schindler’s book on Seth – he did so last week—so this morning Jane called Eleanor Friede to see if she wanted to examine the work. [...] Then Jane called S. Schindler with that news; he in turn has “a list” of West Coast publishers he wants to try, evidently thinking the university press route won’t work.

You work, for example, perhaps, as many hours as you want, or can—but you completely change the hours, or you work as usual, but you change the furniture in the rooms, or turn the rooms to different functions—or whatever—but allow for such changes in the overall routines. [...]

[...] I know I can—and am—working them out. [...]

[...] They’re quite content to leap upon the work of others, and to get mad at them because they — meaning Jane and me — don’t react the way we’re supposed to. They also forget, or don’t understand, that being the way we are led to the creation of our work. If we were different people, the work would be different — or might not exist at all.

(I worked on Dreams this morning. [...]

[...] I’m quite aware of the contradictions in our own behavior, too, as I told Jane after the half-hour conversation was over: We put our work out into the arena where it’s available to anyone, and hope they’ll pay attention to it. [...]

The event was subconsciously recognized by you and had to do, I believe, with a woman with whom you worked with, whom you are at least partially involved in that you meet her now and then. She is not in the room in which you work but I believe, some two doors down or two places removed. [...]

Now this bargain does not only have to do with your psychic work but to your entire life situation and in a way you have the same goals but you have a division of labor that you have subconsciously decided upon. [...] Now at this time, it seems too much to bear both at the same, and so our friend here is being the critical one for you and then you can free yourself for this trance work knowing that any questions of a critical nature that you might have will be asked by her and, therefore, you will feel free to go ahead. [...]

[...] You should also have a series of dreams that work out various aspects of the same problem for this is but one isolated point of your feelings. [...]

[...] I am saying that you have a good working relationship that will change and be flexible in time. [...]

[...] He plans to attend ESP class tomorrow night, then stay over Wednesday to read and discuss the two works Jane has in progress, Adventures in Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology, and “Unknown” Reality. [...] If Seth comes through with material for “Unknown” Reality, Tam will be the first “outsider” to sit in on a session for this work. [...] That rather formal division in her trance activities suits us well; we enjoy doing most of our work by ourselves, no matter what kind it may be.

[...] In it Seth gave the heading for Section 4, just before finishing his evening’s work with a few minutes of personal information for Jane and me. [...]

[...] Usually a certain kind of serene existence makes the best kind of day-by-day framework for these sessions and our other creative work, even while those days may contain within them points of unusual interest or excitement [such as Jane’s weekly ESP class]. [...]

[...] However, such techniques will not work in mass terms, or allow you, say, to prolong effective, productive life unless you change your beliefs in other areas also, and learn the inner dynamics of the psyche.

[...] It consists of a note Jane wrote me late this morning, and left on the table for me to find upon coming home from work this noon. Jane herself left for work at about 11:30 AM at nursery school. The note used as object concerned work we had been doing with the pendulum recently, and which has also been discussed to some degree in recent sessions. [...]

(The object for the 83rd envelope experiment was a note Jane wrote to me today; I found it on the table this noon upon returning from work, left there by Jane shortly after 11 AM. [...]

[...] This allowed the subconscious healing abilities to work. [...]

[...] When the ego controls this resoluteness however, it turns into stubbornness, and works against the personality. [...]

Jane and I haven’t had any sessions for the last 12 days, while we worked on God of Jane and Mass Events respectively. [...] Yet when Seth came through his material certainly sounded like book work to me.)

[...] She began working at the variety store in the summer of 1945, when she was 16 years old. It was her first job; she had to get working papers and a Social Security number. [...]

[...] So there are processes that work like associations, that can provide passageways through the universe’s otherwise time-structured ways. [...]

[...] Actually, in various branches of mathematics, from the works of Euclid (the Greek mathematician who flourished around 300 B.C.) to modern information theory, I found many relationships with Seth’s ideas. [...]

[...] I think the suggestions about the two frameworks that we’ve worked out are very close to the suggestions that Seth implied we should use in the hypnosis experiments.

If I try too specifically to help Ruburt become consciously aware of methods he uses naturally in his creative work, he is apt to get too detailed in his physical efforts, where the creative activity you have begun of itself can carry itself along in physical areas if you allow it to.

[...] Once you allow your faith to take some root, then you yield far more than you sow in Framework 2, and in results in Framework 1. Positively, you see that kind of acceleration in Ruburt’s work, and if you give yourselves a chance you will see it also as far as Ruburt’s physical condition is concerned. [...]

[...] Lately I’ve been suggesting to Jane that when she finds herself hassling something she reminds herself that she has “a simple, profound faith that whatever needs to be done for an improvement in my health can take place in Framework 2. There are no impediments in Framework 2. Its creative workings there can show themselves in Framework 1, in my improved physical condition. [...]

[...] There is certain work that you could do that could be compared to Ruburt’s science fiction; that is, commercial in that it brings in money, and yet expresses an intuitive and creative part of the personality and is not, as you say, hack work.

If he manipulates that heritage well, then his expectations will work for him. [...]

In your physical field, and this limitation is important, in your physical field, truths are often caused by, or are the result of, expectations worked out. [...]

You are secure as long as you put a good portion of energy into painting, but this distortive expectation of yours could end up making you bitter even against your painting; because even when you are pleased with your work, it could tend, definitely, to prevent you, in strong terms, from seeking not only financial reward from it, but other satisfactions as well by preventing you from showing it where such showing in galleries and exhibitions throughout the country is important.

[...] Because of its very nature it wants to attach itself to, and work for, what it considers the good. It has been held within severe limitations and working under a false premise. [...]

[...] It never admitted the possibility of failure, but only worked toward success.

It believes it works for the good. [...]

[...] These two warring elements are deeply bound up in psychic work because they were deeply bound up early in religious and mystic connotations in Catholic upbringing.

[...] Secondly, I was also about when one member (Florence) of this class and another woman were working on my book. [...]

[...] The interest and the effort mean much to you and will work for your own benefit, beside the fact of course, that you will have in your possession an excellent manuscript. [...]

[...] As long as you do your work and study, I am jovial. [...]

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

Work with the sessions of late. [...] There are changes in the hips occurring, and remarkable improvements already “in the works.” [...]

[...] She rests in bed mid-morning and mid-afternoon for a half hour or so, working part of the time on notes, poetry, etc.

[...] Today I worked also on chronologies for a Dutch publisher, and for the film producer who’s optioned the movie rights to Jane’s Oversoul Seven novels.

[...] In the meantime I’m going back to work on my impressionistic tree painting and the one of the dream man and boy in blue.)

(The little I’ve worked with the pendulum tells me my troubles are rooted in money attitudes, as well as the production time I’ve lost on Mass Events for the last two weeks and more. I thought I was doing something by working hard on that book, to get it underway in an organized fashion, I told Jane as we sat for the session—so what happened? [...] This would involve holding the sessions, but letting Jane herself do any work about producing books for the market. [...]

[...] We’d been working hard, and when I lay down for a nap Saturday afternoon I felt relaxation effects. [...]

(We’ve lost the old sense of freedom we had with Prentice-Hall, where we can just do our work, ship it to them, and expect it to be well handled, with royalties paid every so often and a trust both felt and expressed between the two sides. [...]

[...] I’ve already written Ariston that we will sell them no more work after their dishonesty with Seth Speaks, and plan to do the same thing soon with Ankh-Hermes. [...]

[...] Thursday in the mail receive a letter all about the new home-sized computers, how they worked, and how one could be used to work with our records and sessions....)

[...] Lots of “work: going on right head/jaw/throat. [...]

[...] PM doing correspondence; eyes some blurry; that right bunch of ligaments seems to be working....

Some scientists and people in parapsychology will learn of our work through your friend because of his travels. He is a friend of yours, though you met him but once—yet in your work as always keep your counsel. [...]

[...] We have a lot of work still cut out for us, but you will find that it will be handled very easily—almost automatically, requiring little notes but ordinary transcription.

[...] To some extent, it is quite valid to say—though you may not agree with me—that you might as well have had all that work to do now as well.

[...] This was to help you save face: you didn’t take time out because you wanted to, but because you were so miserable that you could not work—and then yelled out in outrage that the body so betrayed you. [...]

(Long pause at 7:44.) Now, he more or less thinks that he must and should return to “work” immediately, where instead a more relaxed attitude would allow his natural feelings, his love of ideas and his interest in our work to naturally show their results again, with the most natural balance of recuperation. [...]

(Once again, I tried to get through to her that the sessions or her own work could offer ways to get through that period, or at least offer greater insights into it. [...]

[...] Mr. Wrigley is to call this morning—Thursday—as I type this material, although I don’t hold out too much hope that things will work out that easily. [...]

[...] So brief conversations with you on that subject, or on your work in general, or on any subject whatsoever, will automatically quicken his mood and responses. [...]

[...] It will help if Ruburt remembers this fact, and does remind himself that he is indeed being aided, although the work is not being done for him.

The added monthly count on his part was the offshoot of the work he has done thinking of abundance. [...]

[...] And this is what must be done in the health work. [...]

[...] I suggest the following: that he worked at his writing certainly no less than four hours a day, preferably five; and that a portion of this time be given to poetry.

He keeps minute by minute count of you when you are working—all unaware, yet he makes it a point not to ask you about your painting a good deal of the time. To show concern you see to his way of thinking would be to admit, even briefly, he has any fears at all regarding your work. The charge had so built up that if you had one bad afternoon painting, he saw this as a sign of complete failure on your part; and he did the same with his own work.

[...] We have been working at them.)

He is particularly susceptible along the lines of his work because he felt from childhood that his ability was the only thing that made him lovable at all in his mother’s eyes, and that his entire worth as a human being was dependent upon how he made out as a writer.

[...] Therefore if you had criticisms about his work, if you did not like it, you would not love him.

[...] Those who work the American working hours, for example, could sleep between four to six hours an evening, according to individual variations, and nap after supper. I want to make it plain, however, that anything over a six- to eight-hour continuous sleeping period works against you, and a ten-hour period for example can be quite disadvantageous. [...]

Persons vary in the amount of sleep they need, and no pill will ever allow them to dispense with sleep entirely, for too much work is done in that state. [...]

[...] To sleep all day and work all night is hardly the answer; it is simply the inversion of your present habits. [...]

[...] Physical and mental work would be easier, and the body itself would gain steady periods of refreshment and rest. [...]

You have both experienced such states, both in your work and with your psychological time episodes. You do not know precisely in a conscious manner how to achieve this state when you are working. [...]

Ruburt should not work less at his writing than four hours daily, and when possible perhaps a few hours over the weekend. [...] Subconsciously, everything you do adds to experience that you will use in your work.

By avoiding distractions you have often, in your work, given it duration. [...]

Indeed, your own moments of so-called inspiration in your work, will be seen to follow such periods of immersion, from which the subconscious then acquires its inspiration. [...]