“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I assume it will take lots of work to accomplish this, but am inserting these thoughts here as a remainder of one of the things I want to accomplish this year in this area. [...]

[...] But out of this work I expect our questions for Seth will come. [...]

[...] Since he would be “increasing the value of the plant”—the working establishment. [...]

[...] You wanted to be alone and to work at your pursuits. [...]

[...] “Why couldn’t I have known when I was a young man about my abilities, and how best to use them?” Think of yourself as a young man using them, and you will automatically be free of many hampering concepts in your work.

[...] I will have more to say about that at another time, and I mean in terms of your work.

[...] I worked on Dreams but an hour this morning, and once again, told her that I was concerned about lost working time on the book. [...]

[...] It worked out okay, yet it reflected my state of mind often these days — my fears, probably on a lot of subjects.

[...] As related to Jane’s physical symptoms, they have remained largely unconscious phenomena: We knew all along that we were often having “symptom dreams,” but didn’t recall them consistently enough to be able to do much conscious work with them. [...] Obviously, we made our choices in that respect long ago: As far as the deeply charged subject of Jane’s illness was concerned, we decided to keep most of our dream work on intuitive and unconscious levels. [...]

[...] While at work in my own writing room I occasionally hear her talking to herself as she sits at her card table in the living room, just down the hall: I’ve learned that on such occasions, she’s asleep and often dreaming aloud, solving the psychological equations continually arising among the levels of her psyche as she pursues her chosen learning processes. [...] While I spend all of this time working on these essays for Dreams, I’m always afraid I’m leaving her alone too much. [...]

[...] Since I can no longer work for hours at a time on the Seth books, or with the Seth material, I’m training myself to “put out” copy in concentrated bursts of energy that are usually of an hour’s duration, say. I work around these creative outpourings by ministering to my wife, running our house and the many errands connected with our daily living, handling our publishing affairs, seeing visitors—expected and unexpected—and trying to answer at least some of the mail, which is threatening to accumulate beyond control. [...]

But that simple statement also means that our dream work relative to Jane’s challenges has often been powerfully abetted by Seth in many of the 347 completely private and 159 partially private sessions he’s given us since November 1965. [...]

[...] You will also be astounded at the amount of work that will be produced, and is now latently in production, now that he sees that he can be artistically creative in his terms, mix and match the psychic and the creative (dash)—designations. [...]

The psychic work will also enlarge his personal creative endeavors. [...]

[...] I mention this because there should be no divisions, and in trying to maintain balance, now, Ruburt has a tendency to think “Now I should try to be physical,” or “Now I should work,” where the two flow effortlessly together, and you can help him see this.

I want each of you to write a list, yourself—and this involves work—a list of your conscious ideas about yourself, your conscious beliefs. [...]

[...] Several of the young people I work with planned to gather this evening in the downstairs apartment. The young couple mentioned in the 184th session live downstairs, and I also work with them. There was talk at work this morning that the whole group might visit us this evening. [...]

[...] These then work out problems for you, and the answer is given to you subconsciously.

[...] I always work on several thicknesses of paper so that writing noise is not a problem, and use a ballpoint pen to avoid scratching noises. [...]

[...] You do indeed have to change all of your assumptions—and while living in a world that seems to work by different rules than yours—nor can you as yet make all of your own rules work, so to speak. [...]

[...] I also wanted to do some pendulum work with Jane, and wanted to understand the situation before we started with her. [...]

[...] It is very difficult, when you are honestly concerned, to then be unconcerned as you work with the pendulum—and yet, for the best results you must attain the state of mind in which you let the answers flow, unconcerned as to whether the answer is yes or no. [...]

[...] It is really very good, and a work that I’d completely forgotten about; I see now that it should have been incorporated into “Unknown” Reality somewhere. [...]

[...] He was saved, so it seemed, from endless explanations; so with a kind of psychological economy that worked far too well for a time the symptoms served to keep him writing at his desk, to regulate the flow of psychic activity, making sure of its direction, and to provide a suitable social reason to refrain from activities that might distract him—from tours or shows, and also even from any onslaught of psychic activity that might follow any unseeming (underlined) spontaneous behavior. [...]

He took it for granted that, ideally speaking, he should do such public work, that it was his responsibility, but also that it represented a natural expression of abilities that he was denying because of his fears. [...]

[...] This does not mean he does not enjoy discussing his work with others, with individuals or small groups, carefully chosen or at home, or that he does not enjoy reading poetry, say, on those occasions. [...]

He has, however, held it over his head that if he improved he should then do such work—and that only fear held him back. [...]

[...] Her own work has been going well for the most part, however—she expects to finish Chapter 12 of God of Jane tomorrow. [...] As for myself, I’ve progressed to working with Session 860 [for June 13, 1979], which bridges chapters 8 and 9 in Mass Events.

[...] Your work is still developing. [...] There is always a kind of artistic dissatisfaction that any true artist feels with work that is completed, for he is always aware of the tug and pull, and the tension, between the sensed ideal and its manifestation. [...]

[...] Perhaps Seth will develop it in another work. [...]

Today Jane reread her recent sessions for Dreams; she wanted to resume work on the book tonight, and picked up on it from Seth throughout the day. [...]

(For the last two days Jane hasn’t worked on her paper from the Sinful Self —the first break she’s taken from it since she began to receive it 13 days ago, on June 17. She’d read me Friday’s work that same evening, and I had some questions about it, although it’s very difficult to formulate questions while listening to something the first time, and without having a written version to refer to. [...]

[...] If and when they worked out solutions to their problems, they did so quite unknowingly. [...]

[...] I could see that she was disappointed in my reactions to her day’s work, and she said as much. [...]

(My viewpoint was that it was impossible for me not to have strong feelings about the situation, even though—as I said—I agreed that her paper was a highly creative piece of work, that it augured well for the future, and that it was so far easily the best material we’d gotten on the symptom affair. [...]

[...] Jane talked to Carole, the medium’s wife who works with him, and stated clearly that she didn’t want others claiming to speak for her Seth—who, incidentally, had told us years ago that he spoke through no one else but Jane. [...]

[...] For both events obviously involved effects her work was having in that outside world we shied away from: Seth, it seemed, had even managed to make his way into a court of law, the very fabric of our society; and regardless of whether he was praised or knocked, his ideas were “officially” discussed. [...]

[...] Last night Jane was faced with a little dilemma: She felt Seth around after supper, but also had the idea that we go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 4 AM to “work.” [...]

Thus far, however, the old habits have returned, and for all of your joint good intents the idea of bringing things to a crisis point is still far less beneficial than it might appear This does not mean such a method cannot work at times. [...]

[...] In the sort of work you are doing, both creatively in your arts and in your psychic work, the inner activities and developments run below surface and are unseen. You seem to be on a plateau or level area, and then the work that has been going on beneath springs released to the surface. [...]

[...] It is highly important however for any such work that you begin to train yourself to take your waking consciousness with you in sleep. [...]

[...] Ruburt is more used to working from the dream state and possibly could make connection. [...]

One session for the week, that week, for the added work involved on your part. [...]

[...] Any work of art of his, not an apprentice work, would have led him to the same point. [...]

[...] Any work of fiction in which his abilities were at all fulfilled would have brought him to this point, and any endeavor such as the psychic work, which was adopted. [...]

[...] On other areas of life the spontaneous became highly suspect in both social and work areas. In his gallery work experience he did his best to disguise his spontaneous nature, out of his own fear and also as a result of your attitude at that time.

Thoughts of abundance immediately begin to work for you, at their inception. [...]

[...] Intensive concentration along these lines should be followed by several days when you simply do your prayer experiments and then let the whole thing drop from your mind, and give the creative inner self an opportunity to work for you. [...]

[...] If you do not sell a painting by next week, for example, I do not want you to say “This does not work.” [...]

Your creative energies have always been highly beneficial and positive, and worked for you in ways you may not have known. [...]

Later editors did not see eye to eye with him about his work. He learned that his work must be sold in the marketplace if he wanted to continue writing. [...]

[...] Tonight I explained to Jane after supper that I now believed many of my opinions were taken by her as negative personal opinions about her work and efforts—which meant, I added, that they must have contributed at least substantially to her symptoms over the years. [...]

(Long pause, eyes closed, leaning back.) Ruburt cannot understand all of the processes that are involved, but the body knows what is to be done, and is working with its own rhythms. [...]

Work is being done that will vastly improve the double-vision condition also. [...]

[...] His creative abilities work, no matter what he is doing, and they will work better and reach further when his body is normally flexible, able to relax normally as it should. [...]

[...] It sounded very much like another instance of the workings of Framework 2; 2. Some comments on my recent dream involving my meeting my parents in the great marble hall, as I called it. [...]

[...] After all of this person’s planning, hard work and effort, at the last moment everything seems to go wrong. [...]

[...] It was ill-formed, not certain, cluttered by questions like “If I am well, should I go on tour or shouldn’t I?” Or “Will I lose working time?” or whatever. [...]

[...] She makes mistakes typing because her fingers aren’t working well, but is anxious to improve her accuracy through working. [...] It worked great, want to start up journal, want to start project… want to get sessions started up again too or tell myself so anyhow. [...]

Jane worked less and less as the holiday season approached, although on December 15 she gave her fourth private session; its most evocative subject matter—art and child psychology—is separate from our themes for Dreams. [...] I was busier than ever, however: running the house, preparing for Christmas, helping my wife in various ways, working on the earlier notes for Dreams and trying to accumulate some painting time. [...] Our program of self-help gradually began to diminish, as had many of them before.⁸ Finally, in an effort to cheer up Jane one day as she sat idly at the typing table in her writing room, I tried a variation of a tactic that had worked so well for her inception of Seth’s The Nature of the Psyche almost six and a half years ago: This time, standing in back of her, I put my arms around her and rolled a clean sheet of paper into her typewriter—but here’s the note she wrote the next day:

[...] We talked about the many delays involved in our producing Mass Events and Dreams. She’s “felt good” about finishing Chapter 11 of Dreams a week ago, but has done little on Magical Approach recently, except to reread her rough work for the beginning of that book. (She began to slack off from Magical Approach early last October—two months ago—after working well on the first three chapters.) Tonight, I even speculated, admitted my fear, that in a way she’s embarked upon a long-range campaign to at least drastically reduce, if not eliminate, her communication with the world, for one sacrifice follows another in an order that can hardly be accidental, Jane revealed that she’d had similar thoughts.

But I was afraid as I thought of what could happen to her while she kept on working. [...] It is that we cannot make it work for us the way we want it to—that is, to evidently supersede deep and powerful inner goals. [...]

[...] I noticed another good sign, though: With her left hand she slid her glasses down her nose far enough so she could rub her left eye—then worked the glasses back up into position with the same hand. [...] As stated earlier, she said that her hands and arms definitely work better than they used to. [...]

[...] She dozed or napped several times while I sat beside her, working with mail. [...]

[...] I worked on mail. [...]

[...] I’d tried to counter the worries while working this morning, and had succeeded at times, but the concerns bugged me; each day I look for word in the mail, but it never comes. [...]

[...] I worked on mail. [...]

(The time went fast as I worked with the mail. [...]

[...] The delay is due to bureaucratic slipshod work—but again, it will be settled to your satisfaction. [...]

There should be no vacation unless Ruburt takes the manuscript with him and works upon it. This would work out very well both for him and the book. [...]

The caution can later work to Ruburt’s advantage, in that Fell is usually cautious in business relationships. [...]

[...] But the work should be intensive during the week.

[...] I am aware of the work done on the book so far, and find that it is indeed quite remarkable.