“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Then I was working for Jake Ruppenthal, my old boss at Artistic Card Company, when he was art director. [...]

[...] She quit for a smoke at 3:12 while I worked on mail. [...]

[...] Jake also represented any beliefs of your own dealing with work in general that can carry you so far and no further. [...]

No, there is an error somewhere … The Bantam cover, despite your obvious dissatisfaction, aids our work in the positive of ways.

[...] You must do part of your own work. [...] I even make Ruburt do his own work and I ride him hard. [...]

[...] The work that you (Florence) have done here helps all of the students and it does help you, but you must still open the door. The doorknob works, it will not fall off in your hands. [...]

[...] Efforts, methods that work against value fulfillment phase themselves out, for in the long run they do not work.

[...] She meant that she wouldn’t have become associated with “the cheap psychic field,” not that she’d have given up working with the Seth material. [...]

It is vital for the proper workings of genetic systems. [...]

(Pause.) You are, I hope, coming toward a time of greater psychological synthesis, so that the intuitions and reasoning abilities work together in a much more smooth fashion, so that emotional and intuitive knowledge regarding the meaningfulness of life can find clearer precision and expression, as the intellect is taught—as the intellect is taught—to use its faculties in a far less restricted manner.

To some extent, you are both holding your breath, so to speak, until your working men are gone. [...]

[...] You are both guarded to some extent with the working men about. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s fairly guarded attitude toward the working men to some extent impeded the relaxation necessary, so that the condition overall improved in the schedule I gave, without the ensuing eye improvement I mentioned. [...]

(Jane has been taking time off from God of Jane and If We Live Again to work on the Introduction for Sue Watkins’s Conversation With Seth. [...] If those three members of her family are enjoying a vacation, Sue isn’t—but at least she’s working on her book in warm weather!

[...] “Going shopping, or working, or whatever….” [...]

Religious ecstasy does not need physical suffering as a stimulus, and such a means in the overall (underlined) will work against religious understanding. [...]

[...] Each, say, failure, or disappointment, or unresolved problem that results in suffering, becomes a part of the world’s experience: This way or that way does not work, or this way or that way has been tried, with poor results. [...]

(Tam Mossman and his fiancée Eve had been our guests over the past weekend, May 2—4; he had heartily approved the work Jane has completed on the Seth book and we thought that this belief might have something to do with Jane’s very relaxed state. [...]

In his prayer periods emphasize that his full attention can go into his work and creative endeavors. [...]

[...] When he feels his full enthusiasm bubbling up in his work he will not need to give himself suggestions that he will feel well in the morning.

[...] Health should be considered then —and this is important—as a means to a desired end; full productive creative work; full use of abilities; daily enjoyment; helping others. [...]

[...] Now these sound like very simple procedures, but they are the ones that work. [...]

“Of course I can get up,” or even “To hell with it, I can get up,” will work far better, but without a constant eye out to check that the suggestion take place immediately.

[...] For example: he will be working and want something. [...]

[...] Ruburt can stop trying to get everything arranged on his desk before work, so he will not have to get up for example. [...]

[...] It is a humorous drawing made by Ann Diebler, who works in my office at Artistic Card Co.; Piggie, incidentally, refers to pigeon. [...]

[...] First of all, I advise Ruburt along these lines: it is best if he not work at his own writing or records up until the last moment or so before a session.

[...] Inversion in terms of value interwound upon value, energy compressed, contained, working upon itself, contained but with momentum—this comes much closer to reality.

However, the momentum works both ways. [...]

[...] The plants in Ruburt’s dream did represent the books upon which he has worked and is working. [...]

[...] The amount of work necessary is literally astounding, but I tell you that you can both do this; and you can make general, through your work, a knowledge of the true potential of the dream state.

[...] I also thought they were symbolic of the work put into my books. [...]

[...] Therefore it will work for you. [...]

[...] Volume 2 is a massive book, yet I still couldn’t believe all the time — almost exactly five years — that had passed since Jane, Seth, and I began work on it. [...] Naturally we’d been involved in a number of other projects at the same time, as I’ve indicated in my notes for Mass Events, yet for me especially the publication of the two volumes of “Unknown” Reality meant that we had arrived at a certain point in the development and presentation of the Seth material: In those books, through correlating them in a modest way with our previous works, I’d attempted to show the reader just what the three of us had managed to achieve before Seth led us into Psyche — and, as it developed, Mass Events.

[...] He’s given all he can — or wants to — on the negative beliefs we hold as individuals and societies; he wants to start his next book [my emphasis] on how to positively work our way out of our challenges and create a much better world…. [...]

[...] Automatically condemned, you must do good works, or be baptized, or believe in Christ, or perform other acts in order to be saved or redeemed.

[...] The four hours of writing and a half-hour devoted either to psy-time or out-of- body work. [...]

[...] It is important that you discuss with him your ideas about our joint work, and the nature of my reality. [...]

With many people having such difficulties, the addition of love in the environment may work far better than any heart operation. [...] In other words, “a love transplant” in the environment may work far better overall than a heart-transplant operation, or a bypass, or whatever; in such ways the heart is allowed to heal itself.

(“I was also getting,” she said, “that he wasn’t saying that people didn’t need those operations sometimes, but that when they did, they needed those other things in order to make the operations work.”

[...] I had to go to the bank to get checks and money orders to pay taxes and bills, hook up the garden hose, and learn how to work the new sprinkler I’d bought to spray the flowers out back. [...]

(So I didn’t get to work on Dreams this morning, but hope to tomorrow. [...]

[...] They will still feel that they had work to do, or that they were needed — but the main thrusts of their beings still reside in the physical universe.

[...] This morning I worked on Christmas mail and finished marking Chapter 5 of Dreams for the printer.

[...] I explained how I’d had to back off from worrying in order to save my sanity and get some work done. [...]

[...] I’d forgotten to stick new mail in my envelope to work on this afternoon, though I did find a couple of other letters I’d forgotten. [...]

The lack of confidence is what you must both work at, and the old habits of thought. [...]

[...] His balance is continually working toward normality. [...]

The eyes have improved enough so that he can work near normally enough at his writing, and they will continue to improve. [...]

[...] There is an old, unfortunate idea, and I am sure by now you are above it and it is, that in order to be pious you must work very hard and be extremely dignified. And the harder you work and the harder it becomes, the more sure you are that to be pious must be a great thing. [...]

[...] You have worked so hard recording our sessions. [...]

[...] Not that she doesn’t have her failures, but her work has greatly improved since we met in 1954, and in ways that I hadn’t foreseen for her. [...] She works in oils, acrylics, and watercolors. [...] She’s produced many more paintings than I have in my own more conventional, more plodding way [although now I’m working faster than I used to]. [...]

[...] But in some newish way I seemed to understand how much seemingly mental work is dependent upon physical vigor, flexibility and so forth; and then rather strongly—emotionally it came to me that I’d thought it my duty to clamp down physically, to cut down mobility in order to … have mobility as a writer; that is, to sit down, cut down on impulses, distractions, to make sure I’d ‘do my work,’ pursue my goal undeviatingly; that new [book] contracts instantly led me to that kind of behavior and that I really see that such behavior carried to its extremes would end up smothering my writing, defeating the purposes it (seemingly) meant to protect. But I did fear that impulses and body motion were … distractions to work…. [...]

[...] While reading those proofs Jane opened up new insights into her reactions to herself and her work. She summarized those conflicts in the note she wrote on our 26th wedding anniversary.³ I saw that same pattern of delay at work in her holding the sessions for Dreams—and to me that meant the same psychic and psychological forces were still operating. [...]

[...] Not that all of our friends hadn’t known of Jane’s physical symptoms for some time, but that Jane, with her innocence and determination—and yes, her mystical view of temporal reality²—had for the most part refused to put herself on display, as she termed it: She felt that she should offer something better to herself and to others, even with all of the intensely creative work she’d done for herself and for others over the last 17 years.

[...] This was more to save me work in finishing up notes than because of any tiredness on Jane’s part. [...]

[...] I do regret the amount of such work that is necessary. [...]

Both of these personalities however are basically constructive, creative, and a relationship between the four of you should work out very well, not only on a short-term, but on a long-term basis, with advantages for all.

[...] It will perhaps seem like a conservative program, and he will do all of the work.

(Pause.) He considered himself to be excellent at his work. [...] He believed (underlined) that he should devote all of his time to his work, and could hardly forgive himself for his regrettable lapses into writing—and he was writing, after all, not even for adults, and not for young males either.

[...] I planned to resume work on Mass Events this week, but haven’t done so yet. [...]

They often worked by choice with a multitude of workmen, apprentices, students, hangers-on and whatever. [...]

[...] When you do not understand that, then you can become bewildered, thinking “Why did such-and-such work last week and not this week?”

[...] Only occasional difficulty reading and hardly any copying James; so that I worked up to an hour and a half probably. [...]

Friday afternoon and Saturday—As I worked on James, I massaged my head, which certainly seemed to help the neck and other areas. [...]