“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I was working on this book when I heard the sound of another flight, intermixed with traffic noise. [...]

[...] Those sessions are recorded; then during the week a dedicated class member goes to all the work of transcribing the tape and having the script duplicated.

Man is so highly verbal that he finds it difficult to understand that other species work with idea-complexes (with a hyphen) of a different kind, in which of course thought as you consider it is not involved. [...]

(1. How idea structures work in animals as opposed to mankind.

[...] [I really enjoyed letting someone else do all the work for a change!] Later that week, Sue transcribed Seth’s material, wrote all of the notes for the session, and prepared mimeographed copies for everyone. [...]

[...] The experience of the guru⁵ who sits in opulence, bejeweled and begowned, has nothing to do with the peasant who works in the field and whose belly is empty. [...]

In your terms, your histories were not written by the people who worked the earth. [...]

It did not serve your species’ purposes at this time to work with the mind — with telepathy, with the feeling for the earth that you could have developed.

Now, specifically this applies to the work of what Ruburt and you would refer to as spiritualistic. The work of mediums, or books about mediums, that deal exclusively with conventional religious concepts, and that interpret reality in those limited terms.

[...] He will quickly readjust however, for he now has faith in the new direction of his work. [...]

[...] The halt, above, refers to Jane’s laying aside the book for Doubleday for the moment, and her decision to begin work on a book on the Seth material itself.)

The signals were picked up though he did not realize either that he had come to the realization that his work would change, nor that he had signaled so. [...]

(However, a little thought shows that Fred’s departure may actually work to our advantage—slowing down any precipitous decision on the part of the Chemung County Infirmary to want to possibly move Jane over there; if he isn’t present to give advise, officials may not be able to reach a decision, except to leave her alone—which is what we want. [...]

[...] It had worked itself loose. [...]

(Then Pete gave me some surprising news: Jack Joyce has gone out of business in Corning, and is working for a convalescent home down in southern Pennsylvania, I think Pete said. [...]

[...] Jane wanted to have a session because she missed out yesterday, so she had a quick cigarette while I looked over the mail—little of which I worked on today.)

(This morning I showed Jane the portrait in oils that I’m working on. [...] Once I start a work in a certain mode, it becomes somewhat set in that expression; this is inevitable if one is to ever complete the physical painting. Those sensed, additional improvements have to wait for the next effort: A creative tension between the present and the future is set up, then—one that I’ve often felt, an impatience to leap ahead to the next step even while I’m still working out the current one. [...]

A hearty good evening—and tell our friend (Jane) to be more playful—work at it, I said (with much humor).

[...] This psychological growth, and the many challenges involved, set her work apart from the mental calculator’s numbers or the musician’s notes, which are ever the same: Those friendly columns of figures, for instance, add up to identical sums in any language. [...]

[...] Even without all of the distortions, that formula worked for centuries in large measure. [...]

[...] Ruburt is hardly outstanding in having physical difficulties, and overall your lives and the work speak for more of the potential of personality than of personality’s lacks. [...]

[...] No one could put it all into working order at once in a given life. [...]

[...] The body can right itself, and the methods that you use work.

There have been changes in the past month, extremely important in his mental and spiritual condition, and along with this the release of mental and psychic energies, and healthy concentration in all areas of his work, with reasonable and optimistic plans for the future. [...]

[...] He has been still somewhat angry with them, and must realize that they are now ready to work properly. [...]

As the probabilities exist, both of you will be well into the out-of-body work between now and early winter. [...]

[...] The psychic work will pick up, and indeed already has. [...]

[...] I had no conscious work to do on the book at all. [...]

As Seth continued dictating The Nature of Personal Reality, I wrote a complete poetry manuscript, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time, in which I worked out many of my own beliefs as per suggestions Seth was giving in his book. [...]

I’m learning that both elements are important in my work and in Seth’s. And perhaps my own refusal to accept pat answers leads me to search so intensely, and is responsible to some degree for my “bringing in” a Seth instead of a Mad Hatter.

[...] As a result I’m working on a book called Aspect Psychology, which I hope will present a theory of personality large enough to contain man’s psychic nature and activities. [...]

[...] You have come to see an author at work, and so we shall continue, if you will bear with us, with Chapter Two.

[...] Our work, development, and experience all takes place within what I term the “moment point.” [...]

[...] Usually however we are highly active, our full energies focused in our work and in new challenges.

[...] Jane’s opinion, so far, was that the book wouldn’t need any work except for the rearranging of an occasional awkward phrase, etc.)

[...] At the same time, I do think we’ve made some progress through our own work with the pendulum.)

If the material does not work, they can always blame Ruburt, you see.

[...] The ideas, for example, in Personal Reality are exactly those that will resolve his doubts and remove his fears, and the techniques given do work.

[...] When bodybuilders work together they have guidelines to follow. [...]

[...] The methods used then will work with far greater effectiveness now because of the other information you have received, and the necessary changes in your relationship that have occurred.

A concentration upon his work, and not upon the symptoms. [...]

[...] The concentration should be on work and pleasure and activities. [...]

We expect good results from it, and you are doing very well indeed, and should enjoy an opening in your own work. [...]

(Not long ago I reached an impasse with both the Introductory Notes and the Epilogue for Volume 2, as I tried to give order to the mass of notes, excerpts, and jotted-down ideas that I’ve assembled for them since finishing work on Volume 1 in September 1976. That was some 18 months ago, but actually to one degree or another I’ve been involved with “Unknown” Reality for four years now; I think that temporarily I’ve simply grown tired and overly concerned about the whole project, even while I still have a considerable way to go to finish certain notes and appendixes for Volume 2. Not that I haven’t worked on a number of other things at the same time, of course — but my labors on those two books represent the prolonged, intense focus I always search for in my creative life, and without which I feel incomplete. [...]

[...] It’ll still be up to me to add my kind of detail to each of those works, but there’s no doubt that she’s enjoying the challenge of playing with the Seth books from the “other side” — my viewpoint — for a change. [...]

[...] In Framework 1 the reasoning processes work largely by deduction, and they must constantly check their own results against the seemingly concrete experience of physical events. [...]

(This will be the first time Seth has appeared on television since we did some promotional work for The Seth Material after its publication in 1970. [...] But the pressures of work, plus our own conservative attitudes about personal publicity, have led us to pass by other such opportunities.

[...] We had briefly discussed Einstein’s work and some allied subjects before tonight’s session, but I hadn’t asked her to give material on physics through Seth.⁵ In her own way, Jane is quite interested in the field, however, and has done a little work in it with scientists. [...]

[...] There have indeed been civilizations upon your planet³ that understood as well as you, and without your kind of technology, the workings of the planets, the positioning of stars — people who even foresaw “later” global changes. [...]

[...] So far, within the rules of the game, you have been able to make your “facts” about electrons work. [...]

Ruburt needs you to do his best work, and the support that you give him. [...]

[...] It shows the two of you again with common goals, working together.

[...] Your work even requires that give-and-take with others. Only your habits and attitudes have prevented this, but the idea should be practically put to work.

[...] That is a kind of qualitative event that in its own way cannot be judged or ascertained, and it presents a certain kind of emotional evidence—a living knowledge—that is transmitted to others, and is in its way more valuable than any scientific treatise that might validate our work.

You are also in need of a change of environment (pointing to me) and you will receive insights concerning your work as a result. [...]

I believe that his (ESP) class will work up to seven by the end of spring, or very early fall, stay at that level, and then be joined by others. [...]

[...] Perhaps in an epilogue for the Seth book we have in the works now, Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment. [...]

[...] (I remember those letters Jane used to get from Harry Edwards.) However the story works out, that’s the one we’ll be wanting to tell others about. [...]

[...] Now they were also used to working alone, even while together. In their artistic endeavors and psychic work they were acclimated to trusting themselves. [...]

Before Ruburt became involved in psychic work he wrote a [short] novel, Bundu² in which nuclear destruction had taken place. [...]

Now those who have a great faith in groups, who work primarily with others, left their homes immediately for the comfort they found with the companionship of their neighbors. [...]

[...] He worked at the quite physical labor involved. [...]

The physical condition itself, on that level (pause), is caused (long pause) by “improper” relationships—that is, things not working together well, though the parts themselves are not diseased, per se—and that is the result of stress, habitually applied, of bodily habits. [...]

Because of the Prentice situation, and because of the decision not to work on our book for a while, he felt blocked, not knowing how or when to move ahead (underlined). [...]

[...] At the same time, however, the self will not be denied its creativity, and it will most stubbornly seek out those areas of its own expression, so not working on my book will not help solve Ruburt’s difficulties, and may indeed aggravate them, simply because of the further inhibition of expression. [...]

[...] An overconcern (underlined) about the mechanics of publication, or the necessity of publication, or the wheres and hows of publication, or a sense of responsibility about the work, can indeed cause difficulty, but the basic creative expression—which has been impeded in the past by fears—should still be encouraged. [...]

When either of you do good work you compliment each other. You do not say “But will that be followed up tomorrow by work as good or better?” You do not say “That is fine, but most likely tomorrow you will ruin what you did today.” [...]

The relationships between people that you know cannot be amply worked out in any one given life as understood, and those relationships are fleshed out in probabilities. [...]

[...] Some days he will know that his body wants to relax, but even then the walking should be attempted, for the improvements will have an opportunity to work along with the body mechanism in operation.

[...] Complimentary lies do not work as a rule, and certainly I would not suggest them. [...]