“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] His mistake has been in letting his imagination work against him, thwarting his desire, rather than for him.

Now I have given you suggestions that will work to clear up the difficulties I have named. [...]

[...] During break I made several remarks about the poor quality of the pen I was trying to take notes with, and of our difficulties lately finding the brand pen we had been used to using, and which worked so well. [...]

[...] For one thing, remembering what you are reading, there are several attitudes that you should change, for while you believe them you work against your desire. [...]

[...] Otherwise they would emerge in an overexuberance when relieved from work pressure, resulting in carelessness. Beneath this of course the psychological need to be hurt, to punish himself, because he cannot strike out against a superior in the work situation.

Such an accident would occur in a period of exuberance, rather than for example when he was driving in connection with his duties at work. [...]

He should generally watch himself in activities not connected with work, using tools or so forth, for a period of approximately 10 days. [...]

[...] In some periods, for example, certain methods will work better than others. [...]

[...] You often ignore imagination, and believe in making things work. [...]

[...] You are dealing with—in a way, now—two separate sets of “facts,” and each work, so when you insist upon emphasizing the facts of Framework 1, then there is apt to be soreness as muscles readjust, uncomfortable periods, and rules that must be followed, like walking every hour, or walking at least once a day or face feelings of hopelessness, or whatever.

[...] These ideas, accepted, work automatically, though some time in Framework 1 would be involved necessarily; but the releasing ease and the gradual overall improvement would be quite perceivable.

[...] This fact is indicative of both Poett’s own inexperience, and the way association works generally. To have Jane’s work studied and respected for what it is, on its own, is evidently asking the impossible of most people. [...]

Imagination and will, working together, are miracle-makers, because self-deception does not stand between them.

[...] Our feelings about it ranged all the way from ridicule to a grudging understanding that Jim Poett had worked hard on the piece. [...]

[...] It is impossible, of course, to really separate the two, but as his work became better known, the private search became more of a public issue. [...]

[...] At the same time he was learning that expression denied at one level means expression denied to some extent at all levels (louder)—so that of course his creative work also suffered to some degree. [...]

[...] He does not feel that he is involved alone, as he did before: the fanatics, for example, are everywhere—quite visible, and if they might find his work offensive, he is hardly alone. [...]

[...] It can come as easily as your income does (with humor, referring to my work on taxes the last two days). [...]

(Long pause at 9:20.) I’d just as soon wait a minute, to see if that’s it for the night, or more develops, or what—but the feeling does tell me that things can and will work out as long as you realize that this is true. And that once you realize this is true, nothing can stop things from working out well. Rob said something earlier tonight about the letter from John Nelson seeming to be a good sign—and it is a sign, and a potent one, and I feel that Rob’s working on Seth’s book, and my own writing and my own bodily behavior are supported, again, by that great motion, which moves us in the proper directions for us. [...]

[...] We could tell she was enamored of her work and very sincere in all of her suggestions. [...]

(Jane said she’d heard that some of the blood work was to be done in Rochester, New York: the results will take a while in coming. [...]

(Tonight’s session started later than usual because of a mix-up in communications between us: I thought Jane was too groggy after supper as she sat at the card table in the living room, so I went to my room to work on the intro for Dreams—whereas she was waiting for me to come out and sit with her to see if we’d have some sort of session. [...]

[...] When she began writing Magical Approach, she even surprised me by occasionally helping me get breakfast, cooking bacon and eggs at the hot plate I’d set up for her some seven months ago on the kitchen table.⁴ Although she could work at the table while sitting down, she’d given up those simple, nurturing acts of food preparation many weeks ago; her fingers weren’t working well enough, she told me at the time; she didn’t trust herself enough to handle hot food—and I admit that when she implied a risk, the chance of an accident, I stopped encouraging her to help me with meals.

(Three months ago, way back on August 13, following the outline she’d written on July 8 for The Magical Approach to Reality: A Seth Book,¹ Jane began work on the first draft for Chapter 1 of that project. [...]

[...] She’d failed in her last attempt to get on her feet a few days after I’d finished working on the straight chair.⁵

From the 19th of August through the 28th, then, Jane worked on Chapter 2 of Magical Approach.⁶ Three days later, when she was writing Chapter 3, we received from an editor in the trade production [...]

I wrote quite a bit in Mass Events about our publishing activities, just to show for the record how complicated certain aspects of the creative life can be as we juggled sessions, manuscripts, proofreading, and deadlines [to list a few of our endeavors]; we “worked” at any time of the day or night—which didn’t bother us at all. [...] All of them are related to our work with the Seth material and Mass Events, however, and will, I’m sure, be reflected in Dreams. [...]

As of last May, when she laid it aside to begin work on her own The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto, Jane had some 17 chapters in fairly good shape for her third Seven novel, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time. [...] Since she’s finished her Seth part of the work for Mass Events, three days ago she began writing the Introduction to that book. [...]

Many animals enjoy work and purpose. They enjoy working with man. [...]

[...] At the same time she’s been extremely inspired and creative recently, working on her own God of Jane and the Introduction for Seth’s Mass Events, turning out many pages of excellent material for those works. [...]

[...] The plants Ruburt saw represented the books upon which he has worked and is working. [...]

From 1963 until 1966, Rob and I worked alone, holding the twice-weekly sessions and following Seth’s instructions. [...]

[...] I was incredulous at the instructions and information given by Seth, yet I’d already had enough experience to know that Seth’s “theoretical material” worked. [...]

[...] It became a great joke between Rob and myself, this “laying down on the job” or going to sleep in order to go to work. [...]

A framework is also then self-provided in which deeper questions of personality, life and being are worked out at the specific level of the individual’s experience. [...]

(Seth did not discuss the Gallery affair after book work.

[...] In color: I’d looked out the south window of the bedroom to see Fred Kardon standing out on the lawn; he was talking to someone else who was doing some kind of work near the big pine tree that grows up over the corner of the house. [...] Fred wore old work clothes—jeans and a sweat shirt, I think—and I could hear his voice clearly as he talked to the other person. [...]

[...] You saw the doctor in working clothes, expressing your feeling that doctors were more like mechanics, dealing with exterior manipulation, thus your doctor appears without his usual well-groomed attire, and fashionable facade. [...]

[...] He thought he might miss the beginning of the session while working in the studio, but the informality of the idea seemed good. Jane agreed when I picked her up after work.

(In a further effort to relax, Jane worked on a painting of her own until 8:30 PM. [...]

[...] While you still deal with words I must work with words, strung one before the other. [...]

Only in this case the hallucinary effects are actual constructions upon the plane in question, and involve problems that must be worked out. [...]

[...] he’d have more time to farm, and we could work something out, but I was really relieved when he went to, had to go to work at night and I could read and study by myself.

[...] You feel to some extent like a hypocrite because in, I believe, New Jersey, at least before you moved here, you spoke of your writing but you did not work with it in an organized fashion. [...]

[...] All of these fears work together to cause the present difficulty. [...]

[...] You have added to it the fact that you will not indulge yourself in joy, or in joyful pursuits, Unless you can rationalize to yourself by saying: “I am doing this for someone else,” and that is the only reason you let yourself work with the necklaces that you made. [...]

(To Mark.) And, our friend over here, I thank you for the work involved. [...]

[...] But when you are ready it will work well for you. [...]

(To Gert.) I want you to work on your own because your favorite propensity is to rely upon authority and I am quite sure that you understand this. [...]

[...] He is also in need of love and care, and he knew, in his own way, that a bargain could be worked out. [...]

Such a work would be perceived in your system as one thing, for example, but would also be perceived in probable realities, though perhaps in an entirely different way — a multidimensional art, you see, so free and elemental that it would appear simultaneously in many realities.

[...] For example, inspiration in your system is often the work of such creators.

[...] There are various kinds of multidimensional art, and therefore many levels in which the creators work. [...]

[...] These healers must be able to work with all levels of the entity’s experience, directly helping those personalities that are a part of it. [...]

[...] They have at times worked within organizations as in Egypt, where they worked through the temples and became involved with the power structures. [...]

[...] The Egyptian religion was largely based upon the work of the Speakers, and great care was given to their training. [...]

[...] There are patterns to work on here, then.

[...] He decided early to have no children — but more, to fight any evidence of femininity that might taint his work, or jumble up his dedication to it. [...]

[...] You would not take your art to the marketplace after you left commercial work, because then, in a manner of speaking, now, understand, you considered that the act of a prostitute — for your “feminine feelings” that you felt produced the paintings would then be sold for the sake of “the male’s role as provider and bringer of power.”

[...] That work, providing the artist’s preparation, now belongs to the male-world manufacturer, you see, so as a male in your society the artist is often left with what he thinks of as art’s feminine basis, where it must be confronted, of course.

[...] In Ruburt’s case the fear was greater, until it seemed sometimes that if he succeeded in his work he would do so at some peril: You might be put in an unpleasant light, or he might become a fanatic, displaying those despicable, feminine hysterical qualities.

(This morning, while working on Chapter 18 of Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time, she’d abruptly felt the impulse to move into another room; she wanted to get away from the sunlight glaring through the thin drapes covering the sliding glass doors of her study at the back of the house. [...] It also contains a number of ideas on heroics that she’d written after finishing that work. [...]

[...] I’ve also been painting several hours a day, recording dreams, writing extensive notes on a variety of subjects, filing reference material I’d let pile up, and, lately, working in the yard of our hill house each day.)

[...] The individual is seen as powerless to work alone toward that ideal with any sureness of success. [...]

[...] I am now caught up with Seth’s work, except for whatever may lie ahead with Mass Reality—but we regard that as current work, still in progress, of course. [...]

[...] Besides books both have in the works of Jane’s, what other reasons could have caused them to decide on almost simultaneous visits, we wonder....)

[...] Despite that, however, at a physical level, your money is turned to help others at one level, while your work allows you the freedom of creativity, and the privilege of helping at a still higher level.

[...] After I got up, the pendulum told me the feelings came because I resented having to do the yard work without Jane being able to help me. The fact of doing the work itself was innocent, I learned. [...]

[...] I also knew I was working out some conflicts, and I wasn’t worried. [...]

It took some time before such a framework began to develop—a kind of double one—represented by my work and by his own—an excellent accomplishment, of course. [...]

[...] Science, if it bothered, might label him a fool, but fundamental religion could label him as evil, or claim his work was inspired by the devil in Christian terms, and so the old beliefs in the Sinful Self or evil self were activated. [...]