“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Most probably this time we will work in concentrated periods that can be broken by rests when you prefer it, or circumstances seem to call for it. [...]

[...] Ruburt is psychically working out some of his concerns over reincarnation in his novel, coming to grips with the subject creatively, and in ways that have deep meaning, not only for himself but for others.

Oversoul Seven and Cyprus do exist, though in different terms than he may imagine them, and the whole episode allows him to work creatively with fiction, and creatively with his psychic abilities.

[...] My sight was operating perfectly, but it took a while before my hearing worked. [...] I worked at getting clearer focus and really enjoyed walking down the park paths. [...]

[...] On several instances, however, both of us have remembered and recorded our experiences which were similar but not identical. We hope to do much more work here. Rob is now becoming much more familiar with projection, so he and I plan to do some extensive work on our own. [...]

[...] Rob had been working in his studio and gone to bed around 11:00 P.M. He was vaguely aware of class leaving (at 12:30).

(From his notes:) I was pounding some nails with a hammer, working on some frames. [...]

[...] I answered Christmas cards for half an hour, then worked on Dreams.

[...] I told Jane that his promise of giving more material doesn’t usually work out — I’m aware of a number of such references he’s made in this series of sessions. [...]

Sometimes a particular desire, as when he does estimates, will allow him to work unimpeded, because in that area experience has shown him that his estimates are usually more or less correct. [...]

[...] He must allow himself the freedom of his being, and from that freedom his work will further develop. [...]

Because you cannot see the inside workings of the body, you concentrate upon other improvements, and if they are not of a grand-enough nature, it is easy to become discouraged. [...]

[...] They are preparing themselves to work normally, and that requires good circulation.

[...] That’s been it, even though I had hoped at various times that work could be done on Seth’s book. Many things caused us to lay it aside: other work, the holidays, the plain need for a change of pace, travel, and the approaching death of my father….

[...] A readjustment of sorts pertaining to work I believe. If anything working to his favor.

One small rather insignificant point, Joseph: the man for whom Ruburt works—the name, Miller—is also the name of one of his mother’s old friends, though she was a woman. [...]

[...] For the present, and near future, they would work out well.

[...] Later the tiff will work to your advantage. [...]

(9:27.) You are taught to submerge the very intuitive abilities that the intellect needs to do its proper work — for the intellect must check with the feeling portions of the self for feedback, for support, for knowledge as to biological conditions. [...]

[...] He is only aware of those moments when creative activity surges into his conscious awareness, and by then much of the “work” has already been done.

[...] This is how it works. [...]

[...] Everything worked well. [...]

[...] Far be it from me to interrupt when you are not working, when you are not looking within yourselves. [...] But far be it from me to mention that you have not been working. [...]

[...] But you shall do the work.

[...] Now, there is a way—when you are involved in physical activity, and even intense mental work—to change the inner focus so that you are aware of two realities at once and can manipulate quite easily in the physical reality as you must. [...]

[...] It is a portion that can understand your (TM) being overwhelmed with work; it is a portion that can understand your being full with child (SW); it is a portion that can understand the times when you wanted to leave physical reality (CW); it is a portion that can understand the part of you (SB) that wanted to be a star; it is a portion that can understand the part of you that wanted to conquer, and is afraid to conquer (WL); it is a portion that can understand the guilt you (RC) feel for no reason; it is a portion that can understand the aspirations that you (LD) were unable to fulfill... [...]

[...] I began with the feet and worked up to the head— generally at first; then each time I started again at the feet my suggestions for ease and relaxation became more detailed.

(Then, Jane continued, still crying, we had returned to Sayre, then Elmira, where I had worked full time for three years, then became very sick for a year. [...]

[...] Yet it was now apparent that Jane felt a sense of blame, even shame; at the start of the deeper trance state she told me she felt I was mad at her all the time because I had worked full time at Artistic, etc; I tried to counter this by pointing out to her the benefits we had both obtained from this.

(As stated, this worked well, and as I counted Jane felt herself rising or lifting toward waking consciousness; the effect here was much more pronounced than when I had suggested she enter a deeper state, as described earlier. [...]

(Because of the press of other matters following the 753rd session — my work doing the notes for Seth’s “Unknown” Reality, Jane’s involvement in writing a new introduction for one of her own books that’s coming out in a new paperback edition, and a stream of unexpected visitors — we didn’t hold any sessions for several weeks. [...]

[...] Later in the session Jane felt that Seth was taking her on a guided tour of Jerusalem, way back in the first century A.D. None of this consisted of book work, though, so the session remains in our files along with other material that we hope to publish one day.

[...] There is before you a canvas, and you are working in all areas of it at once. [...]

[...] The canvas itself can change size and shape as the artist works. [...]

[...] Symbolically you have always equated hunting with a man’s work in modern society. [...] You would not feel free to hunt successfully with the animal, for he was, you felt, the symbol of an unsuccessful hunt in the work world.

[...] Let us work along with this, and then I will tell you, and you may ask questions. [...]

[...] You also had to move quickly in the area of work. [...]

Now I can tell you what to do, and I can assure you that this works. [...]

[...] Similarly, to be a musician or an artist or a writer takes effort in time, and automatically focuses attention in specified directions that bar the same kind of work in other fields.

[...] Earlier in this work I hinted at the hypothetical existence of a truly fulfilled earth-person — with a hyphen.¹ All of the spiritual, mental, and biological abilities would be actualized to whatever extent possible. [...]

[...] These are the result of private challenges that can best be worked out within a certain kind of framework. [...]

Give us a moment … Certain abilities can be developed with much greater ease in particular time periods — in a highly industrialized technology, for example — and those interested in that kind of an environment did not generally appear in the eras of the cavemen, simply because those alive at that time were working with different challenges. [...]

When you think of the purpose of your existence, you think in terms of daily waking life, but you also work at your purpose in these other dream dimensions, and you are then in communication with other portions of your own entity, at work at endeavors quite as valid as those you are about in waking life.

Each personality has within it the ability not only to gain a new type of existence in the environment — in your case in physical reality — but to add creatively to the very quality of its own consciousness, and in so doing to work its way through the specialized system, breaking the barriers of reality as it knows it.

[...] Our experience at this point includes our work in each. [...]

[...] Energy is expended in work in dreams. Definite work may be done in a dream, but the physical arms and legs are not tired.

[...] The study of dreams—your scientists consider such work beneath them. [...]

[...] Our present procedure is working out very well, and it is enabling me to discuss matters that were too complicated for our earlier method. [...]

[...] If he had not, he would not have done any of his creative work, and in the light of his background his achievements become even more outstanding. [...]

[...] The creative work was expected not only to be creative, imaginative, intuitive, to contain the highest elements of conceptual thought, but must also be capable of solving the most concrete physical problem, tuned with some magical tuning fork so that it could serve almost any purpose required of it. [...]

[...] Part of all this is due to the original aspect of your work itself, which does not have any well-defined definitions. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) It always tries to right itself, but it must also work within the effective overall pattern of beliefs and expectations. [...]

This response to fear is a danger to psychic work, where freedom is necessary. [...] Rapidity of perception, mobility of consciousness, openness of emotional response, are prerequisites for our work. [...]

We are scarcely beginning our work. [...]

[...] Ruburt is doing well now on the book on which he is working. [...]

[...] There are some individuals embarked upon a study of dreams, working in the “dream laboratories”; but here again there is prejudiced perception, with scientists on the outside studying the dreams of others, or emphasizing the physical changes that occur in the dream state. [...]

[...] Such a work is a joy. [...]

You work with material that is already there, provided. [...]

(Much of tonight’s private material is the kind that eventually appears in Jane’s “own” works, such as Adventures, or is translated in her poetry. [...]

[...] To a degree, however, that suggestion worked for millions of people. [...]

[...] They never had to work for a living, perhaps. [...]

The parents have worked to give their children such advantages, and the parents themselves are somewhat confused by their children’s attitudes. [...]

1. Seth cited the same famous autosuggestion from the work of the French psychotherapist, Emile Coué (1857–1926), in Chapter 4 of Personal Reality, and then as now, he was correct except for the first two words. [...]

[...] Recently there have been noticeable changes for the better in both of her hands, although each one works differently. [...]

[...] I might add that I think the session contains some material re Framework 2 that’s very good; well working with on a daily basis.)

[...] In your works, you both automatically have the courage, the daring, to allow creativity its way. [...]