“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You are working through the subconscious, and you must work through the subconscious in order to clear the channels. [...]

[...] You must work through this in order to make communication with other layers. [...]

[...] You know that I will verbalize them for you, but you do not need any verbalization, and when you are finished dillydallying about then I expect you to come back to class on a regular basis and to get to work. [...]

[...] It has its own validity, and it will always work. [...]

[...] Two days ago, she worked on our new front porch for the first time; she sat in the slanting sunlight and wrote down the information she psychically picked up from the “world view” of William James, the American psychologist and philosopher who lived from 1842–1910. [...]

[...] Now she prefers to formally sign for a book only after she — and/or Seth — has finished most of the work on that project.

[...] Biologically, illness therefore represents the overall body defense system at work.

(Long pause.) If that assessment correlates with biological ones, you have a good working relationship with the body. [...]

[...] It was a young neighbor from downstairs, concerned about transportation to work tomorrow. We work together at Artistic Card Co. [...]

You are on short time, and such suggestions will allow you to produce in a minimum of physical time excellent work.

The suggestion was given that he have an abundance of energy, and that he would focus and discipline the energy so that he could use it in his writing and in his psychic work. [...]

[...] There were many problems not worked out that are being worked out now. [...] (Pause.) There is also a connection with an individual where you work. [...]

I am giving you frequent breaks since Ruburt is dealing primarily with this sort of work this evening, and there is a difference in the energy used. [...]

[...] You do have an ability with animals, and you will do well working with them. [...]

[...] But in working toward a goal that is very distant, a goal that will be extremely difficult for you to achieve, you feel subconsciously that you will be excused from failure; if you fail you can then say that it was because so many obstacles were in your way.

[...] In the general field, working with animals, however, you have admirable qualities that can be utilized if you use them toward a practical goal. [...]

[...] You two work well together. [...]

(No sooner had we started than Bill Tolbert showed up to start mowing the grass and using his trimmer, which is even noisier than the mower, but Jane persevered after I shut doors and windows, depending on where Bill was working outside. [...]

One line I’d forgotten put the situation rather clearly, though: I was afraid that Seth’s work and my own might have some fatal flaw to which I was blind, so that I suppose by trusting the inner self and individual inspiration, I might actually also be opening up that horrendous Pandora’s box. [...]

I’ll go back and work with these ideas once again, more clearly—but they still prevented me from taking that final step into a satisfying-enough acceptance of my abilities, so that each time I would reach a new impasse. [...]

I plan of course to work with the rest of that sinful-self material. [...]

(She talked about how a strong part of me had served as a catalyst in her own work and love, but this only made me wonder how I was to utilize those qualities in our relationship and work while ignoring all those other factors—mostly negative ones—that seemed to operate all the time. [...]

(She wasn’t too clear as to what she was panicky about, but as we talked I began to understand that she was re-experiencing the same round of fears that she had many times in the past, and that many of these private sessions have been devoted to over the years: her mother, her need for love, her fears of abandonment, the conflicts involving success and the psychic work, our relationship, and so forth, if anything’s left. [...]

[...] In present terms I think that situation is just another example of the workings of the sinful self —to avoid challenge, to have its own way at all costs.

[...] He will be of great help to Ruburt, and in advancing our work.

[...] No matter what Ruburt said, he thought of himself as working in a highly specialized, misunderstood small field.

[...] Your position as not being publicity seekers works strongly to your advantage now, as far as Seth Speaks and The Seth Material is concerned. [...]

[...] You will see more of him, but there will be good quiet periods of work between.

[...] These chemical excesses are used up, for one things, in your own creative work. [...] It goes without saying that your own work will gain immeasurably through the extended experience of projection. [...] This energy results, also, in chemical excesses that can be utilized in projections, without drawing energy away from your other work.

[...] I had given up my gallery work, and was teaching nursery school during part of this time. [...]

[...] The method will work in either case. [...]

[...] These tell far more about how consciousness works, and I was always intrigued by trying to continue normal awareness throughout dreaming.

[...] Very few were familiar with my work (although a few local fans—strangers—eventually found their way to my hospital room). [...] I learned to joke even as my backside swung perilously above the commode, while I hoped that its aim was true in the hands of the nurses and orderlies—and again I felt that long-forgotten camaraderie with people, and a growth within myself apart from my work, or what I did. [...]

[...] I accepted her reactions, and could only wait in some frustration as I began work on other parts of this essay.

[...] For now, though, I present what I have to work with from the saddest, most mournful Sumari song she’s ever created and sung. [...]

[...] For Jane’s own work, however, I note times, occasional pauses, and any other information in italics, just as I do for Seth’s dictation.

[...] I explained to Jane my feeling that the amazingly intricate stone carving, particularly the bas-relief work, seemed beyond the abilities of the hammer and chisel. Jane broke in to tell me that this carving was done by small instruments that used inaudible sound waves; these radiations softened the stone, she said, so that the work could be performed. [...]

[...] We had been working long hours on our own, and I had been putting in overtime at Artistic, so I was quite tired. [...]

[...] I have always wondered just how it was possible, with the few tools then available, according to our history, to do this work. [...]

[...] They always use their native abilities and talents to help the system, working very strongly in psychic or creative endeavors.

[...] The best answer I got was when I laid Through My Eyes aside to work on Mass Events I felt bad about doing that. Not that I resented working on Mass Events. [...]

[...] She said that last night’s dream sequences were her celebration of her bodily abilities — her insistence on the excellent workings of the body. [...]

[...] She used to think that “if I used my body all the way, I wouldn’t work — which is hysterical, because now I do hardly anything.” [...]

[...] In his terms he felt alone, in that he felt he was upsetting all known knowledge, and without training working in the unknown. [...]

[...] It went against the work ethic.

[...] The creative abilities operate in the same fashion, appearing within consecutive time, but with the main work done outside of it entirely…. When you were both working on your projects, your cultural time was taken up in a way you found acceptable. [...]

[...] Her fingers didn’t work easily when she typed, or wrote with pen and pencil, or held a paintbrush.

[...] He also became aware of his limitations, physically speaking: There was not much, it seemed, he could do but work, so he took the rational approach—and it says that to solve the problem you worry about it.”

[...] If she were to sum up the results of her life’s work so far in a few lines, this poem would do the job the best of all:

Fear of the self, itself, can lead people to the horrendous experiences mentioned in tonight’s session, so you are working with some revolutionary ideas, and trying to apply them to daily living.

[...] There was stuff I’ve also forgotten though that made me waken at once, furious; some connection between the two books, also whole bunches of feelings rise to my mind about the disclaimer being like a sign or statement that I’m a liar or that my work isn’t truthful or like, hell, the letter A for adulteress they used to pin on wicked women.... [...]

[...] You bring into action, physically speaking, those greater powers of your being, and trust certain chores to be taken care of at that vast unconscious level, instead of, as mentioned this evening (in the session proper) working at a trial-and-error basis,

(I spent part of the afternoon and evening writing to Tam, asking him to defend us from the well-meaning but evidently inept efforts of various people in Canada and Switzerland to arrange for translations of Jane’s work in French, Italian, and Spanish—and I’d sworn off writing such letters following the fiasco with Ariston.... [...]

[...] “If it works out and you have a minute tonight, and if you’re in the mood to say something about Israel and Iraq, it would be interesting,” I told Jane. [...]

(One-minute pause at 8:52.) I did want to make some comments about the Sinful Self in general, and how it is perceived and assimilated in say, Castaneda’s work and in the belief structure of Kubler-Ross. [...]

[...] But if that didn’t work out, Jane would have to wait her turn in a double room—and there was no telling how long that could take, she said. [...]

[...] I told Jane as I fed her the rest of her cold lunch that I’m going to have to start cutting down on the typing involved with these sessions, so that I can be sure I get each day’s work done before another load arrives the next day. [...]

[...] I’m not against someone else putting that book together for publication, providing someone wants it, and things may work out that way. [...]