“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You have tried to maintain stability while you work, and have schooled yourselves so that it is not disrupted. [...]

[...] Instead, one personality is working with a system of beliefs, and trying to attain an overall synthesis. [...]

[...] When the ESP book is reprinted (Jane heard about this from F. Fell this week), readers will largely be already acquainted with my work, and bring that extra knowledge to that early book (smile), hence enriching its potentials for them. [...]

[...] As far as beliefs are concerned, Ruburt is working directly now with the proper ones, in the correct area.

[...] You are working out reconciliations in the dream state involving your reincarnational episodes. [...]

(To Sue.) And thank you for all your hard work. [...]

5. Concentrate on his theories, ideas, rather, than on thoughts of work.

I am particularly interested myself in these projected experiments, and as a preliminary for them we shall have you work with suggestion alone before you attempt to begin with your recordings.

[...] We shall indeed have you, Joseph and Ruburt, working in your sleep, as Ruburt earlier remarked, and you shall be glad of it. [...]

You see, the work involved in these experiments will of itself allow you to be extremely flexible, and you will discover finally that you can bring a portion of your consciousness with you while you sleep. [...]

I work carefully in cooperation with his ego, for we do not want to startle it. [...]

There is a rather important section in the work he did today. He hit upon something, and if he had continued working, then he would not have needed to ask me in what dimension dream locations exist. [...]

[...] He is working on, now, the next symposium. [...] This makes more specific details difficult to work out.

[...] He said that I might speak about dream locations, since he has been working on this subject for his own book.

Tam instantly saw the quality in our work, and Ruburt’s. In the beginning only his enthusiasm sold our first book. [...] It was Tam who saw in Ruburt’s original manuscript the importance of his work, and the way in which Ruburt was trying to hide it by playing down his relationship with me.

[...] Even in the beginning, in that regard, the work was appreciated. [...]

[...] You would have been put through experiences most difficult to cope with, that would have so disrupted your peace of mind that the work might well have not progressed to this stage.

[...] Ruburt wondered how far he should go in publicizing his work. [...]

[...] On page two of his letter Wendell tells about a friend who works for the Neilson TV survey people—having to do with pictures. But also, negative, meaning pictures, is called to mind because Wendell’s letter deals with a group of artists who worked together in a studio, drawing comic strips, in 1941-3. In addition I personally have a studio here in the apartment, and the envelope used as object was kept in this studio. [...]

[...] Jane and I felt reasonably sure here that this referred to the boss of the studio at which both Wendell and I worked in 1941-3. His name is Jack Binder, and he is in his 60’s now—perhaps twenty years older than the crew of artists he had working for him. [...]

[...] The empty envelope used as object was mailed to me last May 26,1966, by an old friend, Wendell Crowley, and contained a letter detailing a reunion of a group of friends, all artists, that Wendell and I worked with in 1941-43. [...]

[...] As stated, the object contained a letter describing the reunion of perhaps half a dozen artists who worked together in the early 1940’s. The reunion was attended by the writer of the letter. [...]

[...] Jane and I were in the mood to continue, so we thought we’d try a few stratagems to get the board working again. [...] In the past this had never worked for me, the pointer not even moving over the letters.

[...] During break we discussed the situation at the gallery where she works part time. [...]

[...] At the time Seth also said that had we settled in Miami, Florida, as we considered doing a few years ago, Jane would have worked in a gallery there. [...]

[...] He works best on a job when he is more or less left alone, in charge of given functions to perform, as when he acted as salesman. [...]

(9:45.) When your body and mind are working together then the relationship between the two goes smoothly, and their natural therapeutic systems place you in a state of health and grace. [...]

[...] Nor can you become concerned with the ways in which your conscious purposes will be unconsciously produced, for the inner workings are not aware phenomena.

[...] Again, you direct its form through your beliefs, but the unconscious part of you does the “work” of producing it.

[...] Seth returned to deliver a page of material in which he briefly discussed Jane’s own work with beliefs, her poetry, and her latest ideas about her psychic abilities; from there he went into our relationship with each other and with our parents.

(It will be recalled that in the 83rd session, August 31, 1964, [in Volume 2], Seth commented on the work of Freud and Jung, and mentioned some of the distortions Jung’s work in particular contains.)

If the outer ego would be content to work on an equal basis with its inner counterpart, then many severe difficulties would be sidestepped.

[...] While this is necessary, the whole remainder of the self could not be left to an organizer or caretaker who did not focus his attentions within the depths but sat, as it were, on the front porch of the house, leaving the inner workings unattended. [...]

Since Ruburt’s work involved him most directly in an examination of the self and in the unknown reaches of the psyche, then his experiences led him into a conflict with the idea of the Sinful Self. One of the main points of his work, and mine, is the definition of the well-intentioned self, of course. [...]

[...] Even most creative work is done at the recognized threshold of the normal waking consciousness. [...]

[...] You worked that out in your Nebene existence to a large extent, and because of your own preparations for a life in which you are now involved. [...]

[...] She didn’t want to do such psychic detective work, she said, because it reminded her of her own difficulties—an obvious point we both mentioned. Yet there’s no controlling other people’s reactions to a given body of work, from which among other things such possibilities as finding lost animals—or people—could be deduced. [...]

(“Realize that since ‘79 at least I’ve felt to some degree that I had to protect my work even against Rob, whose ill feeling at Prentice might.... [...]

[...] Most jobs, or even vocations, carry along with them implied guidelines, specifications, and definite requirements that serve to define the work involved. [...]

[...] This is what you have to work with. And you have more to work with than you realize. [...]

[...] You can have far more results even within the context within which you are working—if it were not for this overcaution. [...]

And if you would work, and if you would look inward, and if you would explore the levels of your own reality and the levels of your own consciousness, then you would know what this state is—and you would remember it—and you would always have its reality as a guide. [...]

[...] Work such as ours is a different matter than a novel. [...]

Our work is affecting the lives of millions—of millions (repeated in answer to my surprised look at Seth), through direct readership, and through the influence of those readers upon others, who may not, for example, even read the books, or who may read rarely in any case.

[...] Ruburt was working beyond such authority, and yet his own sense of safety and value had not grown sufficiently so that he could depend upon his own newer beliefs, either. [...]

(“Well, supposing we did concentrate upon increased sales, and did more publicity work on radio and television, for instance: wouldn’t these things increase Jane’s feeling of vulnerability? [...]

[...] Selves may be quite independent within the framework of their own reality, while still being a part of a larger reality in which their independence works not only for their own benefit, but for the sake of a greater structure.

In the systems in which evolution of consciousness has worked in that fashion, all faculties of body and mind in one “lifetime” are beautifully utilized. [...]

[...] You view the fantastic variety of physical life — its animals, insects, birds, fish, man and all his works — with hardly a qualm; yet you must understand that the nature of consciousness itself is far more varied, and you must learn to think of an inner reality that is as infinite as the exterior one. [...]

[...] At the same time I thought she might be putting up barriers to the idea of another Seth book so soon, since we still have editorial work to do for the last one, Personal Reality [see Note I for the 682nd session]. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s mental energies, as I told you, are now accumulating and working to recovery.

[...] This represented a mental decision, finally made, to use this week to work on his book.

[...] These are now working outward normally through the system as the circulatory system becomes normally activated. [...]

Those in your system are relatively impatient, have decided to work with large amounts of energy. [...]

It is the clay which you form so that you can see the results of your mental work. [...]

[...] As you know, there is no destruction, and yet in other terms you must believe for a while that there is, if you are going to work for the good of yourselves and others, as you must.

[...] In one way they are formed from you, but considerable work of one kind or another is done often before they are released, and set free to work within these other realms for you.

When the frustrations were faced and worked through more and more, the creature then lost its strength. [...]

[...] Families may be composed, then, of individuals who disliked each other in the past and come together in a close relationship where they are to work together toward a common goal, learn to understand each other better, and work out problems in a different kind of context.

[...] Theoretically, then, in each life you would become stronger, healthier, wealthier, and wiser, but it does not work that way, for many reasons. [...]