“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

On the other hand, as I have told you, your past itself continually changes. [...] Since precognition deals with future events, it is here that the issue [of changing time] shows itself.

A friend, Jim Lord, realizes how helpful dreams can be, because one literally saved his life. [...]

According to the rest of Jim’s letter, if he’d been on the beach as usual that morning, only a miracle could have saved him from death. [...]

[...] At times they have immense power to bring about world-shaking changes of beneficial or destructive nature.

Even a quick and automatic rejection or withdrawal from such a stimulus is, in itself, a way by which consciousness knows itself. The ego may attempt to escape such experiences, but the basic nature of action itself is the knowing of itself in all aspects. [...]

Now you should understand why even an impeding action can be literally accepted by the personality as a part of itself and why efforts must be made to coax the personality to give up a portion of itself, if progress is to be made.

In closing, Sue added: “Of course, the dream itself was only the impetus. [...]

[...] The self does not want to give up a portion of itself, even if that part may be painful or disadvantageous. [...]

[...] This has not shown itself however in anything but the poetry.

To save our friend the cat lover from undue torment and inner terror, I suggest you put the frightening monster safely behind a closed door.

[...] You have the best of both worlds. [...]

[...] First of all, the emphasis was on the delivery of the Seth Material itself, as in the twice-weekly sessions Seth continued to explain the nature of nonphysical reality. [...]

[...] The dreams must be recalled before you become mentally involved with the world’s activities.

It is the dream we are after, the dream experience in all the vividness that we can capture, and if you are going to get a watered-down version in any case, then you may as well continue with your present method (of writing them down in the morning) and save your sleep.

[...] You will also be gaining excellent discipline and training over your own states of consciousness and this, in itself, will be an important yardstick of progress for you both. [...]

[...] It’s not a Seth book, but one of the three “world view” books from highly creative people in the arts that Jane tuned into on her own as gifts for me. The other two are The World View of Paul Cézanne (1977), and The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View of William James (1978). When we get to the Rembrandt material in this series I’ll offer my interpretation of Jane’s very interesting world-view material.

[...] The mail rapidly became a quite humbling education in itself. The writers of those letters opened up in specific terms worlds that we’d have never known about otherwise, and, eventually, they did so not only from this country but also from abroad. [...]

[...] I too am a World War II veteran; after three years of service in the Air Force Transport Command I was discharged in 1942. [...] I told myself that I had to get back into the world out there.

[...] Add to those early fears her later fears of rejection not only by the mainstream publishing world because of the “psychic” nature of her work, no matter how good it was—but also by most of the world in general because of her chosen and unique way of expressing her great creativity: the Seth material. [...]

[...] The familiar physical world did not seem to be a very secure place. [...] And yet, inside our small, lighted living room, we both felt we were making important inroads, gaining invaluable insights and finding a point of sanity amid a chaotic world.

But my mind felt crowded out of itself,
By thoughts not its own,
As if someone were settling down in my skull
That I hadn’t invited in.

Now as seasons come and go,
He visits twice a week,
From worlds that have no wind or snow,
But still have promises to keep.

[...] They saved the bullets if they could find them, after firing. [...]

[...] Some of us are born so blessed with riches that we live in a world hardly imaginable to the majority of men, and others grow old and die in dark pockets of poverty, equally incomprehensible. [...]

[...] You helped him ‘save his soul’ at one time [in a past life] and he was returning the favor. [...]

[...] … This in itself will enable her to improve to some degree.

[...] This itself will give her a breathing spell, when the disease will cease its progression. [...]

I do not imagine that this information will save the world. [...]

[...] Thus this session is taken from the tape itself, largely, and necessitated replaying it several times.

[...] Nevertheless the fact remains that I am indeed extending myself, and my dear doctor it is science which is not extending itself, and it is science that will not meet reality halfway.

[...] Yet I also wanted a personality which would allow itself the spontaneity necessary, and the inner freedom, so that such communications could take place. [...]

Hay fever was for your father also a defense against the world, for it allowed him some isolation. [...]

[...] Note that much of the data concerns the three people involved in the poem’s psychic surroundings at the time of creation; and that indeed this feeling on Jane’s part overrides the data pertaining directly to the object itself in most cases tonight. [...]

[...] Barbara does a lot of sewing, and Jane has seen drawers of various kinds of material that Barbara has bought on sale, saving it for whatever use the future brings. [...]