“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Because of the fact that bad weather has often saved man from wars in the very early stages of human development, man misconstrued this to mean that sacrifice to the elements could save him from calamities of this kind. [...]

[...] The crisis itself was a psychic one mainly, which will of course have physical consequences. [...]

[...] In many cases you have been saved from wars by such things as earthquakes, tornadoes of a vast nature, and other physical catastrophes. [...]

[...] But this destructiveness in itself serves the purposes of creativeness and arrival. [...]

[...] In order to save itself as a functioning unit, it sacrifices a portion of itself. [...]

[...] Your nation, because of its greatness and ideals, must judge itself accordingly against those ideals. It therefore cannot afford to judge itself against others, find itself superior, and rest. [...]

[...] As a physical organism tries to thrust out poisons that impede its health, so the mass psyche organism, symbolically speaking, attempts to rid itself of this now-poisonous overdeveloped aggression.

The consequences however for the nation and the world would be far more disastrous had these hates and aggressions not found these therapeutic, almost surgical, unfortunately necessary, outlets.

(“The pendulum also says I think my body is capable of healing itself, wants to heal itself, and that I want it to heal itself. [...]

[...] He offers the nourishment of the world—but the world as he perceives it, and instead you prefer your private nourishment. Bill Gallagher sees a dog-eat-dog world, and, as mentioned earlier, animals have an entirely different meaning to Bill.

To some extent (underlined) now, his beliefs stand for a certain conventionalized view of the world. To some extent (underlined) those views, colored by a different era, were those of your own father, concerning at least the world of commerce, business, and so forth. You all felt that those dire events of the cultural and social world were somehow transposed over the natural one.

Now: beside other reasons, the taxes serve as a focal point, because you feel you must pay tribute to the world that is described by Bill Gallagher—and in that world you feel you have no specific (underlined) conventional role, as earlier mentioned.

[...] While you focus your attention primarily in your own world, certain portions of your consciousness are always straying. When you are sleeping, then, your consciousness often ventures into other realities, usually in a wandering fashion without tuning itself in to any precise frequencies. [...]

Projecting your consciousness out of your body, therefore, provides at the same time an inner probing of consciousness itself, as well as experience of its manifestations. There are then inner lands of the mind, and other worlds quite as legitimate as your own. [...]

[...] Christ is one of these: in some respects the most ideal detective — in a different context, however — out to save the good and to protect the world from harm. [...]

Your world, again, is the result of a certain focus of consciousness, without which that world cannot be perceived. [...] The range of consciousness involved is obviously physically oriented, yet within it there are great varieties of consciousness, each experiencing that seemingly objective world from a private perspective. [...]

[...] Your society is not a thing in itself apart from you, but the result of the individual beliefs of each person in it. [...] Your most advanced thinkers emphasize man’s rape of the planet, or focus upon the future disaster that will overtake the world, or see men once again as victims of the stars.

I remind the reader that after break ended at 11:35 in the last session (the 804th in Chapter 1), Seth had this to say: “Left alone, the body can defend itself against any disease, but it cannot defend itself appropriately against an exaggerated general fear of disease on the individual’s part. [...]

Your scientific beliefs tell you that your entire world happened accidentally. [...]

[...] It is impossible to meditate without a goal, for that intent is itself a purpose. [...]

[...] Since feeling is so often the cohesive with which mind builds, it is feeling itself which must be changed if you would find freedom from your particular plane of existence at your particular time. [...] If I speak in analogies and images, it is because I must relate with the world that is familiar to you.

[...] A mental enclosure divides itself in two, splits up, multiplies, acts upon its own various parts, and this produces a material manifestation. [...] The mental enzymes within the enclosure are the elements that set off the action, and — listen to this — they are also the action itself.

A Blundering Trance
Two Fugitives from the Dream World

[...] Emotion ‘solidified’ is something else again and is perhaps a framework of other worlds. [...]

[...] Last night, we had reminders that a natural rhythmic cycle was completing itself six months later: As we retired I thought I heard the barking of geese migrating north, although Jane didn’t. I woke up around four a.m., though, and heard a flight clearly in the silent hour. [...]

[...] The cycles of health and disease are felt as rhythms of the body by the large variety of animals, and even with them illness or disease has life-saving qualities on another level.

[...] Disease in itself on that level is a part of the life-survival process, and a system of checks and balances. [...]

Man forgot the teaching and healing elements, and concentrated instead upon the unpleasant experience itself. [...]

The concepts in “Unknown” Reality will help expand the consciousness of each of its readers, and the work itself is presented in such a manner that it automatically pulls your awareness out of its usual grooves, so that it bounces back and forth between the standardized version of the world you accept, and the unofficial⁷ versions that are sensed but generally unknown to you.

At least to some degree, Jane’s exploration last Friday afternoon of those super-real models for our world represented her use of the sixth inner sense — the same one, she wrote in Chapter 19 of The Seth Material, that “… also shows itself in inspirations, and episodes of spontaneous ‘knowing.’ Surely this sense was partially responsible for my Idea Construction manuscript.” [...]

(As I drove east on Water Street, heading for the center of Elmira, Jane exclaimed again and again over the new beauty she was discovering in her world. [...] For all the while she was having the most profound group of experiences in seeing, feeling, and knowing the ordinary physical world about her.

“Then, between one moment and the next, the world literally changed for me. [...] It’s like the old world but infinitely richer, more ‘now,’ built better, and with much greater depth.

[...] You are dealing with a world of probabilities. [...] It is possible to perceive the future as it will be; on the other hand the future itself is always changing, for you change it in the present. [...]

[...] (Pete’s brother.) We find a confusion in body chemistry, caused either by the diet itself at present, or alternating changes of diet. [...]

(Pause.) Now, by itself, ostriches. [...]

[...] Within your family, no others save perhaps Stephen, could handle aggressions in this manner—that is, dissipate them. [...]

[...] She brought with her a batch of papers Leonard Yaudes had saved for us; naturally our talk revolved around Leonard’s recent heart bypass operation—see the opening notes for sessions 894-97, for example, and my own reactions to Leonard’s situation.

[...] The body seeks to use itself. [...]

[...] Some few people in your world expect to work productively through their 90’s at hard work, and do so. [...]

[...] Therefore, do not be angry with yourself, when you fall susceptible to beliefs that are so paramount in your world. [...]

I intend to add to our discussion concerning the dream world, as it is not only important in itself but offers excellent analogies as far as many other aspects of manipulation are concerned. [...]

As long as your theories are only concerned with your own camouflage universe, then of course you are limited by those ideas in your search for reality itself. When fifth dimension is understood, it in itself will show the existence of other realities not on your own horizontal plane. [...]

[...] This gives you also the illusion of past and future, and to you it appears that the present is a fleeting, almost ashen illusion in itself, beyond any true remembrance and beyond the reach of any but nostalgic recall. [...]

[...] The fact remains that the intellect is itself limited at this particular time, but these limitations of the intellect are not static and can be enlarged to some considerable extent.

[...] The “subconscious” will try to save an individual from great disappointment. This may mean the incidence of a disease, but the disease may save a person’s sanity. [...]

(At the same time, her responses are at times very uncomfortable as the body begins readjusting various portions of itself, like long-unused mechanisms that need prompting and lubrication to start working more smoothly. [...]

[...] Much of this appears in your pendulum work of late, but you both then project those ideas upon the world, so that you think of your readers as overly credulous, or of critics who are overly critical. [...]

[...] It is not easy, you see, to draw the line, and the species obviously puts itself in risk situations often; and often attains certain triumphs as a result.

This father had a later life, and a very successful one also in Italy, in a town badly bombed in the Second World War. [...]

[...] Other lives had been fulfilling, but the personality had never set for itself (pause) any position in the past that was not one of strength.

The illness itself was secondary. [...]

[...] No one save the individual entity knows in what directions weaknesses lie that need correction, and it sets about forming life dramas in which these can be faced.

Beneath all of the frustrations and upsets we may feel at their surface manifestations, Jane and I are caught up in the deeper meanings of events like those at Jonestown and TMI, for they represent great challenges that our species has set for itself, through this century and beyond. [...] These challenges aren’t just national, of course, but worldwide: The scientific rationale embodied in TMI runs headlong into the western world’s reliance upon energy supplies — mainly oil — from nations that are largely religiously oriented, and that profess all kinds of antipathy for social orders other than their own. [...]

(9:03.) Through your mundane conscious choices, you affect all of the events of your world, so that the mass world is the result of multitudinous individual choices. [...]

[...] He believed in the absolute necessity of power, while convinced at the same time that he did not possess it; and further, he believed that in the most basic terms the individual was powerless to alter the devastating march of evil and corruption that he saw within the country, and in all the other countries of the world. [...]

[...] That is, people aren’t polluting the world out of greed alone, but for the economic good of all. [...]

[...] You have so concentrated upon the categorization, delineation, and exploration of the objective world that it surely seems to be “the only real one.” It seems to exert force or pressure against you, or to impinge upon you, or at least almost to happen by itself, so that you sometimes feel powerless against it. [...]

[...] You learn to read, but the seeing itself is an accomplishment of far greater magnitude — one that seemingly happens all by itself. [...]

[...] The idea of selfish genes also implies plan on the part of such entities — and so comes dangerously close to contradicting several basic tenets of science itself: among them that life arose by chance, that it perpetuates itself through random mutations and the struggle for existence (or natural selection), and that basically life has no meaning.

[...] The great sweeps of emotional identification with nature itself do not sustain you, therefore. [...]

The world from that initial creative center had to expand. [...]

[...] Through these, childlike wisdom will indeed show itself, but a wisdom that has been tried, that is aware of its own integrity through the seasons.

[...] The final period was and is to be one in which your energies are directed to your work without the outside job, for finally you began to feel that you were not doing what you should do; this itself inhibited your trust in yourself further, and therefore the development of your work.

(The idea of letting the painting fill itself with color “as blood fills the body” is excellent.

[...] You may, for example, sneeze or not sneeze, cough or not cough, walk to the window or the door, scratch your elbow, save a child from drowning, learn a lesson, commit suicide, harm another, or turn your cheek.

The soul can be described for that matter, as a multidimensional, infinite act, each minute probability being brought somewhere into actuality and existence; an infinite creative act that creates for itself infinite dimensions in which fulfillment is possible.

[...] In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds.

[...] There is a feeling, held by many, that a study of dream reality will lead you further away from the world you know. Instead, it would connect you with that world in most practical terms.

[...] Now the Roman soldier and Nebene and the woman went their separate ways after death, colon: They contributed to the world as it existed, in those terms, and then followed their own lines of development, elsewhere, in other realities. So each of you exists in many times and places, and versions of yourselves exist in the world and time that you recognize. [...]

10. This note is as much for my own edification as it is for anyone else’s. The definitions are from Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, Second College Edition, © 1970 by The World Publishing Company, New York and Cleveland:

[...] His material enhances my Roman and Jamaican visions [and others] — which saves me considerable effort in figuring them out for myself, of course. [...]

(I’m bypassing the lengthy notes I wrote prefacing this session in order to get the material typed up itself the next day so that Jane can begin studying it. The session itself indicates, of course, the nature of the notes. [...]

[...] He needs to turn away from an overconcern with life’s more ‘“weighty problems,” to lose the feeling that it is up to him to solve those problems for himself and you and for the world. [...]

[...] Not just Ruburt alone but the people of the world are, one way or another, now in the process of just such a redefinition. [...]

[...] I’m on the point—I’m very close—to telling you that I’ll refuse to cooperate on the sessions any longer, meaning that I’ll be trying once more to save you from disaster. [...]

Now both of you have to some extent the false belief that you must protect your abilities against the world and its values, and distractions. You therefore place yourselves in a framework of threat in which your abilities must be cautiously presented, and yourselves in an environment against which you must take self-saving methods.

Ruburt sees the two of you against the world. [...] It is important that you, Joseph, also examine your beliefs honestly in regard to your work and spontaneity, and your relationship with the world.

Those purposes involve each of you and your work, and those methods that you think are necessary to direct your energies “properly,” husband your energy, and protect you from what you think of as a hostile world. [...] He is convinced that he must protect you and himself from any spontaneity not reflected in work, and from the world.

[...] This in itself is good, but his idea of “work” was what limited him, and what is still limiting him. [...]