“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] When he finished with the Catholic church, for example, he was certain that the secular, academic world offered the answers to the questions ignored, he felt, by religion. But that world of beliefs also was found highly limiting. [...]

(11:09.) You can decide that you like to work alone—that you do not want to do tours—not because the world is hostile, but simply because that is your way. When the phone rings it is the hostile world out there, so it seems. [...]

[...] He could not allow them to become conscious in that world.

(10:21.) To one extent or another you both believe your world is hostile. [...]

[...] God may know itself through a million or a thousand million other worlds, as so may I — but because this world is, and because I am alive in it, it is more than appearance, more than a shackle to be thrown aside. [...]

[...] A good general question, we think, and one we’d like to see discussed with our own ideas of the inviolate nature of the individual in mind, has to do with the prevalence of ordinary, daily, conscious-mind thinking and perception throughout much of the world. [...]

Yet Buddhist belief, for instance, maintains that our perception of the world is not fundamental, but an illusion; our “ignorance” of this basic undifferentiated “suchness” then results in the division of reality into objects and ideas. [...]

As Jane wrote in Chapter 1 of The World View of Paul Cézanne: A Psychic Interpretation (1977): “Seth maintains that each of us forms a psychic world view, composed of our own ideas, feelings, and beliefs, as we encounter our private corner of reality.” The world view of every creature that has ever lived continues to exist, and can be tuned into under certain conditions. [...] Yet none of this means that contact will be made directly with the creator of the world view in question—only the bank of experiences originated through that individual’s unique version of reality. And since world views are far from being static, interactions and combinations involving all time periods take place among them constantly.

Jane’s book would be called The World View of Jane Roberts, of course. [...] If she could tune into the world views of the philosopher and psychologist William James, and the artist Paul Cézanne, why couldn’t she do it for the writer and mystic Jane Roberts? [...]

[...] A book could automatically develop out of the investigation—even, I joked with Jane, a “world-view” book.

[...] In these sketches, with their simple but very effective patterns of line and primary colors, Jane somehow bypasses her everyday challenges and very clearly reflects her basically mystical view of the world. [...]

[...] There isn’t any saving of the world necessary, we agreed. The world doesn’t need to be saved. [...]

[...] I guess I’ve been brooding because I fell into that trap Seth talks about — of thinking that I’ve got to save the world….”

(“Fortunately, the power of constructive action and thought is indeed paramount in nature and in your world. [...]

[...] Autistic children, in many cases, now, are those who have picked up the idea that the world is so unsafe that it is better not to communicate with it at all, as long as their demands or needs are being met. [...]

[...] He sensed your abilities also, and psychically the two of you pooled your creative resources to reach beyond the reality that you know, to search for some other vaster framework that could help explain the events of your private reality and the events of the public world. For that world did indeed seem chaotic, particularly with your president’s assassination and the situation in Cuba. [...]

At the time of your problems, you seemed to be facing a dead end, for very little in the world that you saw or experienced seemed either sane or rational. [...]

[...] Some people died in those years because they did not want to live in that kind of world. [...]

These developments reoccur now and then in trial runs, so to speak, restating various genetic positions, though they often appear in your world as abnormalities. [...]

[...] It is that world that offers you answers, solutions, and would reveal many of the blueprints that exist behind the world of your experience.

[...] In a completely different context, they are quite as used as any city or marketplace in the physical world. [...]

[...] He is then beginning to glimpse the blueprints for the world that you know.

[...] Yet your world is composed of quite natural products, objects that emerge, almost miraculously when you think of it, from the inside of the earth.

[...] I think all of this psychic stuff that I’m half aware of has to be organized and expressed in our world — Seth, Cézanne, this book — so that we can make sense of the whole thing.”

[...] When you are dreaming, you are experiencing direct knowledge about yourself or about the world. [...]

Dreams deal with associations and with emotional validities that often do not seem to make sense in the usual world. [...]

[...] Ruburt tuned in to Cézanne’s “world view.” [...]

[...] [See the extensive notes for the 653rd session in Chapter Thirteen, describing her various states of altered perception last April 2. In one of those intervals she’d sensed giants standing about the rim of our world.] Now, Jane said, from their massive viewpoint these observers could see “everything happening at once in our world, from California to Russia — like astronauts looking back at us….”

[...] “If something dies in your head, a cell maybe, something also dies in the outside world: an insect, a person. [...]

[...] If he came through like he is now, his voice would be so strong it would drown out everything else in the world. [...]

He knew there were many different ways of experiencing even the physical world, and so he rejected all concepts that told him otherwise. [...]

(Long pause at 9:05.) I have told you, however, that the world of events springs from the world of ideas. [...]

[...] You could not have a world in which the newly-risen dead mixed with the living. [...]

[...] As I stated before, that part of the world was filled with would-be messiahs, self-proclaimed prophets, and so forth, and in those terms it was only a matter of time before man’s great spiritual and psychic desires illuminated and filled up that psychological landscape, filling the prepared psychological patterns with a new urgency and intent. [...]

(Pause.) Your world is not going to destroy itself. In terms of probabilities the world is both saved and lost. Those who believe in peace will find it, and a world in which peace reigns. [...]

Both of you operate best in your private worlds, but the books vastly extend that world, and represent a far greater communication with others than you presently understand. [...]

[...] But I no longer felt as I did as a child, that the universe was well-intended or cared for me particularly; and looking about the world saw personal threats. [...] During this entire period, I developed a way of retreating from the world — habits of thought and action. [...]

The ego, which must manipulate most directly with the everyday world, takes time, clock time, quite seriously. [...]

[...] If you dwell on ideas of danger or potential disaster, if you think of the world mainly in terms of your physical survival and consider all those circumstances that may work against it, then you may find yourself suddenly aware of precognitive dreams that foretell incidents of accidents, earthquakes, robberies or murders.

[...] Instead you should examine your conscious beliefs, for they are so strong that they are causing you not only to focus upon calamity in the physical world, but to use your inner abilities to the same end.

It is the core belief which is strong enough to so focus your perception that you perceive from the physical world only those events that correlate with it. [...]

[...] You possess an unconscious environment, a given psychological world attuned to the physical one, and your learning takes place in it subjectively even as objectively you learn exterior manipulation.

[...] Children’s imaginations prevent them from being too limited by their parents’ world. [...]

Children try to imagine what the world was like before they entered it. [...]

For another exercise, imagine that you are in another part of the world entirely, but in present time, and ask yourself the same questions. [...]

[...] Ruburt set out, of course, to handle his own purposes and challenges, but he chose those in the context of your world, so that in encountering them personally he would encounter them for your society as well. [...]

[...] That kind of trust is behind all of man’s curiosity, for without a trust in the world he would never have the courage to explore it. [...]

At Ruburt’s end, it almost seems as if he had our material at hand magically without effort, and therefore should have put it to use at once, learning the lessons of half a lifetime in a few years, and graduating to solve all of his own problems and half of the world’s as well. [...]

[...] While it may sound unrealistic, the fact remains that much of Ruburt’s problems are indeed caused by a constant comparison with the self that he is, and the self that he and you think he should be (long pause), and to some extent by too much concern about what the world may think or not think. [...]

The natural person (number one) looks at the world and tries to see how his or her abilities can best be utilized and fulfilled. That person grows through its knowledge and experience with the world, as long as there is no attempt to make the natural self over to fit the world. [...]

In this deceptively simple but moving poem about her magical childhood responses to the world she lived in, Jane foreshadows from that viewpoint the innate knowledge she was to express a quarter of a century later in the Seth material. [...]

i didn’t want to sleep
for fear the world would disappear
but new days kept coming and coming.
the old ones slipped away one
by one, but were always replenished.

I was walking past the world
one day,
half deciding not to stay,
when I saw you standing there,
ten years ahead of me in time
but so close in space
that I reached out
and touched your arm.

[...] In all forms of life each individual is born into a world already provided for it, with circumstances favorable to its growth and development; a world in which its own existence rests upon the equally valid existence of all other individuals and species, so that each contributes to nature’s whole.

[...] The majority of accepted beliefs — religious, scientific, and cultural — have tended to stress a sense of powerlessness, impotence, and impending doom — a picture in which man and his world is an accidental production with little meaning, isolated yet seemingly ruled by a capricious God. [...]

[...] Some use religious dogma, and others rely upon scientific dogma to prove their cases, but in any case, they are presented with a world of deception and vengeance.

[...] Their efforts are directed in other ways also, as they try to convince all areas of the world to share their wealth and foodstuffs equally.

[...] It is not that plants understand your ideas in usual terms — but that they do indeed pick up your intent, and in the arena of world survival, they have a stake.

[...] As her world became physically smaller, she seemed to reach out into mine.

I described that experience in The Seth Material, but because it rose from the world of dreams and is so connected with unconscious activity, I want to examine it from a different viewpoint here. [...]

[...] The ordinary surface of my world literally quaked open, and I had no conception then of what was still to emerge.

[...] The senses are channels of projection by which ideas are projected outward to create the world of appearances.