“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Obviously the physical world itself attains its organization through a staggering cooperation. [...]

[...] It is not against you, nor is the world. [...]

The world of mores also “gives,” however. [...]

[...] She does not know in which world she lives. It is indeed as if she were of two minds—one dwelling in one world and one in another. She has the laws of the two worlds confused (pause), and it is as if she had use of an entire alphabet, but the letters were not in order, but out of their proper arrangement, so that it was almost impossible to read the sentences, so to speak, that have then resulted. [...]

[...] There are endless versions [of consciousness], of course, with their own worlds, forming organizations of meaning and purpose. [...]

[...] It seems to you, then, that the world began—or must have begun—at some point in the past¹ (a one-minute pause at 9:18), but that is like supposing that one piece of a cake is the whole cake, which was baked in one oven and consumed perhaps in an afternoon.

[...] your consciousness in certain fashions, but it is quite possible to read the consciousness of the world in other ways also.

[...] Quite simply, you felt that in certain terms you had other brothers and sisters in the world that were like you but unlike you, that put together the contents of the universe in their own fashions. [...]

[...] He wanted to conquer, and bring the world under Ottoman sway.

[...] You were involved with your ideas of truth in an entirely different context, as was much of Europe at that time, and some of the world now.

[...] The whole world, more or less, was experimenting with the use of brutal force as an accepted method of enforcing ideas. [...]

Had they not, the history of the world as you know it would have been quite different. [...]

(In this noon’s mail Jane received from her editor, Tam Mossman, an early printer’s proof of the book jacket for The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View of William James. [...]

[...] Those unique intents that characterize each individual exist in Framework 2, then — and with birth, those intents immediately begin to impress the physical world of Framework 1.

Each child’s birth changes the world, obviously, for it sets up an instant psychological momentum that begins to affect action in Framework 1 and Framework 2 alike.

[...] To one extent or another this applies to every field of endeavor as each person adds to the world scene, and as the intents of each individual, added to those of each other person alive, multiply — so that the fulfillment of the individual results in the accomplishments of your world.³ And the lack of fulfillment of course produces those lacks that are also so apparent.

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

[...] In other words the mental enzymes not only produce action in the material world but become the action. [...]

[...] Since feeling is a cohesive, to change it completely would hardly be of any advantage since your world of present existence would fall apart.

[...] If I speak in analogies and images it is because I must relate with the world that is familiar to you.

(My position after writing this appendix is that in scientific and religious terms we know little about our world [and universe], its origins, and its amazing variety of forms, both “living” and “nonliving.” Our own limitations may have something to do with our attitudes here, yet Jane and I have become very careful about believing science or religion when either one tells us it can explain our world, for each of those disciplines ignores too much. [...]

In light of the excerpts to come in this appendix from the 44th session, it should be noted that when Seth used the term “camouflage,” he referred not only to our physical world as one of the forms (or camouflages) taken by basic reality, but to another kind of time as well — the medium of successive moments the outer ego is used to, and in which our ordinary world exists.

[...] The mass world rises up before your eyes, but your eyes are part of that mass world. [...]

[...] In our world, of course, space and time form the environment in which conventional ideas of evolution exist. [...]

[...] Fears should not he inhibited, but encountered, and yet behind all of them, in your time at least, lies the feeling that the individual is powerless against the conditions of his body or the events of the world.

[...] Both of you found it quite necessary to take a strong conscious, critical look at the material from the beginning, for your trainings told you, in the terms that you understood them, that the “subconscious” could be very misleading, though creative, and that therefore you must critically examine any intuitive productions that profess themselves to stand as truths rather than as creative fictions in your world.

[...] Both of you have a tendency to concentrate upon the ills of the world—and so that applies also to the mail, for you remember the letters of those who are in difficulty far more than other letters—and Ruburt thinks that he is simply one more person with a problem that seemingly cannot be solved. [...]

[...] I want all the exercises done that he tells others to do, and I want both of you to consider your beliefs about the world as beliefs. [...]

Triggers were needed also to initiate my emergence through that personality I display into your world. [...]

[...] This does not mean that I do not have my own reality, for I do, but in my relationship with you and Ruburt, and in my relationship with your world, I do take certain characteristics that come from each of your realities.

[...] On the other hand, I can only operate mentally in your world. [...]

(Long pause, eyes closed.) E-ven seem-ing fail-ures serve as ex-peri-ence in worlds you do not know. [...]

(1. Does Jane’s inherently mystical nature give rise to conflicts with the non-mystical world she finds herself in this time around? [...] Jane said that she never thinks of mysticism, herself, yet I think such factors could operate easily enough in our world. [...]

[...] To be creative in Ruburt’s particular way, you need a variety of characteristics that will allow you to probe alone into the nature of your own experience, and yet abilities that will also help you relate to the world—and Ruburt has those necessary abilities. [...]

[...] The main point for now that I want to make is that Ruburt does indeed perceive the world differently, and he cannot try to force that vaster kind of perception into the narrow confines of ordinary work ideas.

[...] Ruburt’s book The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View of William James explains that feeling very well. [...] I am a unique, worthy creature in the natural world, which everywhere surrounds me, gives me sustenance, and reminds me of the greater source from which I myself and the world both emerge. My body is delightfully suited to its environment, and comes to me, again, from that unknown source which shows itself through all of the events of the physical world.”

[...] On September 12, Jane had a very vivid dream that she believes was rooted in a past life of hers in Turkey: Her dream involved a little boy, Prince Emir, who lived in a brand-new world in which death hadn’t been invented yet. [...]

In a few isolated areas of the world even today, the old are not disease-ridden, nor do their vital signs weaken. [...]

[...] Christianity, however, officially asks children of sorrow to be joyful and sinners to find a childlike purity; it asks them to love a God who one day will destroy the world, and who will condemn them to hell if they do not adore him.

I meant to point out at our last session the multitudinous ways in which our sessions are related to the events of the world. [...]

[...] They see the world differently, and in one way or another they communicate that difference to friends and associates. [...]

[...] He equates it with vacations and the world’s playful activity—that is my answer.

[...] He is far more timid in his relations with the outside world than even you perhaps suppose.

[...] Where his writing is not concerned, and when he relates himself to the world at large, he is timid, fearful, and without the confidence that his inner knowledge of his own worth should certainly give him.

[...] But when he relates to the world at large, his first unfortunate reaction is a panic that is derived from psychological and emotional heritage, environmental as he picked up his mother’s distrust of the outside.

He was certainly encouraged, and by his mother, to pursue the ways of inward intellectual freedoms, up to a point; but he was early inculcated with the expectation that the outside world meant danger at the least, and tragedy more probably.

This repression does not only show itself in the physical world of behavior, but also acts within the interior world of the body itself, repressing those organs that lead to physical motion. [...]

[...] Parents often promote such ideas by teaching children that they live in an unsafe world, filled with enemies. [...]

At the present time they may only represent distant ideals, against which mankind measures itself, yet many of them can indeed be realized in the world as it is, if only people become more aware of their expressive capabilities so that the main direction of their lives are expressive rather than repressive. [...]

(I didn’t have time to go into it today, but Seth’s material reminded me anew that I know my own mother had managed to make me afraid of certain areas of life—that as I grew up, then left home and had to manipulate in the world, I became quite aware that I’d acquired certain fears or inhibitions. [...]

[...] You think, for example, I feel poorly, or this hurts, or you think this is a cruddy world I am in sometimes. [...]

[...] Now, it does no good to take ten minutes a day and give yourself good suggestions and say, “I am brave, I am strong, I am healthy and young and rich” and spend the rest of the time saying to yourself, “I am poor, I am getting old, I feel sore, or it is a cruddy world.” [...]

[...] You would not think of going to a hypnotist and having him tell you that you are getting sicker by the moment or the world was getting cruddier by the moment or that your arm or foot or head or toe or ear would hurt more and more with each breath that you took. [...]

[...] You not only attract negative conditions therefore in the physical world that you know, but you open yourselves up to these in the dream reality. [...]

Iran’s fundamentalist Islamic orientation is directly opposed to the secular or worldly view of government espoused in Western lands. [...] And really, I thought, it could have hardly been an accident on consciousness’s part that as the events at tiny Jonestown receded from world attention, the revolution in Iran began to dramatically increase. [...]

[...] Horses enjoyed the contributions they made to man’s world. [...] Dolphins, for example, respond emotionally to man’s world. [...]

[...] I’ve come to believe that the predominantly outdoor life would give me a certain understanding of our temporal and spiritual worlds impossible to grasp otherwise, and that my painting would inevitably mirror that greater comprehension. [...] Of course, what I’m really stressing here is living the independent life as much as possible within our ever-more-complicated national and world cultures. [...]

[...] In the frontmatter, see the first of the four quotations from Seth; the one taken from a private session given just two months ago: “All energy contains consciousness (underlined). … A recognition of that simple statement would indeed change your world. [...]

But I note with some amusement that science absorbs such heresies by weaving them into and developing them out of current establishment thinking—concepts, say, like the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Put very simplistically, this “quantum approach” allows for the theme that each of us inhabits but one of innumerable probable or parallel worlds. Even the theory of evolution is invoked, for those other worlds are said to evolve in parallel with the one we inhabit. [...] (Some physicists, however, have implied that subatomic particles—photons—communicate with each other as they take their separate but “sympathetic” paths.) Pardon my irony here, but Seth has always dealt with the ramifications of consciousness and maintained also that we do not inhabit just one probable world, but constantly move among them by choice—and by the microsecond, if one chooses.

[...] From what Jane and I can gather (through our reading especially), at least some of the world’s leading scientists are becoming willing to contend with consciousness itself. [...]

[...] In the theoretical quantum world, however, certain conditions are needed: superheavy nuclei amid strong electrical fields, and so forth.)

[...] I think that Marie’s domineering rage at the world (chosen by her, never forget) deeply penetrated Jane’s developing psyche, and—again in those terms—caused her to set up repressive, protective inner barriers that could be activated and transformed into physical signs at any time, under certain circumstances. [...]

[...] The level is one where every bit of preventative protection is needed in a world where people constantly need insurance, preventative medicine, and so forth – again, all issues dealt with in the book. [...]

(9:26.) Lawyers deal in a world of limited, fairly well-established facts. [...]

[...] It rearranges some aspects of the world, and it is in its fashion as brilliant as a child’s clear eye. [...]

[...] They upset him to some extent—not for himself, but because he did not want to hurt other people who so believed in the dogma that he was disclosing to the world. [...]

[...] Even these symbols, however, divide you as the perceiver from the rest of the world, which becomes objectified. [...]

[...] The psyche dwells in a reality so different from the world you usually recognize that there good and evil, as you think of them, are also seen to be as operationally or relatively true as the difference between the perceiver and the object perceived.

[...] It is here, however, that the tyranny of the fact world holds greatest sway. [...]

[...] All of your creative impulses arise from that hidden dimension — the very impulses that formed your greatest cities, your technology, and the physical cement that binds your culturally organized world.

[...] When you dream or sleep, however, the world of cause and effect either vanishes or appears confused and chaotic. [...]

[...] In its own codified fashion it is not only aware of local weather conditions, for example, but of all those world patterns of weather upon which the local area is dependent. [...]

[...] It is then aware of your overall psychological climate locally, as it involves you personally, and in world terms.

[...] A volcanic eruption in one corner of the world will ultimately affect the entire earth in varying degrees. [...]