“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] We try to give you information for your benefit and that of your world. [...]

The dilemma between expression and protection is a paramount one in your world, and people handle it differently. [...]

(After my nap I asked her why she didn’t read more, to keep in touch with the world, and got quite a response from her. [...]

(Here Seth refers to Jane’s book, The World as Idea Construction, which she began in the latter part of last year, 1963. [...]

[...] Telepathy is one of the main binders in the world of constructions. [...]

This is our main message to the world, and this is the next line in man’s conceptual development, which will make itself felt in all fields, and in psychiatry perhaps as much as any.

This material will take its place in the conceptual and emotional life of Western civilization, and finally will make its way throughout the world. [...]

[...] This is why, for example, I did not go into the molecular structure of the dream world. It differs from the material world with which you are familiar in many instances, and yet the material dealing with the nature of matter was a necessary prerequisite.

(7:20.) It is impossible in our time scheme to intellectually know our own potentials without trying them out, without testing them against the world’s edges. We must activate our impulses and desires, try out our abilities, seek out our strengths by joyfully advancing into the given world of physical energy, physical time and space. [...]

[...] These will enable you to perceive reality as it exists independently of the physical world. [...]

[...] There was no doubt that this was the physical world. [...]

[...] If I could leave my body and go out into the physical world, then I didn’t see why I couldn’t leave it and explore the inner one.

[...] If your world is overpopulated, you can reduce yourselves to a state of consciousness that existed, in your terms, eons ago from which you would then again have to learn to emerge. Only certain persons are tempted to return when the world is over-populated. [...]

[...] If an individual sees only evil and desolation in the physical world, it is because he is obsessed with evil and desolation and projects them outward, and closes his eyes to all else. [...]

[...] After our rest period, Seth resumed, to answer some other questions, but he ended the last discussion with a smile for “the Dean”: “Now, the seasons come each year as they have come for centuries upon your planet, and they come with a magnificent spontaneity and with a creativity that bursts upon the world. [...]

[...] I am saying that you are the creators of the physical world as you know it.”

[...] Far from devouring their offspring by an excess of overprotective care, they joyfully send their children out into the world, knowing that in their terms the masterpieces must complete themselves, and that they have helped with the underpainting.

[...] Some members of this family served as initiators of new orders in the (Catholic) church in the past — the worldly Jesuits, for example, and some of the more sophisticated popes⁵ (amused), who had a fine eye out for commerce and wealth. [...]

[...] The authorities turned the contract down — but the authorities stood for the inner disciplinarians, and you did not want to share your road with the world; nor did you want, later, to share your driveway (for the Sayre house) with your neighbor.

It is this inner self, out of massive knowledge and the unlimited scope of its consciousness, that forms the physical world and provides stimuli to keep the outer ego constantly at the job of awareness. [...]

[...] Now these units, while appearing within your system, may also have another reality outside of it, propelling the emotional energy units through the world of matter entirely.

[...] You used, literally, a half of your energy repressing these memories and ideas building up a bridge between yourself and the rest of the world in terror that they should discover this secret, and so constructively you could not use this energy. [...]

[...] You can improve the world in which you live, and the quality of life. [...]

[...] Such a primary construction is an attempt to create, in the world of matter, a replica of the inner psychic construction of the whole self.

Such a primary construction allows consciousness to operate, manipulate and be perceived in the world of matter. [...]

[...] If you look at the observable physical world in this life, you can, it is true, learn something about the basic rules of the universe, if you take into consideration camouflage distortion. [...]

[...] That is, when the chemical balance is disturbed the physical world will appear to have changed.

[...] Nevertheless even fair progress would represent a world gain.

There is, if anything, more order in the inner reality than in your camouflage world, and more, not less discipline is required. [...]

(8:32; eventually a one-minute pause.) The symptoms have served to “allow you” a certain privacy, A certain detachment from the world, while at the same time providing a way of relating to others, of sharing life’s misfortunes so that it might not be said, for example, that as artists or people you lived in an ivory tower, untouched by life’s usual dilemmas. [...]