“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(9:34.) As you approached the boundaries of certain psychic lands, the wristwatch would run backwards. As you entered other kingdoms of the psyche, your watch would go faster or slower. Now, if time suddenly ran backward you would notice it. If it ran faster or slower enough, you would also notice the differences. If time ran backward very slowly, and according to the conditions, you might not be aware of the difference, because it would take so much “time” to get from the present moment to the one “before” it that you might be struck, instead, simply with the feeling that something was familiar, as if it had happened before.

[...] If for a moment you try to imagine that you were able to carry your own time with you on such a journey, all packaged neatly in a wristwatch, then you would be quite amazed at what would happen.

[...] Hidden within the corporal biological structure there are latent specializations that would allow the species to continue, and that take into consideration any of the planetary changes that might occur for whatever reasons.

[...] This would not be a static elongation, however, but a vivid delving into that moment, from which all time as you think of it, past and future and all its probabilities, might emerge.

To give expression to a need for help, or to show a need for comfort would be seen as weaknesses in your eyes. [...] To admit a need for comfort or to admit fears would put him, in your eyes, in the same category as all these others.

[...] He feared that on your own you would not make the effort to pull him back, and yet he would not ask you to do so. [...]

[...] He would become all the more animated. [...]

[...] This has been mentioned before but it is a good point, that retaliation against his mother was felt to be impossible, for she would then have an attack for which Ruburt felt responsible. [...]

(At 8:30 this evening Jane had “not even a glimmer” of what Seth would discuss for the session. [...] At 8:55 this evening she still had no idea of what she would be talking about. [...]

[...] The emotional aspect of course would be the personality-essence. However it also has a structure that is very simple, but to you would appear complicated to the extreme. [...]

This would involve manipulations of muscles that would result in a temporary change of shape, a somewhat superficial but real adjustment of the physical body in its relation to space, and a consequent change of focus or direction in so far as the forward low thrust of the body into the hole. [...]

[...] She said that the deep voice was absolutely effortless as long as she went along with it, but when she would think about it, it would get hoarse. [...]

[...] It would seem to you that all of the books were marred, in that manner, now, or it would seem to Ruburt that nothing was wrong at all, in that manner. You would find it hard to express pleasure with a given cover, or you would forget, as with Seven Two, for its attributes would seem lost in your larger displeasure. Or Ruburt, feeling displeasure with Prentice on any occasion, would find it difficult to admit to you.

[...] Ruburt, however, would rarely deal with such issues at all, though he was aware of them, so you felt you bore the brunt. [...] You have not done this before because each of you would become irritated at the other’s mode of behavior.

[...] Many might shy away from any philosophical discussions concerning the nature of “the good,” but many would also understand and appreciate the meaning of the word “better,” when applied to any situation.

[...] Now that is true and not true, as you know—for ideally, how marvelous it would be if each person could indeed understand those balances and artistic lacks of balances when they appear.

I would not plan on the program. [...] These would be highly negative simply because of your characteristics and the other person’s characteristics. These could be a smothering effect that you would try to conquer, but in doing so, there would be the tendency that you would try too hard. You would want the right things to happen, in other words. There seems to be another offer, perhaps three months in the distance, that would be much more, not only to your advantage, but to the advantage of others. [...]

You were also afraid that the Buddha would escape in the night, that through you, unknowingly, you could release this sort of thing outward. [...] There are always obvious reasons that you can point to, but the emotional charge that exists within you on these issues is highly important and should be examined and investigated by you in the same way, you see, that you would investigate it if you saw it in someone else. [...]

[...] I found the conversation very enjoyable, and I do have some comments I would like to make. [...]

[...] I would like you, however, to realize the strong emotional content within your own mind and you in yours. [...]

This obviously does not mean that the time of the body’s death would not come. It does mean that the seasons of the body would be understood as following those of the mind, ever-changing and flowing, with conditions coming and going but always maintaining the splendid unity within the body’s form. You would not have chronic illnesses. Generally speaking, and ideally, the body would wear out gradually while still showing far greater endurance than it does now.

[...] If the flow continued it would be wrong or detrimental in your terms, but the body would not think the blood was bad because it continued its course of action. It would not attempt to cut off all blood, considering it evil. It would instead make whatever adjustments were necessary to bring the emission to a natural halt.

If you shed the distorted concepts of unnatural guilt and accepted the wise ancient wisdom of natural guilt instead, there would be no wars. You would not kill each other mindlessly. You would understand the living integrity of each organ in your body and have no need to attack any of them.

[...] This same man, however, who would not purposely entertain fantasies of such nature under normal conditions, may in time of war imagine himself killing the enemy with the greatest feelings of holy joy and righteousness.

This would imply that despite the development of the inhabitants their world would end at a particular point, and this is not the case. [...]

I would have thought that any advice to Ruburt would have involved suggestions curtailing his robust and ever curious intuitional abilities, but he is holding them down with too heavy a hand. [...]

(At 8:55 this evening Jane had no idea of what Seth would talk about for the session. [...]

[...] The fact that Macmillan stated they thought another publisher would take on The Fence, had not, I thought, particularly cheered Jane, at least at the moment.

Work is involved, in that Ruburt always expected you would move as soon as he made any amount of money at all. [...] He felt you would not do anything about it. [...]

[...] But once set upon a course, you would not change it either, and Ruburt would have done anything to see you happy in that (underlined) regard.

[...] Had you attempted better to coordinate the establishment, had you bought furniture, this would have made a difference. You never decided, you see, that this would be your home, for any (underlined) amount of time.

[...] Money for example through books would allow you to move.

[...] The procedures mentioned would allow much greater access to such information, and the waking self would be more refreshed. The symbolism in dreams would appear with greater clarity, not, for example, be lost through the many hours you now give to sleep.

Muscular strength would benefit. The blood would be cleansed more effectively than when the body lies prone for such a time. Most of all, there would be far — if you will excuse me — better communication between the subjective layers of the self, an increased sense of security, and, particularly with children, an earlier kindling of creative abilities.

[...] This forces overstimulations during the night, increasing the body’s work, making it perform continuously over an extended time physical purifications that ideally would be taken care of in briefer periods of rest. [...]

If the stages of waking consciousness were examined as sleep stages are presently being examined, for example, you would find a much greater range of activity than is suspected. [...]

[...] Seth said that in the future we would have many exchanges with psychologists and other scientists. Seth told us he knew how “their minds worked,” and that when they thought they had him pinned down as a secondary, he would have a surprise for them, a demonstration. [...]

(The surprise, Seth went on, would embarrass scientific personnel, but would also lead to clearer understanding of the Seth phenomenon. [...]

[...] This would remove the pressure on the afflicted side of the body. Peggy said she didn’t think she slept on her left side; Seth said she did after going to sleep, and that suggestion would prevent this. [...]

[...] Seth said the extra caffeine in her case would stimulate circulation, whereas the aspirin would hinder it. [...]

You doubted that your own good work would bring any financial success at all, while you believed that commercial work would; but you do not like commercial work. Somewhat like George (Rhoads), you believed that your best work would not be appreciated. It would not sell, while “inferior” work, by contrast, would.

A child might result in your working out full time, in which case you would never, he felt, develop as an artist. [...] The isolation he felt you needed would be given you. At the same time his own abilities would be concentrated upon also. [...]

[...] Ruburt basically believed that if he did his own thing—writing—money would come to him. [...]

[...] You believed that his best work would bring money too, and so you had no conflicting beliefs about money in that regard.

[...] I told you once that Ruburt would not have allowed a feminine counterpart of myself to speak, but neither would you have. You would have been afraid of the “unpredictable” in quotes feminine aspects.

The psychic work meant that these would be united. [...] Intuitively and as a woman he would naturally have longer hair, wear earrings and jangly jewelry, which fits the inner feminine image, and also the inner mystical, psychic image of the seeress, the prophetess, and in your own relationship, the mistress.

[...] If the psychic abilities showed themselves, then this would be your last reincarnation. If not then there would have been others, and you knew this.

[...] You did this to assure yourselves that these abilities, feminine in both of your minds, would not so get the upper hand that the responsible, and in both of your minds, masculine or dependable aspects of your life would be threatened.

(10:17.) Now, in some of these records, the dating, for example, would be just off enough so that only one well-versed would recognize a discrepancy. Some would include an obvious error. Those in the know would immediately recognize that the record was a fake.

It would be nearly impossible for anyone except one of the innermost circle to distinguish between some of the versions presented. These signs would not appear isolated, but in such a fashion that only those who knew how to look for them would find them. [...]

[...] There were even certain ways of handling a preceding word, so that the word would be a clue that the next word was false. Only those in the know would recognize this, of course, and the others would merrily digest the false information.

[...] Word would be sent that he would travel to such and such a location, and stories planted there of his arrival, while instead he journeyed to an entirely different place.

The sportsman that you might have been would have gathered, from that same available background, other attitudes and ideas that would have fit in with his concept of himself, and with his core focus. [...] The sportsman, the writer or the artist — any of them would utilize that background differently, but well, and in such a way that it peculiarly suited each of them.

[...] You chose to concentrate on artistic endeavors as you grew and learned through various areas and periods — that is, you tried and enjoyed sports, and writing; and after a while you decided upon the painting self as the particular focus upon which you would build a life.

Give us a moment … Your father’s inventiveness would also be used in the same manner, as source material, by whichever self you chose to become. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, you would be determined to be free enough to do so. [...]

[...] It was new, maybe; it would involve concepts that by themselves went against the grain of usual conscious thought, which wants to go consecutively. [...] No scientific language would be used — not that I know any — but that would structure what I’m trying to do; and unwittingly, perhaps, it might lead me into a scientific dogma without recognizing it. Besides, that would put an unnecessary burden on the reader, who might feel he or she needed a particular vocabulary. The use of a normal vocabulary would put the ideas within the reach of the ordinary person as much as possible. [...]

(9:10 P.M. Jane began her own dictation before tonight’s session by saying that as she’d typed her statements yesterday [for Appendix 4] she would “get glimpses” of some of the concepts Seth was going to talk about in “Unknown” Reality — yet they would immediately vanish from her consciousness, so that all she had left was the knowledge that she’d experienced the insight.

[...] I also think that a thorough search of earlier sessions would turn up many other clues, foreshadowing both eventualities.

Now if you would each, for ten minutes a day, open yourselves to your own reality there would be no question of self-justification for you would realize the miraculous nature of your own identity. [...]

([Daniel:] “What recourse would the poor individual who was born handicapped have with all of these other seemingly insurmountable difficulties? What recourse would that individual have were he consciously, at the ego level, to say, I just don’t want any of this, I would much preferred to have been born aristocratic?”)

This particular individual was quite aware of what would occur, on what you would call an unconscious basis. [...]

[...] It would be ridiculous for you to choose to work in the slums and then say to yourself, why did I choose to work in the slums? I would prefer to work on Fifth Avenue. [...]

Now if you were not the Sumari you would not be here at this particular time, and if all of you did not know what it was to be Sumari you would not be here at all. [...] I would not have you stew over that with all of your other problems (to Bette). [...]

[...] And what the heart knows needs no translation, and the universe does indeed speak without words and so the truths that come to you do indeed, to some extent, come packaged or you would not perceive them. And you would throw them away for you would think the air cannot speak and space makes no noise, and in the silence there is no voice and no meaning and so voice and sound and language are given you. [...]

[...] One way of doing this would be to take several steps away from the language that you know to get into somewhat unfamiliar territory and to learn your way there, and then to be taken further down the primrose path where little by little the vowels and syllables themselves would disappear until you are at the pure sound and beneath that with true feeling. [...]

Now if you would truly learn how to listen, and you are beginning to, then you would know what I am saying and my own speech lately is carefully calculated. [...]

Ruburt would not be familiar with a good many of the words and phrases used, even if translation from the original languages was made. [...] To maintain any purity of translation, training in different kinds of inner perception would be necessary. [...] To deliver such information through Ruburt would be an immense task, but it is possible. [...]

[...] A personality based within physical reality, between lives for example, would find entry in many ways easier. The information he would be able to give, however, would also be limited because of his experience. [...]

(Earlier today I told Jane that I was afraid the questions weren’t very representative of Seth’s book, and that to assemble a truly relevant list of them would require an intimate study of each chapter. [...] We were left hoping that intuitively the list would be an appropriate one.

You — being the ten of you — would be aware of existence in each of the ten places. It would be impossible to ask which of the ten arrived first, except to say that all began with the original who decided to visit the ten locations. [...]

It would be difficult for me to change the features of a third individual indeed, but far less difficult to change Ruburt’s features, since he gives me permission to work through him, and his mental and psychic abilities would help me. A picture would not help me on its own.

[...] There are however some points that I would like to clear, and I would also like to add to your instructions concerning our dream experiments—since I know, Joseph, that you can’t wait to begin them.

[...] It follows that our gestures would therefore be different. Would you not say so?

Now, I would suggest that two main categories in particular be given special notice. [...]

[...] Other issues would have subsidiary effects, all within the framework. [...] The early novels, published, would have led to another kind of personal problem, since all involved were living. He would still have had to face the world, so to speak. To be free to write freely, he had also to make a certain financial success, or he would need a job.

[...] The idea was that physical restraints would keep her at her desk and remove temptations to do other things. We were anxious to hear what Seth would have to say about this material.

(Intently, as above:) His nature then on other levels would follow the same pattern. He felt that this same quality, physically translated, led to a physical spontaneity that would make the inner spontaneity more difficult to achieve. [...]

[...] He was afraid he would be swept willy-nilly. He was also afraid, particularly when he tried teaching, that he might be led to give up and settle for another occupation that would bring automatic respectability, money, and some prestige.