“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

When you purchased attire, testing it out first with the pendulum would actually be very effective. The pendulum ideally would be held above the garment in question. The point would be to discover the reaction of the subconscious. [...]

[...] I would like you to become familiar with the experience of conversing with this portion of your own personality. I would like you to become intimately aware of this not-so-silent partner.

[...] The ego would wish the subconscious out of existence. [...]

[...] That would be fifteen miles or so. [...] I wasn’t thinking too clearly yet, but that would be feat par excellence for anyone—let alone lugging two bags along. [...]

[...] I thought the visitor would be a neighbor. [...]

[...] When I asked him again what he would do if he didn’t get into our place, he said, “Why, I think Fred will die. [...]

[...] But would society—could it—transport him all the way home to Denver, were he telling the truth about his origins? [...]

Ruburt’s normal “work periods” would often involve nonconventional hours, however, precisely because they were nonconventional. [...] Otherwise he would want to do them and not work.

[...] Whenever he had difficulty writing he would become more and more particular about his writing hours. [...]

Sometimes after a full writing day, without too much actual creative production, he would do his best work in his free time after supper, when he did not have to work. [...]

Now I suggested the definite hours, knowing his position, knowing that he would begin to see that while any activity of course takes a certain amount of time, that his creative work will be judged not according to the hours spent on it but the yield.

[...] I hoped aloud that Seth would discuss it tonight, but as in my dream mentioned in the 160th session, he did not. [...]

[...] But beneath this sophisticated gestalt are the simpler foundations of its being, and indeed the very acceptance of all stimuli without which identity would be impossible.

[...] All this is basic knowledge, if you would understand why the personality accepts even an impeding action, or pain or illness, as a part of itself, despite the ego’s resistance to pain.

Without the choice there would be no personality. [...]

(As today passed Jane picked up from Seth—and herself—material on the events of yesterday afternoon, so that finally she had an idea at least of what Seth would discuss tonight. [...]

[...] It lacks what I call good taste, as I’d feared it would, and is too cold and creepy. [...]

Ruburt wrote a poem yesterday morning (Thursday), considering it afterward briefly, wondering whether it was really good enough to type as it was, throwing off in an odd moment a thought, a concept that would represent the highest revelation to Ida, if she could understand what it means.

[...] Ida was afraid to see the psychologist again, for fear that therapy would throw up evidence of this feared evil thing, and Dick is afraid of writing poetry again lest the intuitions upset his life. [...]

From the standpoint of these seemingly minor selves, however, the viewpoint would be entirely different. If we take for example a particular range of various perception patterns, for convenience’s sake, and label them one self, then the various patterns within would appear to be minor selves forming the whole.

[...] For without them, whole portions of reality would never be perceived. [...]

[...] This assimilation would increase, not decrease, any given consciousness. [...]

If however we changed our arbitrary boundary points, then the minor selves at either end would now seem to be portions of other selves. [...]

[...] Others, children [or adults] who would be classified as mentally deficient, can tell, or have been able to tell, the day of the week that any given date, past or present, would fall upon. [...]

[...] Some, had they lived in your century, would have been able to outperform computers (just as some are outperforming computers these days!). In most cases where such accomplishments show themselves, they do so in a child far too young to have learned scientific mathematical procedures to begin with, and often such feats are displayed by people who are otherwise classified as idiots (idiot savants), and who are incapable of intellectual reasoning.

Some pessimistic scientists would say: “Of course,” for man and animal alike are driven by their instincts, and man’s claim to free will is no more than an illusion.

[...] In your dream, that reincarnational self may appear as a minor character, quite on the periphery of your attention, and if the dream were to include an idea, say, for a play or an invention, then that play or invention might appear as a physical event in both historic times, to whatever degree it would be possible for the two individuals living in time to interpret that information. [...]

[...] In your terms, for example, it would seem as if Joseph could not have seen that house for sale until after a given series of events had occurred. It would seem as if all of this was dependent upon earlier events: his mother’s prior meeting with Mr. Markle years ago, when both were young; her daydreams and fantasies in later years; her own death; Mr. Markle’s old age, and his own abandonment of the home.

[...] She is quite aware, therefore, of his decision not to buy the [Markle] house.⁵ In her level of reality, she was aware of the fact that Joseph wanted the house strongly; that one portion of him thought of possessing a large home, even though this would require upkeep and attention that another part of him did not want to provide because he felt it would take too much time from his painting and our work.

The episode also mirrored his beliefs, for to his way of thinking he would have to relinquish certain freedoms, and this he was not ready to do. [...]

(After supper tonight I asked Jane if Seth would comment on the Grunaargh family of consciousness. [...]

[...] The same house on low land would not suffice, you see. [...]

[...] You would find yourselves quite hampered in [any] idealistically perfect environment. [...]

[...] It has a built-in darkness that no amount of applied light would disperse. [...]

[...] “It would just wait until the Jonestown–Three Mile Island thing was done. [...] Anyhow, we’d have to check to see whether our publisher is set up to market a book that quickly, or would even want to.”

[...] Somehow, after supper, we got on the subject of Seth doing a “quick book” about Jonestown and Three Mile Island, something that could be offered to the public very soon, instead of material that would show up in a regular Seth book a couple of years from now. [...]

[...] Also involved would be the instant criticisms we’d encounter. [...]

[...] “What would happen to Mass Events in the meantime?”

(The first point I would like to make is that Seth told us enough of the clairvoyant material involving Dr. Instream is valid; this will keep up the doctor’s interest. [...] Bill was inspired to ask Seth whether it would be possible to locate Indian artifacts on the lake bottom; he had long been curious about this.

[...] He also said these artifacts would date from either the 7th century, or the 17th century.

[...] He told us the 7th century reference would be correct if the Vikings were to be involved, since, he said, this date in history finds Viking evidence in the Great Lakes to the west. [...]

(Bill told us that later today, Sunday, while at the lake, he would try to check upon some locations as defined rather poorly by Seth. [...]

[...] However you would not recognize me now, though I do indeed remember you. Now, you would not know yourself, for you were a small boy of three to four years old when I knew you, and I did not know you well. [...]

[...] As would be expected of a gathering, class sessions were full of energy and repartee and questions and serious thinking both with and without Seth.

[...] Our good friend Leonard Yaudes, who lives directly below us on the first floor, would sometimes leave the house on class nights. [...]

(“Where would the records be?”)

(I hadn’t deliberately planned that those notes would do that, yet in retrospect I was glad they had—especially in the unprecedented response Jane was getting from her Sinful Self. Her paper was very well done, and would make fascinating material in an autobiography, for instance. [...]

[...] A search of the psychological literature would be very interesting.

Then there are quite necessary resting periods in between, in which theoretically (underlined) the matters would be best dropped from conscious concentration. [...]

(I also wondered when Jane would show some improvement in walking for there’s no doubt about it. [...]

[...] I was after an understanding on various levels of the fact that Jane had created something that certainly assumed equal billing with her other creative work—that the personality may have been quite aware that this would happen, and was willing in some sort of terms for the situation to exist for a number of years.

Now, to some extent, you and Ruburt felt enough the same way to make the analogy feasible, only Ruburt was the one who constructed the edifice that would protect his own abilities, first of all, and yours as well. [...]

You have seldom assured him that one day he would be walking normally, because, of course, you are also caught in the same dilemma. [...]

[...] She’d dreamed that once certain things, events, were set into motion, they inevitably would continue in their motion until they came true — then the world would end. [...]

[...] I also felt that Jane’s destiny was in her own hands, and that nothing anyone else was going to do would change that. [...]

[...] Other parts of her body were also responding — it was as if once it understood that it were set free, it would try to move as best it could right away. [...]

[...] I would push your heads collectively and individually underneath... [...] If you could, you would have done it centuries ago. [...]

I would like you for the moment to clear the board, as much of course as possible. I would like you to attend to your lives as they otherwise appear before you, for a period of time to return to sessions because of your natural living curiosity and involvement with them, and to attend most of all to creative thought as it naturally makes itself known. [...]

Such an action would therefore appear to happen twice—once in your present, and once in your future, you see. But in the future (smile)you would be the one whose course is altered by this traveling self from the past.

[...] Even so the large leaf would be off center, either above or below, as far as the long edges are concerned. I hoped Seth would mention two objects, but he did not.

[...] This would not be an imaginative projection. [...]

[...] Since Jane had held the envelope to her forehead in the position above indicated, it can be seen that the “spines” of the two leaves, taped to the Bristol, would be roughly horizontal to the floor and thus to her vision. [...]

I would not dare to comment, if it were not that he is curious enough to court my response.

[...] He thought ahead of time that the size of the large window would more than compensate, but he carries some of his grandfather’s old ideas that the wind should be able to blow through a room so he has been uncomfortable there. [...]

I have personally mentioned often the bed reorientation, which would help both of your dream activities, and add to your general well-being also. [...]

[...] This would be his name, not the other twin; that is because he had this telepathic communication with his twin, he has this sense of wanting unity within himself very strongly, at the same time a sense of being divided. [...] and if he cut loose he would be too panic-stricken to be an independent thinker leading to a dilemma...which you reached just after 30 in this life.... [...]