“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There are frameworks so tenuous and so divorced from your concept of reality you would ignore them, and yet they are richer and more varied than your own. If these universes were not interwoven then we would have no communication, but each has a mirror in each, and one reaches out to all the others, and I speak a million words to you for each one you hear.

[...] There are diversities within each system as there are diversities within your own, that are chemical universes where thoughts are patterned in ways that would be incomprehensible to you.

[...] And in the back of his mind was the improbable hope that one day, somehow, the coins would really go through the tabletop. [...]

[...] Or haven’t you ever known that the doorbell would ring just before it did, or that you’d meet someone you hadn’t seen in a long time just before you actually do meet?”

[...] Now that would convince me!”

[...] When I picked up a cap to blacken in the flame I thought this would focus Jane’s conscious attention on this particular one, but she told me at break tonight that she hadn’t noticed my heating the cap, or else had forgotten it.

[...] Due to its nature a beer can would bear a vertical format. [...]

[...] Another trio featured during last Friday evening would be Jane, Peggy and Marilyn. [...]

(We thought an apt connection with scale would be the “balancing” of the table on its two south legs as the male and female trios sat before it. [...]

[...] Were it not for the dreaming self the ego would not exist. Were it not for past existences the personality as you know it would not exist.

[...] Using the root agreements just mentioned as a basis for reality, an observer would insist that the objects were not real, for they do not behave as he knows objects must behave.

This facility, the translation of data to the ego, who would otherwise distrust it, any such translation is nevertheless a secondhanded version of the original reality; and that is an important point.

[...] We would like to eventually tell our side of the story, and resent being treated like children in the interim. [...]

[...] I personally resent a great deal the poor connotations that now have attached themselves to Mass Events; if the material has any validity, this has happened, and would be picked up by readers, even if counterbalanced by other good feelings. [...]

[...] A cutoff point is reached after these three books have been taken care of; then we would be free to try something else if we choose to.

[...] If you begin to concentrate upon the importance of the nature of thought, to become overly concerned with the processes involved with thinking or reasoning, then your very conscious concern would make those processes seem all the more complicated, while instead it is easy to see that those processes are quite naturally equipped to handle their own tasks with remarkable ease. [...]

[...] Now in many instances of so-called paranormal perception there is what would seem to you a reversal of focus. [...]

(This would be in early 1964.

Now, when you see what Ruburt can do occasionally, and the troubles I can have with distortion, then you can be sure that I would not double or triple the chances for distortion by attempting to speak through anyone else. [...]

—and I thank Ruburt for the class sessions. (Elaborate, courteous amusement.) He learns as much from them as the students, but of a different nature; and he also knows that if he did not give his permission, such sessions would not be held. [...]

[...] Some, overall, would seem quite destructive. [...]

[...] I think the medication would also help the ulcer on her right heel. [...]

[...] To some extent your own do-it-yourself attitudes kept you from such experience, and as long as Ruburt lacked it, and as long as you lacked it (with much more emphasis than I’d heard Jane use as Seth in a long time), you would both still have doubts about the nature of our own work as applied to such matters—and this goes beyond the confines of our work in ways I will try to clear later. [...]

[...] Only by so doing could you clear the air and make your own decisions as to the course the rest of your lives would take. [...]

[...] You might wonder what would have happened had you mailed an important letter that you subsequently decided not to mail; and in such small wonderings only, have you ever questioned the nature of probabilities. [...]

(Pause at 9:36.) Your thoughts and emotions, therefore, go forth from you not only in all physical directions but in directions that are quite invisible to you, appearing in dimensions that you would not presently understand. [...]

[...] Such impulses would seem to be disconnected from your own current interests or activities; intrusive in that they come quickly into consciousness, with a sense of strangeness as if they are not your own. [...]

You would learn the instrument far quicker, you see, if the impulse was originating with a probable self. [...]

[...] It would be easy to think that the dream foresaw Joseph’s own death, and that of his brother and sister-in-law. [...]

[...] An ant crawling upon such a canvas would hasten across just another flat surface, and be quite unaware of the inviting avenue and any painted fields or mountains.

[...] You cannot, however, insist that the laws of your vaster existence, as you discover them, supersede the physical conditions of known life — for then no facts would apply either. [...]

[...] If Joseph had seen two people — one his brother and one an Oriental — he would not have recognized the stranger, so in the dream his brother’s known appearance dominated, while the Oriental affiliation is merely suggested. [...]

[...] If he walked all-right-enough in the house, however, then the time would come for another dentist visit or whatever. And he would have to go—so he would not walk that well in the house either—hence the table.

[...] he decided he would not be humiliated again, for he could no longer “pass” as normal.

(I finally concluded it wasn’t worth it, and hoped Jane would adopt some of this thinking for some of her own challenges. [...]

[...] What body would not be panicked by some of your worries and thoughts? [...]

The idea of a van to Florida led Ruburt into daydreaming, though he was very frightened of the idea, but you immediately thought of the difficulties, that it would not work, and overall neither of you have applied creative, imaginative, positive thought, steadily. [...]

The resolutions I gave you would automatically seep through to the overly conscientious selves if you kept them in mind, and resolved to live by them. [...]

(As I mentioned doing at the close of last Saturday night’s deleted session, today I paid our NY State and Federal income taxes a few days ahead of time, hoping the action would contribute to my sense of freedom, and perhaps Jane’s too. [...]

[...] I could list many more, but probably won’t. I still don’t think Seth would want to spend much time discussing that old material in any detail, since he’s said many times that focusing on what was wrong in the past is negative and self-defeating. [...]

[...] If Ruburt’s main goals in work, for example, had directly involved and mainly concerned immediate contact with others, through university work or whatever, his mobility would not have been tampered with.

It would help you both considerably, if when you have the feeling of self-approval really, to sit quietly and try to feel your purposes. [...]

The ego would if it could, stop personality’s motion and development for the security of stability. The ego would drive the personality into preconceived channels. [...]

[...] And yet the stability which ego so urgently seeks would, indeed, result in a death, since no further action would be allowed.

[...] The personality was then momentarily aware of realities that the ego would ordinarily attempt to block. [...]

[...] You are approaching some excellent periods in your lives, periods that would not have been possible had Ruburt not fully accepted, as he now has, the emergence of his abilities and his responsibility to develop them.

[...] On the other hand she viewed Ruburt as the daughter she would never have, while Ruburt viewed her as the mother she wished for.

[...] I thought it would have strong emotional attachment for Jane.

(At break, I hoped aloud that Seth would discuss the data in the light of our suspicions. [...]

Between the notes sounded there would be intervals, and those unsounded intervals would also be part of a massive unstated rhythm upon which the development of the entire sounded production was dependent. The unsounded intervals would also be events, of course, cues for action, triggers for response.

[...] Nevertheless, we will begin with issues in which it is very possible that contradictions may seem to occur, since your own definitions of an event are so simple that they ignore larger ramifications—ramifications that would reconcile any seeming contradictions in an overall greater unity of structure and action. [...]

[...] Sometimes I’d work out the correct answer to a problem, but do it the wrong way, so the teacher would mark it wrong—and that always made me furious. [...]

[...] It permits many more potentials to emerge than would otherwise be possible. If this were not the case, for example, your interests throughout life would not change.

[...] Otherwise it would not be responsive to the needs and desires of the entire personality.

(11:00.) It is not invisible, nor do you have to know exactly what you are looking for, which of course would make the situation nearly impossible. [...]

[...] In a way these were not directed at the cat, yet Ruburt also knew the cat would pick them up.

It is not just that such an inner universe is different from your own, but that any real or practical explanation of its reality would require the birth of an entirely new physics—and such a development would first of all necessitate the birth of an entirely new philosophy. [...]

[...] February 9, and of my waking experience the next evening.¹ Both events had involved intense perceptions of color and/or light, and I’d told Jane that anything Seth cared to say about them would be most welcome. [...]

Ruburt glimpsed some of the principles involved when you were at [your downtown apartments] on several occasions—once when he tried to write a poem about the comprehensions that simply would not be verbalized.² I do not know how to explain some of this, but in your terms there is (underlined) light within (underlined) darkness. [...]

The inner senses, though I have in the past described them by separating their functions and characteristics, basically operate together in such a way that in your terms it would be highly difficult to separate one from the others. [...]

(And Sarah, the first one, if she hadn’t burned to death she would have died anyhow at 17. [...] The land was very rocky, and they just would build a house on a slab of rock, and it was always damp. [...]

[...] Sometimes a family would have a son go away to learn to write. Then he would teach his parents to write their names, but not often.

[...] It was not necessary for me to ask many questions once she was under way, and finally I ceased altogether as I became confident that she would resume after a pause.

[...] It was safer that way, sometimes say 4 men would go together in a group.

[...] Without the energy the beliefs would wither.

[...] It would help if at those levels he imagined his body as plastoid, always in a state of change, as fluid as his thoughts, and not so much a physical thing. [...]

[...] I did not want him to strain, imagining himself upright under conditions that still would seem strange to him. [...]

[...] What would they be? [...]

(I haven’t done so, but I imagine that if I charted the days when her reading was markedly better, a definite pattern of improvements would show. [...]