“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

People write you or call as they would to dearly beloved parents, parents in another level of reality. [...]

[...] You had very limited concepts about the ways in which you would allow it to show itself. [...]

(Earlier in the day I had heard Jane remark causally, after a little talk between us, that if she felt like it she would let Seth come through during class tonight. [...]

(Since it was Jane’s first session without my presence, I thought it would be interesting to record some of it. [...]

[...] I suggest you read the late sessions again, and I imagine that by our next session you will both be in a better frame of mind, unless you allow your discouraging feelings to predominate, which would be a vast mistake.

[...] If you truly understood what I am saying, you would realize the importance of encouraging optimistic, jestful feelings of faith, of cultivating them—for it is far more important to collect them than money. [...]

You checked up on him in the middle of the night in the beginning, or you would question him in the morning. [...]

[...] It would help if you walked with him in the beginning, though this is not necessarily a prerequisite. [...]

(Her panic didn’t last nearly as long as it had yesterday, and I hoped her continued experience of it would lead to its dissipation. [...]

[...] I wondered what good it would do. [...]

If self A were limited to the perceptions of the ego, and if self A were limited then to the dimensions in which it found itself, then my dear friends precognition in dreams would be impossible, and in order to perceive the future self A would of necessity be forced to discontinue existence within the physical system.

I did not know that you would tempt me with such a question at the end of a session; and you have no one but yourself to blame, if the session continues longer than you would have it.

[...] Jane now wondered whether I would try to be tricky, and perhaps keep Lorraine’s envelope for a later test, while giving her the usual envelope that I had prepared. [...]

[...] It is possible the hospital records contain more on Miss Bunn that would be revealing here, but I did not ask Lorraine to try to check.

Returning to a previous discussion, I would like to make it plain once more that dream images are not pseudorealities. [...] Again, no one would deny the reality of psychological experience when it is felt by the waking personality. [...]

[...] Bill told us that he would have to leave for a few minutes to pick up an advertisement at the bus terminal and take it to the newspaper office, the Star-Gazette, where he works. [...] Bill himself would not know the contents of the ad, which was in an envelope, until he opened it at the paper.

[...] Many sessions ago, as many as a hundred or more, Seth told us that animal pets would reflect the psychic health and concerns of their owners.

(Bill said that he would try to think strongly of the ad. [...]

“I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. [...]

[...] Some of them even bring themselves to their own destruction through what you would call suicide, and en masse. [...]

[...] [Man’s psychological reality is so sweepingly different from that of the animals, Jane added now, that he would inevitably show a wide variety of reactions.]

(We chose the first category since it would continue the subject matter of this chapter. [...]

[...] If a human was in a catatonic state after a battle, for instance, the “animal medicine man” would purposely shock the patient into an emotional reaction to bring him out of the state.

[...] He was like a truant so he caused the hallucination so that he would return to his body. [...]

Now I have said this before, that one of our most extensive travelers is completely unaware of her nightly adventures, and again I will not look at anyone in particular because I would not embarrass you. [...]

([Rachel:] “Then if l really wanted to remember, I would.”)

[...] They come from realities that you, as yet, cannot understand and you would not comprehend them and so they must be translated. [...]

[...] Halting at first, but she picked up considerable speed as she went along, better than I thought she would do. [...]

[...] This would also help his recovery—and his recovery is what we are after.

[...] I described to her a vivid dream I had recently had involving my father, in the hopes that Seth would discuss it. [...]

I wanted to deal further during our last session with material originating in the unscheduled session, otherwise I would have cut the last session. [...]

[...] It is also true, however, that advantageous events occur with a far greater frequency than do negative ones — otherwise the world that you know simply would not exist. It would have disappeared in the throes of destruction or calamity.

[...] We talked about how strange it was that no one had been in yet to take her blood pressure and pulse — not that it would have mattered if they weren’t taken. [...]

[...] There are periods of new adjustment, and ideally the mind would take a new assessment of events.

In your society usually, drugs would have been used in the meantime. [...]

[...] The last would apply to you. [...]

[...] Impulses then would follow easily, in a smooth motion, from private action to social import. [...] You are left with vague idealized feelings of wanting to change the world for the better, for example — but you are denied the personal power of your own impulses that would otherwise help direct that idealism by developing your personal abilities. [...]

[...] (Pause.) If you were all “perfect beings,” would you need laws at all? [...]

(This information came through because Jane’s doctor, Marsha Kardon, had told her in the hospital that tests showed Jane’s thyroid gland had quit working altogether—with the concomitant fact that Jane would have to take a synthetic thyroid extract—Synthroid—daily for the rest of her life.)

If earlier, however, Ruburt had the erroneous idea that he was going too fast—or would or could—and had to restrain himself and to exert caution, now he received the medical prognosis, the “physical proof” that such was not the case—and in fact that the opposite was true: he was too slow. [...]

(I also had to wonder what Jane’s “Sinful Self” would have to say now, in comparison to the material Jane had received from it beginning in June 1981. [...]

[...] This is my third book.² There would be nothing strange to anyone in any of this if I had been born into your world in a body of my own, in usual terms. [...]

[...] But inherent always, psychologically and biologically, there has been the possibility of a change in that pattern, an alteration that would effectively lift the race into another kind of weather.

(11:22.) Such a development would, however, necessitate first of all a broadening of concepts about the self, and a greater understanding of human potential. [...]

[...] No, she hadn’t heard Seth, or sensed his presence while this was going on; she’d just realized that his help would be necessary if she decided to do the book. [...] If I could have immediately spoken the whole thing, it would have been done at once — that’s what was so frustrating! [...]

(The following material is, in part, an outgrowth of certain effects described in Personal Reality; see my notes for the 616th session, bridging chapters 2 and 3. That session was held on September 20, 1972, and the notes I’m referring to concern a new development in Jane’s abilities: her initial realization that on at least some occasions she would have more than one channel of information available from Seth. [...]

[...] This would be considered an hallucinatory image. [...] Inner vision can confound you, because in your mind you often see images quite clearly that you would dismiss if your eyes were open. [...]

[...] His killing today would be based on at least intuitive understanding…. [...]

[...] Some of it concerned her holding back on her own success for fear that my lack of success would be painful to me, compared to her achievements. [...]

[...] He believed that often creativity expressed itself at the expense of other portions of the self, and that if it were allowed to spill over the edges (with gestures) from artistic productivity into normal living, then it would lead to all kinds of disruptive activity. [...]

Because of his cultural beliefs, he was also determined that his “womanly nature” would not impede his progress as a writer, or yours as an artist. [...]

[...] Consciously (underlined), at the start of your marriage you would both have been delighted to work together doing comic strips, fulfilling male and female roles quite conventionally, with just an added flair. [...]