“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I was curious to see if Seth would repeat any of his impressions given in the 257th session. [...]

In the diagram for example, each star would represent a moment point in another system. [...]

(The idea in using the same object a second time in succession was to see whether Seth would come up with the same, or similar, impressions, both times. [...]

(This would tie in with two impressions Seth gave last session: “The month of April,” and “A connection with markings and dates.”

[...] (Pause.) The schools of “positive thinking” try to remedy the situation, but often do more harm than good because they attempt to force beliefs upon you that you would like to hold, but do not in your present state of confusion.

[...] Because he is trying to be so understanding our man inhibits the expression of many of the normal irritations that would serve as a natural system of communication between, say, his superior and himself at work, or perhaps with the members of his family at home.

[...] If thoughts alone could kill, you would not have the overpopulation problem!

[...] Without aggression your body would be denied its growth, the cells within it caught in inertia. [...]

[...] She cautioned Jerry that the effort would be strictly experimental on her part, and that results could be good, bad or indifferent. [...]

[...] I spoke to her rather sharply, and would have interrupted the session had the physical violence continued. [...]

It would be better if he was really mad rather than sad. [...]

[...] Jerry now said that most of the data was correct, except that since she herself was born in 1937 she wasn’t sure about the 1936 and 1932 dates, but would try to check. [...]

[...] Opening up your consciousness to previously denied messages would bring you in direct contact with other life-forms on your planet in a way that you have formerly denied yourselves. Your cellular knowledge of past and future probabilities alone would teach you a spiritual and corporal courtesy.

It was known, however — and unconsciously written in the cells and mind and heart — that this procedure would only go so far. When man’s consciousness was sure of itself it would not need to be so narrowly focused. [...]

[...] Imagination may bring you a clear picture, for example, that may then become fuzzy, and in that case the blurred quality would be your hint of probable action.

[...] As soon as I realized this conscious effort I relaxed, in hopes that this would encourage its longevity, but the vision faded and did not return. [...] I hoped Seth would mention it this evening.)

(Smile.) You would have been consciously aware of the painting whether or not you were consciously aware of the vision. [...]

[...] There are no limitations to your own entity: therefore, how can your entity or soul have boundaries, for boundaries would enclose it and deny it freedom.

[...] How many of you would want to limit your reality, your entire reality, to the experience you now know? [...]

(10:43.) Such an eternity would be dead indeed. [...]

[...] That particular overall method of separation leads to such questions as: “Which species came first, and which came later, and how did the various species emerge — one from the other?” Those questions are further brought about by your time classifications, without which they would be meaningless.

(10:17.) The answers to the origins of the universe and of the species lie, I’m afraid, in realms that you have largely ignored — precisely in those domains that you have considered least scientific, and in those that it appeared would yield the least practical results.

If it were scientifically inclined, the body would know that such spontaneous performance was impossible, for science cannot explain the reality of life itself in its present form, much less its origins.

[...] You look at him on some (underlined) occasions—far less than in the past—with great impatience and disapproval, as far as his physical condition is concerned, so that he feels he would have greater dignity alone on his knees than trying to walk with you with that look in your eyes.

[...] If you had been more intimately connected with Ruburt’s classes, the same hassle would have resulted. [...]

To some extent, there is a natural and spontaneous merging of what you would think of as conscious and unconscious activity. [...]

Individual psychological mechanisms are activated, sometimes, in terms of neurosis or other mental problems; these bring out into the open inner challenges or dilemmas that otherwise would be worked out more easily through an open give-and-take of conscious and unconscious reality —

[...] Neurosis and psychosis simply would not occur under such conditions. [...]

[...] Such wake-sleep patterns as I have suggested would acquaint you with the great creative and energetic portions of psychological behavior — that are not undifferentiated at all, but simply distinct from your usual concepts of consciousness; and these operate throughout your life.

Would you like a break?

I would also suggest for the present that you deal with other matters than your health; then you may return to the subject, and I will be glad to further elaborate upon what information you receive. [...]

[...] I would indeed suggest however that this half- hour schedule not include your weekends.

[...] At your present stage of development with the pendulum you get a reaction that could be compared to a closed circuit, where the energy is directed into the past, into the personal subconscious too abruptly, and too intensified, and is not yet allowed the release of discovering full causes, which would then release not only that energy, but the energy that has in the past gone into the formation of various physical ills.

[...] I said that even if the new innocence was achieved by the Sinful Self, it would be a different kind of innocence because it would contain all of the “Sinful Self’s earlier convolutions” as it went through its stages, striving toward that renewed innocence. Memory of that struggle would linger, I thought. [...]

[...] Yesterday evening we checked to see if Jane would have any negative reactions. [...]

[...] He does not realize however, nor do your other psychologists, what I have told you often—that there is an inner ego; and it is this inner ego that organizes what Jung would call unconscious material.

Now the inner ego is the organizer of experience that Jung would call unconscious. [...]

[...] I do have the reincarnational backgrounds, but would prefer to continue with our present discussion.

[...] This in itself is very unusual, since neither of us as a rule would commit the other without first asking. [...]

In other words negative thoughts can be recognized and plucked out with no more rancor than you would pluck out weeds in a garden. [...]

Now tell him he has learned, for in the past he would have allowed this to continue, and he did not. [...]

[...] He berates himself for not being able to help you more in the carrying of the bags, and in any ordinary chores with which he would normally assist you. [...]

Now there have been some definite accomplishments since your prayer period, and if you had the proper attitude of expectancy in the beginning, both of you, you would have added gratitude in your prayers for what has been received. [...]

Now unfortunately, it would be much easier simply to tell you that your individuality continues to exist, and let it go at that. While this would make a fairly reasonable parable, it has been told in that particular way before, and there are dangers in the very simplicity of the tale. [...]

[...] You see it is not a simple matter of giving you a definition of a soul or entity, for even to have a glimpse in logical terms you would have to understand it in spiritual, psychic, and electromagnetic terms, and understand the basic nature of consciousness and action as well. [...]

I would not have it on my conscience. [...]

1. I want to note here that at the same time Jane and I decided to buy the hill house, we learned that the house next door, to the west, would soon be for sale; because of a job transfer its owner would be moving with his family to California this summer. [...]

(And now verbatim:) The fireplace in the hill house is advantageous, as the one in the house on Foster Avenue would have been, simply in that the open hearth represents an inner source of strength and stability. [...]

[...] Two evenings a week would be quite effective.

[...] He felt that you would disapprove of many class events, in those classes you did not attend—that you would think he went too far.

(10:05.) It is very possible that you would have found the emotional aura at least vaguely unpleasant on some occasions—so Ruburt always tried, because of his own feelings as well as yours, to be intuitional and intellectual at the same time. [...]

[...] It would carry him where intuitively he knows he can go.

[...] In the beginning of this work I “warned” the reader that here in these sessions we would go beyond ideas of one god and one self.³ I stated that your ideas of personhood would be expanded. [...]

[...] In your terms, for example, if they did not occur constantly your body would die. [...]

You, as you think of yourself, may have trouble following such concepts, just as you would have trouble trying to follow the “future” reality of the cells within your body at this moment. [...]

[...] Without those parts the mountain would not exist. [...]

[...] Jane said she had no idea of what Seth would talk about. [...]

You see I would like you eventually to progress to a point where you can manipulate almost as freely within nonphysical reality as you do within physical reality. [...]

[...] If others watched and saw only that portion of the self that was clear in their perspective, then they would imagine that they saw the primary self also.

[...] All of this is more complicated than it would seem, and yet extremely simple when the basic principles are understood.

[...] Yet granting all this, why, again, would some individuals choose situations that would be experienced as defective conditions? [...]

[...] We mourn the dead servicemen and wonder how many more Americans—military people and hostages—would have been killed had our commandos penetrated to the American Embassy compound, and the Iranian Foreign Ministry, in the heart of Tehran.

[...] The principle of uncertainty must operate genetically, or you would have been locked into overspecializations as a species.²

[...] Indeed, her delivery had been stronger and longer—both by large margins—than I’d expected it would be before the session.)

Give us a moment… No chance encounter of physical elements alone, under any circumstances, could produce consciousness — or the conditions that would then make consciousness possible.

To parallel these sessions, it would be nice if the two of you kept Framework 2 in mind, and utilized it with a bit more confidence, and became alert again to those “coincidences” that always appear in current experience.