“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If we did that kind of thing once, and if Ruburt let it come through undistorted, theoretically our material would consist of stock reports. Everyone would want to know how to beat the market, and the material would quickly disintegrate. [...]

In this case it would involve living tissue. [...] Use of this fifth inner sense, were it available to you, and in its fuller sense -fortunately it is not—would enable you to enter into your friend.

(Our doctor friend, last week, had half-jokingly suggested Jane and I see what Seth would have to say about the market. Jane and I were so sure Seth would turn thumbs down on the idea that we had not asked the question.)

[...] Jane and I both felt that Seth would not comply, at least at this time. [...]

[...] Yet I also wanted a personality which would allow itself the spontaneity necessary, and the inner freedom, so that such communications could take place. A personality without basic stability would not serve my purposes, and a personality that was too rigid in its beliefs and abilities would not serve my purposes well.

(Seth said again that he considered such effects childish, but that it would be a small sacrifice to make if it helped to get the material across. [...] No matter what he did, people would say it was trickery. He still maintained that he could offer proof that would be sufficient, in time. [...]

[...] Seth said that proofs she would accept would not be accepted by science. One proof to come, he said, would involve very strong facial changes in Jane during sessions. [...]

[...] If you would read some of our material, it would then become obvious to you that mental suggestion is indeed the basis upon which all reality is founded.

A personality is needed or the information would appear highly chaotic, and you would not know how to unscramble it, even if you were able to receive it. [...] (Pause.) Your Seth would say we unscramble it for you, and then serve it neatly on a supper platter.

It would be apparent, though I would not appear as matter. [...]

[...] Jane was still waiting by 9:10 for the session to begin; while feeling a little unsureness we were still confident that a session would be held. [...]

[...] The coordinates do affect the physical system or any such communications would be impossible.

[...] He was afraid you would flee as your father fled. He would not (in quotes) “humiliate himself” to his way of thinking by crying after you, hammering at your door. [...]

Ruburt hoped they would bring the two of you closer together after your illness. Instead he feared that they drove you farther apart, in that he feared you would use them to spend time away from him rather than with him, and in that he did not feel able to express his own ambiguous feelings—the ideas of performance entering in here.

[...] He had many good ideas that he felt you would have been against that would have worked out very well, but he was afraid of going against you.

You knew he would not allow it, while you gave yourself time to grow in understanding. Otherwise you might well have continued your earlier performance, and moved in with your parents, to bail out your younger brother in a situation which would have then been present.

It would be easy for me to give you a set of rules. Some of you would be only too glad to follow them for you would not have to face your own responsibility and your own responsibility is to look within and to use your own abilities. [...] All That Is is not static or it would be dead; it is ever changing as you are. [...]

If it were not for these energies you would not have children; if it were not for these energies you would not be alive. [...] Yet you do not know consciously how you breathe and if you did you would be dead, because you could not consciously handle the millions of manipulations that must take place in order to assure one breath. [...]

[...] You had to realize that a certain amount of spirituality was necessary if the inner psychic self would grow. You brought it upon yourselves so you would realize that you were blessed with a planet upon which your species could grow. You brought it upon yourselves so that you would realize despite all your stories (shouts really loud!) that you have not been given domination. [...]

If you would feel better about it, we can shut off all the lights and I will have Ruburt dress in a white robe. [...]

[...] You feared upsetting Ruburt, and Ruburt would immediately insert desperately positive statements out of a panic to find that you were so disturbed, and this would anger you.

[...] He has always thought that you were used, mainly by your mother, but he was afraid that his statements would be misinterpreted because of his own relationship with his parents.

You would not have left your parents so far behind at that time, he felt, except on his behalf. [...]

[...] He thought it would free you. [...]

[...] These would be ever-changing. In our analogy, the projected image would seem to float, including ever-different stars and planets within its boundaries. Your own time structure would be very minute in this picture.

[...] What would correspond, in any case, to your idea of duration within the spacious present; it is a matter of intensities however. [...] And if the image were projected against a midnight sky, within its apparent boundaries then you would see a multitude of planets and stars. [...]

[...] In your terms it would be as if you experienced a future event, then a distant past event, then a moment from the present. You would not understand what was going on, nor see the inner logic within.

[...] The boundaries of the entity would be imaginary, taking in as many moment points as the entity felt it could handle. [...]

[...] Guided imagery could help him, for example, but he would need supervision. Ruburt was quite right in the method he used in speaking to him, and my presence would not have served. He would only have used it, as Ruburt said he would. [...]

(9:43.) He cannot be happy, however, with the circumstances, for if he were the entire fabric of the drama would appear false. He must make token efforts, therefore, to break away—efforts that must be futile, because if they worked he would be in the “real world.”

Your young man gave you an excellent instance—a “case” that the most noteworthy psychologists or psychiatrists, if they had time, would find fascinating. You were able to gain insights that you simply would not have if you were not presented with exaggerated realities. [...]

[...] He suffered from the attacks of “magicians” who were stealing his energy: “Plates” of energy were being stripped away from his chest in layers, until he feared his inner self would be exposed. [...]

If you were pleased with your work right now the chores of the house would scarcely take your notice. You would have them done, or do them, but your creative energy and your thoughts would be involved with your creativity, and the chores at times would give you a necessary enjoyed change. [...]

Ruburt fears that if he were suddenly better he would add to your distractions, so when distractions seem threatening to you he emphasizes the symptoms: if he were better, would you want him to do all the chores? [...] If he were better he could help you with the chores—but if he could, would you then withdraw to your studio and leave them all to him? [...]

[...] Looking at your parents, you decided early that you would have a certain kind of relationship with a woman—a closeness that your father did not have with your mother—one that involved many facets of your own personality and with its purposes. Otherwise you would not have married.

[...] He wonders what would have happened had he done something else. You did not meet Ruburt either until you were in your thirties, so the challenges set were not those that would be solved by a conventionally young man.

[...] To completely redecorate and rearrange your apartment would represent a symbolic and literal statement. At least you would be perfecting what you have, and taking steps within that framework, freely redecorating creatively, changing your environment instead of squawking while staying. Yet he is sure you would consider it a vast annoying distraction, even though not as annoying as moving. [...]

He believed that emotional freedom would be construed as chaos, that while you said be spontaneous, you meant “Be spontaneous when it is convenient.” [...] Spontaneous love-making for example would cut into the work schedule that both of you had evolved.

[...] You have each been structuring your experience largely through Ruburt’s symptoms—both of you, so that when Ruburt might momentarily feel free you would remind him of his limitations, and when you might forget them Ruburt would remind you.

The parents who say “Brush your teeth because it is good for you, and I want you to be healthy,” may mean “I love you,” but the child would usually prefer a hug and a kiss. [...]

[...] Jane feared the book, which she regards as the beginning of Oversoul Seven, would be lost in a tiny printing. The advance would also be very low.

(Jane relied on her impulses and Framework 2 for her decision—actions that she would have probably found very difficult to carry out earlier. [...] Actually, a string of events, evidently out of Framework 2, were involved, and would make a most interesting study of how Framework 2 aids one in making decisions or bringing about events they want to see happen. [...]

[...] You were afraid that you were doing everything backward—specifically with “Unknown” Reality, and that the affair would be a disaster—or the car would crash.

[...] A chart made of all the events to date would show an interlocking pattern of lines, I believe, like a spider’s web. [...]

This leads us then to an obvious conclusion: if event X were not perceived it would still be a probability only. By the same token, if our individual chose to perceive and experience, say, event Y, then event Y would be the reality, and event X would still be unreal.

[...] At times he would attempt to entangle himself in Jane’s legs as she paced about the room while speaking for Seth. [...] Willy, he said, would get used to his presence eventually and show no reaction; this has been the case now for well over a year.)

[...] The child would fit into the man’s office building, for example. There would be no boundary to keep him out while letting the father enter, physically speaking. [...]

[...] It grew out of earlier suggestions, and I would say the end result represented a fine example of spontaneous creative power at its best. The poems are of high qualityindeed, and Jane felt certain from the start that they would be published. [...]

[...] All of these reactions are far less than they would have been some months ago, and many areas of the body that would have been affected then are now free, even from such reactions, but he should not allow them to slide by.

If you saw anything of a rich and bright color it would have good meaning, regardless of its placement in the imaginary picture. Much mist would represent the fact that probabilities had not yet cohered enough so that any certain answer could be given.

[...] (400, 401 sessions.) You can also imagine how that natural object would appear to others of various ages and temperaments, or to me, or how curious it would seem to someone who does not dwell within your own system. [...]

[...] Now we wondered whether this feeling would be transferred to the sessions held by Seth himself, and to other psychic endeavors.)

(Seth continued:) He also began to see two poles in society one highly conventional and closed, in which he would appear as a charlatan; and another, yearning but gullible, willing to believe anything if only it offered hope, in which his activities would be misinterpreted, and to him [would be] fraudulent … There was a middle ground that he would have to make for himself … to make a bridge to those intellectuals who doubted, and yet maintain some freedom and spontaneity in order to reach those at the other end. [...]

[...] And Seth, very briefly commenting upon the search while it was still in progress, remarked to an out-of-town group of visitors that Jane was endeavoring to use her psychic abilities on her own; and that the assurance she was gaining through her efforts would be much more valuable to her than any she might derive from Seth himself “doing all the work.”

[...] And it would be too exhausting.”

In this case the body would appear visible on the bed while another, identical body would appear in the new location to which the personality-essence had traveled. In this case a potential observer would see what would appear to be an ordinary physical being.

In this instance of traveling by personality-essence, any contact would be telepathic, and a potential observer would see nothing, using the outer senses alone.

[...] I feel there would have been a greater difference if I had taken a prompt first measurement.

After our impromptu session the other evening, I did not know whether or not you would be waiting for me tonight, after the extra typing that was involved.

No other publishing house would have treated you any better to this point. They would have tried, most of them, to have turned Ruburt into a performing circus. [...] You would have been put through experiences most difficult to cope with, that would have so disrupted your peace of mind that the work might well have not progressed to this stage.

(Pause at 10:11.) You would not necessarily want to handle those results. You would not want to handle the phone calls, the interviews, so do not blame Prentice for not giving you what you do not want. If that was what you really wanted, you would have had it yesterday.

(Pause at 9:49.) It would have been highly impractical, then, to expect Prentice to advertise the book. [...] It might be farce, from the publisher’s viewpoint, but they could sell it, and they would know how to advertise it.

[...] Prentice would have taken it had you allowed another writer to report the experience. [...]

[...] You still would not want to deal with the intrusive, and to you, immediately disruptive emotions that would be obvious in a sitter. With them you would want to handle the emotion with kid gloves, precisely because of course you are so sensitive to emotion.

You would be grateful then when Ruburt did originate such a crisis, simply because the pressure behind the repressed feelings was more painful then, so that it was defeating its own purpose. You helped initiate these crises in your own way then, by intensifying the noncontact behavior that you knew would cause Ruburt to take steps. [...]

[...] I would like to give you some more personal material. [...]

This would cause considerable panic on your part. [...]

(After the success of last night’s session, during which Jane manifested some startling phenomena with her left hand and arm, we were naturally curious to learn what Seth would have to say about it during a regular session with the board. We decided to try for another unscheduled session, rather than wait until next Monday, January 6, as we would have done ordinarily. [...]

Had I materialized my creature from outer space—I believe that is a current term, scoffed at and ridiculed—however, if I had materialized this image you would have really opened your eyes. [...] Without them, the distortions that is, you would have seen nothing.

[...] The basis however is very strongly female, since without the giving quality the aggressiveness would be but a stationary closed fist, incapable of motion and incapable of unfolding into other lives, as it must. The aggressiveness is a thrust for life and action against inertia, but without the acquiescence of the female quality, life would not open.

[...] So real are the wall constructions of your room that you would freeze in the wintertime without them, yet there is no room and no walls. [...] The walls are truly transparent to me though I am not sure I would perform, dear Joseph, and Ruburt, for a party demonstration.

I would have been removing the problem from you, and in this instance depriving you of the opportunity of solving it, and therefore of adding to your own energies and abilities. As it was, your illness was shorter by several times than it would have been had it occurred last year, and certainly much shorter than it would have been were it not for the understanding that you have derived from these sessions.

[...] Any healing brought about from the outside may be advantageous in the short run, and I would be only too willing to help in a situation involving illness, particularly of a serious variety, even though the advantages of my help would be surface ones.

[...] Basically however in your case the illness was not serious, and the advantage that you would derive from my help in a healing capacity would have been outweighed entirely by several disadvantages that are almost always present, in the case of healing that does not originate from inner comprehension.

They definitely open the eyes of many who would otherwise pay no attention. Particularly in the race question they have performed a great psychic service, for they have aroused deep, creative, constructive emotions on the part of people who otherwise would not have been involved. [...]

[...] Tam asked me if I would consent to having a well-known psychic writer tell my story for me because of the built-in publicity his name would lend. [...] Tam said he had great faith in the book and would continue to work on my behalf. [...]

[...] On April 29, I lay down, telling myself I would have a dream giving me some information, letting me know whether or not a contract would be signed. [...]

[...] Later I forgot much of what I read, but I knew that a contract would not be given yet — there would be a lag. [...]

It would be necessary to take your temperature many times during the night and to correlate the findings with the levels of the subconscious as they showed themselves within the dream series. [...] However, suggestion to the effect that the subject’s temperature rise or fall would tend to obscure the effect. [...]