“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Again, this would lead to a pattern too rigid for the development of the species, and give you too-specialized behavior patterns that would not allow you to cope as a species — particularly with the many varieties of social groupings possible.

Give us a moment… In your terms, again, the psyche contains what you would consider male and female characteristics, while not being male or female itself.

Using an analogy, its “particles” could be dispersed throughout the universe, with galaxies between, yet the identity would be retained. [...]

Therefore, at levels that would appear chaotic to you, there is a great mixing and merging of consciousness, a continual exchange of information, so to speak; an open-ended exploration of possibilities, from which in your terms events privately and en masse emerge.

[...] But they are also formed equally by your dreaming experience, by the learning and knowledge and encounters that occur when many would tell you that you are beyond legitimate perception. [...]

In the Guyana affair, you had “red-blooded Americans” dying on a foreign shore (in South America), but not under a banner of war, which under certain circumstances would have been acceptable. [...]

[...] They would seem to be at the peak of life, the product of the best America has to offer. [...]

[...] It would make Americans question the nature of their society, of their religions, their politics, and their beliefs.

[...] It would be a good idea, however, for the two of you to review several sessions. [...]

(Jane said that maybe Seth would return later and talk about the dream, but this didn’t happen. [...]

[...] “I was sort of getting that it would be something like that after supper,” she said. She didn’t think the session would be a long one. [...]

[...] The ego would see no reason for such a memory, and on general principles attempts to repress them.

Again however, through this excellent balance and these fine controls, the ego will accept knowledge derived from the dream state, as a man might accept a message from a distant land in which he does not care to dwell, and whose environment would both mystify and frighten him.

[...] In such a philosophical world it would seem that man had no power at all.

As mentioned earlier, those concepts can have a hand in the development of would-be suicides, particularly of a young age, for they seem to effectively block a future.

[...] She then tied this in with an unpleasant episode in the past where there was trouble with another sister-in-law, and this brother-in-law, and thought that the money would now make this sister-in-law sit up and wonder about her own actions in the past.)

It must, of course, succeed to some extent, or the physically oriented personality as you know it would not exist. [...]

Were the symptoms serious, physical therapy would be necessary, but they are not serious. [...]

This newer type of consciousness would automatically allow you to understand, at a glance so to speak, the inner workings of your own personalities.

[...] Somehow I knew the results of the experiment would be good.)

[...] Out of habit, Jane — and consequently Seth — still talked about “Unknown” Reality as being one entity, even though just five days ago we’d learned from her editor that it would be published in two volumes.

[...] Any or all of these views would simply be repatterning other dimensions of time from our “present point of power.”

[...] Apart from that, the legend as picked up, so to speak, by Plato (see Appendix 14) was a precognition of the future probability, an image of an inner civilization of the mind actually projected outward into the future, where it would be used as a blueprint, dash — the lost grandeur, as, in other terms, Eden became the lost garden of paradise.

[...] The so-called ruins would not be found in any one place as expected, therefore. [...]

[...] I granted that one could always say that the same end couldn’t be achieved by not going as far, but then, I told Jane, if one followed that line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, physical death would result — that state would be the final extreme of any form of behavior.

[...] Society would be much better off if man labeled multitudinous levels of physical health rather than dignifying negative concepts by giving them names and designations.

[...] With the precise night and day schedule that it possesses, your planet would, in those terms, give birth to a creature consciousness uniquely suited to fit it. [...] Your nervous system would find great difficulty in a rhythm in which a day was stretched out to be three or four times as long, for instance.

They may not consciously accept such information, but if they knew how to examine themselves, they would discover that their beliefs added up to precisely the given kind of situation. [...]

[...] It would help, of course, if he reminded himself that his creative mind is at work whether or not he is aware of it, and regardless of what he is doing, and that such periods have the potential, at least, of accelerating creativity, if he allows his intellect to go into a kind of free drive at such times. [...]

The walking after dinner would be excellent, of course — the idea being, however, that if he became uncomfortable from sitting that he lie on the bed, perhaps before watching television for the evening.

[...] That is at least one of the reasons why these sessions have been held in the evening, where it was at least not as likely that you would try to invest them with the workaday kind of world values.

10:06 P.M. I’d asked my question half jokingly, to see if Seth would discuss my dreams, but obviously he didn’t take the bait. [...]

[...] And very vaguely, I should say this would be about session thirty—halfway through the book.”

[...] I like to keep such penetrating remarks before me, and wish the reader would too, for I often fear they’ll become lost from conscious view within his material. [...]

[...] And if you were more natural about it, it would come more easily. [...]

Now, I would like you to do this for the week, seriously and on your own. [...]

[...] Ruburt told us last week to become aware in the dream state at the Alpha III level, and I did, and I had my tape recorder on next to me, and I gave myself the suggestion that whenever I got something, I would turn it on...”)

[...] Left alone, children would learn how to cope with animals by pretending to be animals, for example. Through experiencing the animals’ reactions, they would understand how to react themselves.

[...] If that were all, then there would be no inventions. [...]

[...] These, following the analogy, would be hidden behind the other brighter, more obvious “planets,” and yet would show their presence through their effects upon your relationships with all of the other visible core beliefs in your “planetary system.”

(Jane thought she was experiencing the results of her own work with bridge beliefs, since receiving the material in advance, so I asked her if Seth would say something about her personal reactions for this chapter. [...]

[...] These beliefs generated their own emotions, of course, so that Ruburt would become angry when thought of as a “psychic” by others.

[...] If there were you see, you would indeed have a much more perfect world, but you would not have that one built-in prerequisite: complete as possible existence within all facets, and manipulation within all facets, of a given plane.

[...] It would be backtracking to repeat that long discussion, but as the inner universe has as its attributes spontaneity and durability, and as the spacious present is simultaneous while containing within it all pasts and all presents and all futures, and as Philip understands the meaning of expansion in terms not of time or of space but of value fulfillment, so will he intuitively then grasp that no contradiction occurs with actual reality when I say that there is no beginning and no end.

[...] If you had thoroughly remembered our material on value fulfillment, you would know that the only detriment to so-called free will is the built-in necessity for value fulfillment. [...]

[...] We have no idea of pressing Seth’s personal information upon David; doing that would be an invasion of his privacy. [...]

[...] Logical minds at one time found those diagrams quite convincing, and patients with certain afflictions in certain areas of the body would confess to having committed the various sins that were involved. [...]

[...] It would be impossible to discuss human suffering without taking that into consideration. [...]

[...] Man’s involvement in sports is an instant example, of course, where society’s rewards and the promise of spectacular bodily achievement lead athletes into activities that would be considered most painful by the ordinary individual. [...]

Any such appearances, by the way, would also add to much superstitious nonsense. [...] Until he understood the inward order of events⁸ he would not be able to meet me there — so the library can serve us both in that regard.

[...] Otherwise what we say would not be understood.”

[...] According to Seth’s views, such encounters with other portions of their whole selves would be inevitable.