“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Dr. Instream explained the parapsychologists’ attitude toward the testing of ESP and suggested that Seth try clairvoyantly to perceive objects upon which the doctor would be concentrating. We would do this in each session. At 10 P.M. Mondays and Wednesdays, Dr. Instream would concentrate on an object in his study in the town in which he lived. At the same time Seth was to give his impressions, and each week we would mail the sessions to Dr. Instream. [...]

[...] Would Dr. Instream want me to go under hypnosis? I wasn’t at all sure that I would consent. [...]

We were delighted at the prospect of meeting Dr. Instream, but in order to pay for the trip, including fees for symposium attendance, we would have to use our vacation money. [...] So we would have to take vacation time to make the trip.

[...] My experiences proved that I’d been a medium all along without knowing it, he said, and this could invalidate the book’s premise—that the experiments would work for anyone to some extent, regardless of their psychic background.

[...] Your creativity would not be. You chose a woman (beside reincarnational reasons which you will finally be given one day) who would not bear children and who would have as strong a commitment as your own.

[...] You have always seen family life yourself as a threat to artistic production, and the first thing you would do if you had a house would be to build a studio outside of it. [...]

You would not be tempted toward conventionality, for your woman was not conventional. She would keep you from whatever leanings you might have had in that direction. [...]

Ruburt was already leery of putting his physical condition to the test of the trip, and so easily acquiesced, worried also that perhaps he would lose out on Aspects, that was already contracted for.

[...] Yet now there’s been a change, or at least a thought about a change: “But I don’t think having a spontaneous session would be all that bad,” she said, “if by being spontaneous I got set free.” [...] In the immediate past I would have automatically been against—or at least not in favor of—such a session for relative strangers on short notice. I would have been tonight, also, had I even thought of it—that is, I would have negated such a performance until I had the chance to study the implications of my reactions, in the light of my insight of Monday night, and Seth’s excellent session following that insight. [...]

[...] Eventually she called me, saying she would have the session. [...] It doesn’t seem right, or natural, that an individual might have to spend say fifty years suffering in life for things that happened to him when he was a child, say; I don’t think nature would arrange things that way—it’s too self-defeating....” [...]

[...] When he sold Avon he was hearing the questions that his own work would later try to answer. He could not have faked pretending to need the jobs, or it would not have worked, so neither of you could pretend to have physical difficulties so that you could, for example, put yourselves in other peoples’ shoes. [...]

[...] Strange, I thought, if it turned out that personal work would be one of the most creative of all the uses to which the Seth material could be put, rather than grandiose pronouncements coming down from on high, dispensed by one who was in a position of superiority.

[...] Without it you would not be tied securely enough to this earth. [...] Without you, literally, Ruburt in this physical life would not be able to express nor free it. [...]

[...] The suggested vacation would have broken up the last of Ruburt’s symptoms more quickly than your present course.

[...] The vacation would have automatically given you freedom from these daily charged items of environment, allowing the symptoms to break up completely without the added resistance.

As energy and strength grew while you were away, susceptibility to the environment would have largely diminished. [...]

[...] We are all utterly dependent upon the life force, without which there would be no individuals, and this you must accept. [...] And if the life force did not fill the plant, no amount of watering would make it grow. And if the consciousness within the leaves did not sing with the vitality of existence, then no amount of chemicals would make it live. [...]

[...] And I would be very happy if I were you... [...]

[...] And it would do you all well to listen! [...]

[...] And so the flower would be destroyed in its form. [...]

You both knew the tension that would also result, for you would to some strong degree resist. He needed direction however, and he knew that you would help give it to him. You would help him mold and direct his own strong emotional nature. You would have gone to the most considerable lengths to help direct his energy. He would have gone, and has gone, to considerable lengths to allow you to freely begin to express your emotional reality to him.

(There was more, of course, that I didn’t get down, or recall, but it would follow the same vein. [...] In answer to a question, Jane said that although reincarnational data would remain buried in many cases, it would still have to be dealt with, worked out in the present life in present terms.

[...] You knew that one of Ruburt’s purposes would be to insist upon the expression of your emotions to him personally. [...]

[...] Because of the tensions and the challenges, however, and for other reasons having to do with this existence, Ruburt became worried that you would not relate to him in the emotional way that his nature demanded. [...]

[...] If you gained your sense of personal continuity through associative processes primarily, rather than as a result of the familiarity of self moving through time, then you would experience physical reality in an entirely different fashion. [...] If your perceptive mechanisms were primarily set up as a result of intuitive association rather than time sequence, then you would perceive all of these chairs at one time; or seeing one, you would be aware of the others. [...]

[...] If you were to do so, then you would perceive the same kind of environment in which I have my existence. You would see an uncamouflaged situation, in which events and form were free and not stuck in a jellylike mold of time. [...]

[...] It is natural, then, that our environment would have multidimensional qualities that the physical senses would never perceive.

[...] We experience time, or what you would call its equivalent nature, in terms of intensities of experience — a psychological time with its own peaks and valleys.

[...] I noticed that toward the end of each verse of the Lepanto she would reach a crescendo of volume and emotion that was indeed thrilling. For brief periods her voice would sound very alien. For other periods, during what seemed to be letdowns, I would know the voice was hers. But still it would be much stronger and lower in timbre than her natural voice.

[...] At lunch I played the tape for Rob, then while posing for him I suggested to myself that I would go into a trance as soon as I began to read, and that Father Trainor would indeed use his voice to speak through me, if he was available. [...]

[...] In one respect I do agree with Ruburt, in that any future experiments with friends would be of better advantage carried out using chairs at a table, and actually making as few suggestions as possible.

[...] Looking back at the Father Trainor episode, she said she was somewhat frightened in retrospect, and would not conduct such a lengthy experiment again.

[...] These people thought then that violence would be wiped away from the face of the earth, and they hoped to begin a race of people that would not know violence. It would seem perhaps to you, that this was a highly idealistic race and that they grew in strength and beauty, but they were not facing the issues clearly, you see. [...]

[...] They prayed that their hearts would be as strong and brave as the hearts that they devoured. Many of them, in their own environment, knew that those who were not eaten by them, for example other warriors, would die of hunger in any case. [...]

[...] It allowed him to release aggression in a much less violent manner than he would have in the past. [...]

Now, it would have been far more beneficial had he been able to use that energy, keep it as a part of himself and transform it into a more constructive nature. [...]

[...] Other areas of living were all molded together so that unity would result. You would have, for example, no desires that would be basically in opposition to the creative one.

[...] I did not think Ruburt would work unless he was chained to his chair, so I chained him, both to do his own work and force you to do yours. [...] I see now that they would not be, that instead all your time would be spent concentrating upon the condition that was meant as a protection, until no work was done—hence my dismay. [...]

You would not quit anyway, so I created a book that would not sell. [...]

[...] It must be remembered that at the start of this experiment neither of us knew what would develop.)

[...] They also kept him from what he considered spiritual betrayals: he would not be a television personality, using his great powers of persuasion, until he knew what he was persuading people to do. At the same time he would be cutting out “temptations” to fritter away time, or to become a Kathryn Kuhlman. [...]

[...] The fears, denied then, prevented him from further developing abilities and strengths that would automatically conquer the fears, and perceiving experiences that would prove the fears groundless.

[...] He would go ahead. [...]

[...] He felt you would not understand them, for you valued his abilities so much that it seemed, by contrast, that he should profess no fears. [...]

[...] He wanted to express love for his father as a child far more openly than he felt his father would allow. He felt that his father would consider such demonstrations not masculine.

It seems that such expressions of love would now come too late. Expressing such love now, however, would show immediate benefits.

When he learned to write, he thought of writing to express such thoughts, and was always tempted to use writing as an expression of those subjective feelings he felt were forbidden—not just directed toward his father, but feelings of which he felt his father would disapprove. [...]

[...] Ruburt simply identified with too-small a portion of himself, not realizing that left alone his abilities would draw from Framework 2 all that was required for their fulfillment—all of the impulses, desires, and circumstances. [...]

[...] The difficulty would lie in the drain upon his time, for people would want readings: and again, look for miracles rather than self-understanding and self-development.

[...] It would help however if you simply remind him of this when such occasions arise, for your reminder, given without rancor, would be enough now to let him make a suitable adjustment at any given occasion. [...]

[...] Without it he would have chosen other pathways perhaps, but they would not have been as beneficial nor as helpful to both of your developments. [...]

[...] Why does he think we would pay so much when the name is unknown? [...]

[...] It would be Ruburt who would stay home. He would accept the financial burden gladly, if he could combine it with his writing, and in return you would do much of the household chores. You would have financial security at least so that you could paint without money worries.

The actual words you use, again, no matter how spontaneously chosen, have meanings on many levels, and speak of your own intent, Joseph, as much as Ruburt’s. Before, you see, when I brought up such issues, you would become defensive, thinking “Must I watch every word I speak?” or “How can suggestion be that important?” Ruburt would react the same.

Nothing would make Ruburt comply, of course, to the suggestion unless it met with his own acceptance, because of his own fears.

[...] Moreover, Ruburt would simply not go to work, and lose writing time to support you so you could paint.

(I told Jane before we began that we would not stress tests to prove hypnosis, that these could come later if we chose. [...] Once Jane’s eyes closed at the start of the session they remained closed until I told her they would open at the end.

(Two additional points now recalled: When she began talking about Florida, Jane told me “I got scared in Florida”; she was also sure I would leave her when the job situation got so bad and things didn’t work out as we’d hoped they would. [...]

[...] I was still aware of resistance, however, and so thought I would wait until the intuitive moment arrived to begin. [...]

(We chose our bedroom because it would be more private and comfortable than the living room. [...]

[...] In practical terms it would mean that you would not wage war for the sake of peace. It would mean that you did not kill animals in experiments, taking their lives in order to protect the sacredness of human life. That would be a prime directive: “Thou shalt not kill even in the pursuit of your ideals” — for man has killed for the sake of his ideals as much as he has ever killed for greed, or lust, or even the pursuit of power on its own merits.

2. Here Seth probably referred to material that Jane and I recently came across concerning the views of a “radical” philosophy of change: Violence is permissible in order to bring about a revolution which, in turn, would lead to a new age. In that utopian society man would be free from restraints and could unify his intellect and intuitions. [...] We speculated about the inevitable contradictions that would emerge should man ever manage to achieve such an “ideal” state, or society — for, given, his always restless and creative nature, he’d immediately start changing his supposed utopia. [...]

[...] People would do anything at all for money, he said, and as his monologue continued, he expressed his opinion that the species itself would almost inevitably bring about its own destruction.

If Roger, mentioned earlier, had begun where he was, he would be a different, happier, more fulfilled person today. And to some extent or other, his effect on all the other people he has met would have been far more beneficial.

When he saw that he could become a personality, and how willingly others would follow, he became aware of a new kind of responsibility. [...] He also began to see two poles in society—one highly conventional, 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, fraudulent.

[...] Those who were led by their hopes into gullibility could relate to his experiences—yet he would pull them back to “sanity” by his doubts. At the same time he would be expressing the unreconciled portions of his own nature.

[...] Earlier Ruburt was afraid to say “My energy can flow freely,” for fear that would mean he would also have children. [...]

There was a middle ground that he would have to make for himself. [...]

[...] I have no whip; and I would not use one if I had one. [...] This is perhaps the strongest point of my message to you this evening, the one I would have you take to heart. [...]

[...] For you are then in authority, and you would, if you could, drive your students as you drive your car and force them to go 85 miles a minute. [...] You would not have been at all surprised had Ruburt (Jane) jumped up grabbed a ruler and banged your fingers. [...]

([Jane:] “But it probably would have helped you both. It would have helped you both now.”

… He is afraid of any contacts that would … It seems here that there is a certain thing that he fears will happen to him if he involves himself in any relationship that would result in a family group. [...]

[...] If it were possible, you would then travel through a range of intensities in which no camouflage existed. Then you would encounter the pseudo-camouflage of the next system. This would or would not be physical matter, according to the system. You would then encounter the heart of the camouflage area. [...]

The completely uncamouflaged layer would be rather bewildering. [...] They would not take, so to speak, but would appear and disappear with great rapidity. [...] Thoughts would not be perceived here, as a rule, for the symbols for them would not be understood.

The tangerine, then, would be compared to a group of many systems, yet it would represent in itself but one portion of an unperceived whole. The tangerine would be but one segment of a larger system. You can see, then, why some projections would lead you in a far different direction from your linear sort of travel and why time as you know it would be meaningless.

[...] Such a traveler would not age physically. His body would be in a suspended state. [...]

[...] After joking with Peggy about interviews, cameras, etc., Seth said in time that he would interview Peg, who by then would be “notorious,” or better known. I don’t believe he said just how this would come about. Seth also told Peg there was some data she would need, that she would request it herself, about the crisis in her own life approximately 6 years from now.

(Seth also said that Jane and I would die within a short time of each other, when our earthly work was finished. [...] Seth said that Jane would publish 5 books on the Seth Material; 3 novels; 3 books of poetry; plus 2 books to be dictated by Seth himself. [...]

Then you would understand more about your present inner attitudes ... And when I stand at your right shoulder you would hear what I whisper in your ear ...

[...] He spoke to Carl about a game involving mathematics and drama that would make millions for Carl, should he succeed in working it out. [...]