“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

For those literal-minded readers, this does not mean that such activity would predominate at such times. It does mean that not all sexual activity is meant to end in childbirth — which is a biological impossibility, and would represent planetary catastrophe. [...] The strong focus that now predominates does inhibit the formation of certain kinds of friendships that would not necessarily at all result in sexual activity.

New paragraph: When racial conditions require it, it is quite possible for an individual to both father and mother a child.^* In such cases, what you would call complete spontaneous sexual reverses or transformations would occur. [...]

[...] If each act of intercourse were meant to produce a child, you would have overrun the planet before you began. [...] Such peoples, building up the human stock, intuitively knew that the population would be increased if relations were restricted to periods when conception was most likely to occur. [...]

[...] In more “ideal” environments such activity would flourish to some extent, particularly before and after prime reproductive years.

[...] You also thought that you would enjoy having your husband around all of the time. [...] There were also conflicts of direction, as to who would “rule the roost”, and you resented his “taking over”, or what it seemed to you to be. [...] You thought that you would welcome his cooperation and aid, and because, now, of other conflicts with him, in the east, in this life, instead, you resented his help. [...]

[...] The very few times early in our marriage when I would lose my temper, he would absolutely infuriate me by saying softly, with a smirk, “Temper, temper!” and so I would clam up.)

[...] If you began to paint for an hour a day, you would not need to eat so much. [...] To you this does not necessarily or alone mean they are good for the body or bad for the body, but in themselves you give them moral characteristics as you would people. So that beneath the whole attitude is the idea: “This is an evil food,” and be shunned as you would shun an evil person, within that framework of thought.

[...] Indeed, you would automatically put up a defense, because you considered not hearing to be important to your survival. [...] But while you refused to hear, you would consider energy sent to you particularly to make you hear also a threat to your survival, and would be determined to block it. [...]

[...] Within you this knowledge is apparent and speaks to you if  you would listen. [...]  What I say is as intimate to you as your own breath is if you would but feel your breath. If you would but once give up the defenses that you have set between what you think of as your intellect and what you think of as the rest of the self. [...]

[...] There are physical repercussions in your own bodies that occur if you would but listen to your bodies and feel them when the songs go on, for there is language beneath words. [...]

[...] I will tell you their benefits and meanings as you learn what they are, for I would like the knowledge to come from you. [...]

[...] Someone mentions that Seth would not sing)

(“Do you realize the transformations in belief that would have to take place before this material was even considered by the elite — let alone accepted?” I asked. “It would destroy the world of a scientist who believed in evolution. That is, if he would pay any attention to it to begin with.”

Some people are only aware of — or largely aware of — impulses toward anger, because they have inhibited those natural impulses toward love that would otherwise temper what seemed to be aggressive desires. [...] You do not follow urges through that would hurt others physically, or that seem in direct contradiction to your present beliefs — but you do acknowledge them. [...]

[...] Then from Seth she’d picked up that she was wrong — that her kind of information would be considered “noninformation,” and so would be ignored.

[...] Would nature do things that way?

[...] It is impossible to tell ahead of time how many of those individuals would come down with the disease otherwise, yet diseases do come and go whether or not inoculations are given. The mechanisms operate in such a fashion that by now overall belief has come to such a point that the same results would almost be effected if an inoculation of no particular value were given instead. The mind is as effective against viruses as anything else—and in such hypothetical cases immune reactions would be set up biologically, through the mind’s beliefs.

If you had but one life to live, it would surely be a tragedy if you made any important errors. It would even be a tragedy if you made none—for whatever road you took would seem to be taken at the expense of numberless, perhaps more promising ones.

(Recently I’d mentioned to Jane that it would be nice if Seth would say something about the speakers, and counterparts.)

You would not have had difficulty without the inoculation. [...]

If you would look within yourself you would find out why, or if you ask for a private session sometime I might give you some hints, but you have not asked for one, and you have not asked for one for a good reason. [...]

[...] Now the nicest thing that could happen would be that you suddenly blew your stack and kicked him. The worst thing that could happen would be that, once again, you restrain the acknowledgment of your feelings and the pent up and unacknowledged and perfectly natural aggression in the beginning that has now built up, is ready to explode and now you send out a thought form out of all proportion to any of the event that causes your friend severe harm. [...]

([Joel:] “In the beginning, with the first example, before we filled and compounded the frustration, the charges, would you have recommended an action like saying, ‘come on, this is wrong and I have probably done this sort of thing myself, but this is wrong and it really bugs me and that we got to get up and get to work here, be honest with him at that level. Would that have prevented these charges?”)

[...] In reference, however, to one remark you made earlier, you have always been involved strongly in what you would call religious endeavors in almost all lives. [...] Now, I cannot go into that reincarnation this evening, it is too late, and you would not benefit from it for you are not ready, either of you. [...]

[...] He could not give in to that impulse yet, but before he would not have allowed it, because his position would then seem so hopeless in contrast. [...]

[...] If pure personal survival were all that mattered to the so-called subconscious, such acts would be impossible—and in fact, they would be inconceivable on man’s part. [...]

[...] (Jane’s first in many many months.) The impulse automatically led him to perform physical acts that before he simply would not have done, so desire and impulse mobilize the body.

Excellent health is to be sought, it would certainly seem. [...]

[...] If you knew of our histories in detail, it would not surprise you, and there would be much more that you would understand.

[...] And I would also like to mention the fact that indeed the woman in our gathering, Aniac, does indeed have abilities that are not being used, and possibilities for energy focus which she would do well to explore.

—I could indeed give them to you so that there would be no doubt as to the origin of the voice involved. I could indeed, if I were so inclined, give you voice changes that would have the neighbors down upon your shoulders—

[...] But I would like it understood that now, if I so chose, there would be no doubt (louder, very loud) as to my identity (and now also deeper) or my abilities.

Nor would such a counterfeit pattern suit you for long. Self-questioning and doubts would begin to drive you to distraction. [...]

(“Would you rather speak at a faster rate?”)

[...] It would work very well, but it does not work that way.

You fear the aggressive portions of your own personality, and instead of allowing these portions to work for you, you are sending them out on a counterfeit journey after an object, another person, with whom you would not be happy, and for whom you have little basic respect.

It does not easily adopt what it considers frivolous hobbies or activities that would help divert and release the energies. [...]

[...] When the poetry was thus criticized, Ruburt was afraid the support would be withdrawn. [...]

What he wants to do is use his abilities to clear the pathways to clear understanding of the nature of the soul, although he would not use the term for so long.

He would not drop the psychic work. [...]

[...] If your father did have daughters, rather than sons in the life that you know, he actually would have fared better in the physical world, because he would have felt it his duty to protect them financially: he would have considered them fairly helpless, and in need of his abilities. [...]

A daughter, however, would have given him a beneficial relationship, someone with whom he could discuss such feelings, as he did with you in the dream. [...]

[...] From my understanding of it, there was no other significance to the age orientation, except that the two of you were adults, and thus would have had a long shared background behind you. [...]

[...] Later I thought that I should have asked Seth what kind of interpretation of the dream a conventional psychologist would have given. [...]

(In interpreting those passages, I saw that Jane would have died, given her own choice, a couple of years ago, but her plan was interfered with by me and the hospital personnel. [...] Otherwise, nothing would have kept her alive, no treatment of any sort.

[...] The great question, then, is why those portions of the self would — and do — continue their terribly destructive ways, even to the point of bringing about their own death — for if allowed to, I think, death would be the end result, the final step along their chosen path.

[...] She’d cried several times as we talked — mourning most of all, I thought, that she would probably never get home again, see the house and grounds, and so on. [...] By 4:25 she still hadn’t had a session, and I didn’t think she would.

[...] Jeff said an operation would be needed on the knee to correct the condition.

[...] If it were allowed to continue as it is, it would have disintegrated on both sides, and to some good extent you would have failed, in that you would not have helped them as much as you could have had you been wiser. And you would have deprived yourselves of what they had to give.

A meeting together once a month for the purpose of answering their questions, explaining our material, would be most beneficial. This would not be a social affair however, per se, and that should be clearly understood. [...]

[...] He would, she said, be only too pleased to speak to us and be of help; he would speak now for hours, Jane said, were it not for the work involved on our parts.)

[...] They have been reading some of the early material and now want to attend a regular session, so arrangements were made whereby they would witness the 247th session. [...]

Without my books, Ruburt’s books would not be the same. He would not have written them. It is impossible to say what he would have written. His books would not have shown the ability that they do now, however. [...]

[...] They think that if they had their own supersoul they would have far better sense than Ruburt, and they would use me as if I were a magic genie. [...]

[...] This morning Jane began to exclaim over the improvement in her vision—her left eye would “click in” as she put it, and her sight would be sharp. [...]

[...] For myself, I listed the following before the session, as I’d promised Seth last time I would:

[...] Seth told me I would become a very well-known painter; Ruburt, he said, knew nothing about artists’ agents or their locations in New York City, he said for the record, adding that there is an agent on 62nd street who can be of great help to me. [...] Seth also said that my work would become known partly because of the source of inspiration for some of it—the visions I have that grow out of these sessions.

(Seth told me that as the years passed and these sessions continued both Jane and I would become more and more sure that he is what he says he is—an energy personality essence. The evidence would pile up.

[...] He also said that we would conduct a series of tests with the Gallaghers, involving objects, and that they would be successful.)

(In talking about his voyages, Seth said that we would have to bear with Ruburt now, because Ruburt—Jane—knew very little about geography; this I can vouch for. [...]

[...] Theoretically only, with drugs it would be possible to be lost within an idea, caught in its electromagnetic reality, and forced to follow the ramifications and developments of the idea in various guises. The value fulfillment system would be changed. There would be development within that system, but you would be lost to your own system.

[...] The personality structure simply would not take the transition.

[...] The alarmed personality would quickly return. [...]

[...] You would not have a stationary station to return to.

[...] He does not do this at meals, but the small snacks that he would ordinarily want, he does not take. [...] This is important, for to him running is a happy, spontaneous activity, and he has blocked the impulse at times rather consciously because he feared he could not do it, that it would hurt or that he would look silly.

He is seldom aware that that impulse is even there, so I want him to look for the impulse whenever a situation would seem to call for that motion, and he will find it… other impulses he is now becoming aware of. [...] This includes the impulses to sink down upon his knees when the occasion warrants it, and to rest upon his hands when the occasion would warrant it.

[...] I would not even tell Ruburt ahead of time (humorously), but even I need the tape in the recorder.

[...] Getting up and down from the floor, as I knew it would, reawakened muscular memory, you see, and this in turn knocked at the door of his consciousness, jarring him into new recognitions. [...]

[...] It was hardly a momentous affair, yet it meant that Ruburt could forget his physical problems to a considerable extent, stop worrying about whether he would have to go to the bathroom, or how to get there, or when people would leave so he could get there, and so the evening was effectively altered for the better.

Even if you think the body does have something wrong with it, then the necessary adjustments would be made in another kind of time that in Framework 1 would take no time at all—or, the amount of time you thought required.

He resolved that he would refrain from such projections for the evening, and he did. [...]

[...] You did not lecture him, for example—simply stated your recognition of behavior that you knew he would not want to continue, and was trying to break.

[...] Knowing those coordinates would of course be very important, but the other realities would still remain nonrealities to you unless you changed your primary focus. [...]

(“I feel that a whole mass of people would visualize a pyramid in their imagination,” Jane said, “then through their chanting, the use of certain vowels and pitches, they actually changed the air where that building was going to be. [...] The noise of the chant was like something that you’d use to turn on this instrument—when the chant got to a certain pitch it turned on this instrument; and it somehow intensified and focused sound to what we would call an incredible degree —broke it down and then focused it in certain directions.”

[...] In one way of speaking you have (in quotes) “not yet” developed the proficiency, with sound that would now allow for the building of structures such as those we described in the last session.

[...] Some of these would automatically open up many doors, leading to as yet undiscovered secrets—but only for those who understood the use of sound.

If you would travel within yourselves, you would find some subjective awareness, some glint of recognition, that would give you a hint of what I mean. [...]

[...] Unfortunately, your world would fit in one of his Saturday afternoons—if he knew what a Saturday afternoon was. [...]

[...] Otherwise, I would not come here so often. [...]

Ruburt would not let me take advantage of it because he does not like brandy, but if it were here! [...]