“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It would do no harm to invite the man for a drink in your home, though I admit that to either of you the suggestion amounts to a treason of sorts. It would do you, Joseph, no harm to allow him in your house, where you could size him up for yourself. [...]

[...] The gesture would be well taken. One sign of plain friendliness on your parts would not open you up in any way. [...]

[...] If he had set out, and he didn’t, to plan a process that would enable him to use his abilities to the fullest in his writing and other fields in which he is interested, and yet to discipline himself so that he did not scatter his abilities, if he had set out on a plan toward maturity, and to set definite controls upon his sometimes too fast, out-of-proportion responses, he could not have found a better path than the one which he is now following.

[...] The child took literally the mother’s statements that though a cripple, she could walk at night, would turn on the gas jets, and so forth.

She insisted that a shower and quick supper would fix him up like new. We agreed that she and Jim would be at our apartment around eight.

[...] I’d explained to Ann that I could give her no guarantee of any kind as to what would happen. [...] Then to top it off, at about eight Phil dropped in, explaining that he was in town for the night and would like to attend a session!

[...] It will lead you into knowledge that you would not have known otherwise, for you would not have sought it so vigorously. [...]

[...] He emphasized that she would be happier in another room and said: “I believe you have a fairly small sunny parlor. [...] Seth said, for example, that she had worked in a five-and-dime store with a girl friend, and that a visit from this friend would be helpful. [...]

If she were to accept the real validity of the sessions, then she would feel obligated to enter into the affair. [...] I say this because I would indeed, Marleno, be more helpful, as I have tried to be with the Jesuit and the cat lover. [...]

[...] For emotional contacts are what we are working with, and when you block off the contact from your end, then I would not presume, you see, to attempt to break it. My own code of ethics would not allow it.

(This in itself would be quite unusual, since she had also witnessed the 193rd, last week; never before had Lorraine witnessed sessions so close together by far. I then had the accompanying thought that when I told Seth I had no envelope test, he would suggest that he try something else.)

[...] If one looked at the front of the house from the outside, he would see a single door in front, in the center of the house; but this was a door opening into a hallway, with apartments opening off on either side, and thus would not be in the middle of a front room.

[...] It would be impossible to be consciously aware of all of the infinitesimal details that exist in even one life; your consciousness would be so full and cluttered up that you would be unable to make choices, or to use free will.

It would be even more difficult to try to handle the information of many lives at one time. In your terms, “it” takes time to think, and you would be so caught up in thinking itself, that action would be impossible. [...]

[...] Their implications were that God loved Jane more than he loved them, and would reveal this in heaven. [...]

(Long pause.) From approximately 50 million to 30 million years ago¹ there were innumerable species that would now seem to you to be mutated forms. [...] That early rapport, that early mixture, would later be remembered in myths of gods in animal form. [...]

[...] It would not be programmed any more than necessary by “instinct.” [...] Its survival was so linked to the rest of nature that it would of necessity always have to return to that base. [...]

[...] The god images would change as consciousness did. [...]

[...] The larger experiments involved the production of a species that would be a part of the earth, and yet become aware co-creators of it. [...]

[...] According to logical thought and language you may say: “I am going to a party today because I was invited last week, and said I would attend.” [...] That does not make sense in terms of logical thought or language, for in the last example cause and effect would exist simultaneously — or worse, the effect would exist before the cause.

[...] Otherwise the hub alone would get you nowhere, and your “moment” would not even give you a bumpy ride.

[...] It can roll backward as well, but in your intentness you have a forward direction in mind, and to go backward would seem to divert you from your purpose.

[...] Past, present, and future merge in a seemingly bizarre alliance in which, were you waking, you would lose all mental footing. [...]

[...] If you did not have some trust in yourselves, some appreciation of your own characteristics, you would not have allowed yourselves to develop and use your abilities at all—or, for that matter, you would not have been able to form a vital long-term relationship with another person.

You felt that you must to some extent at least protect yourselves against your neighbors—who as both of you said often “Would take up all of your time without a qualm”—neighbors or friends who you felt would not understand your goals, however good their intent. [...]

(We hoped Seth would consider some of the questions this evening. [...]

[...] Ruburt knew he would not take a full-time job either. [...]

(I asked Jane if Seth would comment on my throat difficulty. [...] The pendulum told me yesterday that it was because I was concerned that our finishing Psyche this year would give us more money, which in turn would mean that our taxes next April would be higher —a ridiculous worry, I agree, and quite in keeping with my past attitudes about money and taxes. [...]

[...] I know you understand this—but carried to the extreme, that resentment would allow you barely enough to live on, and you actually would refuse to make money, because you so resent the high taxes connected with a good living. [...]

[...] She hoped Seth would comment further.

[...] For Frank was not complacent, but feared that age would make him so—hence a conflict. [...]

[...] If you had made a stand earlier however you would have saved yourself time and effort. It would be most beneficial for you to do some painting outdoors, or to walk outdoors.

I did you see make my earlier suggestion to Ruburt, also in the hopes that it would initiate the sort of discussion in which you have just been involved.

[...] (Smile.) Were I in your circumstances I do not know if I would believe me either. [...]

[...] You would do much better by being frank with him, for he becomes irritated and resentful when he feel you are upset, and is left to guess at the cause. [...]

You would make your creativity real, in sense terms. Linden would not. He would keep it safely inside a “play” structure — not play necessarily in basic terms, but a structure in which he would work with models, cleverly, never applying his creative abilities in certain ways to a practical reality. They would be outside, safely, in that context.

(I reminded her that I hoped Seth would comment on the old photograph of her in connection with probable realities, although now I could see that it would take him longer to develop answers than I’d thought it would. [...]

[...] The mind would be harnessed so that it would not ask too many questions. [...]

[...] Finally you grew outside of the structure.¹⁰ When you did, you made the artificial division in which good art would not sell — but you would do it anyway.

You would have an individual who displayed within himself [or herself] all of those great abilities known to the race, fulfilled according to his own unique temper — the artist, mathematician, athlete, the inventor — all the extraordinary qualities of creaturedom; the emotional realities would be used to their capacity, and any of the racial qualities or characteristics of the species would be given their complete freedom.

Wisdom and foolishness would be seen as aspects, one of the other. Religion and science would each be unhampered by dogma in such an individual. [...]

[...] Within the experience of your race as you know it lie all the patterns that would point to some fully developed human being, in which all inherent tendencies were given full play and came to fruition.

[...] Dr. Menahem very favorably compares the Seth material with a number of psychological disciplines, and I told Jane I hoped his feature would show her that the general validity of her work would continue to grow. She liked the article, and agreed that her work would continue to grow in influence.

I must remind you once more that all time happens simultaneously, so the confused belief about punishment now, in retaliation for past action would actually be meaningless, since in simultaneous time all actions would be occurring at once.

Each life, regardless of its nature, possesses it own unique vantage point, and an individual may sometimes take an obscure or a long-lasting disease simply to present himself or herself with experience that most others would shun. [...]

[...] Using this third sense, this experience would be expanded. If he so chose, he would also feel the past amd future essence of each living thing within his range.”

[...] Any precognitive experience would entail use of this Inner Sense. [...]

[...] Still sitting across the table from me, she remarked that if Seth had promised, earlier, to maintain the road to the house for us, she would have gone through with the deal. I jokingly answered that if Seth had done something about the traffic noise rolling up the mountainside, I would have gone through with the purchase. [...]

[...] It was simply whether the heating system, which I had accepted without alarm as being okay, would have performed better for us than the previous tenant. [...] If so, they would have made the house too expensive for us.

With the present heating system, high expectations would have increased its efficiency. Low expectations would have decreased its efficiency. [...]

[...] You remain as uncommitted to a united community, and this has something to do with your aversion to buying property which would tend to tie you down to a community, even while it would also fulfill a need to own land.

It chose an environment where hardship would automatically teach a certain discipline, and yet one in which the psychic nature of the circumstances would also permit intuitive creative growth. [...]

Now I was not able to give you any information, particularly at that time, but this did have something to do with my rather vehement recording, which I hoped would have the effect of discouraging Dr. Instream. [...] He would have to face the problem, and if it was circumvented in one way it could have returned at a later date.

[...] He was terrified of the vulnerability to pain, and yet he felt the ability to face and handle the pain was something he would run away from otherwise; that he had done everything to avoid it, and that it was one of life’s physical realities that he had refused to admit. So he felt a taste of it would not hurt him.

He also felt it would help him understand to some extent his mother’s actions, and rid him of the hatred he had of her. [...] He did not really believe, intellectually, what I told him, that you form your own reality, and he felt that the symptoms would also help. [...]

It is reasonable, logical and even necessary at this time that you do not parade yourselves, giving sessions as one would put on a vaudeville act. Nevertheless when an honest request is made either to attend a session or to hold a session, and when you know that the person making such a request is sincere, and if other conditions are appropriate, then by all means it would behoove you to meet with the request.

It goes without saying that had Ruburt known beforehand the subject matter of the session, he would have blocked it. [...]

[...] However I did not feel it wise to make a point of telling you because this knowledge in itself would have set up blocks, and on both of your parts.

Would you like a break?

[...] It seems to many that left alone people would not want to work at all, and that people’s pleasures would lead them into frivolous behavior. In actuality, of course, people’s pleasure, if it were understood and pursued, would lead to far more fulfilling and productive work, or working lives, since individuals would automatically know how to choose productive activities that brought them pleasure, and that were then pursued for their own sakes. [...]

[...] I said I wanted more material on responsibility, that I wanted Seth to discuss it so it would help free her. [...] “No,” I answered, “but it would be nice to have it in order to learn that your only responsibility is to get rid of the idea of responsibility. [...]

[...] Whatever—both cases would involve time and interruptions, a threat to what I see as my main course in life these days, painting. And that threat would be the main cause behind my self-injury: guilt at feeling that way. [...]

[...] The mail would have to go, at least until she’d resolved such an issue. [...]

“Without shortcuts or even average progression, any such Self A would travel Thread A along the narrow line toward infinity. At some point, however, Thread A would turn into Thread B. In the same manner, Thread B would turn into Thread C and so forth. At some inconceivable point, all of the threads would be traversed. Now on Thread A, Self A would not be aware, in his present, of the ‘future’ selves on the other threads. [...]

“In actuality, following the image through, and strictly as an analogy, there would also be an infinite number of threads both above and below your own, all part of one inconceivably miraculous webwork. Yet each thread would not be one-dimensional but of many dimensions, and conceivably, if you knew how, there would be ways of leapfrogging from one thread to the other. You would not be forced to follow any particular thread in a single-line fashion.

“Your time—past, present, and future—as you conceive it, would be experienced entirely as present to many of these personalities. However, your past, present, and future would be experienced entirely as past to still other personality structures.

“Had It not solved it, All That Is would have faced insanity, and there would have been, literally, a reality without reason and a universe run wild.

[...] It should be simple as an analogy to consider the next point, where the figure in a painting would not only have a certain consciousness for example but would have other freedoms also; and this would give you a limited conception of what is involved in the creation of other planes of more varied scope.

[...] After so many sessions I would think that he would be reassured.

[...] The smallest minute first portion represented the will and vitality of all the entities that would ever dwell upon the earth that would come after.

[...] One of the main reasons for my avoiding it was the necessity of giving prerequisite material so that the answer would be at least partially comprehensible.

(I reminded Jane that since she belonged to no religion now [having left the Roman Catholic Church when she was 19 years old], her mystical nature would choose other avenues of expression than religious ones; as in these sessions, for instance. Perhaps, I suggested, it would turn out that one of her main endeavors would be to enlarge the boundaries of “ordinary” mystical experience itself, to show it operating outside of accepted religious frameworks. I added that within those religious boundaries, mystics across the centuries and throughout the world have given voice to the same ideas in almost the same words, and that as an “independent” mystic Jane was in a position to approach the situation from a freer; more individual standpoint: She would be able to add fresh insights to what is certainly one of the species’ all-pervasive, unifying states. [...]

[...] He cannot turn himself or his abilities off … His activities would be strong in whatever level of activity he focused his energy, exaggerated in terms of others by comparison. [...] So that expression would come through poetry also with its “psychedelic” experience, regardless of specific sessions….

[...] As events worked out, Seth was halfway through Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality before I realized that these supplementary notes would work well as the first appendix in the first volume. [...]

[...] He tried to hold himself down because, he felt, the energy was so strong that allowed freedom in almost any direction, it would bring him into conflict with the mores and ways of other people.