“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Seth:) Now, if you really believed what I said then, then you would bank upon yourselves. You would really trust yourselves. You would really know that you are an intimate part of the fabric of the universe; you would trust your abilities and bet upon yourselves. You would, without repressing anything, experience your own reality without impediments. [...] For one thing, there is no such thing as heaven, and for another, if there were you would be bored. [...]

If it were not for television, you would not know much about Anita Bryant, you would not know much about the Reverend Jones, who believed he was God and led (in quotes, out of quotes), “his followers into folly”. If it were not for television and technology and the official line of consciousness, you would not know of the fanaticism of Anita Bryant and our Miss America, American apple pie, good religion and all the rest. [...]

[...] For if you were saints you would not be here. And if I were a saint I would not be here either. [...] Then certainly would she be bitter and cry.

[...] You are like a trans-species, as Ruburt would say. [...] Let there even be time for discord if that is what is needed, but never, and I know you would not, never impose an artificial ceiling of peace. [...]

I came this evening because we had a guest and also because you would know that I had not indeed deserted you. [...] Now, I do indeed give you my heartiest regards and wishes, and were it not for Ruburt’s wishes and the lateness of the hour and his concerns about the neighbors, I would continue. [...] Nevertheless, there is a point here that my friend Ruburt would do well to take to mind. [...]

[...] I would not use it. [...]

Now, I would clear up one or two small points. [...]

[...] I am sorry that I do not move tables as well as AA, but were I interested in moving tables, I can assure that this one would fly through the window and end out in the middle of Water Street! [...]

Actual continued success on the other hand would have been a definite experience that you could have met together, say then another tour. [...] The slowdown however gave him ambiguous feelings, lest success on his part meant further time from your own painting, which you would resent; so that in that respect continued success at tours would be at the expense of your valued painting time.

[...] It also represented a slowdown in the activity from Prentice, in that he feels that if Tam were really interested in his book he would keep better track of it.

A side point here, but with some reference: his mother always told him that he would destroy those he loved, and he feared that any success of his might show you up if you had not achieved your own. [...]

[...] For to carry the idea through, he would have to stop completely.

[...] He is not as healthy as he would like to be, because his physical mobility is impaired. He does enjoy many of the most necessary elements of health, but he would like a higher interest, greater rewards in terms of health. He does this by mentally changing over his account (emphatically) from Framework 1, where he is indeed improving through effort, trial and error and determination—but improving at a far slower rate than he would like. [...]

[...] To some extent that money came because you trusted that it would. [...]

[...] Otherwise you would be drawing salaries. [...]

[...] You were changing from old attitudes to ones that would allow you to enjoy financial abundance, without feeling guilty on the one hand, or resentful on the other; to a concentration upon abundance rather that what money the government might take away from you. [...]

[...] If you would but understand, this is the truth that would make you free. [...]

[...] I can see your potentials and your abilities and your promise—and you could see your own potentials and promise if you would open your inner eyes, if you would look within yourselves. [...]

But you are being given a road into yourselves that you would not have otherwise. And you are being given instruction that you would not have otherwise. [...]

I would prefer to be jolly with you. [...]

[...] On the one hand it represented a quite natural subconscious fear that when the father-creator (hyphenated) vanished, his issue would go along with him. On another level it stated indeed that the psychic reality of the family in a large manner would disappear from physical reality. [...]

You used up an unwarranted amount of energy at your mother’s. Symbolically you did not like to put on the storm windows, feeling that perhaps it would be the last time that you did so, and that you were sealing up the house. [...]

[...] There was nothing else he would do here. [...]

Now I would like to add some to the discussion we began in our last session.

[...] She is expressing a rage that she would not express in the past, and it will purify her and leave her free. Otherwise it would have blemished innumerable reincarnated selves, and prevented any of them from achieving fulfillment.

[...] He was always afraid that it would.

[...] (Pause.) He would have preferred daughters. [...]

She will not listen to reason, because reason would rob her of her rage, and all of her vitality is now in her rage. [...]

[...] Frank Watts would be aware of the approaching death of a previous child, for example, though not of the approaching death of Miss Callahan at this time. [...] For a while his energies were directed toward your plane in a strong, almost compulsive personal manner, and had Miss Callahan been ill then he would have known.

[...] Without them you would begin thinking of more severe changes that might be convenient some time but would only be disruptive now.

Any innovations such as building yourself shelves of some sort would be helpful also. [...] It would not be beneficial at this time for you to find other living quarters, and any changes or improvements you make here will pay off in many ways.

[...] I would have thought that you would have hit upon the entryway idea yourselves; something to keep your psychic energies contained, and again it is the feeling that the entryway gives you rather than the entryway itself, and the feeling that a desk and chair in another room gives Ruburt, rather than the desk and chair itself.

[...] But even if you did, the very experience of other-consciousness itself would supersede your living space. You would need another self, able to hold both lines of consciousness at once, lost in neither but maintaining footing in each. This would be a very difficult achievement in normal life in any sustained fashion.

That identity would contain the you that you have always known, and in no way threaten it. The new you would simply be more than you are now. You would just have another expansion of consciousness, another self-who-is-aware-of-being in the same way that — using an analogy, granted — the writer is aware of the self who lives, in those terms; is the self who lives while being in a position of some apartness, able to comment upon the life being lived.

[...] It means the further expansion of the concept of identity: “You” would not only be aware of the you that you have always known, in the same way that you are now, but a deeper sense of identity would also arise.

[...] Ordinarily Seth would have used those sessions to deliver work on “Unknown” Reality. [...]

[...] In this case the projections on the screen would be fully dimensional, aware of each viewer in each living room. (Pause.) Not only this, but the screen people would understand the relationship between you the viewer, and, say, the other viewers in the same town. Behind the scenes not only would the performers, as performers in all of the programs, all know each other, but the characters portrayed by them would know each other and be aware of each other’s roles in the programs, and even now and then stray into one another’s dramas.

If an inhabitant from another reality outside of your own physical system entirely were to visit it, and if “his” intelligence was roughly of the same degree as your own, he would still have to learn to focus his consciousness in the same way that you do, more or less, in order to perceive your world. He would have to alter his native focus and turn it in a direction that was foreign to him. In this way he could “pick up your station.”¹ There would be distortions, because even though he managed such manipulations he might not have the same kind of native physical structure as your own, of course, through which to receive and interpret those data his altered consciousness perceived.

[...] If for simplicity’s sake you think of other realities as different cities, then after you leave your own you would pass through the suburbs, then into the country, then after a time into other suburbs until you reached another metropolis. Here each metropolis would represent a conglomeration of consciousnesses operating within an overall general frequency of clearest focus, a high point of psychic communication and exquisite focus in the given kind of reality. [...]

From the point of view of the perceiver these would be unofficial events, and yet they could serve as important clues to the nature of reality. [...] From your point of view you could not pick up the grocer’s escapades and the symphony, for instance, if both came through at 8 o’clock in the evening, without switching from one to the other: You would have to choose which program you wanted.

Had he been living, he would have sought Ruburt out, you see, and they would have gotten along famously. You and James would also have been excellent friends. [...]

[...] Until Ruburt was at his desk this evening, he did not finally decide whether or not he would greet the strangers you knew had earlier tried to reach you. [...] In that case, the young woman would still have met someone who had a connection with him.

[...] Interesting, that this information would come to us just as Jane is preparing her James manuscript for Prentice.

[...] Personally, I do not think I would know her if we met.

[...] As I told Jane this evening after reading her list with her: No one, myself included, would have any right to expect another to pay a price such as her symptoms so that the other party would get anything out of the deal whatsoever. [...]

[...] If Ruburt knew that you were receiving no benefits, but only torment, from his symptoms, then he would give them up on the spot, because of his great loyalty to you, and because he would understand that he was hurting you beyond any benefits he gave.

[...] By session time I didn’t know whether Seth would blast us or praise us.)

There are satisfactions enjoyed by each of you, therefore, that would be like revelations of the most shattering kind to some others still in your space-time category.

[...] Seth answered my questions and while he was giving his general answer, other related questions would creep into my mind and these would immediately be answered by Seth. This happened so frequently that towards the end of the session, when I would think of a question I would have immediate confidence that it would be subsequently answered.

[...] If you would simply for once, and for once Joseph I am not referring to you particularly, if you would for once demonstrate an openness and a willingness to accept such data on its own basis, without insisting upon evidence from the regular senses, then and only then will you have evidence that the outer senses can recognize.

[...] Since Seth had stated that unscheduled sessions would be the exception, Jane and I were waiting for the regularly scheduled session of tomorrow, Wednesday.

[...] I also thought Jane would be overly tired. [...]

I would suggest even, as you did Joseph, a vacation air. [...] I would also suggest that he return to the back exercises. There is somewhat more here I would say, but I am being blocked.

A short morning walk would also benefit Ruburt; even though he would resent the loss of time he would more than make up for it.

[...] On Sunday we learned that Bill was in the hospital with a collapsed lung that was also blistered, and would have to remain there for several days. [...]

As far as my mention of May 23rd in connection with Miss Callahan, this was not a distortion; and the crisis, which was a psychio-physical crisis, came as I said that it would.

[...] In his own way Augustus Two would prove to her that she was married to quite an unusual, powerful man, a paragon of virility and strength; but to do so Augustus One must appear as Augustus Two to her. [...] Augustus One would first develop a splitting headache, and then this alien from outer space would arrive: the commanding male that Augustus One was not.

[...] In the next moment the great plea for help would surface, the love of his wife and child. In one sentence Augustus would make a statement, and ten minutes later make it clear with another remark that the first fact had not been true.

[...] He believed that he was utterly powerless as an individual, that despite all his efforts he would come to nothing, go unnoticed. [...]

He does all the things and says all the things that Augustus One would dearly love to do and say, with only certain safeguards. [...]

[...] It took courage to set yourself the particular problems that you did for this existence, otherwise you would have tackled so many at one time, so to speak. [...] If you knew this and if you knew what the problems were at this point, the problems would not be as real and the solutions would not be as valid. It would be like cheating in an examination. [...]

[...] And neither of you would have agreed to the separation nor would the separation have taken place until both of you realized that it was time for this event to occur. [...]

[...] You would gain little information, and yet you are in the same position attempting to understand the nature of the dreaming state with your waking consciousness. [...]

[...] For information is given to you not only in your waking, conscious, alert daily life but in what you would call your unconscious sleep state. [...]

(I said the book would be accepted this month, and that some changes would be asked for. [...]

[...] Other personalities would not.

(“Would psychoanalysis or psychiatric help be of use in such cases?”)

(Jane said this was not the answer she would have given in her book on idea construction. [...]

(Long pause at 9:22.) Now nothing is all that simple, so there would be changes in his attitudes: He would tell himself, for example, that television or whatever would fritter away his time, or at other occasions other fears would rise so that the Sinful Self would think “Suppose such activity succeeded only too well, leading whole groups of people away from established systems of belief?” (Long pause.) There seemed to be little resolution. [...]

[...] Again, on occasion he promised himself that if he walked normally he would be only too glad to perform in such ways. [...] He was also afraid that spontaneously he might want to do such things after all, as if his spontaneous self would work against his better interests. [...]

Creativity often deals with material that is not known, not cut-and-dried, not even immediately useful, perhaps—so Ruburt would feel, for example, sometimes at least, that poetry was not responsible, or even that his own spontaneous activities were not responsible unless they were immediately useful in practical terms. [...]

(I would like to mention here another rather halfhearted experiment I tried while on vacation. [...] However, by the time we left York Beach, I had tried to suggest to my subconscious, in line with the material we have obtained to date on the value of expectation, that the car would consume less oil than on the outward journey. [...] Again, if tonight’s session developed, I thought I would ask Seth whether I was correct, or merely the victim of some overoptimistic wishes.

[...] I also decided it to the extent that if management insisted I increase my hours, I would leave the plant and try developing some other recent ideas I have acquired on making a living, one of them being teaching art by, perhaps, starting my own school on a small scale at first.

(I had thought that if there was a session tonight, and it was a short one, I would wait to ask Seth what transpired with Miss Callahan within the above time period. [...]

[...] During the day–Jane’s vacation has another week to run, while mine ended today–Jane had remarked several times that she doubted there would be a session tonight. [...]

[...] And yet under many circumstances you would not be aware of it, for within the room if it sailed about evenly, the perspective would still be the same. And unless you looked out of the windows you would notice no change. But if the windows were sealed and closed, you would not know the difference, and so until you learn to look out of the windows to the inner selves, then you will not realize what your own environment consists of. [...]

In your terms, you are hanging out in space with nothing to support you and our friend here would be terrified of falling. You know that the physical floor does not support you, but you must pretend that the physical floor supports you or you would be dizzier than you are. [...]

[...] My heart would not do anyone much good, however, for you could not find it. [...]

[...] You are all developing and growing, whether or not you are consciously aware of it, and when you gather together there are beneficial developments that you do not understand, and that I am not prepared to explain to you this evening, for it would take too much of your time. [...]