“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I (Jane pointed to herself) you see, would not necessarily give this same advice to someone else. [...] Apparent causes came and went, and would continue to do so had he not—with, my friend, your help and mine—found the master cause.

[...] He understood it, it would seem, of a sudden, but this was only a crystallization of knowledge. The habit of fear would have finally been reflected here in our sessions. [...]

There are many other experiences encountered in projections and in ordinary living, you see, that are not translated into physical terms, for in physical terms they would have no meaning. The basic assumptions behind them would not be understandable in physical terms.

[...] Had he not learned it, there would have been further difficulties. [...]

[...] It would be a good idea therefore to have a general mental outline of any particular questions you would like to ask him.

In the early days when I first spoke to you, you would not have understood things that I tell you now. [...]

[...] You would succeed if you use it habitually.

[...] You should also probably make extra note(s) to recall your dreams in case the meeting is not as conscious and deliberate as you would like.

The body is equipped, ideally again now, to rid itself of any diseases, and to maintain its stability into what you would call advanced old age, with only a gradual overall change. At its best, however, the change would bring about spiritual alterations. [...] In these ideal terms, death would involve a closing down of your [physical] house; it would not be crumbling about you.

[...] You would call it mindless, since it would seem not to reason. [...] In your terms they would seem to be like sleepwalkers, yet their physical abilities surpassed yours. [...]

[...] Complete physicians, as mentioned earlier,⁹ would be persons who understood the true nature of the body and its own potentials — persons who would therefore transmit such ideas to others and encourage them to trust the validity of the body. [...]

[...] In the physical state, in what you would call the waking state, these individuals slept. To you, comparatively speaking, their waking activities would seem dreamlike, and yet they behaved with great natural physical grace, allowing the body to function to capacity. [...]

[...] If you could understand, that faith would be sufficient. The wrinkles in your relationship with Prentice would drop away, or that relationship would naturally and smoothly change into another, if that was the best solution.

[...] Our meek acceptance of the deal, I’m afraid, would only lead to more of the same. This would surely drive me out of publishing if I let that happen. [...]

If you really understood your own intents and purposes, then you would see how faithfully they were met (emphatically). [...]

They have been conservative in many ways—but neither have they exploited Ruburt’s abilities, and neither have they made any attempt to tamper with the message, and some houses would have. [...]

The experiment that would transform your world would operate upon the basic idea that you create your own reality according to the nature of your beliefs, and that all existence was blessed, and that evil did not exist in it. If these ideas were followed individually and collectively, then the evidence of your physical senses would find no contradiction. They would perceive the world and existence as good.

(Now that we could relax a little, however, we had every confidence that Seth would easily resume work on Chapter Eleven of his book, even though Jane hasn’t looked at it for quite a while now. [...]

[...] For some time they may indeed inhabit such an environment, until they learn through their own experience that existence demands development, and that such a heaven would be sterile, boring, and indeed “deadly.”

[...] There is one point I would like to mention here: In all cases, the individual creates his experience. [...]

[...] In the 198th session, Seth said she would receive a letter from her publisher by the next Saturday. [...] We have yet to receive any word on our kitchen enlargement, which Seth also predicted would be settled by the Saturday after the 198th session.

(In the 200th session, Seth said Jane’s publisher, Frederick Fell, would be hurt by Jane’s demands for action, but would cover it with a cosmopolitan air. [...]

[...] I hoped Seth would comment on the dream.

[...] She had not been notified by the magazine that it would be. [...]

[...] The work, however, would not have been right for you, but upside down in a fashion, because with your knowledge before, say, our sessions, your particular blend of psychic abilities and writing abilities would not have developed; your painting would have lacked, in a way that would be quite noticeable to you. [...]

[...] In the first (on April 3, 1979), you are with an exotic move star, who would not ordinarily appear in a grocery store or a supermarket (actually a five-and-dime in the dream). [...]

(9:25.) Your idea of development and growth, again, implies a one-line march toward perfection, so it would be difficult for you to imagine the kind of order that pervades. Ultimately a completed or finished God, or All That Is, would end up smothering His creation. [...]

Now in that infinite becoming, there are states that you would call perfected, but had creativity rested within them, all of experience would be destined to grind to a halt. [...]

(Before the session tonight I discussed two questions with Jane that I hoped Seth would consider. [...]

There would be an order in which only predestination could rule, each part fitting in with a particular order without freedom to change the pattern given it. [...]

[...] It is as if you threw a ball, and could only follow the ball three inches away in space—then the ball would seem to vanish to you. The action would therefore seem completed. You would think it idiotic to image what happened to the ball when youcould see it no longer, for habit would work in such a way that the disappearance of the ball would seem natural and normal, and a part of the nature of things.

[...] I wondered whether Seth would pick up any impressions connected with Linda, but he confined himself to impressions that originated yesterday as far as Jane and I were concerned. [...]

(After supper this evening young Don Wilbur informed us that he and his wife would not be able to witness the session as scheduled. [...]

[...] Yours is not the only system that exists within what you would call the same space as the physical universe. [...]

I have said that if five people seemed to view this glass, then what you would have in actuality would be five individual physical glasses. [...]

[...] When I said that Mark would join me in a demonstration, I meant that Mark would join me in a demonstration.

[...] Other attacks, if he allows them to continue, would not be as difficult, but they would be unnecessary.

[...] He would give us certain times during evening hours when the three of us would try to contact each other telepathically, and make notes of whatever impressions we might receive.

[...] It would get its own way by pretending to give in. [...] It knew the change would be disastrous and in fact, impossible.

[...] Now I would like to continue here, but I imagine your hands are tired.

Usually this occurred when alcohol relaxed the ego, and the results would then make the ego tighten its control. [...]

There is very little danger that Ruburt’s ego would be suppressed. [...]

[...] Some are so alien that you would not recognize them, nor would I, as any indication of conscious life.

[...] In others the aggressive instincts, as they are called, were almost automatically channeled toward what you would call constructive areas.

[...] If you knew how to handle energy effectively, if you fully realized that your thoughts were the motivating factor, were the realities, then you would not need a physical existence, for that is the reason for the physical environment.

Many who would seem to set a very poor example for others help others for exactly that reason. [...]

The alterations of consciousness would give you a rather unique freedom that I cannot put into words, a perspective and a viewpoint above reality, that would show in your work. [...]

I would like you to seriously embark upon the hobby of out-of-body travel. [...]

[...] This would be a conscious, alert experience. [...]

[...] Observe particularly the colors that would be observable to you in many out-of-body states. [...]

(Before the session I explained that I didn’t think feelings of hopelessness had much to do with it, since if the background fears were dispensed with the body would automatically right itself, and those feelings would vanish. [...]

He yielded to the impulse to say yes for the interview, where earlier he would not have. His fears would have prevented it. [...]

[...] He felt that you would go along, but on your own would prefer no company. [...]

(I would add that much of my present concern seemed to have been brought to a conscious focus by an even that took place last Saturday evening, when Jane spontaneiously asked the Bumbalos over for a drink. [...]

(“I’d sacrifice every cent we’ve got if it would get us that,” I said, “because then we’d both be free. I’d sacrifice this house and live in a cheap apartment on Water Street again, if it would help, and we just had royalty money to live on.” [...] “The funny thing is, if we were that free yet committed, we wouldn’t have to worry about money because we’d automatically do the right things that would get us more whenever we needed it, just by doing the things we love to do....”

[...] The whole nature of your independent and joint creativity involved a retreat from the world that you both enjoyed, followed by, in the case of books, an expression in the world—in which, however, the books appeared in your stead: a way of life that involved usual publicity—lectures and so forth—seemed to threaten that kind of existence to Ruburt, in which he feared expression itself would be diverted, simplified, so that the message that finally did get through would not be the same message at all as the original one. [...]

If those abilities did lie in other directions, he would have felt strong impulses to hold sessions on the behalf of others, and would long ago have taken that course, so here again there are misunderstandings. [...]

[...] In later years, as books were finished, the matter of publicity would rise anew, but his relative success meant that the issues stayed in the air, so to speak. [...]

[...] If you went out in a grand manner, publicizing the books, appearing on shows, you could indeed quicken the pace—but in so doing other intangibles would also be altered. There is a great difference between keeping the people always in mind, and playing to the crowd for whatever reasons, but there would be a tendency for purposes to be altered.

It is not that those challenges would not be met, but in meeting them you would end up with a different kind of work and experience.

[...] But many put off spending more money, say, for a hardcover book, because this would involve a commitment involving the ideas themselves.

I have nothing against bestsellers, and as I predicted the books will succeed financially beyond anything you would have thought—but over a period of time, in a dependable fashion, and in a way that will also best be suited to the temper of the times. [...]

[...] You would have felt freer had you tried to freelance; for freelancing, while it would have produced long range its own problems would have allowed you a greater sense of freedom.

[...] Earlier Ruburt would have become alarmed and frightened, felt you were being negative, and discouraged at any verbal and emotional encounter with the feelings that you expressed, precisely because they brought into the open feelings of his. This time however he recognized that earlier he would have brooded and gone to bed, leaving you to brood alone at his ways.

[...] You also felt that this would equate you in your mother’s eyes with your father. [...] Your mother did think of Ruburt as a threat, for she recognized at once that Ruburt would not encourage the tendencies that she herself respected.

[...] The prestige and money, tied to your mother’s hopes, could have led you into other channels of commercial art that would have led you completely astray as far as fine art is concerned.

[...] But a true medical profession would be, literally, a health profession. It would seek out people who were healthy and learn from them how to promote health, and not how to diagram disease.

(During her delivery Jane had also “picked up” that Seth would soon finish this third section, and that the first three sections would make up Part 1 of the book. [...]

In sense terms he would learn little about an orange, though he might be able to isolate its elements, predict where others might be found, theorize about its environment — but the greater “withinness” of the orange is not found any place inside of its skin either. [...]

[...] I would like to add here the “complete physician.”

There are several points I would like to make concerning psychological identity. [...]

[...] And yet because of the creative abilities of this mysterious dimension, more than inbreeding would be concerned, for it of itself could provide entirely fresh and new elements out of which further creativity could come.

(To me.) I speak to you as Joseph, and all unknowingly you react as Joseph; (leans forward) for Robert F. Butts alone, or Jane Roberts alone, would never have met me.

[...] There seems to be a situation that could arise, that would be highly unpleasant to him, and therefore to you.

[...] To many portions of the inner self then, what you would call a moment would correspond to an almost limitless number of moments, for even physical time has no meaning without experience without action.

For to the whole self all personalities that compose it exist simultaneously, and personalities that would appear to you as future personalities are experienced by the whole self in the same dimension as it experiences personalities that you would call past personalities. [...]

[...] I would suggest now that he seriously begin to schedule this with his daily activities. [...] And indeed, for your own edification your life in general will be much more comfortable within what I would call a short time; though to you this may be two years, before a noticeable change is apparent.

(Jane has resumed smoking again, and we wondered whether Seth would comment on this during the session. [...]