“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The events of time in such a case from the outside might seem to change drastically, while those inside our time structures would not notice any change, in a Framework 1 level. Your historical actuality and Nebene’s would never collide. [...]

(The sketch of Nebene is rather successful and would make a good painting. [...]

[...] He began by thinking in practical terms in Framework 1: you could—could—do it now, though it would be difficult; but you could go to Florida. [...]

[...] I would like such suggestions inserted when he is already in a Framework 2 situation, for they will have double benefit there.

[...] I would here suggest very few fried foods. [...] I would suggest less heavy foods. [...]

(I was glad to hear this, and had been wondering whether Seth would give me this suggestion without my asking. [...]

[...] I could have given you all of these suggestions at an earlier date, but you would not have been ready for them. [...]

[...] I would say her eyes were open about half of the time until next break. [...]

So the hard fact would seem to be that there is no God. There would seem to be a point of departure. Either you believe in the myth or you believe what would seem to be hard fact.

(Jane’s cold was not much better, and as session time drew near she said that unless Seth helped her considerably there would be no session, for she was having difficulty talking.

(Just before the session was due, I mentioned two things I hoped Seth would discuss: his dates for Miss Callahan, and the car experiment on my part, described on page 302. [...]

[...] Consciously he decided to expect that the car would be fixed, despite your truly gloomy semipredictions.

[...] During our short break I mentioned that it would be nice if Seth would comment on my experience with my paintings this noon. [...]

[...] The girl’s violet eyes stared down at me as though they would move behind their violet glasses at any moment. [...]

(I didn’t linger to confront my own handiwork, but hurried to get my stuff together and leave the house; I wanted to stop at a bank to get a book updated, and I knew this would make me a few minutes late getting to room 330. [...]

[...] I told you that as a result of the sessions both your and Ruburt’s creative energies would be enhanced, so to some extent that acceleration was responsible for what you “saw.” [...]

[...] If every reader of this book changed his or her attitudes, even though not one law was rewritten, tomorrow the world would have changed for the better. The new laws would follow.

[...] Of course: The change of seasons meant that while I would be doing my own work on the book, the geese would be flying south. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, we knew that Seth would soon finish Mass Events; he’s been very neatly summing it up in recent sessions.

[...] You must take small practical steps, often when you would prefer to take giant ones — but you must move (underlined) in the direction of your ideals through action. [...]

Oftentimes he was not sure what his next book would be, but overall he never doubted there would be a next book. [...]

He felt that your needs and desires would be fairly reasonable; that is, he approved of them. He did not think you would suddenly become ostentatious, for example. [...]

(We had no questions for Seth in particular, hoping that he would just continue where he’d left off last session. [...]

[...] Yet Ruburt began to feel more and more that you and he would have whatever money was needed for any of your wants or desires.

He did therefore develop a strong conscientious self, so that these abilities would be put to good purposes, and not frittered away. Until he was absolutely certain that he was on the right track, he would hold back, as indeed he has—but only to a certain degree, as indeed he has.

[...] (Jane raised an arm over her head, full length.) Following the analogy the times, the physical times in which they would ordinarily have occurred, would have ended, say, here—(Jane indicated a spot six inches above the lighter)—but the energy was so great that it catapulted some of these events, displacing what you think of as time, so that they appeared, as Hitler did, where theoretically, now, they should not have.

I told you that financially he would do well. [...]

[...] The realization of Nebene would automatically lead you to question, to bring to your conscious attention characteristics that otherwise you may not have recognized; blocks to your creativity, and yet strong drives toward the nature of truth, from which your creativity also springs.

“I saw last week as Bill started to speak, the class swerved, and everybody looked and listened to the new teacher, hoping that he would have the new answers; that if you couched your questions differently he would give you the answers. That somebody would say, here the answers are, this is it. Joel has seen this as people would shift from his group to my group. I’ve seen it as Buddy would come from here to the other guy. [...]

[...] Not only would I not say it of me, I would not say it of you, and I would not like it, and I do not like it when you say it of yourself. [...]

[...] You to try to experience the fantastic validity of this moment, or any moment in your life, in all its ramifications, and in all its dimensions, what a great thing that would be, and how much you’d have to tell other people. And if you could experience that purely and freely, despite anything I say, you know, on your own, completely, with all barriers down, how fantastic that would be for any of you, myself included, ‘cause it’s something that we all reach for. [...]

“But I would think that Arnold as much as anyone else has been browbeaten by the stereotype. [...]

[...] Those histories did not tell of the human beings who had to know what insects would crawl or fly from one end of a continent to another, so that they could be captured and roasted and eaten. They did not speak of the human beings who had to know what migrations of animals would roam through their land — and when and where, and at what phase of the moon — lest they starve….

[...] Very few would take this amount of their camouflage time to deal with it. [...] For many it would be difficult to maintain discipline and balance, while allowing for the necessary freedoms that are involved. [...]

(With a smile:) “Your particular conscious and subconscious viewpoints are fluent enough so that they do not hamper the basic material, or cover it with the rock of dogmatism so that it becomes impossible to find … Actually, what I needed were personalities who were not fanatics along any line — including scientific fanatics who would object as forcibly to the reincarnational data as religious fanatics would object to some of the other material.

(A group of us — Alex, Warren,² and others — had come over to Jane and Rob’s for a casual get-together, and also to talk about that week’s class, which seemed to be one of the “milestone” classes that happen occasionally.³ During the conversation, Alex said that the rise of literacy in the world would spread Seth’s ideas on a scale that had never previously been possible. [...]

Had the emotion been honestly faced and brought to the surface it would not have been hidden. The body would not have to express it for him, and it would have cleared the way for other compensating feelings as you encouraged him and pointed out the proper direction for concentration.

[...] When he feels that way it would be of great help if he simply cried alone, or went to you for comfort. [...]

[...] He would do anything then to avoid an emotional scene. [...]

He felt emotional displays on his part would make you cast him in the same light as your mother. [...]

[...] He told Jane that he would have some news for her “within a month”—which would be fast service indeed. [...]

[...] Jane said that she thought tonight’s session would be a short one.)

[...] His body is resilient, and it is responsive, or it would not be reacting so agreeably and definitely to your new suggestions and its activities. [...]

[...] Without that, normal walking would be most difficult. [...]

[...] If everyone on your plane were suddenly to believe that the physical world would end at a particular time, then so it would, you would simply cease your idea constructions. [...]

As far as witnesses are concerned, and as far as the wife is concerned, I would suggest that you meet upon another evening, when a session is not due to begin with, and leave the matter to Ruburt. As far as I am concerned, I would quite welcome another young woman. [...]

[...] More cruelties have been effected by principled men than unprincipled men would ever dream.

I would like to make a remark for your benefit, Joseph. [...]

[...] On the outside this would give you another reality. [...] On the inside, however, you would be traveling not around or about, but through one portion of the psyche with its reality, into another portion of the psyche with its reality. That kind of journey would not be any more imaginary than a trip from one city to another.

[...] At the same time you were determined to set yourself apart from the world to some extent, while still maintaining and developing an emotional contact with a mate that would be unlike any in your earlier experience. Creativity would have to be involved. [...] In this probability you provided yourself with a background that included sports and the love of the body, knowing [those qualities] would sustain you.

[...] Your idea of space travel would be to send a ship from one planet, earth, outward into the rest of space that you perceive on that “flat” screen. Even with your projected technology, this would involve great elements of time. [...]

[...] True space travel would of course be time-space travel,⁵ in which you learned how to use points in your own universe as “dimensional clues” that would serve as entry points into other worlds. [...]

[...] The girls would try to “pick up” an impression of the target drawing and reproduce it. I would mail my drawings to the professor at the end of the allotted time, and he could judge the hits and misses for himself.

[...] Had we met under different circumstances, I probably would have liked him. [...] He missed an opportunity to broaden his outlook, and, perhaps, to find the kind of evidence that would convince him that human personality was far less limited than he supposed.

[...] Without identity, action would be meaningless, for there would be nothing upon which action could act. [...]

[...] And yet without the termination, identity would cease to exist, for consciousness without action would cease to be conscious.

[...] As an analogy, this would be as if you lived, say, the life of a rich man of great talent, the life of a poor man and the life of a mother and career woman. You would be aware of each role and find abilities being developed in each. [...] In such a system, there would be no breakup of time, you see. [...]

[...] You give probable selves a foundation and history and identity, and without your creation of them they would not exist. Would you, then, deny them reality in order to save them from any pain? [...]

[...] Were it not for experiences in other lives on the part of deeper layers of the self, the ego would find it almost impossible to relate to other individuals, and the cohesive nature of society would not exist.

[...] You would have made an excellent doctor, for example. In your terms, you worked out this possibility by weaving, over a period of three years, a dream framework in which you learned exactly what your life would have been, had you gone into medicine.

“The rabbits in our neighborhood would continue to live as usual without our help, although they might miss nibbling upon the leafy vegetables in the local gardens. The fish and all of the complex minutiae of the local river bottoms would go on living as they always have. The deer I see in the woods north of the hill house would continue to bound through the brush and among the trees. [...]

[...] If it did not, there would be no world. If the worst was bound to happen, as the scientists certainly think, even evolution, in their terms, would have been impossible, of course — a nice point to put somewhere (all intently).

[...] His closest connection to magic would be his comics experience when he drew Captain Marvel — a magical character. [...] In the dream he sees himself returning to the comics, only the Sunday edition (special), and the superhero character is much more prominent than the comics would ordinarily have it; the smaller head representing, I think, the idea that the intellect’s place is smaller or of a lesser nature than he earlier supposed. [...]

[...] Then I realized I’d goofed: Last Saturday, our local paper had carried a short article to the effect that a psychic we’d heard of had predicted recently that Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia would obtain the Democratic nomination for president, after a deadlock between Carter and Kennedy developed at the convention. [...]

[...] It is not, say, a simple declaration, but involves realizations and insights of vital import that are given purposefully in such a way that they will gradually be sifted into consciousness because consciousness, the consciousness, would not be able to interpret the meanings in usual terms. This is not a good analogy particularly, but it is as if you received an important communication, say, three paragraphs of great import, with all the individual letters appearing, but not in their proper sequences, and gradually the letters would float together to form the proper words, and then the words would float together to form the proper sentences, and so forth.

(10:12.) What I am saying, again, is quite apart from your having regular working hours, but you would do far better to choose another word than “work.” Your intuitive hours, perhaps, or your creative hours—even better—for in that kind of atmosphere the greatest works would result.

(Before the session Jane showed me the paper she’d written this afternoon, on the direction she felt that Seth would be taking in Mass Reality. [...]

[...] (Pause.) There were indeed problems within the firm, and the editor who liked the book was let go and unable to follow through as she would have liked.

That is, not only would they be aware of what seems to you to be past, present and future within your system, but they would be aware of several other systems and be able to function within them simultaneously, gaining and creating experience within all of these systems, even while maintaining overall identity. They would be conscious, for example, of themselves as, say, an entity, and simultaneously they would be aware of separate existences as individuals in various systems. [...]

[...] The feeling that you would have inside this highly improbable projection would give you some idea, though a very weak one, of the feeling of infinity.

[...] But each self must go its own way and develop its own abilities and explore the possibilities which it creates itself, otherwise the whole would stagnate.

[...] I would like to give some hint as to the psychological realities that form personality structures on higher levels than your own. [...]

[...] For safety’s sake I would suggest an eight-month period. No severe (underlined) difficulty would result in any case, but an ugly bruise (pause), I believe by the right ear, and some twisting of a foot.

I believe the purchase of a new rug for the room would be involved, and she would slip upon it. [...]

(Recently our friend in Boston, Pat Norelli, had visited a female medium who told her that she was under the influence of an evil eye, and would never have a happy day as long as she lived. [...]

[...] Jane told me later that she felt the new influence mentioned would be a male.)

[...] It all sounded good, but would have little effect, I thought, since it hadn’t in years past. [...] This would be much preferred instead of a projection of fear into the future, I said. [...] But I was as baffled as ever, I said, that the personality would put the poor body in such a position that it couldn’t be at peace either sitting up or laying down. [...]

[...] A primary one was why Jane’s personality would continue behavior that could bring on the threat of abandonment, as she saw it—the symptoms—if she had such a fear of that possibility. [...] Another question was why her overall personality would continue behavior that could conceivably bring about the eventual demise of the physical body—and thus the death of those very portions of the personality that were causing all the trouble, and had been for years. [...]

[...] Then she said she thought her fright was connected to her fear of abandonment as a child—and that she would finally make life so miserable for me that I’d leave her. [...]

[...] I must admit that if I’d had to guess at any upcoming major changes in our lives, moving back to Sayre would have been the last on the list. [...]