“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Timothy Foote told Jane he would review Seth Speaks for the magazine. [...] Jane, liking Timothy Foote, told me later that had he stayed for the evening she would have had a session for him; yet we feel there were reasons he didn’t stay, and that things worked out for the best all around.

[...] Timothy Foote was very interested in Jane’s abilities, and said he would like to return for a session with a recorder. [...]

(Some time later Jane told me she picked up that when Seth spoke Timothy was suspicious—“Seth would speak now, you see, in order to make an impression,” etc.

An individual who completely accepted what was going on here, and Seagull without question, could (underlined) also possess a fervor that would, or could, overstate the case, rouse instead within people conflicting beliefs. [...]

Because time is open-ended, as you think of it, you can also affect what you would think of as past reincarnational selves, and at times react in and to their environment. You would usually do this in the dream state, but this is often accomplished just below the level of waking consciousness, and is blotted out by you as you go about your daily business.

(I had two questions for our portion of the session, and we expected that Seth’s answers would be included in the Appendix of his book. [...]

[...] Some individuals are more intrigued by detail than others: A particular “previous personality” may be one who had a great love of detail, in which case you would discover the richness of it. [...]

[...] He simply would not know the answers. [...]

(In the unscheduled 203rd session of October 28, Seth told us we would shortly get another letter from Dr. Instream “within a few days.” [...]

(Also in the 203rd session, Seth said Howard Kimball would be elected mayor of Elmira. [...]

[...] I have a few comments that I would like to make here.

While we are still developing, the specifics that we have picked up in these tests with others show me that Ruburt is developing as I would like. [...]

[...] It would help a little, but I need much more than that. [...]

[...] I would like to get back to painting at least a little each day. [...]

The would-be suicide’s problem is usually not one of suppressed rage or anger, it is instead the feeling that there is no room in his or her private life for further development, expression, or accomplishment, or that those very attributes are meaningless.

[...] It would relieve the minds of families and friends, however, if they understood that the individual involved did not “fall prey” to the disease, and that he or she was not a victim in usual terms.

[...] If you would keep track, you would find that the sore areas are being treated, and trigger their own releases. [...] Instead you remove the impetus for improvement by minimizing the symptoms, which, ideally now, would activate psychological, spiritual, mental, and physical centers, bringing about necessary adjustments.

A flexible body suddenly in the position of Ruburt’s would protest, and it is a sign of his progress that he now feels that protest. [...]

[...] Events happen in a circular fashion, and to that degree tapes that would satisfy you both, and me, are already being made.

[...] I would have helped but you would not let me in.

[...] I would like to ask Seth about it, at this evening’s session, this being a Monday.

(Coming in and out of our apartment from Miss Callahan’s, Jane would tell me of snatches of thoughts she had received from Seth. [...]

[...] If you had helped tonight, you would not have felt the need to turn your emotions inward against yourself in a self-destructive manner.

(We would like to insert a note here to Roger, to the effect that we would like him to go over the two sessions and give us a detailed written summary of the data given through Jane, in answer to the mathematical questions he sent Jane. [...]

[...] would have this guy’s name in it. It would seem to be in Latin. [...]

[...] (Then Jane said: “I have no idea what this means:” ) And 3 in the yellow column would lead to annihilation. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Don’t you see, your groupings would be eradicated. [...]

[...] Before one group of muscles on one side would react in one way, while the other side would react in another way, so that the conflict between spontaneity and caution was objectified.

(Then, as we talked, Jane said Seth wanted to return—something, she said, about the effect predictions would have on us:

[...] Your knowing also changes the picture, and sometimes could bring into the present elements that would be accepted wholeheartedly months hence, after the development, but not at the point of your knowing ahead of time.

Now earlier he would have been so terrified that the image would not have become conscious. [...]

[...] He felt it beneath him intellectually to speak of them to you, and felt that you would have no use for him, that you would think he was a cowering, spineless child rather than the independent brave spirit that he tried so hard to be for himself and you.

As the chiropractor made repeated adjustments, gradually the effect would lessen. Initially however it could be quite strong, and the chiropractor would call it a retracing action. [...]

[...] It would be possible to go through Ruburt’s body and pinpoint the physical materialization of certain feelings as they are represented in a symptom.

There would have been no question of men performing so-called feminine tasks, or of women performing so-called masculine tasks, for there no leeway for that kind of individual action would have existed.

Women were also somewhat lighter because they would bear the additional weight of a child. [...] If compassion, kindness, and gentleness were feminine characteristics only, then no male could be kind or compassionate because such feelings would not be biologically possible.

Physically speaking, you would have no males or females unless first you had individuals. [...]

[...] Instead, the species could reproduce freely so that in the event of a catastrophe of any kind, it would not be so tied into rigid patterns that it might result in extinction.

If that language I speak of had been verbal, man never would have said: “The water flows through the valley.” Instead, the sentence would have read something like this: “Running over the rocks, my water self flows together with others in slippery union.” [...]

[...] You say: “I am today, I was yesterday, and I will be tomorrow,” yet some languages would find such utterances incomprehensible, and the words, “I am” would be used in all instances.

[...] They felt, and knew as well, that the storms would refresh the land, whatever their fury.

I would like to emphasize the difficulty of explaining such a language verbally. [...]

[...] On the other hand it was part of his method, a way of intensifying focus, increasing perception in a small area while also insuring safety, so that inner excursions would be balanced by a constant worrisome body that would urge him to return.

Creativity would have to be involved. [...] In this one you provided yourself with a background that included sports and the love of the body, knowing it would sustain you.

[...] Ruburt used his will to solve one challenge: he was determined to find the kind of mate that would best suit him, and his own unique characteristics. [...]

[...] You were at the same time 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.

[...] He explained that due to the construction of the wharf one saw just to the left as he looked out the front room in question, that it would be quite difficult to see as small an object as a rowboat tied up there; the wharf is quite high, and due to the slant of the beach a small low object like a rowboat would be hard to see.

I would add–not to this–that of late Ruburt is learning to let his subconscious mind work for him, rather than against him; having to do with the gallery. I am not going to have these sessions deal with mental tricks, even though the end would be a good one. [...]

(A husband and wife who were scheduled to witness the session tonight, notified Jane they would be unable to attend because of business pressures. [...]

[...] In the 68th session, page 218, July 6, 1964, Seth stated that unless Bill took certain steps the lung trouble would return. [...]

But you also feared the opposite, that she would disrupt a status quo that was highly delicate. Unpleasant but bearable, and that the resulting situation would be pure chaos and disruption. [...]

[...] Conversely, if you had a child it would have been much more difficult for you to make communication with me, because of the direction of your own energy and focus. [...] He finally knew that it would not be in usual physical terms.

[...] If he intends decorating there, sun symbols would help.

[...] First of all you deeply feared that in rearranging her house she was merely playing with surface arrangements, and would not touch the deeper dilemmas of the family.

[...] In a reincarnational sense, the personality for a while takes the role of a sick person, as an actor would, and is completely immersed in it. [...] The actor would merely try to imagine how it would be like to be in such a position. [...]

[...] A physical doctor would be of no help. [...]

Earlier I recommended a good hypnotist, hoping that the woman might find her way if positive suggestions were given; for even if the inner self had solved its problems, it would need help, psychological help, in reversing the physical trend. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) There would be no harm then, and perhaps some good done, by making such a contact.

[...] Not through fear that a book would not be published necessarily, but through fear that the, publication would mean nothing. [...]

[...] He would have, I believe, otherwise gone to New York and charmed his way into at least more specific results.

[...] Your illness was a shock to him, and he has been afraid of doing anything that would make you feel insecure.

[...] Jane said that before the session she told Seth to blot her out, so that we would get undistorted material. [...]

[...] You would not think of going to a hypnotist and having him tell you that you are getting sicker by the moment or the world was getting cruddier by the moment or that your arm or foot or head or toe or ear would hurt more and more with each breath that you took. You would have the man up to be hung and think such an affair an evil thing indeed, and yet you do this to yourselves often and then you say with all blind innocence, why does this come about, why am I sick or why am I sore or why am I caught in this cruddy universe and yet you do not change your own thought. [...]

A negative thought alone would be followed by a more positive one. [...] Thought patterns and emotional patterns, left alone, would change one into the other as stormy weather changes into sunny. [...] There is no one else that has control over your own thought patterns and you would be very upset, indeed, if anyone else did. [...]

[...] If you were expressing yourself fully on certain issues you would not have a cold, and if you were using all of the insights that you should have gathered in class, you would not have a cold. If you were allowing full expression of your inner ideas outward along certain lines having to do with your oldest son, you would not have a cold. [...]

When you love life very deeply then it is very easy to despair, and when you compare ideal human relations to the relations that exist in the world as it is, it is very easy to despair; but if you give in to despair then you cannot see the beauty that does exist for the despair will eat it through like lye; and so hold on to the beauty and guard it and the vitality of your thoughts and emotions and your natural vitality as you would your life, for it is your life. [...]

For some time I have given you much advice, many suggestions, knowing full well that some would go by the board. Enough of them would be followed however to provide some kind of inner program, that would at least head you in the proper directions.

(I asked if Seth would discuss Tam’s dream of January 1, 1973; her cold symptoms dating from last October; and the letter Seth has promised to dictate for correspondents. [...]

[...] Because you will not face the material, you cannot counter it with other conscious ideas, or generate other emotional feelings that would help you.

[...] Until he produced Seven, however, he would not really consider facing the dilemma. [...]

You would indeed, and you would learn nothing! [...]

Now, you have been what would now seem to you to be chaotic energy—forming universes. [...] Notice, I did not say you came from undifferentiated chaos, but what you would now regard as that. [...]

[...] And in a way, I am not kind to you, for I would have you question before you are ready to question. [...]

It would be easy for me to tell you what you should do. [...]

Now, I would like all of you to try this with me. [...]

I would do this by whispering, but it is more fun this way. [...]

(To Dee G.) And I would like our friend over here, the Lady of the Initials, invited in, on these dream adventures. [...]

(To Sheila.) And I would like to ask this little one with the red hair—I will not look at her because I frighten her—in the corner to relax; and tell her it will be all right. [...]