“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Before the session, Jane had remarked that she wished Seth could, or would, let her know whether witnesses were coming. If she is able to let Seth so inform her in advance, it would be very convenient, to say the least.)

Examination of the back of the painting would show nothing. The elements of the painting would expand in the same way that I have told you the universe expands, in a way that has nothing to do with space but of value fulfillment, which has its own kind of depth and perspective, and which exists not only behind but within the construction of matter.

I am going to give you some more material concerning our discussion of matter, but first I would like to make one comment.

[...] I gave them copies of the last few sessions, to familiarize them with the material in case they would rather read than listen at first.

[...] For years he would not wear anything that had been close to her. Then he shoved this feeling away and would not face it.

If you compare the whole self with an ocean, then the topmost wave at any given time would represent the ego. [...]

[...] For the tumbling under is the motion that forms the ego itself, and without it the ego would be meaningless.

Even then, however, the subconscious would not be forced too far, and a good deal of the time the sweaters sat in his drawer. [...]

(The table would rock back and forth beneath the touch of our fingertips when the pressure was requested; as it did so it would begin to feel increasingly solid and heavy; the creaks and groans in it would disappear and it seemed to become one indivisible unit. The pressure would rather quickly build up until members grouped around it—usually standing—would have to really bear down to level it out again. [...]

[...] Later he told us he was afraid the table would either crash into the ceiling—since Carl was tall enough—or would hit a nearby wall where several of my paintings hung.

[...] A A obligingly built up the pressure again; pressing down, Carl saw that he used a hand pressure of 70 pounds, as measured by the scale, to get all three legs of the table back on the floor, whereas usually gravity would effortlessly draw the legs back to the floor when our fingertips were removed.

[...] This steady checking has the added advantage that it serves as a protection against any possible hallucination [although this would have to be a mass effect, and highly unlikely]; the checking in a deliberate manner was a good method to keep one’s feet on the floor, so to speak, even if the table was acting contrary to gravity.

(Jane talked about writing poetry or novels instead, for example, and I replied that she would offer those products to herself and the public in an acceptable way to her own psyche. [...] I myself would put physical survival before anything else, obviously, at least in this probability. Would you? [...]

(Very long pause—one of many such—at 9:59.) I would never stand in the way, however, of Ruburt’s recovery as you understood it. Nor would I feel that Ruburt has let me down, or that you had in any way. [...]

[...] If he decided not to have sessions, or not to operate in the so-called psychic arena, this does not mean that he would be a failure in any way. [...]

[...] Would you rather I didn’t say anything?”

[...] Suggestions would be given that the individual involved would experience, say, aggressiveness, within a dream. It would also be suggested to him that he learn to understand his aggressions by watching himself while he was dreaming [watching the dream as he would a play]. [...]

[...] On Seth’s suggestion, I told myself before sleep that I would have a dream that would give me further information about my own reincarnational past. [...]

[...] Without mass dreams, for example, your United Nations would not exist. [...] If you were aware of the constant barrage of telepathic communications that do impinge upon you, it would be most difficult for you now to retain a sense of identity. [...]

[...] I knew it wasn’t my physical head, but I hoped that my shout would either frighten the creature away or attract some kind of help.

[...] Two 10-minute periods would be excellent—if you will spare the time.

These would automatically break up tensions that you have before let accumulate, regardless of their nature.

[...] These changes occur steadily; yet some would be too shocking to the body to happen at once.

This would be a secondary construction. If however the dying brother made an out-of-body journey before or after death, for a last visit, then the receiver would still have to construct the apparition himself in order to perceive it. But in this case we would have a primary construction.

Had she concentrated upon constructive elements, upon positive and not negative qualities, not only would the tumor itself be nonexistent, but she would have constructed a positive element in its stead. [...]

[...] If you could perceive these dreams then you would have a good idea of the main physical events of the future, because you would see them being born.

Now, your physical universe is obviously composed of shared perceptions, and mass dreams would of course be of the same nature. [...]

[...] It was the nature of your dreams, and your dreams’ creativity, that made you what you are, for otherwise you would have developed a mechanical-like language — had you developed one at all — that named designations, locations, and dealt with the most simple, objective reality: “I walked there. [...] You would not have had that kind of bare statement of physical fact. You would not have had (pause) any way (pause) of conceiving of objects that did not already exist. You would not have had any way of imagining yourselves in novel situations. You would not have had any overall picture of the seasons, for dreaming educated the memory and lengthened man’s attention span. [...]

[...] If you were thinking in old terms of evolution, then I would be saying that your cultures and civilizations actually alter the chromosomal messages. [...]

[...] I thought you would like that quotation.

His dreams reminded him that a cold season had come, and would come again. [...]

[...] If any doubt was present then another person would be cast out or sacrificed. Acts were scrutinized so that those offending to the gods could be clearly categorized so that men would not unknowingly offend. [...]

[...] He was not loyal, in those terms, to Walter Zeh, or he would still be with him. Ruburt is spontaneous—but if he were all that spontaneous he would be walking better. [...]

[...] In those terms it might think of itself as an animal who was sick—a big difference—and even then no self-disapproval would be indicated.

Your own ease in “Unknown” now is the result of your suspension of self-disapproval, and would be the same if you were doing appendixes. [...]

(She wrote down the “Latin” book title as best she could: Enada Inaventum [Deus ?].The E could possibly be either an I or an A. Then at 10:10 she told me the translation of the title would be Spiritual Adventures. At 10:15 she elaborated; the title would be The Spiritual Adventures of a Monk at Large.

[...] The kind of reality that you understand forms the least active portion of their actuality, and would represent, for example only, a relatively defective or “inferior” state of consciousness and comprehension, a state like (underlined), perhaps, senility. [...] They would feel no older after 5,600 years than one of you at 80. [...]

[...] In many instances, however, the two of you have defied such limitations, or these sessions would not happen, and you would have embarked upon no such exploration.

(“That would be the way we’d interpret it,” she said. [...]

[...] He feared that his own strong disinclination was simply the result of negative conditioning, and because he was interested in the doctor’s opinions, since this would be the first specialist in that field of arthritis—that he would have a chance to talk to, with all tests completed, and so forth. [...]

[...] Even now she still feels its aftereffects, five days later—much more so than I’d anticipated she would. [...]

[...] She was convinced the finger would mend itself, and it appeared to be doing so in its own way. [...]

[...] I kept thinking that she was on her way to adopting a stance in which she would turn against medical help and/or advice if at all possible. [...]

In the past a whole series of counterimpressions would have occurred. Your love and concern would not have been so apparent, you would have become dejected as a result of his condition, he would have interpreted that as disapproval and rejection, and a good week’s time might have been spent under the same conditions, so you have improved.

[...] I told you that in the past a week might have gone on with yesterday’s conditions, plus the fact that I would not have been permitted to give you information, or feedback—and certainly a day such as today would not have followed.

[...] The Sumari development would not have occurred until your relationship had a revival, and further creative developments have already been sparked for the same reason.

[...] When he did not feel loved he would not eat—the two appetites, you see.

[...] If this were not the case, then I would not be speaking here, for I am not Ruburt’s past self. [...] Time has open ends in all directions or such a thing as probabilities would not exist. [...]

It is, and they would not perceive your existence here, for to them it would be a noninterval.

[...] You have been told simple tales, and they are delightful ones; but if you were not ready to hear more you would not be in this room.

[...] We learned what spices would do long before the present generation got hung-up on grass. [...]

This rigid control of consciousness prevented spontaneous enjoyment of an everyday variety that would otherwise have had a beneficial and balancing effect. [...]

[...] If some were not made, they would be demanded by other portions of the self. [...]

[...] I would suggest for awhile that he refrain from wearing black sweaters in general, except that I fear his wardrobe is already depleted. [...]

[...] An hypnotic session would be helpful, but only when you feel confident. [...]

[...] One advantage would be that it would unite the art and writing aspects—particularly paintings of some of my dreams.)

[...] Seth said that when the body began to recover, it would be an overall development. [...]

Ruburt might go on television for example 50 times—to be met by applause, acclaim and understanding, but in his reality, imaginatively, he would be met by scorn and derision. [...]

[...] That kind of personality would not be the kind to get this particular kind of information, or this kind of particular session to begin with.

[...] And again we wondered whether we would receive anything. [...]

(“What would you prefer to be called?”)

(“Would it help to paint a picture of my recollection of Joseph and the wall?”)

(“What would you call Jane, as you call me Joseph?”)

[...] I had no doubt that when Seth resumed dictation, it would be impossible to detect any sign of a break in continuity.

(9:13.) Various old religions picked up the idea of the Lumanians’ fierce god figure for example, in whom they managed to project their concepts of force, power, and violence, this god who had meant to protect them when nonviolence would not allow them to protect themselves.

[...] Ideas of probable realities and probable men and gods may strike some of you as quite absurd, and yet as you read this book, you are but one of the probable you’s. Other probable you’s would not consider you real, of course, and some might indignantly question your existence. [...]

[...] In the 563rd session Seth mentioned that he would soon discuss the third of these cultures. [...]

Such a landscape would have to take up as much physical space as the original. But more, it would have to take up an identical amount of physical time, in terms of past physical existence, which is clearly impossible.

Such a landscape would have to be composed of the actual elements that compose the original landscape. The artist would have to assemble mountains of rocks, an infinity, that is infinity of molecules, all equally impossible. [...]

However his painting contains new realities, and distinctive ones, that would be alien to the original landscape. The actual trees, had he really been able to reproduce them, would then undergo their seasonal changes. [...]

[...] Without tension there would be no existence. [...]

[...] John was asked to run since the 313th session, and has turned down the offer; it would involve a financial loss.

(John also stated talent Clint Smith has one young brother-in-law who lives in Lancaster, PA, south of Williamsport; but as far as John knows there would be no connection here either.

(The woman John might meet in this town would be June Fleming, whom John met some time ago at a bar called The Elms. [...]

[...] Since the income would mean a loss to John, he thought it might be supplemented by his holding a sinecure of a job at the same time; said job being furnished by a member of the political organization. [...]

[...] You would be if the rest of the week were cleared—and it would be cleared if you realized that what was involved was simply a matter of your own quite natural working habits and convenience, and made it clear that people were welcome at another time.

[...] If Jane didn’t want to talk she would have said so,” for Frank is not used to trusting his own intuitions. [...]

[...] In the past you felt and believed that this was not possible, and so your attempts failed, largely because you were afraid—overly afraid —of hurting other peoples’ feelings, and somewhat afraid that your desire for solitude would cut you off too much from others.

[...] Those improvements are better than even I would have expected, even though the overall locomotion is very uneven.