“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The subconscious therefore, in this truly ludicrous analogy, would exist between the two brains, and would enable the creature to operate as a single unity. At the same time, and this is the difficult part to explain, neither of the two faces would ever see the other world. They would not be aware of each other. And yet each would be fully self-conscious.

[...] I would also suggest continuing your practice of getting out of the house on Saturday evenings, and though Ruburt is not a passionate hostess I would suggest that you have friends in. [...]

[...] We thought that we would let the session open itself, however it might. [...]

I think that Duke would be an excellent place to send this material.

[...] Indeed, I would prefer, under such circumstances, that you would not speak out.

[...] I would say more along these lines. However Ruburt would not take it kindly, and I am after all in his debt to some degree. [...]

Therefore, traveling through such distance would involve travel through the electrical intensities that go into the existence of any given action as it electrically occurs. [...]

[...] Even the words which I use to describe them are at best poor symbols, for when I speak of an action, it would seem as if I spoke of one indivisible concrete completed issue, and such is not the case.

If he could not go out so often, if he could not go on vacations, if he could not leave his desk, he would save not only energy but time and money as well. You would not spend so much. He would not be tempted to buy so many clothes. [...]

[...] You would not take on that physical coloration. In a way however you are working through the same problems artistically, and Ruburt would never accept that coloration, so he has learned from you there.

[...] He was afraid, however, of such jobs—prestigious ones—for fear the need for money would lead him to neglect his work. [...]

[...] The creative mind and spirit transforms the “waste” that others would disdain. [...]

[...] This sense would permit him to feel the basic sensations felt by each of the trees about him. His consciousness would expand to contain the experience of what it is to be a tree—any or all of the trees. He would feel the experience of being anything he chose within his field of notice: people, insects, blades of grass. He would not lose consciousness of who he was, but would perceive these sensations somewhat in the same way that you now feel heat and cold.”

In a recent class session, Seth said: “If you would momentarily put aside the selves you take for granted, you could experience your own multidimensional reality. [...]

[...] The material is not for those who would deceive themselves with pretty, packaged, ribboned truths that are parceled out and cut apart so that you can digest them. [...]

[...] He also, because of this identification, feared he would become crippled and that you would leave him. [...]

[...] The immobilization was partially a fear reaction, and yet it had some elements of courage in it, in that he would run in fear no longer, but face issues.

[...] The feelings however are the cause of the attack, for these feelings attract those elements that would otherwise be harmless. [...]

What he refers to as the shallowness, comparatively speaking, of his sexual response, had its beginning, again, when he knew the book would be published. [...]

New learning would always be involved, and thus new options would always be open. [...]

[...] They are more divorced from ordinary medical thought, and would indeed be considered sheer quackery in the majority of medical circles.

[...] The reincarnational influences are most apparent in what would be considered bodily defects dating from birth, and these will be discussed later on in this book.

A person who has been cruel in one life may choose to experience conditions in the next life in which he or she understands the meaning of cruelty, but this does not mean that such a person would then necessarily experience an entire lifetime as a victim.

[...] If I were at the other end of it I would duck for cover. In the past he was not as honest as he is now with himself, and in his younger years as an adolescent he would never allow himself to know exactly what he was angry at.

[...] Using again the arbitrary divisions, brain for the physical construction, and mind as the intangible, then to set the record straight brain would not sense the inner planes, while mind would deal with them.

[...] I took my usual place at our living room table, wondering whether Jane would appear on time. [...]

(Earlier this evening the pendulum had told Jane we would have a witness for the session, but none had appeared. [...]

It is however one of the most basic, and without it at least two inner senses would be extremely hampered. [...] I have not given the inner senses to you in the order of their importance, but merely in the order that would be the simplest for you to understand.

I mentioned the other evening that we would also deal in practicalities, and that everything concerning our discussions did not have to be taken on faith alone.

When I spoke of practicalities I meant direct experiences of a vivid nature, experience that would be at least as legitimate and valid as more ordinary sensual data. [...]

[...] For a brief moment he “saw” (in quotes) as clearly without opening his eyes as he would ordinarily see by using them. [...]

When I came to, I found myself scrawling what was obviously meant as the title of that odd batch of notes: The Physical Universe As Idea Construction. Later the Seth Material would develop those ideas, but I didn’t know that at the time. [...] I only know that if I’d begun speaking for Seth that night, I would have been terrified.

[...] YOU WOULD FIND THIS MORE EMBARRASSING THAN I WOULD.

I don’t know what Rob would have thought then if he’d realized what Seth meant by “internal visual data,” though; and writing this now I just remembered that he was pretty surprised when his first few internal visions appeared with extraordinary vividness. [...] If I’d known how this was to be expanded in the next session, I probably would have been a nervous wreck.

[...] You could change your ideas toward it if you chose, but this would in no way change what reality was. [...]

[...] The child would fit physically into the office building, you see. Physically speaking, there would be no barrier to keep him out, while admitting the father. The man could also enter the school, but there would be little purpose in such an arrangement.

[...] Seth said: “There are, in fact, infinite varieties of matter, existing in what you would call one space framework. [...]

[...] The physical brain is cushioned against shock, since in this case consciousness travels at such a fast pace that ordinarily contact between it and the body would be severed.

“In your time, the periods of high conscious activity would run approximately three days, followed by a day and a half to four days of inactivity, according to the circumstances. [...]

[...] You would think that one of me would be sufficient.

[...] On Thursday, October 17, Jane unexpectedly received a royalty check from F. Fell re her ESP book; this after Seth had stated on page 107 that Jane would soon receive unexpected word regarding a book. [...]

[...] Jane has received her expected note from Harry Edwards in England, concerning absent healing, and in answer to Jane’s monthly report; therefore another letter soon from Edwards would be unusual.)

[...] It would seem minute, a matter of only a few degrees in measurements, but highly significant.

[...] But if he seems afraid it is because he fears, in an exaggerated manner, that if given freedom he would want you, and you would consider this disruptive, of work and schedule.

[...] I thought I would cue you in here.

Peter and Polly would be on the road, it seemed, unreachable by phone, though they had included the number of their answering service, and had also written that they would call before leaving—yet no such call had been received.

It would be simple enough, of course, to ascribe Ruburt’s thoughts and feelings to mere coincidence. [...] Instead, they called later from their home to say that they were just beginning their trip, and would stop on their way.

[...] Then he became aware that those particular thoughts were intrusive, completely out of context with his immediately previous ones, for only a moment or so earlier he had been congratulating himself precisely because he had made no plans for the day or evening at all that would involve guests or other such activities. [...]

[...] From the way the letter was written, it seemed as if the friends—call them Peter and Polly—had already started on their journey that (Saturday) morning, and would stop in Elmira on their return much later toward evening. [...]

(“That would be good.” [...] It would be a new situation, as far as we knew. Would Seth relay my questions to Van Elver, then deliver the answers, or what? [...]

[...] Put yourself in his place, and with all of his capacities, and with his wisdom, and what would you be saying, and what emotion would move the muscles of your face?

[...] The only conscious decision I had made was that I would let such designs remain in the subconscious if they did not spontaneously present themselves.)

(Just before the session I had said that I feared I would have to revise my preliminary planning, and allow more background area in the painting than at first planned.)

(At the time of the 358th session we did not know Merle was scheduled by his company to be in New York City; nor could he have known where we would be eating supper at that particular time. [...] We believe, however, that he may have had a general idea that we would be staying in the Times Square area.

I am very pleased that we did not appear on the TV program, but I knew, you see, that we would not do so.

[...] Now, if you have any questions that you would like to ask me concerning my relationship with Ruburt, or myself, feel free to ask them.

[...] I thought F. Fell would be too busy to continue with a session much longer, but called for a break in case Seth had a few parting words.

(Discussion about predestination led by Rose to say that Seth would make a good Presbyterian.)

[...] I am a good Sethite, as Ruburt would say. [...]

If there is one message I would give to you all, it is that there is no justification for killing—there is no justification for hatred—there is no justification for violence. [...]

[...] And if your generation or any generation would ever effect a change—this is the only way change will be effected. [...]

[...] A note about the bedsore suggestions given by our nurse, Peggy J: Last Wednesday afternoon during her regular visit Peggy told us she’d talked to her boss, Roe—also a nurse—and that Friday Roe would meet her here to look at Jane’s bedsores. [...] I’d told Jane to use suggestion so that she wouldn’t be bothered by whatever Roe might say, but suspected that Roe would want Dr. Kardon to examine the bedsores, and probably this would lead to a demand that Jane would go back into the hospital. [...]

[...] It would be of some benefit at least to be a little less intimidating, always using the hospital’s precise designation for bedsores (decubiti), the term, used as it is, simply impresses upon you the greater strength of medical theory. [...]

[...] For the scientist, if he would heed the call and if he would take a spade and dig in the middle of February perhaps down into the earth to find our seed, would find simply a shell. He would not find the reality of the seed. [...]

[...] But if it is a fancy tale, it would behoove you to listen, for the moment that the flower says, “I deny, therefore, I deny the sunlight or the rain,” then the flower, indeed, would deny the grace of existence. [...]

[...] If you do not trust what Ruburt would call the establishment, then trust the inner voice that is yourself and follow it. [...] I have always trusted myself so I do not see why you would not trust me. [...]

[...] Now, if none of you mind, I would like to take a moment here and if you want to turn your face to the wall, then do it before I begin to speak. [...]

You were afraid, however, that those who tried to leave would be forced to return, that they would seek you out and bring you back and that your fellows would greatly resent any knowledge you had achieved. [...]

I will bid you all a fond good evening and I would like it if some of you would think of some of the matters that we have discussed here this evening. [...]

[...] I will have you on as a flower and I will show my own film to my friends and say, look, they exist, would you ever believe it? [...]

[...] It is a good point of housewifery prudence and spiritual prudence as well, but you would not have given had not this authority figure of the Pope done so ahead of you which means that presently you are looking for direction and hoping to find it and also that you are not going to give to any red-hooded beggars who knock at your side door. [...]

[...] A case in point in the above delivery would be the passage where Seth states: “Now Ruburt helped me, though consciously he was not aware of this, because of the peculiar circumstances.” I would have liked this explained at the time. [...]

[...] The reason is simply that conscious knowledge of such an effect would inhibit him, regardless of his best intentions, and the energy used would block the action or effect that I was trying to deliver.

(Before the session I mentioned that I hoped Seth would say more about John Bradley hearing Seth, as related in the 204th session. [...]

[...] Otherwise he would have merely automatically recorded my warning, and reacted to it smoothly without any realization on the part of the ego.