“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I was angry and disappointed; I was fearful that Jane and I would never be able to rise above our problems and fulfill our potentialities, which I knew to be excellent. [...] I couldn’t see how she would be able to really give her great creative spontaneity full reign, to accomplish the things I felt she had in her.

Now he was told under emotionally charged conditions, as you know, by his mother, that he could or would lose his mind. [...]

[...] I would never suggest continuing with the sessions at the expense of Ruburt’s mental or physical health.

[...] Without the past challenge, or one like it, the various elements of the personality would not be sufficiently united, strong enough, to carry the abilities that have been latent within it.

Some conditions, some roads and countries, would require different beams to meet different circumstances, as even in automobiles you use high beams or low beams according to necessity or utility; and in some cases the high beams would not only be ineffective but dangerous, and so low beams are used.

To use full consciousness would be most distracting in many instances. When I speak, therefore, of primary constructions in the physical field, other fields of course have their own primary constructions also, though they would not be composed of matter in your terms.

(By 8:58 Jane said she did not feel very nervous, but did feel strange because she had no idea of what Seth would talk about. [...]

I would like to continue our discussion on matter. [...]

[...] The sphere would act in as many ways as were open to it, and every action changes that which is acted upon. Therefore each action would create a new reality. [...]

[...] If one thought were held forever, no other thoughts would follow, no action would follow, and no identity. [...]

[...] Action, to be examined in such a manner, would have to be stopped. [...]

[...] Since identity is dependent upon action, then it should be seen that it is impossible for an identity to attain stability, since total stability would destroy it.

[...] Seth stated that the nodule would disappear. [...]

I am most pleased with the chapter that Ruburt has written to open our book, [How To Develop Your ESP Power], and as you shall soon discover, events will work out as I predicted they would in the late summer.

[...] In another sense it does legitimately exist, but in a way in which your ordinary senses would never perceive it.

[...] If you distinguished other quite legitimate reference points also, then your physical universe would be indistinguishable to your perceptions; that is, physical perceptions, lost in a maze of seemingly chaotic data. [...]

[...] Jane said she would be glad to try, although she had no idea of what Seth would say.

It is here that a reliable hypnotist would be of great benefit, in uncovering many hidden subconscious errors. There is some possibility that I could help here, but the close contact of such a reliable person would be more emotionally satisfying to the patient.

There seems to be a male relative, I believe twice removed, perhaps an uncle, though I am not certain—a visit from him would be beneficial. [...]

[...] A girl who worked with her was a friend, and visits from her would be helpful.

Without it, there would be no family groups, animal or human, or civilizations or governments. [...] Otherwise the laws would be useless. [...]

(Jane told me as we sat for the session tonight that she’d had some hints from Seth that the session would be on faith. [...]

[...] Now she told me that Seth’s recent prediction that her eyes would show noticeable improvement shortly has evidently come to pass; she wanted me to note that here. [...]

[...] In usual terms, again, there is no direct evidence, otherwise you would have no need for faith.

While you are taking your break there is one remark that I would like to make. [...] You have our Lady of Florence to thank that there are classes here, for Ruburt would not think of them in the beginning, and it was our friend, who you think is too intellectual and not intuitional, who suggested the classes in the first place to Ruburt and opened his mind so that he would follow my suggestions. [...]

[...] Now, I would play a Santa Claus for you when I am not playing a Scrooge because I want you to work harder. [...]

[...] It gives you suspense and Ruburt would say it gives you a great story line and while you are reading the story, however, you are automatically taking in the inner truths that are within it whether or not you are consciously aware of what you are doing. [...]

[...] So that if all physical knowledge were taken from you, all the knowledge that you have learned since birth in this life, and that is impossible, but if it were possible still within you would always be the inner knowledge not only of your own private past and future, but of the private past and future of your kind and of your species. [...]

[...] If you had a snapshot of a month ago to compare his present performance with, you would see the difference. What would be much more noticeable, however, would be the fact that the legs are indeed straighter.

The vibrator is of definite value, but would be useless, you see, without his own decision and understanding. [...]

[...] You would then construct, as you construct dream images, a multitudinous variety of shapes and forms meant to represent the complicated varieties of life. You would then have the experience of entering into each of these lives. You would not think what it was like to be a bird, you would momentarily be a bird. [...]

Your consciousness is far divorced from the physical organism, and it would be dangerous to stay away for any extended period of physical time. It would for example be quite possible to return to the physical body from this form, and not recognize it as your own. We would not want you to have such an experience. [...]

Using this third form, there would be a tendency for you not to recognize your own physical situation. It would be difficult to carry the memories of the present ego personality with you. [...]

As you know however, it is almost impossible for you to be aware of the full perceptions possible, for the ego would never stand for it. [...]

[...] You also initially, before this life, wanted to achieve some kind of overview that would unite the arts, and that would introduce a new kind of psychological art. [...] Hardly indeed, for intuitively you knew where it would lead.

[...] Seth, Jane said, would explain the whole thing in the next session, whenever that would be held.

[...] Now Ruburt has much slighter versions, in which, say, daily or weekly tensions no longer collect as they did, which allows him some physical improvement—but he also feels that if he really relaxed he would only do the dishes or whatever. The world would hardly fall in if neither of you did anything for several days. [...]

[...] That Rob was having a “body vacation” or that his body was taking a vacation, a rest; and that the contrast between his floppy state and his usual one would let him know how tight he’d been.... [...]

Many of the fears have been trivial but he would not discuss them. One worry then would automatically be associated with a pile of other buried worries, and an ordinary unpleasant stimuli could evoke the whole works. [...]

[...] Initially there would be no outward change of behavior except for a compensatory additional noisiness of faked gaiety and singing. For some time the organism could take this, and as situations changed the spontaneous self would once again emerge. [...]

[...] Now if you were different kinds of people, you see, your own moods would fluctuate widely in the normal give and take with other individuals. [...]

[...] Now in the past Ruburt would brood over the feelings, leading him into a physical apathy. [...]

Had it been given extra force through your environment, circumstances, or your own intent, then either your artistic self would have become subservient or complementary; or, if the energy selves were of nearly equal intensity, then one of them would have become an offshoot, propelled by its own need for fulfillment into a probable reality. [...]

[...] And even if Stella Butts were still living, I think it would be difficult to question her about an event that would have taken place approximately a quarter of a century ago.

[...] In doing this you would in no way bother, inhibit, or annoy the cat. He would not be aware of your presence. [...]

[...] This would loosely represent an analogy to my traveling to other planes. It follows that I could not travel to ‘higher’ environments than my own, where more acute senses would instantly perceive me … On many planes, we are fully visible to others on that plane. [...]

All of it would not be translatable. Some of it would have no meaning for you, but much of this is accessible. [...]

Now, with all you have been told about the nature of personality, and of the many of which you are a part, it would now be a help if you could find the center of your larger self.

If you have succeeded here, then memories and images will flash through your mind in the same way that your present self would ordinarily recall its past.

[...] You may also in a flash see glimpses of further realities that would be future to your present self.

[...] I would not have it said that I would pinpoint anyone in particular. [...]

[...] And if you wanted pretty, easy phrases you would not be here. [...]

[...] If those ways were sufficient to you, that is where you would be. [...]

[...] And so the why would take too long this evening but I will answer it for you as circumstances permit. [...]

[...] An enlightened position would be somewhat different, for a reasonably free individual will automatically want to aid his fellow man, and you will have a society of individuals fully functioning, and that would mean you would have fully functioning social organizations.

[...] Had you been working on “Unknown,” you would have had far less difficulty with your extractions. Your mind would have been on the book, and the extractions considered distractions—annoying and to be put aside.

[...] The tragedy, if one wants to call it that, would make an excellent book in itself, and many probably will be written about it. [...]

[...] You would then construct dream images, a multitudinous variety of shapes and forms meant to represent the complicated forms of life. You would then have the experience of entering each of those lives. You would not think of what it was like to be a bird. You would momentarily be one. [...] A normal projection would involve one of the three body forms.

[...] Such an action would therefore appear to happen twice, once in your present and once in your future. But in the future, you would be the one whose course is altered from this traveling self from the past.

[...] Instead of going to my typewriter at 8:00 A.M. as usual, I lay down and set the alarm for 9:30.1 gave myself the suggestion that I would go to sleep, recognize my state when I began to dream and project my consciousness out of my body. [...] I also closed the doors so I would not hear the doorbell or phone.

But often, after doing all this, I would simply fall back to sleep again, dream normally until morning, and lose the clear memory of my experiences. [...]

This sense would permit our man to feel the basic sensations felt by the tree, so that instead of looking at it, his consciousness would expand to contain the experience of what it is to be a tree. According to his proficiency, he would feel in like manner the experience of being the grass and so forth. He would in no way lose consciousness of who he was, and he would perceive these experiences again, somewhat in the same manner that you perceive heat and cold. [...]

Effects would seem to be evidence. [...] No one has seen wind, but since its effects are so observable, it would be idiocy to say that it did not exist. [...]

[...] Since the ears are connected to the body and part of it, it would be logical for an open-minded observer to suppose that the ears would be well attuned to the inner sounds to a high degree. [...]

Using the inner senses, it would be as if, instead of seeing the various houses, our man felt them. He would be sensitive to them, in other words, as you feel heat or cold without necessarily touching ice or fire.

(2. The country — with a name and dates — which would see the appearance of the third Christ in the next century, would not be given to us now, but might be in later years. [...] This would be very unfair and misleading.

[...] For one thing, the full consciousness of an entity would be too strong for one physical vehicle. [...]

[...] It was his job to form a physical framework; and even then he was afraid that the framework would strangle the ideas, but he saw no other way.

[...] It seemed that superior psychic interactions would have taken place among them, and I wanted to know more about this. [...]

[...] If you experienced greater instances of out-of-body consciousness, for example, then your verbal expressions of space and time would automatically change. If you became aware of more of your dreaming experience, your language would automatically expand. Again automatically, you would also become aware of other neurological patterns than those you use. These (intently), activated, would then be picked up by your scientific instruments, and therefore change your ideas in such fields.

[...] You would consider it an achievement if you learned to speak many languages. You would not find it frightening or unnatural, though you would take it for granted that some training was involved. [...]

Underneath this, however, there are basic inner sounds upon which all language is based, in which certain images give forth their own sound, and the two together portray clear, precise meaning.² A long time ago I said that language would be impossible were it not for its basis in telepathic communication³ — and that communication is built up of microscopic images and sounds. [...]

[...] Others are so slow that he feels a sentence would take a week to utter.¹² These are the signatures of different focuses of consciousness as they are transposed in your space-time system.

[...] I would not be in favor of extending her labors in such cases. She would have to continue in the same manner as when dictating to me; my having a respite would do her no good.

I would like to speak concerning the parallel development of the universe of matter as you know it, the universe of negative matter, and what is truly the universe of dreams.

[...] Without such a development before the conception of your time, indeed, your universe would never have come into existence.

You would know better than to think that your awareness of the movie signified that the movie began only when you appeared. [...]