“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

For your own purposes an unfinished painting on your easel would help you project to your studio, for you would psychically wish to return to study it. [...] It would be to your advantage to try some experiments together however. [...]

You would feel more comfortable if your initial journeys were within the apartment. [...]

[...] During break I had wondered, for instance, how long it would take to supplant a negative habit that had existed for say ten years, with a positive one.)

If a desire for health leads to an emphasis upon symptoms to be overcome, you would be better off to avoid all thoughts of health or illness, and concentrate in another direction such as work. [...]

[...] The knowledge, hard won, would be as instinct when the race began again. The losers then would become stern teachers, having learned through experience.

[...] They cannot be forcibly restrained, for they would learn nothing. [...]

[...] You are not only ready for them but you are demanding them, and until you are ready you would not understand them.

[...] Now alone they would not be permitted to destroy an entire reality. [...]

(It might be noted here that the 87th session dealt rather extensively with Jane’s death from cancer in a previous life in Boston, and stated that she would not die of the disease again. [...]

[...] It soon became apparent that the session would not be a long one. [...]

[...] I had originally suggested the day after his birthday to end his smoking habit, simply because it would be relatively easy for him at that time. [...]

[...] It would perhaps have been more convenient if the effort had been started on other than a session night, but in any case I expect to see the endeavor succeed, and certainly do not mind missing a session for this purpose.

[...] Otherwise he would be walking properly. Ruburt would be walking properly if he did not believe there was something wrong with him.

[...] You avoided the kind of direct confrontation that would have resulted had you said, for example “I do not believe your spirit,” or “I do not believe he could do thus and so.” [...]

If you have no more questions, I will end the session, and I would respectfully suggest that you take it to heart.

[...] Were it not for these you would still be imprisoned within the corporeal image. [...] As chemical reactions allow the body to utilize energy and form physical materializations, so the excess built up then becomes a propelling force, allowing action to flow in what you would term subjective directions.

Without these chemical and electromagnetic connections, (voice louder) the ego as such would not exist. [...]

Released they must be, or the organism would not survive. [...]

[...] The inner senses are allowed their greatest freedom in projection states, and the whole self retains experience that it would not otherwise. [...]

[...] I would not presume to announce a break for Ruburt, there are some egotistical bounds of his, and I would not presume to upset him. [...]

[...] Instead, if the abilities are used, and used widely, you will find you will come closer together and not further apart and without the security of knowing that you are there he would not use the ability. He would not use them for he needs to know that the physical universe, like the floor, is directly beneath his feet and that there is someone there who wants to make very sure that he will get back. [...]

[...] The development would not have occurred unless you were ready for it. [...] I would, however, not suggest that, except for our friends here, you have any witnesses for sessions for some time. [...]

(To Sue.) Within you, for example, and everyone in the room, there is an unlimited amount of what you would call identity. [...]

[...] At the same time, I was afraid the excitement of the visit would interfere with Jane resuming the session. We waited to see if Seth would return—and he did, in less than a minute. [...]

[...] Her Seth voice was deeper than her usual voice to some extent, but it wasn’t loud, and I was sure no one would notice anything unusual sound-wise from the hall outside the closed door of room 330. [...]

—I was going to say that I would end the session. [...]

[...] She hadn’t been sure Seth would return after the Gallaghers left. [...]

[...] She said it would take Jane perhaps half an hour to take it all in, and that afterward Jane would be given a small amount of heparin, which would keep the lock open for future doses. [...]

[...] It would be cultured — for what, we don’t know.

(Then, while she was still eating, two lab technicians came in to take more blood from Jane — this was for a culture that would be grown for a week, they said. [...]

I cannot explain everything at once, and so obviously many questions would remain unanswered until we can get to them. For the original thought, as an identity, to actually be transmitted to a sender, you would have to face the inevitable result: If the identical thought were actually transmitted from A to B, then A would have it no longer. [...]

[...] I would suggest that Ruburt set aside one day a week for the marketing of his own manuscripts.

[...] It is obvious that the attempt to duplicate is present; and were it not for this attempt to duplicate, then there would be little similarity between any separate identities.

It may happen however that the dissimilarity is what falls within his particular accustomed range, in which case proof would be inadequate. [...]

A trip now would not be nearly as advantageous as a trip later. [...] The added worries involved are not now worth the mental and psychic strains that they would cause.

(This evening Jane checked with her pendulum technique, and learned that it would be best for her to sign the contract as it stands. [...]

He could indeed press for better clauses now, but in one way he would lose a certain advantage. [...]

[...] This would work out very well both for him and the book. [...]

If only the physically-oriented ego survived, very little indeed would survive at all. [...] The physically-oriented ego, if it alone survived, would contain only your conscious memories. [...] Events and experiences which are forgotten, or which escaped the physically-oriented ego, still affect your activities in this life, and if they did not your physical existence would be brief indeed. (Jane pounded the tabletop for emphasis, eyes wide and dark.) Any survival that was based upon the survival of the physically-oriented ego alone would be as shallow as a paper cutout. [...]

[...] This would represent a sham of a survival indeed.

[...] She knew before the session began that there would be no envelope.)

[...] Some were socially oriented, enjoying a kind of comradeship that would find, for example, television’s impersonal communications a mockery of the give-and-take that they enjoyed in personal contacts.

[...] People felt that the sun and the moon would be offended if electric lights were used, for example, that in retaliation they might refuse to shine.

[...] Mass production was inconceivable, because the originality of each piece of art, or furniture, or bowl, held its value in that manner, and the idea of producing a copy of anything would have been considered ludicrous, or considered an act without reason.

If you could see the body with x-ray eyes, or could perceive its activity, you would observe an almost constant reactivation and revitalization of all those parts devoted to motion and locomotion—increased circulation—precisely the amount required: not too much or too little, and overall adjustments, so that all parts of the body are prepared and exercised, so that the final stages of the pattern will then easily seem to fall into place because of the work being done now.

(A true use of Personal Reality would be to use it like a bible – although not slavishly – but such use would unite the critical and intuitional faculties. The critical approach would be to use the book.)

Before I continue I would suggest that if others “use Personal Reality like a bible,” Ruburt could at least take it seriously. [...] I would most heartily suggest then that Ruburt use that book.

[...] The source self, sending out all assistance that it can, will still not attempt to override the conscious personality, for such actions would ultimately deny the conscious personality its powers of decision and control.

(Jane suggested this session abruptly, after 9:40 or so; I thought it would deal with what we had talked about today.)

[...] Certain concessions for example you would never make, but you are still unconsciously bothered here, whether you know it or not.

[...] To realize its possibilities therefore would have been a torment. [...]

The effort made in any creative change would be nothing compared to the constant feeling of unease that could result simply from a fear of change. [...]

(I would add that when I realized I was receiving information for the first time, on a level below that of alarm, I encouraged this flow of data. [...] I would say that at this moment of suspended judgment, before the ego exerted its authority, I was perfectly willing to receive this data and to examine it.

(I have hoped many times for another such contact, with the promise to myself that I would do better next time. I have also used suggestion, although not nightly, to the effect that more such experiences would occur. [...]

I do not know how it would serve you if I tried to describe the sort of plane which he inhabits. And since we are dealing in words some of the information simply would not make sense to you.

[...] These eyes were I would say masculine, and very beautiful, and could be human. [...]

Behind this would be the belief that any hurt was inherently a disaster. [...] If such a mother’s imagination followed her belief — as of course it would — then she would immediately perceive a great potential danger to her child in the smallest threat. Both through the mother’s actions, and telepathically, the child would receive such a message and react according to those understood beliefs.

[...] Many of you are afraid that without a feeling of guilt there would be no inner discipline, and the world would run wild. [...]

[...] The pendulum would be a method of allowing you to view conscious material that is not structured to recognized beliefs. [...]

This would not be involved particularly were it not for the fact of two subsidiary current beliefs that conflict, having to do with the weekend. [...]

[...] If it believed this, then certain portions of the brain would be activated. The brain would become aware of more of the mind’s knowledge, and the probabilities of future events would be made consciously available.

[...] If he came through like he is now, his voice would be so strong it would drown out everything else in the world. [...]

Now the brain would have to sort out this information so that the physically attuned mechanism was clearly able to maintain its temporal present. [...] To utilize future probable events, the physical brain would be forced to enlarge its function while keeping the individual in clear relationship with the present moment of power, or corporeal effectiveness. [...]

[...] The loving acceptance of yourself will allow you to ride through beliefs as you would through the changing characteristics of a countryside. [...]

The beliefs people acquire when young can be changed, of course, and according to Seth (and the ideas Jane and I have also) this process of change would be the best “inoculation” there is against senility. [...] I clearly sensed that it was possible for him to improve his beliefs about life, and that the benefits from such a course of action would be great. Nor did I merely wish he would change just so that I could avoid the pain I felt watching him deteriorate. [...]

(Long pause.) If the “earthling” spoke, the alien would of course instantly know that you were communicating creatures, and in the vocal sounds recognize patterns that contained purpose and intent. [...] From [the earthling’s] appearance the alien would be able to deduce — if it did not already know — the proportions of the various elements upon your planet; this being surmised from your method of locomotion, appendages, and the nature of your physical vision.

[...] If, for example, one adult human being were perceived by an alien from another world, certain facts would be apparent. [...]

[...] At biological levels the body often produces its own “preventative medicine,” or “inoculations,” by seeking out, for example, new or foreign substances in its environment [that are] due to nature, science or technology; it assimilates such properties in small doses, coming down with an “illness” which, left alone, would soon vanish as the body utilized what it could [of it], or socialized “a seeming invader.”

[...] He wanted brilliant teeth (humorously) for the visit of your Aerofranz (Tam Mossman), and he gave a quick but direct message when he made the phone call, that an appointment would be available before your friend arrived.

[...] The receptionist told Jane she would notify Jane of any cancellations that developed.)

[...] The land in this area would be used for any parking facility.

[...] On Thursday and Friday, May 1 & 2, surveyors were at work on the property, laying out the dimensions for a proposed parking lot that would run from W. Water St, in front of the house, to the back fence of the property, some hundred feet.)

The breaking of schedules is extremely beneficial for you also and would have made your outside job less burdensome in the past. [...]

You would do far better by trying to bring these out into the open on your own parts and encourage them on the part of your mate; the angers or aggressions or misunderstandings, when you let them out and discuss them and feel them. [...]

[...] That aspect of your life would simply be another challenge for the two of you to face together if you admitted this deeper disappointment and did something about it.

[...] They show up in your creative work, for otherwise you would have been far freer. [...]