“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] If you would express yourself more often as you did in your paper, either through poetry or prose or painting, you would feel great release. You would also learn things about yourself, and you would recognize the strength of your own individuality and not feel as though you had to go running hunted through the grasses, all kinds of grasses. [...]

[...] A universe in which, therefore, following logically, your consciousness is a combination of an accidental conglomeration of atoms and molecules without reason or cause that will vanish into nonexistence forever even as, indeed, they would have come from nonexistence. [...]

[...] If I hit myself on the head, I would want to know why. [...]

Now if I had my own eyes to work with you would have something to complain about. [...]

[...] I would interpret the blueness of the finger as a probably [sic] indication that the medication was right on target but tended to make things worse before it got better. [...] The very feet that the granulations seemed redder would go along with this. [...]

(Jane said it would be easier to block any material that frightened her while she was pacing about. [...] This might remove the impact from words or phrases that ordinarily would alert her to block them.

[...] She was, however, worried somewhat about what control she would have over the material if, in the prone position, she was in a deeper trance.

This procedure, and your consent, will give Ruburt a feeling of trust without which I do not believe he would otherwise proceed. [...]

Nor would I have attempted such a procedure until I knew that Ruburt was ready for it, or at least ready to begin it, for this is but a beginning. [...]

(We’ve begun getting letters mentioning Mass Events—all laudatory—and these have helped, as Seth mentioned they would.

[...] Tam has requested that we send him a letter outlining our position re a competent professional translator of the French Seth Speaks. I was going to do the letter this weekend, but didn’t. I asked Jane if she would write the letter, and she agreed to. [...]

[...] I’d say that it would do so even if she had no hassles of her own. [...]

It would be most handy for him after some thinking to draw up his own statements of the areas of his main concentrations. [...]

[...] “What I think would happen if Seth were free to do anything he wanted to, would be great,” I said. [...]

It often seems to him that to relax is to be lax, to let down, do nothing, achieve nothing, as if spontaneously left alone he would be lazy, unambitious, and again lax. [...] (Pause.) At the same time there are feelings that to relax would be to let go too much (louder)—slide into overly spontaneous behavior, to lack control over one’s life, to lose the observer’s fine focus. [...]

[...] What she should be stressing, I said, was that she trusted her spontaneous self—then the body would automatically react to the release of tension, to her trust in that spontaneous self. [...]

(“The insight also reminds me of one of my questions for Seth: I plan to ask him for hints about what sort of ideas he would advance if he’s given the freedom to do so by Jane. [...]

If this were not so, the subconscious would not only see to it that the body was in ordinary good health under any conditions, but it would automatically refuse to allow any individual to put its health in jeopardy.

[...] In the past, and with beliefs not understood, Ruburt would become depressed, or you would, so it is important that that activation be understood.

I would like you both to try a slightly different emphasis—but a highly important one, in the way in which you look at Ruburt’s situation.

[...] As much as possible, I would like Ruburt to remember these comparisons, for he is just becoming aware of certain habitual thoughts that accompany motion—walking, say, or getting up or down. [...]

The church ignored Christ’s physical birth, for example, and made his mother an immaculate virgin, which meant that the consciousness of the species would for a longer time ignore its relationship with nature and its feminine aspects. [...] God the Father would be recognized and the Earth Goddess forgotten. There would be feudal lords, therefore, not seeresses. [...] Man would believe he did indeed have dominion over the earth as a separate species, for God the Father had given it to him.

Rising ego consciousness then would have its religious reasons for domination and control. [...] On the other hand, holy wars and ignorance would keep the population down. [...]

[...] The cells’ practically felt “Now” includes, then, what you would think of as past and future, as simple conditions of Nowness. [...]

[...] When, in historic terms, the race was in the process of adopting a necessary artificial separation of itself from the rest of nature; when it needed to be assured of its abilities to do so; when it took upon itself the task of a particular kind of specialization and individual focus, it needed a religion that would assure it of its abilities.

[...] Such a venture would also help Ruburt feel that he was holding his own financially in the universe. This would be good for his confidence as well as for the bank account.

[...] Advertising, printing, editing, etc., would be involved.)

[...] Somewhat earlier his energies were so depleted that it would have been more difficult for him to do this in a rather sweeping manner, and this is what I suggest.

[...] Otherwise it would be impossible for you to give it as much time as will later be required.

Now if I were coming here for fun, I would indeed enjoy smiles and light and conversation. I would not, however, think of coming to such a sober group for fun. [...]

[...] As our new friend would say, “Now we are getting down to the nitty-gritty.” [...]

[...] If I could give you indulgences then I would. [...]

[...] You try to tint the fears with smiles, you try to pat it as you would a dog in hopes that it will not bite (words lost) you. [...]

[...] You would learn nothing, or very little.

The suggestions mentioned, had you used them consistently, would have changed your own reactions to the Miss Callahan incidents, and allowed you greater freedom. [...]

[...] If you had done so, dear friend, you would not have become ill. [...]

These measures will greatly benefit you, but they would not be necessary if you conquered the condition from the subjective end. [...]

[...] They would seem to pulsate. To you they would seem to disappear for eons. [...]

[...] A nuclear weapon in the hands of the inhabitants of middle-age Europe would have been used almost immediately, and with nary a qualm, to wipe out all but Christendom. [...]

Christendom may well have perished along with the rest of the world, but this possibility would not have been considered, so narrow and evilly self-righteous were the governing powers at the time. [...]

[...] The progression through the centuries would be far more noticeable if you knew all the facts. [...]

(I also stressed that our changing attitudes would be sure to change our attitudes toward others—that instead of trying to act “normally” toward strangers when they came here, especially when they were unannounced, we should simply be ourselves, secure in the abilities of our own natures; if any of these actions could be taken as “flamboyant” in a negative way, then so be it. That would be their hassle, not ours, I added. [...] I added that it would be ironic and hilarious indeed that if this new behavior brought to us everything we’d always wanted for our life’s work.

The couple represented old fears; again, interpretations of your father’s beliefs, that young couples become trapped by the fires of desire, and could not escape; that the man could not hold himself apart, but would be devoured by the sentiments of love that would consume him. [...]

[...] All of them, recognized as a part of his nature, would basically work together in the most auspicious, satisfying, and fulfilling of fashions. [...]

[...] In the past he cut the desires down, to make sure that the most important prerogatives would be met, but his picture of reality was too small. [...]

[...] Otherwise Ruburt would have been overwhelmed with pity at calls that would have been received by Midge.

(Jane added that “If I opened my mouth, I feel like my voice would really fly out real loud, as though I’ve got all this energy and don’t know what to do with it.” [...]

Therefore the burned feet kept you there, yet the burn itself you accepted as a symbol of your fear that you would get burned if you did stay. [...]

You also wanted to have an excuse, and a good one, so that you would not have to go out with the couple, lest they become unmanageable. [...]

[...] Without it there would be an “out of focus” effect that would make physical survival impossible, so certain portions of the inner self come to the foreground of being.

[...] He wondered if people unacquainted with glasses and suddenly introduced to them would develop a need for them; and they would.

In that context you can even appear taller, and affect others as if you were — which would usually be what you wanted in any case under the circumstances. [...]

The same kind of sound built the Pyramids, and it was not sound that you would hear with your physical ears. [...]

The subconscious, in this rather ludicrous analogy, would exist between the two brains and would enable the creature to operate as a single entity. At the same time — and this is the difficult part to explain — neither of the two faces would ever ‘see’ the other’s world. They would not be aware of each other, yet each would be fully conscious.

During the interview Jack asked me if Seth would come through. [...] Actually, since I hadn’t gone into trance on any other programs, I doubted I would now. [...]

For this reason alone, I would like to believe that his abilities were mine, that in the trance state, my own latent talents were operating without obstruction, freed from the normal hang-ups and distractions that annoy us all and hamper our development. I would like to think that for a few short hours a week, at least, I was operating at optimum capacity — that Seth’s energy and knowledge were really mine. [...]

[...] Hadn’t I alternately hoped that he would and been reluctant at the same time?

[...] Seth went on to explain that great dimension would be given to the sessions as we progressed. He began to go into the inner senses more thoroughly and Rob really pricked up his ears, hoping that Seth would mention his three recent experiences. [...]

[...] Miss C’s family (nieces and nephews) finally said they would take the patient to the emergency room at the hospital; her doctor told Jane he would be waiting for her there. [...]

Coming in and out of Miss Cunningham’s apartment, Jane would tell me the snatches of thought she received from Seth. [...] If you had helped tonight, you would not have felt the need to turn your emotions inward against yourself in such a self-destructive manner.’”

[...] If I were as dependent upon them as you are, I would use them better. [...]

[...] For if people “knew better,” then places like the hospital would be empty, and all the people in them would be working at other kinds of jobs. [...]

[...] This would give her great freedom to read by herself at any time of the day or night. It would be very liberating, I said, truly. [...]

[...] He is doing much better than the doctor thought that he would, while often refusing to follow the conventional course of action that the good doctor advised. [...]

[...] (In Mass Events, for instance.) If people were not sick they would not need doctors (quietly amused), and since many people are unaware consciously of their own motives, then the doctors and the patients are often in league with each other, helping to maintain the dis-ease. [...]

[...] Had another emotionally-oriented person been present the balance would have been upset, and nothing would have happened. Had another passive person been present, the same would apply.

[...] Ruburt’s personality is so constructed that he would not allow himself to take any real chances.

The initial experience however almost had to be spontaneous at this time, or it would not have occurred. [...]

If you are awakened for any reason during the night, the chances for a conscious projection on your return to sleep are somewhat higher than they would have been had your sleep not been interrupted.

[...] The situation triggered many fears, about you and Ruburt being alone, your age, the age of your brothers, who would come to your aid, or Ruburt’s. If necessary, Leonard at least had a knowledge of the medical world, while you and Ruburt do not. [...] One event or another would serve to connect all of those issues. This noon, for example, after going downtown, leaving your painting, you found that Ruburt wanted a few more windows done, and the innocent window became a symbol, combining the idea of chores with your fear: if anything happened to you, who would do the chores for Ruburt? [...]

[...] The physical stimulus itself, however, would be precisely the same, but the body would react to your understanding of that stimulus. [...]

[...] That alone, you see, would be of great benefit. [...]

It goes without saying that a full-time job would better the financial situation, but this is not the sort of thing to which I am referring. Your situation could be bettered financially while you retain basically the same schedule you now enjoy, if—and a very large if—if changed expectations were creating the psychic climate in which supply would flow. Doors would open that you do not know existed.

[...] I would continue the session, but though Ruburt feels no difficulty at his end, I am involved at my end. [...]