“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Ruburt was then using Larry’s, knowing that to some degree it would pierce both levels, and he hoped to compare what Larry said in each reality.

[...] Here he reverted however to ordinary conscious behavior, thinking, “There must be a storm,” and that a weather report would tell him its course.

[...] No doctor stood in the parking lot with a monkey on a leash, yet in other terms the event was literal, for your doctors feel that they must control the animal in you to heal, and that without their leash the animals would run wild. [...]

[...] I recognize your problems—but that sequence alone, done properly, would require sessions.

[...] None of our sessions, or his own natural development would ever bother him. The question was how these could be related to the world, how people would interpret or misinterpret, or how he would be regarded—for he took it for granted that anyone offering revolutionary ideas would be punished or ostracized.

You would paint pictures, then, but not show them. [...] There are many variations on the same thing that the artist, the revolutionary thinker, the genius, would be punished by his fellow men, or even be betrayed by his own abilities. [...]

[...] Instead of the people giving him handouts as a child, where he had to be careful of what he did and said, he saw them as contributing to his welfare through buying his books, and if he went too far and offended them, they would stop.

[...] The idea however has been, the more secret you were, each of you, the better off you were, while at the same time your individual and joint creativity would be known. [...]

It would seem, therefore, that what you call consciousness might be the result of this combination. That is, it would seem that self-consciousness was the result of this combination. [...]

If you would give me my due credit, Ruburt, you would not need to stew half as much. [...]

[...] Since this material was so interesting we decided to wait and see if Seth would take up our own personal experiences with psychological time later in this session. [...]

[...] The combination of individual consciousness into a combination forms a new, enlarged, more powerful cellular consciousness that is capable of much more experience and fulfillment than would be possible for the isolated atom or molecule.

[...] On the one hand I didn’t want her to feel I was pressuring her for a test every session; on the other hand I wondered whether she would think I was taking it easy on her if I skipped the test. So I thought I would see what developed in the session.

The suggestion itself, you see, being action, has its own electromagnetic reality, and since the suggestion would be a constructive one, it would already begin to set certain healing processes into motion, and spark the formation of others. [...]

(Not having heard from her publisher yet, as he had promised she would by now, Jane wrote and mailed to him a pretty stiff letter. [...]

[...] Whether it would prove to be short stories, a novel or poetry, she did not yet know.

[...] It was known that only by presenting the material in writing, and eventually in books, that his personality would accept it. He would also be driven to critically analyze the phenomena (hyphen)—and in books, because he is a writer—before he felt free enough to simply create (period).

(It also seemed that both of us had made the decision to confine the psychic work to sessions only, which I thought would at this time automatically shut down a lot of possible developments. I also felt there was a strong possibility the sessions themselves would go by the board unless Jane showed much improvement before too much more time passed. [...]

[...] The fears about being an official psychic were to see that he did not fall into the temptation of allowing all the dogmas to be tacked upon the phenomena, so that he would not operate within old frameworks, and therefore tacitly give voice consent to them.

[...] Now much of this would have frightened you both in the past, and could not have been given until you reached a particular point of development, and achieved a new status both separately and in your relationship.

[...] You would see this quite clearly with plants, animals, and all other life if you were not so blinded by beliefs to the contrary. You would feel it in the activity of your bodies, in which the vital individual affirmation of your cells brings about the mass, immensely complicated achievement of your physical being. [...]

In a natural state, many children would die stillborn for the same reasons, or would be naturally aborted. [...]

[...] [Those] plagues took rich and poor alike, however, so the complacent well-to-do could see quite clearly, for example, that to some extent sanitary conditions, privacy, peace of mind, had to be granted to the poor alike, for the results of their dissatisfaction would have quite practical results. [...]

[...] It may appear that left alone the body would surely develop whatever disease might be “fashionable” at the time, so that the specific victory might result in the ultimate defeat as far as your beliefs are concerned.

[...] [WHO won’t officially declare smallpox done away with for a year or so, while waiting to see if any new cases surface.] Or would smallpox appear again, say 10 years from now? Obviously, I said to Jane more than once, if as an entity smallpox could “think” as we do, it would hardly consider itself bad, or such an awful disease or scourge. [...] What would we humans say if that happened? Smallpox’s reappearance would undoubtedly be rationalized: It had lain hidden or dormant in some uninvestigated pocket of humanity; or it was a mutation, somehow “evolving” into smallpox from one of the closely related animal poxes.

[...] On the next day, March 1, the page proofs for Seth’s Psyche arrived from the publisher, but we could see that going over that much shorter book would be easy compared to our protracted labors for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. [...]

[...] Only an objectively tuned consciousness like man’s would imagine that the physical eradication of a species destroyed its existence.”

[...] Medicine men, through certain ceremonies, would try to rid the body of the demons — and those methods worked also. [...]

I would have thought that my friend Ruburt would have realized what he was about.

[...] (Long pause.) What we would like is the ability to fully perceive both the inner world and the outer world, to alternate between them. [...]

[...] And I would also suggest that he forget his psychological time experiments until next Monday.

[...] She was surprised at the quick ending to the session; she had hoped Seth would discuss other material also. [...]

[...] If there were no diseases as you think of them, there would be no life forms at all. [...] Most of you, my readers, understand that if you did not sleep you would die. [...] It goes without saying that without death and disease — for the two go hand in hand — then normal corporeal existence would be impossible.

[...] Jane feared that if she got Marie mad, Marie would get sick and die. [...]

[...] Walking barefoot on a bed of fire would most likely cause most of you, my readers, to feel the most acute pain — while in some primitive societies, under certain conditions the same situation could result instead in feelings of ecstasy or joy.

His experiences are entirely different than they would have been. In terms of probability, he took a new probable road, which means that his individual impact upon the world, and everyone he meets, will also be different and more creative than it would have been before.

For a while I would like that done twice weekly. Then, however, I would like you each, for one-half hour twice a week, to use your own separate relaxation techniques. [...]

(She had no idea what Seth would talk about tonight. [...]

[...] To some extent through the books you are helping people alter their psychic organizations, to look at the world in a different fashion, and therefore to view a different world—a world in which their experiences are different than they would have been otherwise.

If all men could learn to love, in terms of which I have spoken, then there would be no need for any kind of punishment within your field, and the word would vanish from your vocabulary. [...]

[...] It would be foolhardy to ignore the results of such activity. [...]

[...] I would prefer to discuss it most thoroughly. [...]

[...] The daily walk that you plan is not only an excellent idea, but had you carried this through in the past, there is a good possibility that you would not have become ill. [...]

[...] (Long pause, eyes closed.) She and Ruburt chose a relationship that would terminate, so the two would go their separate ways. [...]

[...] Marie’s purposes were her own, but the two obviously embarked on a relationship together, knowing that it would go so far and be relatively unsatisfactory. [...]

As I stated before, Ruburt was not responsible for his mother’s illness, the break-up of her marriage, the deaths of his grandmother and housekeeper (long pause), and had he had brothers or sisters, for example, they would have reacted in their own fashions to Marie’s behavior. [...]

[...] It would never have occurred to your mother to try short stories. [...]

Now a session for you earlier would not have had the impact of this one, or I would have given you such a session. [...]

I am saying then that some of your interpretations of the relationship were based on what you would call factual reality, but part was also based on your own insecurity.

[...] Then you would be free to accept her as a person. [...]

[...] It did not seem to you that you could become as strong as you felt him to be then—that whatever you did you would fall short.

[...] It would do you all good. You would not stand for it, but it would do you good. [...]

I would not like it, but it would be a good idea for them. It would get them in shape. [...]

There are, indeed then, connections between you that you would call past connections but connections that also reach into the future as you conceive of it. [...]

They were particularly concerned in the beginning with developing a human being who would have built-in safeguards against violence. With them, the desire for peace was almost what you would call an instinct. [...] When the mind signaled strong aggression, the body would not react. [...]

[...] Therefore much of their knowledge was instinctive with them, and this particular group then went through what you would call the various technological stages very rapidly.

[...] Its technology was extremely activated, and propelled onward as it strove to develop, for example, artificial foods so that it would not need to kill for survival in any way.

[...] They well understood the evils of violence in earthly terms, but they would have denied the individual’s right to learn this his own way, and thus prevented the individual from using his own methods, creatively, to turn the violence into constructive areas. [...]

They would emerge. The neurological structures would create new pathways to accommodate such knowledge when the knowledge itself was sought for. [...]

This would seem to deny the idea of progression, since I tell you that all portions or all guises, or all aspects and all levels, of any given personality exist at once. [...]

In your state of development you cannot easily understand the meaning of the word “purpose,” for to you the term itself implies an eventual rigidity, a goal with an end, a progression, literally, toward a nothingness that it would have to follow once a goal in those terms was achieved.

[...] (Pause.) The other personality (smile), which is also myself, has a warm spot in its heart for me (stronger, forceful voice), though again, he would not put it in those terms. [...]

([John B:] “Are things going as you said they would at Searle? [...]

[...] Otherwise it would have taken longer, you see.

[...] If there was a chance of this it would be a remote one, and unexpected.

(After John B. had left, Jane said she felt that many of Seth’s predictions re John & Searle would work out soon, & all at once. [...]

[...] While within the systems in which I work there are certain basic similarities, in some dimensions I would not be equipped to be a teacher simply because the basic concepts of experience would be alien to my nature, and the learning processes themselves outside of my own experience.

[...] We are aware of what you would call our past selves, those personalities we have adopted in various other existences.

[...] All of my deaths would have been adventures had I realized what I know now. [...]

We enjoy a sense of play that is highly spontaneous, and yet I suppose you would call it responsible play. [...]

[...] The energy then that would be used in complete physical construction of the idea into material form is, rather, transfixed; held, suspended more or less alive, yet incompleted, and therefore in many respects immortal.

[...] And it would seem from within those fields that time as you know it is involved. [...]

[...] In our basic universe the tree, while remaining stationary, would nevertheless fall crashing into the water.

This would happen as follows. [...]

The woman has strongly resisted the hypnosis sessions, and has suffered relapses rather than suffer the intense psychic and psychological reorganization that would be necessary for any meaningful recovery.

[...] No one would have him because of his daughter. [...]

[...] No one would have him. [...]

[...] The personality could not and would not, out of fear, try to understand the circumstances and position of the crippled daughter. [...]