“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I use the word purposely to show the danger, because such an occurrence would be a setback, not only to your present personality but indirectly for your entity, since you would be further away from it than you are now. [...]

[...] She said that Seth would have outdistanced her had she insisted on keeping to the board. [...]

Looking back, you can say that this effect was therapeutic, but if you had subconsciously accepted the images it would have marked the beginning of a severe deterioration for you both personally and creatively. [...]

[...] In this case, your present dominant personalities would no longer be dominant.

[...] Jane agreed; as session time drew near tonight she said she thought Seth would discuss the storm, and our weather in general. [...]

[...] Perhaps the word abundance of chemical energy would be more correct. [...]

[...] Without the outlet, the constructive outlet provided it in the formation of its own weather environments, the physical organism would have little balance or stability.

[...] Jane’s slower and quiet manner had made me more aware of the storm and I had wondered whether it would bother her, but she said she had been aware of nothing while speaking.

[...] Your abilities would meet some conflict in terms of religious, sexual, and social beliefs. This conflict would in a certain fashion sharpen the issues. To meet with these, Ruburt for example adopted certain beliefs that at various times would be helpful.

To some extent or another you chose abilities ahead of time that would at least partially meet conflict with the society in which you were born. [...]

He kept it to protect himself and to protect you, artistically and economically, so that for example you would not have a child to support or to turn you from your lone purpose. [...]

[...] I believe, now, if you saw the same results you would each have better sense than to let them go by the board.

(Long pause at 7:44.) Now, he more or less thinks that he must and should return to “work” immediately, where instead a more relaxed attitude would allow his natural feelings, his love of ideas and his interest in our work to naturally show their results again, with the most natural balance of recuperation. That is, a rhythm would be found, and so it shall as the pressure is off. [...]

[...] “If it was me,” I said, and I probably shouldn’t have, “I couldn’t wait to get something on what’s going on, in the hope that it would help.” [...]

[...] This would save a trip to St. Joseph’s Hospital next Monday, and perhaps speed things up a bit, for I felt that Jane could now use a boost in thyroid activity through a stronger dose of supplement, Synthroid. [...]

[...] “Anything,” she said, rocking back and forth in her chair, meaning she was trying to stay awake and would accept whatever she could get. [...]

[...] The first: ‘I will wake up after each of my first five dreams and record each one immediately.’ The second alternative wording would be the same as the one I have just given, but the ‘wake up’ would be omitted. [...]

[...] The very motor responses demanded on the part of the body and the extra arousal tendency would force you to lose a good deal of valid material. I would prefer that you work less, if necessary, using the recorder in the bedroom, than work more intensively leaving the recorder in another room.

[...] A secondary personality would also use different gestures. Either way, this would be no proof of my independent nature, but I’m glad to see you’ve been thinking about it.

[...] Though Seth told us that the experiments in dream recall would automatically make our consciousness more flexible, his real meaning didn’t come through to me until I found myself manipulating dreams and later having out-of-body experiences from the dream state.

[...] Ruburt hoped his talent would bring him some kind of magical translation of his father’s supposed wealth. [...]

Today he was afraid, for one thing, that if he left himself alone he would just write poetry that very well might not sell. [...]

[...] So Ruburt became somewhat suspicious when he considered creativity of his own, and afraid that it would not sell because it was creative.

The improvements do show that his beliefs are changing, and some of his anger today was simply energy that he has been withholding from himself for fear that it would not be correctly used. [...]

(Jim Poett said that we would see the article before it’s printed, at our insistence; I’d find it strange indeed to cooperate with a venture that would end up taking us apart in ways we didn’t approve of. [...]

[...] No commitments have been made, and I’m anxious that Jane consider whether she even wants the interview, as well as the questions that would then arise, should she answer yes.

[...] It was the most vital area of his life, so quite on his own he decided that he would forgo motherhood and a conventional family life.

If he were free of fear, it seemed to him, he would do so. [...]

[...] I began to doubt myself, feeling that my natural leanings would lead me into areas considered suspect by others; that instead of rewards, there would be tinges at least of dishonor. [...]

[...] A recognition of that simple statement would indeed change your world.”

[...] If that were the case, it would take more than a world-sized globe to contain the consciousness of simply one cell”

Forgive the terminology, but you each believed in “magic,” or the sessions never would have started. [...]

[...] With attitudes like that, the sessions would never have begun. [...]

[...] You would not help anyone by jumping off of the liner to see whether or not the ocean was in fact dangerous without a boat. Instead you would show others how to board such craft.

[...] When you do, then you pick up such threats almost as if you believed this would somehow compensate.

In such a system therefore your ideas of present, past and future would not exist. Nor would your idea of one and only one event at a time be understood. [...]

[...] In your terms then, he would seem to delve into each moment in all of its probabilities, so that in your time on the one hand many centuries would have passed, and on the other hand only an instant.

There would be many respects however where they would not agree, and I mention this similarity only to make my idea somewhat more clear to you.

I would like to give you some more material this evening concerning our inverted time system, for when you understand how it operates then you can begin to take advantage of it more readily.

If you could go further however you would come, in one dimension, to matter again. This would be what you call negative matter. Then going further you would travel away from matter again, until there was no more. And then there would be positive matter again, and so on.

(Try as we would neither of us could recall just when we picked up this particular leaf, other than that it was in the early fall. [...]

It is only because you are so hypnotized with ideas of beginning and endings that you persist in searching for them in the universe, and you distort data that would otherwise be clear to you. [...]

[...] The energy itself is so intense that it would seem that their size was considerable, but this is not the case.

(Before the session Jane said she had no idea of what Seth would talk about. [...]

(One minute pause.) There are several points I would like to make. [...]

[...] It varies according to your own abilities, and without it you would feel lost indeed. [...]

[...] However at your period of development it would be simpler to have everything working for you that you can. [...]

I did not recommend that Ruburt call off the substitute job because he would not have faced this through if he had done so earlier.

[...] Jane knew that I would have one tonight.

[...] Such as, for example, a small license plate, that would carry numbers and notations, and be metallic and connected with travel. [...]

[...] But she puzzled over why the A would crop up now, since she never uses it. [...]

(The calendar data would be another reference to the memo pad and calendar idea explained earlier. In a more literal interpretation, as explained Gladys Austin wrote the memo to Jane on November 8, with the specific intention that Jane would meet Nancy Methinitus on November 9. This she did. [...]

[...] The future connection it would seem—January or February perhaps.” It is possible that a number four connection also applies here, for Jane is on Christmas-New Year’s vacation from her job, until Wednesday January 4. This data would be legitimate, in that the envelope object refers to the teaching job at the JCC.

[...] The physical brains alone, the unused portions, have it within their ability, for example, to hear color, to smell sound; in other words, these portions contain among other things functions, unused mainly, that would allow you to perceive physical reality in various other fashions. [...]

It is possible (underlined) that the psychedelic experience for these individuals would involve consciousness expansion directed toward (underlined) usual physical reality, and bring about a more unified personality structure from society’s standpoint. [...]

[...] The inner senses are not accustomed to operating so freely and this upsets that all-present ego, and would seem sometimes to drive it to distraction.

Now there is a point I would like to make regarding your inner visions, my dear Joseph, and also concerning any perceptions of this sort whether through pictures or any other means.

(During break I also mentioned that I hoped Seth would discuss my sensations of last Saturday evening. [...]

[...] I would like to say something about Joseph’s experience the other evening, but I also want to go into the invention of the soul.

If you closed your mind and refused to see a whole tree, nothing would convince you that the part you did not see existed. [...] However, you would find some explanation, rather than the right one. If some few individuals began to question the shape of trees, and some therefore began to see whole trees, you would undoubtedly call them mad, be completely unbothered, and feel yourselves justified.

But if some of these individuals who saw whole trees began eating the fruits of the other side of the trees, you would be up in arms. You would call the fruits, I am sure, extra benefits or extrasensory perceptions. [...]

[...] Recognition in physical life of the whole self would do much to negate this death fear, since there are rather pleasant psychological experiences which are akin to the experience of death, and which would prepare the personality for this eventuality.

[...] As she wondered how she would do this evening, she received the following:)

It would have been quite possible for you as a race to have chosen any other “series” of neurological pulses, or messages, as the “real” ones, and to structure your experience along different lines. The biological structure and the mental consciousness together, however, chose the most comfortable sequence in which a present area of activity, brought about by neurological recognition, would be backed up by unconscious mental knowledge and other biologically invisible neurological connections.

[...] I think readers would be interested.” I’d been hoping Seth would go into this. [...]

[...] It was inevitable, however, that ego consciousness would produce a reality in which it would finally need, in those terms, to accept other data and information that in the beginning it had to ignore.

Though the past is actually quite as immediate, alive, and creative as the present is, man made certain adjustments, on several layers, that would focus definite distinctions and set past and present experience apart. [...]

[...] This short session would not even be necessary except that I was not sure if you would consider the suggestion as legitimate if I did not give it in a normal manner, or should I say a formal manner.

[...] Had I realized that your food center was not in one place I would certainly have made this suggestion earlier. [...]

[...] Otherwise I would have made no suggestions.