“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Left alone, the self and the body are so entwined that the separation would be smooth. The body would automatically follow the wishes of the inner self. [...]

[...] In many such cases, a more natural death would have ensued in any event as the result of “diseases.” [...] This purpose would be entwined with the parents’ intent. [...]

[...] Our appreciation of life has expanded greatly — and if the Seth material did nothing but help us grow in that respect, it would perform a very valuable service. [...]

[...] You [Jane and Rob, or Ruburt and Joseph] were both born with certain abilities, and you knew ahead of time that you would have to enlarge the framework of conventional concepts if you were to have room to use those abilities. [...]

[...] Ruburt set out, of course, to handle his own purposes and challenges, but he chose those in the context of your world, so that in encountering them personally he would encounter them for your society as well. [...]

[...] That kind of trust is behind all of man’s curiosity, for without a trust in the world he would never have the courage to explore it. [...]

[...] Against that image of course he feels inadequate, and of course such an image would make him lose faith in himself to some degree; so it is very important that you realize how well you have both done in many areas of activity, and that you reinforce each other in those directions. [...]

If you did, other issues would take care of themselves. [...]

[...] Word would be relayed to us, presumably in 330. [...]

[...] I thought her spell might fit in with Seth’s recent material that her blue periods would gradually vent themselves away. [...]

[...] “I thought Seth would come back,” Jane said, “but it’s getting late.” [...]

[...] It would certainly be a practical use of such psychic abilities, I thought.

(The session was also witnessed by Diane Sorino, a friend of Rich’s. Jane and I sat for the session by 8:45, to see if one would be held, etc. Rich had not seen a session before, although he was somewhat cognizant of what would take place.

[...] In another past life, Seth said he had been a member of a religion that no longer existed in our terms; that he would tell Jane and me about it some time, and that we would find it very interesting.

I would like the book, mine, to run approximately the same length as the one which he has just finished. [...]

[...] The organization of the world would not exist otherwise, in any terms. [...] For that matter, this of course applies to many important communication systems within the body itself, and to the constant alteration of cellular tissue and genetic material that would never be perceived through physical means.

(I mentioned that it would be interesting to get from Seth sometime information about the counterpart—families of consciousness concepts as pertaining to other than human creatures. [...]

If physical form is made up of such multitudinous, invisible particles, how much more highly organized must be the inner components of consciousness, without whose perceptions matter itself would be meaningless. [...]

[...] Further changes are indeed happening, as I said they would. [...]

[...] Maybe things would have been different. [...] When I asked her if she wanted to be buried or cremated, she expressed no strong wish for either mode, but finally chose cremation — maybe because I said what would I do if I wanted to move out of town a few years after she’d been buried. [...]

[...] Jane said I could take up with Sue — although I doubt if Sue would care to do that.

[...] After watching her behavior as the month passed, I could see that she was indeed starving herself, and would die if she kept it up. [...]

[...] “If only I could get a little peace of mind, how wonderful it would be,” she said.

[...] Jane would find herself speaking a few lines, then waiting for more to come, which she would then dutifully recite. [...]

[...] Correctly interpreted, they would lead as mentioned earlier to an unsuspected unpredictability of integers under certain conditions, and the unpredictability is the clue that would lead to the thus-far hidden values. [...]

[...] The value of the integers would seem to dissolve (pause) at the speed of light, but it is precisely here that the minus numbers take over and become, or take on, the value of the positive numbers.

[...] When the data stopped flowing Jane would just relax and wait for things to come through again. [...]

[...] Betty would like a copy of the data to study some of the other points. [...]

This applies to both of you, although Ruburt would be more open about initial encounters if he had your support. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You are not to avoid contact, and to do us full justice this would be impossible. [...]

[...] His wife is anxious for him, and the engagement will give him new impetus that would carry him for several years. [...]

[...] Earlier in this work I hinted at the hypothetical existence of a truly fulfilled earth-person — with a hyphen.¹ All of the spiritual, mental, and biological abilities would be actualized to whatever extent possible. Each physical body — in its own way, now, following its own individual peculiarities — would develop whatever skills it chose and found comfortable. Bodily abilities, however, would be freely expressed so that one woman might be a great runner, or a man excel at swimming. Physical endurance of the kind now considered extraordinary would be the norm. At the same time, all of the latent spiritual and mental qualities would be fulfilled in a like manner, so that all of the potentials of the species would find actualization in the most developed way in the experience of each individual. All aspects of the sciences and the arts would be explored.

[...] This does not mean that a different kind of education would not bring those ideals closer. [...]

Those seeds form the physical races, which are all variations on a theme, or as Ruburt would say, eccentricities² of an everchanging model. [...]

(10:20.) It is quite obvious that people must die — not only because otherwise you would overpopulate your world into extinction, but because the nature of consciousness requires new experience, challenge, and accomplishment. [...] (Pause.) If there were no death, you would have to invent it (smile) — for the context of that selfhood would be as limited as the experience of a great sculptor given but one hunk of stone (with quiet dramatic emphasis).¹

[...] At least for a while, consciousness would accommodate them very well. The final irony of all may develop, however: Jane added that the suicide rate would rise considerably after the many implications associated with extended lifetimes began to penetrate human consciousness. People, she said, at last openly recognizing the great necessity and desirability of biological death, would in many instances simply “turn themselves off.”

[...] Only a fool would say that ideas were nonexistent, however, or deny their importance.

[...] Disease of any kind, as well as aging itself, would have to be controlled absolutely.

[...] Otherwise the data would make no sense to the physical organism, and would not register. [...]

[...] I would pick up Jane and we would be free.

[...] This was at a time when Seth was beginning to fill us in on the power of expectation; Jane insisted that the car would be ready when we went back for it. [...] The incident had upset me considerably, in a way that would not bother me now.

[...] Sooner or later we are going to have to discuss the ways in which what would appear to be sensual perception is made available to an individual when the physical body, with its senses, perceives an event at which it cannot be said to be present.

I told you that this book would change your lives. Not only would it represent the beginning of financial changes for the better, but it will affect your dealings with your fellow man, and put you in a different relationship with them. [...] The means and the energy will be given to you both, or you would not have progressed to this stage.

[...] It is therefore fairly natural that when this accomplishment is being exteriorized he would become frightened of the opinion of his brethren. [...]

[...] Were he better known he would be informed of them, or if he lived nearby for example. [...]

[...] I could not give it to you otherwise, for you would be unable to accept it. [...]

[...] Jim would attempt to bring one of the friends with him Friday. Bill Macdonnel, the witness to the 46th session, would also be there.

[...] Note, also, that at the close of the 46th session, Seth had remarked that he would “speak to you Monday if not before.”)

This session is outside of our regular sessions because I have known that Roarck would finally be drawn here, and it is for his benefit that I have called the session. [...]

[...] If I did not take advantage of your own camouflage system, then you would not be able to understand the material at this time.

Being shorter also would bring about physical alterations that would themselves protect against instinct or animal behavior. [...]

[...] So he would become shorter.

[...] He felt they would not understand his mental properties. [...]

[...] She knew she would survive, because she was aware of your knowledge. [...]

[...] So far neither Jane nor I have in any way perceived Dr. Pietra, or had any kind of experience that we would connect with him or this data. [...] The initial 7-hour period mentioned by Seth would have placed Dr. Pietra within our environment early on the morning of June 10, perhaps an hour before our usual rising time. Jane and I gave ourselves suggestions that we would perceive Dr. P at that time, but nothing developed.

[...] At break now Jane told me she had a “flash” that my “Uncle Ernie was, or would have been, the son that Dr. Pietra would have in this reality.”

[...] Tell yourself that you would like to travel through that passageway, and that he will be there to help you do so.

[...] In a manner of speaking, now, it would make little difference which man was finally given the kingly robes—for the greater reality of the dream was so encompassing that it would come to be, whether one or 10 or 20 men’s lives were historically joined together to form the Christ. [...]

Because of the beliefs of religion, the child expected God to show his power through some disastrous act by which sinners would be punished. [...]

[...] The scientist will see the affair as relatively neutral —an event, however, in which man is certainly a pawn, caught by chance in a catastrophe that he would otherwise most certainly avoid. [...]

[...] It is almost impossible in your time to describe man’s reality when he was consciously aware that he would die and yet not die, and when he was everywhere surrounded by those inner data of his psyche.

You felt that commercial art would work financially, because it belonged to the times, yet even then the comic book market, you felt, was falling beneath you as the public’s ideas changed, and (Mickey) Spillane’s comic strip fell beneath censure. You simply would not, later, curry the world’s favor with your paintings—even if, through hard work, financial success might follow. [...]

[...] He disliked the public from that moment on, and felt resentful toward those whose pictures he took, that his livelihood would be at the expense of their favor.

[...] On the other hand he carried the beliefs of this afternoon’s dream—that originality made a person instantly suspect, and that in the ordinary world, if you put yourself in the world’s eye its people would hunt you down. [...]

The exaggerated fears carried threats not simply of scorn, but as you so clearly put it the other evening “Those people would burn us at the stake if they had the chance.” [...]

[...] You would perceive it simply as a visual object, but these people were great synthesizers. A line was not simply a visual line, but according to an almost infinite variety of distinctions and divisions, it would also represent certain sounds that would be automatically translated.

Now: Before we discuss the third civilization, there are a few more points I would like to make about the second one.

[...] In what would appear to be a drawing of an animal, then, the entire history or background of the animal might also be given. [...]

[...] But the keys to interpretation have been completely lost, so all you could see would be a drawing devoid of the multisensual elements that gave it such great variety. [...]

[...] These are far from opposing characteristics, and without an aggressive thrust, symbols would lack their high mobility. They would exist in a permanent kind of environment.

[...] It would not occur to them that this phenomenon originated outside of their own system.

If I were to make the same statement for example to any of my readers, I would be accused of saying that physical reality was composed of the discards of the universe.

[...] Without physical storms you would all go insane.

[...] You felt that a family life would automatically plunge you into the kind of living that would not allow you such luxury. [...]

[...] Then Jane dictated the words quoted above, saying Seth would probably cover them in tonight’s session. [...]

[...] This would be a sign of the spontaneous change Seth mentioned in a late session. [...]

[...] You were rather repressed at that period, frightened about your own work, and sometimes you would ignore Ruburt’s occasional sexual advances when you happened to be in your studio. [...]