“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

But would our time traveler ever want to give up his or her present mental and physical focus to enter completely into an earlier personality? I think not, in the overwhelming majority of cases—and perhaps never—for in those terms it would mean surrendering a portion of the whole self or entity that had, through a projection into our scheme of “present” time, attained a certain consciousness and physical form of a unique degree. [...] If so, then, they would be strange only from our limited viewpoints.

Could one return to that 12th-century life, even as an observer, what would the traveler find? [...] Interesting question: How would our 20th-century individual react when told by a visitor from the year 2355 (for example) that he or she represented one of our futurian’s “past” lives?

[...] This approach would very nicely eliminate having to deal with one’s “karma” this time around—should there really be a system of consciousness embodying that ancient concept. [...] Buddhism and Hinduism would banish the very thought: How dare one even think of escaping, or just simply ignoring, his or her “fate or destiny” (to put it loosely)! [...]

[...] Even if you think the body does have something wrong with it, then the necessary adjustments would be made in another kind of time [in Framework 2] that in Framework 1 would take no time at all—or, the amount of time you thought required.” [...]

[...] At 8 PM Jane began to clean up after her baking marathon in the event there was a session, although she wasn’t sure there would be one. [...]

[...] If I may, however, I would like to look in on you at various times over the holidays.

[...] I admit I wondered what Rev. Lowe would think, and hoped he didn’t expect something like a prayer meeting. [...] Sometimes we play rock ‘n’ roll music, for instance, while I read a poem—and this I would consider prayer.

[...] If he were out helping others, then who would mind the store? He was afraid his stock would be gone.

[...] He would not look out, and no one dared look in. He would make horrible funny faces at the window of his soul to frighten others away. [...]

[...] Were it not for past experiences in other lives on the part of deeper layers of the self, the ego would find it almost impossible to relate to other individuals, and the cohesiveness of society would not exist.

[...] Because we had a witness I didn’t think we would spend too much time checking details. Earlier in the day I had wondered what would happen if I asked Seth/Jane to go over all of the data again; I supposed Jane would take this as a sign that the first data wasn’t much good, and at break Jane said this was her thought at the time.

There are some additions, Joseph, that I would like to make concerning our inverted time system. [...]

[...] A psychologist would explain this reaction by presuming some kind of unpleasant event occurred in the past. [...]

[...] However, it is the only one that your psychologists would consider, and at least two other possible explanations exist. [...]

[...] Ruburt could easily have given impressions concerning, say, Richard Burton, to Goodheart (Bill), who would have been initially impressed, and would have spread the word. [...]

[...] He felt that the worst would happen in any given set of circumstances. You long believed emotionally that it was unrealistic to express love or hope, for circumstances would surely prove such expectations to be foolish.

[...] If they were true the world simply would not have lasted this long. [...] If anything, it adds to my argument—for if those theories really held sway, one nation or another by now would have already destroyed your world. [...]

[...] In that framework many psychologists, for example, would feel comfortable, but you offer no such bridge to anyone. [...]

[...] You will often become “allergic” to a drug simply because the body realizes that if the drug was accepted, all recourse to the solution of a particular problem would be cut off, or another more severe illness would result from the physical “cover-up” of the dilemma.

[...] If there are chemical imbalances they are often corrected quite automatically in the dream state, as you act out situations calling up the production of hormones, say, that would be summoned in a like waking situation. [...]

The role-playing in the dream drama would be one in which you creatively worked out the problems that caused the imbalances to begin with. [...]

Now: There is one point here that I would like to make. [...]

[...] There was always a great fear that the blacks as a race would escape their bounds — given an inch they would take a yard — simply because the whites so greatly feared the nature of the inner self, and recognized the power that they tried so desperately to strangle within themselves.

[...] Both the conscious and unconscious would operate far more effectively, however, under an abbreviated sleeping program, and for those involved in “creative” endeavors this kind of schedule would bring greater intuition and applied knowledge.

Individuals following such natural behavior would feel much greater stability in themselves. [...] But the flow of vitality would be heightened.

[...] You need light for painting—but you would find the nighttime good for psychic experience, and for writing. [...] Society would be restructured if the self were trusted, yet more work would be produced.

I told you when Tam was here (last week) that the books would change the nature of physical reality, and they will—to whatever degree as they alter beliefs and lead others into new experiences. [...]

[...] I suppose what bothers me about the whole thing is a sneaking feeling I have that Prentice-Hall’s attitude would be the same no matter what we thought; that they aren’t on the ball in that department.

[...] If natural rhythms were followed the greatest amounts of physical work would be produced to the greatest benefit for society at large. [...]

[...] She said that the impetus would be strong to help me on these subjects. [...]

The Jerry leads to Lewis, and there is a connection here, but not the one you would suppose. [...]

[...] If I had not told you this you would pass it by, thinking they wanted only abstracts, or your, is it—pop art?

[...] We thought Seth would clear the matter.

[...] I also would greatly like the two of you to remember your own considerable natural creativity, innovative ideas, and usual independence of thought (all amused)—those are your assets. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s condition: meaningless chatter in a way, since if you did not have the money or the house, that would not mean that Ruburt was necessarily in excellent physical condition.

[...] You would not go so far. [...]

Since you both held those attitudes and saw those beliefs everywhere reinforced, naturally enough in your experience, then in the overall it would be most miraculously unusual if one of you did not physically retreat. [...]

He became afraid that the body would go out of control and commit violent action, because he was of course aware of the strength of the denied thoughts and feelings. When a crisis situation arose or when he became lost in despair, an acceleration began that he pretended not to notice, and Augustus Two would appear.

(Tonight I asked Jane if Seth would deliver his promised letter for correspondents. [...]

[...] This threat would then bring about the emergence of Augustus Two. [...]

[...] But in the same meaning of the word neither is the spirit, which to fulfill the requirement of perfection would have to be set in some state of completion beyond which no fulfillment or creativity was possible.

Practically speaking you see, if you were aware of the constant barrage of telepathic communications that do impinge upon you, it would be most difficult to retain identity. Identity would suffer if it were forced to perceive more impressions than it could effectively handle. [...]

Full and uninhibited use of even the outer senses would lead you to inner reality. [...] Full operation of inner and outer senses, you see, in your present stage of development as a race, would be blinding, as you can see in your reading of drug experiences.

[...] Without for example mass dreams, your United Nations would never exist. [...]

[...] There would be nothing to be gained however in conscious awareness of these conditions.

(Aside from her sympathetic response, Jane found the letter evocative of some of her own psychic experiences, and asked me to put it in our Seth notebook for an answer — we felt that Seth’s reply would be of interest to many. [...]

[...] It seems obvious, but the full enjoyment of life would be impossible in the framework, now, of earthly reality without the knowledge of death.

The experience that you wrote of was significant on several levels, and of course was meant to reassure you ahead of time because of the events you knew would occur. [...]

[...] And so you shall, in whatever way is most important for you, and you will learn more and be more fulfilled than you would have been had those conditions not been initiated.

[...] 1. On March 9, 1964, Seth said that April 15 would be a day of crisis for Miss Callahan in the hospital. [...] On April 15, Seth stated during the 44th session that Miss Callahan would undergo brain damage. [...]

(On April 22, 1964, Seth stated that May 23rd would represent another and possibly the last crisis as far as Miss Callahan is concerned. [...]

(Perhaps if I had agreed enthusiastically to keep the blue divan, Jane would have done so. [...]

[...] Jane achieved these mostly on her own, and wondered whether the Seth personality would gradually fade away as “her own” abilities increased.)

[...] Affairs for you are working out as I said that they would, with some changes caused by the probabilities.

[...] You remember that I told you that affairs with him would work out well. [...]

[...] This would have occurred in any case. [...]

[...] I would hardly then impose responsibility as opposed to joy upon Ruburt. It took him some time to accept the fact of the sessions, and when he did so nothing would do but that he overdo, and accept them as a task rather than a joyful creative endeavor.

These remained until another intuitive realization (tonight) would free him. [...]

[...] I told you that I would not keep you this evening.

[...] I did not catch this, above, when Seth spoke, or I would have asked about the discrepancy. [...]

[...] For what would seem to you to be eons, according to your time scale, men were in the dreaming state far more than they were in the waking one. [...]

[...] In his dreams he practiced stringing the words together to form their meanings, so that finally he could consciously begin a sentence without actually knowing how it was begun, yet in the faith that he could and would complete it.

(9:14.) If it were not for this most basic, initial loving cooperation, that is a given quality in life itself, life would not have continued. [...]

(Pause.) In a fashion those ancient dreamers, through their immense creativity, dreamed all of life’s creatures in all of their pasts, presents, and futures—that is, their dreams opened up the doors of space and time to entities that otherwise would not have been released into actualization, even as, for example, the units of consciousness were once released from the mind of All That Is.

(Afterwards we talked over Jane’s recent idea — to holding, say, a session per day for six consecutive days, to see how much Seth would get done on the book in such an arbitrary period. It would be interesting to see part of it produced that way. [...]

(At the end of the last session, which was held the day before yesterday, Jane told me that Seth had the rest of Chapter Ten planned; tonight, now, she said she didn’t have the slightest idea of how Seth would continue his work on the chapter.

[...] Finally it began to rain hard, with thunder and lightning, at about 9. We wondered whether a session would be held, since Seth had told us some time ago that electrical displays interfered with trance states. [...]

[...] She said her trance had been “pulsating” or wavelike: she would go “in” good, and then swing up closer to her usual state of consciousness. [...]

(I thought I would get Seth’s reaction to Jane’s physical state. [...]

(“Would you rather pass up the session tonight?”)

[...] I would like to elaborate, however, on these statements.

Ideally, left alone, these operations would result in a balance individually and en masse, where aggressiveness was always used creatively, as indeed it can and should be.

[...] Had either of you really examined your conscious beliefs about this place, and put them together, you would have known that for yourselves.

I told you that you would be faced consciously with many attitudes that you had put into the background, when you decided to move, so Ruburt has been meeting some of his own. [...]

A comparable attitude as the one you have would run this way: “I am sure I am going to move, but there is no house in front of me to move into, so obviously no such house exists.” [...]