“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Its effects would seem to be highly hallucinatory. The hallucinations however would be quite valid journeys into other realities.

(At session time she sat waiting to see if a session would develop. [...]

You would learn little of what it means subjectively to be a human being by simply studying a picture of one. [...]

[...] I knew he would not take this as a lark. [...]

(8:49.) Many people might wish that I would add many more methods to help you study dreams and their nature. [...] Colon: You would not get by for one day if the conserving principles and the unexpected did not exist exactly as they do. There is so much you must learn and remember in life, and so much you must spontaneously forget—otherwise, action itself would be relatively meaningless.

[...] In class Jane might have listened to portions of a tape as it was being made, or immediately after class was over, but seldom would I hear her playing the same tape later—if we had a copy of it, that is. [...] Until this year (1981) she would occasionally replay [...]

[...] In their opinions none of the guerrilla resistance organizations would be able to run the country—deal with its growing economic difficulties, say, or its other great challenges. [...]

[...] There wasn’t anything else I could offer that she would affirm. [...]

[...] He would, however, be able to see other beings at his same level in nearby stacks. [...]

[...] He would, indeed, be a prophet. [...]

Ideally, a new bed would be advantageous, both physically and symbolically. Relaxation — laying down, for example — would be far more easily assimilated on Ruburt’s part, also, if a cot or equivalent — a daybed or whatever — were a part of his writing room, or in the breezeway.

[...] The rational line of thought finds creativity highly disruptive, so in those terms as highly gifted creative people, you would have encountered some difficulties in any case.

[...] It would, again, help considerably if you thought of your work more as an adventure, an exciting creative adventure, than of work in your old terms.

[...] It would also begin (underlined) to give you a feeling for the magical support that upholds you both, and your lives — the support that Ruburt can count upon, and that can bring about the solution to his physical difficulties. [...]

(His loud and rapid voice soon quieting, Seth explained to me that he would give a “fine demonstration of an acceleration” in a session in which we used our recorder. Sue could sit in on it, and hopefully I would experience the acceleration as clearly as she does. [...]

(As usual, Jane had no idea of what tonight’s session would include. [...]

[...] I would have some interesting comments to make regarding the relationships between you, but we must be up and about with our Appendix, and so we will continue that. [...]

[...] The Seth Two experience would be an even greater acceleration of this speed, reached at the point of the pyramid effect Jane describes.

[...] Using usual definitions, you would call a soul the result of a certain organization of such units, which you would then recognize as a “soul.”

[...] In line with the usual definition then, in your terms, this smallest unit would be “soul stuff.” That viewpoint however is highly limited, for “above you,” using that scale, there are other more developed organizations of these units; and so from that “more exalted viewpoint,” you would seem to be junior souls indeed.

(“Well,” I said, “once it’s incorporated into your consciousness you’ll put it to use like you would any other information. [...]

Even a simple understanding of this would help people realize that no existence is dead-ended.

[...] It would be obvious; or that we have sealed envelopes. [...] I would say again, J. B.

I am going to speak this evening concerning our dream reality, although I promised our guests earlier that we would discuss the God concept. [...]

[...] The personality will be seen to operate in some manners that would be considered quite normal, if he were in the waking state.

[...] The personality also operates within the dream state in ways that would not be considered normal in the waking state. [...]

[...] Briefly, certain units would settle upon various kinds of organization, find these significant, then build upon them and attract others of the same nature. [...] (Pause.) The particular kind of significance settled upon would act both as a directive for experience and as a method of erecting effective boundaries, within which the selected kind of behavior would continue. [...]

(3. “It would be nice if Seth would say something about the dream I had the night before last, in which I think I contacted my [deceased] mother for the second time.” [...]

[...] In her own case, then, Seth would be a personification of an Aspect of her source self; but he would also have an existence of his own at other levels of reality.

(Pause.) Other kinds of psychological gestalts have been and are being tried — some that would appear quite inconceivable to you; and yet now and then versions of them appear within your system.

These clues could lead to proper understanding, so that it would be known that the physical body does exist in many fields of actuality, and through the study of various portions of the body many glimmerings could be received concerning the various fields of actuality themselves.

[...] The mind’s capabilities, if studied, would lead man into a realization of these other fields of actuality of which I have spoken. [...]

This study alone would involve an introduction into a knowledge of other fields of actuality. [...]

[...] Some of our past sessions, particularly those explaining the initial appearance of matter, will set you clear, and you will see that the explanations I gave you then would have to involve such elementary telepathic communication between cells.

[...] Particularly apparent, I thought, would be effects from last night’s session, which I regard as excellent. [...]

[...] To my mind at the moment, that course of action would be the “something to be done” if we failed to get enough help from these late sessions.

[...] Religion itself, of course, would hardly stand the test. [...]

(9:49.) Those areas have a tendency to be neglected in your minds, as if next to Ruburt’s problems they are relatively insignificant—but you would not find them so insignificant if they represented their own vital problem areas. [...]

(Note: Lately I’ve been thinking I would like to do some new reading and study of the first century A.D. in the Middle East and Europe, particularly Italy. [...] I would like to have a history that deals with that time and area specifically, but don’t know of any such work. [...]

[...] Why can’t we feel glad about being gifted instead?” I added that as I’d said this afternoon, guilt about superiority would make a lot of gifted people miserable if they paid attention to such thinking. [...]

Now: I would like to recall some of your earlier history. [...]

[...] The framework was loosely set up back in that time, however, when for a while, again, you toyed with the idea, for such symptoms would “justify” your staying home even part- time to paint. [...]

[...] At first Jane and I wondered why Sue would give us such a book, knowing our views on evolution. [...]

Ruburt’s brief dream experience, in which he crossed the street and began eating lustily a piece of steak, unconsciously activated all the portions of the body that would be necessary for such activity, though on a miniature scale. [...]

[...] “Would you comment on the book we were looking at?”)

It would take some time to do so properly. [...]

Had you continued engrossed entirely in the commercial field your painting would not have developed. Your father would not have worked as a photographer. [...]

[...] You felt that if your hand were surer you would be better recompensed. [...]

[...] Therefore if you made money through your paintings, then subconsciously you thought that your mother would still be getting her way. [...]

[...] We now had a discussion about my motives in painting; I hoped it would release any blocks Jane might have set up. [...]

[...] She wondered if the 592nd session would be suitable, and I told her that I thought Seth had planned it that way. [...]

Creativity springs forth easily, and so such locations are not necessarily peaceful, although they would be the best ground in which peace could grow. [...]

[...] There would be a flow of matter in our universe and also between universes, keeping things in balance.)

[...] I would like to make the idea clearer. [...]

[...] Such an existence would usually also include other issues, however. No existence is chosen for one reason only, but would also serve many other psychological experiences.

[...] Theoretically, then, in each life you would become stronger, healthier, wealthier, and wiser, but it does not work that way, for many reasons. [...]

[...] Only in this way, you see, would you be able to relate to the experience of womanhood, and then as a woman face those attitudes that you yourself had against women in the past.

The truly happy existence, however, is a deeply satisfying one that would include spontaneous wisdom and spiritual joy. [...]

(Long pause.) If you numbered each aspect of a dream, then each number would represent itself in a different numerical system entirely. The surface numbers, or the familiar ones, would still serve to explain the dream in the context of your own world. [...]

It may form particles, but it would be itself whether or not particles existed. [...]

The smallest unit of pure energy, therefore, weighing nothing in your terms, containing within itself no mass, would hold within its own nature the propensity for the creation of matter in all of its forms, the impetus to create all possible universes. [...]

[...] This proper placement is quite dependent upon an inner knowledge of probable future events, and your present time would be an impossible achievement were it not for this unconscious knowledge of the “future.”

[...] If you knew in precise terminology how you grew physically from a fetus to an adult, if you could consciously follow that process, you would not necessarily be better off, but possibly hindered in your growth; for you would begin to question: “Am I doing this right?” The perfection of the process would make you ill at ease.

[...] She was afraid that if we didn’t, she, at least, would never have another pet — so we found “Willy Two” at an area humane society. [...]

[...] (Humorously:) You would begin to question: “Am I dreaming right?”

[...] I remarked tonight that it would be nice if Seth would discuss the subject, and Jane replied that she thought he’d do so.

[...] Controlled Environments, and Positive and Negative Mass Behavior.’” I told her I thought Seth would not only have plenty of time to cover our respective questions, but would come through with some book work too, and this was the case.

[...] You thought (underlined twice) that it should be your consuming passion, but you never felt that it was — for if it was you would have followed it undeviatingly. [...]

And as for books, early in August I returned to our publisher, Prentice-Hall, the page proofs Jane had corrected for her book of poetry: If We Live Again: Or, Public Magic and Private Love. Ordinarily that event would have delighted us, since it meant that before the year was out she’d have another work published. [...] Finally, we were left hoping that the sinful self’s very exposure through its own material would eventually bring about some physical improvement. [...]

[...] It was short but, as I expected it would be, excellent. [...]

[...] The arthritis diagnosis, Jane said, was the only one the medical profession could offer, given its insights and viewpoints—but after all those years would she be able “to set it aside”? [...]

Actually, I was amazed at the opacity of my perception: It seemed that once again I was just beginning to understand that Jane had chosen to embark upon a journey in which she would explore herself and the world in intensely physical and emotional terms—in contrast to the more intellectual ways by which she and I have usually conducted our searches, through the Seth material and our own inquiring minds…. [...]

[...] From your threshold or focus you would be relatively unaware of your own motion on a new time threshold—for to the beings on that threshold you would have already arrived, while to you in your present their existence would at best be theoretical, as if they were future selves. From your standpoint they would be, of course.

(Very long pause beginning at 9:59.) “I would never stand in the way, however, of Ruburt’s recovery as you understand it. Nor would I feel that Ruburt has let me down, or that you had in any way. [...]

[...] If you trusted the characteristics of the basic natural person, you would not need such sessions as ours, generally, in the world at all—for such knowledge would be part of it and implied in its cultural organizations, and the daily habits of the people.”

“You cannot know what would have happened, for example, had it not been produced (as I’d speculated to Jane late this afternoon), or distributed, so the question might seem moot. [...] That is, the problem [of Ruburt’s symptoms] would have popped up in a different fashion regardless of the apparent trigger.