“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] (I think I was in my astral body though.) I knew that I was dreaming, thought to myself that it was very difficult to read such material in the dream state but that I would try in any case. [...]

[...] One held several pair of lovely pastel stockings, the kind you would ordinarily wear with high heels, slim and well-proportioned; they were wrapped together not in a box, with baubles of some kind. [...]

[...] The affair began however when you first realized that your father would be no longer operative. He had not lived up to your mother’s plans for him, and would now obviously not do so.

This occurred precisely when you had strong doubts as to whether or not you should stay on the job, and strongly considered it would be best to leave. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) He has not been as successful as he would wish — but even when fears brought about complications, the body has been successful in many ways in countering these.

[...] There were many questions he asked himself about his mother’s condition in particular (Marie is a bedridden arthritic), and about such situations in general, and he did indeed allow himself to go along on one level to provide an extraordinary impetus that he felt would be needed to conquer such extraordinary conditions.

[...] If it didn’t it would die. [...]

[...] There must be similar reasons for the same results to occur, which would mean we are even more closely related to animals than we suspect. [...]

Doctors might suggest that a patient relax and then ask himself or herself what kind of inner fantasy would best serve the healing process. [...]

(Long pause at 3:13.) Those beliefs, if taught early enough, would form the most effective system of preventative medicine ever known.

[...] The overabundance of cancer cells represents nevertheless the need for expression and expansion — the only arena left open — or so it would seem.

[...] As in almost all cases of disease, however, if it were possible to have a kind of “thought transplant” operation, the disease would quickly vanish.

[...] I suggested she get up, but the exercises seem to substitute for the physical activity that getting up would entail.

If our ideas were already accepted in the world, there would be no need for our work. [...]

(Softly amused:) As a matter of fact — in case you may think sometimes that I am not fully aware of your mores — I did indeed temper many of my remarks in Mass Events on several subjects, so that the book would not be found too objectionable in the context of your times. [...]

[...] Only who, or what, would I direct my frustration to, or at? [...]

There are several issues I would like to discuss, and several angles from which I would like to view them for you. [...]

Ruburt never would have been free enough in the past for such a development to occur, and it was of course, again, no coincidence that you attended class the night the chanting began in earnest.

[...] I add again that your relationship to each other itself is meant to reach certain levels, and when it does it triggers the psychic developments that both of you planned well ahead of time would occur. [...]

[...] Such a god’s glance would delight in each person’s difference from each other person. This would not be a blanket love, a soupy porridge of a glance in which individuality melted, but a love based on a full understanding of each individual. [...]

[...] Even characteristics that would otherwise appear as faults attain a certain loving significance. [...]

[...] People who are acquainted with undistorted versions of love in their relationships would find such a concept impossible. [...]

[...] You would find that more embarrassing than I would.

[...] It would make you cautious too.

The entity operates its fragments in what you would call a subconscious manner, that is, without conscious direction. [...]

For your own purposes, an unfinished painting on your easel would help you project to the studio, for you would wish to study it. [...] It would be to your advantage if the two of you traveled together, however. [...]

[...] You knew he would ‘awaken’ you. [...] If you did not like the experiment, you see, it would be terminated. [...]

[...] I wanted to build up a massive sound-impetus that I would somehow use to propel me. [...]

I don’t know if I would have succeeded in getting further or not because now Jane said to me, ‘Hon, you’re snoring. [...]

My house was in the busiest, northwestern part of the city, just beyond what you would call the heart of town. [...]

[...] My curiosity drove me to journey in search of different kinds of bells, and led me into contact with many people I would not otherwise have encountered.

[...] Much later in your terms I would end up as a minor pope in the third century, meeting again some of those I had known — and, if you will forgive a humorous note, once more familiar with the sound of bells.

(“I had two illegitimate children [class laughter], a mistress that sneaked into my private study, a magician that I kept in case I did not do too well on my own, a housekeeper who was pregnant every year that I had her, and three daughters who joined a nunnery because I would not have them — and I am referred to in barely three paltry lines, for my reign did not last very long.

[...] You might realize that the flowers you pick are not the same flowers that you picked last year at the same spot, but the very nature of your focus would cause you to concentrate upon those differences only when you were forced to. Otherwise you would think: “Violets are violets, and they are always here each spring.”

Unimaginable differences would be present if those posies could see the same environment of the year before, and all of the minute variations that you ignore would be gigantic; different enough indeed so that at their level the flowers might think that a different kind of reality was involved. [...]

[...] You realize that someone — some interested observer — viewing the earth from another planet in another galaxy, would be seeing what you think of as earth’s past. [...] This would in no way alter your reality. [...]

[...] The very positions of the planets and the stars are effects of the senses — perceptions that would have no meaning were it not for your own kind of consciousness. [...]

I would like this evening to speak more concerning the interrelationship of various units; for when I speak of the interrelationship of universes, remember that these universes are also units, or if you prefer, systems.

[...] If you consider them as soldiers guarding the barriers or the boundaries, then you would have to imagine a strange creature, our particle, as a soldier on a boundary facing toward and away from the country in question.

He would be composed of the stock of each country, so that neither country could decipher any alienness within him. [...]

To you they would be seen as mysterious connectors or links. [...]

If it were [done] differently we would never have achieved the results that we have achieved.

[...] I cannot make him move about as I would move now. [...]

I would sit with you now as a friend at the party and converse, but it is a trifle difficult as you should understand. [...]

I realize also that your precious recorder is playing, and I would suggest that now and then it be put to such good use.

I am aware of several matters that you would like me to discuss, and we shall cover them. There are however several points that I would like to make.

[...] If it were a primary reality, you would not escape from it even in the sleeping state. [...]

[...] I would not like the matter of the sessions in general, and the subconscious influence question, to go by the board, and in one way or another we must find time for those matters.

[...] However his ego is very well in control, so well in control that on occasion when I would have spoken on these very matters, I have not been allowed to do so. [...]

[...] We’ve even considered withdrawing Mass Events from publication, although Tam reassured Jane this morning that things would work out all right. [...]

I would like to give you some insight as to why Prentice-Hall is our publisher to begin with. [...]

(“That certainly would be nice.”)

[...] If Prentice were as conventional at heart as its legal department, it would not publish books at all, except perhaps for the textbooks.

[...] During break Jane received some insights from Seth as to what would follow in Chapter Eight — that, for instance, when good thoughts from an individual’s present life were activated, they would draw upon similar ones from his or her reincarnational personalities. [...]

These are not images as you think of them but highly coded information, electromagnetically imprinted, that would not appear as images to the physical eye. [...]

[...] In an organizational framework that would certainly be envied by the most advanced technological concern, communications spring back and forth with great rapidity. [...]

[...] The cells within your hand contain within themselves memories your conscious mind would be dazzled to behold. [...]

[...] We talked about why people would choose to live in a region where it’s practically certain that such storms will materialize every year. Our questions would also apply to living in any dangerous environment on the planet, of course.

[...] Ruburt’s book on [William] James would be good background material here, particularly the sections dealing with democracy and spiritualism. [...]

[...] Life’s exterior conveniences would hardly matter if science’s knowledge was used to undermine the very foundations of life itself.

[...] At one time the males might have been drafted into the army, and, secretly exultant, gone looking for the period before full adulthood — where decisions would be made for them, where they could mark time, and where those who were not fully committed to life could leave it with a sense of honor and dignity.

Before we end this particular section of the book, dealing with frightened people, idealism, and interpretations of good and evil, there is another instance that I would like to mention. [...] Ordinarily a session would have been held, but Ruburt was interested in the movie, and I was interested in Ruburt’s and Joseph’s reactions to it.

[...] If probabilities did not exist, and if you were not to some degree aware of probable actions and events, not only could you not choose between them, but you would not of course have any feelings of choice (intently). You would be unaware of the entire issue.

[...] Eventually it seemed to him that he was surrounded by the corrupt, and that any means at his disposal was justified to bring down those who would threaten the presidency or the state.

[...] And as you will see, those impulses of a private nature are nevertheless also based upon the greater situation of the species and the planet, so that “ideally” the fulfillment of the individual would automatically lead to the better good of the species.

[...] You were also afraid that spontaneously you would want to do public encounter work, that you’d be tempted, that once begun, you’d be swept along and that the circumstances would be volatile. [...]

[...] Operationally, however, this is not the case—and Ruburt would not trust such an overnight change.

[...] He would have been alarmed had he always felt that relaxed. [...]