“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

A note: Beside your dream images, and so forth, which are indeed an excellent idea, you have advantages here that the young man of some 20 or 30 years ago would have envied: he would have been delighted with the screened-in porches. Perfect, he would have thought, at least one of them, for a summer studio. [...] He would have found a way to use them in the summertime. There would have been an interplay then between dream activity and the physical images of a unique nature. [...]

[...] How truly unfortunate you would be (louder) if that were not the case. [...]

[...] Certain portions of that person, as you know, would have been satisfied with drawing comics, or doing certain kinds of commercial work. [...]

[...] I try to avoid reading too much into such brief passages, but I felt that if Seth answered all of the questions I could ask based upon this session, a book would result. [...] Without going into a lot of speculative detail, such an event would imply the obliteration of our probable physical universe as we know it. Instead, I thought, by “another form” he may mean an explosion of ideas or knowledge in our reality, with the tremendous objective results that would follow. Such results would stem even from “just” a spiritual explosion. [...]

(Pause.) All That Is realized that such a separation would also allow you (pause) to bring about a different kind of divine art, in which the creators themselves created, and their creations created, bringing into actuality existences that were possible precisely because there would seem (underlined) to be a difference between the creator and the creations. [...]

“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. [...]

Now—I would like to make a few comments regarding what Ruburt just said. First of all, if you will forgive me, you would have no difficulty at all having orgasm with a man to whom you were deeply attracted if he were not your husband, and if you could get over the moral barriers that might prevent it—if you could convince yourself that it was all right.

You would be better off if you told yourself you didn’t care if you ever had an orgasm in your life. And if you could tell yourself that, and honestly, you would have no trouble in having an orgasm.

In your particular case I would even suggest that you stay away from the normally accepted sexual areas for awhile, and enjoy instead of the content (?); i.e. when he kisses your hand, and you are aware of the sensation of lip against palm and vice versa—be aware of feeling also in your hand on his skin. [...]

As a child, you would surprise your elders by performing chores when they were unexpected of you, when they were not demanded. [...]

(4. Seth also said that it would be “not practical” and “boring” for him to relive his life as a pope, then added: “In those terms, many people do choose to reexperience what you would think of as a past existence in order to change it as they go along.” [...]

[...] It seems to you as if one reincarnational existence would be layered above the other. You may be able to see that those existences, like the mountain, would exist at once, but you might forget that there is endless creativity and change at all levels of the mountain. [...]

[...] So I hoped her material would crop up in some form in the session itself.)

[...] To you, other people born now in 1940 would be born in a probable reality. [...]

[...] Without this creativity, planetary life in your terms would always be sterile. [...]

Entities or souls, in other words, send out portions of themselves to open up avenues of reality that would not exist otherwise. [...]

(10:20.) Highly simplified indeed, the effect would be something like changing one set of glasses for another, for the physical senses are as artificial, basically speaking, to the inner self, as a set of glasses or a hearing aid is to the physical self. [...]

You would be more than disoriented, for example, but quite terrified, if between one moment and the next your familiar environment as you knew it disappeared to be replaced by other sets of data that you were not ready to understand, so much information from the inner senses must be translated in terms that you can comprehend. [...]

How long would it take to publish all of those categories? I don’t know who would have the patience to read them, but I’d really like to see all of them out there, on the record. [...] The book would include Jane’s simplistically beautiful and brilliantly colored art; also my own quite different art—especially those drawings and paintings of and from my dreams that began to blossom as Seth discussed his dream material. [...]

[...] Sometimes in those early sessions Seth would mention a current relative or friend of one or the other of us—or both of us—as being involved in our personal material. [...]

[...] I think that my wife would agree—after first disagreeing!

[...] She said the notes were intended to furnish a mundane account of our lives that would “parallel” Seth’s more complicated data on probabilities and other concepts. She thought he would have more to say on the subject of notes later in the book.

[...] The night before last, then, I told Jane about my idea of asking Seth to comment upon early photographs of her parents, Marie and Delmer,¹ to see what would develop in the material.

I would like each reader to try two exercises. [...]

[...] In your mind follow what directions that self would have taken, as you think of such events. [...]

(As we were eating lunch today Jane said she thought Seth would discuss the question of good and evil, re our conversation on those subjects the other day. [...] Once I’d written it down, I saw that its subject matter fit in very well with the idea of good and evil, and told Jane I hoped Seth would use it in any discussion of his own.

[...] I’d told her to forget it, to trust that her body would know when it wanted to walk. [...]

[...] But the means were not those that would benefit all involved, for the mouse died no quick death.

On the other hand, because of your agricultural methods and so forth, many animals live, through breeding, who would not live otherwise—so those creatures are given life. [...]

[...] Jane wasn’t so sure about the recovery, but I said I thought I’d seen signs of that the last few days, and now felt it would happen. [...] I told Jane I realized it would be tougher for her to realize these things, but that I thought events would prove them out.

[...] I would be stepping out of line. [...]

Many inhabitable places would seem uninhabitable to you. [...]

(“Would it be okay for me to work part-time for Artistic, for instance?”)

[...] It would have hurt nothing for him to get up, and he would have done some creative work besides. [...]

I have told you myself that I would close now, yet still find it difficult. [...] It would be quite difficult for me to let you go completely for one whole week. [...] Two weeks would really not be detrimental, but you do not really need that much, and so I see no reason for taking it.

[...] If it were not that I know better, I would jealously not give you a rest period until you requested it. [...]

To any of them, the others would seem to exist in a probable universe. [...]

In some probable systems, you and your mother would both exist, do both exist, but as complete strangers, you see. [...]

[...] It would be highly improbable to imagine that you could decipher these so as to be easily aware of them now.

[...] You are far from identical with these probable selves, and yet if you met them you would instantly know that you had found unknown portions of yourself.

[...] Jane also wanted some kind of definite sign from Seth as to his presence and identity, that would be convincing to her.

[...] (Pause.) There was some question as to what would happen to letters from Ruburt, and others. [...]

[...] Before, no results would have been accepted by him.

[...] I have always gone as far in this direction as Ruburt would allow me to go, for I have had his health and welfare to consider.

[...] Had you made greater effort to understand, both of you, the affair for one thing would have been much more pleasant, but further anxiety would not have been generated. [...]

There is something else, in that in certain terms the way must be open, because people believe in a continuous time, and would feel the weight of future actions bearing down upon them in this life if they were aware of their future existences. [...]

[...] Those futures in your terms so affect the present, however, that vast confusion would result with any mass knowledge. [...]

[...] He often perceived what you would call the products of the imagination as sense data, for example, more or less objectified in the physical world.

[...] And when they slayed other animals themselves and ate the heart, for example, it was not only to obtain the animals’ “stout hearts,” or fearlessness; but also the intent was to preserve those characteristics so that through men’s experiences each animal would continue to live to some extent.

(10:25.) Some of the experiences known by early man would seem quite foreign to you now. [...]

It may be difficult for you to understand, but the events that you now recognize are as much the result of the realm of the imagination, as those experienced by early man when he perceived as real happenings that now you would consider hallucinatory, or purely imaginative.

[...] To your way of thinking he would change form according to his mood; as he thinks, he is. [...]

[...] When this happens then following your own psychological patterns the ideas would emerge more or less naturally, with little hint of their origin, and, the individual involved could well consider them his own.

It would be extremely difficult for our friend, for example, to limit himself to existence within your time schedule. [...]

[...] Some projections will involve you in nontime, but these are advanced projections and would be chaotic to you unless you were prepared.

Since the matter surrounding a black hole would also be drawn into it, some astrophysicists have suggested that this might emerge into another universe through its opposite — a white hole — where it would be seen as an extremely brilliant quasar, or quasi-stellar radio source. So there would be an exchange of matter-energy between universes or realities.

[...] And once again she felt like rubbing her forehead where the mythical third eye would be. Many things, it seemed, were developing at once; we expected that after first break tonight Seth would comment upon them, as well as upon Monday evening’s session. [...]

[...] Now she felt that “to do proper justice to them would take years — centuries perhaps.” [...] Then, again increasing her estimate, she said that if “they” tried to communicate with us through sound, through our sensual equipment, “it would take forever.”

[...] Seth is, however, independent, and continues to develop as I do … Simply as an analogy, and only as an analogy, I am what you would refer to as a future Seth, as Seth in a “higher” stage of development. [...]

[...] He was afraid you would be jealous, that others would say he dominated you, and to some extent both of you felt the symptoms helped you save face in society.

[...] You have a nervous stomach—and (heartily) I would have one too if I were forever taking sides against myself, and not approving whatever side I happen to be on at any given time.

[...] Even without the psychic endeavor, you both would have been bothered if, say, Ruburt succeeded as a writer of his own books, with no help from you of any kind, unless you succeeded as an artist. [...]

You would be very wise to see the people you see (underlined), because you want to see them when you do, while never using Ruburt’s condition as an excuse for not doing what you do not want to do anyhow, or for not seeing people you do not want to see anyhow (intently.

[...] For you would not be strengthened, but you would be relying upon me; and any errors, dear friend, would also be laid to me.

[...] You must simply take my word for it, that it would be highly disadvantageous to your development if I told you what you should do now, and what steps you should take.

[...] Had I done so I would have done you a grave disservice.

[...] If a goal is attainable and you fail to attain it, you see, then you feel you would have to blame yourself—and again, you do not want to accept the consequences of your own action.