“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You (me) even arranged it so that the kind of art you wanted to do could not be done in the accepted framework of artistic reference, but would necessitate such a growth of consciousness. You chose problems, each of you, challenges, that would lead to such a development. I will tell you now that that leap is assured—for had it not been assured in what seems to be your future, I would not have emerged in your past (whispering.

[...] The body’s condition followed precisely as I said it would when last I discussed it. [...]

[...] You do not know what would happen, pragmatically, if you did not imagine such difficulties, because in one way or another you have always anticipated them from the beginning. [...]

[...] Counterparts can alter affiliations—a fact I did not mention earlier, simply because then it would have added a confusion.

[...] And while I have been egotistical in many of my lives, I do not need you all to set me up as an authority figure to whom you can relate so I would like to see some freedom on your own parts directed and applied. [...]

Now if you must project your ideas upon me, then instead of projecting upon me the image of the wise old man, I would prefer, instead, you project upon me the image of a skylark in the morning. [...]

And each of you—  you (Joel) and you (Alison) and you (Florence) for I do discriminate, and Ruburt are so jealously concerned for these intellects, so jealous of the intellectual power that they would kill some poor little innocent flower just to see what made the thing grow. [...]

[...] I have many banks of personalities upon which to draw but there was, indeed, in the beginning initially, the dilemma upon which of these personalities should I draw and which would be the most effective. [...]

[...] And you would all do much better if you did not question the definition of Sumari, for the Sumari themselves are not structured. [...]

I would not at this time. [...]

([Sue:] “I would like to ask in what way this connection?...”)

[...] Some goodies are private as far as all of you are concerned and you would not want them bandied about. [...]

[...] A prediction was given that Jane would receive a teaching job she had applied for at Elmira College. [...] On November 7, Jane was notified that she would not get the job.

[...] We can find F and R references on both the object and the page from which it was torn, without knowing if any of these would be correct. These would include phone letters, personal names, etc. [...]

And I will say precisely what you both said I would say.

[...] I folded this behind me until I was sure it would fit between the regular double Bristols, and into the double envelopes.

[...] The idea being that if it became part of the regular session routine Jane would forget about it, thus allowing any possible effects to come through without worrying about them. [...] Since the room was well lighted the candle flame would make no noticeable difference, in the event it flared up while her eyes were open.

(We were not sure that Seth would have any data on Peggy Gallagher during the session, since we thought it possible she had left Washington, DC by now.

(Seth dwelt on the taxicab symbol, and as he did so I found myself hoping that Peggy would notice it. [...]

[...] There may be a book, a fairly large one, beneath the paper, with something like dull gold-edged pages, or so it would appear when the book is closed. [...]

2. As far as possible, without pressing the point, make an effort to do what he would do if he were physically satisfactory. [...]

[...] He need not take a walk every day for example, but on faith perform some kind of physical activity that he would if he were physically satisfactory. [...]

A true understanding of the way in which an idea becomes physical matter would result in a complete revamping of your so-called modern technology, and in buildings, roads, and other structures that would far outlast those you now have. [...]

[...] This would apply whether the mental image was a fearful one or a joyful one. [...]

(Jane picked up on this, for she said that I would disapprove. I said it would be useless to deny the existence of her symptoms. [...]

[...] And in bed that night, I wondered what would have happened to Jane had I not survived …)

[...] It became obvious to us later, of course, that even her first doubts and questions about things psychic made it inevitable that she would confront such a basic issue. [...] But naive creatures that we were, when we did begin to reach out we were quite unprepared for the skepticism we would meet from the learned “establishment.” [...] Very understandable, then, that Jane, both for herself and for Seth, would write so eloquently about the disparity between her psychic abilities and “the currently scientifically-oriented blend of rationalism,” as Seth describes that quality earlier in this Session Six for The Magical Approach.

[...] Not, however, Seth’s prediction that a vast improvement in Jane’s eyes would show up in a week to 10 days.

[...] Certainly if your joint desire to see Ruburt better was as active and dedicated as theoretically it should be, the towels would have been used.

They would not be noticeable at all, however, if some inner synchronization had not occurred. [...]

Action tampers with identity, yet were it not for action identity would be impossible. [...] Yet without the termination no new action on the part of the identity would be possible. [...]

The new arrangement should work out well, now, although it would not have in the past.

[...] Basically, for any duplication to appear, the exact atoms and molecules would have to be used, and this is obviously impossible.

I would suggest that this session and the last session be read over most carefully. [...]

[...] You accepted, for example, the penances and so forth because as a child, given the idea of guilt, you wondered what punishment would befall you. [...]

[...] It would lead me to believe that to be alive must be a dreadful state indeed! [...]

[...] I would, for myself, answer in the affirmative. [...]

[...] I would also like to see you do some work while you are sleeping, however. [...]

[...] In the past the reaction would have lasted much longer however, and considering that he had it at all, he did not succumb to anything like the same extent.

[...] I wondered, with some apparent irritation, why Jane’s inner self would permit such a detriment as the symptoms to continue for so long. [...]

[...] You do not add reality, physical reality then, to improvements as they first show—you do not nurse them expectantly as you would a seed. [...]

(Panic is not the right word exactly—anger would be better. [...]

If the universe were a painting, for example, the painter would not have first painted darkness, then an explosion, then a cell, then the joining together of groups of cells into a simple organism, then that organism’s multiplication into others like it, or traced a pattern from an amoeba or a paramecium on upward — but he or she would have instead begun with a panel of light, an underpainting, in which all of the world’s organisms were included, though not in detail. Then in a creativity that came from the painting itself the colors would grow rich, the species attain their delineations, the winds blow and the seas move with the tides.

[...] Few would agree, however, that you can learn more about the nature of the universe by examining your own creativity than you can by examining the world through instruments — and here is exquisite irony, for you create the instruments of creativity, even while at the same time you often spout theories that deny to man all but the most mechanical of reactions.

You each also became involved in this probability precisely to use it as a creative stimulus that would make you seek for a certain kind of understanding. [...]

[...] Yet she’d found this deep yearning snatched away with the advent of her psychic abilities—goodbye to all of those accepted reviews, the critical success, even the money, that would go along with the conventional acceptable public image of the successful writer of good quality poetry and/or fiction. I said that most “successful?” poetry and fiction might not penetrate very deeply into the human condition, compared with the understanding her own psychic gifts offered, but it would have been safe and accepted by her peers. [...]

[...] I think, I added, that it was an error to blame fear of the spontaneous self going too far if given free reign—I didn’t think nature would arrange things that way, for the organism couldn’t survive for long that way. [...] Clear indications that left alone without safeguards one would go too far for one’s own good.

[...] It was, simply, that we were wrong to blame imagined excesses of the spontaneous self for her problems—that really the trouble lay in her discovery that with the psychic abilities she was destined to find herself outside conventional creative authority: a person who learned that she would have to protect her very integrity as a person against charges of fraud. [...]

[...] That is, he is better off for producing those two books than he would be otherwise. [...]

… It would be simple enough, of course, to ascribe Ruburt’s thoughts and feelings to mere coincidence. [...] Instead, they called later from their home to say that they were just beginning their trip, and would stop on their way.

If she hadn’t mentioned her visit to Lib’s, and the paintings, Rob and I never would have realized that anything beyond usual perception was operating in our little discussion. [...]

[...] Then later that night, relaxed, sitting on the bed, somehow those inner perceptions (of mine) would have surfaced … but without revealing their source. [...]

This is another classic example of an event that science would label simply “coincidental” without being able to give any objective proof to back up its contention.

[...] She would still be in trance, she said, and even speaking, but Seth would wait. [...]

[...] God behaved exactly as an enraged child would, had he those powers, sending thunder and lightning and fire against his enemies, destroying them. [...]

[...] Otherwise the new kind of consciousness would always run back to its home for security and comfort. [...]

The ego feared for its position, frightened that it would dissolve back into the inner self from which it came. [...]

This does not mean that the word indeed would have no meaning. [...] All of these do imply a whole, but the very term whole would again be meaningless if the whole, through self-conscious individual parts, were not conscious of itself.

[...] A very small case in point would be an individual who is as aware simultaneously, of all his incarnations within your system, aware of them happening at once, and yet aware of himself as the whole who experiences these existences.

[...] Even in this limited conception of yours then, the concept of a human god is almost meaningless, and there are many other systems in which the word humanoid would have no real meaning at all.

[...] She could recall a few images she’d had while speaking, and said more would come to mind as we went over the data. [...]

[...] It’s difficult to describe what she told me, and would take many words and much time. [...]

[...] It would scare anybody.” [...]

(It would make a great painting.

(It would also be interesting to have Seth comment on the kitten, and its symbolism, in Jane’s experience.

[...] And had I not been both male and female, I would not be able to speak to you and you and you. For I would be imprisoned within the barriers of sexual perception. [...]

[...] Of all of you, she has had the fewest inner experiences, so it would seem, yet she is forbidding her own purposes by being here. [...]

[...] I will not lead those who would follow me blindly. [...]