“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause.) Now some peoples would not fit into that mold. They would take what they could from your technology, but in conscious and spontaneous ways they retaliated — and still do — by exaggerating all of those human tendencies that your society has held down so well. [...]

[...] Now she waited impatiently for Seth to come through: At first I’d thought she would pass up the session. [...]

[...] Now, however, she remembered that just before the session she’d picked up the idea that Seth would mention effortlessness in connection with her own situation.)

I told him (emphatically) that the hot towels on the knees would help his eyes considerably, and his head. [...] When he wanted to look up or down or around, he would move the entire head, neck, shoulder area, rather than, for example, rotating the eyes.

[...] At least twice a week, I would like Ruburt to alter the memory of that playground in Rochester, so that he successfully climbs down the jungle gym.

(We have been giving suggestions since this series of sessions began that the books would sell ever better, and also that we’d begin seeing more people of the kind we want to see.)

[...] When I asked her if she wanted to have a session she said she would try, and let Seth make the decision as to whether she continued. [...]

It would seem too small for a paperweight. [...]

The development of Ruburt’s abilities would, therefore, lead him away from comforting structures, while in the meantime he searched for others to sustain him. There is no reason for him to feel stupid or inferior because he chose a challenge for himself that few would take. [...]

[...] He was afraid of using his own power completely for that reason; and then he became afraid that it would not work if he did.

I was not certain, after our last so-lengthy session, that I would be greeted with open arms this evening.

These cannot be recounted, again, in one evening; nor would such a performance serve any purpose at this time; listed, so to speak. [...]

[...] As a beginning I would suggest that your friend read our material concerning the formation of physical matter in general, the formation of the physical image, and the physical organs. [...]

The energy that would be used to solve the problem instead is spent maintaining the illness. [...]

[...] Instead they seek to perpetuate their existence as surely as any other living organism does, and in certain senses come to appear to be irrational, in that they seem unable to understand that certain beneficial changes would perpetuate their own lives as well as that of their host, whom they are damaging overly much. Many deaths must be directly attributable to these kinds of mechanisms operating, and I would imagine that psychologically it’s an old story.)

[...] It then became evident that a lot of her poor feelings lately have been connected to worries over work, what Prentice-Hall would or wouldn’t publish, etc.—an old reaction that I should have been more prepared for, I guess, but had lost sight of in our day-to-day hassles. [...]

[...] I told you also lately that your new standpoint would also be showering benefits from Framework 2 in other areas in your lives, and of this of course the letter gives clear evidence. [...]

[...] The gist of it had to do with how far one wanted to carry one’s personal challenges, and that these limits or extents would be different for each individual. [...]

[...] My question concerned a hypothetical experiment in which, say, a hundred such writers would be hypnotized without being told what the purpose of the experiment was; once under, they would be queried about past-life memories. I wondered what percentage of them would recall any, and if such a test might furnish good evidence for reincarnation.

(Just before the session tonight I wondered aloud what the present Chapter Thirteen would have been like if Jane hadn’t begun to read, early this month, the anthology containing the long section by Carl Jung, the Swiss psychoanalyst. [...]

[...] Even interruptions, then, would play their part….)

[...] Others have discovered that physical existence does not meet their needs as well as they thought it would, and they will progress much better in other fields of reality and existence.

(9:52.) The race brought forth the events, then, that would best convey in physical terms this deeper nonphysical knowledge of the indestructibility of the soul. This particular drama would not have made sense to other systems with different root assumptions than your own.

Now: The symbolism of ascent or descent, or of light and dark, would be meaningless to other realities with different perceptive mechanisms. [...]

[...] A Christ who was not aware of this would not appear in such a system, you see. [...]

(10:28.) The methods, the secret methods behind all of the religions, were meant to lead man into a realm of understanding that existed apart from the symbols and the stories, into inner realizations that would take him both within and without the physical world that he knew. [...]

[...] A.J. replied on November 22, stating that before he could answer Jane’s questions he would like Seth’s answers to three questions: “When was the last time you grew up?”, “What do you love?”, and “When is the self born?”

[...] Since a session was due tonight, Jane studied the letter in the event Seth would choose to deal with it this evening. [...]

[...] The question, “When is the self born?”, would take many sessions to answer. [...]

[...] Until most recently he would not admit the existence of anything unless he could objectify it. [...]

I say to you within reason, but if your abilities were fully developed I would not have to use that phrase, for you would be so renewed in any encounter that no such question would arise.

[...] I came across the calendar beneath a stack of books and on the spur of the moment decided to use it for the test, wondering whether this type of cut and dried subject matter would have as much emotional pull for Seth/Jane as the subject matter of the first two tests. [...]

[...] I attempted to give several definite characteristics that would serve to identify your Jesuit’s mother, and I believe that we succeeded.

We cannot cover everything I had in mind for this evening, or this session would run well over its ordinary allotted time.

[...] I would be disappointed if it were missed. [...]

[...] If the ego were allowed to make all the choices, with no veto power from other layers of the self, you would all be in a sad position indeed.

[...] It would be snowed under completely. [...]

[...] She informed Jane that F. Fell was out of town for two weeks, and that he would be back in town—NYC—on February 7. F. Fell was out of town from Monday January 24, to Monday February 7. It developed that he was in Florida on a selling trip and vacation.

(Jane had no idea of what Chapter Fourteen would be about: “I’m just waiting….” [...]

[...] For if you altered your beliefs and therefore your private sensations of reality, then that world, seemingly the only one, would also change. [...]

[...] She thought Seth was “trying to couch the stuff in terms that would make sense to someone who didn’t know much about such things, while keeping it of interest to a physicist, say — which wasn’t easy to do. [...]

[...] The physical structure itself contains within it the necessary prerequisites for what you would call evolutions of consciousness — and even for, within certain limits, the organization of experience in ways that might seem quite alien to you now.

[...] He said that doctors would have trouble diagnosing her symptoms. [...] Jane is really bothered, though, and we trust that Seth was correct in the last session when he said this phase of Jane’s symptoms would soon pass. [...]

[...] She said she’d try, and I hoped the session would come about.

I would prefer to let your dream go for now. [...]

I would like the material assimilated and read. [...]

[...] Then, left alone, they would fall away. [...]

He knew he had access to an amazing amount of energy, but pretended that he did not so that all the energy available would go into the effort to use his abilities properly. [...]

[...] Often a simple discussion with you of any such episode will clear the issue for him, where before in his secrecy he would hide it even from himself.

[...] Any lessening of beliefs in either area would be reflected in the other. [...]

Left alone, some of these people would die with a feeling of satisfaction. Kept alive through medical techniques, the physical mechanism continues its struggles to revitalize the body and bring about this second puberty — that naturally would only come about under different conditions, with the mind far more alert and the will unimpaired. [...]

[...] Before we can consider these, however, there are several points I would like to make.

[...] It would be disastrous for women to follow the same course.

[...] This would be sad enough if you did not often use such distorted data to further define the nature of male and female behavior.

[...] It would make no difference who or what you were. The problem, say, of senility, would be an objective phenomenon that happened to you as a result of the body’s slowing down. Certain mental problems would be called schizophrenic —period—with little attempt being made to understand that a certain unique individual had drastic problems differentiating between realities.

[...] At the same time, by session time she was quite upset and irritable—appalled, really—at the content of some of the letters she’d read—this, we agreed, because we usually would focus more on the one negative letter compared to the ten positive ones—and by far most of them were very positive, friendly, sometimes even adulatory. [...]

[...] I must remind you both that peoples’ good intent, their constructive creativity, their desire “to do better,” is far stronger, far more vital and all-pervading than any of their negative qualities—or, quite simply, you would not have a world, in your terms.

Before you moved here you imagined, both of you, what oddities you would be in the neighborhood, and exaggerated your differences from others. [...] Since he would be “increasing the value of the plant”—the working establishment. He would write on the back one (humorously) to show the porch was not after all for pleasure.

[...] He was naturally meant to go in areas that would confound his earlier upbringing.

[...] He would have gone to the party (at Bumbalo’s on December 29) with some encouragement from you, and you gave him none—for cleverly, when one is ready to move the other is not.

[...] Symbolically, however, this would represent one way of expressing your feelings. Inner wealth would be interpreted here in the same terms as worldly luxury. The dream, once created, would go its own way. [...]

(At the conclusion of the 720th session I mentioned the Roman-soldier visions I’d had near the end of October, and added that I would soon go into my questions about them. [...]

[...] The entire drama would involve the “evolution” of an emotion or belief. [...]

[...] If you had before you your entire dream history and could read — as in a book — the story of all of your dreams from birth, you would discover that you changed the meaning of your symbols as you went along, or as it suited your purposes. [...]

[...] everything had to be created simultaneously or there would be ‘holes’ in the grid.”

[...] Otherwise there would have been vast holes in that grid of perception that makes possible the very sensations of physical life.

Other realities quite as legitimate as your own, quite as vital, quite as “real,” coexist with your own, and in the terms of your understanding, “in the same space”—but of course in terms of your experience those spaces and realities would appear to be quite separate. [...]

(Now Jane paused several times in her delivery—and I had the feeling that Seth was groping for the words that would make his meaning as clear to us as possible.)

Under the circumstances, to look within would have seemed foolhardy, for they had been taught that this within contained the source of their problems to begin with. Those who could not afford therapy tried the harder to inhibit any messages from the inner self, for fear they would become swallowed by the savage infantile emotions.

[...] What I would like each reader to do is to sit quietly. [...]

[...] There is a constant physical interchange between the structure you call your body and the space outside it; chemical interactions, basic exchanges without which life as you know it would be impossible.

I would like you to recognize your own beliefs in several areas. [...]