“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] If I told you that God was an idea, you would not understand what I meant, for you do not understand the dimensions in which an idea has its reality, or the energy that it can originate and propel. [...]

[...] Without the idea of yourself, your physical image would not be; yet often it is all you are aware of. [...]

[...] These were all males because at that time of your development, you would not have accepted a female counterpart.

[...] It would never have occurred to you to imagine a god in any other than human terms. [...]

[...] I tried to give the reader hints that would increase practical, spiritual, and physical enjoyment and fulfillment in daily life. [...]

It would be idiotic of you to say that you were forced to become an adult, however. [...]

[...] Without the triggering desire, the skill would not be developed; but even when you do learn a skill, you use it in your own unique way. [...]

[...] He asked Joseph what he would like for a gift, and Joseph more or less replied: “A book on Cézanne.”

[...] Bill said that he probably would have been involved if he continued speeding after Kendall’s car to catch him. [...]

8. My impressions said incident would occur with a farmhouse on one side of the road with a curve on the other side; the house on the left. [...]

[...] The trance would have helped you concentrate and disintegrated the panic, within seconds... [...] You would have had to say only: I am now in a light trance state, and I will deal with the problem at hand.

(Shortly after the session began Seth told us that we would receive another letter from Dr. Instream “within a few days.” [...]

[...] He said the four of us would embark “on excellent circumstances” this winter but did not elaborate. [...]

[...] He thought the village there, if there had been any, would have belonged to the Carib Indians.

The child would not be run over by a car, for example, or pick up diseases from other children in school when he grew. He would be protected.

[...] The man was a contractor, given to physical labor in his younger years, but convinced that the minute he retired his body would begin to fail. It would deteriorate with age.

[...] If you would have good health, if you would have good health for the child, then you must imagine this as vividly as, in fear, you imagine the opposite.

[...] Now if you would change an individual, change your thoughts toward him, and changes will appear in the sense data world.

[...] No one would ever think of calling him lazy or good for nothing, yet this may be precisely his own subconscious picture of himself, against which he drives himself incessantly, all in an effort to prove that his erroneous self-image is, indeed, wrong. [...]

[...] This morning I’d reread his brief passages in the session for December 3, in which he’d noted that the affair would be settled to our satisfaction. [...]

[...] Andrew was out but the girl would have him call back. [...]

(I told her that I still had hopes that all would be well, and that above all I wanted her to keep on the track of recovery. [...]

[...] I’d told Andrew Fife that Pete would be calling him, probably requesting records, and that Fred Kardon may be called or asked for a statement, and so forth. [...]

[...] Yet even so, as the years passed I began to better see that recovery from Jane’s death was going to take the rest of my life; and that within the framework of simultaneous time uncounted millions of others had experienced that truth, were doing so now, and would be doing so. [...]

[...] I thought the letters from readers would also slack off. [...]

[...] The world would certainly go on, regardless.

[...] Janet told me, after publishing the first two reprints, that she “would like to publish all of the books at once.” [...]

[...] It seems certain that “something” happened “back then” (as I often remark) — and that if you could go back there, invisibly studying the century, you would discover the birth of Christianity (also as I’ve remarked, although I prefer to say that “I’d like to see what did happen”). [...]

[...] As I stated before, that part of the world was filled with would-be messiahs, self-proclaimed prophets, and so forth, and in those terms it was only a matter of time before man’s great spiritual and psychic desires illuminated and filled up that psychological landscape, filling the prepared psychological patterns with a new urgency and intent. [...]

[...] “You don’t have to publish it, but I have the feeling that he — Seth — would have said all that earlier, a long time ago, if I’d let him. [...]

(“Well,” I said, “maybe he would have if I’d encouraged him to do so too.”

I mentioned that the session would be short, and it will be. I would like to make a few more points in line with your discussion during break.

[...] To the field of negative matter, your positive matter would be termed negative. [...]

[...] She said she felt about as tired as she would at the end of a regular session—not anything like as tired for instance as at the end of the last session. [...]

[...] That would be hard for most people to understand …”

[...] It would make a lot more sense to them then, than thinking in the old ways.”

[...] Only her bent legs would prevent her from taking any position except the ones she uses in bed. [...]

[...] Because we did it in a Creative Writing class without making any suggestions as to what we would meet, or rather than probable selves or anything, I’m going to suggest tonight that we do it with that in mind. [...]

I would like all of you to give yourself full freedom as far as perception is concerned. [...]

[...] Give it the same kind of a freedom that you would if you were holding a flashlight and flashing it through a forest. [...]

[...] This would make it an article that opens up but with writing on the inside only; hence some distortion would be present with this interpretation also.

Had you not requested it you would never have received it.

(This data was not as wholly precise as we would like, but we made the connections we could. [...]

[...] Or it may refer quite accurately to the envelope object itself, which would be the second possibility for this block of data.

He felt that the soul chooses states of emotion as you would choose, say, a state to live in. [...] These natural features would appear as the ordinary temperaments and inclinations of the soul.

[...] Two months later, in May, she produced the summary for The Wonderworks, which would be a shorter dissertation on her own dreams, Seth, and the dream-formation of the universe as we know it. [See appendixes 7 and 11 in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality.] Jane hasn’t taken the time to concentrate upon either of those projects, interesting as they are, although she would if one — or both — of them “caught fire” for her. [...]

(Before what we expected to be our regular session for Monday evening, Jane told me that she’d awakened in the middle of the previous night with insights about two practice elements¹ Seth would discuss — but we didn’t hear from Seth even though she felt him “around” as we prepared for the session.

[...] And a fourth factor would be a most evocative experience Jane had Monday afternoon, in which she found herself experiencing consciousness as an ordinary housefly⁴: From that minute but enthralling viewpoint she knew “herself” crawling up a giant-sized blade of grass. [...]

I would like you kindly, not sternly, when he moves slowly, to remind him that he can move more quickly, for in almost all instances he can. [...]

[...] I would like to report that the next day I noticed a considerable improvement in the condition, physically.)

[...] If you were his age he would not be so frightened in this regard.

[...] This is also connected to your work in that he was afraid that his quite natural emotions would frighten you, and therefore impede your work.

[...] That, surely, would be an illusory goal! [...] I’ve come to believe that the predominantly outdoor life would give me a certain understanding of our temporal and spiritual worlds impossible to grasp otherwise, and that my painting would inevitably mirror that greater comprehension. [...]

[...] It seems to us that even if they privately agreed with us, our world leaders would have even more trouble implementing such thinking, for in their positions of “power” they’re quite locked into their national statuses by centuries of custom and history. To initiate truly original and/or revolutionary forms of beneficial governmental and mass behavior would be extraordinarily difficult.

[...] If as a species you really found yourselves communicating with the animals, you would have an entirely different culture, a culture that would indeed bring about an alteration of consciousness of the most profound nature.

[...] In that kind of nature, with a natural population taken care of in the environment, there would be far fewer cats than there are now. Your cats would not exist. [...]

[...] This applies to you, Joseph, as well as Ruburt: what would happen if Ruburt got worse? How would you protect yourself, or your time? [...]

(Jane said she’d like a session as soon as we’d finished a late supper—by 7:20 PM—and expressed the hope that Seth would deal with her immediate situation—sort of an emergency treatment. [...]

[...] This would involve many in various categories: they run from one crisis situation to another, using such crises as impetuses. [...]

Ruburt at his end performed in the same manner: how would he react to your reaction?—and again, regardless of what either of you may think at certain times. [...]

[...] I thought such a decision would be simple compared to the ones Jane is trying to cope with.

[...] At the same time, it seemed obvious that these memories surfacing represented a therapeutic instance of what Seth had said would happen: memories bubbling to the surface where they could be examined and defused, instead of being kept repressed in the past. [...]

[...] I felt better: Squirrels at least would have a chance to get out—but fledgling birds? [...]

[...] (Long pause.) I would have to give a “no” answer in the light in which you asked the question. [...]

For some time, in your terms, the sleepwalkers remained more or less at that level of activity, and for many centuries they used the surface of the earth as a kind of background for other activity.Their real life was what you would now call the dreaming one. They worked mentally while asleep, constructing in their individual minds and in their joint mental endeavors (long pause) all of the dazzling images that would later become a mental reservoir from which men could draw. [...]

[...] I told myself that next summer the tree’s skeleton would remind me of the days that had passed since 1980 began, in our terms; I knew I’d be grateful for having physically experienced every one of them. [...]

You read your own consciousness now in a kind of vertical fashion, identifying only with certain portions of it, and it seems to you that any other organization of perception, any other recognition of identity, would quite necessarily negate your own or render it inoperable. [...]

Dream bodies became physical, and through the use of the senses tuned to physical frequencies—frequencies of such power and allure that they would reach all creatures of every kind, from microbe to elephant, holding them together in a cohesive web of space-and-time alignment.