“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I told her that I didn’t care if the book was short, medium, or long — or whether it took six months to produce, or a year, or five years: If she held one or two sessions a week, or one a month, it would still give her a book in the works, and she would have that comforting knowledge. [...]

[...] Which would you rather do?” I joked. [...]

Astronomers speak of outer space and of galaxies that would dwarf your own. [...]

[...] If you understood the mechanics, you would know that the program obviously does not go anywhere. [...]

[...] That is, he was not going to have Emir cut in two, period, even if it meant, as he hoped it would not, that he must ship it around to many other places.

[...] The conservative behavior that, for example, kept him a virgin into his mid-twenties, was never understood by others—no one, for example, would have thought him at that time a virgin.

[...] It would not hurt to go over Ruburt’s notes once a week together.

[...] above, referred to a manuscript we received today, in which the coauthors claimed that Seth would do the introduction, and so forth. [...]

[...] The knowledge would not be to his advantage, nor in some ways would it be to her advantage, for his attitude toward her would change.

[...] He felt duty bound to hold the session, you see; guilty that he had not held it; and yet highly uneasy, for he realized it would contain information that could bring sorrow. [...]

Obviously, even if I could make it an iron cross that size would be incredibly heavy to hang from our ceiling. [...]

(Actually Jane sat with her eyes closed from 9 PM until 9:10, waiting to see if a session would develop. [...]

(Pause.) The knowledge that we have, myself and others like me, would be incomprehensible to you in its pure form.

[...] But to you it would seem impersonal.

Even so poor a small fish as I, am not bound by your time, and can be quite aware of what would seem to be future branches and developments that will intimately concern my own identity.

[...] Why would it work even if it could be given to us without our knowing it? And why would an animal respond to an inoculation when it could know nothing about our belief systems, etc? [...]

[...] This was the result of your own suggestions, for you said that Ruburt’s body would continue to relax as he slept.

Try to forget all notions that Ruburt might relax so suddenly that he would be in difficulty —not able to get about, say. [...]

[...] If you were able to focus your attention upon the dissimilarities, merely those that you can perceive but do not, then you would be amazed that mankind could form any idea of an organized reality. [...]

[...] Now, without your particular physical perfection you would not perceive the couch as solid. [...]

[...] You would not be caught dead with your consciousness outside your body. [...]

Now I am going to close our session, but I would like you all to read carefully a copy of what I have said, and now and then, where you have nothing else—nothing better to do—then try, try to sense that lapse in the pulsation of your consciousness. [...]

I have said this before: If you were able to focus your attention upon the dissimilarities, merely those that you can perceive but do not, then you would be amazed that mankind can form any idea of an organized reality. [...]

Now without your particular physical senses you would not perceive the couch as solid. [...]

[...] You would not be caught DEAD with your consciousness outside of your body. [...]

Now I am going to close our session, but I would like you all to read carefully a copy of what I have said. [...]

[...] But if you continued such concentration the toe either would not heal or would develop into a worse condition. Behind all this, of course, would be the belief that caused the difficulty; but once you have brought about a group of symptoms you must be very careful that you do not begin to view your field of reality from that position. [...]

[...] Look at them as you would a painting you have created. [...]

[...] No great idea would spread from civilization to civilization; no war would leap from land to land. [...]

[...] You must react, then, to events that your forefathers would never have been aware of in the same fashion. [...]

[...] It is the official line of consciousness that has become horizontal, yet in so doing it has also opened up questions to which it would have been blind otherwise—and because of its focus your news events, of course, show only one side of the picture.

(At about 3:30 PM last Thursday, Jane participated in a startling experience —one that we hoped Seth would at least mention this evening. [...]

[...] If he really trusted it this evening, he would simply have had a change of plan, and held our session tomorrow. [...]

[...] He simply then for a while bumped into some of the old beliefs again, worried that his impulses would not lead him to write sufficiently. [...]

(At about 8 PM Jane said she would like to try having a session this evening —whether private or regular she didn’t know. [...]

(“Would you spell Frank’s again?” I didn’t think Seth had spelled it correctly —not the way he’d pronounced it.)

[...] There is an old saying: Time is money—and in his own way Frank would like to make that kind of a statement, clear, direct, and unambiguous: Turning clocks or time directly into good hard cash, a magic of a sort. [...]

[...] I said anything would help, if we were to continue trying to accomplish anything with this series of sessions. [...]

[...] It must have come to your attention that I have mentioned the nature of your love for each other many times—often when you would have preferred some other material —but I do again want to stress it as a vital ingredient in Ruburt’s recovery. [...]

Now I knew that sooner or later someone would bring up that bugaboo. And it has taken me some time to get the idea of probable realities to your heads, and I knew that someone at sometime would ask me about reincarnational selves and so I suppose it behooves me to try to give you an answer, and it is this. [...]

[...] I would not so upset my friend Ruburt. [...]

([Kyle:] “I would agree, it seems like that is what you do.”)

([Sue:] “Would an example of a probable reincarnational self be the image of my grandfather I used to see?”)

Again, the physical picture would not be necessarily that of a well- developed or balanced personality. [...] If you looked at these lives as a series of progressions in usual terms, then you would be left with many questions unanswered. [...]

[...] I did hope he would comment on it, but he did not…. [...]

[...] As seen from a physical viewpoint, such a personality would appear very one-sided, and far from a well developed individual.

[...] As mentioned earlier, earthly existence is a training period; and yet as far as possible I would like you to forget your ordinary ideas of progression.

[...] Buildings may be used for many things; as space vehicles you will admit they would be hilarious. [...] For another, traveling from the basement up to some sixtieth story hardly would bring you any closer in any real manner to the stars.

This resulting pattern or physical body makes it possible for the cells, atoms and molecules to express themselves, and to fulfill abilities that would be impossible for them in another context. They share to some degree in the perspective reached through the abilities of a physically-large body structure, in a way that would be denied to them in other fashions.

[...] I showed her our growing list of psychological time experiences, in the hope that Seth would discuss them tonight. [...]

[...] This capacity, being a part of the generalized consciousness, or what you would call the subconsciousness, therefore performs its function without egotistical awareness or comprehension.

“No,” I muttered, “But I had the strangest feeling, as if recording the dream would give it some kind of undue importance. [...]

[...] What would I ever do if I lost my sight?”

[...] I later mentioned this dream in my first book in the field, How To Develop Your ESP Power. Even then, I had no idea that it would be only one of a series of psychic events involving Miss Cunningham, nor did I see its true significance in my own development.

[...] I awakened one September morning with the feeling that I’d had a most unusual dream during the night, one that would affect me deeply. [...]

[...] I would suggest that afternoons Joseph not be disturbed for any but the most unusual matters. It would be best indeed if Ruburt imagined that you were working out of the house, and he should be able to do this.

[...] (I would like to add that while making the above cross sign, Jane held the envelope with its long dimension also horizontal. [...]

[...] This would give perhaps three quarters on the object definite enough, and possibly this gave rise to Seth’s statement about rough division into four areas. [...]

[...] We do not know if Seth would call this a symbolic connection. [...]

In your dreams, in other words, you are familiar with images like the mammals and reptiles, that would seem not to belong to the present. These however would seem to belong to the future rather than to the past, and these you forget almost instantly, as a rule. [...]

[...] Early in these experiments Seth announced that he would give no data resulting from Jane’s sense of touch, and he has stuck to this procedure. [...]

[...] Now the feeling of trains, or a tunnel, as a train tunnel would be. [...]

(In any event travel by various modes from a cluster of surrounding towns in that area would have been necessary for the artists attending the reunion.

[...] I would advise Mark to go ahead with his plans to find an apartment, but to look over all aspects of any particular apartment that he has in mind, foreseeing difficulties of a temperamental rather than practical nature with the landlord. This would have nothing to do with practical arrangements, but would rather be a more or less mutual antagonism that would rise up between them in a little time.

[...] I would suggest that Mark also exercise himself in the use of psychological time. [...]

[...] A male’s personality at that point would have held too many temptations as far as overaggressiveness and cruelty were concerned.

[...] Bill had noticed that at times he would be quite aware of what Jane was going to say before she gave voice to it.

They would seem to be the spirits of nature,² as you would be more or less bound to interpret them from your viewpoint. They would certainly be psychological relatives, but with their own time schemes, languages, and psychological affiliations. [...]

[...] Scientists do not know how many species exist on earth—only that they total in the billions.) If you read it sideways, so to speak, you would still end up with an orderly universe, but one in which the nature of identity would be read completely differently, stressing adjacent subjective communications of a conscious kind that form other kinds or patterns of subjectivity and psychological continuity. [...]

[...] Her “undeviating direction,” expressed in Poem One below, is directly related to the material about her that I quoted from Seth in Note 6 for Session 931, in Chapter 9 of Dreams: “Nothing, however, would have kept him at the sessions for this amount of time unless he wanted them.” [...]