“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I am pleased that you have some good reading material for a change. We will have to see what can be done so that the practice can be continued. I am very pleased with your progress, and if I do not come through with a voice as light as a butterfly, that does not mean that I am a lightweight. I sit in on all your sessions and I am deeply amused at times, but always pleased. I have come to let you know simply that I have not deserted you. My friend here (Rachel) thought perhaps that I would be silent, but I cannot for long remain silent. It is simply that you must do your studying. You must concentrate and learn and I will not distract you.

Now, I speak jokingly to you, telling you that I am the origin of the material, and therefore you must listen to it and study it. The fact remains that I am also a channel through which this information comes to you. And as yet you have little idea of its significance and meaning, not only to you personally. It makes little difference that I transmit it and that Ruburt receives it. The material itself, however, is the important issue here. I receive it and interpret it from our sources, as I have told my friends. Ruburt has always been cautious here, for when I tell him of the significance of the material, then he wonders about the aspect of his own personality. But I tell you and I tell you frankly that the personality by which I show myself to you is but a small aspect of my whole personality. And that personality is not cold. You simply do not understand it, therefore I come to you in terms that you can understand, and these characteristics of mine that seem so cozy are to some extent devious. They are my characteristics as I am, but also as I was. For I am no longer what I was.

You must, you should realize, that your own personalities exist in realities of which you do not know, and yet a portion of you is so aware of these existences. You find me impersonal as Ruburt does, and yet it is simply because you do not understand the gestalt of personality and action and the meaning of identity. For my own identity is aware of many other personalities that are my own. You are also a portion of other such personalities, but egotistically you are not aware of them. Seth is a part of what I am and I know him well. It is difficult for me to explain to you what I am since the components of my reality are so different, and yet intuitively, intuitively you realize your own greater reality, and that includes the knowledge of what I am.

It is because you have yourselves reached a certain point in your own development that I speak to you tonight, and when I do so I am between systems. I am neither here nor there, you see. I am using Ruburt’s nervous system, for example, but I am not Ruburt. [...] I am separated from you in a way that has nothing to do with space. [...] I am endeavoring, you see, to let more of my personality show itself this evening [so] that you can know me by my characteristics as well as my words. [...]

[...] I am indeed coming through very well this evening, very well, however, and if I may say so I am in somewhat of a frisky mood. [...] I am at times, I admit, mischievous. [...] Now, it will not particularly serve any great or awesome purpose for me to thus appear in this guise nor to raise my voice in a way quite impossible for this rather puny young woman, and yet because the circumstances are so auspicious I am so tempted. [...]

[...] I am here this evening to show you that death does not automatically change you into a somber long-faced ghost. I am here to show you that I am myself, and you shall be yourselves. [...]

[...] I am aware of them, and I am pleased that the process has begun. I am aware that the process has begun and I am aware of what is being done. I am a harder teacher. I am not taking credit, you see, for another man’s abilities. I am much more interested, unfortunately, in the more painful process involved in self-realization, spiritual insight, and psychological knowledge. [...]

When I come in this class I do so so that you realize the knowledge that is in the material comes through a personality, and that I am not some “ditto.” [...] That the words are not dead, as indeed I am far from dead. [...] Indeed, I do not find it remarkable that you consider me a personality since, indeed that is what I am. [...]

[...] And when you read the material, then indeed you know who it is that has given it, and if you hear a laugh behind the material as you read it, let there be no doubt in your mind that I am here. While I do not follow you, tippety-toe, behind you to your school halls and your hallowed bank corridors, nevertheless I am aware, generally, of your activities, and I know when you are reading my material. [...]

I am here to tell you that your joy [is] not dependent upon your youth, for I am hardly young. I am here to tell you that your joy is not dependent upon your physical body, for I have none. I am here to tell you that your joy is not dependent upon your nervous system or physical form, since I have none. [...]

I am joyful though there is no physical heart that I have claim to. And I am in this room, though there is no object within which you can place me. [...] I borrow Ruburt’s, with his consent, but what I am is not dependent upon atoms or molecules, and what you are is not dependent upon physical matter. [...]

[...] I myself am delighted to speak to you. [...] I am [restrained] by the vehicle through which I speak. [...]

I am here merely to show you I am here. I am not here to prove anything. I am here because you wish me to be here, and I am a kindly old gentleman. I have said this before—I am indeed repeating myself. [...]

[...] I am here, and because I am here I tell you that your own inner self does continue to exist, and as I teach others now, so shall you also be witnesses of the existence of All That Is. [...]

[...] It is because you want to know that I am here. [...]

My interest is concerned with those personalities with whom I am involved, and the circle of my interest includes those who come to these sessions; as indeed your own interest includes those people with whom you are acquainted. I never attempt to meddle into the private lives of those with whom I am concerned. If I am invited to comment, then I do.

It is very possible that Ruburt will soon discover that I am who I say I am. He knows this subconsciously, but I am speaking now of a conscious recognition. [...]

I am indeed aware of many of the events in both of your lives, but it is relatively simple for me to so acquaint myself with your situations. I am willing at any time to render whatever services I can so render, but I do not walk ghostily through your rooms; and most certainly I do not peek through the windows.

I am not telling you that you should ignore the body. I am not telling you to lose touch with your own feelings or deny them. Your body is your method of perception at this time, but I am telling you that if you identify your entire reality with your body then you are heading for severe feelings of depression and desolation and also letting yourself in for some surprises in the future. [...]

[...] Now in your quiet moments you still identify with the body and think, I am this flesh and I am imprisoned within it and when it is gone then I am done, and these thoughts inhibit your freedom. [...]

Now in world’s terms, you can be a realist and you can say, I am the self that you see and smell and touch. I am the self that I see in the ordinary mirror and that is all, or you can realize that the mirror only captures a small portion of your entire image. [...]

[...] However, I am not mainly concerned with proving for you the fact of my own existence. [...] You take it for granted that I am aware of your existence, and I assure you so I am. But neither am I concerned with proving my existence to you. I am however very interested in education. [...]

[...] I am working through and with Ruburt. Ruburt is a writer by profession and I am, again, a rather sly individual, for Ruburt will express my views for me, and this is what I am interested in.

He knows well who I am, and I know who he is. [...] (Louder.) He knows I am who I say I am. [...]

[...] I am a taskmaster. [...] I am reasonable, however. I am willing now to negotiate. [...]

Your creative drives became a part of what I am, so that what I am includes the strength of both of your creative drives. [...]

[...] I am protective because I know that this is so. [...] Because I am attached to Ruburt now, his ideas of course color many of mine, so his fear of the passing years developed upon your fear of them ten years ago, projected now into your future, as ten years older than he. [...]

[...] Before I leave you, yes, I am conscious when I am not here. [...]

Now, I am here to welcome back a certain member of our group who had to leave the group for several reasons—and read me correctly in this particular instance where my friend Ruburt did not read me correctly (addressed to Rachel). [...]

[...] But I am going to ask something of you this time. [...]

I am here most seriously because I am pleased with your interest in the material and because book 1 is here now and completed. [...] I am sorry that I do not move tables as well as AA, but were I interested in moving tables, I can assure that this one would fly through the window and end out in the middle of Water Street! I am more interested in other projectiles and other movement, thoughts that fly through your minds rather than tables that leap about the floor. [...]

[...] I am here whether or not I speak, you see, and often I inspire Ruburt, so that when he speaks himself, he speaks for me. For I am crafty in my ways. [...] I am no disc jockey. [...]

This one here has come some long way and rides herself rather hard, because I am behind her with the whip. [...] Now, since I am also going to be an author you must look upon me with some awe. [...]

You said earlier you were still learning and searching, and I am simply telling you to continue to do so and to make sure that you also search those attitudes of yours of which you are most certain. [...] I am not telling you to feel guilty for the past. I am simply trying to explain to you those inner motives that also operate. What you feel is legitimate but it is also charged heavily because of your own past existence—so, if I am warning you, I am simply warning you gently. And I am smiling. I am trying to get these muscles to smile so when you listen to the recording, and if the voice sounds harsh, then remember that the mechanics are not simple either. [...]

[...] I am smiling. Why is it that with new people, I have to say I am jovial? [...]

[...] I am speaking because you wanted me to attend class this evening. [...]

[...] [If I did] then I would be denying you your own power, and therefore seemingly building my own … I am here because I enjoy it. I am a teacher, and because I am a teacher I love to teach. [...] That is why I am here and why you are here … My view of reality is different from your own, and that is fine, and so I can teach. [...]

[...] I am merely encouraging you to focus your joint energies in that direction … You will be dealing with symbols, yet you will learn that symbols are reality, for you are symbols of yourselves that live and speak. [...]

[...] There will also be certain beloved traps set about the city, that will be of an enlightening nature … Now listen: You think there is nothing intrinsically impossible about building a platform in [your] space … I am suggesting, then, a platform in inner reality. [...]

[...] And so there is instead triumph, for you say, “I am dead, and still I am I” You will dance a merry dance! [...]

[...] I am demanding more of you because you are working. [...] I am not unaware of your activities, nor of yours (to Vera), but it is tempting for me to take the easy way out. [...]

[...] I would like to say that I am a junior entity—a young sprite. [...] And I am pleased that it is not. [...]

When I am jovial and when you know me as I am, realize that I have been what I am for a long time—with alterations and changes and developments. [...]

[...] And I am as busy... [...] Now, I know you individually and I am making no exceptions, and you know that I know you, each of you. [...]

[...] When I am silent or have a long pause, it is not because I do not know what I want to say next. It is because I am speaking to you silently. [...]

Out of the goodness of my invisible heart, I will let our friend Ruburt rest, but be assured that I am not some general mass of invisible protoplasm, you see. I am myself and I shall always be myself and I am aware of you as you are and there can indeed be a give and take between us. For again, I have been where you are, and where I am, dear friends, so shall you one day be!! [...]

[...] I am now within the space that you inhabit in this room. You will one day be where I am, and you will have learned many things. [...]

[...] I have had this same personality with some minor changes throughout the ages, and you are stuck with yours as I am stuck with mine. [...] I am still learning. [...]

(Other Sumari:) And I am Sumari in another guise. [...] I am Sumari in another guise. [...] I am aware of all your activities. I am aware, for example, of your Seth and of your Seth II. [...]

[...] I am telling you your family name, and you are learning of your heritage. I am Sumari. [...]

[...] Now, it does no good to take ten minutes a day and give yourself good suggestions and say, “I am brave, I am strong, I am healthy and young and rich” and spend the rest of the time saying to yourself, “I am poor, I am getting old, I feel sore, or it is a cruddy world.” [...]

[...] You would have the man up to be hung and think such an affair an evil thing indeed, and yet you do this to yourselves often and then you say with all blind innocence, why does this come about, why am I sick or why am I sore or why am I caught in this cruddy universe and yet you do not change your own thought. [...]

I am glad to see so many friends here this evening and as usual, I have a message for you and, as usual, I want you to do something. [...] You think, for example, I feel poorly, or this hurts, or you think this is a cruddy world I am in sometimes. [...]

As we sit talking I notice some mail on a room divider, am surprised, and think that it must have come before Rob left for work, as it has been opened. [...] Now I am definitely back in the bed in which I am sleeping, trying to decipher the writing on the envelopes. [...]

[...] I am absolutely delighted with their contents. [...] Then again I realize this is a dream and am determined to take my packages back with me, will not let them go. [...]

I am writing this book to assure you that this is not the case. Basically you are no more of a physical being than I am, and I have donned and discarded more bodies than I care to tell. [...] I am quite independent of a physical image, and so are you.

[...] You would be much better off in reading this book if you asked yourself who you are, rather than asked who I am, for you cannot understand what I am unless you understand the nature of personality and the characteristics of consciousness.

If you believe firmly that your consciousness is locked up somewhere inside your skull and is powerless to escape it, if you feel that your consciousness ends at the boundary of your body, then you sell yourself short, and you will think that I am a delusion. I am no more a delusion than you are, and that may be a loaded sentence.