“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You have a true or false world in that regard, and a relatively very flat psychological view of identity. Within that framework, however, you do have the creative abilities, and these stand out in their own fashions, since they “play with the facts.” They often do not honor conceptual conventions. They do not fit the true-or-false category. The imagination can of course conceive of many events, whether or not those events actually exist.

(9:14.) The yes-or-no, true-or-false categories simply do not work when you are dealing with such issues. (Long pause.) In that regard it is important that he realize this. The entire concept of the Sinful Self can only exist at certain levels of experience. It can only seem to make sense in a very limited context. (Pause.) The creative abilities most often serve as psychological bridges, enabling man to conceive of the existence of realities outside of his own particular point of reference. They can hint at the greater diversity of being, the larger dimension of events. They can present dramatizations. They can serve as thresholds (long pause), but they cannot contain direct experience themselves with events that are intrinsically beyond those reaches.

(Long pause.) Basic reality deals with far more than any true or false category, and the deeper dimensions of actuality contain the source material from which, indeed, your true or false world emerges—so it does Ruburt no particular good to overconcern himself. Our material is the best approximation, the best approximate model you can perceive of a vaster psychological field of existence.

[...] Sessions 449 and 450 take up the last 18 pages— hence Roger’s references to numbers in the 4,000 category.)

[...] If you identify too strongly with those categories, however, then you can also concentrate upon the differences between you and others—or you and the world at large, and ignore the large context of interrelationship that provides the context in which such categories can exist.

Television, oddly enough, provides for many people an opportunity to leap over restrictive categories, and to identify in other ways, perhaps, than they would otherwise. [...]

[...] These few statements, however, will help him, and help him enlarge on an inner circle of acquaintanceship with friendly colleagues that belong in those other categories, but are indeed friendly colleagues as well. [...]

(A fourth category—publishing/advertising—developed shortly before the session began. [...]

It falls, however, in a category of its own. [...]

Our books, and I am including Ruburt’s, fall into no such neat category—presenting publishers with problems. [...]

[...] Yet by their nature such categories structure your experience of reality itself to such an extent that any alternate ways of perceiving life seem not only untrustworthy, but completely impossible.

[...] It is perhaps difficult for you to realize that these are written and verbalized categories that in no real manner tell you anything about the actual experience of other creatures — but only note habits, tendencies, and separations of the most exterior nature.

[...] It cannot accept knowledge that comes from “elsewhere,” for such information will not fit in reason’s categories, and confounds its cause-and-effect patterning. [...]

[...] Your reasoning as you now use it, however, deals primarily with reality by dividing it into categories, forming distinctions, following the “laws” of cause and effect — and largely its realm is the examination of events already perceived. [...]

It is not a matter, either, of there simply being one other category of knowledge, for there are numerous other such categories, many of them biologically within your reach. [...]

[...] At the end of a week, say, as you look over Ruburt’s feelings, you will find that they do fall in several categories, and then I will discuss those categories. [...]

(A copy of this session is also being placed in the deleted notebook, since I’d like it to be placed under both categories.) I think it contains some excellent general material that, I told Jane, I was afreaid wouldn’t be seen by anyone if it were filed exclusively under private material.

[...] It defies categories, and it insists upon the evidence of feeling. [...]

Another category:

[...] In terms of fiction, there are set categories, and Seven fits none of them. You are setting yourselves new categories. [...]

[...] When work in terms of making money was applied to writing, then divisions occurred in his attitude as to what might be salable and bring money, and therefore fall into the work category—and what might not be salable but highly creative regardless.

[...] Out-of-bodies, writing and spontaneous impressions are all things he likes to do, but some fell inside his work category and some did not. [...]

In this category, I am not referring to individuals like Ruburt, who speak for another personality with a sense of ease and tranquillity, and whose resulting information is excellent knowledge — the obvious products of uncommon common sense that proves to be helpful to the individual and others.

Instead, you have put love into very definite categories, so that its existence is right only under the most limited conditions. [...]

[...] Mother love is the only category that is considered wholesome, and therefore nonsexual under most conditions. [...]

(A couple of days ago we began to collect the sessions given by Seth in Jane’s ESP class in a separate category. [...]

In this respect you and Ruburt fall generally into that category. [...]

[...] The dream world,¹ however, presents a much larger category of events. [...]

[...] Dreams of Heaven and Hell alike fall into the same category, in those terms, as hallucinations.

[...] Your experience, no matter how joyful, bizarre or frightening, can find a category. [...]

[...] In the meantime, however, you have no cozy categories in which to place your experience.

There are also a core of individual thinkers who straddle all social or academic categories, who follow our books. [...]

The categories [healing, teaching, or whatever] are general descriptions of the families of consciousness. [...]

Most such material is indeed given at a later date, though not always under the same heading or category, and often wound into another body of material.