“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

My “work” is not adjacent to the world or parallel exactly but at a different level.... and speaking engagements, etc., would limit it to specifically to human problems.... I don’t have to “live up” to anything, I don’t have to “make the material work” or prove through my actions that it does because it proves itself in the way that creativity does, by being beyond levels of true-false references. Otherwise, I’m at cross purposes with myself.

I’ve rejected all that kind of hash projected onto Seth’s books by others or myself—the assumptions that Seth must prove himself as a problem solver— or the importance of functionalism over art.

[...] In the dream state it would be impossible for the dreamer to prove the existence of the familiar street outside of his familiar door. [...] It would be highly difficult to ask a man while he dreamed to prove the physical reality of the bed in which he slept, or the bedside table which was at his head, or to prove the existence of the wooden floor upon which the bed rested. [...]

I will, and can, give you evidence of telepathy, and what will this prove? It will not prove my existence, not to those who will not accept it. [...] If I materialized in full sight of twenty good and weighty witnesses, what indeed would this prove to those who would not accept the proof?

[...] However, I am not mainly concerned with proving for you the fact of my own existence. [...] Are you concerned with proving your existence to me? [...] But neither am I concerned with proving my existence to you. [...]

[...] You have to prove that you are as hassled as they are.

[...] You are reacting, and have been, to some of your mother’s attitudes toward men who work at home, so you try to prove to yourself and others that this is really not only as difficult as outside work, but more so. [...]

[...] The books prove their merit in that reality, because they are fought over to whatever degree.

[...] I have lived many lives and I cannot prove, in your terms, my own existence. The fact that you are worrying about proving your own existence, however, proves that you exist. [...]

[...] You can prove a painting exists on the wall. [...] You cannot prove, therefore, that you exist, much less that I exist. [...]

[...] In one he had to “prove” his mental stability, to his way of thinking. [...]

[...] The fears, denied then, prevented him from further developing abilities and strengths that would automatically conquer the fears, and perceiving experiences that would prove the fears groundless.

You may laugh with some disdain when I mention, for example, that in some other societies, both today and in the past (pause) a gentleman proved his moral worth and value by not working. Now that idea is no more ludicrous than the idea you have, for both attempt to prove personal merit through the manipulation of money and status. [...]

It is as ridiculous to prove your worth by working in a conventional sense as it is to prove your worth by not working in a conventional sense. [...]

[...] If all a man can do to “prove his value” is to put a bolt in a car, or drive a truck, or even teach a class, then he is very careful that that contribution be noticed, and that a definite value be given it. [...]

(I told Jane before we began that we would not stress tests to prove hypnosis, that these could come later if we chose. [...]

[...] This proved effective, I soon learned. [...]

(Before the session I had reminded myself that if we came upon strongly emotional material I would attempt to guide Jane through it, by helping her to express it but not become overwhelmed by it should it prove very painful. [...]

“Or that something will happen to me, that will prove that there is more to life than usual cause and effect,” he said to us. [...]

[...] You can’t prove that coincidence is or isn’t responsible for such things, but you could consider the unofficial hypothesis as a possibility. [...]

[...] Now in the past existence, you were younger than this older man and you were constantly trying to prove to him that you could do without him, and so you are constantly trying to prove to your wife that you can do without her in that particular respect. [...]

([Rachel:] “What am I trying to prove in this reincarnation?”)

[...] You must first prove to yourself that you can indeed deal with it. [...]

[...] Regardless of past-life influences, which did exist, and granting some other interior reasons, you had a child to prove that you were a woman both to your mother and to yourself.

(To Carl:) Now this was a poor-enough bargain for her to make, but for you to add to it in her mind, to demand that she prove this womanhood daily with the dishes or the housework or whatever, was too much for her to bear, and she felt doubly betrayed by you and by herself.

Your father cut out his own world, you felt, in his house and in the wilderness, comparatively speaking, but at the same time because you feared him so you did not really feel he wanted you to do the same no matter what he said—because to prove yourself a better man would automatically destroy him.

He may then in the beginning want you particularly when you are working, to prove the point that he will not be rejected.

[...] There was a feeling of disappointment connected and I’d say that it represents some feelings about my abilities—I thought they were sterling—really terrific—and wore myself out caring for them, but I fear that they are only very good serviceable ones after all, their earlier promise not proving true.... [...]

[...] A man proved his worth as he moved through the new society’s levels—an exhilarating experience after centuries of a stratified society. [...]

[...] To some extent you felt you had to prove your worth as a conventional male, in—if you will forgive me—the narrowest of parochial terms, though you were possessed of abilities that were considered conventionally male only if they could be suitably laundered: art turned into commercial work, and other creative abilities, such as your writing, that at one time could have turned into several fields—the writing of Westerns, even. [...]

(Pause.) Ruburt tried to prove his worth while being possessed of a fine intellect not considered womanly. [...]

[...] She proved to be correct, but at the moment she was unable to elaborate.

[...] This proved to be the end of the session. I suggested to Jane that she train herself to focus upon external objects while doing things like getting up and down, that had bothered her. [...]

[...] Coming up the stairs the day before yesterday, he proved this to himself. [...]

[...] triggered a set of associations for me, but they proved to have their complications. [...]

([Joel:] “Is he picking up grades of distortion in my subconscious because I am trying to prove something?”)

[...] A session or so is all right but I do not want you placing yourself in a position where you are trying to prove the legitimate nature of such communication to others. [...]

[...] Give yourselves time so that that bridge can be a firm and secure one, before you start saying, prove to me the bridge exists. [...]

[...] This proved to be the end of the session. [...]

When he thinks that he must do such and such, must prove his worth by sitting at his desk, then he lays a heavy hand upon those same impulses. [...]