“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The first day after Jane got the call, we thought of all the reasons we didn’t want to do the show—including the material on the show and Susskind in Daniel Logan’s book, The Reluctant Prophet. The next morning, I arose with the thought that all our stewing was after all academic—Jane’s symptoms would prevent us from being on the show to begin with —we couldn’t see her physically negotiating airports, taxis, hotels, studios, New York City, etc.)

(The second question had to do with Seth’s ideas about our appearing on the David Susskind show, TV, in New York City, should we be asked. The publicity department at Prentice-Hall told Jane last week that this program was thinking of asking us to be on the show, and that possibly we’d be contacted this week.

My advice is, stay away from it. There will be other shows, more advantageous. But do not use the symptoms as the reason for not going on the show.

[...] However, and this is to show you that your so-called spirits are not always long-faced and somber. [...] You must realize that basic reality is joyful and that the way of life upon which I hope you shall embark is joyful, and if my actions and communication can show you this then I have done well indeed. [...]

[...] 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 will show you the questions, and I will attempt to lead you to answers. [...]

(Last night we watched on television Alan Neuman’s show on the paranormal. [...] After the show, Jane wondered about Framework 2 immediately responding to the efforts shown by some of the gifted people on the show—those doing the firewalking, moving objects, fogging film, etc. [...] She wondered if Seth might comment on this question, as well as the show itself. [...]

(1. Was there any connection between Jane’s Cézanne, and the New York City Cézanne show appearing at practically the same time? [...]

(2. Did Cézanne “himself” have any sense of awareness, or of completion, connected with Jane’s book and the New York City show happening at the same time? [...]

[...] The very phrasing of the question and the word, responsible, shows its loaded nature. Actually the sessions show a remarkable synthesis of conscious and unconscious abilities, a creative blend that fulfills all portions of the psyche....

In a fashion, you consider the public arena of TV and tours in the same way that Joseph views the world of art galleries, shows, and auctions. [...]

Whenever you begin to interact, often the negative emotions show first. [...] Ruburt shows some improvement, and then goes back until you try again.

[...] They show up in your creative work, for otherwise you would have been far freer. Your creative work therefore shows the emotional depriving aspects. [...]

[...] So when you discuss it the problem becomes an excellent focal point, showing you how you interact, how you interpret and misinterpret each other, and brings out quite clearly any basic conflicts that you have.

(In recent days we’ve had several conversations about Frameworks 1 and 2, and these have apparently begun to show results. [...]

[...] The simple change of dish routine shows you how a change of attitude can break a negative pattern overnight. [...]

[...] That is why your suggestions of today are so vital, stating that you do have faith that Ruburt’s condition is now in the process of being healed in Framework 2, and that the results will show in Framework 1. It is important that you realize that the healing is now taking place in Framework 2 whether or not you see immediate results in any given day or not. [...]

I think this book shows, then, that the ways toward health can and do vary tremendously. [...] Surely Jane’s life shows this, and in ways that neither of us were even remotely aware of consciously when we married 42 years ago.

[...] My wife’s life and work show that we can even create challenges and goals before birth, then in physical life plunge into fulfilling those qualities as we don flesh and clothing and beliefs. [...]

[...] It all worked very well, even when we were often interrupted, as the sessions show.

[...] Because of the material given the other evening, and Ruburt’s own background, this is what happened in the past: he would manage to show some improvement as your attitude became more loving. [...]

When you showed impatience with his progress it was sometimes a natural impatience, and sometimes Nebene’s dissatisfaction with a student who should, with those abilities, do better. [...]

The difficulty showed itself in Ruburt in keeping with the style of life that you were both accustomed to. [...]

[...] On August 15, Jane had declined to appear on the Alan Burke TV show, WNEW-TV.

[...] Jane said she doubted that any such contact with Seth could have been established on the Burke TV show.

[...] On August 9, Wednesday, Jane was invited by telephone to appear on the Burke TV show in New York City. [...]

(The Grand Opening exhibition will consist of a two-man show of sculpture by Harold Spaulding and Walter Buhr, two well-known Binghamton-area artists. [...] Harold Spaulding has exhibited at the Roberson Gallery in Binghamton, and has participated in a two-man show at Two Rivers Gallery in that city. He has had a one-man show at I.B.M. in Owego, New York. His art has also been exhibited at Arnot Art Gallery in Elmira in group shows, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

[...] You will be asked to give shows of your paintings by two people whom you should refuse; you will be asked to give shows by other people, whose invitations you should accept. [...]

[...] These artists will be welcome to arrange for one-and-two-man showings. Group shows will also be featured in the future. [...]

(At about 4 PM yesterday Jane called me out to the card table to show me the much improved movements she could make with her head: She rotated it more freely up and down and from side to side, her whole body participating somewhat as she sat in her chair. [...] I asked her if the new motions were a sign of the greater freedom of motion she would soon be showing, according to Seth in last night’s session [on the 28th], but she was noncommittal. [...]

His increased energy will show as his increased and increasing motions become more apparent. [...]

[...] Then my hip area turns into a hotel or old castle—like they show in horror movies. [...] (Also I’d lately seen a show on Jack the Ripper and I think the women were so convinced of their “evil” ways at those levels that they broadcast their need for punishment.) Finally awaken—sleep off and on but sore. [...]

[...] They simply show that the creative elements of the self are rearroused (long pause), and almost in a luxury of inspiration they show you how they can be applied to your artwork and to other areas of your living. [...]

[...] This time I’d been hired to draw a comic strip featuring Tom Selleck, of the TV show Magnum, P.I. I saw the Sunday page of the strip quite clearly in the dream, several times. [...]

[...] The dream involving Magnum showed that like a detective you are making a search—only your search is in the larger area of creativity. [...]

[...] He told me that Prentice had called about a radio-phone show and that I was to return the call. [...] I didn’t want to be bothered; now that I’d recently agreed to do some such shows, everyone it seemed would start calling. [...]

I hemmed and hawed, decided after talking with Rob that I really didn’t want to do any shows at all, so I wrote one letter so informing Prentice. [...]

[...] I call Tam, saying I won’t do any shows. [...]

As he began to understand to some degree that he need not be expected to do tours and so forth, he thought of the radio shows as alternate ways of fulfilling his responsibility. [...] It is also true, however, that his hands and arms became more aggravated in their condition precisely because he did not want to be able to hold the phone to do an hour show. [...] Chronic physical disabilities and problems drag on in a certain fashion because they serve many purposes, and the last groups of sessions show the interior and exterior kinds of controls that those symptoms have provided. [...]

[...] I finally realized that she didn’t really want to do such shows anymore, no matter whether the Sinful Self was involved or not. [...]

[...] Ruburt felt for years that he should (underlined) become a more public person, do workshops, television shows, radio tours or whatever—that he should (underlined) nearly perform miracles in the psychic arena, that he should have a large class, that he should hold as many sessions for others as possible. [...]

[...] This also means that you show your devotion more obviously, gallantly offering him assistance, thus always showing the world that what he is doing has your blessing.

He is at his worst with you on the street because he does not want to show you up. [...]

A side point here, but with some reference: his mother always told him that he would destroy those he loved, and he feared that any success of his might show you up if you had not achieved your own. [...]

(She showed me, then, how the flesh of her forearms has turned soft and flexible, whereas up until yesterday it had been quite rigid and wooden, and she’d had no feeling in it. [...] The arm effects appeared after I’d left her last night; at around 7:30 she’d said to herself: “I want to have something good to show Bob tomorrow.” [...]

[...] She said she had something to show me after lunch. [...]

[...] It still didn’t show up until 6:15, when Sharon Poley brought it in. [...]

[...] My husband, Rob, and I sat with Sonja Carlson and Jack Cole, who were interviewing us on the Boston “Today’s Woman Show” on television station WBZ. It was 10 A.M. on the last day of our first tour to promote my book, The Seth Material. This was our fifth television show. [...]

[...] I always tried to behave very sensibly to show that a trance was not a strange but a very natural phenomenon, and so my momentary stagger caught me by surprise. [...] A taxi was already waiting to take us to our next show, a radio program. [...]

A few day’s later, I received a long distance call at home from a woman who told me that Seth’s appearance on the “Today’s Woman Show” convinced her of life after death, though she had never believed in it before. [...] Since then, we have received many calls, letters and visits from people who saw that show. [...]

This was important, because it showed that he could change, and removed physical fears he had, for example about his kidneys—but more important, because you zeroed in on an area in which change was possible.

[...] You must walk in the driveway, showing your body your intent to do so, and it will respond by walking easily. [...]

[...] Show the body what you want and it will respond. [...]

[...] No one showed up at the house to rake leaves this morning, as promised. [...]

(Now Jane confessed that she had a short “crying jag” this morning while watching a TV game show. [...]

[...] The eyes also show these same characteristics, so that Ruburt is able to read with more and more ease and spontaneity. [...]