Jane Roberts Quotes (288 quotes, page 5)

“In spiritualistic terms, Ruburt would be [Jane's] the guardian angel, you see.”

Jane Roberts

Session 444, Page 124
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 9

Angels

“It is far better to eat moderate amounts of food in all of the food ranges, and to consume smaller portions more often. I realize that your social mores also dictate your eating habits - but four light meals a day will overall serve you very well, and give the body a more steady, regulated nourishment.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Way Toward Health (1997), p. 316

Food , Light

“For an exercise, then, imagine for a while that the subjective world of your thoughts, feelings, inner images and fantasies represent the 'rockbed reality' from which individual physical events emerge. Look at the world for a change from the inside out, so to speak. Imagine that physical experience is somehow the materialization of your own subjective reality. Forget what you have learned about reactions and stimuli. Ignore for a time everything you have believed and see your thoughts as the real events. Try to view normal physical occurrences as the concrete physical reactions in space and time to your own feelings and beliefs. For indeed your subjective world causes your physical experience.”

Jane Roberts

Session 830, Page 148
The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, (1981)

World , Feeling , Exercises , Imagination

“If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others, and you will find your answer.”

Jane Roberts

Session 340, Page 25
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 8

Thinking

“Above all, I am sure that Seth is my channel to revelational knowledge, and by this I mean knowledge that is revealed to the intuitive portion of the self rather than discovered by the reasoning faculties. Such revelational material is available to all of us, I believe, to some degree. From it springs the aspirations and achievements of our race. I think that revelational knowledge come first in the form of intuitions, dreams, hunches, or experiences such as mine, and that the intellect than (sic) uses the information provided. both are important.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Seth Material (1970), p. 293

Dreams , Spring , Knowledge , Thinking

“Its (reincarnation) reality, however, serves to generate activity throughout time’s framework as you understand it, to unite the species, to reinforce structures of knowledge, to transmit information, and perhaps most of all to reinforce relationships involving love, brotherhood, and cooperation between generations of men and women that would otherwise be quite separate and apart from each other. Through such relationships, for example, say, the cavemen and people of the 22nd century rub elbows, where in strict terms of time the species would seem to be quite disconnected form its earlier or later counterparts.”

Jane Roberts

Session 931, Page 431
Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume Two (1986)

Love , Women , Men , People

“A mind is a psychic pattern through which you interpret and form reality. You have physical limbs that you can see. You have minds that are invisible. Each one can organize reality in a different fashion. Each one deals with its own kind of knowledge. These minds all work together to keep you alive through the physical structure of the brain. When you use all of these minds, then and only then do you become fully aware of your surroundings: You perceive reality more clearly than you do now, more sharply, brilliantly and concisely. At the same time, however, you comprehend it directly.”

Jane Roberts

Session 763, Page 41
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression (1979)

Fashion , Knowledge , Reality , Time

“To dwell upon the possibility of illness or disaster is equally poor policy, for you set up negative webs of probabilities that need not occur. You can theoretically alter your own past as YOU have known it, for time is no more something divorced from you than probabilities are. The past existed in multitudinous ways. You only experienced one probable past. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others.”

Jane Roberts

Session 566
Seth Speaks (1972)

Way , Nature , Change , Time

“Illnesses can be seen as impending actions representing actual blockages of energy, ation turned into channels that are not to the best interests of the personality. The energies appear concentrated and turned inward, affecting the whole system.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 231, quoting from Session 164

Appearance , Personality

“I would suggest that you tell yourselves that you will henceforth be able to remember dreams from the deeper levels of your personality, and you should find that you will be able to do so. You can also tell yourselves when you wish that you will give special attention to the nature of time and space, as these appear within your dreams. You will discover then upon awakening that many perceptions concerning time and space within the dream state will remain within you.”

Jane Roberts

Session 174, Page 171
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 4

Dreams , Nature , Appearance , Time

“The planet has seen many changes. It has appeared and disappeared many times. It flickers off and on -- but because of the intervals of your attention each on period seems to last for millions of years, of course, while at other levels the earth is like a firefly, flickering off and on.”

Jane Roberts

Session 918, Page 368
Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume Two (1986)

Appearance , Change , Time

“However faith in an idea is frowned upon in scientific circles, but no new concept or idea, or discovery, ever came unless there was first faith that it indeed existed.”

Jane Roberts

Session 82, Page 314
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 2

Faith , Idea

“In schools, for example, there are courses in the criticism of literature, art criticism, and so forth. The arts are supposed to be 'not real.' It is quite safe, therefore, to criticize them in that regard -- to see how a story or a painting is constructed, or more importantly, to critically analyze the structure of ideas, themes, or beliefs that appear, say, in the poem or work of fiction. When children are taught science, there is no criticism allowed. They are told, 'This is how things are.' Science's reasons are given as the only true statements about reality, with which no student is expected to quarrel. Any strong intellectual explorations or counter versions of reality have appeared in science fiction, for example. Here scientists, many being science-fiction buffs, can channel their own intellectual questioning into a safe form. 'This is, after all, merely imaginative and not to be taken seriously.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 145-146

Children , School , Art , Imagination

“The species is in a state of transition, one of many. This one began, generally speaking, when the species tried to step apart from nature in order to develop the unique kind of consciousness that is presently your own. That consciousness is not a finished product, however, but one meant to change, [to] evolve and develop. Certain artificial divisions were made along the way that must now be dispensed with. You must return, wiser creatures, to the nature that spawned you - not only as loving caretakers but as partners with the other species of the earth. You must discover once again the spirituality of your biological heritage.”

Jane Roberts

Session 805, Page 45
The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, (1981)

Love , Way , Nature , Change

“A plane is not necessarily a planet. A plane may be one planet, but a plane may also exist where no planet is. One planet may have several planes. Planes may also involve various aspects of apparent time. Planes can and do intermix without the knowledge of the inhabitants. A plane may be a time... or only one iota of vitality that exists all by itself. A plane may cease to be. A plane is formed for entities as patterns for fulfillment along various lines. It is a climate conducive to the development of unique and particular capabilities and achievements... an isolation of elements.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 103-104, quoting from Seth Session 16

Knowledge , Time

“There have indeed been civilizations upon your planet that understood as well as you, and without your kind of technology, the workings of the planets, the positioning of the stars -- people who even foresaw "later" global changes. They used a mental physics. There were men before you who brought back data quite as "scientific" and pertinent. There were those who understood the "origin" of your solar system far better than you. Some of these civilizations did not need spaceships. Instead, highly trained men combining the abilities of dream-art scientists and mental physicists cooperated at journeys not only through time but through space.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The “Unknown” Reality: Volume One, (1977), p. 196, Session 702

Men , People , Dreams , Art

“There are those who are so tightly meshed within physical reality that the soul is squeezed dry. They are tight, sore, and chafing beneath too-severe habits and ideas. For them momentary release, such as the drugs can give is highly beneficial.”

Jane Roberts

Session 362, Page 116
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 8

Soul , Idea , Reality

“The message of the God of All Life is in all of nature, everywhere. If you really listen, you'll hear it.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Emir's Education In The Proper Use of Magical Powers (1979), p. 69

Life , God , Nature

“Hypnotism will become more and more a tool of scientific investigation. Telepathy will be proven without a doubt, and utilized, sadly enough in the beginning, for purposes of war and intrigue. Nevertheless telepathy will enable your race to make its first contact with alien intelligence.”

Jane Roberts

Session 45, Page 21
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 2

War , Intelligence

“The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.”

Jane Roberts

Session 388, Page 158
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 8

Idea , Understanding

“Each mental act is a reality for which you are responsible.”

Jane Roberts

Session 238
Seth Speaks (1972)

Reality

“People die when they are ready to die, for reasons that are their own. No person dies without a reason. You are not taught that, however, so people do not recognize their own reasons for dying, and they are not taught to recognize their own reasons for living — because you are told that life itself is an accident in a cosmic game of chance.”

Jane Roberts

Session 835
The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, (1981)

Life , People , Game , Chance

“Devils and demons have no objective existence. They have always represented, again, portions of mankind’s own psychological reality that to some extent he had not assimilated -- but in a schizophrenic kind of expression, projected instead outward from himself.”

Jane Roberts

Session 921, Page 398
Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume Two (1986)

Reality

“Ruburt tuned in to the world view of a man known dead. He was not directly in communication with William James. He was aware, however, of the universe through William James' world view. As you might tune into a program on a television set, Ruburt tuned into the view of reality now held in the mind of William James. Because that view necessarily involved emotions, Ruburt felt some sense of emotional contact -- but only with the validity of the emotions. Each person has such a world view, whether living or dead in your terms, and that "living picture" exists despite time or space. It can be perceived by others.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book (1976), p. 82-83

World , Communication , Reality , Sense

“As you can experience days or hours within its framework in the dream state and not age for the comparable amount of physical time, so as you develop, you will be able to rest and be refreshed within psychological time even when you are awake. This will aid your mental and physical state to an amazing degree. You will discover and added vitality and a decreased need to sleep. Within any given five minutes of clock time, for example you may find an hour of resting which is independent of clock time.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 152

Age , Dreams , Sleep , Time

“Your closest approximation of the purpose of the universe can be found in those loving emotions that you have toward the development of your children, in your intent to have them develop their fullest capacities.”

Jane Roberts

Session 882, Page 122
Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume One (1986)

Love , Children , Universe

“We might have a chance now to rebuild it all with what we have left. We might have learned that we can exist only as a part of nature, not apart from nature.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Rebellers (1963), p. 155

Nature , Learning , Chance , Parting

“A personality will not choose unfavorable circumstances of rebirth until he himself sees that necessary discipline can be achieved in no other manner. Therefore extremely hot and extremely cold countries go largely undeveloped.”

Jane Roberts

Session 32, Page 247
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 1

Personality , Country

“The projected form does make some impression upon the physical system. It is possible for it to be detected. It is a kind of pseudo-image, materialistically speaking, but it has definite electromagnetic reality and chemical properties. Animals have sensed such apparitions. They react to the chemical properties and build up [the perception] from these. These chemical properties are more diffused in such an apparition than in a physical form, however.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 338 quoting from Session 269

Reality , Sense , Animals

“Children - change that to infants - dream of their past lives, remembering; for example, how to walk and talk. They are born with the knowledge of how to think, with the propensity for language. They are guided by memories that they later forget.”

Jane Roberts

Session 904, Page 258
Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume One (1986)

Children , Dreams , Knowledge , Thinking

“To create a harmonious inner existence is a positive act with far-reaching effects, and not an act of isolation. To desire peace strongly is to help achieve it.”

Jane Roberts

Session 337, Page 16
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 8

Peace , Help

“Suggestion can shape dreams, and the dreams themselves then operate as action. A strong dream can be a more significant psychic action than any physical experience, and it can change the course of the personality completely.”

Jane Roberts

Session 28
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 1

Dreams , Strong , Change , Personality

“There is never any justification for violence. There is no any justification for hatred. There is no any justification for murder. Those who indulge in violence for whatever reason are themselves changed, and the purity of their purpose adulterated.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Seth Material (1970), p. 273

Change

“One of the main purposes of dreaming, therefore, is to increase man’s pleasure, which means to increase the quality of living itself.”

Jane Roberts

Session 933, Page 463
Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume Two (1986)

Pleasure , Dreams

“A fully developed psychology will not exist until reincarnation is accepted as a fact.”

Jane Roberts

Session 312, Page 242
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 7

“Energy projected into any kind of construction, psychic or physical, cannot be recalled, but must follow the laws of the particular form into which it has been for the moment molded.”

Jane Roberts

Session 92, Page 36
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 3

Law

“Physical activity is an excellent way of using and controlling the effect of aggressive reaction, and will prevent the buildup of aggressive emotions into unsupervised physical constructions, and also prevent the habitual piling up of such aggressions, where detrimental constructions result continually.”

Jane Roberts

Session 277
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 6

Way

“In terms that I admit are difficult to describe, the creative solutions will change the course of history in the past, so that variations are taken, and technology does not progress in the same way that it has in your experience.”

Jane Roberts

Session 735, Page 576
The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two, (1979)

Way , History , Change , Past

“Reincarnation and projection, you see, are one and the same thing... When you are attached to the physical organism your projections are not as complete -- the difference between a reincarnational instance and a simple projection from the physical state.”

Jane Roberts

Session 300, Page 154
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 7

“What really made me angry though was finding myself agreeing with any of the journal's articles, and I did agree with several. The writers had a keen, if cold intelligence. They did a great deal of seeing through some of the nonsense concerned with the psychic field in general. Of course, they were almost vengefully gleeful when they could legitimately knock down some psychic performance, or show a psychic's predictions to be wrong. Only why couldn't they see their own scientific nonsense? And why couldn't their trained intellects perceive their own emotional vehemence? Because, I thought unhappily, they were scientific witch hunters.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 141

Intelligence , Training

“With his superior knowledge the entity must leave hands off. His, the entity’s, only hope is to allow the personality complete independence, for it is the personality who understands more clearly than he the conditions of the particular plane upon which he existence happens. There is here no puppet, and there is no hand that moves the strings. If there were you see, you would indeed have a much more perfect world, but you would not have that one built-in prerequisite: complete as possible existence within all facets, and manipulation within all facets, of a given plane.”

Jane Roberts

Session 95, Page 63
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 3

World , Hope , Understanding , Knowledge

“When I think of me as a psychic, I get hung up because I seem to be in the company of so many nuts. Writers may be as nuts as anyone else but it's a nuttiness that doesn't bug me -- there's no dogma attached.”

Jane Roberts

p. 122, Speaking of Jane Roberts (2001) by Susan M. Watkins

Thinking

“Our first introduction to Frank Withers came on December 2, 1963. In our earlier sessions, we had never been able to maintain any consistency between one sitting and another. When the Seth sessions began, one session began to instantly reinforce earlier ones. Seth specified that we have sessions twice a week, naming the evenings and the time. Sessions varied from two to three hours each. Sometimes they were longer. We have followed this schedule ever since, and sessions still continue.”

Jane Roberts

Source: How To Develop Your ESP Power (1966), p. 11

Time

“Occasionally when a decision has been made by the ego, the subconscious will change it, because the decision is obviously such an unwise one.”

Jane Roberts

Session 280
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 6

Decision , Change

“At one time, the race depended upon quantity for survival," Toby said. "Now it is destroying itself. We believe that man's unique characteristics, imagination, psychic understanding, sympathy, and so forth, are being undermined. Even if the race survives physically, it won't be the same race. We won't be bright enough to recognize our fall from grace, either; that's the hell of it. Tests show that though our mental capacity is as great as ever, our use of it has slumped to an astonishing degree.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Rebellers (1963), p. 66

Imagination , Hell , Understanding , Time

“We are a multitude of selves, and the sooner we learn that, the better. And in that rich alliance of psychological Aspects lies the very secret of our practical operative stability. Only because we change our positions constantly in reference to the psyche and the world are we able to manipulate physically and translate inner experience into sense terms.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book (1976), p. 272

Secret , World , Sense , Learning

“Old hates lie in wait for the infant
till he grows into a man.
Then they leap upon him
when he puts his father's coat on.
When the father's bones drop into the grave,
the lice flock up as the dark earth turns,
to feed on a son's guilt-love.

No man can look in his son's face,
for what was done to him, he does in turn,
and he carries the hate in his blood;
ghosts of times forgotten,
tragedies unseen, unspoken,wait in the past's proud flesh,
and nothing will shake them off.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 28

Love , Hate , Lie , Time

“It's your knowledge of the past that we're concerned with. Manuscripts and all kinds of important information has been withheld from the public for so many generations that we're held back ourselves. We have to know what was tried in order to see where the race failed. We're in a very peculiar position. At one time the Rebellers had a positive plan of action. We still know what we're rebelling against, but we have no idea of what sort of civilization we want to put in place of what we have now.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Rebellers (1963), p. 48

Idea , Knowledge , Time , Past

“Now the origin of the universe that you know, as I have described it, was of course a master event. The initial action did not occur in space or time, but formed space and time.”

Jane Roberts

Session 919, Page 373
Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume Two (1986)

Universe , Time

“On the other hand as I have told you, your past continually changes. It does not appear to change for you, for you change with it.”

Jane Roberts

Session 234, Page 291
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 5

Appearance , Change , Past

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