“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

What I am saying will make greater sense when you read his paper. Give us a moment.... Your attending class, and hence symbolically standing with him as he relates this greater understanding, not distantly but to individual encountered human beings—a good point, important on your part, for you have never before been willing to encounter others at such a direct level.

This means symbolically that your painting will also achieve an even greater depth because you are willing to encounter the emotionalism that is always highly personal, that speaks out through each portrait. You have a good understanding of reincarnation that Ruburt has lacked, yet that has been counterbalanced by a disinclination to encounter personalities directly in contact in the present. Ruburt would do that, while closing off reincarnational aspects because of possible past emotional content.

Now this is because Ruburt did not want to encounter his own past emotional history in this life. You have become willing now to encounter present personalities directly. Class is simply your format in that respect. This reaction however helped Ruburt to overcome his blocks against reincarnational aspects, and so each of you help the other in that regard.

[...] He encounters his consciousness first, and then he encounters the world—so I am saying, of course, that each person has an identity that is larger than the framework of consciousness with which you are usually familiar in life.

[...] Basically, each person must confront the experience of reality through a direct encounter with it. This encounter takes place through the use of the physical senses, of course, as they are used to perceive and interpret physical data. [...]

[...] All of this involves direct experience—episodes, encountered by individuals, [that are] highly suggestive of the after death hypothesis; but the hypothesis is never taken seriously by your established sciences. [...] (With amusement:) Few people have seen a black hole, to make the most generous statement possible, while countless people have had private reincarnational experiences, or encounters that suggest the survival of the personality beyond death.

You avoided meaningful (underlined) emotional encounters with each other often as a result. [...] The rich emotional contact and encounters that are possible between you became clogged by inhibition and fears. Because of his particular nature, these agreements on your part to avoid such issues, and the resulting lack of positive encounters, was more damaging to Ruburt.

[...] To the both of you, unconsciously, an emotional encounter means an encounter with unpleasant emotions. [...]

[...] It means that you refuse to let old habits any longer rule, and each such encounter is an exercise in learning how to express and communicate your feelings each to the other.

[...] Now the same applies to after-death experience and to the dream experience, and to any out-of-body encounters. [...] If you believe in devils, then you will encounter these. [...]

After-death experiences will not seem so alien or incomprehensible if you realize that you encounter similar situations as a normal part of your present existence.

You do exist consciously in a coherent, purposeful creative state while the physical body sleeps, however, and you carry on many of the activities that I told you would be encountered after death. [...]

Mysticism itself involves, basically, encounters with the art of being—a kind of creativity that in usual terms may produce no product at all, creative or otherwise. Such experiences may be translated into poetry or art or whatever, but initially they involve a spiritual encounter with reality. This encounter promotes a heightened state of creativity, even though, again, a creative product per se may not show.

Ruburt got so he wanted such encounters only if they fell into his ideas of work. [...]

One note: your encounter with your mother was, as you know, quite valid. [...]

He encounters the invisible organization of my books, say, the effect of those books upon others. He recognizes the vast complexity that lies behind our relationship, and therefore is ever aware of psychological issues encountered by few other people, relatively speaking. [...]

[...] He likes encounters with other people, naturally, but he does not like crowds nor speaking to a kind of mass mind, directly encountered. [...]

Now: Ruburt for a while should write his own impressions of encounters such as this evening’s, or such as the visit of the two girls (from Columbus, Ohio a few days ago). [...]

Now I will let our friend call his own class break, but I will be listening to your answers, and I expect you to encounter the question in both of its parts quite honestly. [...]

[...] Now I knew you would evade the questions, so that is all right and it was part of the lesson but you must encounter your own vitality. [...]

(To Ned.) And you must encounter your own vitality and honor it. [...]

[...] As soon as Seth mentioned her feelings of inferiority at the beginning of the session, it was all downhill for me; I thought we’d done a reasonable job on encountering those with our pendulum work, but it seemed that they were still as present and active as ever. Nor could I take any comfort from Seth’s remarks about encountering strangers, or even friends, I said, since it seemed that whenever any outsider was present we were both constantly worrying about whether they would notice Jane’s condition, whether she ever got on her feet, and so forth, until it seemed that those episodes were hardly worthwhile. [...]

When no effort is made now and then to encounter strangers, or guests of that nature, in any position of relative authority, then Ruburt does not question his feelings or beliefs directly. [...]

[...] The encounter with the reporter, for example, on quite practical levels represented a shot in the arm, in that it quickly showed Ruburt that he is quite able to deal with such situations, that he handles them well, and that sense of confidence can then be used as new information to help break down old beliefs of inferiority.

[...] Besides this, it seems to you that such encounters involve a simplification and distortion by their very nature as far as your work is concerned, along with a unique kind of psychological disclosure that could be humiliating, lacking the proper frame of understanding. [...]

[...] You were also afraid that spontaneously you would want to do public encounter work, that you’d be tempted, that once begun, you’d be swept along and that the circumstances would be volatile. [...]

Use your own initiative for variations—think in terms of play—of a playful encounter, rather than serious encounter. [...]

[...] Any love encounter is truly unique and different from any other and this you must understand. A love encounter is a way of expressing your individuality. [...]

[...] The male image of a rebeller, however, comes to a halt in your lovemaking encounters.

[...] Any conceivable illness will worsen, and any possible catastrophe be encountered.

[...] Under such conditions it seems only rational to look for the worm in the apple, so to speak, and to expect pain or danger in each new experience or encounter.

This retreat from pleasure begins to cut down upon normal activity, new encounters, or explorations that might in themselves help relieve the problem by opening up new options. [...]

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[...] Glimpses and Direct Encounters.”

[...] Any encounter with such phenomena will then include a bringing-into-focus of elements that are usually not concentrated upon. [...]

This means that he is bravely and fully encountering himself, so if he comes up against worries for example about his work, tell him to be patient. He is encountering and solving his difficulties. [...]

(In any case, we felt a bit weary this evening, and decided that for a while at least we’d had our fill of personal encounters. [...]

[...] In your limited space travel you take for granted the fact that different conditions will be met from those encountered upon your planet.

There are alterations taken into your calculations, so astronauts know ahead of time that they can expect to encounter weightlessness, for example. [...]

[...] They encounter each other. In the language of the self that you speak, these encounters are like the implied pauses in your verbal language. [...]

[...] Even if two people encountered precisely the same events in their lives at precisely the same time, their experiences of reality would still hardly be approximately connected.

These encounters of consciousness go on constantly. [...]

[...] She particularly enjoys unusual people, or foreigners, and chance encounters. Otherwise she is a rather solitary person—but her desire for such encounters exists with no effort on her part in Framework 2.

The living people, so involved in this network, will have their own other encounters, of course, but again through a psychological selectivity. You can be aware after death of those encounters also. [...]

(The encounter with the Canadian couple was so recent that as we sat for the session it hadn’t occurred to Jane and me to hope that Seth would discuss the affair, or to even ask that he do so. [...]

[...] Then you would encounter the pseudocamouflage, you see, of the next system. [...]

You would then encounter the heart of the camouflage area. [...]

[...] You could then expect to encounter next a more differentiated environment, that seemed to become more clear as you progressed toward the heart of another system.

You may, for example, have read books numbering the “inner realms,” and telling you what you can expect to encounter in each. [...] In a strange way these books do provide a service, for at certain levels you will find your own ideas materialized; and if you believe in demons then in those terms you will encounter them. [...]

[...] There is no reason, for example, to encounter any demons or devils in any trance or out-of-body condition.³ (Pause.) In such cases your own hallucinations blind you to the environment within which they are projected. [...]

[...] He had to find the courage to encounter those old beliefs boldly, and he is finally doing so. [...]

(After tonight’s session, and echoing my own ideas of how adamant Jane was becoming about the medical scene, I said that it would be ironic indeed if her encounters with the medical establishment furnished the final great impetus she needed to divest herself of the symptoms and inflate recovery; anything to get away from the massively negative pronouncement of the doctors, to dump old ideas, to set the body free to heal itself. [...]

[...] His body let him know it did not anticipate such an encounter. [...]

[...] The sharpness of the encounter made Ruburt come to the decision then and there that he would not use drugs to combat ahead of time conditions that may or may not appear at some future time. [...]

[...] ) Your own tendencies (to me) are general ones, against personal encounters, before such encounters are made. [...] However, once a personal encounter has been made, then you accept it for what it is, and respond positively. [...]

This applies to both of you, although Ruburt would be more open about initial encounters if he had your support. [...]

Now do not look down upon the importance of personal encounters, or the effect of personality. [...]