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Jane Roberts Quotes (1929-1984)
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Dorothy Jane Roberts (May 8, 1929 – September 5, 1984) was an American author who was known primarily as a psychic and trance medium or spirit medium who channeled a personality named Seth. Seth is best known for her introduction into mass culture the phrase, "You create your own reality."
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“I petted the pussy.”
“When you dream of others they know it. When they dream of you, you know this.”
“In spiritualistic terms, Ruburt would be [Jane's] the guardian angel, you see.”
“Your modern methods of communication are in fact modeled after your inner ones.”
“You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.”
“[S]uggestions should be given that only constructive suggestions will be reacted to.”
“One dream can change the development of a personality, and change his physical course.”
“Now there are classes indeed where the newly dead are instructed. I used to teach some of these.”
“Before health problems show up there is always a loss of self-respect or expression.”
“A fully developed psychology will not exist until reincarnation is accepted as a fact.”
“Human consciousness was inherent and latent from the beginning of your physical universe.”
“We didn't have a chance to form the world we were born into. Now we have the opportunity to make a new one.”
“You are at a point where you are ready to look into yourselves and to take the next steps that must indeed be taken.”
“As a rule projection in some areas can only be achieved by those who are living their last earthly cycle.”
“The personality when it leaves your plane for good will have developed its potentials as far as it possibly can.”
“There is no transmigration of souls, in which the entire personality of a person comes back as an animal.”
“If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others, and you will find your answer.”
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Jane Roberts on Soul 3 quotes
“This private multidimensional self, or the soul, has... an eternal validity. It is upheld, supported, maintained by the energy, the inconceivable vitality, of All That Is.”
Jane Roberts on Science and mysticism 2 quotes
“The fact is that your plane originated because enough entities needed certain types of experience to warrant such a creation, and they set about forming it through the process of evolution.”
Jane Roberts on Skepticism 2 quotes
“Many people feel duty-bound to express skepticism as if it were an automatic badge of honor and intellectual superiority. I'd done the same thing in the past, so I could understand the attitude.”
Jane Roberts on Vegetarianism 2 quotes
“The eating of meat without doubt focuses the physical mechanism closely to the physical system. There is nothing wrong with this. If you are trying to develop inner abilities however, and if you wish to allow yourself a mobility of focus, then moderation in this respect must be used.”
Jane Roberts on Unidentified flying object 2 quotes
“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 on Oceans
Jane Roberts on Reincarnation
“A fully developed psychology will not exist until reincarnation is accepted as a fact.”
Jane Roberts on Love
“You cannot love someone you do not know -- not unless you water down the definition of love so much that it becomes meaningless.”
Jane Roberts on Consensus reality
“You must remember, once more, that expectations are the blocks with which you build your reality. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
Jane Roberts on Integrity
Jane Roberts on Ego
“The waking consciousness, dear friends, is not the ego. The ego is only that portion of the waking consciousness that deals with physical manipulation.”
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Jane Roberts on Carl Jung
Jane Roberts on Mothers
“And I decided that if motherhood turned a "young American beauty" into that unhappy woman, then motherhood wasn't for me, either. That youthful, emotional decision (ill-formed and made for the wrong reasons) kept me from too much early sexual experimentation, and probably turned me into a bit of a tease. I'd "neck" but only go so far, because . . . well, I because I was going to be a writer, "free and unhampered." At the very least. I wasn't going to get pregnant in my teens.”
Jane Roberts on William James
“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 tome or space. It can be perceived by others.”
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Susan M. Watkins. on Jane Roberts 2 quotes
“She said that she was technically a virgin when she married Rob. That after she and Walt were married, when they first came to making love and she caught sight of his penis, she'd cracked up because it was so big and she couldn't see how in hell they'd manage it. She never said in so many words, "I never had sexual interourse with Walt," e.g. But when I asked her, "So you were technically a virgin when you married Rob" (words to this effect), she said yes. She said that whenever she and Rob made love before a Seth session, or before a class session, that the results for the ensuing session were spectacular. And that sometimes she and Rob would make love for the sake of these results in a session.”
Jane Roberts quoted on Jane Roberts
“To label Seth as a spirit guide is to limit an understanding of what he is . . . The minute I found out after my first book was published that this automatically put me in what people called the psychic field . . . I was so humiliated I could hardly hold my head up. I'm using my writing [and] my life to transform intuitive, sometimes revelationary material into art, where it can be enjoyed, understood to varying degrees, and stand free of the stupid interpretations . . . The whole psychic bit as it is, is intellectually and morally psychologically outrageous as far as I'm concerned and I want no part of it or the vocabulary or the ideas.”
Susan M. Watkins on Jane Roberts
“Jane's attitude toward reincarnation (like mine) was strongly ambivalent. The idea of physical life being expressed in many historical situations made emotional and intuitive sense to her. Intellectually, however, she was highly suspicious of the standard notion of reincarnation, particularly as any kind of pat answer to present problems. Thus, when class started to experience the theory of reincarnation in emotionally-charged drama form, Jane would often find herself in a most uncomfortable one-foot-on-the-dock, one-foot-in-the-boat position, at once intellectually scandalized and intuitively involved. Even on those occasions when the inner events would "click," or when Seth gave past-life information that made complete sense to people, Jane worried about it for days afterwards. What was the meaning of such memories? Where did they come from? Were we creating the events through suggestion, combined with a need for emotional outlet? Or did we actually remember people who lived -- in our terms -- long before any of us were born? These questions demanded the class maintain a balance, from which Jane never let things stray too far.”
David Odell on Jane Roberts
“The spiritual kernel of The Dark Crystal is heavily influenced by Seth. I've always felt that the idea of perfect beings split into a good mystic part and an evil materialistic part which are reunited after a long separation is Jim's response to the teachings of that book. Jim admitted that he didn't understand the book himself, and that everyone would understand it — or not understand it — in their own way. But he thought it opened up a whole different way of looking at reality, which I think was one of his goals in the making of The Dark Crystal.”
Colin Wilson on Jane Roberts
“They certainly demonstrate that Seth, whether an aspect of Jane Robert's unconscious mind or a genuine "spirit," was of a high level of intelligence. Yet when Jane Roberts produced a book that purported to be the after-death journal of the philosopher William James, it was difficult to take it seriously. James's works are noted for their vigour and clarity of style; Jane Robert's "communicator" writes like an undergraduate . . . there is a clumsiness here that is quite unlike James's swift-moving, colloquial prose.”
Seth on Jane Roberts 2 quotes
“Consciousness, individual consciousness, is many-faceted, and in that respect a portion of James's consciousness is reflected through Ruburt's [Jane's].”
Ian Stevenson quoted on Jane Roberts
“His comment about a book whose author claimed was channeled from the spirit of William James, the great American psychologist and philosopher: "If the vapid writings . . . did indeed emanate from him, I can only say that this implies a terrible post-mortem reduction of personal capacities. (Survival of death with such an appalling decay of personality makes it, at least to me, a rather unattractive prospect.)"”
About Jane Roberts
Dorothy Jane Roberts (May 8, 1929 – September 5, 1984) was an American author who was known primarily as a psychic and trance medium or spirit medium who channeled a personality named Seth. Seth is best known for her introduction into mass culture the phrase, "You create your own reality."