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Seth Material
Recounts the author's experiences as the medium for psychic messages on death, health, dreams, reincarnation, clairvoyance, and the life beyond a personality occupying another dimension of reality.
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First published January 1, 1970
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Jane Roberts
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Roberts was born in Saratoga Springs, New York. After attending public schools, she attended Skidmore College. She wrote in a variety of genres: poetry, short stories, children’s literature, and novels. When she was in her 30s, she and her husband began to record what she said were messages from a personality named "Seth", and she wrote several books about the experience.
Roberts was born in Saratoga Springs, New York. After attending public schools, she attended Skidmore College. She wrote in a variety of genres: poetry, short stories, children’s literature, and novels. When she was in her 30s, she and her husband began to record what she said were messages from a personality named "Seth", and she wrote several books about the experience.
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October 1, 2009
This is a book for spiritual seekers, especially for those who cannot comprehend the inequities of this life. If you do not have an open mind, you probably will not like this book. If your mind is open, this book will open new doors for you.
That is what it did for me about thirty years ago. I had had my first spiritual experience and I was introduced to a woman who changed my life. She was someone who did channeling. She, in turn, introduced me to Jane Roberts and to Seth.
Seth is a delightful personality who helped me come to new understandings about the nature of our larger reality. I was captivated from the very start. He taught me things that resonated within my soul. Whenever something does that, I recognize that I am on the pathway to truth.
I grew up as a Christian, but I had become an agnostic before I had had my first spiritual experience. Even though I stayed away from Christianity for many, many years, I have since reclaimed my relationship with Jesus. There is nothing within the Seth Material that goes against my religious beliefs, though I am sure that many people would consider Seth and Jane Roberts to be heretics.
I am a spiritual seeker. Spirituality is the most important aspect of my life. If you are looking for an enhanced spiritual understanding, I would highly recommend this book to you.
Davis Aujourd'hui, author of "The Misadventures of Sister Mary Olga Fortitude"
That is what it did for me about thirty years ago. I had had my first spiritual experience and I was introduced to a woman who changed my life. She was someone who did channeling. She, in turn, introduced me to Jane Roberts and to Seth.
Seth is a delightful personality who helped me come to new understandings about the nature of our larger reality. I was captivated from the very start. He taught me things that resonated within my soul. Whenever something does that, I recognize that I am on the pathway to truth.
I grew up as a Christian, but I had become an agnostic before I had had my first spiritual experience. Even though I stayed away from Christianity for many, many years, I have since reclaimed my relationship with Jesus. There is nothing within the Seth Material that goes against my religious beliefs, though I am sure that many people would consider Seth and Jane Roberts to be heretics.
I am a spiritual seeker. Spirituality is the most important aspect of my life. If you are looking for an enhanced spiritual understanding, I would highly recommend this book to you.
Davis Aujourd'hui, author of "The Misadventures of Sister Mary Olga Fortitude"
October 30, 2020
An ugly, paltry, virulently Anti-Christian diatribe. I’d pay you 2 bits to get it OUT OF MY HOUSE!
April 16, 2009
I have added various Seth books to my cyber-shelves because they were important to me for a time. It is hard to see these materials as a hoax - and if they were it still leaves the question of the creativity and interest of the ideas Roberts expressed (from whatever source). Her ideas about the nature of past a future probabilities is much more mainstream now than it was when first expressed.
Just as in the East it is suggested you should revere your teachers - even if you come to disagree with them - so with books that perhaps you move beyond; they were there as stepping stones.
The only book of hers that I have kept is The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events. This book has some really intriguing ideas about how reality is shaped by the psychological choices made by people en-mass.
Just as in the East it is suggested you should revere your teachers - even if you come to disagree with them - so with books that perhaps you move beyond; they were there as stepping stones.
The only book of hers that I have kept is The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events. This book has some really intriguing ideas about how reality is shaped by the psychological choices made by people en-mass.
December 6, 2013
Maybe not quite as mind blowing as Seth speaks but beautiful, comforting and informative. Seth will always get 5 stars from me for translating reality into a sensible construct that echoes my intuition completely.
February 23, 2022
Interestingly enough, the three biggest channellers of modern paranormal phenomena are all-male spirits speaking through women. Abraham (through Esther Hicks) is a key figure in the Law of Attraction movement, and their guidances single-handedly had the most significant impact on my spiritual journey. Conversely, Ramtha (through J.Z. Knight) specialised in creating your own reality, and her work is the most immense pile of metaphysical vomit I've ever endured. But then there is Seth speaking through Jane Roberts. Their publications predate the former personalities by nearly two decades, and the teachings are a prominent influence on any in the genre that followed. I knew my weird investigation into mediums was not complete without Jane's input, so I sought out this difficult-to-find book. It eventually arrived, and boy, it fit the part. Tattered and second hand with a library stamp, the yellow pages came bent while holding a distinct sweet smell. And as I read, the veiny spine warped until the cover fell off, as if it was self-destructing as I gained its knowledge. And then when the book concluded on page 333, well…
The cards Jane holds in her favour extend beyond these superficial points. For starters, she was a writer by trade, articulating her experiences very well, making for a remarkably smooth journey. But more importantly, Jane herself was a fierce sceptic. So much so that the Seth Material (1970) is far more autobiographical than anticipated, illustrating Jane's reluctance to accept what was happening. She disagrees with some of Seth's teachings (even documenting Seth's rare inaccuracies), and her quest was one of validation, actively seeking professionals to evaluate her newfound voice. Unlike the mediums mentioned above, Jane does not expect us to simply swallow these words. She refused them herself! And that builds a backstory of legitimacy while painting the author as someone very sound of mind. But the most impressive endorsement is that Jane never charged anyone money for her sessions. Neither Esther Hicks nor J.Z. Knight could boast such a case.
However, like everything ever written ever, why must I believe literally any word of it? Because Seth said so? Can channelled energies not talk shit? Although, granted, many of the more unprovable teachings here are widely agreed upon by most esoteric literature (past-life recollections, selecting our birth parents, etc.), and certain outlooks do resonate with my core beliefs (such as the nature of our illusionary reality reflecting our sensory perceptions). Still, neutrality is imperative to my spiritual development, as per the order of Janthopoyism, and I refuse to endorse anything until I have absolute proof, which no book can reasonably provide. It's not that I disbelieve, but I also can't blindly surrender to the schooling either. There are a million theories in the world, and I can never claim to be the authority on which ones are correct and incorrect. Furthermore, I reject anyone who does. But what I can say with utmost confidence is that Seth certainly sounds like he speaks with extra knowledge found outside of our human realm.
The complexities of Seth's text would be impossible to summarise as my mind is still grappling with the data. But one section that knocked me hard was when he described how there is more to ourselves, as if who we are physically is only one component of a much larger being. This notion is not discussed in a pantheistic "one universal organism" sense, but more compartmentalised, where for each individual, there is a more profound YOU, a broader consciousness existing on lower frequencies assigned entirely to your person. And this deeper being is acutely aware of the physical individual you think you are, as it watches you mentally trap yourself within this finite existence. When I let that seep in, I started to feel a presence when I read alone, and whether imaginary or not, I can't seem to shake this constant sensation that otherworldly entities are now observing everything I do. That was a lot for me, and I am unsure how to move forward from that thought.
It's no surprise to me, then, that when Jane first published the Seth Material, many hysterically declared it a book written by a demon. It's creepy no matter which way you look at it, and the repercussions of these ideas are almost too much to bear. If you're not careful with this type of contemplation, it'll ruin your life.
Ending in a more positive light, this was the most unbiased, unpretentious, and advanced medium publication I have encountered. I can effortlessly understand why it's so highly revered in such circles because it was ahead of its time and remains ahead of our time. If there ever was a solid case for channelling, this is the strongest I've come across, and despite my better judgement, I am inclined to believe quite a lot of it. I am grateful that Seth has added this substantial power to my progress, but currently, I am unable to articulate or even perceive what that is, more like an underlying connection, slowly solidifying to serve me when I'm ready. Cool, so that's enough channelling books for a bit, speak later, thanks.
The cards Jane holds in her favour extend beyond these superficial points. For starters, she was a writer by trade, articulating her experiences very well, making for a remarkably smooth journey. But more importantly, Jane herself was a fierce sceptic. So much so that the Seth Material (1970) is far more autobiographical than anticipated, illustrating Jane's reluctance to accept what was happening. She disagrees with some of Seth's teachings (even documenting Seth's rare inaccuracies), and her quest was one of validation, actively seeking professionals to evaluate her newfound voice. Unlike the mediums mentioned above, Jane does not expect us to simply swallow these words. She refused them herself! And that builds a backstory of legitimacy while painting the author as someone very sound of mind. But the most impressive endorsement is that Jane never charged anyone money for her sessions. Neither Esther Hicks nor J.Z. Knight could boast such a case.
However, like everything ever written ever, why must I believe literally any word of it? Because Seth said so? Can channelled energies not talk shit? Although, granted, many of the more unprovable teachings here are widely agreed upon by most esoteric literature (past-life recollections, selecting our birth parents, etc.), and certain outlooks do resonate with my core beliefs (such as the nature of our illusionary reality reflecting our sensory perceptions). Still, neutrality is imperative to my spiritual development, as per the order of Janthopoyism, and I refuse to endorse anything until I have absolute proof, which no book can reasonably provide. It's not that I disbelieve, but I also can't blindly surrender to the schooling either. There are a million theories in the world, and I can never claim to be the authority on which ones are correct and incorrect. Furthermore, I reject anyone who does. But what I can say with utmost confidence is that Seth certainly sounds like he speaks with extra knowledge found outside of our human realm.
The complexities of Seth's text would be impossible to summarise as my mind is still grappling with the data. But one section that knocked me hard was when he described how there is more to ourselves, as if who we are physically is only one component of a much larger being. This notion is not discussed in a pantheistic "one universal organism" sense, but more compartmentalised, where for each individual, there is a more profound YOU, a broader consciousness existing on lower frequencies assigned entirely to your person. And this deeper being is acutely aware of the physical individual you think you are, as it watches you mentally trap yourself within this finite existence. When I let that seep in, I started to feel a presence when I read alone, and whether imaginary or not, I can't seem to shake this constant sensation that otherworldly entities are now observing everything I do. That was a lot for me, and I am unsure how to move forward from that thought.
It's no surprise to me, then, that when Jane first published the Seth Material, many hysterically declared it a book written by a demon. It's creepy no matter which way you look at it, and the repercussions of these ideas are almost too much to bear. If you're not careful with this type of contemplation, it'll ruin your life.
Ending in a more positive light, this was the most unbiased, unpretentious, and advanced medium publication I have encountered. I can effortlessly understand why it's so highly revered in such circles because it was ahead of its time and remains ahead of our time. If there ever was a solid case for channelling, this is the strongest I've come across, and despite my better judgement, I am inclined to believe quite a lot of it. I am grateful that Seth has added this substantial power to my progress, but currently, I am unable to articulate or even perceive what that is, more like an underlying connection, slowly solidifying to serve me when I'm ready. Cool, so that's enough channelling books for a bit, speak later, thanks.
March 3, 2020
The Seth Material changed my life. In the middle of my doctoral program I had internalized the paranoia that my fellow grad students suffered from. I believed my profs would obstruct the completion of my Ph.D. Reading Seth, I realized this was a false belief, and I took to heart the Seth prescription to believe the opposite--that they would not only support my timely graduation but see it was in their interest to promote me into a tenure-track position, elsewhere. This occurred, exactly as I had postulated, and it launched a wonderful career where I overcame many perceived limitations by replicating the belief-substitution process. I encourage you to put this material to the test, read all of the Seth you can get your hands on. Suspend your disbelief, and go boldly into terra incognita. I'll see you on the other side of your fears and soon to be vanquished limitations.
September 16, 2012
... and in July 1982, this was already my first replacement copy. I'd started with the Seth Material in the Spring of 1976, just after arriving in Atlanta from San Francisco, where I was introduced to THE NATURE OF PERSONAL REALITY. I started there, then doubled back through these first two books, while waiting for the series to continue. I continued to absorb and study the SETH Material throughout the remainder of Jane Roberts' life and publishing career.
December 12, 2013
If you want to delve into the Seth books by Jane Roberts and you don't have any preferences, The Seth Material would be a good book to start with. It introduces the basic concepts and blends direct quotes from Seth (the channeled entity) with some interpretation of the material added by Jane Roberts. I find the Seth books amazingly thought-provoking, and I do enjoy having my thoughts provoked.
January 16, 2013
In the early 1980's, after a chimney estimate was concluded, we gathered with the contractor. In conversation I posed a question about dreams then asked how he thought we create dreams, how we see people we know, people we don't know, as well as locations unfamiliar yet familiar in dreamscapes. Quickly responding, he said, "Read Jane Roberts. Channeled by a guy named Seth, her books are all about dreams."
So in the old keeping room, I commenced fireside readings and delved into the nature of the dream dimension. Beyond intrigue,I studied and absorbed material which made sense. Awake or asleep, I became adept at interpreting symbols and looking through any given event to see what was really going on.
As per the author's suggestion, I began keeping a daily journal and recorded dreams reflecting the present, along with dreams that could only be previous life experiences.
Subsequently, I have studied all of Jane Roberts books.
No chance encounters, the books I have written open on a dream to reflect the dimension where probable events are rehearsed prior to being experienced on the physical plane. In the contemporary romance novel, "The Backside of the Page," the dream unveils the storyline. Based on the personality of Crazy Horse and the woman he so loved, and she him, even after she married another, I wondered: If they were alive today, who would they be?
So who are you, and who all have you been?
Who all do you know today, that you knew once upon a time?
Kindle your fire, and read!
So in the old keeping room, I commenced fireside readings and delved into the nature of the dream dimension. Beyond intrigue,I studied and absorbed material which made sense. Awake or asleep, I became adept at interpreting symbols and looking through any given event to see what was really going on.
As per the author's suggestion, I began keeping a daily journal and recorded dreams reflecting the present, along with dreams that could only be previous life experiences.
Subsequently, I have studied all of Jane Roberts books.
No chance encounters, the books I have written open on a dream to reflect the dimension where probable events are rehearsed prior to being experienced on the physical plane. In the contemporary romance novel, "The Backside of the Page," the dream unveils the storyline. Based on the personality of Crazy Horse and the woman he so loved, and she him, even after she married another, I wondered: If they were alive today, who would they be?
So who are you, and who all have you been?
Who all do you know today, that you knew once upon a time?
Kindle your fire, and read!
July 21, 2020
A mesmerizing journey through the multiple levels of consciouness
I was totally caught off guard by the deep connections of the material world, the psychic world, and the spiritual world. I cannot say that I was a true believer in mediums until I read this book. During this exact time period in the 70s, I was in college, exploring Eastern Religions, and getting deep into Hinduism. Most of what Seth reveals through Jane, are founded in Vedic religious literature from ancient India. The difference is Seth leaves out all the Gods and superstitions of Hinduism , and gives it a more modern Psychological twist.
I was totally caught off guard by the deep connections of the material world, the psychic world, and the spiritual world. I cannot say that I was a true believer in mediums until I read this book. During this exact time period in the 70s, I was in college, exploring Eastern Religions, and getting deep into Hinduism. Most of what Seth reveals through Jane, are founded in Vedic religious literature from ancient India. The difference is Seth leaves out all the Gods and superstitions of Hinduism , and gives it a more modern Psychological twist.
February 2, 2015
The other reviewers of this book say it all. I'd just like to add that reading the books the 2nd time is even more enjoyable than the first, and that Seth's books are among my all time favorite metaphysical books, right up there with Yogananda's work.
April 7, 2009
ooh, this one really is a "how to" book in regards to recognizing life paths. Every night was a new adventure
October 24, 2026
The Seth Material is one of the most foundational and impactful works I have ever encountered. While I will undoubtedly write further analyses of its wider cosmology in the future, this review focuses on its most famous, and most frequently misunderstood, axiom: "you create your own reality."
It's easy to flatten this profound principle into the trivial notion of daydreaming, wishing, or chanting positive affirmations into a bathroom mirror. People stand before their reflections repeating scripted declarations of wealth and peace, find themselves trapped in the exact same life circumstances months later, and conclude that the philosophy itself is broken. The breakdown occurs because people mistake the surface noise of their spoken vocabulary for the actual operating machinery of their consciousness. To understand why physical reality takes the precise shape it does, one must untangle three entirely different tiers of experience: Speech, Intent, and Belief.
The Vanity of Speech: Billboards on an Empty Lot
Speech is purely superficial. It possesses the exact same creative authority as an advertisement posted along a highway. A humble neighborhood donut shop hanging a plastic banner that reads "The Greatest Bakery in the Known Universe" does not suddenly cause cosmic pastry chefs to descend from the heavens. It remains a room with a malfunctioning fryer, stale glaze, and a dripping faucet. The banner is just noise painted on vinyl.
Yet modern culture routinely mistakes this cosmetic labeling for actual reality creation, leading people into comedic dead ends:
- The Gym Mirror Incantation: Consider the gym-goer who purchases five hundred dollars worth of fluorescent athletic gear, sips a neon energy drink, and looks into his smartphone camera declaring, "Today I conquer the iron." He then completes two half-hearted sets of bicep curls, spends forty-two minutes browsing real estate listings in the locker room, eats three slices of pizza on the drive home, and wonders why his physique remains unchanged. He mistook the public relations announcement for the lifting of physical mass.
- The "Spiritual Abundance" Chant: Consider the hopeful entrepreneur who sits on her living room floor chanting, "Money flows to me from infinite directions in avalanches of abundance." Meanwhile, her laptop remains closed, her invoices remain uncollected, and she refuses to look at her bank statements because doing so gives her a stomachache. Shouting across the room that money loves you while actively hiding from your utility bills is like yelling at your refrigerator to fill itself with groceries while refusing to visit the store.
- The "I Deserve True Love" Manifesto: Consider the person who writes a six-page bulleted checklist of attributes for their ideal romantic partner, lighting lavender candles and announcing to the ceiling, "I am fully ready for healthy intimacy." Yet, the moment a stable, considerate human being shows genuine interest, they find that person boring, retreat into passive-aggressive silence, and instead pursue someone emotionally unavailable who treats them like an administrative burden. The spoken script claims an appetite for peace, while the living self runs toward chaos.
In all three instances, speech is an empty slogan. Words are labels placed on top of a box; they do not determine what is actually packed inside the box.
Intent: The Directional Rudder and the Key to Value Fulfillment
If speech is merely an advertisement, what is Intent in the Sethian framework?
Intent is not a passive wish or a passing daydream. Intent is the focused, kinetic rudder of conscious energy. It is the active, non-verbal commitment of your living attention that directs your vitality toward an objective. In Seth's cosmology, intent serves two indispensable functions: it unlocks the door to your unique "value fulfillment," and it grants permission to assemble the concrete beliefs required to achieve it.
Value fulfillment is the central motive force of all consciousness. Seth explains that life is not a desperate, Darwinian scramble merely to avoid death. An oak tree does not struggle out of fear of soil; it grows because it possesses an innate, joyful desire to actualize its latent potentials - to grow tall, branch out, create shade, and produce acorns. Value fulfillment is your unique, intrinsic drive to expand your capacities and bring your latent gifts into tangible expression.
Intent is the vehicle for that fulfillment. It is the fundamental directive that points your consciousness in a specific direction. When genuine intent is activated, it serves as a permission slip: it sets your mind and subconscious into motion to gather the real-world experiences, studies, observations, and tools necessary to forge a sturdy, working structure of understanding.
Belief: The Tangible Physical Blueprint
This brings us to Belief, the most misunderstood concept in personal development.
A belief is not an empty thought you nod along with on Sunday afternoon. A belief is a dense, deeply anchored mental foundation that defines what you accept as undeniably real, possible, and safe. To make this immediate without falling into technical jargon, imagine building a house:
- Speech is standing on an empty mud lot and shouting, "I am standing inside a three-story brick mansion!" You remain cold and wet in the rain because words cannot shelter you.
- Intent is the clear, committed decision to construct a home on that lot, hiring architects, and securing the land.
- Belief is the physical foundation, the load-bearing timber, the plumbing pipes, and the brick walls themselves.
Belief has to be tangibly generated, brick by brick, through focused investigation, trial, direct feedback, and emotional conviction. You cannot declare a brick wall into existence; you have to lay the mortar. Your intent provides the energy and permission to go out into the world, learn the principles of structural masonry, practice laying bricks, and inspect the mortar until the wall stands upright and solid against the wind.
Once that foundation is built, your intent moves through it naturally. The house stands because the structural engineering is sound, not because you spent all morning complimenting the ceiling.
The Radical Impotence of Surface Words
When you understand that intent is the active directional focus and belief is the structural reality built through sustained experience, the complete irrelevance of surface speech becomes obvious.
You cannot alter a physical foundation made of stone simply by reciting a poem at it. You cannot fix a leaking basement pipe by taping a sticky note to the drywall that says, "This room is completely dry." If your deep, structural understanding of life is built around fear, fragility, or helplessness, shouting brave words into the room does not change the masonry. The physical world answers strictly to the structural engineering of your convictions, never to the polite slogans you recite to soothe your anxiety.
A Tale of Two Realities: The Investor vs. The Hard Worker
To witness how intent and tangibly generated beliefs assemble human destiny, examine the stark contrast between Warren Buffett and a hypothetical lifelong hard worker.
Warren Buffett's intent from early childhood was not an ambiguous desire to "be rich" while lounging on a sofa. His intent was a clear, consuming focus on the mechanics of capital. That intent drove him to read every financial volume in the Omaha public library by age twelve. His intent gave him permission to seek out the direct mentorship of Benjamin Graham at Columbia, absorbing the forensic principles of intrinsic value and margin of safety.
Buffett did not generate his wealth through magical thinking. He built his beliefs through decades of tangible experience. When he later partnered with Charlie Munger, he engaged in the difficult mental labor of updating his beliefs, moving from cheap, dying businesses to wonderful businesses at fair prices. His beliefs became hardened, battle-tested mental foundations: compounding arithmetic, emotional detachment during market panics, and rigorous evaluation of competitive advantages. His billions are not the product of reciting financial mantras; they are the physical manifestation of an extraordinarily disciplined, tangibly constructed belief system driven by singular intent.
Now consider a hypothetical hard worker who also genuinely desires wealth. He wakes up at five in the morning, works sixty hours a week, and saves diligently. Yet, from his earliest years, his family instilled in him an unexamined, immovable belief: "Money only comes from brutal physical labor, wealth is morally suspicious, and the world is rigged against people like us."
Because his structural belief dictates that money equals exhausting toil, his reality faithfully organizes around that exact architecture. He cannot perceive investment opportunities; when he encounters a chance to build equity, his internal alarm bells scream that it must be a scam or that he is unqualified. His intent is permanently funneled through the only channel his belief allows: working harder, sweating more, and trading time for a linear wage. He may spend his evenings reading affirmations about prosperity, but his life remains tethered to exhaustion because his structural belief demands that labor, not capital or leverage, is the only legitimate pathway to survival. His life is a masterclass in effort, yet it can never produce financial sovereignty because his foundation was engineered for a completely different outcome.
The Hidden Construction of Belief and the Delusion of the Megaphone
How are these internal structures built in the first place?
From early childhood through adolescence, human beings absorb assumptions from their parents, cultural environments, social traumas, and repeated experiences like wet cement. By the time a person reaches adulthood, that cement has cured into solid bedrock. A child raised in a home filled with financial panic, bitter arguments, and sudden evictions absorbs the absolute conviction that "the world is dangerous, stability is temporary, and ruin is always around the corner."
The tragedy of the average adult is that they have no idea what their foundation looks like because they have never inspected the basement. They assume their personal panic is simply "the way things are."
Then, having done zero archaeological work on their internal assumptions, they purchase a self-help book and attempt to change their entire life trajectory using the megaphone of speech. They stand in their living room shouting, "I am safe, wealthy, and successful!" while their heart races, their palms sweat, and their subconscious mind looks on in total bewilderment. It is like an owner of a termite-infested, rotting wooden shack standing on the porch with a megaphone shouting, "This is the Taj Mahal!" The termites do not stop eating the timber simply because the owner has purchased a sound system. The structure remains what it is until someone rolls up their sleeves, tears down the rotten studs, and pours a new foundation.
Aligning the Engine
The Seth Material is not an invitation to passive mysticism; it is an assignment of total personal responsibility. It demands that we stop confusing the superficial words we speak with the reality our consciousness is actively assembling.
True beliefs and authentic intents do not materialize out of thin air at a moment's notice. A resilient, functional belief system is the result of genuine, disciplined labor. It requires the courage to descend into your own basement, locate the faulty, fear-based assumptions installed during youth, and systematically replace them with hard-won, empirical understanding aligned with your natural value fulfillment.
When your intent is singular and clear, and your beliefs have been tangibly forged to support that direction, the physical world ceases to be a site of exhausting friction. Reality stops feeling like a brick wall you are beating your head against, and begins to reveal itself for what it truly is: a responsive, three-dimensional mirror reflecting the exact structural architecture you have built within.
It's easy to flatten this profound principle into the trivial notion of daydreaming, wishing, or chanting positive affirmations into a bathroom mirror. People stand before their reflections repeating scripted declarations of wealth and peace, find themselves trapped in the exact same life circumstances months later, and conclude that the philosophy itself is broken. The breakdown occurs because people mistake the surface noise of their spoken vocabulary for the actual operating machinery of their consciousness. To understand why physical reality takes the precise shape it does, one must untangle three entirely different tiers of experience: Speech, Intent, and Belief.
The Vanity of Speech: Billboards on an Empty Lot
Speech is purely superficial. It possesses the exact same creative authority as an advertisement posted along a highway. A humble neighborhood donut shop hanging a plastic banner that reads "The Greatest Bakery in the Known Universe" does not suddenly cause cosmic pastry chefs to descend from the heavens. It remains a room with a malfunctioning fryer, stale glaze, and a dripping faucet. The banner is just noise painted on vinyl.
Yet modern culture routinely mistakes this cosmetic labeling for actual reality creation, leading people into comedic dead ends:
- The Gym Mirror Incantation: Consider the gym-goer who purchases five hundred dollars worth of fluorescent athletic gear, sips a neon energy drink, and looks into his smartphone camera declaring, "Today I conquer the iron." He then completes two half-hearted sets of bicep curls, spends forty-two minutes browsing real estate listings in the locker room, eats three slices of pizza on the drive home, and wonders why his physique remains unchanged. He mistook the public relations announcement for the lifting of physical mass.
- The "Spiritual Abundance" Chant: Consider the hopeful entrepreneur who sits on her living room floor chanting, "Money flows to me from infinite directions in avalanches of abundance." Meanwhile, her laptop remains closed, her invoices remain uncollected, and she refuses to look at her bank statements because doing so gives her a stomachache. Shouting across the room that money loves you while actively hiding from your utility bills is like yelling at your refrigerator to fill itself with groceries while refusing to visit the store.
- The "I Deserve True Love" Manifesto: Consider the person who writes a six-page bulleted checklist of attributes for their ideal romantic partner, lighting lavender candles and announcing to the ceiling, "I am fully ready for healthy intimacy." Yet, the moment a stable, considerate human being shows genuine interest, they find that person boring, retreat into passive-aggressive silence, and instead pursue someone emotionally unavailable who treats them like an administrative burden. The spoken script claims an appetite for peace, while the living self runs toward chaos.
In all three instances, speech is an empty slogan. Words are labels placed on top of a box; they do not determine what is actually packed inside the box.
Intent: The Directional Rudder and the Key to Value Fulfillment
If speech is merely an advertisement, what is Intent in the Sethian framework?
Intent is not a passive wish or a passing daydream. Intent is the focused, kinetic rudder of conscious energy. It is the active, non-verbal commitment of your living attention that directs your vitality toward an objective. In Seth's cosmology, intent serves two indispensable functions: it unlocks the door to your unique "value fulfillment," and it grants permission to assemble the concrete beliefs required to achieve it.
Value fulfillment is the central motive force of all consciousness. Seth explains that life is not a desperate, Darwinian scramble merely to avoid death. An oak tree does not struggle out of fear of soil; it grows because it possesses an innate, joyful desire to actualize its latent potentials - to grow tall, branch out, create shade, and produce acorns. Value fulfillment is your unique, intrinsic drive to expand your capacities and bring your latent gifts into tangible expression.
Intent is the vehicle for that fulfillment. It is the fundamental directive that points your consciousness in a specific direction. When genuine intent is activated, it serves as a permission slip: it sets your mind and subconscious into motion to gather the real-world experiences, studies, observations, and tools necessary to forge a sturdy, working structure of understanding.
Belief: The Tangible Physical Blueprint
This brings us to Belief, the most misunderstood concept in personal development.
A belief is not an empty thought you nod along with on Sunday afternoon. A belief is a dense, deeply anchored mental foundation that defines what you accept as undeniably real, possible, and safe. To make this immediate without falling into technical jargon, imagine building a house:
- Speech is standing on an empty mud lot and shouting, "I am standing inside a three-story brick mansion!" You remain cold and wet in the rain because words cannot shelter you.
- Intent is the clear, committed decision to construct a home on that lot, hiring architects, and securing the land.
- Belief is the physical foundation, the load-bearing timber, the plumbing pipes, and the brick walls themselves.
Belief has to be tangibly generated, brick by brick, through focused investigation, trial, direct feedback, and emotional conviction. You cannot declare a brick wall into existence; you have to lay the mortar. Your intent provides the energy and permission to go out into the world, learn the principles of structural masonry, practice laying bricks, and inspect the mortar until the wall stands upright and solid against the wind.
Once that foundation is built, your intent moves through it naturally. The house stands because the structural engineering is sound, not because you spent all morning complimenting the ceiling.
The Radical Impotence of Surface Words
When you understand that intent is the active directional focus and belief is the structural reality built through sustained experience, the complete irrelevance of surface speech becomes obvious.
You cannot alter a physical foundation made of stone simply by reciting a poem at it. You cannot fix a leaking basement pipe by taping a sticky note to the drywall that says, "This room is completely dry." If your deep, structural understanding of life is built around fear, fragility, or helplessness, shouting brave words into the room does not change the masonry. The physical world answers strictly to the structural engineering of your convictions, never to the polite slogans you recite to soothe your anxiety.
A Tale of Two Realities: The Investor vs. The Hard Worker
To witness how intent and tangibly generated beliefs assemble human destiny, examine the stark contrast between Warren Buffett and a hypothetical lifelong hard worker.
Warren Buffett's intent from early childhood was not an ambiguous desire to "be rich" while lounging on a sofa. His intent was a clear, consuming focus on the mechanics of capital. That intent drove him to read every financial volume in the Omaha public library by age twelve. His intent gave him permission to seek out the direct mentorship of Benjamin Graham at Columbia, absorbing the forensic principles of intrinsic value and margin of safety.
Buffett did not generate his wealth through magical thinking. He built his beliefs through decades of tangible experience. When he later partnered with Charlie Munger, he engaged in the difficult mental labor of updating his beliefs, moving from cheap, dying businesses to wonderful businesses at fair prices. His beliefs became hardened, battle-tested mental foundations: compounding arithmetic, emotional detachment during market panics, and rigorous evaluation of competitive advantages. His billions are not the product of reciting financial mantras; they are the physical manifestation of an extraordinarily disciplined, tangibly constructed belief system driven by singular intent.
Now consider a hypothetical hard worker who also genuinely desires wealth. He wakes up at five in the morning, works sixty hours a week, and saves diligently. Yet, from his earliest years, his family instilled in him an unexamined, immovable belief: "Money only comes from brutal physical labor, wealth is morally suspicious, and the world is rigged against people like us."
Because his structural belief dictates that money equals exhausting toil, his reality faithfully organizes around that exact architecture. He cannot perceive investment opportunities; when he encounters a chance to build equity, his internal alarm bells scream that it must be a scam or that he is unqualified. His intent is permanently funneled through the only channel his belief allows: working harder, sweating more, and trading time for a linear wage. He may spend his evenings reading affirmations about prosperity, but his life remains tethered to exhaustion because his structural belief demands that labor, not capital or leverage, is the only legitimate pathway to survival. His life is a masterclass in effort, yet it can never produce financial sovereignty because his foundation was engineered for a completely different outcome.
The Hidden Construction of Belief and the Delusion of the Megaphone
How are these internal structures built in the first place?
From early childhood through adolescence, human beings absorb assumptions from their parents, cultural environments, social traumas, and repeated experiences like wet cement. By the time a person reaches adulthood, that cement has cured into solid bedrock. A child raised in a home filled with financial panic, bitter arguments, and sudden evictions absorbs the absolute conviction that "the world is dangerous, stability is temporary, and ruin is always around the corner."
The tragedy of the average adult is that they have no idea what their foundation looks like because they have never inspected the basement. They assume their personal panic is simply "the way things are."
Then, having done zero archaeological work on their internal assumptions, they purchase a self-help book and attempt to change their entire life trajectory using the megaphone of speech. They stand in their living room shouting, "I am safe, wealthy, and successful!" while their heart races, their palms sweat, and their subconscious mind looks on in total bewilderment. It is like an owner of a termite-infested, rotting wooden shack standing on the porch with a megaphone shouting, "This is the Taj Mahal!" The termites do not stop eating the timber simply because the owner has purchased a sound system. The structure remains what it is until someone rolls up their sleeves, tears down the rotten studs, and pours a new foundation.
Aligning the Engine
The Seth Material is not an invitation to passive mysticism; it is an assignment of total personal responsibility. It demands that we stop confusing the superficial words we speak with the reality our consciousness is actively assembling.
True beliefs and authentic intents do not materialize out of thin air at a moment's notice. A resilient, functional belief system is the result of genuine, disciplined labor. It requires the courage to descend into your own basement, locate the faulty, fear-based assumptions installed during youth, and systematically replace them with hard-won, empirical understanding aligned with your natural value fulfillment.
When your intent is singular and clear, and your beliefs have been tangibly forged to support that direction, the physical world ceases to be a site of exhausting friction. Reality stops feeling like a brick wall you are beating your head against, and begins to reveal itself for what it truly is: a responsive, three-dimensional mirror reflecting the exact structural architecture you have built within.
May 24, 2024
THE SECOND BOOK IN THE “SETH” SERIES
Jane Roberts (1929-1984) was an American author, poet, psychic and spirit medium, who claimed she had ‘channeled’ a personality she called ‘Seth,’ who manifested himself while she was in trance, and whose ‘material’ has been published in a number of books.
The ‘Author’s Introduction’ to this 1970 book states, “It was February 28, 1969. I was holding one of my twice-weekly ESP classes… Suddenly I felt that we had a visitor. As always I went into trance easily, without preamble. This class was composed of college girls. They had read my first book, knew about Seth, and had attended a few classes, but they had never witnessed a Seth session… I began to speak for Seth. He had thrown my glasses to the floor in a quick characteristic gesture… The voice that spoke was deep, quite loud, more masculine than feminine.” (Pg. 1)
She continues, “Yet I was not a ‘born psychic’ with a background of paranormal experiences. Neither [husband] Rob nor I had any knowledge of such matters... Even after my first enthusiasm, I didn’t accept these developments without serious self-questioning and intellectual analysis. I wanted to keep my experiences on as scientific a basis as possible.” (Pg. 4)
She recalls, “Rob and I were hardly religious in conventional terms. We haven’t been to a church in years, except to attend weddings or funerals. I was brought up a Catholic, but as I grew older I found it more and more difficult to accept the God of my ancestors… The heaven that had sustained me as a child seemed in my teens to be a shallow mockery… The alternative, that of hellfire, was equally unbelievable… Before I was twenty, then, I’d left behind me that archaic God, the Virgin, and the communion of saints. Heaven and hell, angels and devils, were dismissed. This particular group of chemicals and atoms I called ‘me’ would fall into no such traps---at least none that I could recognize.” (Pg. 6)
In a Ouija session with Seth, she recounts, “The next two [sessions] were much the same, except for the bewildering element: I began to anticipate the board’s replies. This bothered me no end, and I grew uneasy. At the next session---our fourth with Seth---I heard the words in my head at a faster and faster rate, and not only sentences but whole paragraphs before they were spelled out.” (Pg. 20)
After another Seth session, “My intellectual skepticism was aroused simply because the affair had been so successful. We argued back and forth as to whether or not suggestion could have been responsible, but we knew that this could not explain half of what happened. It could hardly explain the bumpy quality Rob had felt in my hand, or the second set of fingers, though we decided that it COULD perhaps have accounted for the odd mirror image.” (Pg. 39-40)
She says that during a Seth session, “I am seldom so blacked out as to feel as if I were sleeping. Usually I know what is going on, although I may almost instantly forget what has happened. On occasion Seth and I can take turns talking so that I can go in and out of trance in seconds. Sometimes it seems I merge with Seth, feeling his emotions and reactions completely, rather than my own. In this case the Jane-self is far in the background, dozing but dimly conscious. Other times, though less seldom, I am in the foreground and Seth advises me as to what to say.” (Pg. 85)
She admits, “We are far more interested in the Seth Material than in demonstrations of ESP, and we always were. We think if offers excellent explanations as to how ESP or any perception works, and to us this if far more important. We also accept Seth’s statements as meaningful, significant explanations of the nature of reality and mankind’s position within it. His theories as to the multidimensional personality are not only intellectually provocative but emotionally challenging. They offer each individual the opportunity to enlarge his own sense of identity and purpose.” (Pg. 119)
After a young couple told Jane and Rob about the death of their son, Jane mused, “What can you say in a situation like that? I wanted to help. I felt their terrific need, but I also realized that it was well-nigh impossible to PROVE life after death. Suppose I contacted the boy, or thought I had? How would this help? Instead of making them face the facts of his separation, couldn’t such an incident simply make things worse? And my own doubts rose: if subconscious playacting were involved…” (Pg. 143)
She states, “Seth gave three or four sessions in which he compared cases of ‘split’ personalities to our reincarnation selves. He ended up by saying, ‘It is interesting that the personalities [in ‘Three Faces of Eve’] did alternate, and all were in existence at once, so to speak, even though only one was dominant at any given time. In the same way, so-called past personalities are present in you now but not dominant.” (Pg. 164)
She notes, “Over and over Seth says that a dream or imaginative experience is as real as any waking event. If you have a period of depression, you are apt to have depressing dreams during the same period. But Seth suggests the following exercise as a dream therapy: before sleep, suggest to yourself that you will have a pleasant or joyful dream that will completely restore your good spirits and vitality. Unless the depression is very deep-seated, it will be broken or greatly weakened when you awaken.” (Pg. 199)
She recounts, “Not too long ago, a young psychology professor … asked me to speak to his class… I suggested that they come to my apartment instead. The man’s attitude was apparent the minute he came in the door. Personally he wouldn’t touch a medium with a ten-foot pole, but since they did exist… he felt dutybound to ‘expose’ his students to the phenomenon… For two-and-a-half hours I spoke on the potentials of human personality… I explained what telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition were, and what experiments might be conducted to show them in operation… [The professor] let the class know through his statements and general behavior that he thought such tests were beneath serious consideration… he didn’t want to reconsider or evaluate his preconceived ideas on the nature of personality… This episode and a few similar ones have made me wary of such encounters with so-called objective academicians.” (Pg. 228-229)
She records, “‘There is no personal God-individual in Christian terms,’ Seth says, ‘and yet you do have access to a portion of ALL THAT IS, a portion highly attuned to you… There is a portion of ALL THAT IS directed and focused within each individual, residing within each consciousness…. This portion of overall consciousness is individualized within you. The personality of God as generally conceived is a one-dimensional concept based upon man’s small knowledge of his own psychology.’” (Pg. 270)
She summarizes, “Organized religion professes to hold … that man’s identity is independent of physical matter---after death. It often looks askance, however, at any investigations that might show man taking advantage of that independence NOW. While it preaches the survival of the soul, it is suspiciously uninterested in studying cases in which there seems to be communication between the quick and the ‘dead.’ … The facts of my experience… [are that] We are, to some extent, free of our physical bodies. We can see and feel and learn while our consciousness is separated from the physical form… If it wants to, science can take a hundred years to accept these ideas.” (Pg. 291)
She concludes, “The Seth sessions are still continuing, twice a week. Seth’s topics and range of conversation are widening and growing continually… I hope that this book and the Seth Material have given the reader some glimpse of his own multi-dimensional existence.” (Pg. 303)
This book will be of great interest to those studying Jane Roberts and ‘Seth.’
Jane Roberts (1929-1984) was an American author, poet, psychic and spirit medium, who claimed she had ‘channeled’ a personality she called ‘Seth,’ who manifested himself while she was in trance, and whose ‘material’ has been published in a number of books.
The ‘Author’s Introduction’ to this 1970 book states, “It was February 28, 1969. I was holding one of my twice-weekly ESP classes… Suddenly I felt that we had a visitor. As always I went into trance easily, without preamble. This class was composed of college girls. They had read my first book, knew about Seth, and had attended a few classes, but they had never witnessed a Seth session… I began to speak for Seth. He had thrown my glasses to the floor in a quick characteristic gesture… The voice that spoke was deep, quite loud, more masculine than feminine.” (Pg. 1)
She continues, “Yet I was not a ‘born psychic’ with a background of paranormal experiences. Neither [husband] Rob nor I had any knowledge of such matters... Even after my first enthusiasm, I didn’t accept these developments without serious self-questioning and intellectual analysis. I wanted to keep my experiences on as scientific a basis as possible.” (Pg. 4)
She recalls, “Rob and I were hardly religious in conventional terms. We haven’t been to a church in years, except to attend weddings or funerals. I was brought up a Catholic, but as I grew older I found it more and more difficult to accept the God of my ancestors… The heaven that had sustained me as a child seemed in my teens to be a shallow mockery… The alternative, that of hellfire, was equally unbelievable… Before I was twenty, then, I’d left behind me that archaic God, the Virgin, and the communion of saints. Heaven and hell, angels and devils, were dismissed. This particular group of chemicals and atoms I called ‘me’ would fall into no such traps---at least none that I could recognize.” (Pg. 6)
In a Ouija session with Seth, she recounts, “The next two [sessions] were much the same, except for the bewildering element: I began to anticipate the board’s replies. This bothered me no end, and I grew uneasy. At the next session---our fourth with Seth---I heard the words in my head at a faster and faster rate, and not only sentences but whole paragraphs before they were spelled out.” (Pg. 20)
After another Seth session, “My intellectual skepticism was aroused simply because the affair had been so successful. We argued back and forth as to whether or not suggestion could have been responsible, but we knew that this could not explain half of what happened. It could hardly explain the bumpy quality Rob had felt in my hand, or the second set of fingers, though we decided that it COULD perhaps have accounted for the odd mirror image.” (Pg. 39-40)
She says that during a Seth session, “I am seldom so blacked out as to feel as if I were sleeping. Usually I know what is going on, although I may almost instantly forget what has happened. On occasion Seth and I can take turns talking so that I can go in and out of trance in seconds. Sometimes it seems I merge with Seth, feeling his emotions and reactions completely, rather than my own. In this case the Jane-self is far in the background, dozing but dimly conscious. Other times, though less seldom, I am in the foreground and Seth advises me as to what to say.” (Pg. 85)
She admits, “We are far more interested in the Seth Material than in demonstrations of ESP, and we always were. We think if offers excellent explanations as to how ESP or any perception works, and to us this if far more important. We also accept Seth’s statements as meaningful, significant explanations of the nature of reality and mankind’s position within it. His theories as to the multidimensional personality are not only intellectually provocative but emotionally challenging. They offer each individual the opportunity to enlarge his own sense of identity and purpose.” (Pg. 119)
After a young couple told Jane and Rob about the death of their son, Jane mused, “What can you say in a situation like that? I wanted to help. I felt their terrific need, but I also realized that it was well-nigh impossible to PROVE life after death. Suppose I contacted the boy, or thought I had? How would this help? Instead of making them face the facts of his separation, couldn’t such an incident simply make things worse? And my own doubts rose: if subconscious playacting were involved…” (Pg. 143)
She states, “Seth gave three or four sessions in which he compared cases of ‘split’ personalities to our reincarnation selves. He ended up by saying, ‘It is interesting that the personalities [in ‘Three Faces of Eve’] did alternate, and all were in existence at once, so to speak, even though only one was dominant at any given time. In the same way, so-called past personalities are present in you now but not dominant.” (Pg. 164)
She notes, “Over and over Seth says that a dream or imaginative experience is as real as any waking event. If you have a period of depression, you are apt to have depressing dreams during the same period. But Seth suggests the following exercise as a dream therapy: before sleep, suggest to yourself that you will have a pleasant or joyful dream that will completely restore your good spirits and vitality. Unless the depression is very deep-seated, it will be broken or greatly weakened when you awaken.” (Pg. 199)
She recounts, “Not too long ago, a young psychology professor … asked me to speak to his class… I suggested that they come to my apartment instead. The man’s attitude was apparent the minute he came in the door. Personally he wouldn’t touch a medium with a ten-foot pole, but since they did exist… he felt dutybound to ‘expose’ his students to the phenomenon… For two-and-a-half hours I spoke on the potentials of human personality… I explained what telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition were, and what experiments might be conducted to show them in operation… [The professor] let the class know through his statements and general behavior that he thought such tests were beneath serious consideration… he didn’t want to reconsider or evaluate his preconceived ideas on the nature of personality… This episode and a few similar ones have made me wary of such encounters with so-called objective academicians.” (Pg. 228-229)
She records, “‘There is no personal God-individual in Christian terms,’ Seth says, ‘and yet you do have access to a portion of ALL THAT IS, a portion highly attuned to you… There is a portion of ALL THAT IS directed and focused within each individual, residing within each consciousness…. This portion of overall consciousness is individualized within you. The personality of God as generally conceived is a one-dimensional concept based upon man’s small knowledge of his own psychology.’” (Pg. 270)
She summarizes, “Organized religion professes to hold … that man’s identity is independent of physical matter---after death. It often looks askance, however, at any investigations that might show man taking advantage of that independence NOW. While it preaches the survival of the soul, it is suspiciously uninterested in studying cases in which there seems to be communication between the quick and the ‘dead.’ … The facts of my experience… [are that] We are, to some extent, free of our physical bodies. We can see and feel and learn while our consciousness is separated from the physical form… If it wants to, science can take a hundred years to accept these ideas.” (Pg. 291)
She concludes, “The Seth sessions are still continuing, twice a week. Seth’s topics and range of conversation are widening and growing continually… I hope that this book and the Seth Material have given the reader some glimpse of his own multi-dimensional existence.” (Pg. 303)
This book will be of great interest to those studying Jane Roberts and ‘Seth.’
February 17, 2015
I am tempted to pursue an analysis of some propositions made by Seth. But which one to choose? There are so many interdimensional layer upon layer in his universe of realities and multidimensional personalities. Readers are offered a Pandora’s Box of revelatory treasures about our material and psychic existence to ponder. Many of them ring true but others cave in on themselves, like black holes of incomprehensibility.
But this is a fascinating and interesting account by Jane Roberts about her encounter with Seth, an “energy personality essence no longer focused in physical matter". For a long time Roberts was concerned that the Seth Material originated from her subconscious self. However, it becomes convincingly obvious to her that the material originates from another discarnate consciousness that with her consent uses her body and faculties to channel itself audibly to her husband Robert Butts who records the energy personality’s expositions.
How to rate this book? Readers should have a strong interest in the channeling phenomenon whether they believe it has worth and value or it is a ruse to gain fame, fortune and followers. Personally I am convinced that Roberts was not in it for personal gain. And she was careful not to allow any religious cult-like following. Readers should also be prepared to compare their own authentic rationality vis-à-vis Seth’s assertive claims to metaphysical legitimacy. I admit that scenario had me feeling like a first-grader taking on PhD with the highest credentials. I accept much of what “he” says as serious food for thought and that ‘seeds’ are offered to plant and cultivate for the commonweal. But I could not avoid feeling that if the material was meant to have profound revelatory significance for mankind’s future it fails to provide a focused and structured learning opportunity. It is all over the map and frequently ‘off the map’ altogether. This book deserves a second or third reading to absorb its physical sense versus Inner Sense implications and its cosmic energy synthesis.
But this is a fascinating and interesting account by Jane Roberts about her encounter with Seth, an “energy personality essence no longer focused in physical matter". For a long time Roberts was concerned that the Seth Material originated from her subconscious self. However, it becomes convincingly obvious to her that the material originates from another discarnate consciousness that with her consent uses her body and faculties to channel itself audibly to her husband Robert Butts who records the energy personality’s expositions.
How to rate this book? Readers should have a strong interest in the channeling phenomenon whether they believe it has worth and value or it is a ruse to gain fame, fortune and followers. Personally I am convinced that Roberts was not in it for personal gain. And she was careful not to allow any religious cult-like following. Readers should also be prepared to compare their own authentic rationality vis-à-vis Seth’s assertive claims to metaphysical legitimacy. I admit that scenario had me feeling like a first-grader taking on PhD with the highest credentials. I accept much of what “he” says as serious food for thought and that ‘seeds’ are offered to plant and cultivate for the commonweal. But I could not avoid feeling that if the material was meant to have profound revelatory significance for mankind’s future it fails to provide a focused and structured learning opportunity. It is all over the map and frequently ‘off the map’ altogether. This book deserves a second or third reading to absorb its physical sense versus Inner Sense implications and its cosmic energy synthesis.
May 3, 2021
Humanity has over centuries been miseducated to the true realities of who we really are and what power we truly have but we have been conditioned to except our world of reality that has been taught to us.
First who ever shall read this book has to look at their own belief system and most would say its what they believe and truly what you have been conditioned to believe that makes your reality real.
The individual has to firstly look at everything that exists within our human realm resonates to a frequency and by that very concept brings the reality into existence from the persons belief system.
All resonates to a frequency, also at a universal level,
The reader should research vibration and frequency because there are many worlds as we would name it that exist but we cannot see because that world resonates to a high frequency range that on a mental level we cannot see, touch feel because of the human conditioning process and this has been kept from us for ions.
Seth if you so wish to believe his explanation tells exactly of how existence is including humanities and the reality of what we could be if only the human conditioning ceased to exist and more opened to the possibilities of true reality.
Humanity is slowly waking up to except their true power.
Some will read these words and buy their very belief system will decide in a negative way they don't believe a word and have not realised they have been conditioned and their eyes and mind are not ready for truth.
Its their choice.
First who ever shall read this book has to look at their own belief system and most would say its what they believe and truly what you have been conditioned to believe that makes your reality real.
The individual has to firstly look at everything that exists within our human realm resonates to a frequency and by that very concept brings the reality into existence from the persons belief system.
All resonates to a frequency, also at a universal level,
The reader should research vibration and frequency because there are many worlds as we would name it that exist but we cannot see because that world resonates to a high frequency range that on a mental level we cannot see, touch feel because of the human conditioning process and this has been kept from us for ions.
Seth if you so wish to believe his explanation tells exactly of how existence is including humanities and the reality of what we could be if only the human conditioning ceased to exist and more opened to the possibilities of true reality.
Humanity is slowly waking up to except their true power.
Some will read these words and buy their very belief system will decide in a negative way they don't believe a word and have not realised they have been conditioned and their eyes and mind are not ready for truth.
Its their choice.
February 4, 2016
I did not get very far with this. The writing style, to me, is very difficult if you just want the material. I personally do not care if Jane, the channel, wants another cigarette or not. But I understand that this is meant to be a true rendering of the actual sessions.
Seth's wording tends to be obscuring rather then enlightening, at least to me. I compare it to A Course in Miracles, and Seth just doesn't have enough for me.
Seth's wording tends to be obscuring rather then enlightening, at least to me. I compare it to A Course in Miracles, and Seth just doesn't have enough for me.
November 16, 2011
Excellent. Amazing in-depth information given by Seth (channelled through Jane Roberts) about consciousness and the nature of reality, that expands your (view on) consciousness and changes your thoughts about the nature of reality...
November 17, 2012
Read this YEARS ago, but it changed my outlook on everything..."you create your own reality" is not a new idea of course, the Buddha said it...but the Seth Material makes it real...also, the whole idea of simultaneous time is something to give one pause...
February 26, 2013
I enjoyed the concepts that this book presented, although I admit there are some visuals I will have to go back and re-read. I have a difficult time visualizing "things" on a purely molecular structure, (nothing new there!) but I could grasp the basic principal.
March 8, 2008
I love the seth books! He seems like an old friend - very smart, very funny, a great teacher...the kind of person you'd love to meet for coffee every week...just to talk about things.
June 26, 2008
I learned that we create our own reality and our current reality is only a camouflage for value fullfilment
September 6, 2009
These "Seth" books changed the way I view life.
"You create your own reality." - Jane Roberts.
"You create your own reality." - Jane Roberts.
March 10, 2012
Keep an open mind. There are many ways to experience and understand life and the world we live in.
June 9, 2013
Simply tought provoking.
November 21, 2013
Interesting
February 25, 2014
I first read this book when I was 15. I dunno what to say about it, except so much of it has always rung true for me, putting words to a mysterious understanding I think I've always had.
January 27, 2013
One of THE best books ever, you will never see the world through the same lens again.
March 26, 2019
A long time ago, I was fishing around for a name for a story, one that I would adopt and use for many years, constantly mulling over. The name that hit me was Seth (which I immediately altered because it was boring haha). Evenso, I'd later have written conversations between this character as an experiment.
All to say that finding out about Jane Roberts and Seth really, really freaked me out. So much so that it took me until recently to remember and revisit this material, now that I'm, idk, exploring spirituality.
Okay, actual review time. The Seth Materials is suprising readable for the kind of material it covers. The first half of the book covers Jane and Rob's foray into mediumship - how it began, how it continued. She writes about its sudden beginning, the creepiness of it, and the later benefits. The last half touches on a variety of topics like health, afterlife and metaphysics, pieced together with Jane's summary and actual text from sessions. There are also pictures - Rob's drawing of Seth, Jane as herself and when in trance. Pretty fascinating. There's also a video on Youtube if her as herself and with Seth speaking. Definitely interesting, make of it what you will.
There's a lot more books out with less Jane (if any), and more Seth, so I suspect this one is a very basic introduction on Seth's work.
This whole book has me a bit light-headed, time to go back to sleep.
All to say that finding out about Jane Roberts and Seth really, really freaked me out. So much so that it took me until recently to remember and revisit this material, now that I'm, idk, exploring spirituality.
Okay, actual review time. The Seth Materials is suprising readable for the kind of material it covers. The first half of the book covers Jane and Rob's foray into mediumship - how it began, how it continued. She writes about its sudden beginning, the creepiness of it, and the later benefits. The last half touches on a variety of topics like health, afterlife and metaphysics, pieced together with Jane's summary and actual text from sessions. There are also pictures - Rob's drawing of Seth, Jane as herself and when in trance. Pretty fascinating. There's also a video on Youtube if her as herself and with Seth speaking. Definitely interesting, make of it what you will.
There's a lot more books out with less Jane (if any), and more Seth, so I suspect this one is a very basic introduction on Seth's work.
This whole book has me a bit light-headed, time to go back to sleep.
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July 14, 2025This was recommended by a friend during my early disillusionment with both fundamentalist protestantism and catholicism. I had been reading a lot about non-Christian religious beliefs in a desire to find the commonality that binds as opposed to the divisive differences. My take away was that—ignoring the aspect of otherworldly authority via trance channeling—the materials seemed a very syncretic assimilation of eastern and western thought melded with a sort of Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory.
If I remember correctly, my largest complaint was the idea of a multiverse where every possible outcome of every possible action was occurring simultaneously. This seemed to contravene most of the other teachings of “the materials”. If the totality of every possible reality plays out in an infinitely small moment of time, then can reality even be argued to exist?
If I remember correctly, my largest complaint was the idea of a multiverse where every possible outcome of every possible action was occurring simultaneously. This seemed to contravene most of the other teachings of “the materials”. If the totality of every possible reality plays out in an infinitely small moment of time, then can reality even be argued to exist?
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