“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I’d grown very angry as the material unfolded—angry at that portion of Jane’s psyche for clinging so tenaciously to such a set of beliefs, for whatever reasons, and angry at myself for not understanding any better than she did their extent and depth, and just how damaging they could be in ordinary terms. I’d also been reminded of material Seth himself had given a few weeks earlier, in a very important private session on April 16: “Many of Ruburt’s beliefs have changed, but the core belief in the sinful self has been very stubborn. (To me:) While you do not possess it in the same fashion, you are also tainted by it, picking up such beliefs from early background, and primarily from your father in that regard….”

He will, then, continue to improve, because he has allowed himself some room for motion, for change of value fulfillment. Trust the body’s rhythms as these changes occur, however. [...]

[...] You are learning how to form reality from your own beliefs, while having at the same time the freedom to choose those beliefs—to chose your mental state in a way that the animals, for example, do not. [...]

The belief in sin and in the sinful self has been for uncounted centuries embedded in man’s concepts about himself and God. Around those beliefs civilizations evolved and religions orbited. [...]

Starting over — changing one’s beliefs, is a bold endeavor. [...]

[...] The entire idea involves a process in which you try and not try at the same time, in which you do not strain to achieve results, but instead gently begin to allow yourself to follow the contours of your own subjective feelings, to uncover those spiritual and biologically valid beliefs of early childhood, and to bring to them the very best wisdom that you have acquired throughout your life so far.

[...] We are actually involved in changing a way of life, in altering our very view of the self and the world in the hopes of acquiring a new sense of harmony with our bodies, our minds, our fellow creatures, and the environment.

[...] Your beliefs are indeed alive in their own fashion. [...]

Now I tell you that if both of you use these methods, you will indeed completely change for the better not only your physical environment and reality, but your inner, creative, psychic and spiritual environment. Already because of belief, a massive healing is taking place. The thoughts themselves cause electromagnetic changes, signifying physical changes deep in the tissues.

As long as you felt that unfulfillments were a part of your lot, because of your backgrounds, then this came about as a result of your belief. Change your belief and the lacks vanish.

But more than this, the fact itself of belief cleanses the psychic and spiritual channels of negative debris. [...] When one managed an overall psychic change for the better, the other would negate it through discouragement or negative patterns. [...]

[...] It is your thoughts you must change, and these will bring about the changes you desire in physical reality. [...]

I hope this session will change some of those ingrown beliefs.

He cannot disentangle himself from his beliefs about the species, which is why that area is so sensitive to him. [...]

[...] Those following mass beliefs will find that their own image of themselves has changed. [...]

[...] So in your terms of reference the two are dependent one upon the other, changing their connotations according to your beliefs.

[...] Your beliefs about age, like everything else, will form your experience, and your mass beliefs will affect your civilization. [...]

[...] Now all of this so far is from the standpoint of American and Western belief. [...] In other “underground” systems of belief, however, black is seen as a symbol of great knowledge, power and strength. [...]

Your dream did indeed deal with changing the past and the past beliefs, and therefore with inserting a new present, and a newer future. Often hair is a symbol for strength, but in this case it represents the strength of old beliefs, and your father is a barber who cuts away those — whereas in the past he followed many quite negative beliefs and concepts. Jake also represented any beliefs of your own dealing with work in general that can carry you so far and no further. [...]

[...] The ideas in the book proper will quite change their negative, charged ideas of psychic activity in general.

[...] You do not simply change, or enlarge, your ideas or beliefs about the past — but you change the events of the past themselves for yourself, and sometimes for others also.

(Long pause.) The changing condition of the eyes shows the kind of cycles that occur: the upper edges, so to speak, of improvements continue, so that each new improvement is, obviously, superior to the last. [...] Those changes do indeed seem mysterious. [...]

(“Do you want to say something about our discussion yesterday, about changing the past from the present?” I felt that Seth was bound to agree with Jane’s version of what he’d said, rather than mine.

[...] With the best intentions, her account reflected all the negative beliefs about illness that Jane and I had come to expect in the hospital setting. [...]

[...] You cannot force them to change their beliefs. [...]

(Because of our changed schedule, Jane had gone to the john only twice by supper time, whereas I’d envisioned at least three visits to that abode for her by now. [...]

[...] The symptoms have fluctuated, serving sometimes one purpose more than the other—but what you have overall is a belief in a kind of braking power with which to handle spontaneous activity. [...]

Again, that belief in the need for control is rooted in the earlier concepts of the Sinful Self (long pause)—concepts that have come to the fore in current contemporary world events with the new attention being given to religious cults and religions. [...]

It shows a change of belief —being willing to bring the body physical pleasure instead of the Sinful Self’s idea of, say, penance or atonement. [...] Religions have been denying the right of the body to pleasure for centuries, so changes in those attitudes are significant. [...]

(Long pause at 9:22.) Now nothing is all that simple, so there would be changes in his attitudes: He would tell himself, for example, that television or whatever would fritter away his time, or at other occasions other fears would rise so that the Sinful Self would think “Suppose such activity succeeded only too well, leading whole groups of people away from established systems of belief?” (Long pause.) There seemed to be little resolution. [...]

(Very long pause.) People often react to their beliefs about the kinds of persons they should be, and to imagined events. [...]

[...] When you change details of any kind in your life, to some extent you change your mental images. When you change your routine however slightly, you do the same thing. When you change the furniture in the room the same applies. You can use such knowledge often, so that such changes stand for their symbolic inner alterations.

[...] For reasons I will not go into now, and speaking simply, you are coming into a fertile period, each of you—in part because of changed beliefs, so that your relationship with Framework 2 is more intimate, practically speaking, now—and I would like you to take advantage of that.

Realizing that, he made considerable efforts to change his attitudes and beliefs. The national situation has somewhat changed. [...] This means that he has been encountering his own beliefs, arguing with them—changing them at very elemental levels. [...]

[...] He knew he would never give into that course, but he felt that some of that dates back to childhood habits and beliefs, when his very food and bed was given him by the auspices of the public. [...]

[...] With all this you have the changes in the thighs and hips, so that the muscular rigidity has definitely given away. [...]

[...] The flesh becomes more pliable, and as that occurs in response to his newer beliefs in safety, still he must reassure himself that all is (underlined) well, and give permission for further release. [...]

[...] A note: Ruburt is heading toward something important with his latest poetry, and as always it leads toward a change of beliefs.

(After supper Jane and I went over a long list of reasons—beliefs—she had compiled today about the reasons for her symptoms. [...]

[...] Because of your time concepts and beliefs, the examples from the future even in this exercise will not appear as clearly as those of the past. [...]

[...] The methods that must now be changed, misguided as they were—and they were misguided—still worked for your benefits in large ways. [...]

Now you have changed many of your beliefs, and partially because of Ruburt’s example. Behind those beliefs was the belief that spontaneity is an indulgence to be controlled, that good things are not spontaneous, but bad things are. [...]

[...] Through their art they see their beliefs and feelings translated into form. On that level they are studying the ways in which beliefs and feelings are translated into living reality. [...]

Some (of Jane’s) beliefs are becoming more visible, so we shall make them even clearer. [...]

[...] I was very concerned about her condition, even though she’d recently embarked on a course of exercises and changing beliefs that was evidently beginning to help her. [...]

[...] She thought of making the bank trip after lunch—that is, after eating—and instead changed her mind so that you met. [...]

You are taught to question your motives, your behavior, your feelings, and everything but your beliefs. [...]

[...] That belief is a basic one in your society—your religions and your sciences. [...]

(Pause at 9:10.) Many of Ruburt’s beliefs have changed, but the core belief in the Sinful Self has been very stubborn. While you do not possess it in the same fashion, you are also tainted by it, picking up such beliefs from early background, and primarily from your father in that regard. [...]

[...] You are learning how to form reality from your own beliefs. While having at the same time the freedom to choose those beliefs—to choose your mental state in a way that the animals for example do not. [...]

It is true that the Sinful Self carries with it a group of patterns or reactions; methods of dealing with problems, and so Ruburt’s beliefs along those lines have colored his reactions, his plans, his dealings with you through the years. [...]

[...] Science’s flawed self still carries the same import, however, the idea being that while science does not deal with values, so its says, it misleads itself considerably in making such statements, for it projects the worst kind of values both upon mankind and the rest of nature—so even if you are not tainted from religion’s old beliefs, it is difficult to escape such ideas. [...]

(In his material above, concerning Jane’s search for newer, larger frameworks of belief once she began to dispense with her old “comforting” ideas, Seth very lucidly dealt with certain aspects of the role she’s chosen for this life. [...] To some degree I’ve been involved in many changes of belief also, but I’m a participator in the development of the Seth Material, not its originator; the pressures and challenges weren’t — aren’t — as demanding. [With a humor born out of many a struggle, however, I note that it isn’t easy to give up certain cherished old beliefs, even when they’re demonstrably wrong, they may fit the personality all too well…. [...]

[...] These powers of the body are biologically quite achievable in practical terms, but only by a complete change of focus and belief. [...]

In those terms, Ruburt started from scratch as a member of your society who finally threw aside, as you did [Joseph], the current frameworks of belief. For some time he was simply between belief systems, discarding some entirely, accepting portions of others; but mainly he was a pioneer — and this while carrying the largely unrealized, basic belief of society that you cannot trust the self …

The body is equipped, ideally again now, to rid itself of any diseases, and to maintain its stability into what you would call advanced old age, with only a gradual overall change. At its best, however, the change would bring about spiritual alterations. [...]

(In short, Jane, the right leg is evidently to play a central role in your recovery — not only a physical one, but a vital one concerning changes in belief about the whole thing. Ironic indeed, I thought as I drove home, if the broken leg would serve as the last, final impetus toward clearing our psyches of the last of the old, damaging beliefs, so that the new synthesis can finally take place: the body can heal itself …

[...] Her eyes kept changing; at times she could see well. [...]

[...] I told her that Seth didn’t go into our questions about his material in yesterday’s session, concerning changing the past from the present, nor did he comment on Carol Steiner’s Ph.D. thesis on the Seth material. [...]

Whatever program he works with for that time is important, for it is his manner of changing beliefs. [...]

[...] He is giving it a different picture of the world, and he is doing that because he has finally changed many of his old beliefs.

(9:23.) The natural person is to be found, now, not in the past or in the present, but beneath layers and layers of official beliefs, so you are dealing with an archeology of beliefs to find the person who creates beliefs to begin with. [...]

[...] He is managing to disentangle himself from many disadvantageous cultural beliefs — beliefs that both of you for years, like other people, took for granted.

You might combat those beliefs, struggle against them, but they still carried great weight. [...] The entire idea, or fear, that Ruburt had at one time of leading other people down the garden path, was based upon those old beliefs. [...]

[...] Yet I could see that I confused Jane, for to make such a venture possible we’d have to change certain beliefs and values that are deeply rooted within us; especially those about personal privacy and our reluctance to “go public” with such topical, immediate material, instead of trusting that the Seth material will exert a meaningful influence in society over the long run. [...]

The change in attitude could be quite helpful to you in many ways. [...]

[...] They felt threatened by the world, which was painted by their beliefs so that it presented a picture of unmitigated evil and corruption. [...]

[...] They both treat their beliefs as truths (underlined), with which no one should tamper. [...]