“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Until you change your belief, you will continue to utilize your food in the same fashion — and to overeat. [...] Your entire behavior pattern operates according to the strong hypnotic suggestions given, and then of course your appearance and experience always reinforce your belief.

Natural hypnosis and conscious beliefs give their proper instructions to the unconscious, which then dutifully affects the body mechanism so that it responds in a manner harmonious with the beliefs. [...] Dealing with this is not a simple problem, of course, for the original suggestion of dis-ease was in itself given because of another belief. [...]

(Pause at 9:42.) That is why belief systems are so important in dealing with health and illness. Each of the systems uses paraphernalia — gestures, medicine, treatment — that are the exterior manifestations of beliefs shared by healer and patient alike.

A belief in health can help you utilize a “poor” diet to an amazing degree. [...] The belief itself works while you are operating within that framework, of course. [...]

[...] Its great creative power still exists and you use it in your own way, even changing your own symbolism as your beliefs change. [...]

With every translation the Bible has changed its meaning, being interpreted in the language of the times. Christ spoke in terms of good and bad spirits because these represented the people’s beliefs. [...]

[...] In all cases the religions began with the beliefs prevailing, spoke through the dictums of the times, and then expanded. [...] The idea-frameworks of psychic and mental life were far more important than the physical aspects as the species grew and changed.

He began with their beliefs, and using their references tried to lead them into freer realms of understanding.

[...] Ruburt is faced with the sensation of tightness, however—there is something there in his experience to deal with, so that his senses can conform to his belief about his body. [...] How many times have you said that to yourself—yet in that statement lies great freedom, for you must change your belief.

[...] You would have them done, or do them, but your creative energy and your thoughts would be involved with your creativity, and the chores at times would give you a necessary enjoyed change. [...]

[...] Some of your private and joint problems spring from cultural beliefs that you are intellectually aware of, but not emotionally free from. [...]

[...] At the same time, because of some cultural beliefs, you are still not all that trustful about creativity to begin with.

[...] They invest time and enthusiasm—and that kind of grassroot development is in the long run more apt to change the beliefs of a society than any authoritative dictums from the specialists, whatever their field. [...]

[...] He would meet honor, belief, respect, disbelief, anger, love—and some scorn. Such a career addition would be bound to change, of course, the foundations of your lives. [...]

Ruburt has done very well in understanding these body changes, and has been aided by your support there. [...] Those impulses quicken the physical changes, so that the two go together; as in the kitchen he now feels like standing, or wants to walk from the sink to the table.

(Today Jane has had a steady barrage of bodily sensations of incipient release and change—her most active and encouraging one so far, since we began our program on April 3, 1978. [...]

[...] It is that one area where each of you believed you had no power to change events, and that belief could impede your progress, at least, even when both of you want a change.

[...] It comes back to you as evidence when through the mail you see the books help people change the directions of their lives.

Ruburt must realize that his power and energy can, and indeed is, changing his body for the better. [...]

Released tension in the head area can also change both Ruburt’s depth perception and head pressure, as it lessens. [...]

This realization on both of your parts should lead you to see that reverse methods, plus the change in beliefs, can indeed work what seem to be miracles.

[...] You cannot exactly say that each object is a symbol of a belief that specifically, and yet any alterations that you willfully make in your behavior with the objects of your intimate environment represent alterations of beliefs. [...] When you change a room around you are altering beliefs in an observable way.

[...] They should be accepted, for they often show conflicting beliefs that are then out in the open and more easily contended with, because a specific incident will usually be involved.

I have mentioned this before, but your environment is a symbol of your inner life and beliefs; one appears physical to you while the inner life does not. [...]

Now many beliefs that are unfortunate, in your terms, are worked out through creativity at other levels, so that dreams, intuitions, and mental processes work together with bodily expression toward a resolution. [...]

[...] In this book Seth is saying that you can change your experience by altering your beliefs about yourself and physical existence.

[...] There he’s accepted as an independent spirit — a spirit guide by those with spiritualistic beliefs — or as some displaced portion of my own personality by the scientific community. [...]

As Seth continued dictating The Nature of Personal Reality, I wrote a complete poetry manuscript, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time, in which I worked out many of my own beliefs as per suggestions Seth was giving in his book. [...]

The Nature of Personal Reality not only enriched my creative life but challenged my ideas and beliefs. [...]

[...] But you are beginning, both of you, to change your beliefs and feelings, and that is good. [...]

[...] As I have mentioned, you can indeed change the present to some extent by purposefully altering a memory event. [...]

[...] You are instead trying an excellent method that will help you change it.

[...] In so doing, you display a change of attitude, a willingness to be creative in your life as well as in your work.

[...] That had made me angry: I felt that it at least offered an avenue of exploration, that perhaps we could use it as an avenue for changing beliefs. [...]

(Pause at 8:43.) It attracted you—you felt the pull of needed change (with gestures), but this change had a new sense of attraction. [...]

There are intersections, changes, of spiritual direction, say, of course occurring constantly in your world. There are also certain times when these are taken advantage of, where change is in the air, for example, for those with courage and good intent. [...]

[...] I’m hoping and trusting that such beneficial changes will continue to take place. [...]

You are both doing very well, and Ruburt’s dream—the one in which he looked at his face in a mirror—was excellent, and already shows a change of belief that will be most beneficial. [...]

[...] Her catheter hasn’t been changed now for some time; she’s done well with it. [...]

[...] I would like to mention, however, that neither of you make any serious effort to change your beliefs about the world of men.

(It appears that we’ve already made a small beginning; through the pendulum we’ve arrived at several categories of belief to explore. [...]

[...] In the face of that belief Ruburt still determined to do his own thing, only with the safeguards.

[...] And with that remark I leave you, daring not to trespass any further upon your cherished beliefs. [...]

[...] Remind him of the ways he has used his body well, and help him change his beliefs about it. [...]

[...] The change of beliefs and feelings, the acceptance of freedom mentally, will vastly accelerate both of your creative abilities, releasing on both of your parts energy that has been withheld.

[...] Various changes continue to take place throughout her body. [...]

There are variations, and actually James has explained the natural background there, for it is all tied in with religious, psychological, and scientific beliefs.

[...] As a result of all this the social and governmental structures will change, for they are based upon your current beliefs.

As these changes come about, new areas will be activated in the brain to physically take care of them. [...] All of these alterations are spiritual changes in which the meaning of religion will escape organizational bounds, become a living part of individual existence, and where psychic frameworks rather than physical ones form the foundations for civilization. [...]

[...] Slayers and victims will change roles as reincarnational memories rise to the surface of consciousness. [...]

[...] That militant quality in man will completely change its nature, and be dispensed with as you know it, when the next Christ personality emerges. [...]