“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(With emphasis:) Now in your framework of beliefs the psychiatrists and the doctors are helpful. [...] In your framework it seems that his or her understanding can be of little practical value to you if you are, for instance, unhealthy. [...]

[...] So-called objective approaches will only work at all when you are dealing with so-called objective effects — and your physicists are learning that even in that framework many “facts” are facts only within certain frequencies,² or under certain conditions. [...]

[...] The entire framework of a prison — with its bars — is a constant reminder to the convict of his situation, and reinforces his original difficulty.

[...] The doctors accept this mandate since they share the same framework of belief, so the medical profession obviously needs patients as badly as the ill need the hospitals. [...]

[...] (Pause.) If you accept the basic idea that evil is more powerful than good, then your beneficial acts will bear little fruit because of your own framework; you assign such small power of action to them.

[...] You will be able to use that power consciously, with purpose, to change your personal experience, and so to change the social framework at least partially. [...]

[...] Mortality with its birth and death is the framework in which the soul, for now, is expressed in flesh. [...]

[...] It seems obvious, but the full enjoyment of life would be impossible in the framework, now, of earthly reality without the knowledge of death.

[...] Physically he is indeed making strides, and Framework 2’s activity is helping, and will more. [...]

Such effects may (underlined) appear suddenly within time’s context, rather than slowly emerge, say, into that framework. [...]

[...] They happened at another level of actuality, and were inserted into your time framework—touching a character here, a definitely known historical event there, mixing and merging with the events of the time, until the two lines of activity were so entwined that you could not unravel one without unraveling the other (all very intently).

Christianity for many centuries served as an amazingly creative organizational framework, that expressed the vast complexity of the soul’s reality. [...]

[...] Seth’s “Framework 2” would be this magical area, of course, I thought. Yet except for the beginning of that (part) of Seth’s material, Framework 2⁴ never really got through to me emotionally. [...]

4. In Note 2 for Session One, I quote myself and Seth on Frameworks 1 and 2.

[...] Their reality can’t be contained in the framework of our creaturehood, though it is being constantly translated through our present individuality.

[...] I think that it operates as a psychological and psychic framework that frees me from normal verbal reference, letting me express and communicate inner feelings and data that lie just beneath formalized word patterns.

The Sumari development, along with the experiences connected with The Education of Oversoul 7 and The Nature of Personal Reality, brought up so many questions that I was forced to seek a larger framework in which to understand what was happening. [...]

If you trust the spontaneous self, then automatically you do not need such a framework, but you must learn to allow it its expression. [...]

Again, to some extent now (underlined), both of you wanted a framework that would allow you what you thought of as freedom to work. [...]

(Jane paused, eyes closed, often seeming to grope for words while in trance.) This is, again, difficult to explain, but free will operates in all units of consciousness, regardless of their degree—but (whispering) it operates within the framework of that degree. Man possesses free will, but that free will operates only within man’s degree—that is, his free will is somewhat contained by the frameworks of time and space.

There is presently no science, religion, or psychology that comes close to even approaching a conceptual framework that could explain, or even indirectly describe, the dimensions of that kind of universe. [...]

The universe expands, as I have said before, as an idea expands; and as sentences are built upon words, in your terms, and paragraphs upon sentences, and as each retains its own logic and continuity and evidence within that framework, so do all the portions of the universe appear to you also with the same cohesiveness (dash) — meaning continuity and order. [...]

Any life is a future one according to your framework, or any life is a past one according to your framework. [...]

[...] They need such data as a framework to hold or contain their intuitive knowledge. [...]

[...] You have a more solid framework now than you had earlier and you have gotten over successfully several pitfalls into which you could have fallen. [...]

And for the rest of you a far more formal framework that I should get you used to. [...]

[...] Tempermentally, however, I have never gone for such a framework, but I will have to think one up, it is a fine challenge. [...]

[...] In its larger aspects, then, nature involves states that include both life and death in far more expansive frameworks of reference.

As a continent does not exist alone, but also in relationship to other physical formations, so in your terms you form events so that they fit into a mass framework. [...]

[...] Dream events, not as precise in space and time, often serve as a framework through which some evidence of other universes can be glimpsed. [...]

You have set up the problem for yourselves within the framework of your reference. You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart. [...]

[...] Others, however, would rather skip from school to school, appearing alone, relatively speaking, with greater freedom, more challenge, but without the comforting framework of security chosen by the others.

[...] The species is also learning its dependence upon other species, and beginning to comprehend its part in the whole framework in physical reality.

“Again as with master events, we’re dealing with a different framework of action entirely, where the Mona Lisa is ‘more real’ than the physical properties that compose it. [...] But to discuss Seth and his ideas primarily from the true-or-false framework is the same thing as considering the Mona Lisa only from the validity of the physical properties of its paint and panel: very very limiting…. [...]

[...] The time would come, however, when the old bondings had to be encountered, for they simply could not hold the newer larger frameworks of understanding. [...] He is now trying to assimilate a greater framework, to become bonded to a higher sequence of knowledge.

[...] Its reality, however, serves to generate activity throughout time’s framework as you understand it, to unite the species, to reinforce structures of knowledge, to transmit information, and perhaps most of all to reinforce relationships involving love, brotherhood, and cooperation between generations of men and women that would otherwise be quite separate and apart from each other.

[...] (Long pause.) Reincarnation suggests, of course, the extension of personal existence beyond one time period, independently of one bodily form, the translation or transmission of intelligence through nonphysical frameworks, and implies psychological behavior, memory and desire as purposeful action without the substance of any physical mechanism—propositions that science at its present stage of development simply could not buy, and for which it could find no evidence, for its methods would automatically preclude the type of experience that such evidence would require.

You (both) are studying the nature of creativity as few others have done or can do—and that is bound to make possible new creative frameworks, and to offer new solutions to situations that cause difficulty only within smaller frameworks. [...]

[...] Even in such cases, however, at some extent or another the individual can indeed start over — or at least those closest to the person in question can begin to see a larger framework of existence in which even the most dire of physical circumstances are somehow redeemed.

We hope to explain this larger framework of existence still further, for indeed it also affects the human condition in all of its aspects.

[...] The form is etched in space and time, and yet the pattern itself exists outside of that framework also — the body is a projection, therefore, into the three-dimensional field.

[...] The physical framework, then, is itself composed of immortal stuff. [...]

[...] Do not forget Framework 2. Ruburt need not go abroad in the world to promote our ideas, nor have I ever suggested it. The ideas are best promoted through these sessions, and books—and not by hasty encounters on television, where answers must be simplified and ideas diluted, but in the reasoned writings that build in their own way, tell Ruburt, resting upon the great framework of the intuitions’ knowledge. [...]

You must realize that the inner portions of the self are aware of the greater framework in which individuality takes place. [...]

[...] There are [in your memory] the most complex organizations and associative frameworks, that exist both in the depths of your cellular structure and in the highest reaches of your conscious activity.

[...] In an organizational framework that would certainly be envied by the most advanced technological concern, communications spring back and forth with great rapidity. [...]

[...] Within this framework it protects and maintains its own stability and survival.