“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The idea, of course, is only to integrate the two often opposing points of view, instead of having them in conflict with each other, since, as Seth says, we always have some practical need of Framework 1 activity. But now I’m turning more and more toward Framework 2, making a try at placing my faith and need for solutions there where they can generate their own, seemingly without effort. [...] Even large portions of these activities I now try to relegate to Framework 2’s tender ministrations. [...] It’s an amazingly simple luxury to consider a problem or challenge, then say the hell with it and throw it into Framework 2. It is, of course, reminiscent of our behavior right after we first learned about the frameworks, and as I remember it worked very well. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) You have always sensed more than you knew, both of you, so in that area Framework 2 has represented a natural affiliation with your conscious selves. [...]

In this way, with the words spoken “Let thy will be done,” the self could free itself from its own misconceptions, and attract from Framework 2 benefits that it might otherwise not be knowledgeable enough to request. A portion of each person dwells in Framework 1 and Framework 2. Understand that Framework 2 is a psychic or spiritual or mental structure. [...]

In our terms, All That Is exists in Framework 2 as elsewhere, but Framework 2 represents the source of your known physical reality. [...]

The Christian concept of heaven with its riches, God and his bounty, the source of nature itself—all of this in our terms was a symbolic structure describing in storybook terms the attributes and characteristics of Framework 2.

The situation and the faith that you managed to build up in Framework 2 have come to your aid. [...]

Ruburt did not want to understand, for he was afraid, in your joint framework, that you would stop painting, and not use the framework you were supposed to, to get money. [...]

[...] You just kept trying to fit what you did into a framework that you had outgrown. You had each identified with that framework so strongly that you were afraid to let it go.

[...] The old framework was so restrictive that your ideas of secrecy, protection and privacy made you want to protect yourself to such a degree that you did not want your paintings to sell, to share them with others. [...]

[...] The fact that you were not making much money in the framework the two of you accepted, led him to work the harder, determined to publish his work.

(“A framework within a framework.” [...] A painting could be a framework, fitting within another framework—the frame. [...]

[...] A framework within a framework.

(The framework data may be associative, coming from the earlier framework references having to do, we think, with paintings and frames.

(“A fence or framework connection with the item.” Again, framework can refer to frames, paintings, etc., as explained. [...]

FRAMEWORK 1 AND FRAMEWORK 2

[...] Using the terms begun in the last chapter, I will say then that man’s emotional identification with nature is a strongly-felt reality in Framework 2. And there we must look for the answers regarding man’s relationship with nature. There in Framework 2 the nature of the psyche appears quite clearly, so that its sweeps and rhythms can be understood. [...]

The world’s ideas, fantasies, or myths may seem far divorced from current experience — yet all that you know or experience has its origin in that creative dimension of existence that I am terming Framework 2. In a manner of speaking your factual world rises on a bed of fantasy, myth, and imagination, from which all of your detailed paraphernalia emerge. [...]

[...] It must be clearly understood, then, that when I speak of myths I mean to imply the nature of psychic events whose enduring reality exists in Framework 2, and forms the patterns that are then interpreted in your world.

Such information, such inspired writing, usually appears within frameworks of the personality that have already been set and formed. [...] In some cases, the framework itself is used for a final time, with the initial inspired knowledge — the knowledge itself — escaping from the framework and growing out of the context that allowed for its birth.

The experience came within a framework that he could accept — that of highly accelerated inspiration. [...] Had his habits instead led him, say, to regular prayer, then that framework could also have been used. [...]

(Long pause at 9:45.) Such personalities often then must learn to correlate their intuitive knowledge, to reform intellectual frameworks strong enough to support it. [...]

[...] The energy has been directed, and the individual has had enough time to realize that the accepted frameworks and answers make little sense to him.

That fear led you to make, during your short drive, a quick and quite a desperate entreaty into Framework 2. Wanda had several errands, the bank merely one, and it was her lunch hour. [...] She never forgot the help you two gave her one night, when she was frightened, and that connects you to her in Framework 2.

[...] Since I’d been thinking of Wanda rather strongly last week, wondering whether the doctor in question could help Jane and her eye condition, I took our meeting as a clear case of the workings of Framework 2. On impulse I asked Wanda if she could arrange an appointment for Jane, and was surprised to hear that it could be set up for next Monday. [...]

(Driving home, I had misgivings about my actions in making the appointment without consulting Jane, but told myself I trusted my impulse and the working of Framework 2. I also felt that Jane would never see a doctor on her own. [...]

Framework 2 was involved, and so was the chair and so was Frank’s return. [...]

These were interruptions, and because of your attitudes you thought of them as troublesome interruptions: surely you would have sailed through your work otherwise, or performed chores that you wanted to accomplish; and so because you still do not really understand the effectiveness of Framework 2, those visits added to your sense of concern and hassles with time. Framework 2 knows of all of your purposes, as I have mentioned. [...]

He thought of that term before our Framework 1 and 2 material, and his idea was that the impulses came from a part of the self that automatically knew the entire picture of the self’s environment and potentials. He was quite correct, for those impulses arise from the larger self’s immersion in Framework 2, and those impulses led Ruburt to his intuitive inspirations, experiences of psychic events, and to the books. [...]

[...] You have a right to refuse guests, of course, and yet if you learn to work with Framework 2 with greater faith you will find that other issues are usually involved than those immediately apparent.

[...] In Framework 2, “Unknown” is completely finished, of course, and whenever you have any difficulty with a note or an appendix, take a moment and tell yourself that the final, completed, quite excellent version of that note will come to you. [...]

[...] This is a joint framework you have chosen for the display of extraordinary ability. [...] You constantly reinforce the framework. [...]

Time enough for you each to dispense with that framework.

Three: I will remember the creative framework of existence, in which I have my being. Therefore the possibilities, potentials, seeming miracles, and joyful spontaneity of Framework 2 will be in my mind, so that the doors to creative living are open.

[...] For it will add the miraculous touch of Framework 2 to those activities. [...]

[...] Read over the Framework 2 sessions, for both of you have largely forgotten to focus in that direction, and to look for hints of its activity. [...]

[...] All of us certainly were more than happy with some of his contributions—simply those revolving around camping, for example—while misunderstanding or missing out upon many other facets of his life, and our own individual lives as they functioned within the family framework. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You were both born with certain abilities, and you knew ahead of time that you would have to enlarge the framework of conventional concepts if you were to have room to use those abilities. In a way, they gave you both a second life, for in the old framework there was no satisfying (underlined) or creative way to go. [...]

[...] You were looking for a larger framework of existence itself, from which to view the reality with which you were familiar. [...]

[...] Within the framework of your beliefs, nothing seemed to make much sense. [...]

[...] He sensed your abilities also, and psychically the two of you pooled your creative resources to reach beyond the reality that you know, to search for some other vaster framework that could help explain the events of your private reality and the events of the public world. [...]

Sometimes such cases are handled within another framework, in which Augustus would be considered possessed by an independent “evil” entity whenever Augustus Two took over. Now again, if Augustus somehow changed his beliefs it is possible that even within that framework some kind of cure would be effected. [...]

There is no real adequate framework in your society in which people like Augustus can be treated with any effectiveness.

[...] The trouble is that working within that framework, the self-structure is further weakened, for the normally repressed characteristics of Augustus Two are forever denied. [...]

[...] Sometimes the framework includes another method of cure, in which portions of each conflicting side of the personality break off to form a clearer psychological structure which can communicate with the other two, act as a referee, and reconcile the opposing beliefs held by each.

[...] The symbolisms and frameworks of religion, therefore, had to exist not only in the physical world but also in the unconscious one. Outside of your own framework, houses as such or dwellings as such are not needed, and yet in trance encounters or dream encounters with other realities, such structures are frequently seen. [...]

After death, for example, an individual may continue to create these — masses of individuals may — until they realize that the frameworks are no longer necessary. [...] The particular psychic or story framework may vary. [...]

[...] They are highly creative on an unconscious level, constantly forming psychic frameworks beneath normal consciousness that can be used both by themselves and others in dream and trance states. [...]

[...] A good Speaker is as effective within one reality as he is within the other, creating psychic frameworks within physical reality as well as within interior environments. [...]

NATURAL GRACE, THE FRAMEWORKS OF CREATIVITY, AND THE HEALTH OF YOUR BODY AND MIND.

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Chapter Nine: “Natural Grace, the Frameworks of Creativity, and the Health of Your Body and Mind. [...]

[...] The applied tension itself in that framework came to imply a kind of support. It seemed to offer a dependable framework to keep him from going too far in one direction or the other (intently), and was used as a cushion against the other uncertainties in your lives. [...]

Now: within a fairly regular (pause) framework of habits and range of activity, you have both actually chosen a course that is in many ways uncertain, irregular, unpredictable. [...]

[...] You are looking for better ways to live your lives, seeking a larger framework of existence. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) He suggests that others follow their own intuitional material, while at the same time holding on to the established frameworks upon which most people depend. [...]

(10:48.) Framework 2—this is not dictation—has been the basis for white and black magic, for example. [...] That was the result of some of his good work in Framework 2.

[...] 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.

The idea of the Sinful Self came into play here, for if the material was not true, then in that framework it must necessarily be false—or at the least very misleading. [...] All of those questions make sense in a framework in which the dictums of one belief system—Christianity—are accepted as true, and everything that does not agree with them is accepted as falsehood. [...]

In that same framework then the nature of my own reality also of course comes into question. [...] (Pause.) Inside of that framework you have very few alternatives to deal with. [...]

[...] Within that framework, however, you do have the creative abilities, and these stand out in their own fashions, since they “play with the facts.” [...]

[...] So when Ruburt asks such questions from the framework of old beliefs, with their old meanings, then he can find no adequate answers. [...]

In other periods, for example, there were acceptable frameworks through which mystics expressed themselves, and most cultures have such avenues. [...] Ruburt has no exterior framework to judge his subjective experience against, for even when he was in the church his experience did not fit the mold.

[...] Most people, as I mentioned, experience their contacts with the world through many prepared structures—that of church, community, clubs, professional organizations, family affiliations, academic affiliations—and these frameworks serve automatically to cushion such contact, and in a way, while permitting contact with the world, also blunting it to some extent. [...]

[...] His own abilities, again, kept working through all of the frameworks, however, and none of them could content him.

Now: in a way the mystic’s goals are eternal—that is, they involve comprehensions sought for whose validity is in important ways independent of historical time, even though the comprehensions may be couched in certain frameworks.

You did indeed come into good rapport with Framework 2 yourself on the occasion you mentioned (December 1981; see my dream notebook). You can try, gently enough, imagining Framework 2 in your sessions with Ruburt. You fall asleep quickly, yet the simple mental image you use for Framework 2 can be an excellent suggestive tool before sleep.

[...] Watch television or whatever, but imagine—lightly, now—a pyramid with each of you at its base, going upward into Framework 2. The energy you sense in whatever program you watch imagine almost like a generator, as energy here drawing power from Framework 2 into the room, into Ruburt’s body and your own, activating both your physical and psychic existences.

You should understand that we have been talking about Framework 1 and Framework 2. Ruburt felt, and so did you to some extent, that it was easier to experience Framework 2’s spontaneity in the mental realm of imagination—but you each felt that the physical body was tied somewhat more rigidly to the dictums of Framework 1, to cause and effect. [...]

[...] That is why I have stressed the importance of impulse, and Framework 2’s activity, for there you are not confined to cause and effect.