“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I have given suggestions for you to follow, many of them, and any of them followed with a sense of purpose —any one of them—would lead you in the proper direction.

[...] The suggestions have not been followed with any overall sense of purpose or continuity. [...]

His ommm exercises can serve a good purpose; they calm body and mind at once, that is at the same time, and they can serve you also. [...]

[...] My question concerned a hypothetical experiment in which, say, a hundred such writers would be hypnotized without being told what the purpose of the experiment was; once under, they would be queried about past-life memories. [...]

In these circumstances, when the personality attaches itself at conception, there is almost without exception strong past-life connections between parents and child, or there is an unceasing and almost obsessional desire to return to the earthly situation — either for a specific purpose, or because the reincarnating personality is presently obsessed with earthly existence. [...]

[...] He may never relate to it, and while the existence will serve what purposes he had in mind, there will always be a basic sensed distance between the body and the personality within it.

[...] In some cases the secondary personality is, again, an emergency measure that will eventually tide the whole personality over, allow for the expression of actions before their explosion completely disrupts the personality system; and then the secondary personality structure may be dispensed with for all practical purposes, to be recalled however upon another emergency.

[...] After your break, we will discuss the purposes of the ego to some degree.

[...] It must not on the other hand be composed of too disorganized a system of actions, for in this case it is not capable of maintaining a consistent sense of identity or purpose, and is not strong enough to act in a magnetic manner, that will attract or hold the basic energies of the personality.

In your terms they did not have [an overall] purpose, yet their purpose was simply to be. [...]

[...] For the purpose of this discussion alone, imagine a body with a fully operating body consciousness, not diseased for any reason or defective by birth, but one without the overriding ego-directed consciousness that you have. [...]

[...] To them the real was the dream life, which contained the highest stimuli, the most focused experience, the most maintained purpose, the most meaningful activity, and the most organized social and cultural behavior. [...]

As you become more expert at it, then purposely do something else at the same time — a physical activity, for instance. [...]

[...] The status quo which served a certain purpose is gone, new elements are introduced, another creative process begins. [...]

[...] The old beliefs served a purpose and fulfilled a need.

[...] This permits us to use more energy for our purposes in our sessions.

[...] He breaks through into “current,” in quotes, physical reality, but he cannot step forth freely into it, but is imprisoned by his own overpowering and blind purposes.

[...] Though numbers are abstract they can serve our purposes well here. [...]

[...] To tell you this was the purpose of the session. [...]

[...] As you give inner purpose and organization to your dreams, and as you obtain insight and satisfaction from your dreams though they involve only a part of your life, so the entity to some extent directs and gives purpose and organization to his personalities during their existence. [...]

[...] You see, the slight but still rather remarkable evidence of telepathy I gave you with Philip had two purposes, or one large one.

[...] They are independent to varying degrees, and they operate on various planes for purposes of overall fulfillment and development.

In fact, I take back my suggestion about dining in the kitchen, lest he pull out a wall for the purpose. [...]

[...] The cruelty which he inflicted upon others during the period of the Inquisition was inflicted with the most pure of purposes. [...]

I did not find it of much real purpose to give reviews during our sessions, particularly since new witnesses will come. [...]

[...] We want such a physical reconstruction of image in a purposeful manner, at a given place and time, on your plane. [...]

[...] Such signs as I give in these sessions will be for my own purposes, and they will never be purely for display, but for their value as teaching demonstrations.

[...] It can be used in many ways, for different purposes. [...]

[...] In any joint reality, purposes mix and merge. You would not have a wife who had Ruburt’s particular kind of symptoms unless for your own reasons they served your ends as well—though of course to a lesser extent by far than they served Ruburt’s purposes.

[...] To some extent Ruburt’s symptoms served to keep the unsafe world at bay; while this was his private construction, you also took advantage of it, in that at least it served certain purposes.

(During class break Jane commented that Seth had a real purpose this night.)

I always indeed have a purpose! [...]

[...] And the energy that can indeed sweep through this smaller plane can be used for many purposes. [...]

Give us a moment … Those intimate realizations, however, had to be counterbalanced in line with certain purposes set by your species, and even for that matter momentarily set aside so that other abilities and characteristics could emerge. The species’ sense of curiosity would not allow it to stay in any home territory for long,⁶ and so the sense of intimacy was purposely broken. [...]

[...] In this analogy, the dropped leaves of the physical plant have fulfilled their own purposes to themselves as leaves, and to the plant. [...]

[...] Part of my purpose is to acquaint your egotistical self with knowledge that is already known to a larger portion of your own consciousness, that you have long ignored.

[...] My purpose is to open your inner eyes.

(Pause.) Man serves his purposes within nature, as all species do, and in the terms of your understanding man “thinks” in his own way, but he is also the thinking portion of nature. [...]

[...] I will return later to the purposes of man’s conscious mind in nature, and part of that discussion will fall in our book (Dreams).

[...] Your music was your god and your purpose for living. [...]

[...] You found that music had many purposes and uses and could be used in many ways, not only to inspire but to incite. [...]

[...] You have used them unconsciously but you can use them with more purpose for yourself and others. [...]

And so, in this children’s tale, that is given to you in parable and in symbol, you came to have your being and yet when this universe, as you know it, was then brought into existence, you had to forget momentarily where you came from and you had to be created in flesh so that you could experience, in flesh, this new portion of creativity and so that you could, in your turn, create from that of which you were physically made and so you forgot your heritage, on purpose in a way. [...]

[...] The inner ego contains the various purposes toward which the entity, as seen in its various personalities, has been working to achieve.

[...] For practical purposes there are apparent divisions. [...]

[...] This can have practical results, for you will be able to recognize and use the tension itself toward purposeful goals. [...]

[...] Your characteristics, intents and purposes are taken into consideration, and constant readjustments are also made. [...]

If you really understood your own intents and purposes, then you would see how faithfully they were met (emphatically). [...]

When either of you say that your purposes and Prentice’s merge, or your attitudes merge, you have a tendency to mean that this merging is somehow detrimental—that if you expected more (underlined), Prentice would do more: advertise, or whatever, and that is not the case. [...]

I will purposely avoid using the word “God” because of the connotations placed upon it by conventional religion. [...]

Your closest approximation of the purpose of the universe can be found in those loving emotions that you have toward the development of your children, in your intent to have them develop their fullest capacities.

[...] The book follows the idea that an objectified God made the universe (and the earth) in a perfect condition, and that instead of evolving toward more complicated forms, it’s running down; that decay and catastrophe are break-downs of previous better conditions, but that even these will finally be removed by the Creator after they have served their own special purposes. [...]

We will call your working framework, Framework 1 for purposes of discussion, and this higher framework, Framework 2. In Framework 1, time must be allowed for the body to respond, physical time. [...]

So keep Framework 1 for working purposes, but become more and more aware of Framework 2. In your terms this will cut down the time necessary drastically.

Ruburt begins with the large philosophical issues, and somewhat purposefully adopted a thinking pattern at least, or a method of operation, that to some extent ignored details, lest he become too involved in them—in, say, slaying a multitudinous number of detailed paper dragons. [...]