“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In them individuals creatively and purposely create realities, knowing how to do so and giving full rein to the creative abilities of consciousness.

[...] Even at this level, however, such messages serve a purpose. [...]

Such a quick return, however, can also be taken by a personality who is charged with a great purpose, who disregards or discards an old physical body, and is reborn almost immediately into a new one in order to finish an important and necessary project already begun.

Any purpose is better than none, and any intended personalized threat is better than an existence in which no life is important enough to be individually threatened, so these imagined threats serve to convince our young man that his life must have meaning or purpose—otherwise others would not be so intent on destroying him. [...]

[...] I think I’ve wondered more than once, for instance, about what purposes a given life may be serving that we’re quite unaware of, or blind to.)

[...] Sometimes it seems that you are bothered by visitors when you do not want them, but those visitors are also a part of that spontaneous order, whether or not at any given time you recognize the purpose of such a visit, or its place in your lives. [...]

(“I guess you’ve gone into my main question, about the sperm: If practically all of them are never going to fulfill their primary purpose, what other roles do they have in life?”)

[...] Such a child will often be quite conscious of the reason for the affair: he or she may openly admit the fact that the injured part was purposefully chosen so that a dreaded test at school could be missed, and the child might well think that the injury was little enough to pay for the desired effect that it produced.

(“I also got that he’s going to say that in ordinary terms we don’t have access to all the information we’ve got at one time because consciously it would be so hard to sort through it — but that we really are conscious of it, and for working purposes we just pretend that we aren’t. He’s said that before — that the so-called unconscious portions of ourselves are in themselves quite conscious.”

[...] Seth had discussed her father’s laxness, and her mother’s drive toward purpose, power, and control, and how Jane had felt that she must make a choice between the two modes of behavior. [...]

[...] Ruburt set out, of course, to handle his own purposes and challenges, but he chose those in the context of your world, so that in encountering them personally he would encounter them for your society as well. [...]

[...] The tremor served two purposes in this respect. [...]

While the exercises having to do with symptoms are good, they should not be overly emphasized, for your purpose must be much larger than the disappearance of any symptoms. [...]

[...] Something about my personal purposes—what I’m trying to do.... [...]

[...] To all intents and purposes, however, the tree is conscious of 50 years before and 50 years hence.

It has been added for the purposes of the ego, and it can be discarded. [...] The purpose that it served it no longer serves, and it must now be discarded.

When you see that the ulcer does not belong to you in these terms, then indeed you will have no purpose in using your energies to maintain it. [...] It is not part of the whole self; and now, we will see the purpose of the ego in all this is to protect what it considers the self, for the ego considers itself as the only self.

[...] There is bound to be a difference however, between the purposes of the inner identity and the ego.

[...] The material that I have given you on reincarnation in the past is quite valid, particularly for working purposes, but it is a highly simplified version of what actually occurs.

[...] Nor do I know their purpose. [...]

[...] Now through you I affect physical reality, and this is indeed one of my purposes.

Now it was on the one hand feigned behavior, but the symptoms had to be bothersome enough or they would not have served their purpose. [...]

[...] Woven in all of this was the communication issue, and to some extent the symptoms served another allied and complementary purpose. [...]

[...] Short-term challenges of any kind that are at all practical are excellent to break up for him the longer-term purpose of his book.

[...] But let you remember that the language and the sound and the noise are packages that have been parceled for you, but for you personally, tailored for you exactly according to your own purposes and needs. [...]

([Phil:] “What purpose did he have coming up to me in this life?”)

He had no conscious purpose at all. [...]

[...] I use the term purposefully, for it confounds the dictates of your adult reasoning, and perhaps by so confounding what you think of as reason, I may manage to arouse within you a hint of what I refer to as the higher intellect.

I do not mean to speak of reason in derogatory terms, for it is well suited to its purposes, which are vital in your reality. [...]

[...] These form a true sense of purpose, so that the aspects of the will and the effort fall naturally into place to bring about the desires. [...]

[...] When Ruburt feels he understands this, without taking any special time, let him think of using desire and imagination together, purposefully disconnecting them for this exercise from willpower or effort, and seeing himself shopping with you in a store, or walking a beach in Florida, or anything else that automatically comes to mind.

There is great energy connected with the fetus, for at no other time in physical life is so much energy utilized so purposefully and so well directed. [...]

This actual gathering up of prime vitality for the purpose of physical construction is not however truly automatic, and it is not truly performed unconsciously. [...]

The conscious ego then manipulates this material for the purposes of camouflage constructions. [...]

[...] And here the use of energy for this purpose is conscious, that is the strong hidden self actually makes use of the camouflage conscious self and molds the two into a reality that combines two planes. [...]

[...] Their purpose of course is to enable the conscious personality to recognize as valid camouflage patterns which are only valid under certain conditions.

[...] The organization of the church now serves the same purpose I believe.... [...]

When we have gone into the nature of action still much more thoroughly, then you will be able to use such knowledge for quite practical purposes, and to your advantage. [...]

[...] However, to all intents and purposes it changes action in so far as you are concerned with it. [...]

I have often mentioned that the divisions in our subject matter are often arbitrary, and for practical purposes of discussion only. [...]

[...] They perform a very creative service as a rule, for social and political organizations can often become stagnant, and no longer serve the purposes of the large masses of people involved. [...] As a rule, however, they have one purpose in mind: to change the status quo in whatever the area of primary interest.

It is already easy to see how the purposes of these various families can intermesh, complement each other, and also conflict. [...]

I have told you that through many existences you don egos for the purposes set by the inner self. [...]