“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(9:50.) Later in the book we will discuss other kinds of existence in which you are also involved; and these to some extent color your intents and purposes in physical life as you now understand it.

[...] The “deeper” purposes of the consciousness involved “circulate,” sometimes arising in the awareness that is joined with the brain. [...]

This phenomena is not meant to explain legitimate instances in which the personality and consciousness itself returns for purposes of communication. [...]

[...] You must hold the action back for perceptive purposes. [...]

[...] Chronic physical disabilities and problems drag on in a certain fashion because they serve many purposes, and the last groups of sessions show the interior and exterior kinds of controls that those symptoms have provided. [...]

[...] The difficulty with Ruburt’s arms and hands bother his typing now, showing him finally in no uncertain terms that the system has served its purpose long ago, and that his creativity is dependent upon psychological and physical mobility. [...]

(I do think that it will all serve a valuable purpose, however, if we clear up the one major stumbling block over publicity—whether to do or not to do it. [...]

Families have subconscious purposes, though the individual members of the family may pursue these goals without conscious awareness. [...]

In the present circumstances you are carrying that idea forward — of species survival regardless of the consequences, the idea of changing the environment to suit your own purposes; and this has led you to a disregard of spiritual truths.

[...] So you have brought this upon yourself for that purpose and you will learn. [...]

For practical purposes you might say, and for practical purposes only, that on your plane the self is limited only by the fields of energy that it can control. [...]

[...] Thoughts, dreams, purposes and intents, plans and wishes are constantly speeding outward from the core of self unimpeded. [...]

One animal chasing and killing its prey serves the greater purpose of preserving the balance of nature, whether or not the animal is aware of this — and again, the animal’s intent is not evil. [...]

To identify man with his poorest works is to purposefully seek out the mars, the mistakes, of a fine artist, and then to condemn him. [...]

[...] To whatever extent, and in whatever fashion, each individual is therefore robbed of his or her belief in the personal ability to act meaningfully or with purpose in the present.

[...] Otherwise, I’m at cross purposes with myself. [...]

They have a purpose — that function they provide within the organism as a whole. [...]

First of all, on a jovial note, may I remark upon the new furniture arrangement, adding that for your purposes the second room divider will prove most advantageous.

[...] Mankind still deals with surfaces, depending mainly as he does upon the powers of the outer ego, whose purpose it is to deal only with surface reality.

(Pause at 10:40.) In that regard Ruburt’s material is correct; simply by being itself our material serves its purpose—and its purpose is multitudinous. [...]

(See the last two sessions.) There are various ways in which Ruburt’s abilities can be used, and various purposes they can serve, according to circumstances and conditions. [...]

[...] It can be used for many purposes, and was as I told you a demonstration on several layers.

For your own purposes an unfinished painting on your easel would help you project to your studio, for you would psychically wish to return to study it. [...] Besides this the two of you travelling together could help each other retain proper consciousness and purpose during projection. [...]

Viruses serve many purposes, as I have said before.¹ The body contains all kinds of viruses, including those considered deadly, but those are usually not only harmless, or inactive, but beneficial to the body’s overall balance.

All of those adjustments are made without your conscious notice, and yet fit in with your overall purposes and intents.

[...] The great force of love and devotion is withdrawn from personal areas of individual creativity through purposeful work. [...]

[...] Parallel developments in religion and government always echo the state of consciousness and its purposes. [...]

[...] This may be momentarily disturbing simply because he wants to sleep through—but the body is roused on purpose. [...]

I used the term, pass out of the dream world purposely, for here we see a mobility of action easily and often accomplished — a passing in and out that involves an action without movement in space. The dreamer has, at his fingertips, a memory of his ‘previous’ dream experiences and carries within him the many inner purposes which are behind his dream actions. [...]

[...] Within the physical world, you deal with the transformation of action into physical manipulations — but this involves only a small portion of the nature of action, and it is my purpose to familiarize you with action as it exists, more or less, in pure form. [...]

[...] Basically, even the physical universe itself is so constructed, but for all practical purposes, as far as perception and experience is concerned, time and physical growth apply. [...]

As Seth continued dictation I was fired by his purpose to make the unknown elements of human life at least partially visible — an audacious goal, I thought — and I tried to do my part in recording all such disclosures as they appeared in our lives and were reflected in the experiences of our friends and students.

[...] This process can also result in a similar approach on my part when I discuss his dictation, so I’ll initiate a summary of Volume 1 by using four sources presented by Seth himself: a key passage from his Preface; the headings he gave for the three sections that comprise Volume 1, along with a few elaborations of my own; a brief description of the appendixes which I assembled over a period of time; and a passage from the 762nd session, in which, eight months after he’d finished “Unknown” Reality, Seth speaks further about his purposes in producing it.

“In a way, with [this] book and with your art, your purpose is the expression of the ideal, and that expression must be physically materialized, obviously. [...]

“As an artist alone your purpose is expression, which involves disclosures, the difference between the ideal and the actual. [...]

[...] This amounts to a bleed-through, and I use the term purposely, for your recorder can serve us here in an analogy.

[...] It views various probabilities with the purposes of the ego in mind, and therefore aids the ego in its decisions as to which probable events it should choose for its own experience.

[...] Identity or continuity of the self is retained and strengthened in a series of simultaneous events, with value fulfillment foremost insofar as purposeful action is concerned.

[...] Time as you understand it is utilized as a method of focus, a divider like a room divider, separating purposes instead of furniture. [...]

You choose ahead of time your environment and purposes. [...]

Give us a moment … Your individual experience then becomes a part of your own greater personage, but at the same time you unconsciously draw upon the knowledge of that personage and use it for your purposes: You become an offshoot, so to speak. [...]

A chair is a chair for your purposes. [...]

[...] They are designations for practical purposes, and they imply organization of intent or affiliation at one level. [...]

[...] For who, knowing that for all practical purposes he or she is “immortal,” will want to risk that most precious gift of all — life — by doing anything that could rudely take it away? [...]