“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There is an A-1-b, you see, still adjacent to this one, and still starting off from an alternate present that can be used for many other purposes.

[...] This may be purposely blocked off for greater efficiency, but it is not necessary. [...]

Often by purposefully trying to slow down your thought processes, or playfully trying to speed them up, you can become aware of memories from other lives — past or future. [...]

[...] As I have mentioned [in other books], you can indeed change the present to some extent by purposefully altering a memory event. [...]

When large doses of chemicals are used, the conscious mind is confronted full blast with very potent experiences that it was not meant to handle, and by which it is purposely made to feel powerless. [...]

[...] You are in it and you form it, and it is to all intents and purposes you while you are physical. [...]

With the death of Ruburt’s mother last year, Rooney’s purpose was fulfilled for Ruburt. [...]

All portions of the self are indeed conscious, and they are also basically conscious of each other, though for working purposes they may seem to be separate or isolated.

[...] In this life, you come together and part, come together and part again, forming a counterpart relationship when it suits your purposes, as streams of consciousness might mix and merge, and then separate.

[...] Nor can you become concerned with the ways in which your conscious purposes will be unconsciously produced, for the inner workings are not aware phenomena.

[...] A dream may be purposely experienced to provide an outlet of a kind that is missing in your daily life. [...]

When you are utilizing your imagination in the way I have suggested, purposefully do so in a playful manner, knowing that in so-called realistic terms there may be great discrepancies between imagination and fact. [...]

On the other hand you may draw another man to you, and end the marriage that has served its purposes in all ways, finding now the impetus and the reasons for change. [...]

As the self became more involved with objectivity, the subconscious, of itself, began the formation of the consciousness, which evolved as portions of it became specialized for the purpose of out-terialization.

This outego, among its purposes, has the duty of expressing not only itself but to a lesser extent those various hidden personalities which compose the subconscious. [...]

[...] (Pause.) His symptoms served other purposes as well, though, as has been given often. [...]

[...] The symptoms have fluctuated, serving sometimes one purpose more than the other—but what you have overall is a belief in a kind of braking power with which to handle spontaneous activity. [...]

(As Seth states in closing, the impressions tonight are legitimate, but too far removed for our purposes. [...]

The impressions were legitimate indeed, but far too distant for your purposes. [...]

[...] There were other entries available, but he understood your purposes, and accepted you as a mother to show you that he held no grudges. [...]

Your sister was also fond of the uncle, and therefore was instrumental in this life in allowing him new entry; but you joined for that purpose only. [...]

[...] The bodybuilders look forward to their workouts, for they have a purpose in mind. [...]

[...] There are other ways, but the word has served its purpose. [...]

[...] Their purposes and reality merge. [...]

[...] The ancient mother-goddess concept became “unconscious”; the male, purposely forgetting the great natural aggressive thrust of birth, took physical aggression and force as his prerogative — for this came to represent the quality of ego consciousness in its need to physically manipulate its environment.

[...] When you are finished, purposefully alter the sequence. [...]

[...] The purpose is not so much the perfect execution of such exercises as it is to involve you in a different mode of experience and of awareness that comes into being as you perform in the ways suggested. [...]

When you and Ruburt begin such a program as the pendulum, for example, it is valuable because of your joint initiation of it, and it served several excellent purposes. [...]

[...] I want to stress the purposes they have served, and their general nature and so forth did help to bring up a variety of important issues. [...]

“The purpose is, quite simply, being as opposed to nonbeing. [...]

“It then purposely gave them more and more detail, and yearned toward this diversity and grew to love that which was not yet separate from itself. [...]

[...] Those who indulge in violence for whatever reason are themselves changed, and the purity of their purpose adulterated.

In the various countries the fuel may be used for different purposes. [...]

Using air again as a simple analogy to our fuel for the inner senses, which is converted by the various countries or planes for their own purposes and therefore camouflaged, air in its pure state is not observed easily. [...]

[...] It can be used by and is used by the brain for purposes of survival, and can sometimes be probed by physical instruments. [...]

[...] For practical purposes you may say, in truth on your own terms, that entities simply have had time to develop further personalities. [...]

[...] It should never be allowed to be used for the purposes of the emotions belonging to the outer ego.

[...] Any energy can be used for almost any purpose.

I can only hope to evoke some feeling within you that is reminiscent of your own actual behavior at those hidden levels of dreaming activity, but they have remained highly pertinent in the development of all species with their environments, keeping the intents and purposes of one alive in the other. [...]

(And: “A chapter on a person’s ‘Effective Personal Reality’ — about the private purposes in one’s life, and the bounds of creaturehood as set by your body; what you choose to be born with as far as health, disease, poverty or wealth, ability, etc., are concerned.”