“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] They may have no connection to others in the room; but I want (shouts) you to use the energy behind this voice for your own purposes. [...]

[...] In our dream experiments, this is one of the purposes we hope to achieve. [...]

“What’s the purpose of the whole study exactly?” Rob asked.

We will be involved with a study of the characteristics of the dream world in general and attempt to isolate it as a separate reality for the purposes of examination. [...]

[...] One of the main purposes and goals of the whole self is to become aware of all such existences, and to correlate them into an identity structure.

[...] This marked the end of the session for all practical purposes as far as Seth was concerned. [...]

[...] Actually the drawing bears no resemblance to Don, purposely being done in that manner.

[...] Jane said the object is dissonant rather than being harmonious, I purposely so produced it.

You have shut off your own psychic experiences, as to some extent Ruburt has, because of the dual purposes mentioned earlier, and the dual sets of beliefs. [...]

[...] I am intent, however, about a new beginning, a new dedication, so that your own purposes become clearer, and your abilities better used. [...]

It is obvious that the ulcers are at this time serving a purpose for the personality. The purpose must be uncovered. [...]

[...] It would be most advantageous if other sessions were held for the particular purpose of delving into the problem, but this session alone has already prepared the self to know the self, and here the personality will take strides forward. [...]

There will be other evenings like (louder, to soon quiet down) this evening, and there will be other demonstrations that will be of quite legitimate purpose. [...]

[...] To me, redemption means a continuous search or journey, then, involving whatever events and interchanges we choose to create, for whatever purposes, along the way—and truly, I think, some of those purposes will involve things “the conscious mind may not be able presently to perceive.” [...]

And: “The magical approach takes it for granted that the human being is a united creature, fulfilling purposes in nature even as the animals do, whether or not those purposes are understood. [...]

Permanency and stability basically have nothing to do with form, but with the integration of pleasure, purpose, accomplishment, and identity. [...]

What we are looking for here, and indeed one of the purposes of our sessions, is efficient use of various portions of the self in the perceptions of their own realities, and of an overall perception of each of the various portions of the self by the whole self, which transcends the others even while it is composed of them.

([Gene]: “O.K. We’re not talking at cross purposes.”)

In a basic way, it is against nature’s purposes to contemplate a dire future, for all of nature operates on the premise that the future is assured. [...]

[...] Their purpose is survival, and the biological mechanisms behind such actions are healthy. [...]

You cannot begin to have a true psychology, again, unless you see the living self in a greater context, with greater motives, purposes and meanings than you now assign to it, or for that matter than you assign to nature and its creatures. [...]

[...] You will purposefully keep your ideals generalized, thus saving yourself from the necessity of acting upon them in the one way open to you: by trusting yourself and your impulses, and impressing those that you meet in daily life with the full validity that is your own.

[...] As I have said before, according to psychology and science, you are a living conglomeration of elements and chemicals, spawned by a universe without purpose, itself accidentally formed, and you are given a life in which all the “primitive and animalistic” drives of your evolutionary past ever lurk within you, awaiting expression and undermining your control.

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

(Ron’s wife, Grace: “Seth, did we fulfill our purposes in that time?”)

Now the image analogy is in some respects distortive, but good enough for our present purposes. [...]

[...] This [kind of material] has its purposes, and it does do some good, explaining reality in terms that people can understand, for the props and fantasies are familiar ones. [...]

[...] Your [reality] is simply not one that I have pursued, and one of the purposes of my participation in these sessions is to acquaint the one called Ruburt with inner travel. [...]

[...] If a psychologist wants to say simply that the whole thing was hallucination, then he would have to admit that it was hardly random, but well directed, to a point and for a purpose. [...]

[...] For instead of the gun, which to Ruburt signifies destruction, purposeful destruction, you have the distortion of the eagle shape on the gun label, into a woman and child image, signifying of course creativity in this case.

Some small effort was made to keep the original visual data but even this was sacrificed for the same subconscious purpose when it became necessary.