“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] First of all, you must forget words like purpose and time. [...]

[...] But I know when you wander from your purpose and when you leap spontaneously toward it and when in the depths of your being you realize the depths of your abilities and deny them. [...]

The pendulum has been used for a variety of purposes in various cultures —where, however, diviners from childhood have been trained to use such an instrument. [...]

[...] Once again I recalled Seth’s statement in Chapter 5 of Dreams, in Volume 1. See Session 899 for February 6, 1980: “But the purpose of your life, and each life, is in its being (intently). That being may include certain actions, but the acts themselves are only important in that they spring out of the essence of your life, which simply by being is bound to fulfill its purposes.”

Through such behavior the overall value fulfillment purposes and intents of the species are kept in focus, and those necessary requirements then planted in whatever space or time [is] required. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Reincarnation suggests, of course, the extension of personal existence beyond one time period, independently of one bodily form, the translation or transmission of intelligence through nonphysical frameworks, and implies psychological behavior, memory and desire as purposeful action without the substance of any physical mechanism—propositions that science at its present stage of development simply could not buy, and for which it could find no evidence, for its methods would automatically preclude the type of experience that such evidence would require.

[...] But in some newish way I seemed to understand how much seemingly mental work is dependent upon physical vigor, flexibility and so forth; and then rather strongly—emotionally it came to me that I’d thought it my duty to clamp down physically, to cut down mobility in order to … have mobility as a writer; that is, to sit down, cut down on impulses, distractions, to make sure I’d ‘do my work,’ pursue my goal undeviatingly; that new [book] contracts instantly led me to that kind of behavior and that I really see that such behavior carried to its extremes would end up smothering my writing, defeating the purposes it (seemingly) meant to protect. [...]

[...] So for all general purposes, I put the dream out of my mind and went on my way. [...]

[...] In other words, conscious purpose became possible, physically. [...]

[...] The personality in many respects has been rigid, in that its purpose was so undeviatingly certain and severe that it allowed no room for levity or diversion.

Here we have Roarck’s overall entity, laughing with mirth but also with compassion, for while the entity enjoys all that is, the personalities have often turned their backs upon very much, in order to pursue esthetic purpose. [...]

[...] However because of its own extraordinary nature, it itself forms with the inner self in an added gestalt, adding to the energy and ability of the inner self; and in a manner which I cannot yet explain to you, it voluntarily may give up its ego identification to a large degree for the purpose of giving its full energies to the store of the inner self.

[...] You will find more energy at your disposal as you use it for this purpose. [...]

[...] It has, however, literally endless probabilities to choose from, to fulfill its abilities while maintaining a workable selfhood.⁶ Consciousness chooses the best overall conditions available for its own purposes of growth. [...]

The personality itself is not only independent of space and time, but uses the illusions that result for its own purposes. [...]

We will for the purposes of our discussion ignore, for now, certain aspects in Philip’s personality, such as a deep secrecy which is indeed based on fear, because this characteristic and others will not help us progress in our particular subject matter. [...]

[...] Its purpose is basically a good one. [...]

[...] It is not particularly necessary that Ruburt dig back into the past on purpose to discover those old feelings. [...]

[...] Its one main purpose is simply to allow the personality to operate effectively within its physical environment.

[...] It quickly learns methods for example to utilize such activities for the purposes of the psychological structures that it recognizes and feels responsible for.

[...] Your lawyer wanted to get out of a bad situation in the front apartment, and the increased rent serves his purpose. [...]

[...] Generally speaking, for the purposes of this discussion, there are two kinds of education — one focused toward teaching the child to deal with the natural world, and one focused toward teaching the child how to deal with the cultural world. [...]

[...] Yet in the long run even these become, finally, constructive manipulations whose purposes, perhaps, we did not understand at the time.

There were several such civilizations, some mainly agriculturally oriented, and in those technology was applied, but generally only for that purpose—to increase agricultural yield. [...]

[...] I want you both to discuss together the ideas in the book, and to literally begin a program in which your purpose is to put those ideas to use where you need them. [...]

(Today in our talks Jane and I said a lot of things about our goals, purposes, distractions. [...]

[...] The spontaneous self then becomes defiant, and at times purposely needles the portion of the personality it believes would hold it back.

As you know yourselves, you only accept those suggestions, ideas and hang-ups that suit your purposes at this time. [...]