“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In this book I am purposely trying to lead you into a larger, more expansive way of looking at yourself and the world in which you live.

(11:19.) This provides you with a certain kind of communication, but it also allows a molecular expression that is natural at that level, and then used by you for your own purposes. [...]

[...] They are in fact fascinated by the effects that their thoughts, feelings, and purposes have upon daily events. [...]

[...] There is great flexibility, however, and according to individual purposes many such children will also be acquainted with music of the past. [...]

[...] We want our nation to embark upon programs to cut, and eventually eliminate for all practical purposes, its continually growing dependence upon foreign oil, for we see great risks in an overreliance upon that course of action; we think those hazards should be obvious to everyone since the oil embargo declared against us in 1973 by the countries of the Middle East. [...]

The purpose is, quite simply, being, as opposed to not being. [...]

[...] Either we grow to a new understanding of the meaningfulness of existence, or we lose much of the force and purpose with which our youth automatically endows us.

In its own way, a neighborhood fire serves the same purpose, among others, and so does a local or regional disaster. [...]

A person with several existences stressing intellectual achievement might purposely then decide upon a life in which mental abilities are beyond him, and the emotions allowed a full play that he had denied them “earlier.”

There should be an easy flow and acceptance of such emotions, wherein they come and go; but ego often holds them tightly, for its own purposes, in which case they become imprisoned, and become stronger than they were. [...]

[...] While speaking aloud, she had the parallel thought that Seth felt this material wouldn’t make him very popular in some quarters, among people who might desire to use this material for their own purposes.

[...] It becomes to all intents and purposes a dead end, isolated from the acceptance of the whole ego, and the most advantageous solution here is, of course, that the ego in one manner or another is made to accept this particular portion of its own past.

I am purposefully giving this kind of material this evening, for my own reasons. [...]

[...] In actual practice this takes a supreme development, but even for general purposes the inner self retains a freedom from camouflage perspectives, and is aware in varying degrees of other perspectives, and of its existence outside of them.

[...] It is because Ruburt always felt that aloneness that he has in his own way tried to serve both of your purposes at the same time. [...]

[...] In your physical system the nature of your perceptions limits your idea of reality to some extent, because you purposely decide to focus within a given “locale.” [...]

[...] But because their purpose was so single-minded — the avoidance of violence — rather, say, than the constructive peaceful development of creative potential, their experience was highly one-sided. [...]

[...] [See the appropriate note at 10:34 in the 694th session.] Then, as we ate, Jane had asked me once again if “Unknown” Reality had any organization — or purpose: “Where’s Seth going with it?” I suggested she forget such worries and let the work come out in its own way, explaining that portions of these notes were concerned with recording the circumstances surrounding just that procedure.

Each dream you remember is quite legitimate in the form in which you recall it, for the information has broken down, so to speak, fitting the contours of your own intents and purposes. [...]

[...] We will always be concerned with a discussion of action, even though other subjects are under consideration however, since it is impossible to divide action into various parts even for the purpose of discussion.