“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Many of the true purposes of dreams¹ have been forgotten, even though those purposes are still being fulfilled. [...]

[...] Following such beliefs, you find yourselves thinking of dreaming as chaotic, unreasonable, and as completely divorced from normal conscious direction, purpose, or function. [...]

[...] Their rather bizarre nature, however, throws a giant spotlight upon intents, purposes, and cross-purposes, that too often appear in the lives of quite normal men and women.

[...] You may then purposefully (leaning forward, quietly emphatic but with some amusement) put yourself in a position of weakness, while all of the time claiming that you seek influence. [...]

In this book, therefore, we will devote ourselves to ways of promoting health, and we will purposely avoid the specific naming of “dis-eases”. [...]

Your own knowledge, desire, purpose and intent tuned you into some such communications, so your concern for Joe Bumbalo (our next-door neighbor on Pinnacle Road) tuned you into his physical and emotional state at that time.

(Long pause.) Your purposes meant that you required a certain amount of isolation from the world—so any handicap that was accepted would also be one that fit into those other purposes. [...]

[...] I reminded her of the stories one hears about the chronically ill, who run from doctor to doctor with no intention of getting well, because their illness serves purposes in the present. [...]

[...] This was not because you were afraid of life (as I often wondered when I was younger), but because your purposes and intents were different. [...]

[...] When your parents were alive, their problems could be used somewhat in a second-handed fashion for the same purposes. [...]

[...] What purposes are Ruburt’s symptoms serving for you? In other words, what joint purpose are those symptoms serving?

[...] The purpose, a good one, was to protect and develop them in the circumstances in which Ruburt found himself, and in line with his other ideas about the nature of reality.

Those purposes involve each of you and your work, and those methods that you think are necessary to direct your energies “properly,” husband your energy, and protect you from what you think of as a hostile world. [...]

[...] It is to show you that you have a private and a joint reality, and that your purposes merge, and so do your beliefs.

To him Dialogues served at least to initiate those purposes. [...] In many ways then the book represents for him a triumph, and serves as a memento of your joint purposes.

Many have seen that inner world as the source for the physical one, but imagined that man’s purpose was merely to construct physically these perfect images to the best of his abilities. [...]

[...] They may appear throughout your lifetime as recurring dreams of a certain nature — dreams of illumination; and even if you do not remember them you will awaken with your purposes strengthened and suddenly clear.

“Obviously, Seth’s purpose is to explain what he can within the framework of that language, rather than to change the language itself — as would be necessary, for example, to escape its often prejudiced nature. [...]

That’s the purpose as clear as any I have.

[...] This should also involve a vast improvement of the eyes for all practical purposes. [...]

[...] In its own fashion the poem states Ruburt’s purpose—the purpose that was his, and always will be—but here the physical and spiritual are reunited, and each is strengthened and aroused. [...]

[...] If you believe you are sick then for all intents and purposes you are sick. [...]

[...] In such a case belief would also be involved: Such a person would have to believe that an unhealthy condition was the best way to serve another purpose.

[...] Because of its importance at your particular stage it is an excellent method for our purposes. [...]

[...] I do not see any particular purpose in giving these to you now, but at some time I will do so. [...]

[...] When you discover that their “logic” in quotes is far more effective and meaningful, and purposeful, your attitude will change.

Now when I speak to you as I have this evening, my purpose, my one and main purpose, is to let you sense the endless vitality that is mine, though you, in conventional terms, would designate me by some ridiculous word—survival personality, as Ruburt says, or “spirit” or “dead.” [...]

[...] And it is your purpose to utilize and direct and focus your own energy. [...]

[...] The surroundings also served other purposes. [...]

[...] The old body beliefs were adopted to serve the purposes of other beliefs about work that have now almost, but not entirely, completely dissolved. [...]

[...] He purposely chose shoes that did not fit, in line with his past belief that he should not be physically active. [...]

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

[...] use or purpose independent of words; though the words are definitely meaningful.)

You, in your dreams, have many, many purposes. [...]

Now the sounds and the chanting of the Sumari as you presently understand it, has many purpose. [...]

(11:00.) You say that the books are Ruburt’s, yet I told you that you are also responsible, for your combined intents, purposes, and abilities combine to form “a super intent, a super purpose, a super ability,” and propel you into those heroic dimensions. [...]

Ruburt is acutely sensitive then to your own inner purposes and questions about the universe, as you are to his, and these propel you jointly into areas most difficult to travel otherwise.

The purpose of this book is to introduce you to Seth and the Seth Material. [...] Seth certainly hasn’t “stolen” any of my own creative energy for his own purposes.

[...] It served to introduce the students to Seth, and I will let a few excerpts from it serve the same purpose now, introducing Seth to those readers who have not heard of him:

[...] I came for one purpose this evening: so that you could sense my vitality, and sensing it, know that I speak to you from dimensions beyond those with which you are acquainted. [...]

For out of a seemingly endless number of possibilities, our individual dreamer actually discriminates with great care, choosing only those dream objects or symbols that have meaning to him; and those dream objects that can best serve his purposes. [...]

[...] If a dream object or event does so straddle what you call not only time but space, and if as I say dream objects and creations maintain some independence from the dreamer, then you must see that although the dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him, he nevertheless projects them outward in a value fulfillment and psychic expansion.

[...] For the dreamer a contraction occurs as he is finished with the events or drama for his own purposes, but energy cannot be taken back.

[...] But even though it has served his purposes and he contracts, the expansion and projection of energy has taken place and he cannot call it back. [...]

[...] Ruburt saw today that the intellectual portions of the self, and even the literal-mindedness, served an excellent purpose in allowing him to objectify highly intuitive material, and to give it actuality in the world that you know. [...]

You would be grateful then when Ruburt did originate such a crisis, simply because the pressure behind the repressed feelings was more painful then, so that it was defeating its own purpose. [...]

[...] This has led you to develop psychic abilities for creative purposes—that you would not have needed nor sought otherwise.

[...] I did not want to leave you with the impression that these basic tendencies of yours and Ruburt’s were negative, for they have and will serve good purposes. [...]