“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Further help is more readily available there (at home) also because of the state of Ruburt’s mind and condition, and the situation is not as impossible as it seems to be—that is, the move is not as unreasonable or arbitrary as it might appear to be. The promptness is of importance, and great help will be available there.

You are otherwise in the middle of a syndrome, which can take considerable time to unravel, and in the home environment this can be achieved quicker than it might appear—that is, this advice is not as arbitrary as it might appear.

—even when your own technological advancements prove beyond doubt that in many cases the evidence of your own outer senses is wrong, and does not represent reality, but represents an arbitrary pattern forced upon reality. Through the outer senses you must always see reality in arbitrary, really unchanging terms; and reality can simply not be held within such boundaries.

The boundaries, limitations, extent and vistas of the self are merely arbitrary. [...]

[...] The closed-in, solitary, isolated self of which you are so proud is, as I have said, an arbitrary formation, containing the core of identity; and you seem to prefer, psychically speaking, to stay at home.

This arbitrary limitation set upon the individual self is put upon it by its reliance upon the outer senses, as a method of perceiving reality. [...]

“Remember that these Inner Senses operate as a whole, working together smoothly, and that to some degree the divisions between them are arbitrary on my part. [...]

[...] But the idea, ego, is in itself an arbitrary unit chosen for particular reasons. [...] You have drawn lines, imaginary lines, and made an arbitrary boundary. [...]

[...] It is arbitrary; that is, from your viewpoint you arbitrarily choose certain portions of reality and call them units, marking them off. [...]

The dimensions of consciousness are not arbitrary. [...]

[...] It has no arbitrary boundaries. [...]

If however we changed our arbitrary boundary points, then the minor selves at either end would now seem to be portions of other selves. [...]

Objects then are really arbitrary designations given to certain arbitrary divisions of atoms and molecules as a whole. [...]

Objects therefore, are arbitrary designations, divisions that you set up. [...]

Your arbitrary decision that consciousness ends with the change of physical properties at the arbitrary point you call death, does not preclude the fact that consciousness does not end here. [...]

[...] You have taken certain arbitrary points of beginning and departure for practical purposes, as for example the birth of a child used to be considered the actual entry of consciousness. [...]

This does not mean that a human being contains no consciousness before the moment, or the arbitrary point of birth. [...]

(The separations are arbitrary on my part, in that I made them only to pick out ordinary words. [...]

(Since the board does not indicate punctuation, it is arbitrary on my part. [...]

If one wanted to outline an event such as our moving from an arbitrary beginning to an arbitrary end, I added, it could be from the time we first looked at Mr. Markle’s house in Sayre, in April 1974, to sometime in the summer of l975, when we think the situation next door will be resolved with the arrival of “new” people. [...]

[...] You must understand, however, that the very terms are arbitrary to a certain extent.

[...] In your terms of course he had a heart and liver, but those terms are still arbitrary.

[...] The lines drawn between the self and what is nonself, between an organism and its environment, are highly arbitrary on your part. [...]

(10:18.) Nevertheless, encounters between you occur frequently—in the dream state as stated, in alterations of your usual focus, and in your arts, where you are less arbitrary in your definitions. [...]

[...] They are as much a part of nature as feelings are, but if you set up an arbitrary division — considering thoughts mental as distinguished from the physical — then your body may give a truer reflection of your being than your thoughts do.

[...] The divisions are arbitrary. [...]

[...] All of these aspects of the self are so intertwined that arbitrary distinctions must be made for you simply to explain them.

We are dealing here principally, and in the main, with the essence of action, and essentially all apparent divisions are arbitrary for the sake of explanation. The moment point is in itself arbitrary, an artificial division. [...]

All divisions are to some extent arbitrary. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Keep in mind that all names are arbitrary, and we use them merely for your convenience, as we use words. [...]

[...] Yet the self limits itself through boundaries that are arbitrary and erected through fear, and also through habit that originally had its source in the necessity for physical survival. [...]

[...] I do not want either of you to become overtired, and I do not want to prolong a session when I have delivered my lecture for the night, simply because of any arbitrary idea of time involved, especially when you can both use the sleep.

[...] Also, the divisions are arbitrary to a large degree, for they can indeed be carried further, for example, to the entity.

[...] There is nothing arbitrary about their boundaries. [...]

[...] The overall emotional coloration and vitality of all of the creatures, say, within any given arbitrary environment is highly complicated, so that there is of course a psychological climate to which you react, as there is a physical one. [...]

[...] He made distinctions that are largely arbitrary. [...]