“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The same kind of development can occur in almost any physical category. Usually more than one belief is involved. Parallel with the belief that vision will fail, you may have the before-mentioned belief that hearing will dim, and these two ideas may be reinforced by a belief that age automatically makes you less a person, turning you into an individual who can no longer relate in the daily pattern of environment. The belief, you see, would work to insure the materialization of that state. (Pause.) On the other hand you may believe that wisdom grows with age, that self-understanding brings a peace of mind not earlier known, that the keen mind is actually far better able to assess the environment, and that the physical senses are much more appreciative of all stimuli. And so those conditions will be physically met in your experience. The physical apparatus itself, following your beliefs, will continue in health.

(9:36.) Your conscious mind is meant to assess and evaluate physical reality, and to help you chart your course in the corporeal universe of which you are presently part. Other portions of your being, as mentioned (in the last session, for example), rely upon you to do this. All energy at the inner self’s disposal is then concentrated to bring about the results asked for by the conscious mind.

Your effective power of action follows the lines of your beliefs. To believe in your own weakness is to deny yourself the power of action. To accept uncritically all beliefs that come to you is to open yourself to a barrage of conflicting data at best, in which the clear lines of action and power become blurred. Contradictory demands and assessments are then sent in to the inner self, which by various methods will try to tell you that something is wrong. Beliefs of like nature attract each other, for you are bound to look for consistencies in your behavior and experience.

In your present life the conscious mind assesses physical reality and has behind it all the energy, power and ability of the inner self at its disposal. [...] Its job is to assess that reality effectively, using that fine focus mentioned earlier. [...]

[...] The miraculous constant translation of spirit into flesh is carried on with inexhaustible energy by these inner portions of being, but in all cases the inner self looks to the conscious mind for its assessment of the body’s condition and reality, and forms the image in line with the conscious mind’s beliefs.

[...] This is your conscious assessment of your body’s reality at a given time. [...]

[...] As a general rule, the inner ego depends upon your assessment of physical events. [...] If for some reason or another, through a poor assessment of your reality, you believe that such an act is dangerous, then you will hamper the flow between the desire and the execution. [...]

[...] It knows how to assess the conditions of the world. [...]

(Long pause.) If that assessment correlates with biological ones, you have a good working relationship with the body. [...] When you sense threat or danger for which the body can find no biological correlation, even as through cellular communication it scans the environment physically, then it must rely upon your assessment and react to danger conditions. [...]

[...] So they depend upon your assessment.

[...] It must mirror your own feelings and assessments. [...]

[...] Some has to do with your assessment of your position within the firm, with your assessment of what you would get outside the firm should you leave it.

Some of it has to do with your assessment of your own abilities, and with the growing impatience to use them more fully—and to be well paid for using them. [...]

[...] This simply has to do with translations difficult to assess from my standpoint.

In Dreams (recently) Ruburt tried to assess his psychic experiences, and could not do it. [...]

(11:42.) Ruburt should use Frank’s physical assessment as encouragement, but not be confined by it. [...]

You have been of great help, more now than ever, for he needs your encouraging assessment that he is physically attractive, that he is not alone but has you to discuss these issues with. [...]

[...] Its role is dual, however: It is meant to assess conditions both inside and outside, to handle data that comes from the physical world and from the inner portions of the self. [...]

The conscious mind allows you to look outward into the physical universe, and see the reflection of your spiritual activity, to perceive and assess your individual and joint creations.

[...] Since it is the function of the conscious mind to assess physical experience, it [the inner self] hasn’t been able to do its job properly. [...]

Your conscious mind is meant to give your body an assessment of what I will call cultural conditions, for there are sophistications and specifications that in your terms consciousness alone can assess. [...]

[...] But the body depends on the conscious mind to give it a clear assessment of precise conditions of the space and time it occupies. [...]

[...] If you learn to trust your basic integrity as a person, then you will be able to assess your abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them or underassessing them.

[...] You have every right to question your impulses, to choose among them, to assess them, but you must be aware of them, acknowledge their existence, for they will lead you to your own true nature. [...]

There are people who are highly intellectually proficient, whose reasoning abilities are undisputed, and yet their considerable lack of, say, emotional or spiritual development remains largely invisible as far as your assessments are concerned. [...]

The fact remains that when you assess your fellows, you put a far greater stress upon intellectual achievement than emotional achievement. [...]

[...] The will is meant to assess the conditions into which the organism grows, however—to seek out also the best areas for expansion.

[...] What you think of as your conscious mind is given the task of assessing the “facts” of daily living. [...]

[...] There are periods of new adjustment, and ideally the mind would take a new assessment of events.

[...] It is meant to assess the reality that is unconsciously formed in direct replica of your thoughts and expectations.

[...] If you can take this for granted then you will be much more at peace; and beside that you will most likely be much more correct in your overall assessment.

[...] The books make a psychological impact difficult to describe—one of course that overall presents a kind of multidimensional portrait, highly difficult to assess. [...]

[...] If the ideas in this book were thoroughly understood, then each individual would be able to assess his or her own reality realistically. [...]

[...] In such a way buried issues were forced into the light, feared weaknesses or inadequacies were actively played out where they could be properly addressed, assorted and assessed. [...]

[...] The conscious mind, with its normally considered intellect, is meant to assess the practicality of action within your world. [...]