“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

A comparable attitude as the one you have would run this way: “I am sure I am going to move, but there is no house in front of me to move into, so obviously no such house exists.” The answer is still your beliefs, and in your joint attitudes.

I told you that you would be faced consciously with many attitudes that you had put into the background, when you decided to move, so Ruburt has been meeting some of his own. [...]

[...] A natural-enough resentment comes to the surface at times, natural enough under the circumstances, in which he objects to taking special time out, but largely he is overcoming that attitude and a more pliable attitude toward the body is being set up.

[...] When this happens positive and negative attitudes interflow freely. [...]

[...] Just before the session, Jane said that she thought Seth was “rather cavalier” in his attitude, and that my own wasn’t very good. [...]

Ruburt wondered the other day what my own attitude might be toward the famous disclaimer, and I began to tell him. [...]

I had intended to mention the affair, again, in any case—but once more I am reminded that many facts are self-evident to me, while at your end they are highly questionable—and so your attitudes are bound to be covered in ways that mine are not. [...]

[...] To that extent, then, of course our attitudes would be different. [...]

[...] I am not saying that drugs alone will cause suicide, but that the psychology of drugs already includes an attitude that promotes a Russian-roulette kind of mentality, that can only add to the problem.

In the case of the suicide, however, we see the opposite attitudes at their most drastic. [...]

Those same unfortunate beliefs, feelings, and attitudes are also present to a lesser degree, and in different mixtures, in the cases of life-endangering diseases. [...]

These attitudes are often present in certain cases of cancer, severe heart problems, or other diseases that actually threaten life itself.

Your attitude is also important, of course. It should not involve pity, for this reinforces the symptoms, but should involve a confident assurance, particularly when he is fearful—an encouragement on your part, of constructive activities, a comforting but not overindulgent attitude, you see.

[...] He must work upon his attitude. [...]

Now, for your attitude, my friend.

[...] But the body does not hold a grudge, and so it has begun to respond to Ruburt’s new attitude—and the new attitude allows him to allow the body’s expression.

[...] Such attitudes lead to overcontrol of body or environment—or of other people. [...]

(9:45.) Ruburt’s fears gave him a black-or-white attitude; he must be public or private. [...]

[...] The material led me to suggest some alternatives to our present routine and attitudes; Jane said the suggestions, which were only speculative at this stage, frightened her, but I did not intend this of course. [...]

His attitude is changing, and has been, and with your help it can change for the better. [...]

[...] Your own statement of course was quite true, as to the concentration on negative aspects (since supper time), but both of your attitudes have definitely improved.

[...] If there is any difficulty it simply becomes more noticeable, and can be minimized to a large extent through a different mental attitude—but it does exist.

[...] He then projected many of these attitudes upon you. If he accused himself then he would see accusation in your remarks or attitudes toward him.

He therefore drastically overemphasized your attitudes and moods during your illness. [...]

[...] Later the course was set, and when you withdrew your faulty attitudes, he went on the same course.

When Rebellers was published your attitude was a poor one, but it was drastically received by our friend, who could not understand it and felt then and there that you no longer loved him as you had. [...]

He learned something important, working with his attitudes this weekend in the bathroom, when he realized that he held back his weight when he put his feet on the floor. [...]

He obtained a good sense of physical accomplishment this weekend, in the face of quite negative attitudes that he managed to encounter and deal with well. [...]

[...] In a way, singling out particular attitudes or habits can at times be helpful, for it gives him particular issues to deal with. [...]

[...] The cleavage between discipline and spontaneity had long existed; given the all-or-nothing attitude of the personality, there was bound to be a swing, a complete swing from one to the other until the personality learned to combine the two and become more thoroughly integrated.

Some of the confusion was the result of Ruburt’s attitudes toward spontaneity and discipline, toward the spontaneous and strongly conscientious aspects of his personality.

The erroneous attitudes had much to do with the difficulties. [...]

[...] These erroneous attitudes were built up in this life. [...]

You cannot escape your own attitudes, for they will form the nature of what you see. Quite literally, you see what you want to see, and you see your own thoughts, your own emotional attitudes, materialized in physical form. [...] Negative, distrustful, fearful, or degrading attitudes toward anyone work against the self and against the individuals involved. [...]

[...] It is important that you all realize the ways in which your attitudes and feelings affect others through telepathic workings, and the ways in which the smallest thought affects your own emotions, and the physical condition of your image.

[...] Now many of your own attitudes have changed by now, but initially he used some of your past attitudes as a basis, not realizing that you had changed them. [...]

Now we are dealing with his attitudes and feelings. [...]

[...] These sound like rather harmless attitudes, or normal enough.

He was not aware that your attitude had changed as much as it has.

The basic discontent colored your other attitudes, both toward your environment, your own work, and other people. [...]

This will give you a much more optimistic attitude in general. [...]

A point now that I want you to heed in advance: In the past, because of joint negative attitudes, I have given the reasons for some of these. [...]

Your own attitude was partially set by your father’s innate and quite strong sense of independence. [...]

The desire to write was not conservative, but in many ways his attitude toward it became so. His attitude toward his publisher has largely been the same. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s mental attitude is highly important, and the suggestions you are giving are helping. [...]

[...] For one thing, the dream represented an attitude, of course, that truth was something apart from man, hopefully to be acquired, and definitely involving an ascent.

[...] The creative energy that fashioned the dream was truth—though the questioning kind of attitude you had in the dream of itself would make truth seem always unavailable.

[...] The attitudes still stand to some important degree. [...]

The same issues underlie your own attitudes, the tension between effort and relaxation, discipline and spontaneity has applied, say, in the creative area as far as painting is concerned. [...]

[...] What you have learned seems as nothing, because you forget how your attitudes changed. [...]

[...] That is (pause), it arouses memories from your own most intimate moments in the past, and therefore in its own way records the development of ideas and attitudes that you might otherwise completely overlook. [...]

Your attitudes toward what is possible determines what is possible for you in very definite terms. Your attitudes create possibilities and impossibilities. Your attitude toward money creates your bank account. [...]

[...] Only your own attitude, only any man’s attitude, limits the amount of energy at his command.

[...] It must not be pushed, but with the proper attitudes it can and must participate to some extent in all psychic experiences, if the overall stability is to be maintained.

(With some amusement, emphasis, gestures, loud passages, etc.:) We will begin with a dissertation on your attitudes toward taxes.

[...] It is seen as basically so weak that it requires an artillery of attitudes and a fortress of concepts to protect it. [...]

[...] If others had the same attitudes toward someone in the same kind of difficulty, you would straighten them out at once.

[...] Again, your discussion about the dentist was vital to him, because he finally understood his attitudes—not only in that area but others; and in those areas, no matter what he told himself, he was afraid that the worst was really happening, or would happen.

They can often be recognized as attitudes, however, before they are seen objectively as beliefs. In an unsafe universe as given protection is necessary, and certain attitudes are accepted, coloring many areas of life, spreading out to assure that protection.

Until an individual gains enough confidence in the concept of a safe universe, he or she will hang on to many of those attitudes. [...]

[...] The habit patterns, the attitudes, connected with the unsafe universe persisted, even as Ruburt became aware of the concept. [...]

All of those attitudes provide the strength and mental health that promotes their physical growth and development. [...] Later, conflicting beliefs often smother such earlier attitudes, so that by the time children have grown into adults they actually hold almost an opposite set of hypotheses. [...]

In other words, we will try to instill a somewhat playful attitude, even toward the most severe problems, for the very idea of play encourages the use of the imagination and the creative abilities.

There is an inner logic to your current relationships, attitudes, and experiences. [...] Only in this way, you see, would you be able to relate to the experience of womanhood, and then as a woman face those attitudes that you yourself had against women in the past.

If you had no sympathy for the sick, you may then be born with a serious disease, again now self-chosen, and find yourself encountering those attitudes that once were your own. [...]

[...] This attitude can easily draw poverty to you in the next experience.