“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Part of this was a projection of other problems however, rather than specifically your attitude toward the book. Your attitude however was very negative. [...]

[...] She discussed various recent attitudes, ideas and actions, etc., and became somewhat excited talking about them. [...]

The physical condition is the mirror of that attitude. [...] That is, it gives expression to the portion of the self that holds attitudes that are behind the difficulty. [...]

All of the material I have given about attitudes toward revelationary material are important in that context, and please realize that I am categorizing. To that degree and in the light of this discussion, you end up with what I will call —and have in the past called—the overly conscientious self, which attempts to deal with the attitudes of the Sinful Self by checking and double-checking all the time, by being, in other words, overly conscientious: is Ruburt dealing with “the truth,” and so forth? [...]

[...] If you follow it you will be amazed at the difference in your attitude and in your work. It must not be a willy-nilly trial, a one-or-two day affair, but a wholehearted plunge into whatever approach you choose, and you should also follow the suggestions given later concerning time and your attitude. [...]

[...] You capture as much as possible and in whatever way you choose, a careless, childlike, playing attitude.

Your attitude should be, I have the whole afternoon to myself in which to paint, and all the rest of the time I have for creative abilities to bring me inspiration and ideas.

Your attitudes before—and after—our last session, about Ruburt’s condition, can be equated however with precisely such uncreative and cowed frames of mind. To some extent those attitudes have been habitual. Carried to extremes, such a would-be artist or writer would never complete a painting or a book—not because of any lack of ability but because of lack of confidence and poor mental attitudes.

[...] Yet such uncreative attitudes have often, now, hampered you in that direction of Ruburt’s condition, so that you programmed yourselves to expect disappointment.

It is easy for you to say that your parents did not appreciate what they had, that they looked at the “bad” side of things all the time, but not quite so easy to see those same attitudes in yourselves.

When you consistently concentrate upon negative aspects you seek them out from your experience and all the available stimuli, until reality certainly does seem to justify your attitudes. [...]

[...] This may or may not mean leaving the job, but it will mean a new awareness of all the issues involved, and your attitudes. Take your subconscious attitudes seriously. [...]

You, Joseph, are doing well with your pendulum work, and your attitude is good. (Pause.) Let Ruburt follow the program faithfully, yet with a more carefree attitude toward it, with a more relaxed attitude, He should reread the book, yet in his free moments he need not concentrate upon the program. [...]

[...] There were great contrasts in that period, however—deprivation, severest economic conditions, a spareness of attitude, set off by the greatest criminal activity, the wildest of parties. [...] The ideas of thrift and the puritan attitudes were not the result of the Depression, but helped cause it.

[...] The grasping, licentious attitudes connected with world energy are the results of the same attitudes. [...]

[...] Simply that attitude would bring about an improvement. His attitude is often: “Now what in God’s name caused this?”

[...] The attitude should be: “This area is affected, why? [...]

[...] This, combined with your attitude that he take a normal job, almost literally paralyzed him, for your voice was added, in his mind you see, reinforcing the rigid attitude of the overly conscientious self. [...]

Some of the very attitudes considered good by the spontaneous self were diametrically opposed to the ideas of good held by the overly conscientious self. [...]

(After supper we discussed various attitudes about work, art, writing, and other subjects that we’d held over the years. [...]

[...] To some degree, you squeezed your exuberance into a tight fit, and tried to make a creative productivity regulate itself, to fit the industrial time clock: so many hours bringing a feeling of virtue, even if the attitude itself cut down on the exuberance of inspiration.

What attitudes do you have that still linger? [...]

You have used your own abilities, both of you, and done well with them despite your overly protective attitudes toward them, and despite methods you used, Ruburt in particular, to insure their use. [...]

[...] I hadn’t asked the pendulum questions about my attitudes toward teeth and my parents, though I had suspicions as to my beliefs in those areas. [...]

[...] My pendulum confirms my new attitudes. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s fairly guarded attitude toward the working men to some extent impeded the relaxation necessary, so that the condition overall improved in the schedule I gave, without the ensuing eye improvement I mentioned. This is due, however; the relaxed attitude is vital.

[...] He assumes an attitude that he does not feel, because of a particular situation. [...] This attitude is toward other people. [...]

[...] Your own attitudes are more constructive than they have ever been, and you have taken strides in your work. [...]

[...] So some of this disapproval has to do with your own attitudes about the attitudes of others as they view your lives.

[...] I do want to give you some background, however, for some of your attitudes. [...]

[...] This is symbolic of course of your attitudes. [...]

This does not mean that you should begin shoveling walks tomorrow, with your attitude. [...]

[...] His symptoms and attitudes may be clear to you. You compare them against so-called normal behavior and attitudes. [...]

[...] If you do or do not like television programs, it makes little difference, as long as you understand your attitudes.

“It” simply represents certain attitudes and beliefs that you possess, or that Ruburt possesses. [...]

[...] Because of both of your attitudes, you felt that a method should be cautionary. [...]

You have been taught that so many of your attitudes are unconscious, that this prevents you often from consciously putting together a picture of your conscious beliefs. [...]

Carefully—I thought!—I explained that suggestion was very important, and asked the professor to have an objective attitude during the tests. But, as I later discovered through one of his students, his attitude was anything but objective and hardly scientific. [...] Oddly enough, the results weren’t bad at all, but his attitude was so poor that only five girls took part in the experiment. I suggested that he try the experiment too, but he wouldn’t; and his attitude discouraged enough students so that he could say, later, that the low number participating made tests results impossible to evaluate. [...]

[...] The man’s attitude was apparent the minute he came in the door. [...]

[...] The past is being constantly re-created by each individual as attitudes and associations change. [...]

[...] A change of attitude, a new association, or any of innumerable other actions will automatically set up new electromagnetic connections and break others.

[...] Ruburt’s exercises are important because of his intent in doing them; a vital, beneficial change of attitude there, and because of that his body is responding.

He felt that he was at certain times caught between you and Prentice: more worried about dealing with your attitudes toward Prentice than he was about dealing with the situation itself, with Prentice. As he tried to comprehend it, he also felt that certain attitudes of yours toward the marketplace would spill over and threaten the unimpeded clear channel that he felt has been formed to convey his writing to the public realm. [...]

[...] I wanted to know the Sinful Self’s attitudes toward the fact that it had rendered Jane literally helpless as far as her survival was concerned; she couldn’t take care of herself physically without the aid of others, I said, so this obviously implied that the Sinful Self was creating its own demise also. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) He also, as he stated, was afraid that your attitudes would splash over to color your feelings toward future Seth books, and toward your future contribution toward them. [...]