“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I do not want to rehash his entire early background, but it is important that he become aware of its emotional content. [...]

When memories come concerning his background, then these can be used to provide a necessary feedback system. [...]

(Pause.) With the God of Jane Ruburt beautifully and expertly described his own experiences with beliefs, and at least hinted of his background. [...]

The sportsman that you might have been would have gathered, from that same available background, other attitudes and ideas that would fit in with his concept of himself, and fit his core focus. The (childhood) camping background served as rich source material, to be used in any way you chose. The sportsman, the writer or the artist—any of them would utilize that background differently, but well, and in such a way that it was particularly suited.

He had no sportsman-like background; on the contrary, a lack of ordinary physical orientation and interaction. [...]

[...] Background: Last PM Seth gave a session for me and this dream seems to be in direct response to it. [...]

[...] There are some very important intuitions available to you because of your background if in psy-time you will begin to contemplate what you know of science and where it falls short in answering your questions. Because of your background, you will be able to intuitively pick up answers along those lines where many others cannot. [...]

[...] You are yourself, you have your own background to contend with and so when I tell you you are progressing I mean that wholeheartedly. [...]

You magnify the differences of culture as a background and idea instead of realizing that you are both human beings embarked on a magnificent adventure. [...]

Many of the elements of his religious background have been creatively used and built upon, and this involves the complete transformation of potent, unconscious material, from potentially destructive to creative centers.

[...] Now this is a creative process where the personality uses for its advantage and development those elements in its background that it seems (underlined) could have destroyed it.

[...] Yet all of his religious background gave him an immersion in a strong organized religion. [...]

[...] For example: If you constantly focus on the belief that your early background was damaging and negative, then only such experiences will flow into your present life from the past. [...] This does not mean “lying” to yourself; but if it seems to you that your background held no joys, accomplishments or pleasures, then you are lying to yourself now. [...]

(“The color blue, as a background, I believe.” [...] My thought is that Marjorie wore a print dress with a blue background today, but of course I cannot be sure.

[...] The color blue, as a background, I believe.

[...] My job is to do the backgrounds and to add gray, black and white halftones with the pencils. [...]

[...] But I found it at least roughly reminiscent of Seth’s idea of simultaneous time to watch the color broadcasts from different areas of the world each day, and then to mentally hold all of those actions, especially the backgrounds, in mind at once, visualizing them as simultaneous happenings at different places on the planet.

(Then when we watched the news while eating supper at the coffee table, we soon found the mayhem and related misdeeds recited by the newscasters so depressing that we switched channels to an innocuous Mod Squad show several years old—even though those color backgrounds—Nicaragua, Israel, Russia, etc., were still so fascinating. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You are used to thinking of any bodily commotion as disruptive, and put it in the worst possible light, because your backgrounds have given you little experience in such situations—you, Ruburt, or anyone else, largely in your culture. [...]

Involved with this simple statement, however, as background, all of the material I have given you should be at least somewhat understood, particularly the sessions Ruburt is working with in the late summer of 1980 onward. [...]

[...] I did indeed begin as usual in the Gallagher session, and then I retreated more to the background, so that he could become more familiar with the immediacy involved in going after such data.

[...] Seth gave us this prediction perhaps two years ago.) Unfortunate expectations and various projections operated here however, but the intuitive background was enough to wipe these out within an instant of your first meeting. [...]

[...] By environment I mean those portions of the painting called background. [...]

(Once again, the material in the last delivery was very good, with much intuitive insight as regards character, background, emotion, etc., in painting. [...]

Yet I was not a “born psychic” with a background of paranormal experience. [...]

[...] The people involved didn’t attend the sessions since they lived in other parts of the country, yet they said the advice helped them; information given concerning individual backgrounds was correct. [...]

Rob’s background was different. [...]

[...] Like many others, his religious background held out nonsensical propositions. [...]

Those theories of Darwin, however, formed part of the suggestive background in which you and Ruburt and millions of others matured. [...]

[...] I want you to understand, personally, the importance of such suggestions—particularly when they have authoritative backgrounds. [...]

As long as you felt that unfulfillments were a part of your lot, because of your backgrounds, then this came about as a result of your belief. [...]

[...] Ruburt thought it was natural for him to become ill because of his background, and to overreact for the same reason. [...]

You thought it was natural and inevitable because of your background that you should not have money, even that you should be a loner for the same reason, and deny yourself natural companionship. [...]

[...] Even in the dream state, any present expands into its own version of past and future; so in those terms the dream possesses its own background, its own kind (underlined) of historic past, the moment you construct it.

(Intently:) As certain races possess their own characteristics and shared biological background, and come from the same biological pool, however, so these counterparts come from the same psychic pool, and physically seed the members of the races at any given “time.” [...]

2. For some background information on Seth’s basic units of consciousness (CU’s), cells, probabilities, time structures and other material in connection with his delivery here, I suggest reviewing these sessions in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality: 682–84, 688, and 694.

(After a serious discussion of the search for truth, life after death, religious backgrounds, etc. [...]

I did not like the implications of her background. I am not speaking of a social background, as you should know. I am speaking of a psychic background and environment that were, and are, unhealthy and detrimental, and with which you should not become involved. [...]

There is a child in the background here also, and many situations which mold the child.

[...] There is also a man in the background here, involved with the woman, and a legal paper.

[...] The connection between Leonard working at the school, and Loren—all that was in the background. [...]

With your cultural training and background, however, the feeling itself further alarms you, so that you become highly anxious, and it is that anxiety itself that is the real symptom, say; it is the anxiety you should question. [...]

[...] I wrote them because I’ve been becoming increasingly concerned about the slowness of her progress—or, to put it another way, because I felt that beliefs must still be operating in the background to account for the slowness of her progress. [...]

(Before the session I explained that I didn’t think feelings of hopelessness had much to do with it, since if the background fears were dispensed with the body would automatically right itself, and those feelings would vanish. [...]