“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Man, however, deals with probabilities and with creativity in a unique fashion—a fashion that is made possible because of the far more dependable behavior of the other species.³

3. I think that Seth’s insight here—regarding “the far more dependable behavior of the other species”—is excellent indeed. [...]

You are taught to question your motives, your behavior, your feelings, and everything but your beliefs. [...]

[...] As soon as you buy that you are in trouble, for you will begin to form significances in your behavior to bear out the proposition. [...]

[...] The body has its own patterns of behavior, connected with beliefs; but in this memory pattern there are tracings, and these are beginning to be erased in the order in which the condition was established. [...]

While the condition reigned there was a characteristic overall body position and method of behavior that operated as a whole, and in line with his beliefs. [...]

[...] You do have free will, and in a certain fashion it can be said to be dependent upon the nature of probabilities and the multidimensional behavior of electrons.¹

[...] In fact, the behavior of any object in your universe is “predictable” only because you concentrate upon such a small portion of its reality.² Unpredictability assures uniqueness, and is the opposite of predetermined motion. [...]

People expect conventional behavior, so his spontaneity was then more apparent, and often frowned upon. The conservative behavior that, for example, kept him a virgin into his mid-twenties, was never understood by others—no one, for example, would have thought him at that time a virgin.

[...] What was that but impulsiveness, unthinking behavior? [...]

His behavior, however, led him of course to quite powerful emotional outbursts, which frightened him. [...]

(Today the newspaper carried the story of the violence attending the Democratic presidential convention in Chicago in August, 1968, telling of the many clashes between police and various groups of demonstrators; and a guilty verdict re police behavior was rendered by an investigative commission. [...]

[...] Their energy caused the behavior of the system. [...]

(#12: Is Ruburt at all concerned with the effects of his present behavior on me—my feelings, etc.?)

[...] He looked to your reaction after any spontaneous behavior, and he believed, now, that your reaction was negative.

[...] It learns through experience and through the effects of its behavior. [...]

[...] Often only when you are in dire straits do you open up the doors to this great energy, when it is much too clear that your previous beliefs and behavior have not worked.

[...] Your cultural beliefs predispose you to interpret experience in terms of heredity and environment, however, so that you focus primarily upon them as prime causes of behavior. [...] You do not concentrate upon the exceptions — the children who do not seem to fit the patterns of their families or environments, so of course no attempts are made to view those kinds of unofficial behavior.

You are indeed correct, of course, and you are also dealing with the behavior of cults in both circumstances, each concerned with a closed system of belief, rigid attitudes, intense emotionally-charged states, and also with what amounts to compulsive behavior.

[...] He can then determine to change his behavior while still saving his self-respect.

Do not specifically relate the behavior of the hand with your artistic self or artistic abilities in your suggestions, but in a general manner to the natural health of your being and easy flow of your ideas outward. [...]

“The past in our terms doesn’t cause present behavior, because you can go back now into that past and change it in our present. [...]

As you do, your behavior does change, and Ruburt there (underlined) is not projecting. [...]

[...] I hadn’t thought there was anything left for her to hide from me — but upon reflection I saw that her behavior was quite typical, quite secretive. [...]

As I stated before, Ruburt was not responsible for his mother’s illness, the break-up of her marriage, the deaths of his grandmother and housekeeper (long pause), and had he had brothers or sisters, for example, they would have reacted in their own fashions to Marie’s behavior. [...]

[...] Even in that background and with Marie’s behavior, Ruburt received a grounding in poetry, you see. [...]

This sort of behavior continues of course whether you are waking or sleeping, and is highly involved in the construction of dream images and constructions. [...]

[...] It is the inner self that unfolds those patterns of behavior spoken about in the article you read on infant growth. [...]

[...] Of course I often have such thoughts, and have often been completely baffled by her behavior in this regard; I said I thought the fact that we were busy—even more so than usual—should have nothing to do with holding off on such a need. [...]

[...] This results from both of your attitudes and behavior. [...]

(“The authority of the self has been eroded by religion, science, and psychology itself, so that impulses are equated with anti-social behavior, considered synonymous with it, or with individual expression at the expense of social order.”

[...] On the other hand, he felt that they were beset by errant impulses, extravagant, destructive behavior, the taking of drugs, overindulgence in alcohol, or even by suicidal tendencies.