“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Imagination helped because an individual could anticipate the behavior of other creatures.

Being shorter also would bring about physical alterations that would themselves protect against instinct or animal behavior. [...]

Your behavior last night was most helpful.

[...] We haven’t seen the kind of physical response we want yet, and I wanted to know if our efforts were prompting the Sinful Self to step up its own protective behavior to keep Jane “under control.” [...]

[...] He could not differentiate, and feared his spontaneous self the more, and he saw you fear your parents’ behavior.

[...] And until you divest yourself of such psychological behavior, it will always seem to you that good and evil are opposites, and you will treat them as such in your feelings and in your concepts and in your myths. [...]

[...] Christ then changed his mode of behavior, appearing quite often in out-of-body states to his followers. [...]

[...] Their behavior follows laws, and their activities, that you do not understand, though you call your thoughts your own. [...]

[...] Your own behavior, customs, sciences, arts, and disciplines are in a way uniquely yours, yet they also provide glimpses into the ways in which various groupings of abilities can be used to probe into the “unknown” reality.

[...] Dreaming then provides the species with learning experience not otherwise available, in which behavior and events can be judged against more developed and higher understanding than that present in conventional daily reality at any level.

[...] He refrained from heavy sexual encounters—certainly not the behavior of a sexually impulsive person. [...]

[...] When it was slain it gained freedom, for the negative elements were released from their compulsions, and the ritualized behavior that was symbolized by the formal clothing of your dream.

All of this reminds me that lately the media have carried a number of stories detailing how medical science is not only trying hard to approach cures for scourges like cancer (in cancer’s case, possibly through the exploration and understanding of the role played in the cell nucleus by altered normal cells called oncogenes), but is already claiming to have narrowed down its search to specific genes that affect imponderables like behavior—depression, for example. Not only that, sociobiologists are advancing their very controversial ideas that much of human behavior has an ultimate genetic basis, which in turn influences cultural change, and so on.

[...] By contrast, there’s plenty of material in the reincarnational literature on the generalized patterns of sexual behavior, from promiscuity to repression. [...]

[...] You said that Benny Hill (the English comedian) advertises his beliefs in his program, and in the same way your notes in our books advertise your own beliefs, and provide an example of a creative and also reasonable framework in which to interpret psychic behavior. [...]

[...] Here the belief systems are different than those of society to such a degree that obvious effects show in terms of behavior. [...]

[...] It seems highly impractical in that system of belief to tell an individual that he or she knows the best patterns of behavior to follow, to suggest that each person knows how much sleep he or she needs, or that left alone you will pick a correct diet—a diet geared to you. [...]

[...] Look back toward the impulsive behavior of your childhood, toward those activities that mostly pleased you.

So as your beliefs change there will be alterations in your experience and behavior, and points of stress, creative stress, while you are learning. [...]

[...] A true healing, or health profession, would deal intimately with the powers of the psyche in healing the body, and with the interrelationship among the desires, beliefs, and activities of the conscious mind and its effects upon the cellular behavior.

[...] A variety of reasons exist for such behavior. [...]