“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Consciously, however, I knew nothing then about probable realities or the power of belief; I was just acutely aware of the unending differences of opinion between my mother and father, and of my unformed questions about the reasons for their behavior; at the same time I saw them struggling to live like others I knew. [...]

Her own psychology and characteristic methods of behavior are still hers, however, and operate, so that “she” “tunes into” those areas of probabilities that concern her own desires and interests. [...]

(So far man’s behavior has him headed for destruction rather than survival. [...]

It is not a simple question that may be summed up in a statement, such as “attitudes regulate behavior.” [...]

[...] He also said that there were methods “by which the relative behavior and condition of the traveling consciousness is monitored at the other end. [...]

[...] Very briefly, it concerns the behavior of a local psychiatrist and his wife—one of those continuing affairs that have been well known locally for some time, yet never getting into the newspaper.

[...] You must realize that you are judging your behavior by standards that are very high indeed, and that you are in a situation in which, say, all of the facts are not yet in. [...]

[...] After death there is no instant struggle, where birth on your plane involves a pressing, agonizing attempt to get one’s bearings, and learn new patterns of behavior, when there is no time in your sense really to make any mistakes at all. [...]

But in its overzealous behavior we find that it is instead threatening the self. [...]

When it is said that certain characteristics from a past life influence or cause present patterns of behavior, such statements, and I have made some of them, are grossly simplified simply to make certain points clear.

[...] So you are allowing yourself to behave in what you imagine to be a subservient, feminine behavior. [...]

[...] Jane could not see it, and did not ask about its behavior. [...]

[...] Obviously there are reasons for her behavior, and changes also that she can and should make, but I am speaking to you and not to her.

Basically—in your terms now—there is no such thing as an isolated, independent earth stock, in that consciousness did not suddenly erupt from the physical behavior or characteristics of your planet, or in any other.

[...] You are learning that you need not go to extremes, for extremes of behavior will only serve to confuse them further, and also rob you of consistency and peace.

[...] The associative processes of your mind, working through the brain, have great connection with the minute behavior of your cells. [...]

[...] This energy can be translated into knowledge, and when it is translated into knowledge it must also be translated into behavior, then it becomes a psychic adventure. [...]

My out-of-body experiences are not nearly as well directed, deliberate or effective as Seth’s behavior is here, for example. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The particular kind of significance settled upon would act both as a directive for experience and as a method of erecting effective boundaries, within which the selected kind of behavior would continue. [...]

[...] When these become a system of order, however, the original spontaneity is lost, and you project an artificial order that serves to stratify behavior rather than to express it. [...]