“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Initially there would be no outward change of behavior except for a compensatory additional noisiness of faked gaiety and singing. [...] It did not become a normal pattern of behavior, but one that was now and then adopted.

Ruburt became afraid that the thyroid condition would lead into erratic behavior, and after the Florida incident he slammed doors to expression down. [...]

He felt then of course that erratic behavior was out of the question; and closing that door, he also closed the door largely to emotional expression. [...]

[...] Understanding the pattern of behavior should allow Ruburt to take definite steps to alter it. [...]

[...] Many of their health problems will deal with eruptions — interior ulcers, skin eruptions, or in very definite mental and emotional eruptions, and great outbursts of force and temper all the more noticeable because of the usual disciplined patterns of behavior.

Secondary personalities and schizophrenic episodes are also somewhat characteristic — again appearing as sudden explosive behavior when conflicting beliefs are damned up and held back. [...]

[...] Now the behavior of atoms and molecules is involved here, for again these are only present within your universe during certain stages. [...]

Now the same sort of behavior occurs on a deep, basic, secret, and unexplored psychological level. [...]

The same sort of thing used to apply in a different way, but does no longer, when Ruburt would see you frown, for example, and would then ignore an obvious cheerful mood on your part, still interpreting your behavior in the light of the frown.

The reasons behind such behavior are given in the sessions on work. [...]

[...] You own attitude could hardly be better, as far as Ruburt is concerned, since we are not looking for saintly behavior (amused). [...]

[...] He should forget any past behaviors, and start from the present, so that improvements are recognized and not lost in dissatisfaction.

[...] They portray the same compulsive-type behavior that can be seen in many instances in your ordinary experience.

[...] In such cases the behavior is often composed of repetitive action.

[...] (Pause.) Sometimes it seems easier to avoid the frequent readjustments in behavior that self-examination requires. [...]

[...] If you accept the idea that the reasons for your behavior are forever buried in the past of this life, or any other, then you will not be able to alter your experience until you change that belief. [...]

[...] Such revelations result in new patterns that change behavior.

Often you quite consciously decide to bury a thought or an idea that might cause you to alter your behavior, because it does not seem to fit in with limiting ideas that you already hold. [...]

[...] Your dreams and Sue’s allow you, ever so subtly, to change your own views of Ruburt’s behavior. [...] Such dream behavior helps to break the heavy-handed stress of “daily physical evidence.” [...]

[...] There are habitual patterns of behavior that operate, as you more or less stabilize your picture of yourself in relationship with families and friends. [...]

[...] (With gestures, and forcefully.) This is the result of the focusing and yet limiting behavior of the physical brain, for effective survival behavior in your reality depends upon time reactions. [...]

[...] In any case your temporal structure will respond whether or not you are aware of the reasons for such behavior. [...]

You simply are not able to understand the nature of such consciousnesses, and so you interpret their behavior according to your beliefs. This would be sad enough if you did not often use such distorted data to further define the nature of male and female behavior.

[...] Many express a nervous, erratic type of behavior as they are aroused — some not only sexually but intellectually. [...]

You have tried to divide mental and emotional characteristics between the two sexes, forcing a stereotyped behavior. [...]

[...] Because the intellect and the emotions were considered so separately, however, attempts to express intuitive abilities often resulted in, and often do result in, “unreasonable” behavior.

[...] Instead, of course, intellectual and intuitive behavior should be beautifully blended. [...]

[...] So beneath such gatherings there would be hidden dynamics, psychological activities that could explain the behavior of crowds, political parties, and so forth….”

(But individual reactions to a given idea or event can vary tremendously, from the most withdrawn behavior to the most explosive. [...]

This small episode this evening is an excellent example of your joint behavior and beliefs. [...]

The beliefs had built up then to such an extent that highly ritualized behavior was involved. [...]

When you talk about people being insane, and point out the negative aspects of the race, Ruburt becomes highly uncomfortable because to him this means he has to protect himself against them, and justifies his behavior. [...]

If you did not know that Ruburt could indeed manage to dance, though not in the wildest fashion, then you would not believe it when “faced” with the reality of his behavior around the house. [...]

[...] More than this, however, the theory’s vast suggestive nature forms a framework through which people then view the experiences of their lives, and through whose focus the behavior of their own species seems determined. [...]

[...] Sexual, economic, social and even religious behavior became tinged by these concepts. [...]

Your own behavior with your parents, with Ruburt, your attitudes toward your painting and outside jobs, Ruburt’s attitudes toward children, his work and you—all of these were so influenced. [...]

[...] When either of you were offered jobs with advancement, you avoided them like the plague—idiotic behavior in Darwinian and Freudian terms.

[...] (Long pause, eyes closed.) These are not just esoteric statements, but valid clues about the nature of your own behavior, meant to give you a sense of your own freedom, and to emphasize the importance of your choice.

Whenever you try to predict behavior or events, then, you are dealing with probabilities.

However, it seems to you that all action in the past is fixed and done, while behavior in the future alone is open to change — so the word “prediction” assumes future action. [...]

[...] However, when you look “backward” at the planet you actually try to predict past behavior from the standpoint of the present.

It may seem that (underlined) impulsive actions run rampant in society, in cultish behavior, for example, or in the behavior of criminals, or on the part of youth, but such activities show instead the power of impulses denied their natural expression, intensified and focused on the one hand into highly ritualized patterns of behavior, and in other areas denied expression.

[...] Castaneda speaks of what is really exotic behavior from your cultural viewpoint. [...]

[...] The other area involved ligaments and muscles that attached the thighs to the trunk, resulting in the behavior of the knees and legs in general.

What can appear as disquieting, as for example his behavior on occasion at the garageway, is instead the body’s abandonment of past dependable but limited action, and its attempt to initiate new response. [...]

Now only a belief in hostility would justify such behavior. The behavior also says “Look at me. [...]

In your system insanity means uncontrolled behavior largely, so he began putting more and more control upon his physical actions, so that no one could say his work was the result of instability. [...]

The codicils are important because they offer a framework in which hostility is not taken for granted, and in which such behavior is not necessary. [...]

[...] Some of this will go a good way in explaining portions of his behavior. [...]

This explains much of his behavior in terms of spending money at the store, and so forth. [...]

He felt guilty then at asking you to change your mode of behavior, and felt you would construe this to mean he was grasping and wanted all of you and meant to allow you no freedom; which again, was not the case.

[...] If getting sick insured him a certain amount of your affection and notice, brought about gallant behavior, then he was willing to pay the price.

[...] In that regard your society, your civilization, your way of looking at reality—all of these at that level also represent highly conventionalized behavior and learned responses.

[...] While you believe in conventional ideas of cause and effect, and can discover none in a particular instance, then that event can certainly appear meaningless—perhaps cruel, and certainly the result of an accidental behavior in which all good intent has vanished.

[...] Others might say that such behavior is neurotic, but in larger terms such a phrase is meaningless. [...]

There is nothing in man’s nature that makes such behavior essential. [...]