“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is indeed quite possible to do so, for you will be working with material with which you are intimately familiar: your own thoughts, emotions, and beliefs.

[...] All of the conflicting beliefs that have been mentioned thus far are the end result of what I have called before the “official line of consciousness.” Certainly people experienced disease long before those conflicting beliefs began — but again, that is because of the part that disease states play in the overall health of individuals and of the world.

(Long pause.) Large numbers of the population do indeed live unsatisfactory lives, with many individuals seeking goals that are nearly unattainable because of the conglomeration of conflicting beliefs that all vie for their attention. [...]

In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect. [...]

In his imagination, let Ruburt feel the sense of joy and release he would feel if he had run down the back stairs easily and joyfully. He need not see himself do so, but feel his emotions as if this had already happened not once but many times.

[...] Now, imagine (underlined) how you will feel when your paintings sell, the joy that they will bring others, the joy that you will feel knowing they are wanted. Imagine what you will do as you sell so many paintings that you need more time to produce them, and how you will then leave your job in order to paint, and the sort of place you will live, and the feeling of contentment and creative challenge that will fill you.

[...] Imagine your paintings in homes, in different environments, with people enjoying them. Imagine what you will do with the money. [...]

Imagine your surprise, delight and gratitude, as if the events had already occurred. [...] Imagine it also in the future, and it will be in the future.

Myths are far more powerful than any facts, and they carry with them the great sway of nature’s own emotional force as it is interpreted through man’s experience. [...] Myths are generally considered to be distorted facts, interpreted by primitive minds, or the result of creative acts of the imagination. [...]

Because of the beliefs of religion, the child expected God to show his power through some disastrous act by which sinners would be punished. That child’s life already carries the marks of her beliefs about religion, God, power, and mainly in the belief that nature is a tool in the God’s hands—to be used against man at any time.

The emotional identification with nature meant that man had a far greater and richer personal emotional reality. [...]

[...] These were what you might call vital, responding personages, born of emotions of creativity. Perhaps you could compare them to the natural psychic or emotional equivalent, the psychological equivalent, of nature’s clouds, sun, storms, or seasons.

He was so direct emotionally that he idealized what he thought of as your relative detachment. [...] At one time he felt his emotional spontaneity was indeed admired by you and encouraged, and he blossomed. [...]

Suggestions can change beliefs, for beliefs are only accepted habitual suggestions. [...]

Now: While Ruburt is not a child he operates emotionally with a child’s simplicity, and is at his best in direct personal encounter with you or with his friends, for example. [...]

He believed that emotional freedom would be construed as chaos, that while you said be spontaneous, you meant “Be spontaneous when it is convenient.” [...]

This is done by combining belief, emotion and imagination, and forming them into a mental picture of the desired physical result. [...]

[...] Usually more than one belief is involved. Parallel with the belief that vision will fail, you may have the before-mentioned belief that hearing will dim, and these two ideas may be reinforced by a belief that age automatically makes you less a person, turning you into an individual who can no longer relate in the daily pattern of environment. The belief, you see, would work to insure the materialization of that state. [...] The physical apparatus itself, following your beliefs, will continue in health.

Quite literally, you live in the body of your beliefs. You perceive through the body of your beliefs. Your beliefs can increase your vision or diminish it. [...]

Your effective power of action follows the lines of your beliefs. [...] To accept uncritically all beliefs that come to you is to open yourself to a barrage of conflicting data at best, in which the clear lines of action and power become blurred. [...] Beliefs of like nature attract each other, for you are bound to look for consistencies in your behavior and experience.

To a child, play and work are often one and the same thing, and parents can utilize imaginative games as a way of reinforcing ideas of health and vitality. When a child is ill-disposed or cranky, or has a headache, or another disorder that does not appear to be serious, parents can utilize this idea: have the child imagine that you are giving it a “better and better pill.” Have the child open its mouth while you place the imaginary pill on its tongue, or have the child imagine picking the pill up and placing it in its mouth. [...]

[...] They imagine themselves to be in all kinds of situations. [...] They try out the roles of other family members, imagine themselves rich and poor, old and young, male and female.

(4:05.) In other cases of a child’s illness, have the child play a healing game, in which he or she playfully imagines being completely healthy again, outdoors and playing; or have the youngster imagine a conversation with a friend, describing the illness as past and gone. [...]

Unfortunately, such a belief is promoted by many religions. Children who want to be good, therefore, can unfortunately strive for poor health, in the belief that it is a sign of God’s attention. [...]

If instead there is a physical event that you strongly desire, then use that energy to imagine its actual occurrence as vividly as you can. [...] Remember, however: If you hold the belief that you are a sickly person, that can hinder you. [In that case, then, to] change that particular kind of belief is your first concern. [...]

[...] In a book we must use words, but such analogies can, if you let them, conjure up within your imagination some feeling of your intimate relationship with all other reality. To some extent, the feeling of grace is your emotional recognition of the necessity, purpose and freedom, the innate appreciation, of your rightness and your place in existence.

[...] Imagine that you have many lives enduring in the same fashion. [...]

Now: Your conscious ideas, expectations and beliefs direct the health and activity of the cells. [...]

[...] Your emotions follow your beliefs. [...]

Because many of his ideas and beliefs were also bound up with you, your work, your ideas and his interpretations of them, then your relationship became entwined. Initially the beliefs were accepted because he had been taught to believe to fear his energy. [...] Now in another kind of life-style, with another kind of personality, the same belief might have been dispensed with easily. [...]

[...] Both papers he has done on beliefs (this week) apply as beliefs—the one involving you, and today’s.

[...] The tooth symptoms however brought up a system of beliefs through his writing, and he faced some of them quite directly in a crisis situation. He saw what could happen when beliefs are allowed to run astray, and he attacked some then quite directly, and won out. [...]

[...] Such beliefs attract their own reality. [...] On basic levels your convictions will be quite similar, but one will see himself as the victim and one as the aggressor — that is, each of you will react differently to the same set of beliefs. [...]

(9:25.) The beliefs of both of you find justification in physical life, and only reinforce themselves. [...] If you think that men are evil, however, you are often not able to examine that as a belief, but take it as a condition of reality.

[...] During your life, any event must come through your creaturehood, with the built-in time recognition that is so largely a part of your neurological structure; so usually there is a lag, a lapse in time, during which your beliefs cause material actualization. [...] You are changing the messages while the body is used to reacting smoothly, unquestioningly, to a certain set of beliefs.

[...] When you alter these conscious beliefs through effort, then a period of time is necessary while the structure learns to adjust to the new preferred situation. If beliefs are changed overnight, comparatively less time is required.

Soon, we will begin to discuss other negative beliefs that cause poor health. For now, however, we will concentrate upon those inbred, positive attitudes, feelings, and beliefs that constantly improve our sense of well-being, strength, and fulfillment.

[...] I imagine I’ll be opening a separate account at the bank for the fund checks. [...]

[...] We will have more to say about such issues later on in the book — for I hope to show you how certain feelings and beliefs do indeed promote health, while others promote an unfortunate extension or exaggeration of perfectly normal bodily processes, or viral activity.

This means, of course, that you do not fall victim to a disease, or catch a virus, but that for one reason or another your own feelings, thoughts, and beliefs lead you to seek bouts of illness. [...]

[...] There were no pure sects even then, and the particular one Nebene followed was a curious mixture of ancient Egyptian beliefs and Hebrew beliefs. [...]

Several times this week, Ruburt imagined the two of you on a trip to Florida, with a trailer by the ocean; both of you working, of course, but quite happily. [...]

[...] On several occasions he simply imagined the two of you in Florida, in the trailer as before, with no thought for how you got there.

[...] He was then free in his second imagining. [...]

[...] Each of your beliefs, therefore, has its own unique origin and feeling patterns, so you must for yourself travel back through your beliefs and your own feelings until intellectually and emotionally you realize your rightness, your completely original existence in time and space as you know it.

Because you have free will you have the responsibility and the gift, the joy and the necessity, of working with your beliefs and of choosing your personal reality as you desire. [...] Each of you must intellectually and emotionally accept it, however.

(Long pause.) With the growth of this particular variety of self-consciousness came the exteriorization, magnification and intensification of definite elements that lie latent in other animals, the individuation of strong emotional activity to a new degree, for example. The emergence of the “pause of reflection” mentioned earlier (in the 635th session in Chapter Eight, for instance) and the blossoming of memory along with the emotional intensification, led to a situation in which members of the new species recalled, in the present, the dead and the diseases that killed them. [...]

[...] Once more, because you are self-conscious beings your beliefs regulate your reality. [...] Your free will allows for the freedom of any belief, including one that says you are unworthy, with no right to your existence.

[...] When he feels he can physically handle guests with some finesse, if not with perfectly normal behavior, you will know that his mental and emotional patterns have changed. You will also know that your emotional and mental attitudes in that regard have changed.

[...] These are not so much bridge beliefs as bridge intents.

[...] I imagine I react to it in somewhat the same way that Jane does to her “responsiveness.”)

[...] There is an overall picture you cannot see, in which you form your lives together, so that at one time you act, for example, as a unit, and on other occasions or times one acts out certain of your joint beliefs, while the other acts out another one.

Remarks: it has been said that when the imagination and the will are in conflict, that the imagination will (amused) always win. [...]

[...] They may state their purpose as often as they wish, and yet their imaginations carry vivid pictures of future deprivation, so it seems in such cases that the will and the imagination are in conflict.

It might be a good idea to examine that statement, for in the truest sense of human motivation, the fact is that despite all appearances to the contrary, the imagination and the will are never in conflict.

However scandalous or unrealistic this proposition sounds, the fact is that people do not “will” a specific outcome of events while their imaginations vividly portray the opposing outcome.

Your imagination works in negative ways. Change it, so that you imagine in a constructive fashion. [...] Whenever you imagine something you want, you always do it with the idea that “I cannot get it!”

[...] Instead, immediately change your imaginative image of yourself. [...] You must first change your image in your imagination and act upon it immediately. [...] You must imagine that within yourself—for this is the truth—there is a stronger and more powerful self, a larger self. [...]

[...] There is nothing stopping you but your own imagination. Change the nature of your imagination. [...]

([Brad:] “Does that mean that solutions should come more from an emotional rather than a rational—?”)

(10:02.) Give us a moment … So-called future developments of your species are now dependent upon your ideas and beliefs. [...] Your emotional intent and your belief will direct the functioning of your cells and (emphatically) bring out in them those properties and inherent abilities that will ensure such a condition. There are groups of people in isolated places who hold such beliefs, and in all such cases the body responds. [...] There is an inexhaustible creativity within the cells themselves, that you are not using as a species because your beliefs lag so far behind your innate biological spirituality and wisdom. [...] However, such techniques will not work in mass terms, or allow you, say, to prolong effective, productive life unless you change your beliefs in other areas also, and learn the inner dynamics of the psyche.

[...] You never imagine the situation being reversed, for example. Few of you ever imagine a conscious reptilian man. [...]

[...] Almost always Jane dictates book material without witnesses other than myself and uses the framework of ESP class for emotional interactions involving herself, Seth, and others. [...]

[...] When your fate seems dependent upon heredity, for example, then the transmission of ideas and beliefs operates; these give signals to the chromosomes. [...]

You perform habitually in certain manners as a result of your beliefs. [...] In a very real manner of speaking, this means changing your viewpoint, that particular perspective with which you view your past and present and imagine your future.

[...] Imagine your future from the power point of the present. [...] Feel and dwell upon the certainty that your emotional, spiritual and psychic abilities are focused through the flesh, and for five minutes only direct all of your attention toward what you want. [...]

[...] Your present beliefs structure the memories which will parade before you now — and what you remember will then seem to justify the beliefs.

I have frequently said that beliefs cause reality, and that no symptom will simply fade away unless the “reason” is ascertained — but such reasons go far beneath your current ideas of cause and effect. [...] Beneath them, the apparent causes of limitations in personal life, there are other far-reaching beliefs, and each individual will use those elements in his private experience to back these up. [...]

[...] since on the other side so to speak there was an incomprehensible frightening chaotic dimension, malevolent, powers beyond our imagining; and that to question the stories was to threaten survival not just personally but to threaten the fabric and organization of reality as we knew it. [...] which meant more than mere ostracism but the complete isolation of a person from those belief systems, with nothing between him or her and those frightening realities.... [...]

[...] Anyway early after we went to bed I realized I was in the middle of an odd nightmarish experience, one terribly vivid emotionally, yet with no real story line. [...]

Your part of the purpose of course was to witness Ruburt’s condition, and therefore give you an emotional realization of the nature of the nature of beliefs as they applied not only to the two of you, but to others. [...]

Some of this has to do with current mass beliefs, based on the idea of the mechanics of the body being more important than the thoughts behind the body’s working. [...] Certainly I have suggested in the past that he go out, but in line with the circumstances at the time, and the condition to which his beliefs had led him.

[...] While the reasons and beliefs as discussed in such sessions will still be valid, the suggestions that I give will be geared toward their application in given circumstances.

[...] Now for a moment, tell him to imagine himself, generally speaking, well. [...]

[...] You have not seriously, with determination, examined those beliefs. [...] Hence, you do not make any simple, joyful remarks, like “The book will be out in England or Germany,” and indeed, you take little pleasure from that, but leap ahead to the imagined threats. [...]

[...] Since he is more emotionally outgoing and literal-minded, he cannot close himself off emotionally in that regard. [...] You use an emotional aloofness with the world, and he has become physically aloof instead.

Intellectually he accepts it, but emotionally he yearns for that direct expression. [...] Words have rhythm—emotional rhythms, to which he is acutely attuned. [...]

[...] They share the belief systems of their times, and they are richly rewarded—generally speaking, now—for there is overall no great conflict between their natural works, their writing, and the world at large.