The belief is that if you frighten yourself badly enough through imagined projections and imagination, you will be frightened enough to change—but the nation or the individual following that method does not change for the better, but compounds the original condition, concentrates upon it until it looms larger than before. [...]

[...] You do not thoroughly appreciate emotionally your part in the production of our material, or realize that its direction and so forth must be, and is, colored by your own unique characteristics as well as Ruburt’s—and that at certain levels, the Seth material, as it exists, is a product of your lives together. [...]

[...] You felt too sorry for him, and yet angry and embarrassed, and all of that was caused by concentrating upon the problem, projecting it in the future, in the definite belief, for all I have said, that that method of problem-solving works.

[...] Jane had had an emotional reaction, I’d noticed, when she read that line aloud yesterday, and it set me thinking.

[...] To a large degree its own defense mechanisms protect it from the mind’s negative beliefs — at least to a large extent. [...]

[...] Even then, however, the person involved has already begun to question such negative beliefs. [...]

(Pause at 4:35.) At this particular time, it is indeed a good idea for him to imagine himself walking, almost in a detached manner. [...]

The overly conscientious self is also deeply emotional, though in Ruburt it often hides under the guise of intellectualism. In one way the spontaneous self used the church as long as it could, as an outlet for its own rich emotional extension. [...]

[...] The direction of the writing changed, and this further seemed to threaten basic held inner beliefs of the overly conscientious self.

The overly conscientious self is afraid of emotion and display, and hence quite terrified of any ideas of communicating with survival personalities. [...]

[...] Both sides brought to bear emotional issues from the past that served to illustrate or strengthen their own position, so that Ruburt was pulled willy-nilly.

[...] As we will see later, your imaginations can lead you toward some recognition, even toward some emotional comprehension, of this concept. [...]

[...] You have thus far believed that you must train your great imaginations and your intelligences to confine themselves and their activities to the physical world as you have been told it exists. In childhood, before you so leashed your imaginations, however, you each had your own dreams—dreams that awakened you to other portions of your own identities. [...]

[...] Alone, the imagination becomes less imaginative over time.”

WHEN YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE.
THE WORLDS OF IMAGINATION AND REASON, AND THE IMPLIED UNIVERSE

[...] When properly used, the intellect imagines the target and imaginatively then attains it. [...]

[...] When the erroneous belief systems and negativity connected with so-called rational reason apply, then it is as if our person sees the target, but instead of directing his attention to it he concentrates upon all of the different ways that his arrow could go wrong: It could fall to the left or the right, go too far or not far enough, break in the air, fall from his hand, or in multitudinous other ways betray his intent.

[...] They concentrate upon money, so they say, and wait for it in full faith that it will be attracted to them because of their belief and concentration. [...]

[...] It was effortlessly yours at birth, and before, and it carries with it its own emotional and intuitive comprehensions — comprehensions that can indeed support you throughout all of your physical existence. [...]

[...] In that framework you deal with mental patterns, beliefs, and emotions. [...] There, you are so confident of the truth that your beliefs form reality that you need not check the body at every point to see how it is reacting, for you know it will respond as completely to the new suggestions as it did to the old, even though you recognize that practically speaking some time might be involved in Framework 2’s time.

This is a way of encouraging Ruburt’s physical spontaneity, for his emotions and body each together want to move at such times. [...]

The belief that he could not walk properly is the result of all the issues we’ve mentioned. [...]

[...] In that framework the truth is that Ruburt can indeed walk normally now, and that nothing prevents it except for the belief that it is not so. [...]

[...] He fears his spontaneity directed toward you sexually and emotionally would threaten you. [...] You equate emotionalism with your mother. Ruburt equates spontaneity with emotionalism, therefore he imagines that his spontaneity will threaten your art.

(After supper Jane and I went over a long list of reasons—beliefs—she had compiled today about the reasons for her symptoms. [...]

[...] Because of your time concepts and beliefs, the examples from the future even in this exercise will not appear as clearly as those of the past. [...]

[...] The beliefs for a while fell back into invisibility because he wanted them to, of course. [...]

(In his material above, concerning Jane’s search for newer, larger frameworks of belief once she began to dispense with her old “comforting” ideas, Seth very lucidly dealt with certain aspects of the role she’s chosen for this life. However, I want to emphasize here the emotional terms of Jane’s search — and state that at times those qualities have been very difficult for her to contend with. To some degree I’ve been involved in many changes of belief also, but I’m a participator in the development of the Seth Material, not its originator; the pressures and challenges weren’t — aren’t — as demanding. [With a humor born out of many a struggle, however, I note that it isn’t easy to give up certain cherished old beliefs, even when they’re demonstrably wrong, they may fit the personality all too well…. [...]

While that emotionally invisible belief is carried, then anything the self does must be scrutinized, put to the test; in the meantime beliefs that have sustained others are suspended. [...]

In those terms, Ruburt started from scratch as a member of your society who finally threw aside, as you did [Joseph], the current frameworks of belief. For some time he was simply between belief systems, discarding some entirely, accepting portions of others; but mainly he was a pioneer — and this while carrying the largely unrealized, basic belief of society that you cannot trust the self …

[...] Any biological or spiritual advancement that you might imagine will of course not come from any outside agency, but from within the heritage of consciousness made flesh. [...]

[...] The source of its power is so great that its imaginings become worlds, but it is endowed with a creativity of such splendor that it seeks the finest fulfillment, for even the smallest of its thoughts and all of its potentials are directed with a good intent that is literally beyond all imagining.

[...] I admit that it is sometimes inconceivable to me that a human being can imagine his world to be meaningless, for the very existence of one human body speaks of an almost unbelievable molecular and cellular cooperation that could hardly result through the bounty of the most auspicious works of chance.

[...] And your beliefs to the contrary, you have closed your minds to man’s own cooperative nature, to his innate desire for fellowship, his natural bent for taking care of others, and (with elaborate, if gentle emphasis) for altruistic behavior. [...]

In reply to another of my questions, she said her emotional charge was also involved with the death of our cat, Billy One, in February 1979. [...]

[...] Imagine yourself doing so. You may find it of benefit also to imagine a flying dream, or form a dream consciously in which you feel me waiting for you to let go the cares of the day, and ready to help you leave your body.

[...] I wondered why the method used was chosen by Jane, and what was involved emotionally and intellectually. [...]

It is literally impossible for you, and it is a logistic contradiction to imagine, with your physical structures, that any perception can be received unless the perceiver’s own inner situation is altered. [...]

[...] A strong emotional basis did not exist therefore, and under the circumstances the results were surprisingly good, and they will make sense, if not now then later.

This was a great fulfillment on his part, for the inventor did not trust himself to feel much emotion, much less give birth to emotional beings. [...]

[...] In this reality, Richard’s birth represented your father’s final attempt to deal with emotional reality. Both of your parents imbued the third son with the strongest emotional qualities of their natures. [...]

In another system of reality your father was — in fact, still is — a well-known inventor, who never married but used his mechanically creative abilities to the fullest while avoiding emotional commitment. [...]

[...] That probable self, however, dealt with emotional realities that the other avoided, and this was indeed his sole intent.

[...] The left hemisphere, being more analytical and intellectual, would have dreams embodying those qualities; the more creative right hemisphere would have dreams involving symbols, the arts, and the emotions.

[...] First of all, your memories, feelings, and emotions, while connected to the body and while leaving traces, are separate.

[...] Beliefs in what is possible and not possible often dull that facility, however. [...]

[...] The brain has abilities you do not use consciously because your beliefs prevent you from initiating the proper neural habits. [...]

[...] Suffering cannot be dismissed from human experience as a freak matter of distorted emotions or beliefs.

[...] For, again, I must stress the fact that in its way nature makes no such judgments, regardless of the beliefs of your science or religions.

[...] Whatever man’s conscious beliefs, on a biological level his genetic structure is intimately related to the genetic structure of all other species.

[...] They imagine, in fact, every situation that they can involving human experience. [...]

The music represented your main interest then in several lives, but behind this has always been an interest in emotions translated into some kind of creativity such as music or art; but also, at times an oversusceptibility to emotions so that they drove you, and you could find no escape from them. And you would take one emotion and follow it with great obsession until you found where it led. You were not able to separate yourself from your emotions and to some extent you are learning that now. [...]

[...] Pretend with me that, in your terms, we were in another circle and in another star in a past inconceivably distant so that your physical brain cannot imagine it and that together, being nonphysical, we had a great dream. We imagined a physical reality and we imagined this moment and this time and there is no end to this children’s tale. [...] And imagine also, therefore, that within yourselves now are other far more wise selves and that within your eyes are other eyes as old as mine and other selves quite as ancient and quite as new and that these selves, within yourselves, look out at me and wink and in winking know what they know. [...]

[...] These things you take for granted but you form your own image, and you form them in consistent belief with those ideas that you have. [...]

[...] They were, in a strange way, mathematicians and scientists, but in a way that had nothing to do with physical space or physical theories, and they imagined out of their great power, a dimension of reality in which there were trees and fields and physical beings with physical bodies; skies that were blue; water that fell down from the sky. [...]

[...] You cannot imagine it without perception in your terms; and yet consciousness can be vital and alive without your idea of perception. [...]

[...] Jim explained his ideas and emotions concerning the incident, and wanted to know how he could change them.)

[...] At this point of your spiritual progression, you only imagined that you wished him good. [...]

(Jim H.: “In the beginning, before we compounded the frustration and the emotional charges, would you have recommended an action like saying, ‘Come on, this is wrong. [...]

[...] Imagine the emotional reality of each person present, in the time that the photograph was taken. Then try to feel the emotional interactions that existed between the various individuals. [...] Let your mind, after that, follow through by imagining contacts involving family interactions reaching back through time prior to the taking of the photograph. [...]

[...] Your body responds as you think it should, however, and so your conscious beliefs about reality have much to do with those probable experiences that you accept as a part of your intimate living.

[...] Your conscious mind, generally speaking, interprets reality according to your private beliefs and those of your civilization. As long as the civilization maintains certain beliefs, then events must be perceived in a complementary fashion.

[...] The words are perceived consciously, but the concepts run directly counter to many usual beliefs—not just scientific ones, but to the beliefs that underlie the accepted establishment of the world.

(Today I mentioned to Jane that I’d like Seth to discuss any beliefs she might still have that might reinforce feelings that it still wasn’t safe to recover fully. [...]

[...] Physical life is a fantastic event, in which all kinds of preferences, feelings, beliefs, desires, and experiences are possible—within of course the physical level.

[...] You listen to the words and that is all, but the power behind the words, and the power behind the voice, is emotional power and emotional energy and it represents, again, energy that is within each of you and there is no need to be afraid of it. [...] And why should you try to be psychically educated while closing yourself off emotionally from the others who come to class for you all have put up barriers between yourselves. You must learn to recognize and use and pool your emotional energy. [...]

[...] You have various gradations of intellectuals; you have various gradations of those who are willing to express some emotions; you have some of those who are willing to disappear at the drop of a hat, and I am looking at no one in particular. I am the only one who expresses any emotions and I am supposed to be dead. [...]

[...] You are beginning to reach out and accept emotional realities. [...] The concepts are important but the emotional realities are the basis of your existence and you cannot deny them. [...]

Now you are all out of touch with your own emotions. [...]

[...] It must give you a sense of belonging, accomplishment, emotional support, at times exhilaration, be intellectually and emotionally satisfying, give you financial success, and some power in the world.

[...] They represent your own opposing beliefs and feelings. [...]

The greater portion of your nature belongs to the first man, and the second set of characteristics has been overlaid, so that there is a rub between the two systems of belief and feeling.

[...] As in all such happenings, the worst probability is considered imaginatively, and steps taken in the physical world—using much energy and inventiveness—steps that are supposed to prevent this worst probability from occurring. [...]

[...] The physical events I refer to are the encounters with the Gallaghers and Sue Watkins Friday evening—the discussion of philosophy, the sense of conflict and mixed emotions.

[...] The rest of you to varying extents objected, because he portrayed so clearly the darkest of your own fears and imaginings in exaggerated fashion. [...]

To some extent (underlined) now, his beliefs stand for a certain conventionalized view of the world. [...]

Now: Bill Gallagher, with his beliefs about that world, in his mind joined it. [...]