“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] (Quietly:) Your attitudes toward sleep, dreams, or any alterations of consciousness are all colored to some extent then by beliefs concerning good and evil in your Western society. [...]

[...] People with such beliefs will find it most difficult to understand the creativity of their own being. [...]

For all of this, however, inner portions of each individual’s being are not touched by those beliefs. [...]

(9:35.) Because of the energy he is given by others, he will have a certain consciousness of his own, but such a mock devil has no power or reality to those who do not believe in his existence, and who do not give him energy through their belief. He is, in other words, a superlative hallucination As mentioned earlier, those who believe in a hell and assign themselves to it through their belief can indeed experience one, but certainly in nothing like eternal terms. [...]

Now those who have such beliefs actually lack a necessary deep trust in the nature of consciousness, of the soul, and of All That Is. [...]

[...] The ownership of land of itself provided not only built-in social status, but an entire built-in world of privileged beliefs. [...]

[...] Their belief in dreams, love of music and song, even a certain mystical feeling of connection with the land—these elements were allowed the Negroes only because they were not considered fully human. [...]

[...] There have been freer, more exuberant beliefs systems, and there have been more limiting ones, so look at those of your culture as they influence you as simply one of the ever-varying social fabrications by which a man colors his days. [...]

[...] At that point he immediately took it for granted, with a rush of self-disapproval, that this was a sign that he had learned nothing, and that his body was objecting to the whole idea of going out, and therefore challenging him—in other words, that his negative beliefs had risen to challenge new healthier attitudes.

[...] You both took it for granted, however, that despite what it seemed Ruburt might have learned lately, negative beliefs were rising in rebellion, and forcing a crisis that you then had to meet.

[...] If you want challenges, learn to challenge your self-disapproval, and to question those beliefs that you take for granted as truth. [...]

Dictation: Let us go on to discuss the relationship between the inner self, your conscious beliefs, and your most intimate physical creation — your human image.

[...] At the same time, however, you are also frightened of committing yourself to your belief and acting upon it wholeheartedly. You chose to become involved in your circle of acquaintanceships with those who have followed one particular line to the ultimate, where belief disappears like the shifting sand until there is no framework upon which the present personality can stand and until, in desperation, the individual leaves this plane of existence where on another level of reality purposes are then made known. [...]

[...] She remarked upon her own beliefs about teeth—something she’d had no trouble with for many years.)

[...] His condition was caused by a set of beliefs, and so was everything else in your lives. [...]

Luckily, those beliefs allowed the possibility of achievement even if they did also permit experience most dismaying. [...]

[...] They run directly counter to the many beliefs by which the masses live their lives. [...]

[...] The difference between beliefs and feelings caused a lag in the healing process that is just now beginning to accelerate again.

[...] With your great belief in technology, it often seems to many people that television causes violence, for example, or that it causes a love of overmaterialism, or that it causes “loose morals.” [...]

Such events occur as a result of individual beliefs, desires, and intents. [...]

My piece is naturally tailored to my own beliefs and needs, of course, and some of its implications may become clearer to readers as Seth continues with his framework material in Mass Events. [...]

[...] You do not simply change, or enlarge, your ideas or beliefs about the past — but you change the events of the past themselves for yourself, and sometimes for others also.

[...] With the best intentions, her account reflected all the negative beliefs about illness that Jane and I had come to expect in the hospital setting. [...]

[...] Your ideas and beliefs, however, about the nature of reality, and sanity, have resulted in such a schism.

[...] Yet in a way the program reflects certain beliefs of your society in general, and so it is like a specialized mass waking dream — real but not real. [...]

[...] There seems to be only because of the beliefs that cause you to limit perception. Those beliefs, of course, include the experience of time as a steady progression from past to future. [...]

[...] All three are entirely consistent not only with her beliefs and emotions, but with my own. [...] All three poems, then, are of a piece, in which she explores across time and emotion different facets of a common set of beliefs about friendly psychic colleagues and feelings of safety.

To me, Jane’s sensing of those “cousins of consciousness,” those “friendly colleagues,” and her very cautious reactions to her inner knowing, are clear signs of the consistency of her beliefs and her work through the years. [...]

The relationship with Frederick Fell will be a good one, although the present contract reflects the publisher’s caution, as well as the money already received reflects an impulsive belief in Ruburt on the publisher’s part.

[...] It is the subject matter of the book that intrigued both publishers, plus Ruburt’s belief in the book. [...]

(Long pause.) Ruburt felt those issues could not be buried under the rug, but he did not realize the extent to which some of those old beliefs still lingered. [...]

It might be of value to have Ruburt mentally ask the Sinful Self for a few comments on how its beliefs about the female sex were connected with its concepts of sin, and if those attitudes are changing. [...]

[...] The question was really based upon our belief, indeed our certainty, that everything in nature is intentional and useful; therefore dreams must fulfill important roles in peoples’ lives—but how, in ordinary terms? [...]

(“Whatever thoughts, beliefs, opinions, theories, or dogmas you write, engrave, or impress on your subconscious mind... [...]

[...] Realizing this alone, and working with beliefs, helps relieve the condition, and so improvements have shown themselves. [...]

(10:19.) Without this experience of following such a belief in the church so fervently, however, he would not understand the need of people for such beliefs, or be able to reach them as well as he does. His questioning mind was exercised originally as he began to examine religious beliefs. [...]

[...] All the beliefs that had once seemed so legitimate were then seen as hampering, and all their defects became plain. [...]

[...] We think Seth’s comments about our situations can help the reader better understand his or her own beliefs, motives, and desires.

In the meantime, Jane’s making good progress in handling her personal challenges; now her work consists mainly of dissolving the set of protective, symbolic body beliefs that she placed about the use of her great energy.

You shut them off any time they do not conform to current beliefs about the nature of the self, or about reality in general. [...]

Christian theology sees the end of the world in certain terms, with a grand God coming to reward the good and to punish the wicked.⁶ That system of belief allows for no other probability. [...]

[...] Not the destruction alone, but the entire pattern seen through the framework of your beliefs. [...]

[...] We always think that such beliefs, while serving a variety of quite legitimate creative and psychic purposes, are very likely to be more mythic than physically factual. [...]