“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You may think longingly and with an almost hopeful nostalgia of the religion of your childhood, and remember a system of belief that ensured you of immortality. [...]

[...] You were sustained by the belief in projected abilities — that is, you took it for granted that you were in the process of learning and growing. [...]

And Bill Baker has benefited from reading the Seth material, I said, since now he reasons that some of his ideas are “core beliefs” that he’s created—and so can change. [...]

[...] Often such people are highly creative, with good reserves of energy, but caught between highly contrasting beliefs, either of good and evil, or power and weakness. [...]

[...] Usually, such an idealized inner self comes from the acceptance of highly distorted beliefs—again, concerning good and evil. [...]

[...] The belief in these highly contrasting elements of personality keep him in a state of turmoil, however, so that he feels powerless to act in any concerted fashion.

They have to do with communication, and with your individual and joint ideas of how feelings are to be communicated, and above all about your beliefs as to which feelings are to be communicated.

After Saturday both of you became frightened again, and your joint beliefs and habits of pessimism to some extent at least meant that you began to doubt the gains that had been made. [...]

[...] They invest time and enthusiasm—and that kind of grassroot development is in the long run more apt to change the beliefs of a society than any authoritative dictums from the specialists, whatever their field. [...]

[...] He would meet honor, belief, respect, disbelief, anger, love—and some scorn. [...]

[...] Those matters certainly seem pertinent in the framework of your experience and beliefs. [...]

[...] The answers will be couched in a framework of beliefs that you have held individually and collectively for some time. [...]

[...] In your system of beliefs, however, it is often identified as feminine, along with the artistic productions that emerge from its creativity. [...]

For that matter, there is far greater leeway in the behavior of animals than you understand, for you interpret animal behavior according to your own beliefs. [...]

[...] It would be hardly a coincidence, I added, that the mass events at Jonestown and Three Mile Island took place within less than six months of each other, and that they represented the two poles, or extremes, of mankind’s present main belief systems: religion and science.

[...] 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 people’s lives — but how, in ordinary terms? [...]

Now all of this was built upon certain levels of consciousness and beliefs—a unifying structure. [...]

[...] Remind him of the ways he has used his body well, and help him change his beliefs about it. [...]

[...] These ideas merge with conventional beliefs about age, so that it seems you must take stock. But when you take stock with the feelings we are describing as the emotional yardsticks, those feelings consider valid only the beliefs that go along with them—a traditional male role: the accumulation of money through traditional means—and they discount as legitimate the accumulation of knowledge or wisdom as a pursuit of life. [...]

Of course, you rebelled against such feelings and beliefs, but you did not rid yourself of them. [...]

People may have some glimmerings of their own reincarnational existences, but they are patterned according to current beliefs—fleshed out by ideas from movies or history books. [...]

In the face of the belief that the painting or the book would be miserable if produced, each good sentence or artistic stroke would be the opportunity not for rejoicing but for dismay: “Aha, what a fine stroke to be wasted, for the painting will surely go astray.” [...]

[...] All of your institutions, beliefs, and activities seem to justify your picture, because everything within the overall “frame” will of course seem to agree.

So, from other streams of actuality you choose those events that you want physically materialized; and you do this according to your beliefs about the nature of reality. [...]

On the other hand, the decision to have the interview (for the Village Voice), to take up with Eleanor, and so forth—these events catapult old beliefs to the forefront of Ruburt’s mind—an excellent reaction, by the way—for when those beliefs are voiced and discussed then they can be understood and eventually dismissed.

(Long pause.) He was reactivating old beliefs with their physical representation in the body. [...]

[...] The individual would be called ill for thinking the world was against him, but the organization’s similar beliefs would be more unthinkingly accepted because of its sheer size and power in the society.

[...] You could not have made the same points to yourself as well had the image been male, because of the beliefs that are ingrained in you. [...]

Two men for example, of precisely the same physical age, of precisely the same physical condition, will be in completely different states of mind, of competence, of effectiveness and of strength, as a direct result of their inner beliefs as to their relative freedom within the framework of the physical system in which they exist.

[...] And the action, or actions involved in this belief will therefore act upon the physical cells of his body with vengeful force, because he has himself directed them to do so.

[...] While you believe, however, that energy is limited then you are gluttonous for using it at the expense of poorer nations—who will then, sharing the same belief, retaliate. [...]

[...] You cannot separate your beliefs in one area from those in another, for they are so beautifully connected. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) They provide the power that allows you to form a belief system to begin with.

This further unites all species in a cooperative venture that has remained largely invisible because of beliefs projected outward upon the world by both your sciences and religions, generally speaking. [...]

(9:55.) Some people looked, and are looking, for some authority — any authority — to make their decisions for them, for the world seems increasingly dangerous, and they, because of their beliefs, feel increasingly powerless. [...]

Those people look to cults of various kinds, where decisions are made for them, where they are relieved of the burden of an individuality that has been robbed of its sense of power by conflicting beliefs. [...]

[...] It would hardly be a coincidence, I added, that the mass events at Jonestown and Three Mile Island took place within less than six months of each other, and that they represented the two poles, or extremes, of mankind’s present main belief systems: religion and science.