“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your brother (Loren) represents strong beliefs that you had and identified with, that could have been very limiting. [...]

[...] Yet it is certainly well known that such places are indeed breeders of infection, and of course the belief makes it so. [...]

[...] I’d had them too, but they are much minimized by now for me, and I want her to reach that belief plateau also. [...]

[...] In some areas you still cling to old beliefs, but there is no end to what you can do, still, with growing comprehension. [...]

A person’s private experience happens in the context of his psychological and biological status, and basically cannot be separated from his religious and philosophical beliefs and sentiments, and his cultural environment and political framework —

[...] I am not here condoning suicide, for too often in your society it is the unfortunate result of conflicting beliefs — and yet it is true to say that all deaths are suicide, and all births deliberate on the part of child and parent. [...]

[...] I accepted the vaccines because I yielded (if somewhat reluctantly) to conventional parental and medical pressures, as well as my own beliefs of the time: I was “supposed” to take the inoculations; they would be “good” for me. [...]

If you choose a safe universe then you may indeed find some old habitual ideas, thoughts or beliefs, coming to haunt you. [...]

[...] Beneath it all, however, is the insecurity resulting from passé beliefs in the unsafeness of the universe.

There are variations, and actually James has explained the natural background there, for it is all tied in with religious, psychological, and scientific beliefs.

[...] The change of beliefs and feelings, the acceptance of freedom mentally, will vastly accelerate both of your creative abilities, releasing on both of your parts energy that has been withheld.

[...] I must have gotten to the point where I thought, “Okay, if you’re afraid to trust yourself completely, and your own life, let’s take a taste of what it’s like to have no other place to turn but the world of conventional medicine and beliefs.” [...]

[...] Jane also cried on the waterbed that now “it would be harder to do anything on our own, because we had to deal with the medical establishment too,” as well as our own beliefs. [...]

There may or may not be disorientation on your part, according to your beliefs and development. [...]

[...] Now while I tell this story humorously, you must understand that the man’s belief brought it about, and so to set him free, we worked it through.

[...] That exterior world is thrust outward, however, and projected into reality in line with your conscious desires, beliefs, and intent. [...]

(With amusement:) The wrong kinds of questions are the right ones for you, however, in your civilization and with your beliefs, because you want to stay within that structure to that extent. [...]

Distorted beliefs about sexuality can hold back psychic or spiritual progress, for example, and Seth discusses such issues thoroughly. [...]

At this writing, Seth is nearly halfway through The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, which will show where and how private beliefs become public events. [...]

This is a good place to explain that while Jane was in the hospital neither of us ever made any attempt to “convert” the people there—doctors, nurses, technicians, say—to a belief in the Seth material. [...] We weren’t there to impose our beliefs upon anyone else. We’d made the conscious, joint decision during a time of crisis to seek certain kinds of help from skilled practitioners in the medical field, and we were willing to learn from them, even if those people were pretty certain to have belief systems very different from ours. [...]

(Long pause.) It would seem that infants have no belief systems, and therefore could not be in charge of their own realities in any way. [...]

Ruburt has indeed made excellent strides, of late, in dealing with beliefs, and in switching orientation, so that he is beginning to learn to use the magical approach—which is, again, the natural one. [...]

[...] They have been trapped by the boundaries of what science has so far accepted into its family: an ethnocentrically perfect “set” of beliefs, with metaphysical mysteries denied, avoided, or written out.

[...] This is not always the case, by any means, but when such a person does recover fully, and maintains good health, it is because beliefs, attitudes, and feelings have changed for the better, and because the person “has a heart” again, comma, in other words, because the patient himself has regained the will to live.

The will to live has been subverted by the beliefs and attitudes mentioned earlier.

[...] It is that one area where each of you believed you had no power to change events, and that belief could impede your progress, at least, even when both of you want a change.

[...] His beliefs are such now that the body’s mobilization processes are vastly accelerated.

[...] You create reality according to your beliefs and expectations. Therefore, it behooves you to examine your beliefs and expectations very clearly.

[...] He might at another time appear as a dictator, cruel and overbearing, where he would represent an entirely different framework of feeling and belief He might show himself as a young monarch, signaling a belief that “youth is king.” [...]

[...] The entire drama would involve the “evolution” of an emotion or belief. [...]

[...] You had no belief in the conventional gods, yet you were supposed to be conquering lands in their names. [...]