“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Give us a moment … In the life that you know, as given in Personal Reality, your beliefs act to specify the particular probable events that will become “real.”¹⁰ Because you are a probable self, an understanding of your own nature will show you some of the abilities, not used here, but present, that you can indeed choose to actualize. [...]

10. Much of Personal Reality contains material on beliefs, of course; see chapters 14 and 15, among others. [...]

[...] I do not suggest that you use “higher” or “lower” as directions, because of the interpretations that you may have placed upon them through your beliefs.

[...] You form your home station according to your beliefs. [...]

[...] Again, you interpret animal behavior according to your own beliefs.

[...] At the same time Jane was in pain — natural enough, I said — for according to conventional belief, muscles that hadn’t been used were supposed to hurt. [...]

[...] It is quite safe, therefore, to criticize them in that regard, to see how a story or a painting is constructed—or more importantly, to critically analyze the structure of ideas, themes, or beliefs, that appear behind, say, the poem or the work of fiction.

I am speaking generally here, for remember that your individual beliefs, thoughts, and emotions cause your reality, so no person dies ahead of his or her time. [...]

[...] For Jane the two sets of material-beliefs could be very closely related—seems like this would be almost inevitable.

The church could not trust revelations, lest new orders might come to contradict the old ones, to upset the spiritual status quo, and hence the social organization that developed about it; or that might revive old tenets once a part of Christianity but later dropped—such as a belief in reincarnation.

[...] In other words, I said, we’d been approaching the problem backwards: Jane wasn’t sick so much because of her past as she was because of what we were doing every day in present reality—reinforcing and/or perpetuating the symptoms because they served a number of beliefs about present-day reality. [...]

(So it seems that we do use the symptoms to serve our own ends, according to our current beliefs. [...]

(In a long conversation that Jane and I found hard to follow at times, Carol described how she’d put together elements from various philosophies and belief systems in order to get what she wanted. [...]

In its own way, the James connection happened in the same fashion, for your desires and beliefs go out in all directions in time. [...]

[...] (Pause at 10:15.) You understand, though imperfectly, what happens when you are between beliefs—sure that one is no longer adequate, unable to rely upon it as you once did, but not yet able to fully accept another.

[...] Greater belief and trust in yourselves is necessary, and it is for this reason that you must ruthlessly cut out all other demands. [...]

(Long pause.) Ruburt had a dream with excellent connotations, in which he looked through a beautiful old house of lovely carved wood and spacious rooms, and decided to move into the house, even though it was in an area that had previously nearly been condemned — signifying that he was indeed rising from beliefs that he condemned into a larger, spacious area of expression.

[...] How cruel we could be to ourselves, I thought, and this reminded me of my old questions about why the body consciousness itself didn’t just rebel at times and refuse to let itself be so beaten down by erroneous beliefs. [...]

[...] My idea had been that the cans—getting to them, digging them out—had represented my searching for negative beliefs so I could dispose of them —but Jane said the idea of nourishment was involved. [...]

[...] And our belief in spontaneity and life and vitality has actually helped form this. [...]

[...] But you are beginning, both of you, to change your beliefs and feelings, and that is good. [...]

(Very long pause at 7:50.) So contrary to its own beliefs, and helpless or not, Ruburt was holding his own. [...]

[...] My muscles weren’t magically healing themselves, nor was I undergoing any kind of overall healing that might confound my own beliefs, or those of medical science. [...]

[...] Am I a success or a failure?” But when you do so, you often ask the question through the cast of old conventional beliefs. [...]

[...] One thing became quite clear as we talked: The fund idea abruptly led us into looking at our beliefs and motives and “work” in new ways—a valuable service right there. [...]

[...] The beliefs of the conscious mind, however, set your goals and purposes. [...]