“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It’s easy for me to forget my earlier feelings that Seth should prove himself; easy for me to forget that I, too, insisted on my “wonders,” and on several occasions even denied the evidence of my own senses out of the mistaken belief that I was somehow being more scientific that way. [...]

“You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore it behooves you to examine them carefully. [...]

The whole affair would never have worked unless the belief was there, as you saw for yourself. [...]

[...] All such methods, however, are useless if your beliefs hold you back, and so the main thrust of all of my books is to increase your own areas of thought and speculation.

Do not begin by using your imagination only to solve current problems, for again, you will tie your creativity to them, and hamper it because of your beliefs about what is practical.

History happened in certain definite forms because of a belief in events that did not, in your world of facts, occur. [...]

[...] Individuals within your system have difficulty relating to those with whom they do not have some fairly strong bond, either of common experience, general beliefs, cultural similarities—the list is endless.

[...] But it would be part of our natural way of looking at the world — a way that has been overlaid by our belief in the “rational” way of doing things. [...]

[...] Our beliefs said so. [...]

[...] Logically enough, then, in the dictionary one of the synonyms for hallucination will be a word like “delusion”: a belief not true, a persistent opinion without corresponding physical evidence.

[...] But I’ve reassembled the remainder in the proper order, and it’s more than enough to show how closely such “objective” things as houses can be bound up with beliefs and emotions.

[...] Your cultural beliefs predispose you to interpret experience in terms of heredity and environment, however, so that you focus primarily upon them as prime causes of behavior. [...]

More “evidence” in quotes, of my independent existence will appear in direct proportion to your belief in it, and Ruburt’s. For as you believe in me you allow me to manifest more completely.

[...] Even when I wrote The Seth Material, I didn’t clearly understand why it happened or connect it in any way with my previous life or beliefs. [...]

[...] Regardless of everything that you have been taught, and your own beliefs to the contrary, I still tell you that to mentally minimize a problem is to minimize it—to minimize it in fact. [...]

[...] He evolved through the ages as their beliefs did, and into him they projected those qualities that they could not themselves express.

[...] The creative artist can be in somewhat of a quandary, according to his beliefs, for he wants to preserve the precious moment, the fleeting thought, the daffodils, the perceived insights. [...]

(“Despite the beliefs and teachings of religion and psychology, impulses are biological and psychic directional signals, meant to nudge the individual toward his/her greatest opportunities for expression and development privately—and also to insure the person’s contribution to mass social reality.”

[...] A personality without basic stability would not serve my purposes, and a personality that was too rigid in its beliefs and abilities would not serve my purposes well.

[...] I know indeed that you lean toward a belief in immortality, while at the same time you cannot entirely accept the possibility without some sort of scientific proof.

[...] I can only tell you that I appreciate both your objectivity and your beliefs. [...]

[...] It is also, regardless of current psychological beliefs, the basis for aggression, in general. [...]

[...] Jane and I decided to use his passage, with a note, in the frontmatter of the book, for he stressed that until they’re mentally clear about their beliefs people should continue to see doctors.)