“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause.) It may seem that your religious beliefs have little to do with your health or with your day-to-day experience. [...] Yet no one is free of belief of any kind in that area. Indeed, a belief in atheism is a belief.

Again, while the conscious mind is meant to direct the flow of your experience through your beliefs, and to materialize them, the actual mechanics are taken care of automatically by other portions of the self. You must indeed trust that your new beliefs will work as completely for you as your old ones.

[...] For the same reason, at the end of the session [in Chapter Twelve] we’re including a local resident’s experience with a certain set of beliefs.

[...] Now this is to be a new future, brought on as the result of healthier, wiser beliefs and attitudes. The “future” that he feared, he must understand, no longer exists — for it was composed of beliefs he no longer holds.

[...] He convinced that portion that the old beliefs about good and evil, self-destruction, and the existence of the Catholic devil, were not valid. In the dream he triumphs over those beliefs.

BIOLOGICALLY VALID THOUGHTS, ATTITUDES, AND BELIEFS

— and we will begin Chapter 2, to be titled: “Biologically Valid Thoughts, Attitudes, and Beliefs.”

[...] Your beliefs and Ruburt’s have become so much freer that this is the result. You see an excellent example of a change in belief and resulting reality.

[...] Obviously he is in the middle of a learning adventure, trying to do far more with his ordinary consciousness than most people, and trying to solve his problems and encounter his challenges without relying upon old structures of belief—healthwise not relying upon doctors or dentists. [...]

[...] They will try out the ideas, many of them, to the best of their ability, and learn and gain much, all the time hanging on safely to the banners of conventional beliefs—and Ruburt has allowed himself no such comforts. [...]

[...] At first you encountered a concentration of old beliefs that had already unraveled, causing you to move, yet physically were left to tangle for a while. [...]

[...] I am quite aware that often war seems to be your only practical course, because of the set of beliefs that are, relatively speaking, worldwide. Until you change those beliefs, war will seem to have some practical value — a value which is highly deceptive, and quite false.

[...] Because of his belief in his powerlessness [the fanatic] feels that any means to an end is justified. Behind all this is the belief that spontaneously the ideal will never be achieved, and that, indeed, on his own man is getting worse and worse in every aspect: How can flawed selves ever hope to spontaneously achieve any good?

[...] Fanatics have tunnel vision, so that any beliefs not fitting their purposes are ignored. [...]

[...] I spoke rather thoroughly in my last book (The Nature of the Psyche) about the sexuality of your species, but here I want to mention how some of those sexual beliefs affect your behavior.

Ruburt is finally setting himself free, dispensing with beliefs that he once accepted from the world—beliefs that set up conflicts—and now the unity of his nature is healing him. [...]

By such a belief you so attract probabilities that you actually miss the threats that appear at one level of reality. [...]

[...] The way to help them, however, is to perfect your own craft—your beliefs—so that others can use them also. [...]

[...] The social world of ideas and beliefs represent ways of looking at nature and spirituality.

Give us a moment, then… Imagination also plays an important part in your subjective life, as it gives mobility to your beliefs. It is one of the motivating agencies that helps transform your beliefs into physical experience. [...] In order to dislodge unsuitable beliefs and establish new ones, you must learn to use your imagination to move concepts in and out of your mind. [...]

[...] It’s about imagination and beliefs, I think, and how they interact — only there’s a lot more to it. [...]

[...] The people within that framework will stray only so far from conventional beliefs. [...] The bonding to cultural beliefs of religion (long pause) was very strong to make up for that initial lack. The strength of such binding elements, again, varies through a lifetime, and the binding to the parents’ beliefs of course helps strengthen social structure. In a curious fashion, however, that circle of safety provides each individual with the freedom and curiosity to go ahead and test independent theories and situations—so it also serves the purposes of creativity and knowledge, and even allows for the acquisition of new knowledge that was not in the original belief structures. [...]

[...] At certain points, then, the assimilation of new information is so qualifiedly different from the original belief structure that in order to assimilate it the personality is left for a time between belief systems. [...]

Once those old beliefs are understood for what they are, they will no longer be considered as shameful in themselves, nor humiliating, or as attitudes to be accused of (long pause, one of many), but as a personality’s way of still preserving old beliefs, whatever their nature, for the feeling of safety that they still implied. [...]

The Sinful Self material represents those ideas that were strong element in the original belief structural of a cultural nature, to which Ruburt was “bonded.” [...]

The squatting exercise was difficult for two reasons—one having to do with beliefs, and the second to do with the soreness about the joints. The belief has to do with letting down, of course, and I will have more to say about this. That same belief has to do with sitting on the toilet.

The Christian-Science background with the father was also important, for it was this inner belief of the father that did sustain him, and that inclination of the father and his mother (Mattie) that Ruburt chose in his background to temper his own mother’s beliefs and lead him in our direction. [...]

[...] Several important breakthroughs were made concerning beliefs.

[...] He has done well dealing with body beliefs as he was presented with them in periods of passive relaxation. [...]

You see about you others dealing with life’s challenges, following the old beliefs. They must see that those beliefs do not work for themselves. Ruburt is completely recovering because he has completely changed his beliefs. [...]

These were the methods he took then in line with his beliefs about the world and the nature of the self. He long ago decided to take issue with those beliefs, yet in case they were true, he felt he needed protection. [...]

[...] The search itself would lead to a completely different set of values and a new belief system.

[...] The will’s beliefs, again. [...]

If your conscious beliefs are causing you great distress, countering beneficial beliefs may be received from this source. [...]

[...] It then forms beliefs about reality, and these are used in the dream state as one of the main yardsticks, so to speak, that activate the emergence of certain probable events rather than others.

(9:37.) You use your beliefs like searchlights in the dream state, looking for other events that fit in with your ideas about reality. [...]

[...] Here you are regenerated, and you are quite free of any conscious beliefs. [...]

Your friend then turned to other religions that still stressed the same beliefs, though in a more exotic form. [...] (Dryly:) In the terms of earthly beliefs, there is but one escape from desire.

(My remarks came about in response to Jane’s wondering comments about what, if any, part beliefs could play in one getting so ill at such a young age. [...]

Children are extremely sensitive, of course, to their parents’ feelings and beliefs, particularly since they are dependent upon the parents to meet their needs. [...]

It is possible that such a healing can automatically give the family as a whole a new set of beliefs. [...]

You accept certain ideas and beliefs as a part of your world view, as everyone does. As a youngster, you—and also Ruburt—challenged many of “the world’s” beliefs, and refused to accept them as a part of your personalized world views.

[...] Your world view must include your beliefs about the body and the mind, about religion, history, and philosophy—and you stand as an entity, a psychological entity, in the center of this inner world.

[...] It is rather futile to ever wish that you were both “at one with the world,” or to imagine yourselves following its beliefs blindly, but in blissful ignorance.

(9:40.) Again, what I tell you does often run counter to beliefs deeply ingrained in both of you. [...]

His progress is excellent, for each release signifies in ways literally impossible to explain the disappearance of a small or large “negative” belief. The body does not just randomly mirror beliefs, but literally and quite systematically brings them into flesh. A wrist is not held frozen because of one belief only, but because of a belief that is composed of many small components. [...]

[...] No belief exists apart from the body, but is written therein; so-called good or so-called bad beliefs as well. [...]

To whatever extent, each of you in your way grew up in the belief system of your times. [...] It seems highly impractical in that system of belief to tell an individual that he or she knows the best patterns of behavior to follow, to suggest that each person knows how much sleep he or she needs, or that left alone you will pick a correct diet—a diet geared to you. [...]

I told you when Tam was here (last week) that the books would change the nature of physical reality, and they will—to whatever degree as they alter beliefs and lead others into new experiences. [...]

[...] Your work with beliefs today was most beneficial and so were your evening lists. [...]

Your loving encouragement will help Ruburt change his own beliefs, for you can (underline three times) help him trust his physical body. [...]

[...] But in his scheme of beliefs a cough can be rather easily dispensed with, and he was aware of this.

Much will become clear as the book progresses, but your joint working with beliefs is of great value.

[...] Your abilities would meet some conflict in terms of religious, sexual, and social beliefs. [...] To meet with these, Ruburt for example adopted certain beliefs that at various times would be helpful.

Many of those old beliefs, however, still have an emotional hold, and some helpful beliefs have been overdone, or carried on too long. [...]

There were certain beliefs of yours together, again, that once served a purpose. [...] When you found yourselves able to buy a house, however, both of you experienced some conflict because of those beliefs, held over too long.

[...] The beliefs involved in your case were particularly “tricky,” because they were initially part of your private and joint experience, meant to be helpful. Ruburt did distrust the body because it was female—a belief quite helpful, if distorted, when he was 15 or 16 years old, or even in his 20’s.

—and remember, your beliefs are your beliefs about reality. [...]

[...] Had either of you really examined your conscious beliefs about this place, and put them together, you would have known that for yourselves.

[...] The answer is still your beliefs, and in your joint attitudes.

[...] I’m just saying that so far the beliefs leading to the symptoms have been impregnable.”)

The organization of your feelings, beliefs, and intents directs the focus about which your physical reality is built. [...] If you believe in the sinfulness of the world, for instance, then you will search out from normal sense data those facts that confirm your belief. But beyond that, at other levels you also organize your mental world in such a way that you attract to yourself events that — again — will confirm your beliefs.

(10:05.) The inner mechanics of emotions and beliefs are complicated, but these are individuals who feel that physical life has failed them. [...] They think in black and white, and conflicts between their emotions, and their beliefs about their emotions, lead them to seek some kind of shelter in a rigid belief system that will give them rules to go by. [...]

[...] Man experiences ambitions, desires, likes and dislikes of a highly emotional nature — and at the same time he has intellectual beliefs about himself, his feelings, and the world. [...]

(9:23.) The natural person is to be found, now, not in the past or in the present, but beneath layers and layers of official beliefs, so you are dealing with an archeology of beliefs to find the person who creates beliefs to begin with. [...]

[...] He is managing to disentangle himself from many disadvantageous cultural beliefs — beliefs that both of you for years, like other people, took for granted.

You might combat those beliefs, struggle against them, but they still carried great weight. [...] The entire idea, or fear, that Ruburt had at one time of leading other people down the garden path, was based upon those old beliefs. [...]

[...] He is giving it a different picture of the world, and he is doing that because he has finally changed many of his old beliefs.

[...] The doctor represents newer beliefs, and the spontaneous nature of the self, which can act so much more effectively with those new beliefs.

[...] It was a feared image of himself, wrapped too tightly in the bedding, which represented the restraints of old beliefs. [...]

[...] The cats did not represent your physical cats (Mitzi and Billy Two), but old comfortable beliefs about the nature of the spontaneous self connected with ideas he picked up from his mother, in which cats represented the worst aspects of human behavior and impulses: they fawned upon you, yet were evil, and could turn against you in a moment.

Barriers are broken down, and with them certain beliefs that were based upon them. [...]

As a result, other individually built-up beliefs that depended upon the existence of such opposites also spontaneously break down.

In your present system of beliefs, and with the dubious light in which the unconscious is considered, a fear of the emotions is often generated. [...]

[...] Instead they are a part of those beliefs that caused you to develop your technological, industrial society. [...]