“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In some cases your station of reality automatically transforms them to fit the patterns of your beliefs. [...] Kubler-Ross’s system is still highly tinged by beliefs in the prominent necessity not just in the existence of suffering, but that it must for all of its stress upon hope (long pause) end up to a large degree in stressing certain aspects of suffering and martyrdom. [...]

(One-minute pause at 8:52.) I did want to make some comments about the Sinful Self in general, and how it is perceived and assimilated in say, Castaneda’s work and in the belief structure of Kubler-Ross. [...]

Both represent systems of belief quite different from our own material in many respects. [...]

It is of vital importance, however, for overall clarification that a belief system recognizes itself as such. [...]

[...] Those of the elderly, again, fit in with your social and cultural beliefs, the structure of your family life. [...] There are no inoculations against beliefs, so when young people with such beliefs grow old they become “victims.”²

The beliefs people acquire when young can be changed, of course, and according to Seth (and the ideas Jane and I have also) this process of change would be the best “inoculation” there is against senility. [...] I clearly sensed that it was possible for him to improve his beliefs about life, and that the benefits from such a course of action would be great. [...]

(Pause at 11:01.) Give us a moment… It is fashionable to believe that the animals do not possess imagination, but this is a quite erroneous belief. [...]

The body, responding to his thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, has much more data to deal with, therefore, and must have a clear area in which concise action is possible.

[...] At the same time, such beliefs convince them that the self is evil. These beliefs must be weeded out. [...] The psyche’s organizations are broader, and in their way more rational than most of your conscious beliefs about the self.

[...] Your emotions are generated through your beliefs. They attach themselves so that certain beliefs and emotions seem almost synonymous.

Unfortunately, certain aspects of Christianity were stressed over others, and that dictum was based upon the belief in a wicked self that needed to be disciplined and diverted into constructive activity. The belief in such an unsavory self stops many people from any exploration of the inner self — and, therefore, from any direct experience that will give them counter-evidence. [...]

(10:08.) Sexuality is the only strong area of energy with which some people are connected, so it becomes the focal point for all of their beliefs about the self in general. In doing some of these exercises, you might come across images of masturbation, homosexual or lesbian encounters, or simply old sexual fantasies, and immediately backtrack because your beliefs may tell you that these are evil.

[...] “Seth’s been telling us to be alert for negative Freudian and Darwinian beliefs — and suddenly I’m surrounded by my own. And all of those beliefs stand in the way of trusting my impulses. [...] I’m going to work out those beliefs for myself and for our readers.”)

I am not suggesting that you do not visit doctors under such situations, because the weight of your negative beliefs about your bodies usually makes it too difficult for you to bear such uncertainties alone. Nevertheless, such actions speak only too loudly of your mass beliefs involving the vulnerability of the self and its flesh.

Ruburt has been reading old poetry of his own, and he was appalled to find such beliefs in rather brutal, concentrated form. [...]

[...] There would have been no unofficial roads for Ruburt to follow, to lead him from the official beliefs of his time. [...]

Your civilization has decided upon certain beliefs of a quite contradictory nature, however. [...]

I do not want to go into the complicated reasons why your civilization chose such beliefs, but you are everywhere presented with their effects. [...]

You have often allowed old beliefs to the contrary to inhibit the exercise of your own mental acuity. [...]

[...] Your intent to put these ideas to work builds an inner psychological support, and the more you act upon the beliefs the more that support grows.

[...] And the worries were caused simply by an upcropping of old negative beliefs that came to your attention so that you could be aware of them. [...]

Ruburt’s improvement in a way triggered your hopes, and because of your beliefs of the past also triggered your deep fears. [...]

[...] Do not let the improvements rearouse old fears, but remind yourselves that improvement is natural and spontaneous, and easy in the new system of beliefs. [...]

[...] There will now be a synthesis of dream and waking activity, and a greater physical release, but he must also work through his beliefs on Rich Bed and the material begun today. [...] He must work through the feelings and beliefs and today was an important breakthrough.

[...] But this is leading him toward the beliefs behind the charged repressed aggressiveness, which is highly important.

It is difficult to know where to begin, but we will start with your joint beliefs: (a) that you need solitude a good deal of the day in which to work; (b) your definite belief jointly that this solitude is almost impossible to achieve. Those two beliefs are very important, and put you in a quandary. [...]

[...] I am saying that your experiences led you to certain sets of beliefs. [...] You have gone your own ways, but in some cases you are still hampered by old beliefs. [...]

[...] There is another belief here, then. [...]

[...] Your beliefs make it very difficult for you to achieve your solitude. [...]

Practically speaking, some soreness was to be expected, because of mass and private beliefs about the body. Actually of course the whole thing has to do with the nature of beliefs, not the nature of the muscles, for they will act as you believe they will.

[...] To some extent, with your beliefs, that is true. [...]

GOOD AND EVIL, PERSONAL AND MASS BELIEFS, AND THEIR EFFECT UPON YOUR PRIVATE AND SOCIAL EXPERIENCE

Heading for the chapter: “Good and Evil, Personal and Mass Beliefs, and Their Effect Upon Your Private and Social Experience.” [...]

In this chapter we will deal with some current beliefs involving your most intimate behavior and social connotations.

[...] (Pleased:) I will give you the rest of the evening off, therefore, as we are doing very well indeed, and will get to some beliefs not dealt with, of a social nature.

[...] If there is a large body of beliefs, however, that dampen those bodily purposes, that encourage timidity rather than courage, promote fear rather than faith, then you run into difficulty—particularly if the grounds for those beliefs are not present in any given moment. [...]

[...] On the other hand, when you have them, make a point to recognize that they are the result of cultural beliefs, beliefs that often run counter to the body’s natural knowledge of optimism (pause) and saving inner balance. [...]

Many appearances make those statements look evidential but they are only evidential in that they show the power of beliefs and suggestion. Understanding that, you see, can really give you greater leeway, for while you might still recognize such beliefs in yourself at times, you will also be able to recognize their source—and by doing so automatically confound them. [...]

[...] With the writing I sought to make sense of everything at least intellectually, but for the moment at least, I thought, this left untouched what seemed to be the more powerful emotional tangle of beliefs. [...]

[...] Your beliefs about age, like everything else, will form your experience, and your mass beliefs will affect your civilization. [...]

[...] Now all of this so far is from the standpoint of American and Western belief. [...] In other “underground” systems of belief, however, black is seen as a symbol of great knowledge, power and strength. [...]

[...] Those following mass beliefs will find that their own image of themselves has changed. [...]

It may not seem that there is any connection between that situation and your beliefs involving color, and yet the two are intimately associated.

These beliefs are centered around artists, writers, poets, musicians, actors and actresses, or others who seem unusually gifted in the arts or in various other methods of self-expression. The beliefs lead to the most dire legends, in which the gifted person always pays in one way or another for the valued gifts of self-expression — through disaster, misfortune, or death.

(Long pause.) Epilepsy is a disease often experienced also by people who have strongly conflicting beliefs about the use of power or energy, coupled with a sometimes extraordinary amount of mental and physical energy that demands it be used.

This brings us into a conglomeration of beliefs unfortunately connected with romanticism.

[...] They can and should be reasoned with, even if this means going over counter beliefs time and time again.

[...] The superstitions, horrendous beliefs and so forth, came to him through letters, and through the reading he began after his initial experience. [...]

[...] It is a fact that fears were hidden, that caused body beliefs to operate.

The body beliefs then grew up to answer that need. [...]

[...] That separation was the result of his beliefs. [...]

[...] The idea is to clear the mind as much as possible from beliefs that impede the fine, smooth workings of the life force, and to actively encourage those beliefs and attitudes that promote health and the development of all aspects of healing experience.

(3:35.) These beliefs break down the immunity system, and bring about the symptoms so connected with the disease. [...]

Homosexuals can benefit from the ideas in this book, particularly if small groups get together, examining their own beliefs, and reinforcing their will to live, their right to live, and the basic integrity of their being.

[...] It should be remembered that it is the beliefs and feelings of the patients that largely determine the effectiveness of any medical procedures, techniques, or medications.

Now you have changed many of your beliefs, and partially because of Ruburt’s example. Behind those beliefs was the belief that spontaneity is an indulgence to be controlled, that good things are not spontaneous, but bad things are. [...]

[...] Through their art they see their beliefs and feelings translated into form. On that level they are studying the ways in which beliefs and feelings are translated into living reality. [...]

Some (of Jane’s) beliefs are becoming more visible, so we shall make them even clearer. [...]

[...] Some people have built careers around negative beliefs like that, and Jane and I were wondering how they react after physical death, when they discover that they still live—that they may have spent their professional lives maintaining belief systems which after death they begin to understand are quite wrong. [...] Are those individuals even aware of their earlier beliefs? [...]

[...] Some people, having lived lives believing in one religious system or another, being completely immersed in them, give themselves shock treatments of sorts, then, living lives in which they believe in nothing, or at least freeing themselves from any beliefs—only to discover, of course, that a belief in nothing is the most confining belief of all. [...]

In a way I hope to explain, then, the genetic system also reacts to those beliefs and events that are paramount in any given civilization. Events can trigger genetic activity—not simply through, say, chemical reactions, but through individual and mass beliefs about the safety or lack of it in the world at large.

[...] Man for centuries attached faith, hope, and charity to the beliefs of established religions. [...]

The body beliefs, continuing their materialization, kept him discouraged, and promoted dire images of the future and so forth, that were quite in line with the beliefs involved. [...]

[...] This alone removed some strongly negative body beliefs that had still remained despite his understanding of the reasons behind the symptoms.

(Long pause.) As I mentioned, the beliefs of your society are everywhere embodied in all of its organizations and professions. The give-and-take between any given individual and his or her society therefore are fascinating, as the individual and mass beliefs are reinforced. [...] Really try to see it as a challenge—the daily reinforcement of trust and belief—so that, again, each of you particularly encourage those emotions of hope and optimism that are so important. [...] In a sense you are your own parents as you attempt to bring into physical reality an entirely new body of concepts and beliefs. [...]

[...] I said that I wanted information on the present status and beliefs of her sinful self, for comparison with its earlier stances in life. [...] Actually, I regard the attitudes and beliefs of her sinful self as the key to Jane’s recovery, since better attitudes there will leave her free to automatically restore mobility, both physically and psychologically. [...]

[...] One of Seth’s points was that we’d “taken a crash course” in medical beliefs, or words to that effect, I believe. [...]

[...] How ironic it may turn out to be—that a course we avoided for many years—the medical one—may turn out to be the final push we needed in order to put our beliefs in order.)

[...] To leave the church, say, meant to carry still some of the old beliefs, but without the Band-Aids that earlier offered some protection. [...]

[...] They became strangled by the beliefs of the cultural times. [...]

[...] Now to some extent it was that poor, unhappy Sinful Self, a psychological structure formed by beliefs and feelings, that was also seeking its own redemption, since even it had outgrown the framework that so defined it. [...]

[...] He was still left, however, with the beliefs in the Sinful Self, and carried within him many deep fears that told him that self-expression itself and spontaneity were highly dangerous. [...]