“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] These negative beliefs are the ones we are trying to combat in our own work. They are the beliefs you are trying to combat as well. Therefore, do not be angry with yourself, when you fall susceptible to beliefs that are so paramount in your world. [...]

[...] There is no need here to again outline the barrage of negative cultural beliefs with which indeed your civilization has an overabundance. [...]

You can learn much about your own body consciousness, and therefore to some extent about the natural man, by observing the behavior of your pets or other animals, and you can to some extent learn from their behavior, and therefore to some extent counteract any susceptibility to negative beliefs. [...]

In news watching—which does satisfy a natural need—you also run into a barrage of cultural beliefs and attitudes that are secondary. [...]

[...] The mechanisms operate in such a fashion that by now overall belief has come to such a point that the same results would almost be effected if an inoculation of no particular value were given instead. The mind is as effective against viruses as anything else—and in such hypothetical cases immune reactions would be set up biologically, through the mind’s beliefs.

[...] You do not assign beliefs to animals. It seems inconceivable to grant to them anything approaching opinion or belief. [...]

[...] Some of this is most difficult to explain in any terms that will make sense, because the entire belief system of your times bears physical evidence of course, that such inoculations work.

The belief has been in the miraculous quality of science, under whose banner such inoculations began. [...]

[...] The new beliefs are becoming strong enough, consistently enough, so that they begin to supersede the old ones for sufficient periods of time so that improvements can occur.

As the new beliefs take over, however, he is then stimulated to use techniques that he tried to use before on occasion, but did not consistently keep up. [...]

[...] He only has to be reasonably proficient in altering his beliefs. [...]

The child at such a time for one thing is not in the situation to do conflict with belief systems—it is too young and dependent. The belief systems can be like blocks, which are used and then later changed or replaced, but there is a kind of (underlined) bonding of the childhood self with those ideas it takes from its parents. [...]

[...] The child or infant is highly suggestible to parental belief systems, so that it can early be provided with a conceptual framework that is complementary to its surroundings, to the group or environment. [...]

[...] And shrug aside many early beliefs. [...]

[...] When Ruburt left that system intellectually some of the old bonding power remained, the emotional glue, but he no longer believed in the indulgences, the sacraments and so forth, so the Sinful Self was left fairly isolated, still believing to some extent that to “be good” it must be bad, but without the releases of guilt once provided by churchly help and belief. [...]

[...] You are doing very well, and your own beliefs are changing, Joseph, perhaps in greater fashion than you realize. [...] Yes, beliefs could save the rest of them—but both of your interpretations about teeth at this point hold you back. [...]

Illness is a face-saving device, socially, often occurring where private beliefs and feelings find irritation with mass beliefs. [...]

[...] He tried to wipe God’s hands clean, as he understood the nature of God through his early beliefs—but in so doing he wiped the soul from the face of nature. [...]

[...] Each person interpreted those beliefs in an individual fashion. [...]

[...] Many individuals cannot unify the various areas of their belief and feeling, and at Christmas they partially recognize the vast gulf that exists between their scientific beliefs and their religious beliefs. [...]

Your private beliefs merge with those of others, and form your cultural reality. [...] They are the result of your mass beliefs — isolated in the form of separate disciplines. Medical men, for example, are often extremely unhealthy because they are so saddled with those specific health beliefs that their attention is concentrated in that area more than others not so involved. [...]

The physician is also a private person, so I speak of him only in his professional capacity, for he usually does the best he can in the belief system that he shares with his fellows. Those beliefs do not exist alone, but are of course intertwined with religious and scientific ones, as separate as they might appear. [...]

The physician is also caught between his religious beliefs and his scientific beliefs. [...]

[...] Prentice-Hall is, of course, well-intentioned, and under their belief system it is nearly sacrilegious to be anything more than officially disapproving of medical matters. [...] To attack medical corruption, or medical errors, or particular clinics, for example, is within bounds, but to attack the belief system of the entire structure is something else again.

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[...] Again, the material is indeed dealing with a far more valid explanation for the working ways of reality than the old official beliefs — and again, we are not just (underlined) dealing with evocative, creative hypotheses.

[...] The implications are there, but your belief systems must be allowed to mellow and change in the light of new knowledge, rather than to be booted aside with an angry foot.

[...] (Pause.) Since your conscious beliefs determine those unconscious functions that bring about your personal experience, your first step is to enlarge those beliefs.

[...] Your experience is the result of beliefs. [...] Alter the beliefs and any probable self can, within certain limitations, be actualized.

(9:20.) Ruburt, however, objects, and that Ruburt represents the portion of the personality who is still clinging to old beliefs, but losing its leadership. The group of beliefs are breaking up, and can no longer count upon such blind obedience. [...]

[...] It stored old beliefs. [...]

His other dreams, of the walking series (pause), are giving him practical physical education, for the muscles remember their proper motions, and these dreams help counteract his waking belief that it is difficult to walk. [...]

Such behavior, of course, operates in any condition, from the overweight person to the alcoholic, for each individual forms his own reality, and yet does so unconsciously knowing the needs and beliefs of others.

Your own value system then is built up of your beliefs about reality, and those beliefs form your experience. [...]

[...] We think it of interest to include Seth’s letter in his book, since it stresses the importance of beliefs.)

Now let us return to Augustus; for here we find again in one individual an excellent example of the way in which seemingly nonphysical thoughts and beliefs can affect and alter the corporeal image. [...]

In his normal state he accepted only the beliefs he considered were expected of him. [...]

[...] I have explained the great correlation that exists between your feelings and beliefs and physical conditions such as weather. [...] It is also the result of your feelings and beliefs on a different level, and while it is not perceivable in physical terms — laid out with its mountains and continents as your planet is, to be examined by your instruments — it exists in terms quite as valid.

[...] As you create and experience your daily life through your personal feelings and beliefs, so the same applies to dream reality.

[...] As I mentioned earlier (in the 652nd session in Chapter Thirteen, for instance), the division is largely the result of your mass and private beliefs in the nature of reality, and in the habits the race has acquired of separating “objective” data from subjective.

[...] Your societies, governments, educational systems, are all built around a firm belief in the unreliability of human nature. [...] You act in accordance with your own beliefs. [...] Your individual beliefs become the beliefs of your society, but that is always a give-and-take.

[...] He’s given all he can — or wants to — on the negative beliefs we hold as individuals and societies; he wants to start his next book [my emphasis] on how to positively work our way out of our challenges and create a much better world…. [...]

So, dear reader, look at the law as it stands in this country with somewhat more kindly eyes than you have before — for it at least legally establishes a belief in your innocence, and for all of its failings, it protects you from the far more fanatical aspects, say, of any religion’s laws.

[...] That belief will always bring the best possible developments from Framework 2. Ruburt should concentrate on his creative work. You should both help reinforce each other’s beliefs, in the actuality of Framework 2, and in the safety in which your existence is couched. [...]

The beliefs behind the entire affair were far more mundane, and his knowledge and yours has kept away many problems that might otherwise have occurred.

[...] His beliefs were not of the best at all, as far as physically getting to the office. [...]

Paul’s activities over the weekend, yours, the time of your call, the fact that he did have the time today, when ordinarily he would not—all of these issues were juggled in Framework 2, to give you, now, the best possible solution, given the conditions in Framework 1, with the desires and beliefs involved.

Fanatics certainly serve a purpose, and actually they help maintain overall equilibrium of society by serving as examples to others, who often have some of the same beliefs but are of a less explosive nature.

By going to extremes fanatics point out to others the virtue of more moderate ways, and their actions actually make others with the same kind of persuasion evaluate their own beliefs. [...]

[...] He does not allow the development of his concepts or beliefs, for example. [...]

[...] They serve as focus points for others who have the same ideas but are afraid to really face them or admit their beliefs. [...]

[...] “How about the beliefs and the sessions?” Jane demanded right away. I replied that all I knew was that she couldn’t move like that before taking the vitamins, the peanut oil massages, and the cod liver oil, etc., but I added that I was more than happy to credit sessions, beliefs, and/or anything else that gave us results. I said that I thought the pills, our changing beliefs, and the sessions were all working together. [...]

[...] It is the result of your focusing of love for each other and of Ruburt’s changes in belief, so that he could take advantage of the body’s vast reservoirs to begin a much-needed process of rejuvenation. [...]

Since all is simultaneous, your present beliefs can alter your past ones, whether from this life or a “previous” one. [...] Now with your ideas of progressive time and the resulting beliefs in cause and effect, I realize this is difficult for you to understand. Yet within the abilities of your creaturehood, your current beliefs can change your experience; you can restructure your “reincarnational past” in the same way that you can restructure the past in this present life (as explained in sessions 657-58 in Chapter Fifteen.

[...] The predominating beliefs of the sick person will always be paramount, however. [...]

[...] In those instances the achiever’s beliefs predominate, and yet apart from this he may also be acting out the unrealized aspirations of his family members, or of the group in which he is intimately involved. [...]

Those who believe in reincarnation will ask, “What about past-life beliefs? [...]

[...] The idea was that my belief in an extraordinary or supernatural force, working through nature, sustained me as a child. [...] People who profess belief in God often are so... [...] that I threw the belief out the window. [...]

[...] You consider the Greek tragedies great because they echo so firmly your own beliefs. [...] Family relationships become a mirror of those beliefs, which are then of course taken as statements of fact concerning the human condition. [...]

When you view the animal kingdom, you also do so through your specialized sexual beliefs, studying the behavior of the male and female, looking for patterns of aggressiveness, territorial jealousy, passivity, mothering instincts, or whatever. [...]

As a result, you see in nature only what you want to see, and you provide yourselves with a pattern or model of nature that conforms with your beliefs.

[...] While he was tainted to some extent by conventional sexual beliefs, he still felt his own personhood in such a way that he gladly took advantage of characteristics considered feminine. [...]

[...] These are not so much bridge beliefs as bridge intents.

[...] There is an overall picture you cannot see, in which you form your lives together, so that at one time you act, for example, as a unit, and on other occasions or times one acts out certain of your joint beliefs, while the other acts out another one.

Since you both held those attitudes and saw those beliefs everywhere reinforced, naturally enough in your experience, then in the overall it would be most miraculously unusual if one of you did not physically retreat. [...]

[...] Ruburt retreated, but the situation was always in basic terms, artificially formed by your joint beliefs.

[...] In the session Seth postulates two men, both portions of myself, who represents the conflicting sets of beliefs I’ve carried for years. The first man is my primary self, who discovers that he must bear the burdens of the second man imposed upon him through cultural beliefs involving taxes, success, the male breadwinner role, and so forth. [...]

(My own activities, then, have aroused in Jane the urge to try the same approach, and I’ve suggested she think of her own women numbers 1 and 2. It seems that she confronts the same basic challenges I do, I told her, so she could delineate the two opposing portions of her personality well enough to understand that many of her cultural beliefs have been imposed upon her natural, spontaneous, free, creative self, and to such an extent that the acquired beliefs have turned into detriments rather than aids, that she envisioned as helping her obtain what she wants in life. [...]

[...] This means that I sidetrack —but not try to repress—those cultural and learned beliefs I’ve let rule my life in large measure, instead of following the natural, creative dictates of my first, or primary man. [...]