“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] His remark following receipt of the check brought up the final clarification of beliefs. [...]

At the same time the early beliefs were there, and were mentioned to some extent along with other issues. [...]

For a time however a conglomeration of beliefs merged, so that he felt that he had to drive himself unremittingly: and this meant, to him, imposing disciplines as given earlier. [...]

He realizes well now that money is not all that important, yet the old beliefs were so entangled that he had to prove to himself that it was not so important after he achieved it. [...]

The dream representing his grandfather symbolically allowed him to go back to the past in this life, to a time of severe shock—his grandfather’s death—which occurred when he was beginning to substitute scientific belief for religious belief, wondering if his grandfather’s consciousness then fell back into a mindless state of being, into chaos, as science would certainly seem to suggest. [...]

There are, however, classic connections between creative thought and heresy, between established belief and the danger of revelatory material as being disruptive—first of church and then of state. [...]

[...] Many of those fears originated long before the sessions, of course, and before he realized that there was any alternative at all between, say, conventional religious beliefs and complete disbelief in any nature of divinity. [...]

In the time those fears originated, he shared the belief framework of Christianity, so that he believed that outside of that framework there could indeed be nothing but chaos, or the conventional atheism of science, in which the universe was at the mercy of meaningless mechanistic laws—laws, however, that operated without logic, but more importantly laws that operated without feeling. [...]

Puberty comes at a certain time, triggered by deep mechanisms that are related to the state of the natural world, the condition of the species, and those cultural beliefs that in a certain sense you transpose upon the natural world. [...] And the scientists, for all their seeming independence, often simply found new intellectually acceptable reasons for unconsciously held emotional beliefs.

[...] These sexual beliefs are also far more important in national relationships than you realize, for you attempt to take what you think of as a masculine stance as a nation. [...] India takes a feminine stance — in terms of your beliefs, now.

Your beliefs so structure your experience individually and en masse, however, that evidential material contrary to those ideas shows itself but seldom, or in distorted or exaggerated form. [...]

[...] In some areas of your world, isolated peoples live on past a hundred years, vital and strong, because they are untouched by your beliefs, and because they live in sympathy and accord with the world as they know and understand it. [...]

AFFIRMATION, THE PRACTICAL BETTERMENT OF YOUR LIFE, AND THE NEW STRUCTURING OF BELIEFS

(At once at 12:25.) New chapter heading [Twenty-two:] “Affirmation, the Practical Betterment of Your Life, and the New Structuring of Beliefs.”

[...] Your whole attitude showed the young man, however, that he was the one who must examine his own beliefs, and without immediately panicking him you showed by inference your own belief that his delusion was doing him considerable harm.

[...] It is difficult to explain what I want to because of your own beliefs and significances that you sometimes form. [...]

When you hold such a conviction you are always convinced that something is wrong, and your belief brings about a condition which gives you justification for feeling that. [...]

Frank represents your belief that you must hold on to someone at least medically oriented, if unconventionally so, in Framework 1—a needed crutch, and he has been of some help. He has also however reinforced your conventional beliefs that muscles and joints must behave thus-and-so, that so much time must pass for such processes to take place; he helped you set up a situation that served handily, for you could not leave Framework 1, nor yet really accept wholeheartedly Framework 2.

You changed your approaches indirectly, and Ruburt was always stronger in the financial regard than you, as far as his beliefs that artistic creations could bring financial rewards. [...]

There were other issues that have been mentioned, concerning you and the marketplace, but Ruburt’s creativity straddled poor beliefs finally. [...]

In a manner of speaking, then, supernatural help is available, but only when your own beliefs are clear enough so that the help is not blocked. [...]

[...] The methods, the ways, the beliefs, the modes of travel to a destination create the destination itself. (Over a one-minute pause.) It is impossible for you to operate without beliefs in your present mode of existence (another minute), “for beyond” those glittering packages of beliefs, however, there exists the vast reservoir of sensation itself, the land that does indeed exist “beyond beliefs.” [...]

(9:55.) The universe is not dependent upon your belief in it in order that it can exist. [...]

[...] The brain (and the entire physical system) is meant to insure your bodily survival and to follow your conscious beliefs about reality. There is always a harmonious unifying connection between your beliefs and activities. [...] The individual will very cleverly and shrewdly go ahead in those areas in which he or she feels safe, often when in the process of altering beliefs. [...]

[...] The loving acceptance of yourself will allow you to ride through beliefs as you would through the changing characteristics of a countryside. The more a belief encourages you to use your abilities and vitality, then the more affirmative it is.

[...] He accepted the belief that any consciousness could be in some kind of direct intimate contact with experiences and realities usually not perceived, but ignored.

[...] The very belief allowed him to use those abilities, and as muscles became more resilient with use, so do psychic and intuitive powers.

When he finds himself thinking that he cannot walk properly, have him at least recognize the thought, as a thought and belief. [...]

That will help break the automatic mechanism, for we are here dealing with body beliefs now. [...]

There has been a breakthrough in those beliefs since the session on muscles; and for him naturally the spring, like the autumn, offers him optimum conditions for improvement in all areas.

In the dream state you allow yourself greater freedom, trying out certain ideas and beliefs in this more plastic framework. You may therefore accept new beliefs initially in the dream state, and the intellectual or emotional realization may only come “later.” [...]

You will accept from your dreams that information that largely agrees with your waking conscious beliefs. There is interaction, as mentioned previously, in which new beliefs are tried out, so to speak. [...]

New paragraph: While your beliefs do structure much of your dream activity, other issues are also involved simply because the focus of your awareness is not acutely directed toward physical reality, but is only opaquely concerned with it.

[...] Your beliefs then are largely responsible for the areas of the brain that you activate, and for the resulting nonphysical action of the mind.

[...] They share the belief systems of their times, and they are richly rewarded—generally speaking, now—for there is overall no great conflict between their natural works, their writing, and the world at large.

[...] Obviously escapism is involved—but at certain levels of interaction the beliefs smoothly flow from creation to market. [...]

[...] It is accepting your work, and in your terms—those terms that exist because of your beliefs and your attitudes. [...]

You are particularly sensitive here because of the male beliefs of your culture, and the feeling that Ruburt’s books are his rather than, say, yours. [...]

He does need to be generally aware of his own beliefs, however. The so-called Sinful Self is actually giving him a more or less handy list of stubborn older beliefs that clash with his new ones—beliefs that often go underground —and the “Sinful Self” is giving the rationale behind such beliefs. [...]

(Pause at 8:48.) Then a lack of communication developed, so that various portions of the personality “hardened” their own positions, sometimes holding quite different sets of beliefs. [...] Its beliefs may be exaggerated, but at one time or another various other portions of the personality at least weakly entertained a portion of them. [...]

[...] It is the personified holder of many of the beliefs that brought the physical condition into existence. [...]

[...] All of the conflicting beliefs that have been mentioned thus far are the end result of what I have called before the “official line of consciousness.” Certainly people experienced disease long before those conflicting beliefs began — but again, that is because of the part that disease states play in the overall health of individuals and of the world.

(Long pause.) Large numbers of the population do indeed live unsatisfactory lives, with many individuals seeking goals that are nearly unattainable because of the conglomeration of conflicting beliefs that all vie for their attention. [...]

[...] It is indeed quite possible to do so, for you will be working with material with which you are intimately familiar: your own thoughts, emotions, and beliefs.

This alternate way of thinking is biologically pertinent, for it should be obvious now that certain beliefs and ideas serve to foster health and vitality, while others impede it.

[...] For a while it had to be tested in the world of beliefs that you knew, even while the evidence seemed to be on the side of official pronouncements. [...]

You made brave breakthroughs, for the sessions never would have begun or continued—but to maintain your peace of mind you still had to keep your mental footing in the world of those old beliefs. [...]

[...] Remember Framework 2, for its vast creative nature can help provide the impetus to help break through such limiting beliefs. [...]

Often your medical beliefs as a culture stabilize conditions that, left alone, would right themselves. [...] In the situation in which you find yourselves, however, eyeglasses become a more practical alternative because you do not possess the proper mental methods to offset the current belief system.

These will be caused by your beliefs and your feelings, but they will not be necessarily negative at all, but a demonstration of the body’s responsiveness. [...]

[...] Many such lapses are exaggerated because of your beliefs, so that they are experienced in a more drastic form than necessary. [...]

When such beliefs are shared by an entire society, then the slightest indisposition is instantly suspect.

(I told Jane that I thought the police in the dream meant that I’d left behind me old imprisoning beliefs, that I was now running free of those beliefs. Also, the group of men across the river represented old beliefs of mine that I’d discarded. [...]

[...] You were escaping from the jailhouse of negative beliefs, and you were delighted with the new easy motion of your body, once you had been released.

[...] You tried to hang on to old beliefs “just to make sure” along the way. You kept the old ideas of problem solving, and were still hampered by old beliefs that told you not to trust yourselves.

[...] The search for knowledge would mean often that you would be between beliefs, operating as you had been taught through training, and trying to operate according to the new knowledge. [...]

[...] Each of you conspired to learn far more than might have seemed possible from your backgrounds, to sort through systems of beliefs. [...]

Now this is simply another system of belief in which patient and therapist operate. [...] Statistically the individual experiences, while different, will of course follow a pattern — the pattern of beliefs consciously acknowledged and telepathically reacted to.

[...] In any such state your physical health benefits, generally speaking, though there may be some beliefs blocking in that direction.

[...] So patient and therapist share the belief that the conscious mind does not have easy access to the needed knowledge.

They also share other beliefs, for example: That the inner self is a repository for repressed fears, terrors, and uncivilized savagery; that the inner self must be forced to get rid of such material before it is possible for it to express its power, energy and strength in creative, positive terms; and that, therefore, the self must first encounter and deal with all those terrors of its past before it can be free of the fears of the present.

We will not concentrate upon these, but we will indeed discuss them, so that each person can understand the relationship between poor beliefs and poor health, for through understanding these connections the individual can re-experience the great mental variety that is possible. No individual is helpless, for example, in the face of negative beliefs. He or she can learn to make choices once again, and thus to choose positive concepts, so that they become as natural as negative beliefs once did.

One of the greatest detriments to mental and physical well-being is the unfortunate belief that any unfavorable situation is bound to get worse instead of better. [...] All of those beliefs impede mental and physical health, erode the individual’s sense of joy and natural safety, and force the individual to feel like an unfortunate victim of exterior events that seem to happen despite his own will or intent.

[...] While these attributes are expressed in the body, they also exist in the mind, and there are some cumbersome mental beliefs that may severely impede mental and physical well-being.

[...] As we talked before I turned her on her left side, I said that I felt she still did not feel entirely free to walk, that something — some beliefs, or set of them — still held her back. [...]

[...] Instead, mental beliefs about the body’s performance have changed, and increased physical speed resulted. [...] I merely want to show the effect of beliefs upon physical performance. [...]

Generally speaking, for example, if you are seriously worried about a physical condition, go to a doctor, because your own beliefs may overfrighten you otherwise. [...]

[...] Make an effort to free your intellect of such hampering beliefs. [...]

[...] Your beliefs must interact with your impulses, however, and often they can erode that great natural beneficial spontaneity that impulses can provide.