“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(9:21.) That treatment reinforced his beliefs that he must indeed be a wicked or sinful person. [...]

(Pause.) With the God of Jane Ruburt beautifully and expertly described his own experiences with beliefs, and at least hinted of his background. [...]

All in all, those results are considered by the Sinful Self, now, as regrettable but necessary, as perhaps the use of overly severe discipline, or the use of punishment “for the personality’s own good”—all of which makes perfect sense within the belief structure of the Sinful Self and the larger philosophical structure of Christianity itself. [...]

[...] (Pause.) It approves of inspiration, but it is the part of the personality that is also afraid of unofficial information because of the very belief system that gave it birth. [...]

Demons of any kind are the result of your beliefs. They are born from a belief in “unnatural” guilt. [...] You may even meet them in your experience, but if so they are still the product of your immeasurable creativity, though formed by your guilt and your belief in it.

[...] According to your own belief system, you may trust the integrity of your body and instead project this guilt out upon others — onto a personal enemy, or a particular race, creed or color.

If you are religious-minded and fundamental in your beliefs, you may blame a devil who causes you to behave in such and such a manner. [...]

[...] I am sure that many of you will say, “I try constantly to be good, yet I am in miserable health, so how can that be?” If you examine your own beliefs the answer will be apparent: You try to be so good precisely because you believe you are so bad and unworthy.

“But your beliefs do not stop there. [...] As a result you forget your natural selves, and become involved in a secondary, largely imaginary culture: beliefs that are projected negatively into the future, individually and en masse. [...]

[...] That is given—the gift of life brings along with it the actualization of that cooperation, for the body’s parts exist as a unit because of inner relationships of a cooperative nature; and those exist at your birth (most emphatically), when you are innocent of any cultural beliefs that may be to the contrary.

This is a given characteristic of life, regardless of the beliefs that may lead you to misinterpret the actions of nature, casting some of its creatures in a reprehensible light.

[...] Your beliefs often tell you that life is hard, however, that living is difficult, that the universe, again, is unsafe, and that you must use all of your resources—not to meet [life] with anything like joyful abandon, of course, but to protect yourself against its implied threats; threats that you have been taught to expect.

[...] In the past Ruburt fought to trust in his own authority, while still holding the belief that the world’s authorities must know what they were doing. [...]

He tried to regulate his own health through his beliefs, while a part of him still wondered if he was wrong. [...]

[...] So you must water him with your beliefs in health, and so he must water himself—and there is no impediment. [...]

You both chafed against the belief of your times, that man was a natural aggressor, tainted from birth, that he was damned by his very nature, condemned by his early childhood background, by original sin, or by his genes. At the same time you were also tainted by those beliefs, and seemed to see evidence for them whenever you looked into your selves, or outward to the world of your fellows. [...] You set for yourselves a goal of shoving aside all of the beliefs and distortions for yourselves and for others.

[...] Instead, while carrying the belief in man’s potential, Christianity smothered the thesis beneath a slag heap of old guilt. [...]

He also stressed the importance of a childlike belief, knowing that the adult mind was apt to question “How, and when, and in what manner can my request be granted?”

Now: you went beyond your family’s beliefs individually, searching for yourselves and trying various roads. [...]

[...] There he’s accepted as an independent spirit — a spirit guide by those with spiritualistic beliefs — or as some displaced portion of my own personality by the scientific community. [...]

[...] In this book Seth is saying that you can change your experience by altering your beliefs about yourself and physical existence.

As Seth continued dictating The Nature of Personal Reality, I wrote a complete poetry manuscript, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time, in which I worked out many of my own beliefs as per suggestions Seth was giving in his book. [...]

The Nature of Personal Reality not only enriched my creative life but challenged my ideas and beliefs. [...]

Starting over — changing one’s beliefs, is a bold endeavor. [...]

[...] The entire idea involves a process in which you try and not try at the same time, in which you do not strain to achieve results, but instead gently begin to allow yourself to follow the contours of your own subjective feelings, to uncover those spiritual and biologically valid beliefs of early childhood, and to bring to them the very best wisdom that you have acquired throughout your life so far.

[...] Your beliefs are indeed alive in their own fashion. [...]

[...] This way you can see beliefs in their darkest form, and then little by little watch them begin to show energy, vitality, and fresh impetus.

[...] The will, again, operates according to the personality’s beliefs about reality, so its desires are sometimes tempered as those beliefs change. [...]

[...] All of the power of your being is mobilized by your will, and your will makes its deductions according to your beliefs about reality. [...]

One of the beliefs then was a strong joint one that you had to protect your energy at all costs, and block out any worldly distractions. [...]

“MESSAGES” FROM GODS, DEMONS, HEROES,
AND OTHER PROMINENT PERSONS — OR,
MORE CONFLICTING BELIEFS

Conflicting beliefs about the nature of reality can bring about dilemmas in almost any form, for the individual will always try to make sense out of his or her surroundings, and try to at least see the world as a cohesive whole.

Some of the most complicated ways of trying to put conflicting beliefs together are often mental or emotional ones. [...]

Some people possess beliefs that are so in opposition to each other that they are forced into some of the most complicated mental or emotional footwork. [...]

[...] In that framework you deal with mental patterns, beliefs, and emotions. [...] There, you are so confident of the truth that your beliefs form reality that you need not check the body at every point to see how it is reacting, for you know it will respond as completely to the new suggestions as it did to the old, even though you recognize that practically speaking some time might be involved in Framework 2’s time.

The belief that he could not walk properly is the result of all the issues we’ve mentioned. [...]

[...] In that framework the truth is that Ruburt can indeed walk normally now, and that nothing prevents it except for the belief that it is not so. [...]

[...] In Framework 2, and in the terms of Framework 1’s understanding, such body work is not really necessary, since the body itself has nothing wrong with it except the application of beliefs.

[...] You moved through belief systems, becoming to some extent disillusioned. You looked at the world and could no longer accept many of the basic beliefs upon which its fabric is socially founded. Many of the people who read my books are also disillusioned with the world’s beliefs. [...] They are afraid, however, of going out on their own, so to speak, and many are involved in lives that have been built upon past beliefs.

(The last session, deleted, for June 27, had helped both Jane and me—at least once more we’d started the painful process of searching for insights into our belief systems. [...]

For a while your beliefs, ideas, and artistic ability merged at one level. [...]

[...] You purposefully go against the conventions and beliefs of your times. [...]

[...] They are seeking for a positive cause to rally about, but their beliefs and self-deceptions make this impossible.

The whole affair can and should be used by you as an opportunity to examine your own beliefs. [...]

[...] The affair can be like a flashlight thrown upon your own individual and joint feelings about your beliefs and the world, and the stance that you take.

[...] I am hopefully leading you along a road, and I believe that you have each examined your beliefs more lately than you have in some time. [...]

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

[...] Thoughts, feelings, or beliefs appear to be secondary, subjective — or somehow not real — and they seem to rise in response to an already established field of physical data.

[...] Try to view normal physical occurrences as the concrete physical reactions in space and time to your own feelings and beliefs. [...]

[...] You were able to do something few people can: leap intuitively and mentally above your own period — to discard intellectually and mentally, and sometimes emotionally, the shortsighted, unfortunate religious, scientific, and social beliefs of your fellows.

Dissertation: taxes, indulgence, age, and beliefs—that is the headline (with amusement). [...]

[...] Then, when you began to make decent money, you resented giving it to the government—for the reasons just given, and because the government, it seemed, was built upon beliefs with which you could find no accord. [...]

[...] There is no doubt that the very wealthy abuse the system, and yet all in all it is a good one, couching the young while they learn, and is so doing, providing a basis from which new beliefs can indeed emerge.

He battles his beliefs about age, yet he is frightened that with age comes complacency, stagnation. [...]

“It” simply represents certain attitudes and beliefs that you possess, or that Ruburt possesses. They mix and merge with your other beliefs and ideas, and color your actions. [...]

[...] You were saddled with the usual beliefs of your times, and yet trying to understand new ones. [...]

You have been taught that so many of your attitudes are unconscious, that this prevents you often from consciously putting together a picture of your conscious beliefs. [...]

[...] Those beliefs, however, were not really unconscious at all. [...]

He cannot disentangle himself from his beliefs about the species, which is why that area is so sensitive to him. [...]

I hope this session will change some of those ingrown beliefs.

[...] Such beliefs are apparent in statements such as: “Madness is the other end of sanity,” or “All genius is touched with madness.”

Beneath these ideas is the fear of the mind itself, the belief that its abilities are fine and dependable up to a point — but if it goes too far then it is in trouble.

There are many other deep psychological connections beneath schizophrenic behavior, but since this book is also devoted to other subjects, we will go on to other ways in which conflicting beliefs bring about mental or physical dilemmas.

[...] Those opportunities involved emotional understanding, a very close and emotional contact with a particular belief system, and a firsthand view of a certain kind of reality structure. [...]

[...] Where did that kind of belief system end up? [...]

[...] To some extent he thought of that as punishment, of course, of being abandoned, forced to take charity as well, and the home reinforced all of the Catholic beliefs, particularly stressing the sinfulness of the body. [...]

[...] On the other hand, for the time being he had a very secure belief system against which for quite a full number of years he could test his own mental, emotional and spiritual vigor. [...]

When Ruburt as an individual sought to heal himself, and at the same time sought to divest himself of traditional methods of healing, such as doctors and so forth, he embarked upon a journey through his own beliefs—but also through the beliefs of your own culture. [...]

[...] It seems not only as money taken from you, or from Ruburt, which annoys you more, since you think he worked so hard for it—but worst of all, the money is being spent to promote national stupidities of distorted beliefs, to which you are diametrically opposed.

[...] His condition was his individual reaction to general mass beliefs of a negative nature. [...]

[...] Despite that belief, however, you have both managed to express the ideal, and to clear, whether you realize it or not, one area of life after another.

[...] In the material he wrote there was information applied to himself, incomplete, but I will put it in order; and it has to do with the nature of creativity and his beliefs.

[...] The connotations of the word crept into all areas of his life, tinged by unfortunate beliefs connected with the word.

Now with his financial success that pressure is somewhat removed, enabling those beliefs to come to light. [...]

Both of you must examine your beliefs, then, for some of them, Joseph, held you back creatively. [...]