“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Some get through easier or quicker than others, and a belief in the need for protection has been the most stubborn lingering belief from Ruburt’s past in this life. [...]

[...] The crowds acclaim the sense of competition, the excitement, the rewards, and the belief in performance have all been responsible for the breaking of previous records. [...]

[...] Within the framework of your beliefs, nothing seemed to make much sense. [...]

[...] In some areas you still cling to old beliefs, but there is no end to what you can do, still, with growing comprehension. [...]

(Long pause.) A democracy is a highly interesting form of government, highly significant because it demands so much of individual consciousness, and because it must rest primarily upon a belief in the powers of the individual. It is a tribute to that belief that it has lingered in your country, and operated with such vitality in the face of quite opposing beliefs officially held by both science and religion.

When you let yourselves alone, you are spontaneously reasonable, but because of your beliefs it seems that reason and spontaneity make poor bedfellows.

[...] They seek to sabotage your belief in your spontaneous being, so that the great power of impulses becomes damned up. [...]

Suggestions can change beliefs, for beliefs are only accepted habitual suggestions. [...]

[...] You are seeing what happens when spontaneity becomes hampered through beliefs, and in your early life you believed you must hamper it in yourself. [...]

[...] The suggestions you give are given as a result of your beliefs.

[...] Again, in one night I can only give you so much, but he grew afraid, and you helped him today to combat that fear: He was frightened that the body could not change, and your belief that it could was of great help.

[...] In regular life, you organize your experience very neatly and push it into accepted patterns or channels, into preconceived ideas and beliefs. [...]

Ruburt’s experiences of late are particularly important, in that by implication they run counter to many accepted core beliefs that are generally held. [...]

[...] His or her own desires and beliefs activate certain abilities and ignore others.

Ruburt’s love for Joseph, his own purposes, and his growing questions, along with his interest in painting in general, triggered exactly the kind of stimulus that broke through conventional beliefs about time and knowledge. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s “overly conscientious self” was indeed built up in response to his belief that he was, to begin with, overly enthusiastic, overly impulsive, overly spontaneous. [...]

[...] Again, Freudian beliefs that filled the books and movies led you both in your own ways to fear that your energies could be “swallowed” by sexuality—that to some extent you had so much energy, and that most of it must go into creative work.

[...] Ruburt as a woman, with those beliefs in the background, determined not to betray the writer, Jane, or the artist, Robert—thru becoming pregnant, or making too many sexual demands. [...]

[...] He felt he was too spontaneous, again, too impulsive—but then in that belief system he worried if his sexual needs could not be properly squashed, supposing someone else aroused them, and he “fell in love” with someone else as quickly as he had fallen in love with you. [...]

[...] You said that Benny Hill (the English comedian) advertises his beliefs in his program, and in the same way your notes in our books advertise your own beliefs, and provide an example of a creative and also reasonable framework in which to interpret psychic behavior. [...]

Because of his cultural beliefs, he was also determined that his “womanly nature” would not impede his progress as a writer, or yours as an artist. [...]

[...] You should see yourselves as primarily in an excellent position to help the world, which brings about an entirely different set of feelings and beliefs. [...]

[...] Taking probabilities into consideration, there are cultural movements involving the western world as it tried to form a new philosophical stance, and our books may well provide a highly valuable alternate position for people—again—between the passionate beliefs systems of religion in many countries, and the overly objective dictates of science. [...]

[...] The performance is evidence of the fact that beliefs have a far greater effect upon the body and its capacities than is anywhere seriously considered. [...]

[...] In most such instance, however, the inner work has been progressing in Framework 2, and suddenly emerges in Framework 1. Desire, faith, and beliefs are the keys.

[...] The process of his complete recovery includes body events and other events that may seem to have no connection—events perhaps that will change an attitude here or a belief there.

[...] All of those people who might in any way help Ruburt change certain beliefs, for example, are notified in Framework 2, so that the most auspicious psychological events occur, triggering further body releases.

Such a consideration, however, immediately shakes old beliefs and fears in a kind of clamor. Some old beliefs would rise to the forefront of attention that until now have remained generally in the background. Ideas of virtue, spareness and artistic single attentiveness as opposed to the idea of extravagance, the scattering of energies, or pleasure as a tempting disruptive force; all such beliefs are suddenly shaken up in a new bag, so to speak, so that you can distinguish between them with some new understanding. [...]

[...] The consideration itself is what I am after —the willingness to explore a probability that has come into your attention—because in so doing you remind yourselves of the freedoms that are (underlined) available in your terms, and because such a consideration, among other things, will allow you to automatically see your beliefs from a different focus, through another picture frame. [...]

[...] As far as the teeth are concerned, you are, as you said, surrounded by a sea of beliefs, so that the teeth are considered not long-lasting. If you can think of your body as existing primarily in Framework 2, that might help you separate yourselves from negative beliefs connected with Framework 1, for by such a mental change of view you take the body out of that context.

[...] The ideas that I am advocating find challenge on side, and you try to implement them—again—amid a tumultuous ocean of counter-beliefs.

[...] It will help also if once a day you mentally place your existence in Framework 2. Simply state that you do so—but the reminder will serve as excellent suggestion, and put a mental distance between you and the world’s beliefs.

Paranoia is extremely interesting because it shows the ways in which private beliefs can distort events that connect the individual with other people. [...]

The paranoid has certain other beliefs. [...]

The paranoid organizes the psychological world about his obsession, for such it is, and he cuts everything out that does not apply, until all conforms to his beliefs. [...]

[...] He became frightened that even though he changed beliefs and intentions, that he had gone too far, so that the body could not right itself—that despite desires for freedom, the legs simply could not straighten.

[...] All he needs to know, however, and he is nearly there, is that the body is not restrained by past beliefs. [...]

[...] Your institutions change their aspects accordingly, so that experience fits the beliefs that you have about it. [...] You view the entire universe in a fashion that did not exist before, so that imagination and belief intangibly structure your subjective experience and your objective circumstances.

[...] This applies to your individual beliefs about yourself and the way you see yourself in your imagination. [...]

[...] It is always creative, and underneath the frameworks of society it provides fresh incentives and new avenues for fulfillment, that can become harnessed through fanatical belief. [...]

[...] The fundamentalists would rather believe in man’s inherent sinful nature, for at least their belief system provides for a framework in which he can be saved. [...]

Your thoughts and beliefs and desires form the events that you view on television. If you want to change your world, you must first change your thoughts, expectations, and beliefs. [...]

(Long pause at 9:48.) Any new law always follows the change in belief. [...]

I would like each of my readers to be a practicing idealist, and, if you are then you will automatically be tolerant of the beliefs of others. [...]

[...] Your changed beliefs will affect the mental atmosphere of your nation and of the world.

(10:02.) Give us a moment … So-called future developments of your species are now dependent upon your ideas and beliefs. [...] Your emotional intent and your belief will direct the functioning of your cells and (emphatically) bring out in them those properties and inherent abilities that will ensure such a condition. There are groups of people in isolated places who hold such beliefs, and in all such cases the body responds. [...] There is an inexhaustible creativity within the cells themselves, that you are not using as a species because your beliefs lag so far behind your innate biological spirituality and wisdom. [...] However, such techniques will not work in mass terms, or allow you, say, to prolong effective, productive life unless you change your beliefs in other areas also, and learn the inner dynamics of the psyche.

[...] When your fate seems dependent upon heredity, for example, then the transmission of ideas and beliefs operates; these give signals to the chromosomes. [...]

[...] At the same time, while conditioned by the beliefs of his generation — beliefs that still tinge your times — he held on to one supporting belief never completely lost from childhood.

[...] He learns that such beliefs are acceptable. [...]

His belief, illogical as it sounded when spoken, contradictory as it seemed when applied to daily life, stated that the individual somehow could perceive the nature of reality on his or her own by virtue of innate capacities that belonged to the individual by right — capacities that were a part of man’s heritage. [...]

[...] Yet I could see that I confused Jane, for to make such a venture possible we’d have to change certain beliefs and values that are deeply rooted within us; especially those about personal privacy and our reluctance to “go public” with such topical, immediate material, instead of trusting that the Seth material will exert a meaningful influence in society over the long run. [...]

[...] They felt threatened by the world, which was painted by their beliefs so that it presented a picture of unmitigated evil and corruption. [...]

[...] They both treat their beliefs as truths (underlined), with which no one should tamper. [...]

[...] In stating that the universe is an accidental creation, however, a meaningless chance conglomeration formed by an unfeeling cosmos, it states quite clearly its belief that the universe and man’s existence has no value. [...]

[...] He passed an important plateau of beliefs that has led him to definite physical improvements. [...] He now had to put them together—that is, he is in the process of putting the new beliefs together, coordinating them.

Ruburt provided himself with a background in which a parent was steadily, chronically ill, and in which the medical profession with its beliefs was in constant sight. [...]

[...] Such is the case generally speaking, and yet the agility of the beliefs can completely triumph over such ideas.

[...] I wondered about whatever beliefs Jane might carry still, that much effort was required in order to accomplish anything worthwhile in Framework 1, even though we might agree that the help we needed must come from Framework 2.

In a sense, to “give up all effort” is almost blasphemous in the light of predominating beliefs to the contrary. [...]

[...] This is not a statement of passivity in conventional terms, but a creative releasing of the basic personality from the restraints of hampering beliefs.

[...] Because you are so used to the belief in exerting such effort, in the beginning, as I mentioned, some fear can be involved as you begin to let the effort go, while watching to see that you aren’t backsliding instead, or being irresponsible. [...]

In actuality, the combination of a philosophical stress upon discipline, physical and mental, with the belief in the sinful self, often brings about the most unfortunate human dilemmas. [...] People with such beliefs often have severe problems with constipation, and have retention symptoms — retaining water, for example, or salt or whatever.

(Pause at 9:43.) The beliefs that led to their decision to stay had not changed in that regard. [...]

[...] With this set of beliefs, attitudes and background, their decision to stay was highly predictable.

[...] Both Ruburt and Joseph are very mental people, however, and so they sought out this physical meeting with material phenomena and solved the problem according to their beliefs.

[...] Income from Ruburt’s classes was lost, yet these side effects were chosen quite in line with Ruburt’s and Joseph’s conscious beliefs, habits, and practices.