“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Those given beliefs represent the spiritual and mental fabric of ideas — the raw material, so to speak, with which you have to work. In adolescence certain beliefs will be easily and immediately abandoned, or altered to fit the expanding pattern of experience. Still other beliefs will remain, with perhaps certain elements being changed. The beliefs may be revised to fit your new image, for example, while the main pattern remains the same.

The refusal of particular foods, therefore, became a symbol for the avoidance of certain beliefs, so that for a while the beliefs were not faced while the foods were not eaten. [...] In your friend’s case, the realization that he can eat those foods means that he understands that he can encounter those beliefs in himself, as he is now beginning to do.

His rejection of the foods for this length of time persisted as a symbol that he was still not facing his beliefs. With each “triumph,” now — and there have been several with your help and Ruburt’s — he shows himself that beliefs and not food are important, and reinforces his independence and freedom.

[...] As a child it was quite necessary that you accept beliefs from others before your conscious mind could form its own.

Psycho-Cybernetics worked well for a time, because at that stage the book served to break up body beliefs, though he hadn’t tackled the reasons behind them. [...] They were dropped for several reasons, but mainly because he still did not understand that body beliefs were involved, and that these like the others could be changed.

[...] Working with body beliefs. I suggest that you hear his morning as well as evening suggestions, and that you take a few moments, perhaps no more than 5 a day, to impress upon him the fact that these new beliefs can be inserted in place of the old, and will bear results. [...]

(10:26.) When you tackle these body beliefs directly you will, literally, be surprised at the results. I suggest you speak with Ruburt for a few moments daily because of the combined nature of your energies, so for that period, however brief, concentrate upon the fact that the new beliefs are, even in those moments, taking hold.

[...] This in itself however was an advance, and it served to bring up the fact that these were body beliefs.

[...] Now I want you to make out a list of beliefs about yourself, and another list of beliefs about Ruburt. I want him to make out a list of his beliefs about you. I want him to concentrate, now, upon those beliefs that are working for him, to quite consciously build up the sense of his own worth by listing the uses to which he has put his abilities. [...]

[...] This will automatically help replace some of the negative beliefs concerning unworthiness, and is an effective way of avoiding pitfalls.

[...] You do not thoroughly understand the interaction of beliefs, the give and take of energy patterns.

[...] He is challenging, finally, the old beliefs that say that the self’s spontaneity is not to be trusted. [...] In the past he was still afraid to touch those beliefs with any but the slightest of hands.

[...] To go fully ahead he had to cease cowering before the beliefs of the past, and this meant he had to examine those beliefs. [...]

They were not only his private religious beliefs, but those of his contemporaries generally—(louder:) and the foundations upon which your present civilization was made. He had to find the courage to encounter those old beliefs boldly, and he is finally doing so. [...]

The prayer can be of great help, because it is religiously couched, and yet carries a new, not old, message of beliefs.

(12:20 AM.) A few remarks—they are very simple and to the point: examine your beliefs jointly and individually. [...] A series of subsidiary beliefs followed, to which you both most heartily and concretely subscribe. You must alter those beliefs. [...]

[...] As long as you belabor the physical condition you are not working at altering the beliefs. Regardless of their reasons, beliefs can be changed.

Altering the beliefs automatically changes the reasons. [...]

You allowed yourselves to be excited by hope and new beliefs. [...]

That is the nature of an invisible belief. [...] Now Ruburt until recently has had the same sort of belief concerning his body and its abilities. [...]

[...] It has resulted in a greater freedom in our sessions because the two of you together discussed your conscious beliefs about sessions, and Ruburt learned that many of his previous beliefs here were limited.

[...] I know you have been busy, but you have not examined your beliefs as given in the book.

[...] Your own ideas concerning the artist in society being poor, mistreated and at the mercy of others—now this is a core belief of yours that you consider a truth, and the nature of reality.

It may outrage your intellect, and the evidence of your physical senses may shout that it is untrue, yet a belief in good without a belief in evil is actually highly realistic, since in physical life it will keep your body healthier, keep you psychologically free of many fears and mental difficulties, and bring you a feeling of ease and spontaneity in which the development of your abilities can be better fulfilled. After death it will release you from the belief in demons and hell, and enforced punishment. [...] Yet you should already realize that your senses tell you many things, which are not true; and I tell you that your physical senses perceive a reality that is a result of your beliefs.

(10:25.) A strong belief in such opposing forces is highly detrimental, however, for it prevents an understanding of the facts — the facts of inner unity and of oneness, of interconnections and of cooperation. A belief, therefore, an obsessional belief in such opposing factors, is perhaps the most detrimental element, not only after death but during any existence.

Quite simply, a belief in the good without a belief in the evil, may seem highly unrealistic to you. This belief, however, is the best kind of insurance that you can have, both during physical life and afterward.

[...] Others may insist that because of their transgressions they will be cast into hell, and because of the force of such belief, they may for some time actually encounter such conditions. [...] They try to get through these false beliefs.

This entire belief system was detrimental enough, when you were devoted to writing and painting as these are generally understood. When Ruburt’s psychic abilities began to show themselves, however, those same beliefs made both of you even more cautious than before, and more worried about reprisal from others — and as far as Ruburt was concerned, more worried about criticism or scorn. All of those beliefs existed along with many unfortunate ones that were sexually oriented — those that dictated, for example, the traditional roles of man and wife, or man and woman. [...]

You were each surrounded by some highly unfortunate beliefs, that were at least partially paranoid, but in any case unfortunate. They were beliefs that had to do with talent, ability, or genius —

Other personal beliefs held by both of you to some extent or another, with the usual cultural connotations, stressed a false humility over the rightful natural pride of ability. Such beliefs are often given to children, appearing in such forms as, “don’t be a showoff,” “don’t be an exhibitionist,” followed by, again, the dire warning that your fellow creatures suspect any neighbor who is different or who shows any superior abilities.

(4:40.) Ruburt, at one period, even feared that the young psychologist at Oswego was correct — that his psychic abilities were mere attempts to prove himself superior to you.^* These are all beliefs that both of you have wrestled with over the years. You also had many excellent beliefs going with you also, so that you did indeed use your abilities and express your natures. [...]

[...] You have meditations for disaster, beliefs that invite private and mass tragedies. [...] It seldom occurs to anyone that these are victims of beliefs (emphatically) — since the guns are quite real, and the bombs and the combat.

[...] This is another belief, most damaging. Religious wars always have paranoiac tendencies, for the fanatic always fears conflicting beliefs, and systems that embrace them.

The people who died were idealists — perfectionists of exaggerated quality, whose very desire for the good was tainted and distorted by those beliefs just mentioned. For those beliefs must gradually shut out perception of good from experience.³

Beside the list given earlier [tonight], you have the American belief that money will solve almost any social problem, that the middle-class way of life is the correct “democratic” one, and that the difficulty between blacks and whites in particular can be erased by applying social bandages, rather than by attacking the basic beliefs behind the problem.

An effort should be made to help the client understand that errors of thought and belief are responsible for the condition — and that the removal of those erroneous beliefs can relieve the situation. [...]

According to the particular case in point, the therapist should then try to point out the errors of thought and belief involved, and also to explain their more or less habitual cast.

Behind all of those instances we have been discussing, however, there is again the need for value fulfillment, that has been blocked largely by conflicting or even opposing beliefs.

(Very long pause at 3:31.) Regardless of how unbelievable it might seem to some readers, it is true that even the most destructive events are based upon misinterpretations of reality, opposing beliefs, and the inability to receive or express love. [...]

I want to say something about beliefs that became obvious to him today concerning time and “work.” [...] His beliefs about time are important in relationship to his work ideas. As he noted, the belief was that he must be the young American poet, or the young American writer. Now we are dealing with an old belief system once shared to a large extent by you both.

As I told you in our last session, the original beliefs behind the symptoms have largely vanished. [...] The body condition reflects subsidiary beliefs about the body that he mobilized for the other purposes that now no longer operate.

Now: all of Ruburt’s presently-past beliefs added up to his physical condition—his beliefs in the nature of time, work, the body, his particular nature—they all tied in together perfectly.

[...] The body has its own patterns of behavior, connected with beliefs; but in this memory pattern there are tracings, and these are beginning to be erased in the order in which the condition was established. [...]

The physical constitution of the body follows your beliefs, and so all of its sense data will faithfully mirror the beliefs that direct its activity. In certain terms hypnosis is simply an exercise in the alteration of beliefs, and only too clearly shows that sense experience follows expectations.

[...] Practically speaking, you do indeed form the appearance that reality takes through your conscious beliefs. Those beliefs are used as screening and directing agents, separating certain nonphysical probable events from others, and bringing them into three-dimensional actuality.

[...] For if you altered your beliefs and therefore your private sensations of reality, then that world, seemingly the only one, would also change. You do go through transformations of beliefs all the time, and your perception of the world is different. [...]

[...] Those beliefs about yourself form your own self-image, and define your concepts of what is possible or not possible for you. [...]

[...] Any lessening of beliefs in either area would be reflected in the other. [...] Now you have other sets of quite positive beliefs also working for you, and luckily these will often help shake a harmful belief off balance. [...] Both of these areas help work against the sense of powerlessness that was tied up in the troublesome beliefs.

Apartment 4 then represents old beliefs, both literal and symbolic at once then. Ruburt, getting rid of old rugs, throws out old beliefs. [...]

In Ruburt’s particular case, now, one set of beliefs led to a corollary set of physical beliefs about his body

If a series of troublesome beliefs become so strong however, then the positive sets become less effective. In Ruburt’s case however success in work does mitigate against the negative beliefs. [...]

[...] In so doing, you see, you accept your belief about reality as a characteristic of reality itself, and so the belief is transparent or invisible to you. [...]

You must change the belief. [...] But that is a belief, and a limiting one.

[...] Because ideas have an electromagnetic reality, beliefs, because of their intensity, radiate strongly. Due to the organizing structure of your own psychological nature, similar beliefs congregate, and you will readily accept those with which you already agree.

This interchange follows, again, your conscious beliefs. It is fashionable in some circles to believe that you react physically to telepathically received messages despite your conscious beliefs or ideas. [...]

So — once more — you form reality through your beliefs, and your most intimate production is your physical body. Your beliefs about it are constantly fed into inner data. [...] But the blueprint is made by your conscious beliefs. To change your body you change your beliefs, even in the face of physical data or evidence that conflicts.

The inner self always attempts to maintain the body’s equilibrium and health, but many times your own beliefs prevent it from coming to your aid with even half of the energy available to it. Often only when you are in dire straits do you open up the doors to this great energy, when it is much too clear that your previous beliefs and behavior have not worked.

(Pause, one of many.) As soon as the need for such data — aid, information, or knowledge — arises, then it is immediately forthcoming unless your own conscious beliefs cause a barrier. [...]

[...] To a very large extent then conscious beliefs act as great liberators of such inner data, or as inhibitors of it. [...]

Because many of his ideas and beliefs were also bound up with you, your work, your ideas and his interpretations of them, then your relationship became entwined. Initially the beliefs were accepted because he had been taught to believe to fear his energy. [...] Now in another kind of life-style, with another kind of personality, the same belief might have been dispensed with easily. [...]

[...] Both papers he has done on beliefs (this week) apply as beliefs—the one involving you, and today’s.

[...] The tooth symptoms however brought up a system of beliefs through his writing, and he faced some of them quite directly in a crisis situation. He saw what could happen when beliefs are allowed to run astray, and he attacked some then quite directly, and won out. [...]

[...] Move or not, you must be consciously aware of your beliefs and deal with them on that level. [...] Ruburt’s coming back in here (Apartment 5) represented a willingness to face beliefs. [...]

[...] The resistance is the result of conflicts in beliefs. [...] Steps to lose weight do not make sense in the face of that belief. [...]

[...] A belief in powerlessness in any area sets up its possibility in others — it operates as negative suggestion.”

(And: “Faith and belief can move mountains, as they say — but it can also cause natural catastrophes.”

[...] This led me to read her my notes on Seth’s delivery from 11:25 to 11:47, concerning beliefs in relation to body weight. [...]

[...] It is important also that you as well as Ruburt look at your beliefs as beliefs. [...] The developments just mentioned with Ruburt represent an inner breakthrough of body beliefs that will automatically bring forth others. [...]

This reinforces older healthier beliefs in the body’s efficiency, that were discarded before any symptoms appeared. [...] Relief and understanding in one area bleeds through into others, as before the belief in the body’s inefficiency also carried over.

Following your work so far with the book, Ruburt is learning to separate his body beliefs from his concepts of rockbed reality—to question them. [...]

This on several levels is significant, for you have the first strong challenge to habitual body beliefs, with a resulting initial breakup of old suggestion, given constantly to the body. [...]

[...] Your belief in an unsafe universe however was reflected in a dampening of your creative abilities in contrast to what you can produce. As your beliefs change completely, as they are, you will then experience a far greater creative freedom and release from the tyranny of time that those beliefs brought about.

[...] In a certain way this is almost reassuring, because it correlates with the old habitual belief system that says “Aha, yes, there is a threat. [...] Thus the older beliefs momentarily feel their old unity, and it is, again, realistic behavior to feel yourself also threatened. [...]

[...] They were formed in line with the old beliefs, and so of course that seemed utterly appropriate. In some important areas, however, your own beliefs have changed lately.

[...] Given your beliefs, the period is a “more or less natural” transitory stage that is meant to bring out those beliefs, so that they do not remain invisible, or as blocks, preventing you from entry into the safe universe.

Now: beliefs—that is correct. [...] You think, then, that if you were not so creative you could have a proper niche for yourself, and therefore you tense a portion of the body that seems to be connected to the unconscious side of the self, and chose the groin, which connects old beliefs about males to the beliefs about creativity. [...]

[...] I do not want to hurt your feelings—but your particular beliefs about a male and money are in their way quite parochial, and you must understand that as far as money is concerned, also, those beliefs have little moral value—moral value. [...]

[...] The memories and associations bring old beliefs to mind, and you see in such family visits the culmination in your brothers of those old beliefs. [...]

[...] I have stuck to the most important beliefs about money, and the male’s status—but also such (family) gatherings also bring into focus beliefs about age and illness, and so forth. [...]