“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Actually, the belief itself may have changed a healthy genetic message into an unhealthy one. Ideally, a change of belief would remedy the situation.

Thoughts and beliefs do indeed bring about physical alterations. [...]

[...] The difference is one of belief.

[...] Each person has an entire body of beliefs and suggestions — and these are quite literally reflected in the physical body itself.

[...] In it the actors and actresses will take the parts of beliefs — of fleshed beliefs — and the morality play, so to speak, will deal with the nature of beliefs and how they are enacted through the centuries as well as through the hours. That theater then will serve many purposes, even as each of you are exquisite performers, and have chosen the roles and beliefs that you have taken….

[...] And if it seems to you, because of your beliefs, that you are limited here, then I joyfully challenge each of you to create a city, an environment, and perhaps a world, in which no such limitations occur. [...]

[...] Bow down before no man, no woman, and no belief — but know you are indeed the creators.

[...] When you are tired of playing a Catholic priest, for example, you will fall into your own trap — in which your beliefs [as such a one] are suddenly worked out to their logical perfection, and you see what they mean.

(After a brief discussion on changing and giving up religious beliefs, Seth explained:)

Now, you do not give up your beliefs. [...]

[...] Your beliefs will affect your future life until you realize it is not true. [...]

Do not insist upon any set of beliefs. [...]

Ruburt accepted some beliefs from you because he looked up to you. [...] The beliefs were necessary to his development. [...]

[...] He needs your enthusiasm, and you need to work on your beliefs concerning his condition. [...]

The physical breakthrough is (underlined) coming, and will be because of a shakeup in beliefs. [...]

[...] If you will both remember to playfully change your beliefs, then this will not be the case. [...]

The suggestions on trusting the body must be continued, for the body’s healing process now follows those beliefs. Before he was hampered by the initial beliefs, now nearly dissolved, that caused the disbelief in the body. Those body beliefs are now in the process of changing. [...] The result you see is the materialization of the new beliefs, as before you saw the materialization of the old.

[...] And of course Aspects applies here, and my own book, in that they both served as turning points for such a new synthesis and reorganization of beliefs.

The vitamins do serve to help in the extra work being done by the body, of repair, although without the change in beliefs they would not be effective. [...]

Now balance has changed, so that the new beliefs outweigh the old ones and allow the body to respond.

[...] Until you work with your beliefs, this guilt can be initiated by the most harmless episodes and characteristics. [...] Often you will be able to trace them to early childhood beliefs quite easily — some instilled by a well-meaning parent to protect you, or out of an adult’s ignorance. [...]

[...] You can then examine your beliefs creatively, finding the correlations between them and your experience. [...]

(Pause at 9:47.) If you affirm the basic grace of your being, then this will automatically weaken the beliefs you have that are contrary to that principle. [...]

Now: Dictation: Ruburt’s own beliefs in the nature of his consciousness helped bring about these sessions.

[...] That belief built up a body of habits so that even when he made headway in changing the basic belief at least, he was left with beliefs about the body that were secondary but habitual; beliefs shared by each of you about his body, so that the evidence was always present.

(10:54.) Now Ruburt, because of his beliefs, “artificially” disciplined his muscles so that he would be forced to concentrate upon what it seemed you and he both thought was most important in life—your work.

Those beliefs formed a body stance. [...]

[...] They provide for the insertion of the required and desired beliefs for use when needed.

[...] The doctors accept this mandate since they share the same framework of belief, so the medical profession obviously needs patients as badly as the ill need the hospitals. [...] The prisons and law enforcement agencies need criminals in the same way that criminals need them, for they operate within the same system of belief. [...]

[...] If your own belief in the physician “works” and you are cured of symptoms, you are physically relieved, and yet your own belief in yourself may be further infringed upon. [...]

[...] In their ways, the warden and guards subscribe to the same set of beliefs as that held by their prisoners — the idea of force and power is accentuated on both sides, and each believes the other its enemy.

[...] Transferences of personal problems are all involved here, and clusters of beliefs.

[...] This does not apply to the two of you alone, but to your world at large: you make your own reality through your beliefs. You want to keep your beliefs yet change your reality—I am not referring to you personally here now—but this is impossible.

It means that the belief in discordant conditions initiates it. I am not saying that others are not involved, but that discordant thoughts bring about discordant reactions in others, to which they will react according to their own beliefs. [...]

[...] If you want peace you must insert the belief in it and then your experience will justify it.

[...] Keep your cherished beliefs in conflict, but you will not find peace.

In my book—the next one—I am going to discuss more about the nature of personal beliefs. Your beliefs, that artists and writers were poor, were quite conscious. [...]

I want each of you to write a list, yourself—and this involves work—a list of your conscious ideas about yourself, your conscious beliefs. [...] I then want you to make a list of your conscious beliefs regarding each other, and you are then to discuss these. [...]

[...] If you would examine your own beliefs, you would realize why you waited this long, and I am talking about conscious beliefs.

[...] That is your belief at this time, and you had better change it—both of you—for he can—

[...] When you are very young your beliefs are quite clear — that is, your conscious and unconscious leanings and expectations are harmonious. As you grow older, however, and begin to accumulate negative beliefs, then your conscious and unconscious beliefs may be quite different.

[...] The unconscious beliefs are not really unconscious, however. [...] Negative beliefs can block the passageways between Framework 1 and Framework 2. It is an excellent idea for those in any kind of difficulty to do the following simple exercise.

[...] The most important point is to arouse such a person’s beliefs in his or her strength and power. [...]

The fear that blocks that energy can indeed be dissipated if new beliefs are inserted for old ones — so again we return to those emotional attitudes and ideas that automatically promote health and healing. [...]

[...] I told you earlier (in the 614th session in Chapter Two, for instance) that your feelings follow the flow of your beliefs, and if this does not seem true to you it is because you are not aware of the contents of your conscious mind. [...]

[...] Listening to music that you like will often bring images into your mind that show you your conscious beliefs in different form.

You often avoid this natural treatment, however, and run from frightening conscious thoughts that would in their turn lead you to the source of “negative” beliefs, where they could be faced; you could then travel through them, so to speak, into feelings of joy and victory. [...]

Usually they are not analyzed according to your [own] current beliefs. [...]

[...] This is almost always the result of beliefs that do not fit in with the person’s own best interests. Your social beliefs are of course important here, mass medical beliefs. [...]

[...] That belief generates certain actions or events, so that practically speaking, while he sees the flames, and perhaps smells the smoke, the heat of the fire will have no effect—because for him its character is changed. [...]

[...] The belief triggers body chemicals in a certain fashion, though the process itself involves an interaction between the air and the chemicals of the body, which form together a protective shield that repels the action of the fire.

[...] The mind and its beliefs are the basic determinants. [...]

(Pause at 9:10.) Many of Ruburt’s beliefs have changed, but the core belief in the Sinful Self has been very stubborn. While you do not possess it in the same fashion, you are also tainted by it, picking up such beliefs from early background, and primarily from your father in that regard. [...]

[...] You are learning how to form reality from your own beliefs. While having at the same time the freedom to choose those beliefs—to choose your mental state in a way that the animals for example do not. [...]

It is true that the Sinful Self carries with it a group of patterns or reactions; methods of dealing with problems, and so Ruburt’s beliefs along those lines have colored his reactions, his plans, his dealings with you through the years. [...]

[...] Science’s flawed self still carries the same import, however, the idea being that while science does not deal with values, so its says, it misleads itself considerably in making such statements, for it projects the worst kind of values both upon mankind and the rest of nature—so even if you are not tainted from religion’s old beliefs, it is difficult to escape such ideas. [...]

[...] I want his beliefs written out. I want all the exercises done that he tells others to do, and I want both of you to consider your beliefs about the world as beliefs. [...]

[...] There are really no hidden beliefs. The pendulum method is simply a technique that is effective because of your beliefs, and brings to light your own quite conscious ideas—those that you might not approve of, and so conveniently appear to forget.

[...] They are always connected with larger belief systems that belong to some extent to the person, and to the person’s age as well.

[...] Instead, the framework of belief in which the episodes occur has prime importance. [...]

Now: in basic terms you form your reality, privately and en masse—through your beliefs, of course, and those beliefs cause you to organize your psychic world in certain fashions.

You use such belief organizations to concentrate upon certain data and ignore other, so that consciously and unconsciously you organize inner and outer stimuli so that it makes sense according to your beliefs, and forms therefore a more or less dependable framework in which action and response are possible.

History is written according to the present beliefs of a historian in his time. [...] The news is invisibly organized to fit certain patterns, so that when you read or hear it, it carries the seemingly indelible mark, confirming the basic beliefs of the culture.

[...] The entire pattern of these latest sessions deals with your inner reactions to your beliefs about yourselves and the world. [...] These newspaper beliefs shut you off from full utilization from Framework 2’s potency.

[...] That represents the one physical area concerning health in which you are not fully relying upon yourself, or new beliefs. [...]

[...] I suggest you examine your beliefs therefore concerning teeth, age, and in connection with your parents. [...]

[...] It is the one portion of your body, the mouth, that you have so far been willing to “sacrifice” to old mass beliefs.

[...] I hadn’t asked the pendulum questions about my attitudes toward teeth and my parents, though I had suspicions as to my beliefs in those areas. [...]

(9:29.) A man believing he has heart trouble will finally, through his own anxiety, affect the functioning of his “involuntary” system until his heart is definitely harmed if the belief goes unchecked. [...] No idea slips insidiously past your awareness to affect your involuntary system unless it fits in with your own conscious beliefs. [...]

If all of your beliefs, not just your “fortunate” ones, were not materialized, you would never thoroughly understand on a physical level that your ideas create reality. If only your “positive” beliefs were materialized then you would never clearly comprehend the power of your thought, for you would not completely experience its physical results.

To some degree, such inner data will be colored by the current beliefs of that part of the self most directly confronting the physical world. Those beliefs, however, are also constantly being examined by the inner self.

The physically alive body, its activities and condition, are directed through the beliefs of the conscious mind. [...]

[...] We also began a list of her beliefs. A list of my beliefs will be added. We want to have at least a session a week on personal matters, and two or three meetings a week for work on beliefs. As expected, some of Jane’s beliefs at least partially answered some of the questions we had for Seth, but we still desire him to consider the questions.

[...] To some extent it is a matter of some perfectly adequate beliefs not being tempered by others. Some of the beliefs Ruburt holds, that you think you disapprove of, you agree with—though not with his methods.

(Jane’s beliefs as listed already are very revealing, and much more is sure to come. [...]

We are working with his beliefs. [...]

[...] The old beliefs are not paying off. You are luckily free of many limiting beliefs that could otherwise hamper you now. Beliefs that once seemed to put you at a financial disadvantage now work for you.

It is difficult sometimes to untangle beliefs because you do not get hold of the proper strands.... [...] To some extent he had the feeling that as long as you kept your mouth shut about what you believed, you were safe, and that idea drew great strength from your own similar belief. [...]

[...] He uses that surely in line with the beliefs given—but the private area will still help him along the way. I am not excusing the belief.

[...] You tell Ruburt to keep it a secret from Leonard that your rent was raised, or you might move—good God!—while your most intimate personal beliefs and inspirations are given to the world. [...]