“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] As a matter of fact, the students took such regrettable actions not because they gave into impulsive behavior, but because the road to true impulsive expression had been blocked so long that such actions became one of the few possible ways of giving vent to certain expressions. [...]

Whenever, and for whatever reasons you block the normally free flow of impulses, you also curtail the exercise of free will, for free will involves you in the experience of choosing between the actualization of one impulse or another. [...]

[...] They blocked large portions of energy, rather than learn how to use it and so, in many ways, denied themselves facets of creativity. [...]

[...] They blocked the energy off at the source. [...]

[...] It is you who have been blocking sensations that are there and do exist.

This means using your mind and applying the mind to the body—not blocking out the mind. [...]

[...] Streets — without sidewalks — passed the hill house on but two sides, at the southwest corner, and each one dead-ended less than a block away. [...]

[...] Since Jane had already refreshed her memory of those psychic groupings before the session, and, presumably, would deliver Seth’s material on them in the proper order, I matched up their names with the successive blocks of data given in the session. [...]

(Referring to the drawing, it can be seen that there is an interlocking group of 7 designs or blocks on the right, and a like group of 3 on the left. My literal mind also notes a single block beneath each of the larger groups, but Seth did not refer to these. [...]

[...] He said he prefers to deal with blocks of material in this fashion.

[...] The fear alone causes them to block out still more and more unconscious knowledge. [...]

[...] The senses within the recognizable senses perceive and create an inner world … once you exist on a particular plane you must necessarily be attuned to it while blocking out many other perceptions. [...]

[...] Even the basic principles of the material had been given in highly simplified form: the blocks upon which the foundations would be laid.

[...] That is, I can let him know; but overly conscious preoccupation blocks him from knowing.

[...] It is Ruburt who constantly, and oftentimes bull-headedly, blocks what I have to say.

[...] In such fashion you block out aspects of your own reality — and consciously, at least, cut down on your choices.

7. Seth gave two blocks of material in Seth Speaks that are analogous to what he tells us here. [...]

[...] It seems very dark, with two rather than three windows, and the middle one is blocked partially. [...]

As mentioned earlier, those concepts can have a hand in the development of would-be suicides, particularly of a young age, for they seem to effectively block a future.

The nervous system itself must, you see, be so constituted, and the nervous system reacts definitely to visual block images. [...]

[...] All of them are geometric variations, featuring lines, circles, triangles, blocks of color, etc., in a fashion definitely angular. [...]

[...] After the session, although it was late, I suggested we walk the few blocks to check out the above data. [...]

[...] Something to do with block formations now. [...]

(Note that in here Seth gives three blocks of data relating to one facet of the events connected to the bill used as object. [...]

[...] Or it may refer quite accurately to the envelope object itself, which would be the second possibility for this block of data.

[...] His overall concerns of course to some extent blocked his creative processes, which further alarmed him. [...]

[...] I try to break up blocks of your concentration, and at various times have indeed succeeded, so that creative changes show in all areas, including Ruburt’s condition.

[...] We walked around the block just before session time.)

Your conscious mind is always trying to give you a clear picture, but you often allow preconceived ideas to block out this intelligence. [...]

[...] When Seth is involved with a block of sessions on one subject, we hate to upset the continuity of the material by asking him to go into something else, and besides, we’ve learned that Seth eventually answers as many of our questions as possible.

[...] I was determined to find out where I was, so I walked around the block looking for street signs. [...]

[...] Then I set out to find the hotel, and while I swear I walked the block three times and recognized the other buildings, I just couldn’t find the hotel. [...]

Whole blocks of sessions deal with the methods used and the conditions that can be met in projections of consciousness from the dream state. [...]

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. [...]

[...] [In them, incidentally, I mentioned the destruction of Elmira’s Walnut Street Bridge; the old steel span had crossed the Chemung River half a block from our apartment house. [...]

[...] A cat does not anticipate danger from a penned dog four blocks away, however, nor bother wondering what would happen if that dog were to escape and find the cat’s cozy yard.

Many people, however, do not pay attention to everything in their environments, but through their beliefs concentrate only upon “the ferocious dog four blocks away.” [...]

(“It wasn’t the ulcers,” I said, meaning that the will or the intent to move had been blocked. [...]