“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

While your present conscious beliefs dictate your current experience, and while your physical body wears its solidity only in present time to your senses, beneath this both the ever-changing elements of your body and your consciousness are relatively free in time. [...]

Learning is not simply passed on from living tissue to living tissue — this your biologists have discovered — but it is also passed on through the body’s present corporeal reality, sometimes entirely changing the messages to past cells, that in your terms no longer exist.

[...] But even such decisions can be altered at any time in your “now” — the entire body can be regenerated in a way that would be impossible to predict in usual medical terms. [...]

You rule your experiences from the focal point of your present, where your beliefs directly intercept with the body and the physical world on the one hand, and the invisible world from which you draw your energy and strength on the other. [...]

It is not the soul, but the soul of the body that you must learn to trust; for the soul in the body represents the corporeal meeting of the physical and nonphysical selves, in the most practical of terms. [...] But he is not relying alone upon “his own” resources, but upon those great dimensions of energy that connect the soul and body—the silver guide and the ape.

[...] The body and the consciousness are learning to walk and function in a new way. [...] Ruburt’s body is completely releasing itself, but it is of utmost importance that he go along with the process, and this experience was meant to provide the necessary connections between body and soul.

[...] He did not trust the body—his or anyone else’s. There is no need to go into his reasons here. [...]

[...] In learning to trust the changes in his body occurring now, Ruburt is at the same time learning to trust his own instincts, and the creaturehood of himself. [...]

“Is my body an appearance, hence an untruth amid the truth which is changeless? Ah dear body, then, how lovely and blessed your untruth, which is sensate and feels desire through the hollowest of bones. How blessed, bodies, leaping alive from the microscopic molecules that combine to walk down the autumn streets; assemble to form the sweet senses’ discrimination that perceives, for a time, the precise joy and unity of even one passing afternoon. The body’s untruth, then, is holier than all truths, and if the body is an untruth then I hereby proclaim untruth, and truth and all the gurus’ truths as lies.

[...] Jane’s quick and impassioned response through her own writing, as presented below, reflects feelings deeply rooted within her mystical nature, and also illuminates important aspects of the body and direction of the Seth material as a whole. [...]

[...] Don’t be so anxious to throw your individuality back into their faces, saying, ‘I’m sick to death of myself and of my individuality; it burdens me.’ Even one squirrel’s consciousness, suddenly thrown into the body of another of its kind, would feel a sense of loss, encounter a strangeness, and know in the sacredness of its being that something was wrong. [...]

[...] In many cases, when people make the necessary decisions that would otherwise restore their bodies, medical drugs have so muddied body orientation that the affair is further complicated. If you continue as you are going, the overall body responsiveness will certainly continue. [...]

[...] Her legs and ankles still felt “itchy,” as described before, and at times she had similar feelings throughout the body. [...]

Ruburt’s body is undergoing profound beneficial alterations, for his desire and intent seemingly have changed overnight, relatively speaking. [...]

[...] In a way then the word, with its intent and meaning, has tremendous power, to which the body is responding. [...]

[...] She said she felt motions in her body as she lay on her side, watching TV while I took a nap from 5:05 to 5:35. She occasionally moved a portion of her body as she ate supper. [...]

Ruburt’s physical performance this afternoon should certainly show him that his body is indeed capable of normal motion. [...]

[...] He should tell himself, again, that it is perfectly safe to move, that the body’s safety, in fact, is dependent upon its fluid motion, so that the muscles are free to relax and contract. [...]

This afternoon’s physical performance does indeed represent another important breakthrough, for he felt within him that ease and motion, that release of tension that is so vital for his body’s normal, healthy performance. [...]

It also helped rid the body of excess fluids — the phlegm, and so forth. [...] The high temperature was also the result of stoking the body’s furnace, so to speak — and, again, getting rid of any leftover “poisons.” [...]

[...] “The body was trying to get rid of things — the mucous — that it didn’t want.” [...]

The process of clearing the body out began when Ruburt started his Day 1, but with the great frequency of negative hospital suggestions, and general false beliefs connected with fever, the beneficial aspects indeed had to be taken on faith as largely (underlined) they were (louder).

The improvements shown by the eyes, therefore, will be demonstrated by other portions of the body. [...]

[...] He frightened himself into returning to his body for he had been away from it too long. [...] He was like a truant so he caused the hallucination so that he would return to his body. [...] He knew it was time to return to the body, and he decided to stay out of it despite the nature of inclination to return, and so he made a nightmare for himself to frighten himself home like the errant boy that he was. [...]

[...] You can, indeed, be involved in some group out-of-body endeavors. [...] It does no good to tell yourselves that you will leave your body fifty times before you sleep, if in the back of your skull you are thinking, I am terrified. [...]

(Rachel had been discussing a story on astral projection which told of a man seeing a black shape trying to sever the silver cord so he could not return to his body.)

Now bodies are not at such a high premium. [...]

Your experience in relaxation (a week ago) allowed your body some release. The relaxed body sends forth hormones and chemicals of a balanced nature that influence the processes of thought, modulate moods, and also allow for moments of deep contentment, and moments of elation. When the body becomes too tense reactions are exaggerated in certain fashions, bringing forth dejection or depression. [...] You should have more of those relaxing periods of varying degrees, as your body becomes regulated again. [...]

(To me:)Your body wanted relaxation, but you believed that relaxation was, under the circumstances, wrong, and often when your body began to relax in the past you automatically tightened it, as another might straighten his tie to be more presentable. [...]

[...] The line that’s most impressed me in all of this, perhaps, is Seth’s quote to me from my own body, given by him in the deleted session for April 18: “You worry too much. [...]

That same information is available on a cellular basis (pause), and to the smaller particles that make up the bodies of the experimenters, and the structure of the instruments.

All of the body parts, left alone, seek the body’s overall fulfillment and free expression. [...]

Tell Ruburt to trust his body and its periods of exercise and rest. [...]

Remind him once again that the conscious mind cannot know of all of the body’s interior actions. [...]

Now I may or may not return, according to those rhythms of which I have spoken—but I am once again present whether or not I am speaking, and Ruburt can learn to taste his body’s full agility and motion. [...]

[...] Your ideas about your own body, your mind, the universe and your part in it, and your relationship to family, friends, and environment are all connected to your state of health, to your sense of well-being, or your feelings of dis-hyphen-ease. [...]

In the next chapter let us look more specifically at the importance of symbolism in your mind, your body, and your environment.

Now: Modern medical science largely considers the human body to be a kind of mechanical model, a sort of vehicle like a car that needs to be checked by a garage every so often.

As an automobile is put together at an assembly line, so the body is simply seen as a very efficient machine put together in nature’s “factory.” [...]

[...] Becoming more aware of his desires will activate the body so that it performs more quickly in order to meet his goals. [...] The body and mind both need stimuli, variety, and richness, and his nature automatically seeks expression, not repression.

The physical body runs itself spontaneously, and yet with an inner automatic discipline and order that is indeed almost impossible for you to understand.

[...] More than this, the body automatically, spontaneously responds to emotion, and yet in that spontaneous activity what inner discipline reigns.

The inner order of the body is hidden within its great spontaneous abilities. [...]

[...] The atoms and molecules of your body have completely changed. There is not one small vestige within your physical body at this moment that was within it eight years ago. [...] For if I am speaking through the body of a woman, so have the three men here present spoken through the bodies of women when those bodies were their own, and the women spoke as men. [...]

[...] Now life and vitality are joyful and it makes no difference whether or not you have a body. Your existence is not dependent upon a body and your father tried to tell you this. [...]

[...] The inner voice is the voice of All That Is and that voice speaks through the tissues of your body and the cells and atoms and molecules that compose your physical image. [...]

[...] A gentleman without a body must be harmless, so why do I meet such fear as I always do in this class. [...]

[...] Great energy is going into repair of the body, and the mind itself needed a rest. [...]

He will want to eat more, incidentally, for the body will be utilizing nutriments for repair. [...]

[...] The main thing to remember is not to watch the body too closely.

[...] This alone removed some strongly negative body beliefs that had still remained despite his understanding of the reasons behind the symptoms.

The body beliefs, continuing their materialization, kept him discouraged, and promoted dire images of the future and so forth, that were quite in line with the beliefs involved. [...]

[...] The upper portions have been compensating as the body is in the process of changing its alignment. [...]

It may interest you to know that your athletic tendencies are somewhat involved in your out-of-body travel, in that it seems to you that the body must be poised and balanced, and have support — hence the hallucinations you use. You can use those tendencies to help you, however, if you think in terms of a completely free body, able to move unsupported in space, capable of manipulations in the dream state that are denied it in physical reality. The “inner” body can perform in ways that the physical body cannot, and you can use that as a challenge. Find out what you can do with your inner body; experiment.

[...] In terms of time you have many bodies, as you are born and reborn in earth experience. Your consciousness straddles those existences, and even the atoms and molecules within your present body contain the coded knowledge of those other (really simultaneous) forms. [...]

(10:45.) Now: Your system does not include the kind of experience mentioned earlier (in this session), where the body is able to contain in one lifetime the experience of many selves. It uses a time context instead, with each self given a body and a time; but a knowledge of the ideas of multipersonhood could help you realize that you have available many abilities not being used, latent to you but still important in your entire identity, and significant enough to you personally to be developed.

[...] See the 637th session: “… think now of the life of the self as one message leaping across the nerve cells of a multidimensional structure — again, as real as your body — and consider it also as a greater ‘moment of reflection’ on the part of such a many-sided personality … I am aware that [these analogies] can make you feel small or fear for your identity. [...]

Consciousness has a feel the same way that a body does. [...] It’s free outside of the body, sometimes freer than it is inside the body. [...]

[...] Return to the body that is so secure and willing. [...] Return to the time and the place gladly, the way someone returns to home, but knowing in the back of your mind that there are many homes and many places and many times, but for now return your focuses, settling back gladly into the body. [...]

[...] (Pause.) While men had their dream bodies alone they enjoyed a remarkable freedom, of course, for those bodies did not have to be fed or clothed. [...]

[...] In the terms of this discussion the other creatures of the earth actually awakened before man did, and relatively speaking, their dream bodies formed themselves into physical ones before man’s did. [...]

[...] Part of consciousness, then, transformed itself into what you think of as nature—the vast sweep of the continents, the oceans and the rivers, the mountains and the valleys, the body of the land. [...]

[...] The action of the eyes is intimately connected with the speed and mobility of the body—intimately connected, for that matter, with all organs. [...] The unevenness of vision is the result of the entire body changes, shiftings of jaw pressure, release of ligaments, and an entire body reorientation.

Ruburt’s body is becoming more alive. [...] As things now stand, his body is spasmodically jolting itself into new life, and responsiveness. [...]

[...] In the past several days his body has responded remarkably well, with vitally important loosening taking place. [...]

[...] The body in some respects has its own innocent life—a part of yours, but apart from it in certain respects. [...]

All of the body’s work cannot show. [...]

[...] Some body tension was needed. [...]

[...] The body knows what it is doing. [...]

[...] The body often does not know how to react. If you believe that the body is sinful, for example, you cannot expect to be happy, and health will most likely elude you, for your dark beliefs will blemish the psychological and biological integrity with which you were born.

I do not intend to give a treatise upon the biological structures of the body and their interworkings, but only to add such information in that line that is not currently known, and is otherwise important to the ideas I have in mind. [...] The body’s defenses will take care of themselves if they are allowed to, and if the psychological air is cleared of the true “carriers” of disease.

[...] The body’s defense systems become confused to varying degrees.