“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“It’s funny. I’m still waiting for the session,” Jane said at 9:35. By then, we’d been ready for twenty minutes. I hadn’t really expected her to have a session tonight — but then, was my belief influencing reality? She had delivered a long and intense one Monday night, and in Tuesday’s ESP class she’d “been in and out of trance all night,” as she described it. This meant for about three hours; Sumari had been included, too. Jane’s energy has been high for some time now.

(Then at 9:38 she said, “At last — I feel Seth around. We’ll have a session after all….”)

(Pause.) People with like ideas reinforce each other’s beliefs. You may meet with some misunderstanding when you suddenly decide to change your reality by changing your beliefs — according to the circumstances, you may be going in a completely different direction than the group to which you belong. The others may feel it necessary to defend ideas that all of you previously took for granted. In such cases your beliefs merged. Each individual has his or her own ideas about reality for reasons that seem valid. Needs are met. When you abruptly change your beliefs, then in the group you no longer have the same position — you are not playing that game any longer.

It does no good in such a case to bemoan the situation and say, “I want to understand myself but I’m frightened that I will not like what I find.” You yourself must change your beliefs. You must stop believing that the inner self is a dungeon of unsavory repressed emotion. It does contain some repressed emotion. It also contains great intuition, knowledge, and the answers to all of your questions.

Listen to your own conversation as you speak with friends, and to theirs. See how you reinforce each other’s beliefs. See how your imaginations often follow the same lines. All of this is quite out in the open if you realize that it is.