“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If he journeyed through his memories trying to find a different kind of proof instead, then in that same past he would discover instances when he did relate well with others. Your present beliefs structure the memories which will parade before you now — and what you remember will then seem to justify the beliefs.

When you are trying to alter your beliefs, look through your past with the new conceptions in mind. If you are ill, remember when you were not. Search your life for proofs of your health. Your very life itself is hard evidence that health is within you!

Those memories will be used to reach any conclusion, as statistics can be used, for example. Along the way you may settle for a given remembered event or two, and assign to them the reasons for your present behavior. If so, you are already prepared to change your current beliefs and mode of action, and simply use the occurrences or habits of the past as a stimulus or motivation. (See the 616th session in Chapter Two.)

(“Hmmm,” she added, “I just remembered Seth gave material something like this in [ESP] class last night….” I’d forgotten too; Jane had talked about it while I helped her straighten up the living room at about 1:15 a.m. But we won’t see a transcript of the class tapes until next Tuesday night.