“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You cannot separate your beliefs about reality from the reality that you experience. That is, your beliefs about reality form it. Your ideas about what is possible and what is not possible are reflected in all areas.

The body’s innate knowledge, then, will try to translate itself often into psychological activity that may result in hunches, premonitions, and so forth. The senses may be utilized to clarify the message. You might hear a voice mentally, for example, or see a flashing image. According to your beliefs, you may interpret such data in any of many ways, but because such experiences are not an accepted part of recognized, official activity, they can appear frightening. Period. You may assign them to “spirits” or disembodied personalities, but in such a way that these are thrown together in a confusing mass of dogma or superstition.

4. In earlier days, Jane and I only thought of the cell as a result of its past, too. Yet at the same time, Jane in her poetry was trying to see through that pervasive belief. The few lines below are from Pathetique, a long poem she wrote in 1959. She was 30 years old, and her development of the Seth material lay five years in the future.