“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] That is one thing; but if an individual believes that it is literally impossible for him to travel from one end of the continent to another, or to change his job, or perform any act, then the act becomes practically impossible. The idealization of motion, however, in that person’s mind, or of change, may be denied expression at any given time — but it will nevertheless seek expression through experience. [...]

[...] It does mean that you have chosen certain experiences, but that these will automatically lead to further creative development if you allow them to. [...]

[...] If a portion of the race is hurt it may take a while before “you” feel the pain, but the entire unconscious mechanism of the species will try to heal the wound. [...]

[...] When you are finished, try to get a glimpse of those intimate relationships that each person had with other persons not present in the picture, but contemporary. [...]

[...] Man is indeed his intellect, but he is much else besides.

In normal memory you recall, obviously, but a slight percentage of your dreams, and usually these are from more surface levels.

[...] You can indeed learn much concerning events; but what we are mainly concerned with here is the stuff of dreams, and the framework within which they have their existence.

[...] Dream therapy could offer great advantages, but here again it could be dangerous in the hands of unscrupulous or rigid personalities.

[...] Some points might have been legitimate, but were uncheckable; the Gallaghers simply didn’t know.

(During the Seth sessions involved, I felt as if I were actually in a few locations, but these meant nothing to the Gallaghers. [...]

[...] my experiences put me outside the pale; on the other side of the fence from, say, the academic circles that I’d so respected; that my experience with other people was going to be vastly different; I thought I was looking for truth, but I’d be one of those under suspicion because of the kind of person into which I’d developed.... [...] I’d thought such things before but this was full of emotion.... [...]

Forgive the terminology, but you each believed in “magic,” or the sessions never would have started. [...]

[...] That is all I will say for now—but apply the book dictation tonight to your own lives. [...]

[...] The curtains, the old ones, represented now areas of belief and attitudes held by others which Ruburt disagreed with, but to which he acquiesced out of concern for other people’s opinions. [...]

[...] I suggested long ago that it be changed over, but no one listened.

[...] They knew themselves to be themselves, but their identities were not as closely allied with their forms as is now the case.

The plants awakened before the animals—and there are reasons for these varying degrees of “wakefulness” that have nothing to do basically with the differentiations of specieshood as defined by science from the outside, but have to do with the inner affiliations of consciousness, and with species or families of consciousness. [...]

[...] He looks at physical reality for the rest of physical reality: He is earth coming alive to view itself through conscious eyes—but that consciousness is graced to be because it is so intimately a part of earth’s framework.

[...] He enjoys ideas, but in that regard he does not trust himself. [...]

When he learned to write, he thought of writing to express such thoughts, and was always tempted to use writing as an expression of those subjective feelings he felt were forbidden—not just directed toward his father, but feelings of which he felt his father would disapprove. [...]

[...] Frank avoided that kind of behavior with his children, but did not fully surmount the pattern as far as his own father was concerned.

[...] I always got away and hid, in room after room, but the dream was an upsetting one, like that I’d had a week or so ago, when I’d lost my way amid a series of deserted factory buildings on the edge of Elmira. [...]

[...] I understand that the wait seemed longer to you than to me, but I was not concerned.

[...] I’d interpreted that dream to mean that a meaningful settlement was still far away from us, but there nevertheless. [...]

[...] Reality is so constructed that each individual seeking such fulfillment does so not at the expense of others, but in such a way that the quality of life is increased for all.

[...] The bar had been redecorated to some extent, but enough of the old remained to make it seem quite familiar. [...]

[...] Starting our day this morning, we reminded ourselves of the date, but made no plans other than to perhaps keep a sharp eye out for situations that could possibly develop unpleasantly. [...]

I was indeed giving you a much needed vacation, but I could feel you clamoring about this evening, and so we will visit for a short time.

There is more to it than this, but this is the basic reason. [...]

[...] After our meal I’d reread some of these late private sessions, and had planned to go over some of those from 1973, but various distractions prevented me from doing the latter. [...]

[...] Ruburt set out, of course, to handle his own purposes and challenges, but he chose those in the context of your world, so that in encountering them personally he would encounter them for your society as well. [...]

In a fashion you recognized much of this in your morning discussion about Ruburt’s problem, but it applies to each of you. [...]

[...] Your own relationship is itself quite extraordinary, precisely in the light of your own backgrounds—not as you think those backgrounds should have been, but as they were. [...]

[...] But again, as soon as the session began he calmed down and began to doze in a chair.

I have also said that all constructions are composed of atoms and molecules, but their action may be at such different speeds that you are not aware of them on the physical plane. [...]

[...] They formed themselves at Mark’s instigation into a gestalt of physical construction; but the gestalt could not operate consistently or endure for any amount of physical time, in your field, because of the absence here of the greater data which is the property of the whole self, in its construction of a completed human form. [...]

[...] I am, as I mentioned and as Ruburt surmised, going to keep you but briefly.

[...] (Amused:) Saturday is included, but not Sunday.

[...] “I’m just not up to it,” Jane said, “but there’s a lot of stuff he could give on the ulcer thing right now. [...]

[...] The last notes I gave you are extremely important, but he must not become overly concerned with results, but know that the new beliefs will bring results, as the old ones did, and as beautifully. [...]

[...] But he has done well with it. [...]

[...] Have him try walking to the couch, as yesterday, to begin with, but these changes definitely mean that the important alterations in the knees are happening.

[...] “I think I have the interpretations of them,” she said, “but maybe Seth will talk about them too. [...]

[...] Many might shy away from any philosophical discussions concerning the nature of “the good,” but many would also understand and appreciate the meaning of the word “better,” when applied to any situation.

You may not achieve ideal solutions with the law, but it should allow practical specific actualization, at least in part, of an ideal situation. [...]

Do not think in terms of a generalized ideal situation, but in terms of better covers, better communication with Prentice in both friendly terms as per Ruburt’s calls to Tam, and in the definitive terms of clearly stating specific requests. [...]

(9:40—Jane was out of trance easily, but said that Seth was here strongly tonight, even though her voice and delivery were rather average. But Jane said that when Seth is really here she feels a “certain energy” about her that is intensified over ordinary sessions. [...]

I did not forget the first of my own books, incidentally, but put it off in order that more practical material concerning Ruburt could be given. [...]

[...] You will not only understand it intellectually, but feel what it means. [...]

[...] It was almost a nightmare—in fact Jane woke me out of it to prevent this seeming reaction on my part, I was fairly sure the dream concerned my father’s approaching death, but certain elements in it were similar enough to Seth’s suggestions about contacting Dr. Pietra, above, to make me tell Jane about it—on the off chance the dream had been more than it seemed.

[...] But within its framework you are also meant to grow and develop, and to extend the limits of your consciousness. [...]

The dreaming self as you conceive of it, however, is but a shadow of its own reality, for the dreaming self is a psychological point of reference and, in your terms, [of] continuity, that brings together all portions of your identity. [...]

[...] And the child says, “But what will happen to me? [...]

[...] Any inner journeys should allow you to find greater significance, beauty, and meaning in life as you know it now; but full enjoyment and development also means that you use all of your abilities, that you explore inner dimensions with as much wonder and enthusiasm. [...]

[...] He will be using the same ideas, but different methods, in any case. [...]

[...] She told me the problems made her “nervous but happy” as she considered them.)

[...] A single image may suddenly open up into an entire mental landscape, but you will know none of this if you do not acknowledge the first clues that are just beneath present awareness, and almost transparent if you are only willing to look.

[...] When once it is led to face this, it finds not chaos, or worse, nonexistence, but the source of its own abilities and strength. [...]

[...] There is faith in good, but there is also faith in “evil.” [...]

[...] I want to point out that faith is not all that unusual, but a prime element in your life. [...]

[...] I say this because often anger, for example, may seem spontaneous—and may be—but is more often the explosive, finally forced expression of reactions long withheld or repressed.

[...] The inner organizations immediately trigger all the necessary actions required, from Framework 2. This applies to any issue – but again, your creative abilities, used on behalf of Ruburt’s physical condition will give him a normally cooperating body.