“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The beliefs that you still need to change can put you in excellent, glowing health, but the body is not unresponsive, but highly responsive to your beliefs and attitudes.

[...] Generally, underlined four times, suicides do not appreciate, for example, for whatever reasons, the quality of life, but set up demands as to what life should be. [...]

(Yesterday after breakfast Jane had blood taken for tests, but we haven’t heard anything about results yet. [...]

Beneath these ideas is the fear of the mind itself, the belief that its abilities are fine and dependable up to a point — but if it goes too far then it is in trouble.

There are many other deep psychological connections beneath schizophrenic behavior, but since this book is also devoted to other subjects, we will go on to other ways in which conflicting beliefs bring about mental or physical dilemmas.

[...] But changed wake-sleep habits can, again, bring about a transformation in which it is obvious that dreams contain great wisdom and creativity, that the unconscious is indeed quite conscious, and that in fact the individual sense of identity can be retained in the dream state. [...]

[...] This does not mean that in all dreams that particular kind of awareness is achieved, but it is often accomplished within the suggested wake-sleep pattern.

[...] This occurs spontaneously whatever your sleep patterns, but is very brief and seldom remembered. [...]

[...] Not only are they often hindered in waking life, then, but censored as much as possible in dreams. [...]

[...] I thought the name Alice familiar, but couldn’t help out re Prentice. [...]

(At break I told Jane I also had a teacher named Miss Prince, but am unsure now of the grade she taught.

It allows the light of its personality to shine purposely down those paths from which it has come, in order to help others who will follow; but the light is the light of vitality, and carries with it traces of the personality who lets it shine.

[...] Jane had been in a good trance but left it easily. [...]

[...] You must take small practical steps, often when you would prefer to take giant ones — but you must move (underlined) in the direction of your ideals through action. [...]

[...] You may contemplate the end of the world instead, but in either case you are propelled by a sense of personal frustration, and perhaps by some degree of vengeance, seeing in your mind the destruction of a world that fell so far beneath your idealized expectations.

[...] You have the power to change your life and the world for the better, but in doing so you must, again, reevaluate what your ideals are, and the methods that are worthy of them. [...]

[...] Consciously, you are usually aware only of your own thoughts, but those thoughts merge with the thoughts of all others in the world. [...]

These environments may appear distorted to you, but the distortion is usually your own and not that of the environment. [...]

[...] There is nothing wrong with the station, but with your reception of it.

[...] If we ever meet we could ask you a lot of questions, but we have learned it’s tough to do much of a job by letter, so we’ll content ourselves with what’s been said above.

We don’t know how things work re turning in a thesis, etc., as you mention in your letter, but you have our best wishes. [...]

[...] She intended to leave before session time, but Jane invited her to stay at 8:50. [...]

[...] I would have some interesting comments to make regarding the relationships between you, but we must be up and about with our Appendix, and so we will continue that. [...]

[...] You think of thoughts, images, and dreams sometimes as being symbolic of other things, but the truth is that physical objects are themselves symbols. [...]

[...] There is instant feedback between the interior and exterior conditions, but the mobility, the necessity and the method of changing the physical environment will always come from within.

[...] But it purposefully distorted the idea image so grotesquely that it knew it could not be maintained. [...]

To some extent this was indeed a spiteful reaction, but do not forget it had been a good protector in the past, developed during Ruburt’s years with his mother into a strong armor. [...]

[...] Now I would like to continue here, but I imagine your hands are tired.

[...] He is forcing himself to face his difficulties, but thus far his hands are tied, you see.

[...] In others the rejection would come close to commitment, but for him this is not enough.

[...] (Voice quiet but firm and emphatic). [...]

[...] He let you (smile) do the harm, but he would have let no one else do it at the time. [...]

[...] The intellect follows when and to what extent it can in the poetic experience, but does not directly participate in the initial moment of revelation or intuitional insight. [...]

This is only an analogy, but for working purposes it is a fair enough one. [...] A few of these have been observed, but ignored as pertinent signs. (With gestures, eyes wide open): The activities of atoms and molecules quicken as they approach these points, but the distance between the atoms and molecules remains the same. [...]

[...] Sometimes the angle will be longer, but the two lines will point in the right direction. [...]

[...] But Seth returned):

True individuals can do much through social action, and the species is a social one, but people who are afraid of their individuality will never find it in a group, but only a caricature of their own powerlessness.

(It’s almost as though there’s an unspoken agreement among Jane, Seth and me — but starting with the 846th session, which was held over a month ago [on April 4], Seth has been dictating material for Mass Events on Wednesday evenings only.)

[...] I am not saying that is their only motive, but in one way or another they manage to justify their activities by seeing them in their own version of the good and the right.

[...] But I did know he was going to go into the good and the bad.”

[...] You have the freedom to add varieties to your schedules, to alter some of the time in which you work, but you do not take advantage of that freedom.

What you told Ruburt earlier of course does apply, but there are freedoms now of which you are unaware, so do not concentrate on the limitations, while at the same time do try to rid yourself of them by concentrating upon immediate possible freedoms.

[...] There is no magic connected with suggestions — but repeated often enough, and believed in fervently, such suggestions do indeed take on a deeply habitual nature. They are no longer examined, but taken for literal truth.

[...] At first she didn’t want to tell me what he’d said until after lunch, but I persuaded her to tell all. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) I told you that at certain levels contradictions would certainly seem to appear, but the us-ness of the self represents an important psychic characteristic. [...]

[...] In such a way the child actively participates in the consciousness of nature—and I am not speaking of an imaginative or symbolic participation alone, but of an awareness of the multiplicity within itself and of other creatures. [...]

Now there are important insights in tonight’s material particularly for Ruburt, but for you also, for it is that inner feeling of contact and awareness that is so amazingly productive in the creation of art and in the creation of any physical aspects that you want to change in the physical world. [...]

[...] Jane, as Seth, took but a moderate pause. [...]

(Amused:) An atom can take care of itself, but atoms themselves are somewhat like domesticated animals; joining in the biological family of the body, to some extent they become like friendly cats or dogs under your domain.

[...] I said this earlier (in chapters Seven, Nine, etc.), but you cannot deny your creaturehood without denying your soul, and you cannot deny your soul without denying your creaturehood.

[...] “I could feel it work, but I couldn’t do much because you’ve got to keep yourself balanced on that litter.... [...]

[...] “But that’s okay,” I said. [...]

[...] But she wasn’t overdoing anything by straining too hard. [...]

[...] It was still tough going for her, but she did well. [...]

[...] At first Jane had trouble reading yesterday’s session, but did better as she went along. [...]

This is simply the body’s way of ridding itself of mineral deposits that were once needed by the body, but are no longer needed. [...]

[...] I’d thought of going over some of the earlier material with Jane today, but what with my having to go after the car and so forth, events seemed too crowded together. [...]

[...] I turned Jane on her left side before I left, shortly after 5:00, but I was back with the car within 15 minutes. [...]

[...] These outings will be of benefit here, not only because they allow for spontaneous interaction, but because they serve to break the schedules in ways that do not disturb working hours. [...]

A variety of small, perhaps, but frequent alterations of schedule or habit are very helpful. [...]

[...] An hypnotic session would be helpful, but only when you feel confident. [...]

[...] I intend to go into past-life experiences rather extensively, but in another context. [...]

(The last two sessions are highly interesting, but weren’t devoted to book dictation. [...]

[...] Puberty arrives, so to speak, but the time of its arrival varies according to the needs of the species, its conditions and beliefs. [...]

[...] A relatively strong “sexual” identification is important under those circumstances — but (louder) an over-identification with them, before or afterward, can lead to stereotyped behavior, in which the greater needs and abilities of the individual are not allowed fulfillment.

These are simple enough examples, but the man who possesses interests considered feminine by your culture, who naturally wants to enter fields of interest considered womanly, experiences drastic conflicts between his sense of personhood and identity — and his sexuality as it is culturally defined. [...]