“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] However conscious fears cause the ego to tighten its grasp and some effects of this nature were starting up again. [...]

In drawing up his list of so-called natural laws, I have said that man decided that what appeared to be cause and effect to him was therefore a natural law of the universe. [...]

[...] Man needs artificial methods for example to operate effectively on land or in water, but the so-called unconscious tree manages very nicely in two worlds as diverse certainly as land and water, and makes himself a part of each. [...]

Man’s ego causes him to interpret everything else in the light of himself. [...]

[...] So-called hunches indeed are often caused by an inner recognition that a given event might occur. As you know, there is no cause and effect as you understand it. [...]

[...] Every thought is composed of its own energy, and it has an effect within energy. We are not speaking here now of your tired old cause and effect theory however. [...]

[...] John usually inspires Seth in a telepathic/clairvoyant way, and so tonight some effects were obtained also. [...]

[...] Some slight difficulty in one particular area, caused by a motor malfunction. [...]

[...] “Tell her we’ll pay for it,” I said, or words to that effect. [...]

[...] This could have very beneficial therapeutic effects on my wife, I realized. [...]

[...] I saw that the swollen bubble of fluid on her left shoulder blade was way up — this was causing much of her discomfort. [...]

[...] (Pete’s brother.) We find a confusion in body chemistry, caused either by the diet itself at present, or alternating changes of diet. (Pause.) Some actual, though not drastic, starvation of tissues from the same causes. [...]

[...] Simply knotted muscles caused by strain. [...]

A small cat, either involved in the argument, or caused the argument, or present during the argument. [...]

[...] His periods of communication are necessarily brief, simply because he is unable at this time to utilize his energy to that direction with any effectiveness.

[...] It is the ability to effectively handle energy in a constructive way for your own benefit and the benefit of others. [...] You should indeed imagine yourself, therefore, able to handle your energy effectively for your own good and the good of others; to imagine yourself as a channel through which the creativity of the universe can express itself. For when you harbor negative ideas and resentments, then indeed you set up a block and the block causes distortions. [...]

[...] for the effects of the body are felt in the mind... and the effects of the mind are felt in the body. [...]

[...] In the time lag on this plane, there are other thoughts, projections on the same idea or object; Seth declined to go into their effects on the final idea or object until a later time.

[...] It does mean that in that particular area they are able to utilize energy more effectively.

[...] It is the ability to effectively handle energy in a constructive way for your own benefit and the benefit of others. [...] You should indeed imagine yourself, therefore, able to handle your energy effectively for your own good and the good of others; to imagine yourself as a channel through which the creativity of the universe can express itself. For when you harbor negative ideas and resentments, then indeed you set up a block and the block causes distortions. [...]

[...] You as an individualized consciousness are a part of this, and you cannot express yourself fully nor fulfill your purpose as an identity, as an individual, if you are not in good health—for the effects of the body are felt in the mind...and the effects of the mind are felt in the body. [...]

[...] In the time lag on this plane, there are other thoughts, projections on the same idea or object; Seth declined to go into their effects on the final idea or object until a later time. [...]

[...] It does mean that in that particular area they are able to utilize energy more effectively. [...]

[...] The reason was simple: a late snowstorm of very deep and heavy wet snow the night before, and continuing on into the next day, had split the Chinese elms in the back yard and caused the one nearest the garage to fall across the driveway, so I couldn’t get the car out of the garage. [...]

[...] It is quite simplistic, for example, to say, as some people do, that any given particular event from a past life leads inevitably to a particularly matching effect in a present one. [...]

[...] While I did she had some thoughts of her own — that a person can choose illness, for example, in order to explore that reality, and to exert certain effects upon others around the ill person: thoughts I have had many times — my old idea of consciousness getting to know itself in as many ways as possible.

[...] There seems to be some metallic effect circling the neck. Some difficulty here, caused by an allergic reaction.

[...] That is, the issue is frightening subconsciously, because of peculiar and individual attitudes caused by her own relationship to her parents. [...]

[...] A block has been preventing her from utilizing this energy with anything like normal effectiveness.

There is no real adequate framework in your society in which people like Augustus can be treated with any effectiveness.

[...] The chemical changes were caused by the transition in beliefs that operated, and not the other way around.

[...] Now again, if Augustus somehow changed his beliefs it is possible that even within that framework some kind of cure would be effected. [...]

[...] You will literally interpret and use almost any data that comes to you as helpful, and it will be highly effective — unless your beliefs lead you to think, perhaps, that everyone is against you, or that you are beyond help, or that you do not deserve it. [...]

“There is no more truth and no more falsehood in saying that my appearance in the doorway was caused by suggestion than to say that this room and everything in it is caused by suggestion. [...]

[...] What you really believe about these things causes much of your behavior. [...]

“Physical matter makes consciousness effective within three-dimensional reality. [...]

[...] The effect was rather like that of a photographic negative. [...]

(A new physical effect concerned the candle, standing on the table against the wall perhaps three feet from our group. [...] Seth, talking about physical effects, said that he could probably have levitated the small coffee table we sat around tonight, with Ruburt’s help. [...] The increase in brightness was plainly noticeable, causing all of us to look at the candle. Seth then said he had caused the flame to grow. [...] Seth went on to say that the candle flame would not grow higher again, because Ruburt was alerted to the effect now, and was watching it.

[...] The voice was somewhat unusual, Seth told us; he himself was not interested greatly in physical effects or proofs, but realized they might be necessary to us, or scientists. He was interested, he said, in effects like the voice, or Jane’s facial changes. [...]

[...] One is to the effect that although Seth’s contact with Jane and me is his first venture into education on our plane, [which he had told us many sessions ago], he is also in contact with other groups on other planes. [...]

(Seth made one short remark I would have liked to question him further on, to the effect that we would have plenty of go-arounds with “your parapsychologists.” [...]

(Pause.) The various potions taken faithfully by the public were now often found to have very unfortunate side effects. The chemicals used to protect agriculture had harmful effects upon people. [...]

[...] How could a country be governed effectively by individuals who were after all chemicals run amok in images, with neuroticism built-in from childhood — children of a tainted species, thrown adrift by a meaningless cosmos in which no meaning could be found (very intently)?

[...] They had no cause to live for, because their idealism became so separated from any particular actualization that they were left only with its ashes.

[...] They feel that at any time they might be caused to face the greatest challenge, to rely upon their strongest resources, their greatest forbearance, and faced by a test of endurance. [...]

[...] In most cases, however, the experiences do not leave any detrimental side effects.

(Hospital staff caused Jane to break off the session twice. [...]

[...] Because the organization is so different, however, in a way you must forget cause and effect, for things fall into place almost in a circular fashion.

[...] That belief generates certain actions or events, so that practically speaking, while he sees the flames, and perhaps smells the smoke, the heat of the fire will have no effect—because for him its character is changed. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, again, he erases the fire’s practicality, so that it can have no effect.

[...] Stories of walking on water give you the same kind of proposition, where you have to all effects and purposes dry water, or solid water.

Negative thoughts running rampant do cause infections. [...]

If however his treatment involves drugs, these may further upset the inner processes, causing further imbalances. [...]

[...] The effects however were highly reduced from what they would have been in the past.

[...] Your apartment hunting had a favorable effect, simply because of the complete change of focus and the swinging of energies into a different area.

[...] And with increased spontaneity we will decrease any distortive effects. These effects very rarely occur, except in personal material, or in cases where Ruburt feels under pressure because of doubts. [...]

(The effects took some time to wear off. [...] She had no trouble with coordination, [could type easily enough, etc.] as she had in the January episode, when she could not even use a pen effectively for a time. [...]

[...] It is simply that he becomes vulnerable, or more sensitive, to inner data in a dissociated state, regardless of what causes the state to come about.

[...] In such a state, regardless of its cause, any individual is more sensitive to inner data. [...]

(Jane also experienced the now familiar cone or pyramid effect when the new personality chose to speak. [...] This effect rises above her head, vertically. Jane now described an effect of this evening in which she seemed to experience a horizontal projection, again of a triangular shape.

[...] with the stimuli that caused it.

(Jane again had the cone or pyramid effect after break.

[...] Therefore the conscious mind holds in ready access the information that you require for effective day-to-day living. [...]

(Pause, one of many.) As soon as the need for such data — aid, information, or knowledge — arises, then it is immediately forthcoming unless your own conscious beliefs cause a barrier. [...]

[...] Without it there would be an “out of focus” effect that would make physical survival impossible, so certain portions of the inner self come to the foreground of being.

[...] Its job is to assess that reality effectively, using that fine focus mentioned earlier. [...]

As the dream does not begin then at any particular moment, neither did your physical universe begin at any given moment, and neither did the inwardness become born in terms of cause and effect.

[...] The momentary difficulty in the short story that he did not finish was simply caused by a very temporary relapse because of pressure: He did not wait for his subconscious to deliver an idea, as he has been long accustomed to doing.

When he grabs upon a definite whole piece of autobiography, it is usually caused by impatience. [...]

The relationship between these two universes is truly astounding, and such interchanges have great transforming effects.

If you could then this would also be much more effective than your present course.

[...] But your attitude caused the circumstances.

[...] Your own worries have been causing some difficulties here.

—you are defensive, because you realize too well now the effect of your negative thoughts in this direction. [...]