“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now these may be the result of one specific belief, or caused by a complex of beliefs held together.

[...] I would like to make one point here, however — that often psychoanalysis is simply a game of hide-and-seek, in which you continue to relinquish responsibility for your actions and reality and assign the basic cause to some area of the psyche, hidden in a dark forest of the past. [...]

[...] If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. [...]

[...] The main point I wanted to make in this chapter was that your conscious beliefs are extremely important, and that you are not at the mercy of events or causes that dwell far beneath your awareness.

[...] The intellect on its own — so it seems — must deal not only with the problem today, but with its effects in the projected disastrous tomorrows. This well-intentioned concentration, this determination to solve the problem, this rational approach, then causes an even deeper sense of inadequacy. [...]

All of this material applies to your lives in general and to Ruburt’s physical condition, because you must be clear in your minds as to your own status in that regard, and much of this material will clear the air and dissolve lingering doubts; doubts that cause both of you — but Ruburt in particular — to hold on to the rational approach in a misguided effort to maintain what he thinks of as a balanced viewpoint and open mind. [...]

The rational approach, built up around this framework, insists that the best way to solve a problem is to concentrate upon it, to project its effects into the future, to ruminate upon its consequences, “to stare at the bare facts head on.”

[...] That method of problem-solving, need I say, is a poor one, and if anything it causes far more problems than it ever solves.

[...] I told Jane part of that value lay in the fact that we waited until now to play it, when she has decided to try to uncover her own causes and effects. [...]

[...] The reading offered no specific insights into the causes behind Jane’s troubles, although this would be difficult in such a short time span.

[...] I began to feel uneasy—that the cause wasn’t really physical. I used the pendulum briefly in the bathroom while Jane was having a cigarette, and learned that the bothersome effects were caused because I hadn’t been working on Dreams as much as I felt I should. [...]

[...] The effect was something like an allergy or cold, although the pendulum told me it was neither. [...]

[...] At your present stage of development with the pendulum you get a reaction that could be compared to a closed circuit, where the energy is directed into the past, into the personal subconscious too abruptly, and too intensified, and is not yet allowed the release of discovering full causes, which would then release not only that energy, but the energy that has in the past gone into the formation of various physical ills.

[...] Even in your desire to discover such original causes of physical ills, a part of you sets up resistances, new ones, which take additional energy.

[...] Now obviously the particular energy does not bunch up, but a pattern remains in the personality where energy is spent in resistance, and not in efficient action, and not in effective idea constructions.

[...] Your world is presently based so upon the ideas of cause and effect that precognition is frowned upon. [...]

[...] That idea of death usually serves as an effective block against such future explorations.

The causes of the eye “difficulties” are as given. [...]

Underneath is the real cause, and this basic cause is behind all those that I have previously given you, in your own background.

[...] You are demanding that it behave in certain ways, and take courses that you have consciously set upon, and you are refusing to gladly accept life as life, as its own reason and cause within you.

[...] The pace had been fast and emphatic, with occasional mild voice effects. [...]

[...] The pace had been fast and furious for the most part, with more voice effects than we had heard for some time.

A new belief in the present, however, can cause changes in the past on a neuronal level. [...]

In somewhat the same way, a strong belief in a particular ability generated in the present will reach into the past and effect whatever changes would have had to occur there (with gestures) in order to now make the ability apparent.

[...] Scientifically, you can only probe those effects that appear within your present. [...]

[...] At your level of experience many effects are accepted and used quite practically, as are your solid tables. [...]

[...] … The effect of any thought is quite precise and definite and set into motion because of the nature of its own electromagnetic identity. [...] These effects change the actual molecular structure of the cells, for better or worse, and because of the laws of attraction, habitual patterns will operate. [...]

The situation can be serious in varying degrees, according to the impetus and intensity of the original cause behind the illness. [...]

[...] Any hightened sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, has a stimulating effect upon consciousness to some degree. [...]

Let’s consider Sue’s symptoms, caused by explosive and repressed aggression, in relation to Seth’s statements. [...]

The imagination has always dealt with creativity, and as man began to settle upon a kind of consciousness that dealt with cause and effect, he no longer physically perceived the products of his imagination directly in the old manner. [...]

[...] You grant that the weather has an effect upon your moods, but any deeper psychic or psychological connections between you and the elements strikes most of you as quite impossible.

[...] The creative abilities join the creator and created (long pause) in a behavior in which for example, now, the painting that is to be affects the creator of it before its inception and before its form, so that the two are connected in a kind of behavior in which at deeper levels the ideas of cause and effect can have no meaning. [...]

For the actions are spontaneous basically, again, and the effects exist so swiftly that it is impossible to say that one occurs before or after the other, or causes another. [...] When you viewed such a gigantic motion with a slow camera, then you would get the effect that you receive within your system, of a continuous time. [...]

[...] This is not however your cause and effect theory at all.

[...] Much of this is the result of the limitations of the physical organism, but much more is the effect of the development of the ego, which attempts to set itself up and apart from action.

[...] The effect was very striking. [...]

[...] As in the case of your own illness, Joseph, you perceived the physical effect of the mental action, which was but a small portion of the event.

[...] There is strong concentrated energy turned inward, but it is not turned inward far enough to be effective.

[...] The knot of energies is indeed caused by fear, and it can be dissolved. [...]

[...] The knot of energy, among other things, quite a few other things, is caused by the temporary inability to change the focus of interests from outward to inward methods of communication.

[...] Your plane seems to deal with cause and effect, but this is in itself a necessary camouflage. In actuality there is no cause and effect as you think of it. [...] For a particular interval you must be taught as if there were cause and effect, so that the result of spontaneity would not end up as chaos. [...]

[...] I would like to repeat again the fact that in many instances, and with exceptions, ideas not fully constructed on your plane not only have great force but are also freer from the effects of physical laws. [...]

[...] The child plays at being an adult, and is a child again when his parents call, so the effects of the game are not long-lasting. [...] So in dreams, the events have effects only while dreaming. [...]

[...] Feedback from the physical environment may trigger an alarming dream that causes the individual to awaken.

[...] Some rival physical events in intensity and even effect. [...]

Small amounts of ordinary stimulants, such as coffee or tea, taken before bed when you are already sleepy, have a beneficial effect in stimulating dream activity and aiding dream recall. [...]

[...] Before, there was a sinus drainage backup or buildup, caused by tension. [...] That buildup, caused by tension, “caused crystallizations,” or deposits, that toughened the tissues. [...]

[...] These attitudes cause you to try to maintain some solitude while believing it is almost impossible to achieve, and so this of course is your experience.

Your feelings and beliefs that you were not have caused difficulties, and of course your experience.

[...] That is why they are sometimes effective. [...]

Effects would seem to be evidence, and therefore when you probe into seemingly empty spaces you will receive effects which will be evidence. [...] You know wind by its effects. No one has seen wind but since at times its effects are so observable it would be idiocy to say that wind did not exist. Therefore you will come up against the basic stuff of the universe and feel its effects, though your outer senses will not necessarily perceive it.

[...] This is caused of course by the typical camouflage distortion effect, which occurs on almost every plane to some extent.

Mental enzymes have a chemical effect or reaction on your plane. That is they can be observed on your plane through their chemical effect in it. But the effect itself is a distortion. On other planes the distortion effect may not be chemical at all. [...]

[...] You know its effects, you breathe it constantly, but consciously you do not realize what you are doing. [...] It is fuel to your physical body and the idea of it comes very close to this fuel of the inner senses, which is not a camouflage effect and which is our vitality unsolidified, or the little wires which make up our imaginary universe. [...]

A closed system as a concept is also closely intertwined and dependent upon the distortive idea of time as continuity, and the resultant cause and effect premise, which we have already considered earlier. [...]

[...] All so-called closed systems are caused by a limiting of perception, a narrowing down of distinction, a subconscious agreement that the props are real, and that boundaries exist. [...]

[...] Your lack of success lately with psychological time has been to a large measure caused by too great a conscious concentration upon the task. [...]

This refers me back to your false cause and effect theory. [...] Time does not cause change in matter, appearances to the contrary. [...]

[...] You have again fallen into the habit, negatively, of considering your achievements in other areas as insignificant—(louder:) in light of Ruburt’s condition as if they caused his condition. [...] His condition was caused by a set of beliefs, and so was everything else in your lives. [...]

Part of the book will deal with mass suggestions and their effects, and benefits. [...]

[...] What I am saying is that questioning the nature of reality does not cause physical difficulties per se. [...]

[...] Do not think then that your creative endeavors have caused you difficulties, or that without them life would have been a bed of roses. [...]