“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Apropos of the notes preceding this session, concerning Jane’s nighttime work on Seth’s book last week: the same kind of effects returned when she went to sleep after this session — but this time she decided to try an experiment. [...]

(And: “A chapter on a person’s ‘Effective Personal Reality’ — about the private purposes in one’s life, and the bounds of creaturehood as set by your body; what you choose to be born with as far as health, disease, poverty or wealth, ability, etc., are concerned.”

(And: “Faith and belief can move mountains, as they say — but it can also cause natural catastrophes.”

[...] The concentration upon not eating, and the resulting tension, may instead cause increased consumption. [...]

[...] I mentioned earlier that cause and effect operates in various manners, and what seems to be cause and effect is often merely a result of your necessary disposition to view actions in a successive manner.

[...] The third inner sense, involving what you would call perception of past, present and future, is the sense that enables the inner ego and entities to experience direct concept-patterns, and free them therefore from successive cause and effect limitations.

[...] We had heard the sound of a car, I remembered, and people going into the apartment downstairs; perhaps that had caused our confusion. [...]

I have mentioned a test and I will go into this in a moment, also to me the rather obvious cause of the glaring distortion. [...]

[...] It is secondary but has had some effects.

[...] Your help with the pendulum sessions therefore greatly increases their effectiveness. [...]

[...] Part of this is caused by a misconception, and it is because of this misconception that he found it difficult to see himself as a so-called psychic.

[...] Without spontaneity, he does not operate effectively or well. [...]

[...] They take hardly any time, but will be most effective.

[...] The book that you have just received from Prentice (Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain), will have an important effect upon Ruburt, and a beneficial one, helping to increase his confidence in his own abilities.

The present notes he has written to himself are highly effective, and he should follow them and the procedure they suggest. [...]

[...] Tell yourself that you can help yourself and Ruburt far better without the disease caused by the symptoms. [...]

The three-sided effect, instantly formed, leads to an effect that is something like friction, but the effect causes (gestures) the three sides to change position, so that you end up with a triangular effect, closed, with the initial point inside the triangle. [...]

The “initial,” in quotes, originating emotional energy that sets any given unit into motion, and forms it, then causes the unit to become a highly charged electromagnetic field, with those characteristics of changing polarities just mentioned.

The changing polarities are also caused by attraction and repulsion from other like units, which may be attached or detached. [...]

[...] In many ways it could be said that the physical system is an effect caused by this electrical field. [...]

Various emotional factors within each personality cause what we may call a characteristic emotional climate. [...]

So does the personality, through negative charges, cause boundaries to be set about its own emotional system. [...]

[...] The mind, as separate from the brain, the mind exists purely and simply in the electric system or field, and does not project itself directly into the physical field although its effects appear within it.

The cause and effect theory, as I have stated, is a result of your ideas of time. As long as you persist in thinking in terms of past, present and future, then the cause and effect theory is a logical and seemingly infallible result. When you develop your time theory and realize that present, past and future are merely effects and distortions caused by your own perspective, then your scientists will realize that cause and effect is a passé and antiquated theory, useful only for a short time—I hope you appreciate the pun with the word time—and should be discarded.

[...] When the spacious present is understood, with its attributes of spontaneity, then the cause and effect theory will fall. The cause and effect theory being the result of continuity holds no water. [...]

[...] Nor with your limited cause and effect theories will you ever get very far.

If cause and effect were an absolute law, then continuity would also have to be an absolute law, and all or any evidences of clairvoyance, or viewing the future, would be absolutely impossible, even in your universe, and this simply is not so. It is only because there is basically no cause and effect, but merely apparent cause and effect, and no past, present and future, that clairvoyance is possible in your universe.

Contradictions, or rather apparent contradictions in terms will arise only out of a false conception on your part, mostly as a result of the erroneous cause- and-effect system. Obviously cause and effect has only limited application even on your own plane and in your own camouflage universe.

[...] The intuitions are not bound by the so-called laws of logic, and cause and effect. [...]

[...] They’re often only partially effective, and can cause a variety of side effects: reactions ranging from the temporary to the permanent or fatal. [...]

[...] Many viruses inherently capable of causing death, in normal conditions contribute to the overall health of the body, existing side by side as it were with other viruses, each contributing quite necessary activities that maintain bodily equilibrium.

(Long pause.) The environment in which an outbreak occurs points at the political, sociological, and economic conditions that have evolved, causing such disorder. [...]

[...] Those survivors, who were actively involved, saw themselves in a completely different light than those who succumbed, however: They were those, untouched by despair, who saw themselves as effective rather than ineffective. [...]

[...] The symptoms themselves cause certain chemical changes that have an effect, then, on the personality itself. [...]

For a while however none should be missed, except for very good cause. [...]

This necessitates finding the causes for the symptoms, backtracking, really, to the point before the symptoms’ appearance, and facing problems now that would not be faced then. [...]

[...] The desperation caused by the symptoms became greater than the problem behind them. [...]

We will study these effects in a most detailed fashion at a later time because of their importance. This may sound unbelievable to you; nevertheless the same effects that cause emotional outbursts also cause physical storms. [...]

[...] Where there is great privation there will be a cruel climate, but the climate does not cause the privation. The emotional aggression caused by privation caused the climate.

[...] This of course occurs nevertheless on a subconscious level, representing a spilling over of emotional and psychic energy from self into what is usually considered notself; and there are, constantly, effects that happen, a flowing back and forth of energy in this way.

[...] What seems to be a destructive instinct is instead an inability to control emotional energy, and to discharge it in a most effective manner.

I told you both to do certain suggestions together, because your belief in them and your effectiveness could help him revive his own body beliefs. The fact is that both of you are nearly hypnotized by the physical effects. [...]

[...] They are understood, and are no longer strong enough to cause such a condition. [...]

[...] The fear causes him to organize memory and behavior so that all physical evidence then correlates with his belief that he cannot get well.

[...] It is, however, most probable simply because the evidence is before you in all areas of your lives—that his energy, when it is directed, is most effective. [...]

[...] The ego deals with cause and effect, and often denies particular reactions because it decides that they are not effective. [...]

[...] The ego’s denial of a reaction however does not cause the reaction to disappear from within the personality, at least as part of possible pattern reaction.

[...] A lack of communication between the ego and the inner self is obviously one of the main causes for such difficulties.

Dictation: Basically, events have nothing to do with what you think of as cause and effect. [...]

Significances fall or happen in certain patterns, and when these become very obvious they appear as cause and effect. [...]

[...] You understand the cause-and-effect kind of order, but this is built upon the noncausal aspect of significances. [...]

[...] Because of the time element, it seems to you that the first episode caused the others, and that your first association concerning your aunt brought about the “following” events.

No one physical effect caused Ruburt’s slow motion. [...]

[...] The effect of this, however, will quickly pass. [...]

[...] Only your own doubts in that regard have caused any difficulties, and despite those your decisions have been correct, and you have added a perspective that I knew I could count upon. [...]

The strength, vitality, and effectiveness of thought is seldom considered. [...] Gone are the conditions that, it would seem, caused the uprising. [...]

Such a practice leads to feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, in which effective action seems impossible. [...] If this is cherished, nurtured, encouraged, then additional energy is generated that is not needed for the purposes of daily private life — a superabundance, that can be effectively directed in those areas of the world where help is most needed.

Despite all appearances, conditions of an exterior nature do not cause wars, or poverty, or disease, or any of the unfortunate circumstances apparent in the world. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s hesitation was caused this evening by misplaced nostalgia at ending our book. [...]

[...] The cause of epidemics, say, is as I have given it in the early chapters of Mass Reality. [...] Therefore often such preventative inoculations—by inoculations I mean here any method of enforced introduction of disease—these methods often bring about other effects of an unfortunate nature.

[...] The mechanisms operate in such a fashion that by now overall belief has come to such a point that the same results would almost be effected if an inoculation of no particular value were given instead. The mind is as effective against viruses as anything else—and in such hypothetical cases immune reactions would be set up biologically, through the mind’s beliefs.

You cannot afford that kind of method now, because you do not believe that the mind itself can help protect the body against disease caused by bacteria or virus. [...]

[...] It seems the sheerest nonsense, on the other hand, to believe that illnesses are caused by spirits or demons. [...]

Concentrating upon your own camouflage universe, you are able to distinguish only the distortive pattern, and from this pattern you deduce your ideas of cause and effect, past, present and future, and ideas of an expanding universe that floats …

[...] By plunging into our ocean of value climate you can dive beneath your camouflage system and look up to see it, relatively foundationless, floating above you, moved, formed, and directed by the shifting illusions caused by the wind of will, and the force of subconscious concentration and demand.

[...] By enduring the literally endless small cruelties he does needless penance, but at the same time he strikes back by causing the father hours of remorse. In all relationships these intertwining effects exert, many times, most unpleasant effects.

It is the present personality’s desire to express himself, opposed by the subconscious memories of that past life, with its fear of the effects of eloquence used without discretion, that now cause his difficulty.

[...] It was getting late, we had already put in an active day traveling and visiting, and I for one was not sure of how effective such a session might be. [...]

[...] In the 1500’s he was eloquent, and it is precisely because this eloquence, so persuasive, so smooth-tongued, caused his superiors at that time to believe the accusations against the innocent man, that he now fears to use an eloquence, because he once let it run away with him.

[...] Every thought is a cause and every condition an effect.”

[...] Here then is a source of power and wisdom that places you in touch with omnipotence, or the power that moves the world, guides the planets in their course, and causes the sun to shine. [...]