“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This noon she’d made a very revealing remark, to the effect that her being out of condition was of service to me, also. [...]

[...] Any soreness is caused by the body’s new activity.”

[...] On the other hand, he should begin to definitely tell you when he is feeling better, when he feels releases, so that that new evidence can begin to more effectively take over from the old.

[...] An experimental treatment that’s just been announced, involving injections into certain eye muscles of a drug derived from the toxin of botulism, may ultimately benefit her; the procedure, which apparently has no side effects, can eliminate the need for surgery by encouraging the realignment of the eyes. [...] In a recent private session (for May 10) Seth told us: “The gland is activating itself by itself—off and on, so to speak, giving a sputtering effect. [...]

[...] In spite of her horror at the medical practices and suggestions she’s encountered, and in spite of her dismay at the physical damage the arthritis has caused in her temporal body, Jane will give up nothing until she—and/or her whole self—get out of the entire illness syndrome exactly what she wants to get. [...]

[...] In these sketches, with their simple but very effective patterns of line and primary colors, Jane somehow bypasses her everyday challenges and very clearly reflects her basically mystical view of the world. [...]

[...] The ability of the individual creator of any particular physical form to use psychic energy to control and manipulate causes the outer appearance of deterioration and aging of matter.

[...] It is the passing through of these personality patterns, within a certain field of organization that causes the appearance of both fairly rigid material which then seems to change.

[...] The pattern which is filled by physical matter is composed of, of course, psychic energy; and it continues like an afterimage, seeming to become weaker, as indeed it does, as it or the energy behind it passes beyond the field in which matter as you think of it is effective. [...]

This is different however from cause and effect for basically a specific action will not give a specific effect, only. [...] So you take these few as inevitable results of a given cause.

[...] I speak here again of power as the ability to act creatively and with some effectiveness. [...] A man who believes his actions have no value seeks out situations in which he uses his power to act, yet often without worrying about whether the action will have a constructive or negative effect.

[...] Only an hour later the radio announcements completely changed; people were told that they did not need shots, and that indeed the inoculations could cause severe reactions.

[...] Income from Ruburt’s classes was lost, yet these side effects were chosen quite in line with Ruburt’s and Joseph’s conscious beliefs, habits, and practices.

Now: in basic terms you form your reality, privately and en masse—through your beliefs, of course, and those beliefs cause you to organize your psychic world in certain fashions.

(With gentle irony:) You made a remark earlier this evening to the effect that the individual could do nothing in the face of such organized behavior—a remark that by now I’m sure you regret voicing. [...]

[...] No one will trace the beneficial change in his life, and their effects upon others.

[...] The very training helps you manipulate more effectively in both ordinary waking and dream conditions.

[...] Less satisfactory projections cause distortions, you see, that are characteristic features of this state of consciousness at that time.

[...] The conscious system of beliefs behind the impediment will be illuminated, and you will realize that you feel a certain way because you believe an idea that causes and justifies such a reaction.

[...] You will bury certain thoughts and put up biological armor to prevent you from physically feeling their effects upon your body. [...]

[...] If you believe that youth is the ideal and struggle for it while simultaneously believing that old age must involve infirmities, then you cause an unnecessary dilemma, and hasten aging according to the negative aspects of your mind.

[...] If you want to be healthy and continually contrast what you want with the present conviction in your poor health, then the belief itself, set up against the desire, will cause added difficulties. [...]

[...] This will then appear to be the cause of the present difficulty. [...]

[...] You are hypnotizing yourself quite effectively and so reinforcing the situation. [...]

[...] Your thoughts and imaginations do cause your activities. [...] You need not deny the physical fact, but if you understand what causes physical facts then you change the direction of your imagination, thought and expectations in order that the following future facts will not be like the ones that so displeased you.

[...] Consciously and unconsciously signs are passed and given to the effect that symptoms are persisting now and will continue to do so.

[...] Now during break, she used the pendulum to ask her subconscious a few questions about the cause of the swelling; the answers she obtained indicated the cause was psychosomatic, and that a salivary gland had been involved. [...]

You may if you wish consider the quality-depth principle as blowing like a wind through the spacious present, it indeed being like a wind in that it is known by its effects; and if you must think of it visually it would, perhaps, have a funnel shape. [...]

Subconsciously his development along this line is of supreme importance to him, and working less at poetry will cause psychosomatic symptoms. [...]

[...] During your life, any event must come through your creaturehood, with the built-in time recognition that is so largely a part of your neurological structure; so usually there is a lag, a lapse in time, during which your beliefs cause material actualization. [...]

[...] For you, because of your neurological organization, the present is obviously the only point from which past and future can be changed, or when action becomes effected.

If you learn to get hold of this feeling of power now, you can use it most effectively to alter your life situation in whatever way you choose — again, within those limitations set by your creaturehood. [...]

[...] The world’s parts come spontaneously together, with an order that basically defies the smaller laws of cause and effect, or before and afterward. [...]

(Yesterday, Jane wrote for me, at my request, a few lines about Seth’s remark in last Saturday’s session, to the effect that she’s been picking up some unusual versions of perception lately. [...]

[...] Another question was why her overall personality would continue behavior that could conceivably bring about the eventual demise of the physical body—and thus the death of those very portions of the personality that were causing all the trouble, and had been for years. [...]

[...] It all sounded good, but would have little effect, I thought, since it hadn’t in years past. [...]

[...] In secret parts of yourself this does cause some considerable bitterness that works to your disadvantage. [...]

[...] The author does not realize how much is necessary before his methods will have the effect that he expects. [...]

[...] The death of the old grouping now allows for the birth of a new grouping, this time a grouping that will effectively deal with the problems at hand, and that will allow the personality to develop and expand. [...]

[...] It manipulates with rules of cause and effect and consecutive moments. [...] It can stretch its capacities, becoming far more aware of inner events than it is normally allowed to do, but its main purpose is to deal with the world of effects, to encounter events.

[...] The physical disease—the hardening of the arteries—is caused by the personality’s gradual refusal to accept new physical stimuli, thus avoiding physical experience (either purposefully or through error). [...] In any case, the individual’s inner decision causes the physical symptoms, not the other way around.

[...] For the effects of the body are felt in the mind, and the mind’s effects are felt in the body.”

[...] Any heightened sensation, pleasant or not, has a stimulating effect upon consciousness to some degree. [...]

It is a fact beyond dispute that at a later hour he is able to avail himself of energy not usually available to him, and to use this energy constructively and effectively. Without duplicating the exact circumstances the three of you in this room can learn to use your energy as effectively in ordinary pursuits. [...]

[...] As particular portions of matter are transformed, as the inner self, through the inner senses creates a simple material object that is picked up by the outer senses clearly as, say, a table, so are these other constructions that closely mirror inner reality that are perceived by the outer senses as effects.

You cannot for example see autumn, but only its effects upon matter already constructed. [...]

Though scientists might find “cancer cells,” and though it might seem that cancer is caused by a virus, cancer instead involves a relationship, say, between what you might think of as a host and parasite, in those terms — and to some extent the same applies to any disease, including smallpox, though the diseases themselves may appear to have different causes completely. [...]

[...] What if researchers next find out that in some as-yet-unsuspected manner, the female can in turn pass on a cancer-causing virus to her mate?

[...] Your official views effectively close you off from the true evidence you might perceive of the cooperation that exists among the species, for example. [...]

[...] They are, as Nebene’s were, the result of a comparatively narrow, rigid focus, conscientiously embarked upon, and carried the same kind of restrictive “holy cause” charge.

If a series of troublesome beliefs become so strong however, then the positive sets become less effective. [...]

[...] Now you are also being encouraged to develop your own spontaneity with Ruburt, in a cause in which you believe heartily. [...]