“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The differences among all species are caused by this kind of organization, so that areas of choice are clearly drawn, and areas of free activity clearly specified. [...]

[...] They are meant, therefore, as aids to help organize action (pause), and to set free will more effectively into motion. [...]

[...] It automatically causes the body to react in certain ways. [...]

Man’s thoughts no longer seemed to have any effect upon nature because in his mind he saw himself apart from it. [...]

The imaginative events generate appropriate emotions, which automatically bring about hormonal¹ changes in your body or affect your behavior with others, or cause you to interpret events always in the light of your beliefs. [...]

[...] To change the physical effect you must change the original belief — while being quite aware that for a time physical materializations of the old beliefs may still hold.

[...] Form is the result of concentrated energy, the pattern for it caused by vividly directed emotional or psychic idea images. [...]

[...] They have a definite effect upon the atmosphere. [...]

[...] The effect was much more apparent tonight than usual.)

This, and all such effects, represent one of the most basic ways in which one action causes another action to change. [...]

It should be emphasized however that dream experiences can have a more lasting and vital effect upon the personality than many so-called physical experiences, for the dream experiences are not blocked nearly as much as waking experience is blocked. The suggestion that also occurs within the dream state works even more effectively upon the whole personality than any suggestion works under ordinary circumstances. [...]

[...] Emotions, having their own reality within this system, do not affect physical matter indirectly, but cause specific electromagnetic changes within the physical organism.

[...] The effects of objectivity are caused as the psyche projects its experience into inner dimensions that it has itself created.

[...] The information cannot be sifted or used effectively and is translated into dream images, as your consciousness returns toward your own home station. [...]

First of all, it would be nearly impossible for you to sample all of these programs with any effectiveness while going about your own affairs. [...]

[...] Once you understand what these are, and what effects can be expected, such journeys can be undertaken consciously, with the conscious mind that you know acting as the astronaut, for example, and the rest of your consciousness acting as the vehicle. [...]

[...] It is indeed a side effect. [...] It was hardly a momentous affair, yet it meant that Ruburt could forget his physical problems to a considerable extent, stop worrying about whether he would have to go to the bathroom, or how to get there, or when people would leave so he could get there, and so the evening was effectively altered for the better.

[...] You do not even have to decide that Ruburt is completely recovered—but the very plans for motion will definitely have beneficial effects on his condition and on the shape of your daily life.

I will have more to say about suggestion, how it operates personally, and how it affects political beliefs and even economic conditions, for it causes your daily reality. [...]

[...] They have a great effect upon the weather. [...]

[...] They may then affect a generally unpopulated area on another continent, or an island, or cause a tidal wave on the other side of the world, even as a stroke might affect a portion of the body far from the original damage.

[...] This provided the necessary stabilizing properties upon which your consciousness could play, and through which it could effectively and creatively operate. [...]

[...] There is no question that any of us were causing this effect; all of our movements were plain to see. [...]

[...] If students do drop out they will be replaced, for his energies are being properly, and you may tell him, most effectively used, in the classes themselves.

The events of your lives are in part caused by the psychological results of that level of consciousness, but only in part. [...]

[...] It is the mixture of consciousness with which you form your events that causes the difficulty.

[...] The acquisition of your house is on its own a creative achievement—almost purely a side effect of your creativity. [...]

The worries caused by the conventionalized beliefs cut down the quality of your time, so that while you jealously try to preserve your creative hours they become diluted. [...]

([Theodore:] “Because then it would seem like a cause-and-effect chain which could not be broken.”)

[...] Any of your difficulties in past lives were caused because you did not realize these basic truths. [...]

[...] Is it possible that a person can have such an effect on another?”)

[...] First of all, the “prayer” in quotes that I gave for Ruburt is tailored to his own needs, and will therefore be quite effective. [...]

Whenever possible such reactions should always be expressed directly by the person involved to the person who causes the irritation, regardless of whatever steps may be taken. [...]

[...] The exercises in the past would not have been effective. [...]

In his own way he is fond of your mother at the same time, you see, but also terrified of her because the repressions cause him to exaggerate the hidden fears. [...]

Animals follow their own natural waking-sleeping schedules, and in their way derive far greater benefits from both states than you, and use them with greater effectiveness — particularly along the lines of the body’s built-in system of therapy. [...]

[...] Instead they are a part of those beliefs that caused you to develop your technological, industrial society. [...]

The patterns I have suggested, therefore, will bring you far closer to an understanding of the reality of your being, and help you break down beliefs that cause personal and social division.

[...] Our nervous systems allow us to perceive only so much; true, but beyond this limitation, my guess is that some psychological element causes us to block out much information that we could otherwise perceive.

His effect upon others is immediate. [...]

[...] In order to make sense to our three-dimensional selves, information must be “squeezed” through—and this in itself causes some distortion.

[...] He responds to questions, so that to some extent the questions put to him must, at times, cause him to change the particular way he discusses a particular subject.

Dick finds pleasure in golf, because it represents an area in which he has hope of performing with some effectiveness, of acting with a spontaneity that knows its own order, and of experiencing his natural sense of power.

[...] All of this caused muscular tensions, but he was appalled at what he considered Dick and Ida’s laxness in so many areas, and it seemed that that was the natural human condition, so that you must exert great discipline to keep yourself aloft from it. [...]

[...] You always have something to look forward to, clearer insight, the closest approximation to truth that you might attain, where many others live in a maze, in which it seems (pause) that any hope of effecting change is literally impossible, privately.

[...] I feel caught in contradictions—for if Jane’s new feelings in her hips and legs are signs of new muscular activity, as she thinks, and as Frank Longwell agrees, that’s good news; yet those same feelings, her acute and prolonged bodily discomfort, her aches and pains, have caused her to become almost totally inactive. [...]

[...] I knew they were due out soon, but slipped up in my own awareness that their publication could—would cause her additional problems; my opinion was based on her paper of last December, in which she wrote that from its very inception she had been concerned about the reception Mass Events would be accorded by various elements of the public.

[...] I plan to try to objectively understand any beneficial effects there are. [...]

(Jane has had several vivid dreams since we held the last session; they’ve been of the type described in recent private sessions—combinations of nightmarish events and characters, along with flashes of insight into the causes for the symptoms, and visions of herself walking normally, etc. [...]

[...] The background material is rather freely and loosely brushed in, so that a breezy and modern effect is indicated. We do not know if this effect prompted Seth’s mention of wind. The effect of the drawing was one of “much space.”

[...] On the other hand in many instances the sleeping personality solves a problem, and therefore causes the physical event because it is the result of the dream work involved.

[...] The amount of data available to the subconscious is simply superior in quality and larger in quantity to that available to the ego, and this information can be used effectively through suggestion.

[...] Its most effective method of procedure however is to form the problem concisely, and then to feed it to the subconscious before the personality enters the dreaming state.

[...] This leads to lingering frustration, and if your ideals are strong the situation can cause you to feel quite desperate.

(Pause.) Many of you are convinced that you are not important — and while [each of] you feels that way it will seem that your actions have no effect upon the world. [...]

(The following material is, in part, an outgrowth of certain effects described in Personal Reality; see my notes for the 616th session, bridging chapters 2 and 3. That session was held on September 20, 1972, and the notes I’m referring to concern a new development in Jane’s abilities: her initial realization that on at least some occasions she would have more than one channel of information available from Seth. [...]

[...] Read something in the paper about concentration on illness causing pain, and that reminded me of some ideas I had last night. [...]

[...] Science also believes, however, that the study of a “first cause” involves not scientific but philosophical and theological questions. For instance, why did the universe we think we know so well come into existence at all, and what was the cause of that beginning?

To do this, I hope to explore a more meaningful concept of evolution¹—and that concept must involve a discussion of subjective reality and its effect upon the “evolution” of man’s consciousness.