“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The fear of death itself can cause such a psychological panic that out of a sense of self-preservation and defense you lower your consciousness so that you are in a state of coma, and you may take some time to recover.

A belief in hell fires can cause you to hallucinate Hades’ conditions. [...]

[...] The opportunities for growth and development are very rich, however, and the learning methods at your disposal very effective.

[...] In many cases they do not cause a disease, but are the result of it. [...]

[...] Tonight’s material should have a definite and observable beneficial effect upon him.

(Here Seth refers to our seance of early 1964, and some physical effects manifested in Jane’s hands. [...]

[...] Now, the cat lover’s attitude has a healthy effect on Ruburt, regardless of its basic legitimate nature. [...]

The immediate causes reach back for several years. [...]

She is ready to combat the symptoms actively and aggressively, because she does not feel that she can actively and aggressively combat the Jesuit’s attitudes that are causing her concern.

It is the Jesuit’s attitude, and not the conditions, and he can (underline) change those attitudes once he realizes the effects they are having not only upon himself but upon his wife.

[...] As you go about your life, therefore, you are very effectively taking part in the “future” developments of your species. [...]

[...] You can cause a cell, or a group of cells, to change their self-image, for example; and again, you do this often — as you healed yourselves of diseases because of your intent to become well. [...]

[...] But these defeats are always caused by inner spiritual or psychic problems that have not been faced or solved.

[...] But this causes you to avoid goals that you have a good possibility of achieving. [...]

—and I shall take pains therefore to effectively shield the circumstances. [...]

[...] Only the need to translate conceptions into words causes any complications.

Part of the limitations set upon the self are cultural, and vary according to civilizations, but the basic cause is the absolute reliance upon the outer senses—

This extension of self will occur in some degree before any really effective brotherhood of man is accomplished. [...]

[...] I am sorry to say that if you have a bad gall bladder, the reassembled body will also have a bad gall bladder, since it is the consciousness who has caused the illness to begin with. [...]

[...] The darkness was an effect caused by the state of my consciousness. [...]

[...] However, suggestion to the effect that the subject’s temperature rise or fall would tend to obscure the effect. [...]

[...] Illness can also obscure the effect.

[...] They are not precognitive, however, because in a large measure they bring about or cause the later events.

(There are two more effects that Jane always manifests while she is in trance. [...] At times this effect is quite pronounced, and I can easily sense the immediacy of Seth’s presence.

(I think these changes in Jane during sessions are caused by her creative reception of a portion of an entity, an essence, that we call Seth, and by her own ideas of what this certain segment is like as she casts it in the masculine gender. [...]

[...] The cause of such difficulties lies not in the repression of an emotion, for this is impossible. [...]

There is a term used occasionally to the effect that an emotional block is like a wall. [...]

(Seth referred to Jane’s endeavors with psychological time because she has been having trouble establishing an effective routine for it in the afternoons. [...]

Many ancient and so-called primitive peoples utilized play — and drama, of course — for their healing values, and often their effects were quite as therapeutic as medical science. If your child believes that a particular illness is caused by a virus, then suggest a game in which the youngster imagines the virus to be a small bug that he or she triumphantly chases away with a broom, or sweeps out the door. [...]

This does not mean that I am asking parents to substitute imaginary medicine for real medicine, though indeed, I repeat, it may be quite as effective. [...]

It is actually a most dependable measure, as far as its attitude and condition is concerned, in that if it becomes overly concerned the concern is caused by a fear for its own survival. And its survival is obviously a necessity for existences within the physical field, if it is to deal effectively with camouflage reality.

[...] Seth stated that he did not realize Jane would achieve this focusing of inner energy so early in her studies with psychological time, and furthermore said that it could have unpleasant effects if it was unwittingly directed toward someone else. [...]

[...] I did remember Seth’s previous answer concerning the top question above, and it was to the effect that his experience with Jane and I is his first, at least on this plane. [...]

[...] His father had died a few months ago, and while he stood in the backyard, a place he knew and had loved since childhood, Jimmy thought to himself: “Now, if I could see my father’s apparition, then I could tell Ma, and she’d feel a lot better,” or words to that effect. [...]

[...] Dreams events are not only registered there, but their possible effects upon daily life on an individual and mass basis.

[...] This causes a transforming reorganization of energy, thought, and creativity—a vast transforming process, for behind the individual is the entire good intent of nature, which springs from the resources of Framework 2.

[...] The contention is one caused by riches, creative riches, and abundance.

[...] You see few people, so your moods can go unchecked by others, and you have found no measure to help break negative patterns effectively.

[...] The eye problem has to do, physically, with his present stance—the lack of balance between the two sides of his body, causing pressure on one side of the jaw, and the ear canal, which further aggravates the fullness in the sinus, hence affecting the eyes.

[...] If you consider the ego at the apex of the moment point, and imprisoned therefore within the realm of its own before-and-after, cause-and-effect experience, then you can imagine the subconscious reaching further outward and seizing upon many other moment points. [...]

[...] It soon became apparent that the unaccustomed traffic noise was having its effect, also. [...]

In such cases the artist captures the dominant essence, and through the energy which he has given the art, it then makes such an effect upon the ego, which could not ordinarily perceive so much.

You will see that in the first mentioned examples the effect would be created by man in line with his abilities, and in the latter examples the effects would be created in some instances by what is sometimes called dead matter, but what we know as other forms of consciousness, according to their ability.

[...] They are extremely destructive errors, and have many causes. [...]

[...] 8/2, 9 PM: As I achieved the desired state [and not a very effective one; my abilities are still evidently at a low ebb] I experienced a mild and scattered thrilling sensation. [...]

[...] One element therefore would be dropped, and it would prove in the overall not as effective as it would seem—one could be a liability, and might need to be discarded even if at first included. Two mergers would be much more effective. [...]

[...] You will learn to apply your own material more effectively in community relationships. [...]

[...] It’s holding them too long that causes the pressure.

Now I am almost giving you the advertising that would be effective, for the imagery is important. [...]

What protection, then, but to effectively project these outside of the self — impulses of good as well as evil — and hence effectively block organized action?

[...] The cause of schizophrenia is unknown, and the victim usually ends up hospitalized because of the severity of symptoms, which can include motor malfunctions, perceptual distortions involving hallucinations and delusions, strange behavior, and a withdrawal from reality. [...]

[...] You can deal as effectively with the body by regarding it in entirely different terms than you do.

[...] Feelings and emotion caused tensions under certain conditions that are not necessarily physically apparent, but that change the body. [...]

[...] It is a boon whether or not you know what hormones are stimulated, or have a conscious detailed knowledge of its effects.

[...] This effect still fools me at times, for a sentence will have ended whereas I think Jane has only paused briefly in the midst of one.

The sense of rather strained neutrality Ruburt feels now before sessions is simply caused by the strangeness of changing coordinates from the ones with which he has been accustomed.

[...] She said she had been aware of the pyramid or cone effect since last break, and this included during delivery. [...]

The question has to do with the so-called creation of your universe, the introduction of entities upon it, and of course with the cause or causes behind such creation. [...]

At the same time the camouflage consciousness cannot be aware of the actual originator, and therefore must look for causes from the outside. [...]

[...] The fact that manipulation is important upon your plane is one of the main causes for wars.

[...] At these times you get something of the same effect as when you look through a telescope, and you may think of the long tube of the telescope as the channel of the subconscious.