“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The pendulum, incidentally, agreed that my concern over the typeface caused my concerned feelings after supper. [...]

[...] Imagining a trip to Florida, for example, or anyplace he wants, planning for it, is a far more effective method of therapy than any worry, for such plans activate body and mind. [...]

[...] It takes a good deal of training and competence to operate with any real effectiveness within these situations.

[...] Jane and I had talked about the stabbing at supper this evening however, and evidently the knife connection here and with the object caused the distortions.

[...] As I worked with the materials on the newspapers, I wondered whether it was such a good idea, fearing that perhaps the acrylic glue I was using might dissolve the black printing ink enough to cause it to dirty the white burlap I was handling. [...]

[...] By 8:45 it was quite bothersome, so I returned to the studio in the back of the apartment, to use the pendulum for a quick check to see if I could learn the cause. [...]

[...] And I also have a calming effect on you, which is most beneficial to you.” [...]

(Jane said she too has experienced the seemingly contradictory effects of sleepiness or lethargy, and the sharper vision, during trance. [...]

[...] I have not been aware of it much recently, although in the early sessions both Jane and I experienced such effects often. [...]

You recall I have told you that the intensity of an experience, rather than its duration in time, determines its effect. [...]

[...] Ruburt has not learned as yet to transform these elements throughout the whole physical system, you see—(gesturing in a humorous way, Jane rubbed her outstretched arms alternately; eyes wide, smiling)—but focuses them at the vocal cords, which causes difficulty that I understand.

[...] Strangely, the spasm episode in the dream involved the color effects I knew I’d get when I glazed the painting: I was vividly aware of the texture of the underpainting as the green color was altered into flesh color by the overlay of warm flesh colors in oil.

[...] Yet none of its own sources of information show any cause for alarm: you are both obviously in the house together. [...]

[...] If you learn that lesson, then your good intent will allow you to act effectively and creatively in your private experience, and in your relationships with others. [...]

I put the concluding statements separate, since I thought they would be more effective that way. [...]

[...] “You’d better hurry up, though, ’cause he’s already got his next one planned. [...]

[...] But I still thought it very strange for the eyes to cause problems if the body was in the process of healing itself, as Seth has so often said recently is the case. [...] I also realized that Jane’s quite unique set of symptoms might lead to effects as they released that we’d certainly be unprepared for.

[...] The Cézanne book will have more effect on the people that you sent it to than they realize, or may be apparent at this time, because you are uniting two strong forces—the artistic and creative ones. [...]

Aging is the effect upon an idea construction of the properties of matter of which the construction is composed.

Each evolutionary change is preceded and caused by a new idea. [...]

[...] The slight motion of one grain of sand causes a corresponding alteration in the distribution of the stars and in all matter’s fabric, from an atom in a man’s skull down to the slightest variation in a microbe’s action.

[...] Hence his groping, his sense of alienation from nature, his search for a Cause or Creator of a creation he no longer recognized as his own.

[...] The state of dissociation that you reached can be used most effectively. [...]

[...] Since Ruburt was unaware of causing the dissociation to begin with, he was unable to find his blundering way out.

[...] Schizophrenia is caused by a personality fragment that is broken off, so to speak, from the primary acting personality, operating often in direct opposition to the primary personality, but in any case operating as a secondary personality.

[...] As fragments of a personality break off in the manner that I explained for schizophrenics, so in some cases part of an entity reincarnates before it should, does not carry its full mental gene blueprint, and therefore causes trouble and confusion. [...]

[...] And he still struggles with questions about his freedom before God’s omnipotence and foreknowledge, and whether those qualities cause events, or can cause them, and whether they involve predestination. [...]

[...] Genetic structure makes possible physical organisms through which life is to be experienced, and to a large extent that structure must determine the kind of action possible in the world, and the way or ways in which volition can be effectively expressed.

[...] The thoughts themselves cause electromagnetic changes, signifying physical changes deep in the tissues.

Yet you must feel the truths are real before you can put them into effect. [...]

Did your attitudes cause the traffic then, you may ask, and I tell you that they did.

Now, such a vision is not only something that you see that intrudes upon this reality, but also something that has its effects upon this reality, and often effects that you do not perceive. You perceive the appearance of the image, but its other effects escape you. [...]

[...] (To Rob:) And so you were perceiving a core of energy that radiated outward and infringed upon this reality—intruded upon it: hence, the fragmented area about it, you see, and the seemingly jagged effect.

[...] Now, Ruburt also knew what was going to happen and that you would be involved, simply because the eye effect frightens him and he is always aware ahead of time of such activities on your part. [...]

[...] “I know I’m speaking of beginnings and endings, but what causes a group of Sumari to congregate?”)

[...] The spiritualistic literature causes a needless conflict between his intellect and intuitions.

[...] However there was no more effective way, considering the personality’s makeup.

[...] Echoes of Saturday night’s experience do show up in tonight’s session, although it doesn’t appear that the material will have the long-range effects of Jane’s March 4 delivery.

[...] If you find a line of development that you now wish you had pursued, but had not, then think deeply about the ways in which those activities could now fit into the framework of your officially accepted life.² Such musings, with desire — backed up by common sense — can bring about intersection points in probabilities that cause a fresh realignment of the deep elements of the psyche. [...]

[...] The Mossman weekend will have far-reaching effects.

This was hardly the main reason for symptoms, but the habit caused annoying symptoms at times. [...]

These will be caused by your beliefs and your feelings, but they will not be necessarily negative at all, but a demonstration of the body’s responsiveness. [...]

[...] He feels that he has lost his power, because he does not believe that the individual, with all his capacities, really has any effective power in the cultural world. [...]

When he comes to believe otherwise, he will begin to see data that bears out the new premise, and therefore his own power will once more become effective.

(To Sue after stating she had a headache.) You are simply upset over the implications of the probable selves and that caused the headache. [...]

Their fears, believe it or not, are handled much more effectively than your own. [...]

[...] The effects, however, will be felt in the three-dimensional body. [...]

Our sessions in general, the matter of spontaneity and discipline, your own fears, rather natural enough, concerning any subconscious effect I might have on Ruburt.

The envy caused you to be angry at the hand, which was not bringing you the financial results that envy required. [...]

[...] For after a certain point of discipline is reached, he will operate well and effectively. [...]

[...] Its cause is unknown, and there is no reason to go into my explanation here. [...] Since this information was correct, there is no reason to suppose that the impressions concerning the disease’s causes were wrong, though they are unknown. [...]

[...] No one even knows what causes it.”

“He wanted to give you an impetus, and his effect was far stronger than had he lived, and he knew this. [...]

[...] A block has been preventing her from using this energy with normal effectiveness. [...]

[...] “Not only working with patients and using art as therapy, but working with the idea that some paintings in themselves have a healing effect.” [...]

[...] The drug may have the effect of coloring his image, so do not be surprised at a yellow or purplish tinge. [...]

[...] As a sideline, there are some interesting episodes when a severe psychological shock or deep sense of futility causes a short circuit so that one portion of the self begins to experience one of its other probable realities. [...]

The thought of such contact is highly intriguing, and we cannot help but wonder what effect it would have, not only on Rob and Dr. Pietra, but on their separate systems of reality. [...]