“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] But this is an illusion caused by the limitations of your outer senses. [...]

[...] The most effective drama is then reacted to in physical reality.

[...] This causes him to add to his self-image, in reality, that disability. [...]

You see your cat suffers no ill effects from such play, although on another value level it would be termed destructive. [...]

[...] It is remembering that causes the trouble.

Now, due to variations existing in the capacity of various individuals to receive, perceive, and act upon such information, no constructions are exactly the same, though generally they appear the same; and for utility’s sake they are effective enough.

[...] However, eleven o’clock time for now is a reasonable and overall effective closing time.

[...] Her double vision is not as severe and is supposed to keep improving as the hormone takes effect. [...] The increased glandular activity is also expected to have some beneficial effects upon Jane’s arthritis, and possibly upon her anemia (a condition that often accompanies arthritis). [...]

[...] I also knew that my wife feared the effect of the message upon me—for what could the phrase she’d already given me mean, except that her soul had at least considered the possibility of leaving her physical body, perhaps to find shelter in a nonphysical realm? [...]

[...] She’d very gradually started doing this before entering the hospital, but any physical causes behind her behavior had been unsuspected by us then. [...]

[...] This is a denseness caused by an infinity of electrical fields of varying ranges of intensity. [...]

[...] It is of itself free of all distorted effects peculiar to the physical system. [...]

[...] He became relaxed and psychedelic one day fairly recently when he washed windows and you made a remark to the effect that you would not like to be at the mercy of such things. [...]

[...] Suggestion causes your reality. [...]

[...] This is because you deal with effects physically, as you see them. [...]

[...] There are no forces outside of yourselves that in your terms cause you to do evil. [...]

[...] The apparent cause and effect sequence is absent, and identity knows itself as itself through other means than continuity, in your terms.

[...] The basic causes of both, however, are the same.

[...] Politically oriented people felt that they had no really strong hold, so that effective communication with the federal government could not be expected. [...]

[...] Taken-for-granted patterns of existence had been ripped away quite effectively in a day’s time. [...]

[...] As he said in the 29th session for February 26, 1964: “Later I will attempt to show you where the boundaries are — though (with a laugh) there really are no boundaries — that form a variety of such planes [realities] into a sphere of relation in which, to some extent, cause-and-effect operates as you understand it. [...]

Now: Your beliefs and intents cause you to pick, from an unpredictable group of actions, those that you want to happen. [...]

[...] It’s further said that our attempts to describe or visualize such nonphysical qualities inevitably cause us to misinterpret them; so the artist wonders whether the atom’s movement in more than one direction at once may not be perfectly “natural” in its own environment — some sort of ability quite separate from any play we may indulge in with words while trying to consciously comprehend it.

[...] This will effectively relieve him of all physical symptoms.

[...] When this is not done the unconverted energy is literally stopped up, and causes definite physical symptoms that represent a blockage of energy. [...]

[...] They cause the physical body to reproduce the inner image. [...]

[...] Your control over it is quite effective, for you create it as you create your fingertip. [...]

(Jane believes circumvention can also relate to these interpretations: the circular effect obtained in the photo on the object, by the placement of the four girls, as shown on page 168; and the word GLOBE in caps in the ad in the lower left corner on the back of the object.

[...] Usually I get excellent results with the pendulum; I learned now that the visual-interference effects had been caused by my unsuccessful attempts to perceive a thought-form sent out by a survival personality. [...]

Now: Under these conditions the personality manipulates events consciously of course, and studies the various effects. [...]

[...] He explained that in a given period of say, thirty days, the suggestions on perhaps but three or four days within that period would be really effective, and that as of now we have no way of knowing the best days. So if we miss a day, we run a chance of missing out on a particularly effective day for suggestion. Seth said that on occasion suggestion will reach all levels of the personality, that our voice will be heard throughout the personality, and that effective action will follow. [...]

[...] Seth said there was no cause for surprise here, that young people are intuitively aware of much more than one gives them credit for, and that when Jane and I meet young people who express interest we should help them by recommending books, giving our own ideas, etc.

[...] I then came awake and described the effect to Jane, who had not yet fallen asleep.”

[...] This is an effect I noticed at work while making the tracing, but the illusion disappeared on the finished art.

[...] During their visit the woman, Carol, several times expressed the thought that she returned the second time, to see if we were home, because “it was meant to be,” or words to that effect. [...]

[...] This causes the muscles to change, and in particular their tension is altered. [...]

[...] This can cause some feelings of instability when he is walking—but the body must also try out its positions when he is on his feet. [...]

[...] The inner conditions cause the exterior climatic changes, though of course it now seems to you that it is the other way around.

[...] The sounds you make have physical effects on your own and other bodies. [...]

[...] Your cultural beliefs predispose you to interpret experience in terms of heredity and environment, however, so that you focus primarily upon them as prime causes of behavior. [...]

[...] When you realize that the personality can and does have access to other kinds of information than physical, then you must begin to wonder what effects those data have on the formation of character and individual growth. [...]

[...] Sensing of course the bitterness that he felt because she was not a boy—incidentally this is a strong subconscious motive—this caused her to bear him three sons to help allay his bitterness. [...]

[...] What happens here is that the subconscious communicates with the entity through the inner senses, to the effect that the present personality is not strong enough to handle the problem.

I made a remark, after sessions I’m afraid, to Ruburt one evening—I couldn’t resist—to the effect that you would both be better off if you would think in terms of your entities. [...]

[...] And of course Jane and I were wondering what effect, if any, the interruption would have on her ability to continue the session. [...]

[...] Certain conditions, which we will discuss at length later, are necessary for a completely valid or effective materialization into human form.

[...] You have both become much more effective along that line.

Panic causes heat. [...]

(9:42.) Give us a moment … Without an identification with the land, the planet and the seasons, all of your technology will not help you understand the earth, or even use it effectively, much less fully. [...]

[...] Electrons, however, spin in many directions at once,⁶ an effect impossible for you to perceive. [...]

[...] Within a more reasonable context the technique will take its place in our medical systems, but in each case what we learn will surely point up the need to understand our individual inner realities; i.e., what caused the high blood pressure, or whatever, in the first place?

[...] Now with your ideas of progressive time and the resulting beliefs in cause and effect, I realize this is difficult for you to understand. [...]