“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your change of environment will be effected, again, far more easily than you think—because you have already made the inner changes necessary. [...]

You will benefit by the economy’s misfortune—but because your ideas are what people need in order to change the conditions that caused the economy’s lack of comfort. [...]

[...] And in many cases of inherited difficulties, changes could be effected for the better, through the utilization of other mental methods that we will certainly get to someday.

Science, however, seeing the body as a mechanism, has promoted the idea that consciousness is trapped within a mechanical model, that man’s suffering is mechanically caused in that regard: You simply give the machine some better parts and all will be well (amused). Science also operates as magic, of course, so on some occasions the belief in science itself will seemingly work miracles: The new heart will give a man new heart, for example.

[...] The body behaves as you think it must behave, so Augustus and Augustus Two, with their alternating patterns of behavior, caused the body to react in quite different ways.

[...] Augustus’s case simply shows in exaggerated form the effects of your beliefs upon your physical image. [...]

[...] For one thing, I do not think in terms of cause and effect, and energy does not have a source in the terms with which you are familiar.

[...] Seth’s information following this statement connected itself with the drawing easily enough, even to the “color gray,” which arises from the shadow effect I achieved in the drawing by using closely-spaced parallel lines.

(Seth briefly discussed the candle-flame effect mentioned in the 182nd Session, saying the phenomenon was so successful because Jane had no forewarning of it.

[...] In answer to my question he said Barry Goldwater would not be one of the far-rightists to cause trouble. [...]

[...] Ruburt did have a larger measure of independence at the gallery until very recently, and it is this more than anything which causes the difficulty.

The rebellion is caused by the restrictions. [...]

(Later, I heard an unidentified voice say from below the field of vision of my right eye, “George, Allan is quite concerned—” or words to that effect. [...]

[...] We tune in to these models, and our intersections with them alter them at any given point, causing new dimensions of actuality that then reach out from that new focus.”²

Clear understanding or effective exploration of the unknown reality can be achieved only when you are able to leave behind you many “facts” that you have accepted as criteria of experience. [...]

[...] From this new framework he can more effectively handle different kinds of stimuli, and form these together to construct an understandable model of other realities. [...]

[...] The session had quite a different effect on Rob, however, as you’ll see in the next chapter.

[...] When you cross a room, you are forced to admit that you have caused yourself to do so, though consciously you have no idea of willing the muscles to move, or of stimulating one tendon or another. [...]

[...] But, and here Joseph we come to the real heart of the matter, the mother retaliated in the main not by a direct attack upon the child, but by causing the child to believe that its misbehavior could be, and very nearly was, going to result in the death of the mother. [...]

[...] When all this is out in the open as it is now, you will find that both of you can deal much more effectively with the outside business world, and you will not be hampered as you both have been.

[...] Telepathy and clairvoyance, for example, are a part of natural effects, but they belong to a nature so much more expansive than science’s definitions that they have been made to appear as highly unnatural eccentricities of behavior, rather than as natural components of consciousness.

[...] When it is given only one world view, and only one group of assumptions, its orderly nature causes it to throw out all information that does not fit. [...]

Your problems are caused by your own doubts. [...]

[...] Few doctors, chiropractors, or healers of any kind can effectively feel or portray such faith. [...]

[...] There are great insidious variables operating, however, and these are caused precisely by the small framework in which such mass epidemics are considered.

In the first place, the causes are not biological. [...]

[...] Much of this is on a predictive basis: The scientists “predict” how many people might be “attacked” by, say, a virus that has caused a given number of deaths. [...]

[...] The body is exerted to use its immune system to the utmost, and sometimes, according to the inoculation, overextended [under such] conditions.⁴ Those individuals who have psychologically decided upon death will die in any case, of that disease or another, or of the side effects of the inoculation.

[...] The effect is like an inkblot, except that the quality and texture of the paint is much superior as far as charm goes; this particular hand-ground pigment, which I make myself by heating a certain Italian earth color, has a texture like fine cement or roughened stone. [...]

[...] The ego would immediately falter, and cause immediate failure and catastrophe. [...]

[...] We can say that Ruburt has received valid information concerning his mother’s death, which has not yet occurred; but the conditions which will cause it have begun.

[...] In her accompanying letter Jane’s mother wrote to the effect that she was sending the sweater ahead of time because she did not “expect to be around” by Christmas. [...]

Fake humility can cause you to tear down the value of others, because if you accept no worth in yourself you cannot see it in anyone else either. [...]

In the Sermon on the Mount, the phrase (to the effect that) “…the meek shall inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5), has been grossly misinterpreted.

[...] Had he been more critical at the time, he could have caused the hallucinations to disappear, continued with them or left the apartment.

[...] The more I tried to concentrate in my environment, the stronger these effects grew.

It occurred to me that perhaps the effects were warnings to go back to my body or indications that conditions weren’t good. [...]

[...] Seth then returned briefly when John, during break, asked Jane a question related to the causes of gout.)

[...] My notes do not indicate what, if anything, John said about the possible electrical effects. [...]

[...] In a strange way I now felt that I had the freedom to do anything I wanted to, whereas before I had been worrying considerably about the financial effects of my leaving the job. [...]

[...] And it deals with causes in a way that makes sense out of all that has gone by; especially does it explain our repeated failures to break out of the vicious circle that has imprisoned us for the last five years.

[...] Terms sometimes cause more troubles in communication than they solve.

[...] In your camouflage pattern you must adapt yourself to the effects of heat and cold, but our man in the inner world would not be under any such obligation. [...]

[...] There is a cross-blending of “effects.” [...]

[...] His artistic leanings caused him to choose real estate people who had latent artistic abilities of their own.