“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(To me.) Your gumboil had already begun in incipient form before you visited your mother (yesterday, Sunday, January 18), but is specifically caused by the meal there. [...] This has a healing effect on particular tissues, and a soothing effect on the acids that are connected.

[...] Your own bodies also then use it more effectively. [...]

[...] The prayer periods or their equivalent become much more effective when you are in good rapport otherwise. [...]

(During that session Jane achieved outstanding voice effects, a very deep trance, and a projection to the Boston classroom of Pat’s special high-school class. [...]

Sitters as a rule are indeed a benefit, in that the emotional impetus causes him to allow me greater freedom. [...]

[...] Obviously under usual circumstances this would have no such effects. [...]

(Long pause at 4:30.) You cannot see the wind directly — you see only its effects. [...] They possess power as the wind does, but you only see the effects of their actions.

[...] In a fashion a drought is partially caused by the emotional states of the people who experience it — yet a drought is not a disease. [...]

[...] I confess the lack of feeling here has caused me periodic concern.

[...] It is very possible, however, that science itself will in time discover the unfortunate side effects of many such procedures, and begin to reevaluate the entire subject.

[...] Some of those instances, however, were caused precisely by the sudden introduction of western medicine.

[...] Fear of this creates a state in which a semblance of that can be caused. Most cases of possession are not caused by spirits... [...] usually caused by those who request it or are too lazy to live their own lives within ... [...]

[...] There were no strong voice effects. [...]

[...] However, your enthusiasm can cause waves that can go up and down. [...]

[...] The very positions of the planets and the stars are effects of the senses — perceptions that would have no meaning were it not for your own kind of consciousness. Those perceptions, then, cannot cause you to behave in any given way because of conditions that have no meaning outside of your own consciousness.

[...] If it is to some extent affected by those conditions, then, it is because the effects follow in the same way that a painter is affected by the landscape that he has himself created. [...]

[...] For one thing, any focus point of physical life is caused by a merging of probabilities. [...]

In your field of art you could do better now than he is in science fiction, since you are more sure of how you get your effects, and he is still not. Your fear of freelance work is mainly, but not entirely, caused by your distortive expectation. [...]

In your physical field, and this limitation is important, in your physical field, truths are often caused by, or are the result of, expectations worked out. [...]

[...] The aggressive feeling, unharnessed, would have caused difficulties at the gallery, and even in your personal relationship. [...]

[...] Logic deals with exterior conditions, with cause-and-effect relationships. Intuitions deal with immediate experience of the most intimate nature, with subjective motions and activities that in your terms move far quicker than the speed of light, and with simultaneous events that your cause-and-effect level is far too slow to perceive.²

2. Seth and Jane have both referred to faster-than-light effects in earlier books. [...] These effects have yet to be satisfactorily explained.

Environmental questions are being raised about man’s effects upon the world in which he lives. [...]

Worry, fear, and doubt are detrimental to good health, of course, and these are very often caused by the officially held beliefs of society.

[...] They cause a physical situation in which the body is placed in a state of defensive aggression. [...]

[...] When a person is feeling in good health, exuberant and alive, such queries will be nonchalantly shoved aside — they will have no effect whatsoever. [...]

[...] This is a structure … but it does cause a pulling-in or wrinkling effect where it appears. [...]

Interestingly enough, several very distant quasars have been linked to certain observed faster-than-light effects, thus contradicting current physical theory that nothing can exceed the speed of light. [...] The faster-than-light effects may be the results of observations that are simply not understood in some as-yet-unexplained way….

[...] Most of that material hasn’t been published, although in Chapter 17 of The Seth Material Jane described Seth Two to some extent, including “his, hers, or its” intimate connections with Seth: the subjective pyramid or cone effects she experiences just above her head when contacting Seth Two; and the great energy she feels at such times. [...]

The beliefs cause the effects—most important—and you must each follow me here: for the following week continue with my book as given, but concentrate upon your work, each of you, your daily joys. [...]

[...] He is left with body conditioning, habitual suggestions that cause the body’s condition.

[...] He is the one who must challenge his body beliefs, but whenever you notice any improvement mention it, for you are also dealing with a situation in which you become hypnotized by effects.

In the arms this causes knots, as if you knot up a cord it becomes shorter and pulls, so that the arms are pulled upwards. The tension and the lack of relaxation causes a lessening of lubricating fluid in the joints.

Now I was not able to give you any information, particularly at that time, but this did have something to do with my rather vehement recording, which I hoped would have the effect of discouraging Dr. Instream. [...]

[...] He also wanted to understand the effect of mind on matter. [...]

[...] I should have realized those feelings were contributing to her overall discomfort, for watching her I’d been positive that much of her trouble was caused by her own reactions. [...]

(After she’d eaten and I was getting ready to leave, Jane said, “I really feel guilty at making your life so hard,” and added more words to that effect. [...]

You will shortly see how some diseases are caused by the detriments set up against value fulfillment, often because of fears, doubts, or misunderstandings — and how other diseases may actually lead to instances of value fulfillment that are misread or misinterpreted.

[...] The ulcer for example has reality upon many levels, and must be dealt with in a like manner, for it is not enough to handle it even from the viewpoint of the present ego; for indeed causes are involved of which the present ego must necessarily be mainly ignorant. The inner self however has at its command all these reasonings, and all these causes.

Nor will anything be gained by a patent and speedy program that is not solidly based on understanding, both understanding of the self in particular, and what you may call the mechanics involved in the creation of the illness itself, and in an understanding of those elements which caused the personality to develop the illness.

[...] So, though he would wish that we go quickly, we shall go slowly, for the nature of his own reactions causes in some degree the necessity for the illness.

They of course have their results or effects on psychological levels, representing what we may call psychological personality thrust. [...]

[...] All energy is basically self-activating, but different energy potentials are required for effective utilization in various electromagnetic fields.

[...] They do, however, exert some, though inconsequential, effect which theoretically could also be measured, and which would account for some of the energy considered diminished, and help to account for the entropy theory.

[...] All combinations of particles are voluntary, and based upon principles of value fulfillment, which operates within and causes those acts or motions which are conducive to the formation of more complicated gestalts.

Effects which appear within your system, discernible by your instruments but without form in some, indeed many cases, represent speeds and velocities of activities or acts that actually have their origin from without your system; but because of their different speed and velocity they can travel through your system, and of course making their impression upon it.

(The last few paragraphs of the above material we thought to be an elaboration of Seth’s rather cryptic statement in the 97th session, page 72, to the effect that in some respects all planes or fields of existence are indeed by-products of others.

[...] They are in fact fascinated by the effects that their thoughts, feelings, and purposes have upon daily events. [...] If they create “bogeymen,” then they can cause them to disappear also. If their thoughts can cause them to become ill, then there is no real reason for them to fear illness, for it is their own creation. [...]

[...] In fact, children let little escape them, so that, again, they experiment constantly in an effort to discover not only the effect of their thoughts and intents and wishes upon others, but the degree to which others influence their own behavior. [...]

[...] His natural impulses naturally lead him toward the development of his body and mind, and he is aware of a cushioning effect and support as he acts in accordance with those inner impulses. [...]

(The second effect did produce a little alarm when it began, but she mentally told Seth to go ahead. She was well aware of the difference in the two effects. In the second effect, Jane said she felt a distinct trembling in her chin as it was lowered against her chest, but Peg and I hadn’t observed this. [...]

[...] It has caused him to hold back from fully developing his abilities; not only his psychic abilities. It has caused him to hold back in the development of his full writing talents, for these specialized creative abilities, the writing techniques, will come into their own now that the personality is more fully behind our work.

(I was watching as best I could for any effect of transposition or facial change, but had noted none.)

Almost everyone is familiar with something else, however, and that is the psychological experience which may have no observable physical effect, and yet can change a personality to a large degree. Now the change in the personality may have secondary physical effects. [...] But these physical effects are secondary to the experience, and the experience of itself makes no physical effect upon the material world. Any such effects are made after the experience by the personality involved.

The fact remains that psychologists or scientists cannot really speak of so-called ESP as either below normal or above normal as far as the species is concerned, just because Western man finds such difficulty in using it with any effectiveness. Other peoples manage to use it in a rather effective manner.

Now physical effects may follow, such as weeping, mourning and so forth, but these effects are secondary. [...]

There are effects, not as yet ascertained by your scientists, that appear in such areas: effects that were known however at the time of Atlantis, and also utilized by the Lumanians. [...]

(Some theoretical physicists have postulated recently that when the nuclear fires of very massive stars are finally extinguished, their enormous gravity causes them to collapse so completely that they literally squeeze themselves out of existence. [...]

[...] There is, again, a wrinkling effect about these points, though not as yet observable to you, where space itself, it seems, yearns to disappear inside the first point. [...]