“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(10:41.) Personality changes whether it is within a body or outside of it, so you will change after death as you change before it. [...] It is the same as a child saying: “I am going to grow up, but I am never going to change the ideas that I have now.” [...]

The original man may have been assassinated, another taking his place, carrying on as if there had been no change as far as the populace was concerned. [...]

[...] A change of policy is the clue in such cases; vacillation.

This was important, because it showed that he could change, and removed physical fears he had, for example about his kidneys—but more important, because you zeroed in on an area in which change was possible.

[...] That one habit and no other was to be changed. [...]

[...] The larger point is that you believed, each of you, that change in that particular area was possible. [...]

[...] The importance of the bathroom issue was your belief, jointly—and almost overnight that belief, small as it was, was almost completely changed.

(Added on Wednesday, January 11, 1984: We’d like more on changing the past from the present. [...] She seems to think the actual episode of Father Darren chasing her around the bed when she was in that hotel room with him as a teen-ager is changed, whereas I thought Seth meant that the original event remained, but that her psychological understanding of what had transpired changed a good deal. [...]

Your dream about the return to Sayre, and the more spacious surroundings, means also that as you now change the past and the future, so you have changed the past: you view it in a more extended light, so that it becomes less narrow and constricting. [...]

[...] Now you are considered quite respectable (pause), that you have survived so many changes within that publishing organization.

(5:00 p.m. “Don’t be worried — I’m not going to go on with the session, but as he said, you always go back and change the past from the present — your focus point, you know — I know what he’s going to say next …” I said she was welcome to resume the session.

You will recall that the ego, while disliking change, is nevertheless dependent for its identity upon change. [...] Because the ego necessarily changes however, actions or emotions which at one time it chose as acceptable, at a later date so to speak it may attempt to deny.

[...] The very attempt to deny an action automatically changes the nature of the action, and also changes the nature of the individual who attempts to deny it. [...]

[...] It would of course however to some extent change the ego, and any change is resisted by the ego.

[...] It must change. [...]

[...] A reshuffling and changes of personnel will result. There will be some changes in the business department and, I believe, in advertising. Also one particular change in the editorial department. There will be changes in the meantime that will affect correspondents writing for the paper in nearby areas, and directives. [...]

It is possible (pause, long) that the changes of which Philip has been told will not occur and were furthermore not intended to occur: that he has been told so for other reasons.

[...] Recently he told us that his territory might be changed, effectively cutting out Elmira and including instead an area of small towns in Pennsylvania. [...]

[...] If anything in that physical image or world needs changing, the change must first be made in the atmosphere of the inner self.

[...] That is, pure joy, even of brief duration, can literally change the direction of a life.

[...] It does you little good to know that physical symptoms or inadequate physical surroundings are symbolic unless you realize that the inner situation can be changed.

[...] The change of course comes before this in the inner self. [...]

You and Ruburt have changed since our sessions began. I have also changed. Because I have changed you have changed, and because you have changed I have changed; and each new encounter continually changes, yet in a way that has to do with developments, not single-line continuity.

[...] They also changed as Seth continued discussing the analogies involved.

[...] Because, again as simply as I can explain it, because of our natures a certain field has been set up of receptivity, and though our positions change, the quotients within it do not.

Now within our relationship as a triangle, dimensions are open and constantly changing. [...]

The change, while admittedly advantageous, reflects the fact that people are being helped, and that in our way we are able to help them change their picture of reality for the better, and to enlarge their understanding.

[...] When you changed them your reality began to change.

—so change your habits. [...] Your financial situation is increasing beyond your early dreams, because of a change in belief—so begin acting as if the normal pattern exists. [...]

I have been telling you this all along, if you recall, that your financial situation was changing.

Again: a change of schedules and habits. It is good that you are making these changes. [...] The ego is working with you now, for it grew frightened and is taking steps to change.

[...] More extensive changes, a change in working hours, for example, might frighten the ego and should be avoided.

[...] I will have something to say shortly, incidentally, concerning the ways in which you may change the past in the present, for this will be useful. [...]

[...] A small note, not necessarily a recommendation here: a change of hair color would minimize any lingering mother identification.

[...] If you want to change your world, you must first change your thoughts, expectations, and beliefs. If every reader of this book changed his or her attitudes, even though not one law was rewritten, tomorrow the world would have changed for the better. [...]

[...] Jane has been restless lately, and looking for a change. Our friends very accurately picked up on her need, likening the room changes to a mini-vacation for her.

(Long pause at 9:48.) Any new law always follows the change in belief. [...]

[...] You have the power to change your life and the world for the better, but in doing so you must, again, reevaluate what your ideals are, and the methods that are worthy of them. [...]

These symbols will change, therefore, in various stages of consciousness. Again, the logical sequence is not present, but the intuitive creation will change the symbols much in the way that an artist might change his colors.

This of course is obvious, but the same sort of symbol changing may occur within dreams. The dog’s accident may be a dream experience, for that matter, that then changes your conscious symbolic feeling toward dogs in the waking state. [...]

[...] Their changing guises can be used as signposts. [...]

[...] The feeling of joy changes the objects themselves, in that the perceiver sees them in a far brighter light. [...]

[...] We didn’t plan to do this; it just developed, and we eventually realized that it did so through Jane’s simple need for a change in routine. [...] All of that building activity was much noisier and more disruptive than the work had been for the front porch, and forced some changes in our schedules, including more night work, as we manipulated around those distractions.

Because the episode was used on two or three different occasions, Ruburt could see how this memory changed. In most cases, however, people are not aware that memory changes in such a fashion, or that the events they think they recall are so different.

(Going back to the end of our stay-at-home vacation, on June 25 Seth-Jane began delivering a series of 10 sessions that we held on Monday and Saturday evenings for a change, instead of following our usual Monday-Wednesday routine. [...]

The moment it occurs, it begins to change as it is filtered through all of those other ingredients, and it is minutely altered furthermore by each succeeding event. [...]

[...] You change the exterior circumstances by changing your thoughts and your desires and by forgetting your fears. [...]

[...] You must change your innermost reality if you will change physical reality. [...]

[...] Instead, you change your pigments. [...] And then you change your painting. [...]

[...] Instead, immediately change your imaginative image of yourself. [...] You must first change your image in your imagination and act upon it immediately. [...]

The change is always gradual, even in so far as your own perspective is concerned. The change is gradual because the change is spontaneous. If the change were not spontaneous and not everoccurring and reoccurring, then you could say “now this is the moment of birth or death.”

As an idea changes, so do entities change while still retaining individuality and durability. [...]

[...] I keep my continuity but nevertheless I change, and offshoots like currents explode into being.

[...] Ruburt is now the result of the Seth that I once was, for I have changed since then. [...]

[...] There are a few lapses, but overall he is changing that habit—and the point of power has helped him considerably there. [...] He is quite importantly beginning to change the viewpoint from which he previously viewed his reality. [...]

[...] As the muscles change, there can be some difficulties with depth perception regardless, since the muscles are used to reaching out only so far, and must change their orientation.

[...] Tonight she stood “even taller” briefly, yet through all of these changes the eyes have bothered her considerably. [...]

He has not as yet changed his viewpoint to that of a normally flexible person, but it is vastly improved from the one he had only a short while ago. [...]

[...] I am telling you that when your entire physical circumstances appear hopeless to you, then you must change them, or honestly admit that these are the circumstances within which you must work, and not fool yourself. And when you do not feel that the physical circumstances are worthwhile, that you are not getting enough out of them, that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, then you must change them. [...]

[...] You cannot stay within a physical condition you consider hopeless and not change it, and expect any kind of creativity or help. [...]

When you can into longer accept it then you must change it. [...]

[...] He felt you blamed him for this, and thought it was an undisciplined action on his part, forcing you to make changes you did not want to make.

[...] (Pause.) Returning to the material on perception, there are changes in the positive and negative atomic charges, alterations of movement inside the atoms in the smaller particles (long pause), a change in pulsation rate. [...]

On occasion the change can be noticeable enough however so that the physical resemblance (pause), changes, Ruburt looking far less like Ruburt, comparatively speaking.

(“Do you mean changes in the atom such as the number of electrons and/or other particles, literally; or are you referring to the nonphysical content of energy within, or carried by, each atom? [...]

[...] In paranormal instances you change your focus largely, throwing it into the seemingly independent event. [...]

[...] You can change the past, and in doing so change the present and the future. You can change the present, and in doing so change the past and the future. You can change the future, and in doing so change the present and the past.

I have told you that you can change the past. In doing so you change the self, by choosing from past experience those elements to which you shall and shall not react. [...]

[...] You will change the past, your reaction to it, by vividly imagining happy hours that you refused to focus upon. These pursuits in the present will automatically change the nature of the present.

[...] You will change yourself in the future by vital imagining today. [...]

You yourselves, through following your impulses, changed your suggestions, and this was because the flow of experience directed you so that you followed the changes in Ruburt’s psyche. [...]

The event with your company (Bumbalos), however, points rather dramatically toward important changes in Ruburt’s mental patterns, and he has had reminiscent experiences since. I have told you that the changes are first mental, and therefore let me briefly give the reasons for Ruburt’s ease and sense of freedom the evening that your neighbors were with you on the porch—you know what I am referring to.

You were quite correct last night, incidentally: the knees have changed. [...] In the past two weeks, however, in particular, there were periods when the arms and legs were both changing in their own fashions, so that Ruburt did not feel like walking, while he did feel like exercising. [...]

[...] Any new such experiences give him not only new confidence, but allow for a give-and-take with other portions of the self, which will be quite aware of the changed status, so all of that is important.

Now, when you change the character of the ego as you think of it, you change it not only for yourselves, but for the species of which you are a part. [...] So you work not only for yourselves, but you work for others, and you change not only yourselves, but you change others, and you alter the species of which you are a part. [...]

Now, you have all been changing your relationships, not only because of what has gone on in class physically, but because of what you have been doing in the dream states. [...]

[...] But, if you go to bed this week each night with the idea that you are not sleeping in the terms in which you usually accept that term, but you are instead changing the focus of your consciousness and that you will be as much awake and consciousness, then you will become aware of what you do consciously when you sleep. [...]

([Gert:] “On this business of the Alpha layers, this again is a changing of focus, it is not?”)