“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

When anyone is disturbed chemical changes occur, as you know. Now these changes affect the ways in which you perceive sense data. [...] For changes must come from the inside, and in that way you will change your environment.

[...] The actual trees, had he really been able to reproduce them, would then undergo their seasonal changes. The trees in his painting, being artificial reproductions, do not undergo the same physical changes, even while the atoms and molecules that compose the canvas itself, and all the pigments, constantly themselves change.

In a like manner for example, the act of dreaming itself changes both the dreamer and the dream. The act of doing anything at all automatically changes the doer. The reality of any action automatically determines that the action will change.

[...] He can send an approximation of it, for the attempt to transmit the thought automatically changes the thought itself. He sends an approximation of the original thought, and this approximation is further changed by “B’s” action as he attempts to receive it. [...]

The previous overviolent response was caused by a difficulty, among other things, in handling chemical changes, both in the atmosphere and in the physical body. [...]

[...] You can only observe it in motion, for it is never still, and to probe into it yourself is to change it.

But the personality is always in a state of becoming, and forever changes. [...]

[...] It can indeed be examined but the examination itself, being action, changes it. [...]

[...] Personality changes and acts upon all other action. [...]

[...] You can change your personal world. You do change it without knowing it. [...]

[...] If you do not like your experience, then you must change the nature of your conscious thoughts and expectations. [...]

[...] If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. [...]

[...] Yet they were not, and to some extent or another they can be changed for the better.

Ruburt’s intent to be responsive is being used in that fashion, and the word with its meanings brings about a juggling or change-about of other important intents, which then change alliances.

[...] When he feels he can physically handle guests with some finesse, if not with perfectly normal behavior, you will know that his mental and emotional patterns have changed. You will also know that your emotional and mental attitudes in that regard have changed.

Ruburt’s body is undergoing profound beneficial alterations, for his desire and intent seemingly have changed overnight, relatively speaking. [...]

[...] Whenever you apply yourself in such ways, you collect data that seems to support your ideas, so that unless efforts are made to change, the picture becomes grossly exaggerated—and to that extent unrealistic.

[...] Action cannot be caught and held, and the nature of perceiving an action changes the very nature of the action itself. It is indeed, here again, that tension causes such a change.

Any perception instantly changes the perceiver. It also changes the thing perceived, and this we will discuss at a later session, for it involves the other side of the coin, so to speak.

[...] This transference, incidentally, from one system to another, necessarily changes the action itself; but for simplicity’s sake we may say that an action has its reality within many systems simultaneously.

It is even possible for the physical individual to train himself to change the nature of his own perception of such objects. [...]

[...] In your society people have been taught in many areas that change can only lead to a deterioration, and this seems to have a scientific justification. Creativity thrives on change, however.

[...] Recently there have been noticeable changes for the better in both of her hands, although each one works differently. [...]

[...] Creativity involves productive change. [...]

[...] (Pause.) For another thing, this allows a breakup of certain mental and physical habits—a gentle shock to the mental and physical systems that allows for beneficial change. [...]

[...] This is the kind of change in position she needs in order to encourage healing of her decubiti. [...]

[...] I took it to mean that more effort was required for the session, or at least that her current physical situation resulted in a changed delivery. [...]

(I will now write Sheri asking for copies of all correspondence she’s had with England, both on her part and theirs, so that perhaps we can correlate Jane’s changing condition with their efforts. [...]

[...] As it is, I don’t understand how I’m to get any work done, help Jane, handle business affairs, change even my driver’s license, and move all at the same time. [...]

[...] Your bodies not only change completely every seven years, for example. They change constantly with each breath.

[...] Now, because this is known to us, we can change our environments and our own physical forms as we wish, and without confusion, for we perceive the reality that lies beneath.

We also realize that permanency of form is an illusion, since all consciousness must be in a state of change. [...]

[...] Electromagnetic properties of skin and cell continually leap and change, and even reverse themselves. [...]

[...] Overnight—almost—he managed to completely change his picture of himself—and all of the physical evidence that before had confirmed his condition vanished. [...]

[...] Your thoughts about him to some extent also changed, and telepathically he becomes aware of that alteration.

The old man changed probabilities, you see, moving into another, and your thought patterns deal with probabilities all the time, at one level, as your c-e-l-l-s (spelled) do at another—so perhaps that will help you see more clearly the connections between health and illness, and the directions that your thoughts take.

On a particular level however this makes little difference, because such communications are carried on constantly at subconscious levels, seldom reaching ego awareness, so that individuals are subconsciously conditioned—and underline subconsciously conditioned—therefore expecting, all unknown to the ego, such communications when certain chemical changes come about; since these chemical changes also occur for other reasons when these conditions occur, on a practical level communications will then most easily happen. These chemical changes without the proper subconscious focus point, will result in clairvoyance or telepathy strong enough on some occasions to be conscious. [...]

Obviously people vary in their ability to change their point of focus. Many find difficulty in changing it at all. Some, because of excellent development, inner communication with the inner self, feel subconsciously secure enough to change focus spontaneously, as one might listen to one radio station and then another, still retaining knowledge of the basic “I” who listened.

[...] It is theoretically possible, for example, to change the focus, to delve downward as it were two lives back, and look upward from that perspective to the present.

The ego cannot so change its focus, but the inner ego of which we have spoken is indeed the self that dreams, and is the “I” who experiences when the ego “I” sleeps.

Now: This ability to change form is an inherent characteristic of any consciousness. [...] You can see this in your own system, in a slowed-down version, when you observe the changing forms taken by living matter through its “evolutionary” history.

[...] It is more pleasurable — though my ideas of pleasure have changed some since I was a physical being — being more rewarding and offering far greater opportunities for creative achievement.

[...] These changing forms would in no way bother my associates, for they would take them as immediate clues as to my mood, feelings, and ideas.

[...] You usually do not realize that your physical body is created by you at each moment as a direct result of your inner conception of what you are, or that it changes in important chemical and electromagnetic ways with the ever-moving pace of your own thought.

From then on noticeable changes will be fairly automatic and accelerated, but you are now finishing up the groundwork. The mouth and jaw is also in a constant state of change for the same reasons, so that the area will be sometimes comfortable, and sometimes most bothersome.

[...] We are saying that changes can be made from within the culture. [...]

[...] In ways the entire picture will change.

The paperback Personal Reality will be highly important in the ultimate changes that do take place. [...]

Now: the favorable remarks made this morning by various members of the staff show that you are indeed changing your realities, and also beginning to change the larger environment. People’s ideas about Ruburt’s condition are changing, and you are receiving favorable results and feedback, of course. You will end up changing your reality, and your reality in other people’s eyes as well, so the affair marks the beginning of that alteration of environment. [...]

[...] And Mary Ann, who changed Jane’s dressings in room 330, said the bedsores look much better in their healing. [...]

[...] Jane had a bladder spasm, even though she’d had her catheter changed recently. [...]

[...] Jane could feel it especially in the joint for the big toe, and I could also see the change in motion there. [...]

[...] Change is gradual. In many ways it is a sleeping system, change taking place so slowly and nonviolently that the danger is in a constant status quo. [...] Even abruptness of thought, you see, carries implications of violence, of abrupt change—the breaking of one pattern for another.

[...] The beauties within it are often the result of violent changes, of strong energy, used to change pattern and form, and yet maintain a definite stability. [...]

[...] The inhabitants of the system were far more fearful—so fearful that little change was allowed for.

[...] When you think of a possible destruction of your planet, you imagine perhaps the mutilation of nature as you know it, the species changed. [...]

[...] As this is done, the exterior circumstances should change for the better as the inner self becomes more aware of its own nature and capabilities. [...]

[...] Sex changes, for example, are necessary. [...]

[...] When you get to the point that you realize you are forming your day-to-day existence and the life that you know, then you can begin to alter your own mental and psychic patterns, and therefore change your daily environment.

[...] The entire structure of your existence will begin to change with these realizations, and an acceleration of spiritual and psychic growth will develop.

[...] He wants to enter it, and there is the important change in belief that has occurred. He is still frightened, and will be worried lest he become too involved in it, but he is willing to handle that on a conscious level now, which is another important change in beliefs.

[...] His beliefs are changing. But in the context of that change, the challenge of extremes still appeals to him. [...]

[...] Simply deciding on a conscious level to reenter that arena, in his present state, shows in itself a change of belief, for before he did not want to try, and considered it a threat to his work.

It is precisely the challenge of things like dancing when he is in poor shape, but coming through when others are watching, or a trailer trip, or riding a bicycle when it seems impossible, or climbing a tree, that has the imaginative literal qualities that inspires him to change beliefs, whether or not those issues in that way make sense to you.

[...] To change your experience or any portion of it, then, you must change your ideas. [...]

[...] Such reactions are actually excellent precautions, meant to be taken as a sign that change is needed.

[...] If you accept the idea that the reasons for your behavior are forever buried in the past of this life, or any other, then you will not be able to alter your experience until you change that belief. [...]

[...] You can change those areas of your life with which you are less than pleased, but you must take the responsibility for your being.

[...] When atoms and molecules are heated certain changes happen. When they are artificially crowded certain changes happen. When they are frozen certain changes happen, and when the psychic atmosphere is saturated there will be a metamorphosis of a kind and a release of abilities that have been latent.

The change will amount to a new kind of consciousness, certainly in quality.

There have been changes through your ages that have given birth to enlarged or expanded consciousness. [...]

Because of some of mankind’s curious characteristics, often it does not change unless his life depends upon it, unless survival is threatened. [...]

[...] You have changed the relationships existing within the immediate physical environment, and you perceive the change physically.

[...] Each insignificant shading of color, change in texture, in degree or kind, are directly caused by corresponding inner differences.

In many respects the physical body itself aids in these transformations, through chemical interactions, changes in delicate electromagnetic balances, temperature variations, and through other methods that will be discussed shortly.

The change itself is the direct reflection of inner psychic and psychological alterations; but you have actually altered the nature of the physical environment and the quality that pervades it. [...]