“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(With gentle irony:) No one told it that it was impossible to grow from a tiny cell — change that to a tiny organism instead of a cell — to a complicated adult structure. [...]

(“That may be a good sign — a sign of change. [...]

[...] The neighborhood was muffled and serene; even the traffic passing our apartment house was slowed to a crawl for a change.)

[...] As physical creatures you will be partially changed by any chemical or element, or food or drug that becomes part of your living system, but those effects will follow the nature of your beliefs.

[...] It is also as changing as the physical universe. [...]

[...] Instead development is largely a matter of value fulfillment, which is achieved through the perspectives of action, through traveling within any given action, and following it and changing with it. [...]

That concept will be changed because many people in your society and in your times were indeed born with the same intent, and in their private and public lives they are tackling that issue. [...]

The mass reality is ready for such a change. [...]

[...] Certain muscles relax for the first time in recent times, while others might momentarily contract so that balance is maintained—so the body is in a state of constant change. [...]

The change itself, and the relaxations, give him a feeling sometimes of having no firm support (as Jane said earlier today). [...]

[...] Tell yourself that it will become larger and larger, then mentally watch its size change. [...]

[...] This means that your experience will itself change in quality. [...]

[...] My face must have begun to change even then, the muscles rearranging themselves into Seth’s characteristic expressions, because in that last moment I saw what seemed to be a gigantic camera lens coming in for a close-up. [...]

First of all, as always, my face changed expression drastically, and I began to speak in a deep male-like voice. [...]

[...] When we learn to close off our senses momentarily and change the focus of awareness, other quite valid glimpses of an interior universe begin to show themselves.

[...] Your friend Mark telepathically picked up your attitudes concerning his friend at your last meeting, not this evening’s meeting, and he changed some of his plans because of your attitudes.

[...] Perhaps temperature changes within the candle could influence it after it has burned for a while, although it felt no warmer to me.)

Your own attitudes toward the family have changed considerably, and have become more tolerant since our sessions. [...]

The personality then changes course in midstream. Some, but not all, cases of insanity represent the personality’s inability to handle a particular problem, while at the same time it refuses to obey the orders from the inner senses to change course. [...]

[...] At the same time such a personality will not let go, either, and will not change course. [...]

[...] He almost blocked me, changing this to the more ordinary good evening. [...]

[...] I am familiar with the change when I visit you, and Ruburt, who is not aware consciously of which word will follow another, did not know the intention behind the greeting. [...]

You should approach a fair approximation, which would represent to you an astounding degree of change for the better. [...]

The experience of any given unit, constantly changing, affects all other units … Give us time … It is difficult to explain because your concepts of selfhood are so limited … These units contain within themselves, in your terms, all “latent” identities, but not in a predetermined fashion. [...]

[...] The knowledge changes it, in your terms, into a greater gestalt that then tries to fulfill and know itself, and so forth. [...]

[...] These concepts alone do alter your present consciousness, and change it in degree. [...]

[...] “The trances have changed since he started this book, though,” she said. “Once I get on the right track, Seth just keeps going, and I don’t want to change it or get off … I think it’s a great development. [...]

(10:57.) These developments, with others, are already triggering changes in man’s behavior, and inspiring him toward further alterations of consciousness. [...]

[...] That is, they change their form, their subjective force or direction, and become part of the working mechanics of the universe. [...]

[...] Because of temperature changes on the earth, and so forth. [...]

You may find that the pyramid itself changes its dimensions. [...]

[...] That potential needs infinite opportunity; the true self’s reality needs an ever-new, changing situation, for each experience enriches it and, therefore, enhances its own possibilities. [...]

[...] It is not just that thoughts influence the body, as of course they do; but each one of them represents a triggering stimulus, bringing about hormonal changes and altering the entire physical situation at any given time.

[...] Instead, precognitively the species is aware of those changes it wants to make, and from the “future” it alters the “present” state of the chromosomes and genes (see Note 14) to bring about in the probable future the specific changes it desires. [...]

(The third excerpt I’d originally planned to use is from the 690th session in Volume 1, and shows that even when Seth talks of evolution in our terms of ordinary time, he means something quite different from that conventional definition of linear change: Precognition is one of the attributes of the growth through value fulfillment that he described in the [already quoted] 44th session. [...]

[...] In atomic physics, for example, no special meaning or place is given to any particular moment, and fundamentally the past and future all but merge in the interactions of elementary particles — thus at least approaching Seth’s simultaneous time.¹⁰ At that level there’s change, or value fulfillment, but no evolution. [...]

[...] As far as science knows, both have existed with very little change for over 300 million years.

The hand was not injured, that is not knocked as by bunking, but was irritated due to a change of wrist motion occurring when he began to use a second typewriter, which he had not used for many years. [...]

[...] And in an unwary, emotionally upset personality, particularly if under stress, such a suggestion could cause a harmless and protective nodule to be changed by the strong powers of adverse expectation, or rather expectation poorly used, into the form of what is feared; as a slight but harmless irregularity of heartbeat, with the unthinking suggestion of a doctor, can become through the patient’s fears an actual functional disorder, so could suggestion turn a relatively harmless formation like Ruburt’s into an arthritic condition.