“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

At the time of the session I understood Seth to mean that the second house Jane and I looked at on April 25 was also my mother’s second choice of the day for us. Sometime later we began to wonder whether he might have meant that this second house had been Stella Butts’s next best choice for herself over the years, after Mr. Markle’s. We took the conservative approach; we decided this wasn’t likely. [...]

[...] In certain terms his mother will feel vindicated if Joseph buys that house, but the choice is still his and Ruburt’s. If you pay more attention to what you think of as coincidences, you will discover another kind of order that underlies the recognized order you follow. [...]

5. I’d say that Seth’s statement here, “It was her second choice,” calls for careful interpretation. [...]

[...] To some small extent, then, Jane and I could toy with inferences drawn from Seth’s comment that that particular house had represented my mother’s second choice. [...]

[...] You are in no way diminished because other quite-as-official selves are “offshoots” of your own experience, making the choices you did not make, and choosing, then, alternate versions of reality.

[...] (Long pause, eyes closed.) These are not just esoteric statements, but valid clues about the nature of your own behavior, meant to give you a sense of your own freedom, and to emphasize the importance of your choice.

[...] In such fashion you block out aspects of your own reality — and consciously, at least, cut down on your choices.

[...] Each individual possesses far vaster opportunities for choice than are realized. [...]

[...] It would be impossible to be consciously aware of all of the infinitesimal details that exist in even one life; your consciousness would be so full and cluttered up that you would be unable to make choices, or to use free will.

It can help you become wealthy in adult life through the choices that you make. [...]

Moreover, the choice of presenting the material in essay form proved to have one virtue that was more valuable than all the others combined: It allowed us to delve into the events I describe, and “our deep-seated, sometimes wrenching feelings connected to them,” a little bit at a time. [...]

[...] Our lives have been irrevocably changed—by choice—and not for the worse, either. [...]

Now at various times you made those conscious choices. They escaped your notice but they existed as conscious points of awareness and choice. [...]

(As we talked about our individual hang-ups, Jane said that we had a choice: We could get material on them or continue with book work. [...]

Instead, on your return you are communicating to the world through your notes — a choice you made consciously, but without being aware of the other contents of your conscious mind, and the “conflicting” beliefs. [...]

Beside at least walking around the house, Ruburt is to do five minutes of exercise a day, of his choice; but devote it to the idea of expressing freedom for his body—not absolute freedom, but to experience that feeling. [...]

The yoga exercises encourage the muscles to stretch as well as relax, and so far his choice of exercises is good. [...]

[...] You live in a different frame of reference than a plant, however: You have more choices available. [...] Your intellect is meant to help you make choices. [...]

[...] From our current present we project, for better or worse, those choices, plus any new ones we may decide upon, into each of the presents we’ll be creating throughout the rest of our lives. [...]

[...] I thought I had three choices: eliminate; cut down; shift into an appendix. [...]

[...] Seth had discussed her father’s laxness, and her mother’s drive toward purpose, power, and control, and how Jane had felt that she must make a choice between the two modes of behavior. [...] The session and others dating from that time offers very good insights into Jane’s choice of actions over the years. [...]

[...] To do so it chooses between actions, for the very choice, or act of choosing, and ability to do so, represents the nature of identity. [...]

[...] The whole personality must be led to choose those actions which are of the most benefit to itself as a whole, and its integrity as a unit is determined by its choices in this matter.

Without the choice there would be no personality. [...]

[...] Again, here you find that discipline, rather than free will, is stressed, so that the opportunity for choices is drastically reduced. [...]

[...] Given our present ideas about the limitless nature of consciousness, we think our joint quest has been underway since before our births—by choice—and we expect it to continue for the rest of our physical lives. [...]

[...] And, as in Seth’s case and Jane’s case, probabilities and choices come much more prominently into play.

[...] Our independence relative to reincarnation may represent just conscious cussedness on our parts, but we believe that each of us (meaning anyone, that is) always has the freedom to accept or reject any such choice or causality —whatever we choose to do. No, instead we think of our current challenges as contributing to the knowledge of our whole selves in most specific ways, rather than our being swayed that much by our reincarnational and/or counterpart associations. [...]

[...] I don’t doubt that he’s right—that is, in our temporal lifetimes we call upon whatever systems of consciousness we desire to, at whatever “time”: a matter of choice and free will operating within the broad parameters of our sexual orientation and other personality factors.

[...] The choice is dependent upon your choices in both past and present. These choices, however, are based upon your changing perceptions of past and present. [...] But this is still dependent upon my prediction of a choice you will make.

[...] If the ego were allowed to make all the choices, with no veto power from other layers of the self, you would all be in a sad position, indeed.

When the time of choosing comes, therefore, the choices available are far more diverse than those offered or possible to personalities who must still reincarnate. [...]

[...] Once such a choice is made, training immediately begins, always under the leadership of a practical expert. [...]

[...] Before you sleep remind yourself that extra energy will be available, and that you can use it for a beneficial dream experience of your choice. [...]

[...] Their choices, however, are not your choices. [...]

[...] Powers latent but barely glimpsed within the multidimensional personality are drawn upon and used when such a choice is made.

[...] This provides you with areas of choice, gives you manipulability, and allows for the myriad of probable activities “possible.” [...] If only one were provided you would have no choice. [...]

[...] If you say, “I am powerless to direct my life,” you are also making a deliberate choice — and in that case a limiting one.

[...] And yet there is really no choice, for upon your physical plane there will be cooperation or annihilation.

As you know, so-called inert objects possess consciousness also, though in a more generalized and much less specific manner, in which to a large degree choice is denied to them. [...]