“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You, as a personality, regardless of your health, wealth or circumstances, have a rich variety of probable experience from which to choose. [...]

[...] If you chose illness, again there is a probable reality ready for initiation in which you choose health. [...]

Most individuals after death choose a more mature image that usually corresponds to the peak physical abilities, regardless of the age when the physical peak was reached. Others choose instead to take the form they had at the particular point when the greatest mental or emotional heights were achieved, regardless of the beauty or age that characterized the form. [...]

(Pause at 10:15.) Much later and on many levels you will finally learn to take many forms, as you choose, consciously. [...]

You will feel comfortable with the form that you choose, therefore, and you will usually use it when you want to communicate with others you have known; though for such communications with the living, you may instead adopt the form you had when you were known to the individual you want to contact.

[...] You are changing probabilities for the better, and in the same fashion do the generations pick and choose their probabilities, so that from any given century uncountable probabilities form. [...]

[...] They form according to the significances that they choose, so that in one way or another events become latent in some worlds, while in others they form events of a prime nature. [...]

We have said enough, for we always leave plenty of room as the body chooses its own manifestations, but his progress will be swifter than you have imagined. [...]

It seems to you that reality is composed of those actions that you choose to take. Those that you choose to deny are ignored. [...]

[...] You choose one of these, and by your decision you make one event out of the three physical. [...]

[...] From this more plastic, looser experience, the child in dreams begins to choose more specific elements, and in so doing trains the senses themselves toward a more narrow sensitivity.

[...] The way you follow these directions can be illuminating, for the areas of activity you choose will tell you something about the unique qualities of your own consciousness. [...]

[...] It is sometimes easier to choose an unfamiliar location, however, for then you are not tempted to test yourself as you go along by wondering whether or not the imagined scenes conform to your memory.

[...] People often choose to watch horror films for the same reason. [...]

[...] For you can then choose to perceive advantageous action, as well as you can choose not to perceive action which for any reason or another you choose to ignore.

[...] For as you know, you do not perceive all aspects of action by any means, and it can indeed to some extent be up to you to choose those aspects of action with which you will be concerned, and those which you would ignore.

What you choose to call suggestion operates unceasingly within all aspects of action.

[...] In all of his existences he has been of an extravagant nature, impetuous, choosing extravagantly-opposite experiences. He did not choose to probe lightly or delicately, for example, various areas of experience, but chose instead to intensify each life.

Now imagine anything that you choose but have a line or a platform that represents Alpha I. Have it in your mind as a symbol of adjacent consciousness at the same level, perhaps, as your eyes. Do whatever you choose. [...]

In dreams you are acquainted with probable events, from which you then choose; (to me:) so before you died as a child, you knew that you could pick or choose that death. [...]

[...] You weave in and out of probabilities constantly, picking and choosing as you go along. [...]

[...] Your consciousness picks and chooses to accept as real the results of, and ramifications of, only certain overall purposes, desires, or intents. [...]

[...] You pick and choose one birth and one death, in your terms.

[...] The spirit of Christ gives you the life to do with it what you choose. [...] You have free will, you can choose to ignore the blueprints. You can choose to ignore the blueprints for some time. [...]

(“Does it matter what religion one belongs to, or chooses?”)

If I choose. [...]

[...] You can split them up also and make further distinctions, if you choose. [...]

[...] If you do not like the families that you have, you have others to choose from.¹

2. Did I go overboard on “Unknown” Reality? Why did I choose to do notes for it —let alone publish it in 2 volumes? [...]

Clothing tells much about character, for a person chooses his clothing. Subconsciously he also chooses his environment, and throws his own character about it so the basic mood, the underlying mood of a personality beneath all the shifting moods, will also be expressed in color that is reflected in the entire painting, the environment as well.

[...] As an experiment, with a complete palette set up, then almost automatically let your hand drift over the palette and choose its own colors in turn. [...]

[...] Realize that to some extent or another your dilemma or your illness has been chosen by you, and that this choosing has been done in bits and pieces of small, seemingly inconsequential choices. [...]

You can discover what your own reasons are for choosing the dilemma or illness by being very honest with yourself. [...]

[...] You may, however, include portions of the session in “Unknown” Reality if you so choose. [...]

[...] It does mean that individuals choose to develop certain portions of their abilities, and that such a choice often necessitates ignoring other talents.

[...] They share a certain portion of your experience, but they use that experience as they choose. [...]

You choose ahead of time your environment and purposes. [...]

A person who has been cruel in one life may choose to experience conditions in the next life in which he or she understands the meaning of cruelty, but this does not mean that such a person would then necessarily experience an entire lifetime as a victim.

[...] While I did she had some thoughts of her own — that a person can choose illness, for example, in order to explore that reality, and to exert certain effects upon others around the ill person: thoughts I have had many times — my old idea of consciousness getting to know itself in as many ways as possible.

[...] It is as if for a day you choose to work, say in the slums. It would be ridiculous for you to choose to work in the slums and then say to yourself, why did I choose to work in the slums? [...]

[...] These are banks of activity from which you can draw or choose not to draw. [...]

[...] Many of the Sumari choose to be born in the springtime,³ but all those born in the spring are not Sumari, and no general rule applies there. [...]

(1. Granting Seth’s concept of time: Does the reincarnating personality usually choose to experience its simultaneous lives through various families of consciousness, or is it more likely to remain “loyal” to one such family in all of them? [...]

3. In view of Seth’s statement that “Many of the Sumari choose to be born in the springtime,” I decided to poll the members of Jane’s class for their months of birth. [...]

How one chooses to define “spring” also enters in, of course. [...]

[...] After all, if you do choose suicide, you can always kill yourself. [...]

Any therapist can also follow through by making such suggestions, thus gaining the client’s cooperation at the same time by letting the individual choose the time period for which such a decision will be delayed.