“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] As an egotistical creature, alone, you would not choose the experience, even though great work resulted from it. [...]

You may choose the point from which you would like me to begin again, and I will do so; or I will initiate a beginning again—it makes no difference. [...]

[...] He can pick any area he chooses, but he is to tell you about the accomplishments.

[...] From your point of view you could not pick up the grocer’s escapades and the symphony, for instance, if both came through at 8 o’clock in the evening, without switching from one to the other: You would have to choose which program you wanted.

[...] Certain portions of it, however, choose to take different focuses in order to bring those aspects in more clearly.

[...] In Chapter 1 of The Seth Material, Jane quoted Seth-to-be from the 4th session for December 8, 1963, as that personality came through on the Ouija board (which we’d used to initiate these sessions): “You may call me whatever you choose. [...]

[...] The personality must gain experience, in other words, on a particular level of existence, on which or within which it operates, and it cannot choose otherwise. [...]

[...] The entity may not like any particular choice made by the personality, but he, the entity, cannot change the course that the personality chooses to take.

[...] This is reported here for what it’s worth.) The house you choose will suit you. [...]

[...] You choose books rather than television appearances, because of your feelings of secrecy and safety. [...]

[...] Billy can be as he chooses—reincarnated into any species within his classification—as a mammal.

[...] I’m interpreting Seth to say that a consciousness can choose to range among such forms. [...]

[...] The experience was to inform you emotionally and spiritually of the great meaning of each individual, portray the lovely brilliance that is within each human being, and let you know that the integrity of the self and the soul exists beyond the possibility of annihilation, as you yourself will continue to exist regardless of which path you choose to take — dying within two years, or living physically on for many more. [...]

Such work does not only necessitate the choosing of one individual, but is also an endeavor in which many other elements are taken into consideration. [...]

[...] You are independent as far as the actions you choose to take. [...]

[...] Reincarnated selves are no more than probable selves, choosing to experience various forms. [...]

[...] The ego may choose to use or not use various reactions. [...]

[...] Since he realizes that he did not choose, consciously, to take these illegal steps, then he cannot understand why he should ever be penalized for them.

[...] You may end the session or continue it as you choose.

(I reminded Jane that since she belonged to no religion now [having left the Roman Catholic Church when she was 19 years old], her mystical nature would choose other avenues of expression than religious ones; as in these sessions, for instance. [...]

(She hasn’t undergone a classical religious conversion of the kind William James describes in his The Varieties of Religious Experience,⁴ yet more than once she’s known her own forms of ecstasy, or deep alteration of consciousness, or illumination — whatever one chooses to call such states. [...]

[...] From it the self chooses those actions which shall become a part of physical reality. [...]

[...] Not only in terms of overall experience, but also as a means of training the ego, and the subconscious, to choose between various activities.

[...] From it you choose those patterns of thought which you will weave into the physical matter of your universe. [...]

(In closing out the last session, Seth told us that he’d “cover everything that needs to be covered” in his books, and I wrote that sometimes I’d still choose to insert other particularly apropos material of his into whatever book he might be producing at the time. [...]

[...] A man who kills with hatred will have his hatred to contend with, but he is not able to kill anyone who has not decided to die—and to die in a particular manner; that is, someone who wants his death blamed on another, who would not commit suicide, who would not choose a long illness—someone who is ready to die but does not want to deal with the circumstances, and wants indeed to be surprised by death.

(“Can we talk to you at any time we choose?”)

[...] It’s very interesting that I would choose tonight, of all nights, to try for visual data, although in recent days I’ve been inquiring mentally about subjects for my next oil painting. [...]

[...] Ruburt was aware of the arrangement for the demonstration, but was also somewhat alarmed at the particular way you would choose to interpret the experience. [...]

[...] He chooses to translate whatever portions of this energy he so chooses, back into forms that can be picked up and understood by his own mechanism.

[...] Sometimes this is done when such a person chooses to undergo a traumatic experience — often one part of the personality will plan this quite deliberately while the other portion closes its eyes. [...]