“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The world will go its way, choosing and discarding what it will. [...]

[...] For its purposes however the conscious self chooses this particular event X. But again, this event X, until the conscious self experiences it, is only one of many other probable events, different in no basic manner from the others. [...]

[...] It can only choose to experience one event out of all the probable events at a time. [...]

The ego must choose one of all these because of its physical time limitations. [...]

[...] You structure your own existence and you choose those realities that have exactly as much organization as you need at any given time. [...] Out of a vast field of perception you choose to focus your attention upon certain specific areas and ignore all others, and so there is perfect agreement among you as far as this small area is concerned. [...]

[...] You structure your own existence, and you choose those realities that have exactly as much organization as you need at any given time.

[...] Out of a vast field of perception, you choose to focus your attention upon certain specific areas and to ignore all others, and so there is perfect agreement among you as far as this small area is concerned. [...]

[...] As mentioned earlier (in the 653rd session in Chapter Fourteen), you actualize events from the present intersection of spirit and flesh, choosing them from probabilities according to your beliefs.

[...] These same principles can be used in any area of your life, and in each you are choosing from a variety of probable events.

[...] In whatever framework you choose, you will always find proper reinforcement for your belief.

[...] While having at the same time the freedom to choose those beliefs—to choose your mental state in a way that the animals for example do not. [...]

[...] Usually between lives you choose ahead of time your children, and they choose you as parents.

If they become ill, they will do so knowing they choose the condition in order to emphasize certain areas of development, or to minimize others. [...]

[...] You can follow any road you choose, but — until you realize that as individuals you each form your own personal life, and have a part in the mass creation of reality — there is much learning ahead for you. [...]

“In your terms, from your present you ‘plant’ images, tales, legends, ‘at any given time,’ that seem to come from the past, but are actually like ghost images from the future, for you to follow or disregard as you choose.

[...] It exists both in your past and future, a probable world that some of you will choose from a model placed in the past of your future — partially based upon fact, in your terms, but with its greatest validity lying in its possibilities.”

[...] You can send originals if you choose, and we’ll copy them and return them. [...]

[...] After death you may, under certain conditions and if you choose, experience the events of those seventy-seven years at your leisure — but not necessarily in terms of continuity. [...]

Some choose this rather than reincarnating, or rather as a study before a new reincarnation. [...]

(4. Seth also said that it would be “not practical” and “boring” for him to relive his life as a pope, then added: “In those terms, many people do choose to reexperience what you would think of as a past existence in order to change it as they go along.” [...]

[...] But you could choose to be born five “times” in 1940, and each existence would be entirely separate, as you probed into the probable realities existing for you in the variations of that period.

[...] You choose, in other words, to accept a given picture of the world, and you use that picture as a frame within which you form a life.

[...] They can only choose between alternatives with which they are familiar. They can only choose to operate within their own camouflage pattern framework.

[...] That is, while in theory any personality can choose to travel extensively, this really has no meaning for a large percentage of personalities because of their own peculiar makeup.

[...] You can pursue the material intellectually if you choose at other times; but not, please, just before a session, and please give your intuitions freedom during sessions.

[...] The individual chooses then which probabilities he desires to make actual in physical terms.

[...] You may at any point choose differently now. [...]

[...] (Pause.) He feels he has the prerogative to use power in any way he chooses. [...]

[...] It demands much more of its people, however, for in a large manner each must pick and choose from amid a variety of life-styles and beliefs his and her own platform for daily life and action.

He should relax, in any way he chooses, the hour preceding a session.

[...] He can relive the incident at his leisure, and experience it as present if he so chooses.

He can also remember it from any viewpoint in his future, if he chooses. [...]

Now in the greater framework of reincarnational existences you choose your roles, or your lives, but the lines that you speak, the situations that you meet, are not predetermined. [...]

2. Free will is the philosophical doctrine that the individual has the freedom to choose, without coercion, some actions consistent with his or her particular morals and ideals. [...]

[...] Man related the concept of free will long ago to the question of whether he could deliberately choose evil, for example. [...]

(4:42.) I am not saying that the events in one life cause the events in another, but that there is an overall pattern — a bank of probable events — and that in each life each individual chooses those that suit his or her overall private purposes. [...]

[...] We are dealing here with a psychic tree however, and the seeds or personalities that do not develop into entities, do not because they do not choose to do so.

I will go further and shock you thoroughly, by mentioning that your regular seeds that do not develop, do not fail as a rule because of a lack of the necessary environmental ingredients, but simply because, for various reasons during a particular arbitrary point, they do not choose to so develop.

[...] The entity itself constantly changes, and an entity can indeed choose to disintegrate.

[...] This does not necessarily mean, either, that there is a deficiency; merely that the consciousness involved does not choose for one reason or another to materialize fully in a particular form, or to develop any given abilities along certain lines. [...]

[...] In larger terms, such focusing in particular areas can involve an entire life situation, reincarnationally speaking, where you choose ahead of time, so to speak, to concentrate your attention in certain areas rather than others; you may pick for yourself a body that does not perform normally, or a mind that is not up to par in usual terms.

[...] But within the range of workable probabilities, private and mass choices, the people of the world are choosing their probable 1980s.

(To me:) Your mother did not simply choose to believe, in her old age, in a different past than the one that was accepted by the family—she effectively changed probabilities. [...]