“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Nor did we know why he chose this method. [...]

Now in this reality people chose — and I am speaking in very simple terms — people chose to develop in a very different way. [...]

It has to do with the mass beliefs that people chose at various times, and the different roads that were taken in your reality. [...]

(Rob: “Yeah, well, say a group of people chose that type of existence, where their history was essentially obliterated by never being recorded. [...]

[...] Unconsciously, therefore, you chose a situation in which a crisis was precipitated, rousing all the greatest elements of heart and soul, so that they must strain to understand, to perceive, to triumph. [...]

[...] You chose the set of conditions that you did because in past existences you were so terrified of death that you tried to hide its knowledge from yourself, and this time you placed it in the forefront of your attention.

[...] Whatever methods Ruburt chose to insure that you were childless you proclaimed with joy, glad that you were not the woman.

[...] You chose a woman (beside reincarnational reasons which you will finally be given one day) who would not bear children and who would have as strong a commitment as your own.

[...] They were led to question why they chose to face the flood alone.

[...] They did not look forward to all of the inconveniences involved, and yet for their own reasons they chose to be part of the flood.

[...] In a quite natural manner, all of those involved not only chose the situation but helped in the “healing” process that still continues (over eleven months later). [...]

[...] Remember however that there were also reasons having to do with past life experience, and that all of you chose these conditions.

(“Could I reincarnate again if I chose to?”)

If you chose to, you could indeed. [...]

[...] Ruburt felt that because he was younger than you he could more safely afford the particular method he chose. [...]

[...] One of the reasons you chose not to have children was to devote yourselves to that end now. [...]

[...] He chose ahead of time something, in other words, with which he knew he could cope and successfully. [...]

[...] Therefore it chose a highly restrictive early environment. It chose a parent whose emotions were highly unrestrained, so that the parent’s action could serve as a constant reminder of its own flamboyant emotions.

It chose an environment where hardship would automatically teach a certain discipline, and yet one in which the psychic nature of the circumstances would also permit intuitive creative growth. [...]

[...] He chose a mock version of those early restraints. [...]

[...] They are carried out as effectively as the one you chose to accept. If there was a strong emotional charge behind one of the rejected probable actions, it may even have greater validity as an act than the one you chose.

[...] The animals chose to develop their own kind of consciousness, as you chose your own. [...]

[...] I chose this book, of course. [...]

Ruburt chose a background in which he was poor, as did the mother. The mother was also bright, but chose to bank upon beauty for escape (from her environment). [...]

Each of you, again, chose your parents and environment. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s mother by then wanted a respectable, hopefully rich husband for Ruburt, and could not understand why he chose men who did not conform.

(Intently:) Ruburt here chose the writing structure, and has stuck to it as unswervingly as he once stuck to the church, yet always seeking a new framework. [...]

[...] Why, instead, you chose the particular secrets that you did. [...]

Now, I want to know two things; what I want you to tell, two things; why you chose to divulge the particular secret that you did and why you did not choose to divulge another. [...]

[...] And there is also the unspeakable exaltation that you feel and cannot explain, as you watch your children grow and as you feel, even within yourself, the recognition, the spiritual recognition, that comes when flesh meets flesh and this is what you chose to encounter. [...]

[...] You chose to spend a good amount of time dealing with form.

[...] He chose those feelings however so that he could view the world and reality in a certain light. [...]

Now: It is not necessary that you learn about your own past lives, though it may be helpful if you understand that you chose the circumstances of your birth this time.

You cannot say, “The poor are poor simply because they chose poverty, and therefore there is no need for me to help them.” [...]

[...] In each life you choose and create your own settings or environments; and in this one you chose your parents and whatever childhood incidents that came within your experience. [...]

[...] I feel he’s irritated, but I tell myself I chose that condition with its resulting humiliations in the past and now I am choosing to be responsive; to be more alive; and those incidences will soon BE past. [...]

[...] You chose to concentrate in artistic endeavors as you grew and learned through various areas and periods—that is, you tried and enjoyed sports, and writing; and after a while decided upon the painting self as your core of operation, and the particular focus upon which you would build a life.

[...] The (childhood) camping background served as rich source material, to be used in any way you chose. [...]

[...] Your father’s inventiveness would also be used in the same manner, as source material, by whichever self you chose to become. [...]

[...] One method he felt was highly favored by you, and by far it seemed the most dependable, and he chose it.

He was bothered particularly, you see, because his own mother’s position makes him terrified of being financially dependent, yet the way he chose to make, money at this particular point was precisely the wrong way for him at this time.

[...] You chose “this” probable reality in order to ask certain questions about the nature of man — seeing him where he wavered equally between creativity and destruction, knowledge and ignorance; but a point that contained potentials for the most auspicious kinds of development, in your eyes. [...]

[...] To some extent or another each of those involved in this probability chose it for their own reasons. [...]