“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If you had no sympathy for the sick, you may then be born with a serious disease, again now self-chosen, and find yourself encountering those attitudes that once were your own. Such an existence would usually also include other issues, however. No existence is chosen for one reason only, but would also serve many other psychological experiences.

The truly happy existence, however, is a deeply satisfying one that would include spontaneous wisdom and spiritual joy. I am not saying, in other words, that suffering necessarily leads to spiritual fulfillment, nor that all illness is accepted or chosen for such a purpose, for this is not the case.

Predetermination is never involved, for the challenge and circumstances are chosen. Some problems may be put off, for example, for several existences. Some personalities want to solve their strongest problems and get them over with, perhaps in a series of rather trying existences and exaggerated circumstances.

Others of a more placid nature will take their problems one at a time. Rest periods may also be taken, and they are highly therapeutic. For example, an excellent, satisfying life with a minimum of problems may be chosen either as a prelude to a life of concentrated challenge or as a self-adopted reward for a previous difficult life. Those that thoroughly enjoy the physical medium, without being obsessed by it, however, do very well indeed. The “laws” of reincarnation are adapted by the individual personalities to suit themselves.

[...] If he is lucky and the circumstances are good, he might suddenly feel the full validity of his acceptance as strongly as if he had chosen it physically. Before he realizes what is happening, he might actually feel himself leave his home and embark upon those probable actions that physically he has chosen not to perform.

The other probable actions, however, are as valid as they ever were, though you have not chosen to actualize them physically. [...]

Such an experiment will not carry you too far, however, and the probable self who has chosen the action that you denied, is in important respects quite different from the self that you know. [...]

[...] I also felt angry at the role she’s chosen, even while I thought I understood it, basically. [...] The passages are on death and suicide — natural death, no less, and how we continually interfere medically with people’s chosen time of death. [...]

[...] Although she obviously played a vital part in keeping herself alive, I believe that that action came after her own natural, chosen time of death had been subverted. [...]

[...] The great question, then, is why those portions of the self would — and do — continue their terribly destructive ways, even to the point of bringing about their own death — for if allowed to, I think, death would be the end result, the final step along their chosen path.

[...] The situation is one of danger, yet is chosen by those involved, and is not inflicted upon them. [...]

[...] Individuals have often chosen such situations precisely as incentives, and many great men have done so. [...]

In your terms, birth defects of whatever kind are chosen before this life. [...]

[...] Individual differences operate then in the kinds of life situations chosen.

Your given situation at birth, therefore, is one in which you cannot manipulate adequately in whatever way you have chosen. [...]

(Pause.) Whatever your situation, you have chosen it for a reason. [...]

[...] You are teaching yourselves the value of being, and you have chosen this context in which to do it. You have chosen for the unoperable intimacy of tragedy and flesh and pain in order to teach yourselves the unoperable exultant nature of your own vitality and energy and song. [...]

[...] Now I want you to realize that your perceptions at this point are limited only because you have previously chosen to limit them. [...]

[...] To the intimate knowledge of the earth from which now, at least, you spring and to which the seed seems to return, for you have chosen a good teacher, the earth that you have created. [...]

The individuals so chosen do not just happen to appear among you. They are not chosen at random. [...]

(10:00.) Now these people are chosen by others to manifest outwardly the interior truths that all intuitively know. [...]

[...] One word carries many meanings, and no matter how spontaneously it seems you speak, even the most mundane remark is carefully chosen so that it serves as the spoken symbol for many unspoken ones.

[...] No matter how wasteful with words a person might seem to be, each one contains an amazing economy, and is chosen precisely because it is a perfect carrier for certain intents or feelings that are all organized by that word. [...]

[...] Yet it did contain indeed, at the time, sexual, social, and work implications, and it was carefully chosen. [...]

The actual words you use, again, no matter how spontaneously chosen, have meanings on many levels, and speak of your own intent, Joseph, as much as Ruburt’s. Before, you see, when I brought up such issues, you would become defensive, thinking “Must I watch every word I speak?” or “How can suggestion be that important?” Ruburt would react the same.

[...] Surely her intuitively-chosen manner helped us acclimate to the highly original and creative fact that Jane was learning to speak in a dissociated (or trance) state for Seth, a disembodied worthy who called himself an “energy personality essence.” [...]

[...] I have no idea: I can only speculate that many kinds are possible—while keeping in mind that yes, they may have chosen to go their separate psychic and psychological ways.

[...] We deeply appreciated Seth’s insights and suggestions about Jane’s and my visible and invisible psyches, the challenges we had chosen to create for ourselves in our present lifetimes. [...]

[...] This evening John asked Jane if Seth could say something about why Peg had followed, or chosen, such a role in this physical life—a role seemingly without reward or hope; she has multiple sclerosis.

[...] While such situations as Peggy’s illness are chosen by the entity, the individual is always left to work out its own solution. [...]

[...] It knows it is more than the self that it has for a time chosen to be. [...]

The given environment of your childhood for example was chosen by you and determined by you. [...] The main events of a civilization are chosen by its people, but because a course is begun this does not mean that it cannot at any point be changed.

In your system it seems as if you have chosen one course, one main line of probabilities, and that is the end of it. [...]

[...] I think this is what she has chosen to do so far in life. [...]

[...] But then, ultimately it had to be chosen. [...]

[...] It should be helpful, and certainly somewhat comforting, to realize that even unfortunate birth conditions were not forced upon you by some outside agency, but chosen at inner levels of your own reality.

[...] I am not advocating a fatalistic approach either, that says more or less: “I have chosen such and such an unfortunate condition at some level I do not understand, and therefore the entire affair is outside of my own hands. [...]

[...] And for me, Jane’s condition came to stand for everything we don’t know in our particular joint, chosen, probable earthly reality.

[...] We’d chosen the entire experience, which is still continuing, of course. [...]

[...] Ruburt has chosen his, and you have chosen that his reality be involved with yours. [...]

Now in answer to your questions: Western man has chosen to focus his energy outward and largely ignore inner realities. [...]

(9:40.) This is, of course, chosen by those involved in that civilization. [...]

If you are presently experiencing a life in which you have chosen high emphasis upon physical locomotion, for example, then through vague dream memories of flying you can be inspired toward, say, the invention of airplanes or rockets; but if you actually understand the fact that your own consciousness can indeed travel outside of the body, then the impetus toward physical developments in locomotion is not nearly so intense.

[...] In the probability which so far you have chosen overall, those events will be beneficial. [...]

[...] As soon as Seth began talking about probabilities, I knew he was extending his material that he began in the session for December 21, in which he stated that unchosen probabilities may be quite changed by those chosen for activation. [...]

[...] The poverty “rightly or wrongly” has been chosen for a reason. [...]

[...] A person “cured” of bad symptoms then through conventional medicine might actually be interrupting a natural movement toward a larger overall health, by dismissing the particular annoying symptoms that serve as chosen reference points.

[...] Then imagine what might happen as a result of your chosen decisions. [...]

[...] Even in your accepted reality, then, to that extent in such a dream you react to probable events as well as to the events chosen for waking physical experience. [...]

[...] It’s easy to see how, in Jane’s case at least, the church’s teachings about sin began to grow as the innocent child started protecting her spontaneous natural mysticism—that prime attribute she’d chosen for exploration in this life. [...]

[...] What they really signify for the long term is (as I wrote in the essay for April 16) a continuing program of intense study for Jane and me—and yes, for Seth, too—as we seek to better understand our chosen commitments in our present physical lives. [...]

[...] While at work in my own writing room I occasionally hear her talking to herself as she sits at her card table in the living room, just down the hall: I’ve learned that on such occasions, she’s asleep and often dreaming aloud, solving the psychological equations continually arising among the levels of her psyche as she pursues her chosen learning processes. [...]

Of course these essays reflect our particular chosen stances in life, both with and without the Seth material. [...]