“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

An excellent and carefully-chosen hypnotist, well versed in such therapy, offers her now the best chance of recovery. [...]

[...] In some cases they have chosen these roles, attracting aggressions that others cannot handle. [...]

[...] Past motion and acts still go on, not recurring — it’s hard to explain — but those past actions are still exploring other probabilities, while our nervous structure focuses us in the one (physical) probable reality we’ve chosen. [...]

Those that do are chosen with great discrimination, dreams serving as one of the methods by which you ascertain the desirability of any given probable act. [...]

[...] And while in the Jewish books [of The Old Testament] Jehovah now and then came through with great majesty to save his chosen people, he also allowed them to suffer great indignities over long periods of time, seeming to save them only at the last moment — and this time, so it seemed, he did not save them at all. [...]

Now: within a fairly regular (pause) framework of habits and range of activity, you have both actually chosen a course that is in many ways uncertain, irregular, unpredictable. [...]

[...] I also thought portions of the manuscript itself were intriguing, quite acute, mixed up with Fred’s obsessions and compulsions, his personal life and family, his far-out ideas, his attempts and frustrations as he tried to use the manuscript as a vehicle toward understanding himself as he attempted to uncover the secrets of his personality: He thought them locked away from his understanding by the very device he had chosen of speaking for Seth. [...]

[...] These brakes have been applied in what you think of as the psychic arena because that is the chosen situation. [...]

[...] There were other ways that could have been chosen. [...]

[...] I had evidently chosen not to be much influenced by those factors, though; I’d always been something of a loner.

[...] In some cases this is because a self has chosen a different probable event for physical materialization [than the one predicted]. [...]

[...] In such cases it is necessary that the correct channel of probable events be perceived — correct meaning the channel which shall be ultimately chosen [for actualization by the subject] .

3. Jane and I regret that we’ve deprived our guest of the protected and warm—if not natural—habitat it had chosen. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, now, illnesses also serve as gateways to death in that regard—which may or may not be chosen at any specific time. [...]

(Jane said she thought that if I’d had to choose between painting and her, I’d have chosen painting. [...]

[...] An understandable-enough resolution, I said, and one I couldn’t argue with basically, since such a course could logically be the one chosen by some personalities—but it was also one that I didn’t choose at this time. [...]

Generally, with the conditions as given, your surroundings were well-chosen. [...]

Within the basic framework of the body chosen before physical birth (for reasons that will be discussed later), the individual has full freedom to create a perfectly healthy functioning form. [...]

[...] But the idea, ego, is in itself an arbitrary unit chosen for particular reasons. [...]

(At the same time, Jane also liked my concluding material in the notes, regarding the integration of each portion of the personality into one whole, and so thus attaining the freedom to follow any chosen course of action in the world.

I’ve often thought that the repetition in the Seth books, say, is nothing compared to the repeated barrages of suggestion—much of it negative—that our species has chosen to subject itself to daily. [...]