“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Because you cannot see the inside workings of the body, you concentrate upon other improvements, and if they are not of a grand-enough nature, it is easy to become discouraged. [...]

[...] You may think that you are quite free, only to discover that you hold old ideas but have simply put new terms to them, or concentrated upon other aspects.

[...] In daily life such people will concentrate upon negative events, store them up, and unfortunately cause personal experience that will seem to quite reinforce the basic ideas.

His idea of a project on the magical approach now is excellent, for it suggests a new concentration or focus in which the natural and magical aspects of existence are courted, and the characteristics of the natural magical person encouraged to show themselves. In such a way the old fears do not go underground and are not concentrated upon either—but they are taken into consideration and acknowledged, let out into the open daylight, so to speak, where they can also benefit from the personality’s newer knowledge. [...]

[...] Before I launch into a discussion on another matter, let me remind you that you can also make the error of concentrating upon Ruburt’s symptoms, and ignoring improvements, and this does not help him.

The drugs not only help him but they also have the effect of emphasizing his presence on his journeys, of concentrating his essence, isolating and focusing those portions of his psyche. [...]

[...] You do get what you concentrate upon. I try to break up blocks of your concentration, and at various times have indeed succeeded, so that creative changes show in all areas, including Ruburt’s condition. [...]

Both of you concentrate upon the symptoms and Ruburt’s dire circumstances, which reinforces them. [...]

1. For both of you, you must turn your concentration into other areas; and this applies to you for you are a part of it, as much as to Ruburt. [...]

[...] To some extent Ruburt held back physically, not wanting to bother you while he thought you were concentrating upon the diagrams and drawings. [...]

[...] The individual will try to express himself or herself to the best degree possible, and so each individual then begins a concentrated effort to seek out those avenues of expression still open. [...]

[...] Jane’s body most definitely seems to be concentrating on its upper half, as it did yesterday, with only light motions in a leg or foot, say. [...]

(This we take as a reference to Jane’s decision to leave the gallery and concentrate upon a writing career. [...]

[...] We spent two days of concentrated labor studying those, and I returned them to Tam on the 24th. [...]

[...] Jane closed her eyes, concentrated, and gave the following material which is very nearly verbatim:

[...] Dr. Instream wanted Seth to concentrate on naming a particular object, though, upon which he would be concentrating in the distant town in which he lived. [...]

Knowing that Dr. Instream would be concentrating on each session put me under a strain, perhaps because of my own attitude. [...]

With no idea of how we were doing, I couldn’t have cared less, finally, what Dr. Instream was concentrating on. [...]

It is difficult to explain some of these issues, for in doing so I have to watch your attitudes, to avoid any concentration upon seeming contradictions. [...]

[...] Again, concentration should be on his creative activities, though he should read his statement, as he has been doing. [...]

Physically, the situation is thus: the vital areas of the head are now largely being concentrated upon with healing activities. [...] The greatest work is now concentrated in those areas.

[...] It automatically provides the inner focus and concentration necessary. As you know, his presence in this chair (eyes open, Jane pointed to the Kennedy rocker in which she sat) at regular session time provides the same sort of concentration and focus in another direction.

[...] Ruburt’s insistence upon darkness was an attempt to increase your inner concentration. [...]

[...] You chose to concentrate on 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 you decided upon the painting self as the particular focus upon which you would build a life.

[...] Any sudden emergence of a completed universe would then imply an unimaginable and a spectacular development of organization—that it did not just appear from nowhere, but as the “completed physical version” of an inner highly concentrated endeavor, the physical manifestation of an inspiration that then suddenly emerges into physical actuality.²

[...] Nerve patterns are being reactivated, circulation patterns reinforced, muscles contracting and expanding in their own exercises, right now, in a concentrated, rather intensified bodily commotion. [...]

[...] When you attempt to concentrate on the tiny I that you imagine yourself, then indeed you do not know where you are and you cannot find yourself. [...]

[...] It becomes concentrated energy falling back in upon itself in sleep and rest. [...]