“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You will not hide in concepts, and I will not allow you, any of you, to hide in concepts. [...]

[...] But you know, as I have told you often, that spirituality is not a thin-blooded intellectual concept divorced from the emotions that you know. [...]

(To Molly.) You are minimizing the extent of your own experiences, not realizing them for what they are, and we will return to concepts when you are ready to accept your own emotions. [...]

[...] When you think in terms of reincarnation, you are still dealing with very simple time concepts. [...]

As a physical being, your beliefs and concepts form your reality. [...]

[...] “I could feel him trying to get those ideas through just right,” she said, “using as homey and everyday concepts as he could to make them clear. [...]

[...] Seth obviously elaborated on that material here, but instead of quoting it in Appendix 18 also, I thought of letting the reader first come across it in this session; and so, to whatever tiny extent, this additional information now alters each reader’s present reality by changing his or her conception of that Jane-Ruburt-Seth relationship.

(Pause.) Creative abilities are most helpful in that regard, for they are able to stretch recognizable concepts to their uttermost, allowing you some glimpses of organizations too vast for your own world’s dimensionalities. [...]

[...] All of your concepts of gods and goddesses are basically creative attempts to portray psychological dramatizations of other portions of the psyche that do not appear in the flesh. [...]

[...] The entire concept of the Sinful Self can only exist at certain levels of experience. [...]

You will in all cases attempt to construct as physical reality your inner conception of what reality is. Your physical environment and conditions are a mirror of your own basic conceptions of reality. If the environment changes it is because your inner conceptions have changed, and no smallest alteration is made within physical reality, that has not first been made within the inner self.

[...] Your concept of the soul is simply so limited. [...]

Each “part” of the soul contains the whole — a concept I am sure will startle you. [...]

Hopefully, certain concepts will be delivered in this way that could not be delivered otherwise. [...]

[...] He must feel free to let himself go free of limiting concepts, but he must see, the self that he is now, that certain ideas that he considered important and basic collected limitations about them. [...]

[...] This allows you to imagine greater realms of identity while still holding your concepts of selfhood intact. [...]

The idea of counterparts¹ somewhat shatters that old concept, yet you still want definitions for the self so that you know where you “stand.” [...]

The very practice of pinpointing the time of physical birth at conception itself errs. [...]

Once you free your consciousness from limited concepts of time and self, then you can begin to explore the unknown reality that is the unrecognized self.

[...] You understand that I can only use concepts with which you are somewhat familiar. There may be times when I can introduce a completely new concept, but if so this will be a flash of intuition on Jane’s part.

Consider then a network of wires somewhat like, although different from, Jane’s conception of idea construction—a maze of interlocking wires endlessly constructed, so that looking through them there would seem to be no beginning or end. [...]

[...] You have so little conception yet of what is involved, and yet personally I found last night’s session enjoyable. [...]

As I have tried to explain to you, the rigorous concepts of good and evil are themselves highly distorted, and when you find such a dilemma where goodness is one thing and evil another, and both contrary and separate, then you automatically separate them in your minds and in your feelings and in your fantasies. [...] And until you divest yourself of such psychological behavior, it will always seem to you that good and evil are opposites, and you will treat them as such in your feelings and in your concepts and in your myths. [...]

[...] And so that despite you and your concepts of value, creativity always emerges triumphant, and those that are killed in one war come back to fight against war the next time, and hopefully, you teach yourselves some lessons. [...]

This is difficult to explain, for these concepts themselves exist beyond verbalization. [...]

[...] Because this experience is so alien to your present concepts, and because it predated language as you understand it, it is most difficult to describe.

Human capabilities will be seen as what they are, and a great new period of development will occur, in which all concepts of selfhood and reality will be literally seen as “primitive superstition.” [...]

[...] I’ll have to admit that we cringe a bit when Seth talks about cultish concepts like Atlantis. [...]

1. This is a good place to insert these excerpts from the session Seth gave for ESP class on February 16, 1971, three years before starting “Unknown” Reality. While it leads to a number of questions, his material still sums up certain important meanings that lie behind or within the overall concept of probable realities.

[...] Now such concepts are difficult to explain in my kind of prose, and in your language. [...]

[...] Such expansion reacquaints the known self with the great energy that supports it, therefore bringing an individual to a point of understanding in which the concept of a safe universe makes sense. [...]

[...] That exteriorized concept is a symbol for man’s fear of his own inner energy. [...]

[...] You also need the reinforcement yourself of the safe universe concepts.

Your conceptions of beginnings and endings make an explanation of such a situation most difficult, for in your terms the beginning of the [universe] is meaningless—that is, in those terms (underlined) there was no beginning (intently).

That kind of an event simply cannot fit into your concepts of “the beginning of the world,” with consciousness arising out of matter almost as a second thought, or with an exteriorized God initiating a divine but mechanistic natural world.

(Pause.) Nor can this concept fit into your versions of good and evil, as I will explain later in this book. [...]

(Long pause in an intent delivery.) The entire idea of evolution, of course, requires strict adherence to the concept of continuing time, and the changes that time brings, and such concepts can at best provide the most surface kind of explanation for the existence of your species or any other.

She’s been most intrigued by Seth’s referrals to the concept of “master events” ever since he gave them in the final session for Chapter 8—preparations, she hoped, for his material this evening. [...]

[...] By saying the words and opening your perception the meaning becomes clear in a way that cannot be stated in verbal terms, using your recognizable but rigid language pattern; so we will be dealing then with concepts as well as feelings, but seeking them through the use of a new method, and sometimes translating them back and forth for practice.

[...] To this extent they shape your conceptions of the world that you know.

[...] She said she had felt Seth trying to get some “new concepts” across—trying very hard to make it clear to us. [...]

(For a more graphic interpretation of what a moment point might be, see Jane’s description of the concept she received from Seth in the 149th session.)

Your whole concept of time is built about your own capacity for perceiving action; as this capacity for perceiving action grows, so indeed do the dimensions of time grow. [...]

[...] It is very necessary to your own concept of yourself in many ways. [...]

[...] We will have to wait until you can experience concepts for much of that.

[...] Once you are born into a particular time and country, you do grow up in an almost invisible but definite environment of concepts, assumptions, and predetermined ideas that serve as a basis from which your own individual beliefs spring. [...]

[...] You (pointing to me) do not believe that nature is hostile, nor does Ruburt, but you both accept the concept that there are hostile elements against which you must protect yourselves, and that the artist or writer, or any sensitive wise person is at a great disadvantage against a system in which he is born, and that he is to some extent at its mercy.

(Pause at 10:40.) Put together beliefs in a hostile world and an untrustworthy self, and you end up in difficulty if you are working with other concepts that tell you that spontaneity is good and that the self is to be trusted. [...]

[...] Ruburt was also tinged by those concepts, so if he had to make a choice, he chose the writer’s cramp.

[...] Others like yourself have introduced various concepts to it and been more directly involved. [...]

(When she could finally talk Jane revealed that she had been experiencing a concept to accompany the personality’s words; this she has done before when speaking for Seth’s entity, and we have been told before that this is one of the reasons or purposes for her speaking for this new personality. [...]

[...] It was an experience in concepts, and therefore an advance on your parts. [...]

(Jane then said she had a bunch of concepts to tell us about, but didn’t want to experience them now, so she called to me. [...]

[...] Well, why not, since as Seth describes reality, everything exists at the same “time?” Tricky concepts and questions to wrestle with, I know, and sometimes contradictory. [...]

[...] (I had a number of personal experiences and insights that I thought enhanced concepts of the Seth material, for example.) But what to cut, when to stop? [...]

[...] In those cases the body consciousness operates unimpeded by negative expectations or concepts.

Both of your “negative” dreams express left-over doubts and fears, and the old concept that the poorest rather than the best outcome of any event will happen. [...]