“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Such concepts encourage individuals to feel like victims, with no control at all over the conditions of their own lives.

[...] This occurs when you are not looking for it, but when you are familiar enough with the entire concept, so that you realize such knowledge is available.

[...] The term itself is used only for convenience; and indeed the concept of the self is a concept of the ego, which considers itself the self.

[...] It is imperative that we move away from the concept of a self as an indivisible, rigid and limited reality. [...]

[...] The audience for that particular book may be somewhat more limited, but it will be a fascinating endeavor; and in it I will hope to present a multidimensional theory of morality for those too sophisticated to accept any longer outdated concepts concerning the God concept.

[...] As it is you have no real conscious conception in any meaningful way of what I will tell you; and yet you are using intuitional and emotional depths that you have not allowed yourself to use before, and I will tell you, when you are finished, the reasons.

(Long pause at 11:32.) In physical reality there is a time lag that exists between the conception of an idea, say, and its materialization. [...]

(Twice today Jane had tuned in to very similar concepts while going about her daily business. [...]

2. Seth’s creative use of “hallucinations” here is certainly at variance with the concepts ordinarily associated with the word. [...]

[...] Concepts that you have not thought of are there for you. [...]

[...] Simply watch the experience that you have and try not to transpose old concepts upon it, but leave yourselves open for the fresh experience of what is now. [...]

That all seeming divisions reflect portions of a unified whole is surely one of our oldest concepts, growing, in those terms, with us out of our prehistory as we struggled to grasp the “true” nature of reality. [...]

But I note with some amusement that science absorbs such heresies by weaving them into and developing them out of current establishment thinking—concepts, say, like the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. [...]

Some of our readers, sending us recent books and copies of articles written by scientists working on these subjects, have noted that it must be nice for Jane and me to have concepts that Seth has been discussing for years “corroborated” by the establishment (often we already had the material on file, by the way). [...]

[...] He’s never mentioned the concept, nor have we asked him to. [...]

[...] In so doing, he denied many of the concepts believed in by others. [...]

He knew there were many different ways of experiencing even the physical world, and so he rejected all concepts that told him otherwise. [...]

Jet travel scrambles your idea and experience of time, and in so doing alters your concepts of it. [...]

2. Jane speaks for the Seth Two personality occasionally; and that concept is related to the giant-size phenomena.

[...] there will be “a birth” of seemingly new concepts, simply because his old mental barriers kept him from making certain important connections, and an increasing system of communication between waking and dreaming states.

[...] You give constructions their appearance of continuity by continually creating them in line with your expectations, based upon among other things, previous constructions in the apparent past; and these expectations are the result of psychic communication between yourselves and others, particularly from parents, who give the child his first conceptions of the environment which, indeed, his parents have created.

In all cases constructions will follow the line of expectation, and often a vicious circle is initiated, where the environment created by an individual will then reinforce the very distortive conceptions that caused it to begin with.

[...] Only that your own conceptions must first enlarge and not be imprisoned by the limitations.

[...] The word cordella, now for example, was used instead of alphabet to break your ordinary conceptions of alphabet while conveying an idea of symbols closely allied, and upon which alphabets are based.

[...] The word cordella, used in the same fashion, frees you from limiting conceptions of what an alphabet is.

[...] It will be used as a method of expanding your concepts, not of teaching you to translate experience into just another but different stereotyped form that happens to be more exclusive.

[...] Simply knowing that you form your reality can free you from some limiting concepts that have held you back in the past. [...]

[...] That does not mean that you must be unaware of divergences from your ideal concept of the beloved. [...]

As soon as you begin to compare what you are with some idealized concept of yourself, you automatically feel guilty. [...]

It is almost impossible to begin with concepts of one isolated universe, one self at the mercy of its past, one time sequence, and end up with any acceptable theory of a multidimensional soul or godhead that is anything else but a glorified personified concept of what you think man is.⁶

[...] It does mean that your concepts force you to misinterpret and distort any “intrusive” information, or experience, that is part of portions of your own being that you do not recognize as your official self.

[...] All concepts and ideas in the first place, referring to a continuous forward progression of time distort all reincarnational experiences as a rule. [...] To me there is no contradiction between that statement and the statement that the reality of that Rome is even now being affected by present, current concepts and beliefs. [...]

[...] The ideas that we are promoting would indeed change your society—and to some extent they are—for they are altering your readers’ ideas about reality, and challenging the concepts of science, religion, and to a lesser degree, of government itself.

[...] He is open enough to receive concepts that will be important to his health, but his acquiescence was first necessary.

[...] This is a concept in the nineteenth-century transcendentalist philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson⁵ and others.)

[...] At least your Christian concepts give you some twilight hopes of a stifling and boring paradise, where your individuality can at least express itself, and nirvana extends no such comfort. [...]

[...] Even a small understanding of these ideas can help you glimpse how limiting previous concepts of psychology have been.

(I discussed with Jane the questions I’d thought of when Seth had commented, above, on “… how limiting previous concepts of psychology have been.”: As a discipline, why was psychology so narrowly developed? [...]

[...] A woman will often feel her most sexually active in the midst of the menstrual period, precisely when conception is least apt to occur. [...] Such peoples, building up the human stock, intuitively knew that the population would be increased if relations were restricted to periods when conception was most likely to occur. [...]

(Long pause at 9:02.) The Sinful Self shows itself in a period of transition from its religious to scientific format in science fiction or fantasy in particular, where you can almost trace the translation of religion’s self, tainted by original sin, to the Darwinian and Freudian concepts of the flawed self, bound to destruction one way or another, propelled by the unbridled unconscious or evolutionary defect. [...]

The creative abilities must revolve largely about man’s definition of himself, his source and purpose, and all of your Western literature and art has revolved about the concept of the Sinful Self in one way or another. [...]

Religion, having in certain terms created the entire concept, had then to create the idea of redemption to rectify it. [...]

2 After the session I wanted to tie in Seth’s material on infinity with mathematical ideas of that concept, but my reading soon convinced me that such an idea was too involved a task for a simple note like this. However, I told Jane, in his own way Seth had incorporated mathematical ideas in his material: I saw correlations between his probable realities, his intervals, and the concept of an infinite number of points on a line—and that some mathematical definitions of infinity are considered to be more basic, or of a greater order, than others. [...] I do think that Seth’s material on the “origin” of our universe can be termed an “ideal point,” embracing our mathematical systems, and that his concept of All That Is has no “limits” in mathematical terms. [...]

[...] In your terms this is your working material, the memory of your physical being since the time of its conception in corporeal form. [...]

This is merely an analogy but it will explain your body’s concept of itself; for as a whole it knows it “dies,” as now its portions do, but is also aware of its “future” transformation. [...]

[...] I couldn’t recall Seth presenting the concept in just that way before. [...]