“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The God concept, however, is true and not true. [...]

The God myth enabled him, man, to give his higher so-called instincts an objectivity, and the God concept represented and still represents a link with the inner self.

It is this that your God concept hints at.

There are those who will say that such a concept represents an escape from reality. [...]

[...] Your vocabulary is not equipped to deal with the concept. [...]

[...] When talking about leapfrogging from molecule to molecule she said that she began to feel the concept; experienced it to some degree as she spoke for Seth.)

In other words, these concepts, so natural to all of creation, have not been practiced by humanity in anything like their pure form. [...]

[...] Often hair is a symbol for strength, but in this case it represents the strength of old beliefs, and your father is a barber who cuts away those — whereas in the past he followed many quite negative beliefs and concepts. [...]

[...] I am here simply at Seth’s request to tell you that the dimension that you know is but a small spot in the all of reality, and also, that your concept of a god is highly distorted by three-dimensional concepts and ideas. [...]

[...] My new book will break beyond the concept of counterparts—as that concept broke beyond the concept of reincarnation.

[...] More than that, however, your question of course reflects your cultural beliefs and assumptions, and so you do not realize that in some ways such conscious knowledge of the body’s workings might limit rather than expand concepts and experience of the body and the self.

[...] There have been many concepts of the body. [...]

Noises outside the bedroom, of neighborhood activity, sometimes add to this, making him think he should be out in the world in a more gregarious, competitive manner, so he feels more isolated from other people and the community also at such times, as a result of the Darwinian concepts mentioned in our last session. [...]

He has finally decided to gain weight, and this in turn will alter his physical image and his conception of it for the better. [...]

[...] And conflicts of beliefs, as well as other conventionalized concepts that quite override your natural love of physical bodily activity.

[...] They will come into conflict with your concepts of time, and will automatically begin to alter your subjective realities if you follow them. [...]

[...] The “dead” periods of time should also be watched for, for they are often caused precisely by your conventional concepts of time, eroding the quality of those moments.

[...] Your joint concepts of time are the only impediments at this point. [...]

[...] All of this is based upon your idealized concept of what the race should be — your love for your fellow man, in other words. [...]

[...] You are comparing the race to your loving idealized conception of it. [...]

[...] The whole concept of God the Father, as given by Christ, was indeed a “new testament.” [...]

In a certain way the Christ personality was a manifestation of the evolution of consciousness, leading the race beyond the violent concepts of the times, and altering behavior that had prevailed to that time.

It is not true, of course, that before the time of modern psychology man had a concept of himself that dealt with conscious exterior aspects only, although it has been written that until that time man thought of himself as a kind of flat-surfaced self — minus, for example, subconscious or unconscious complexity.

[...] Modern psychology does not have a concept of the self to begin to explain such realities.

[...] Some of these concepts are difficult to explain to you. [...]

There is some slight analogy here in your associative processes, where you might think of a person as you have known him in different periods of time, and hold that idea in your present; but that does little to give you the concept’s complexity. [...]

A-4 brings you to a level that is beneath matter formations, a level in which ideas and concepts can be perceived, although their representations do not appear in the present physical reality that you know.

[...] These ideas and concepts, having their own electromagnetic identity, nevertheless appear as “the symbolic landscape” at this level of consciousness. [...]

These ideas and concepts obviously came from consciousness. [...]

Seth said, “We will make an effort in the future to give you both some direct experience in concepts. These experiments will run along with, and closely follow, the vocalized expression of the concepts involved. They will give you some small glimmering of the unfortunate but necessary loss of meaning that occurs when any concept must be communicated in physical terms. [...]

[...] I must disentangle concepts, unravel them, in order to explain them, and much is necessarily lost in the process.

[...] I hope through the addition of subjective experiences of various kinds to give you the feel of concepts when possible.

[...] The children’s blocks then became massive by contrast … this was an experience in concepts.”

[...] You project upon it your own concepts of space and time, and try to interpret the action in their light.

The trouble here is that even in our discussions we are to some extent limited by your own concepts, for you do not have words to express what I could say, you see.

I hope to be able to introduce concepts to Ruburt, but intuitively. [...]

[...] That they see them now is a direct result of enlarged concept patterns on their part.

(Being individualists, then, as I wrote in the Introductory Notes for Volume 1, we don’t concentrate upon whatever parallels exist between Seth’s concepts on the one hand and those of Eastern religious, philosophical, and mystical doctrines on the other; while we know of such similarities, we’re just as aware of how different from them Seth’s viewpoint can be, too. [...]

For ourselves, and even considering Seth’s concept of “camouflage” (in Volume 1, see Note 3 for Appendix 11), Jane and I certainly believe that our physical existences and mental experiences are quite “real” in themselves. [...]

In other words, your accepted concepts of selfhood would disappear if you ever allowed any significant subjective experience to intrude. [...]

[...] Again, your limited concepts of selfhood make what I am saying difficult for you to perceive.

3. Seth packed a lot of information into the short 689th session for Volume 1. He discussed the innumerable experiments of consciousness with animal-man and man-animal forms; the great communication between man and animal in ancient times, and the deep rapport of both with their natural heritage; psychic and biological blueprints and cellular precognition; the growth of man’s ego consciousness; the beginnings of our god concepts and mythology; and more.

[...] The portrait was life-size, from the knees up, very dramatic and bold in concept and detail, and very effective pictorially. [...]

[...] It will be based upon the conception of my painting of 1954 that I “sold to Sonja.” [...]

It is only because you have a highly limited conception of your own entity that you insist upon its being almost sterile in its singularity. [...]

[...] In many ways the soul is an incipient god, and later in this book we will discuss the “god concept.” [...]

[...] Now as far as possible, you should divest yourselves of words that limit your concept. [...]

[...] For the difficult realm [sic] cannot understand the concepts that are involved. [...]

[...] This does not mean that there were not similarities in religious concepts or art forms or whatever, for each level of consciousness has its own characteristics, which will show in all of its works.

[...] The affair involved an education for Poett, as he struggled with many concepts, and as he struggled against portions of himself, for he wants to be a journalist even while he has no use for it at the same time.