“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

For example as I have said, the fourth or conceptual sense ignores what you call past, present and future, and so can appreciate a concept in its entirety, can actually experience the concept in much the same manner that you might work out an idea through a drama, if you follow me.

[...] This sense differs from the fourth inner sense in that it does not involve the cognition of a concept.

Now again, understand that I am breaking down an extremely complex concept into piecemeal data. [...]

(Jane said that some part of her that receives concepts from Seth, eventually decides that she has had enough, and then stops getting new concepts. Jane puts the last concept into words, and the session then ends.

And the time has come for you to experience fresh and new concepts and to find them within yourselves for the miracle of consciousness is your own as it is my own, or Ruburt’s own. [...]

[...] Not theoretically, not merely in intuitive terms, but altogether at once regardless of the concepts that you attach to the experience. [...]

[...] I would like to suggest an experiment and I am suggesting it to you to see your reaction, like I couldn’t. I was really undecided whether to suggest it to Jane or to you, but you see like I’m kind of at an impasse because, like, there are a lot of words and a lot of concepts and philosophies bandied about, but when you make a claim you know such as that in as specific and nonconfusable terms such as that it would be very simple to demonstrate, and what I was wondering is, either now or at some time when Jane would agree to it, for instance, I brought some playing cards with me, ten cards...”)

(Jane said she had experienced another “concept feeling” while speaking, as she had in the 149th, 151st and 153rd sessions. [...] The feeling of being inside a concept, she said finally, was as good a description as any. As she has mentioned before, she believes she becomes aware of such concepts when Seth is dealing with material that is difficult to put into words.

The main issues with which the Sinful Self was concerned were focused most clearly in Mass Events and God of Jane, since more than the other books they represent a direct confrontation “attacking” the very legitimacy of the entire concept of sin and evil, insisting more dramatically on the good intent of man’s basic impulses. [...]

It might be of value to have Ruburt mentally ask the Sinful Self for a few comments on how its beliefs about the female sex were connected with its concepts of sin, and if those attitudes are changing. [...]

People in the sports arena also often encourage the concept that sexual expression is somehow debilitating to the male, and can weaken his constitution. [...]

[...] These will always appear through the subconscious, but the original concepts originate with this portion of the self.

The basic idea of the material should be stressed, however, and strongly, since it is from this that our other concepts emerge. The mechanisms by which psychic energy or consciousness forms matter should also be included, and naturally the concept that matter does not have duration.

The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter, that consciousness is not imprisoned by matter but forms it, and that consciousness is not limited or bound by time or space; time and space in your terms being necessary distortions, or adopted conditions, forming a strata for physical existence.

[...] However faith in an idea is frowned upon in scientific circles, but no new concept or idea, or discovery, ever came unless there was first faith that it indeed existed.

(Then, in a private session held on the evening of September 17, 1977, Seth came through with a very exciting concept called “Framework 1 and Framework 2.” [...] We’ve already made known to Seth our desires that he go into his Frameworks 1 and 2 material much more extensively in Mass Events, since those concepts are so closely involved with the individual and collective experiences surrounding the lives of everyone.³

[...] They seldom succeed because they become too narrow in their concepts, too dogmatic, and the cultural structures finally overweigh the finer substance within them.

3. I should also note that Seth has made one short, rather mysterious reference to the existence of Frameworks 3 and 4. Two days after he’d first talked about his concept of Frameworks 1 and 2, he came through with the following statement in another private session. [...]

[...] The very concept of the immunity system suggests, at least, the disease invader against which the body’s immunity system must or should surely defend itself.

[...] Do not play around with the concepts. [...]

Now in her (Bette) emotional response and in his (Ned) emotional response, you found a clear answer to the question and the answers were not the same but they were felt and honest and you (Arnold) came close but then you hid within the concepts. [...]

[...] The classical conception of the typical atom as being composed of a neat nucleus of indivisible protons and neutrons circled by electrons is largely passé, although for convenience’s sake we may still describe the atom that way. (In those terms, the one exception is the hydrogen atom, which evidently consists of but one proton and one electron cloud, or “smear.”) For the simple purposes of this note, then, I’m leaving out considerations involving quantum mechanics, which concept repudiates the idea of “particles” to begin with. [...]

Through their work with particle accelerators, or “atom smashers,” physicists have discovered that protons and neutrons themselves are composed of forces and particles that in turn are almost certainly composed of forces and particles, and so on, in an ever-descending scale of smaller and smaller entities and concepts. [...]

Rob and I grew up in the world of Freudian and Darwinian concepts too, of course. [...]

[...] For if Seth is only a psychological model filled out by my unconscious trance material, then he certainly puts our usual concepts of personality to shame, and by implication shows that we ourselves have a long way to go if we are to use our full potential.

[...] The subjective pace quickened and kept accelerating — then I hit a psychological brick wall, and I could carry the concept no further. [...]

Despite all concepts to the contrary, energy is indeed at its basis, love. [...]

[...] We communicate whole concepts and emotional states. [...]

It is the idea behind the Catholic conception of guardian angels. [...]

([Gert:] “And I think my question is now, if l go back to teach little children the Catholic concepts of mortal sin, hell, etc.”)

[...] Hell, for example, could not exist unless you have the concept of a heaven. [...]

The more narrow and strict your conceptions of the good become, the larger and more threatening the “powers of evil” seem to grow.

[...] In such concepts any natural goodness, or natural intent in man becomes not only invisible psychologically to the fanatic, but man’s natural nature appears as a direct threat to the ideal projected by dogma of any kind.

[...] They also liberate your intellect so that its powers are not limited by concepts it has been taught are true. Instead, such concepts are relatively true — operationally true. [...]

[...] None of its concepts can (knocking the table) rationally be applied to creative endeavors. [...]

2. It’s true, following the enthusiasm we felt when Seth first described Frameworks 1 and 2 three years ago, that Jane and I haven’t consistently tried all that hard to draw from that overall concept the results we think we consciously want.

“Then, in a private session held on the evening of September 17, 1977, Seth came through with a very exciting concept called ‘Framework 1 and Framework 2.’ Jane and I were so struck by the practical, far-reaching implications of this proposition that we began a concerted effort to put it to use in daily life. [...]

(10:38.) So the concept of God began to change as the ego recognized its reliance upon inner reality, but the drama had to be worked out within the current framework. [...]

The open concept of All That Is, however, frees you to a great extent from your own projections, and allows a more valid contact with the spirit that is behind the reality that you know.

[...] Your conception of good and evil results in large part from the kind of consciousness you have presently adopted. [...]

[...] In your conception of the centuries, then, there are other counterparts of yourself living at the same time and in different places — all creative versions of the original self. [...]

Again, your idea of personhood limits you when you think of these concepts. [...]

[...] In the 687th session, Seth stated: “I am saying that the individual self must become consciously aware of far more reality; that it must allow its recognition of identity to expand … move beyond the concepts of one god, one self, one body, one world, as those ideas are currently understood.”