“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Again, that belief in the need for control is rooted in the earlier concepts of the Sinful Self (long pause)—concepts that have come to the fore in current contemporary world events with the new attention being given to religious cults and religions. [...]

[...] To imagine that you or anyone else can lead large masses of persons astray is a highly erroneous conception. [...]

[...] Those habits were there, again, before the sessions began, and they have their basis in the church’s concepts of the sinful nature of the basic self. [...]

(10:22.) It was in Mass Events and God of Jane that the usual concept of the Sinful Self was most directly and vigorously addressed, and in which the value of individual impulses was stressed with consistent vigor. [...]

(11:22.) Such a development would, however, necessitate first of all a broadening of concepts about the self, and a greater understanding of human potential. [...]

While you have highly limited concepts about the nature of the self, you cannot begin to conceive of a multidimensional godhood, or a universal reality in which all consciousness is unique, inviolate — and yet given to the formation of infinite gestalts of organization and meaning.

[...] (Pause at 11:35.) Your concepts of personhood are now limiting you personally and en masse, and yet your religions, metaphysics, histories, and even your sciences are hinged upon your ideas of who and what you are. [...]

[...] Now: Life after death has usually been described quite in keeping with the old accepted ideas about one self, and limited concepts of personhood. [...]

[...] These inner patterns, native to the psyche of any species, turned into concepts, mental images — intuitive projections that were all meant to give conscious direction. [...] The various god concepts that have fallen by the wayside, so to speak, represent areas of development that were not chosen, in your terms, but they are still latent. [...]

[...] There are great sweeping changes in religious concepts abroad in your times, and these represent man’s innate knowledge. His consciousness — his psyche — is projecting greater images of his own probable fulfillment, and these are seen in his changing concepts of God.

[...] Their living relics exist in the god concepts that embodied them. [...]

Now all of you, in your own way and even you (Nadine), have begun to be familiar enough with concepts so that in your dream states and in some of your conscious states you are beginning to play around with them, and so we are in a new playground. [...] And the concepts are not to be used as elegant fences that you climb up and, hopefully, over or that you admire, but the concepts will begin to open up for you so that you experience their reality. [...]

[...] And it is a dimension that had to appear in class for, as I told you before, the time has passed, here, where you can hide in concepts. You will begin to live the concepts. [...]

(To Arnold.) And for our friend here, some concepts that you can understand in Alpha I and II because you will be able to experience their reality. [...]

([Arnold:] “Concepts are a crutch I hope I can get over.”)

[...] “Why couldn’t I have known when I was a young man about my abilities, and how best to use them?” Think of yourself as a young man using them, and you will automatically be free of many hampering concepts in your work.

This also denies you in subterranean ways from utilizing certain ideas and concepts. [...]

(9:13.) Various old religions picked up the idea of the Lumanians’ fierce god figure for example, in whom they managed to project their concepts of force, power, and violence, this god who had meant to protect them when nonviolence would not allow them to protect themselves.

There is a bleed-through now in the making, so to speak, in which the Lumanians’ multidimensional concepts of art and communication will be glimpsed by your own people, but in a rudimentary form.

(9:19.) All of this may seem very strange to you, simply because your concepts of existence are so specific and limiting. [...]

Concepts fit together in patterns in order for there to be communication between us. I must disentangle a concept from its pattern, which is somewhat difficult. [...] I experience patterns made up of concepts, and you use words in associations.

When I speak through Ruburt I must disentangle the concept from the patterns, which sometimes leaves me with short ends because it is natural for me to experience the concepts in their entirety; and yet I must drop very important data by the wayside because you are not capable of handling it, except in consecutive form.

Physical time, or that is clock time, was invented by man’s ego to protect the ego itself, because of the mistaken conception of dual existence—that is, because man felt that a predictable conscious self did the thinking and the moving, and an unpredictable almost automatic self did the breathing and dreaming. [...]

[...] Jane reports that when she pauses for Seth, during a delivery, that she can sense the whole concept of whatever subject is being discussed. [...]

[...] Science provided no such releases, of course, for it looked upon all such values to begin with as meaningless, including the entire concept of the soul. [...] His creative abilities were growing and developing, his concepts enlarging, but he was for some time so convinced of science’s viewpoint that the ideas of the Sinful Self were looked upon as unworthy and superstitious. [...]

[...] Some people, remember, are only peripherally involved with concepts or ideas. [...]

[...] The church itself, again, had an elaborate system within which the Sinful Self could be at least momentarily redeemed, sins confessed and so forth—so within that system the pressures set up by the entire concept were at least momentarily lessened through such releases. [...]

[...] Most religious concepts, unfortunately, regardless of the original intentions behind them, end up by dividing man from his own sense of grace—his sense of rightness within the universe, and the individual will do almost anything to gain back that sense, for it is highly vital. [...]

[...] According to the fervor with which you cherish these ideas you will find that they enclose you, for in a very limited manner they will define your concept of good. [...]

In that chart of belief, disease, poverty, femininity to some extent, non-Christian concepts, and a non-Caucasian racial heritage, are all considered wrong to one degree or another.

[...] However, they may then use that concept to justify their belief in the inferiority of other races. [...]

[...] You may have one, two or three preferred characteristics that correlate with your ideas, for example, but your concepts about age leave you no such freedom; for at one time or another all of you, “if you are lucky” in your terms, will approach old age.

[...] I’m thinking about androgyny, of course, which is the concept of both male and female in one, and/or of hermaphroditism, wherein a person or animal possesses the sexual organs of both the male and the female. Considering our personal lack of conscious knowledge about androgyny and such related concepts at the time, Jane and I think it most interesting that Seth came through with that particular material in the 683rd session.

(Jane and I consider Seth’s concept of counterparts to be an intriguing psychological framework, spacious enough to serve as a workable thematic structure in which the social and nationalistic characteristics of our species can be studied, as well as the components of the individual psyche. [...]

[...] Along with his addition of simultaneous time, I’d say that the concept of counterparts provides reincarnation with a novel approach indeed; and that our awareness of both has always been latent within the reincarnational framework, whether in simultaneous or linear terms.

[...] In ESP class the following night, Seth indicated that he was ready to expand his concepts of personality still further — though, again, he didn’t mention counterparts per se. [...]

I spoke earlier of rigid concepts of right and wrong. [...] Only true compassion and love will lead to an understanding of the nature of good, and only these qualities will serve to annihilate the erroneous and distortive concepts of evil.

(10:28.) The simple fact is that as long as you believe in the concept of evil, it is a reality in your system, and you will always find it manifested. [...] If you carry this concept through succeeding generations, through reincarnations, then you add to its reality.

[...] You break away from self-adopted restrictions, and you grow spiritually as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.

[...] Limited, dogmatic, or rigid concepts of good and evil can hold you back. [...]

Now, my friend, Ruburt, has had some time this evening and so I am not going to keep you long, but I hope that these sessions do stretch your own concepts and I would like to have each of you catch yourselves peering into other realities. [...] Even imagining concepts as physical objects will help you. [...]

[...] But I want you now to watch them to catch your limiting intellectual concepts about your own reality and what is possible and what is not possible. [...]

[...] If you honestly listen to your thoughts when you think in these areas and catch yourselves with the limited concepts that you hold. [...]

[...] Their attention is completely focused within the imaginary room, with the result that all their concepts are based upon that belief.

A closed system as a concept is also closely intertwined and dependent upon the distortive idea of time as continuity, and the resultant cause and effect premise, which we have already considered earlier. [...]

[...] This again is the result of a concept of a closed system.

In such a state the personality is free from the limitations of a closed system concept. [...]

I am going to refresh myself by diving into some new concepts, for there are new concepts for me also, of course, and I dive into them from many positions all the time as well.

[...] I added that I’d certainly like him to comment sometime on those “new concepts” he’s about to explore.)

Chapter 2: I cited both concepts in Note 1 for Session 884. [...]

[...] All of Jane’s books, as well as my own notes for her Seth books, obviously contain repetitious material, and/or material based upon variations of certain basic concepts. [...]

[...] With all of their dire faults and distortions, religions have at least kept alive the idea of unseen, valid worlds, and given some affirmation to concepts that are literally known by the cells. [...]

[...] They were large birds, with the capacity for dealing with concepts. [...]

[...] You may simply dismiss such concepts as silly, for they seem intellectually scandalous to many. [...]

[...] The earth-god concept can be consciously used, but only to your greatest advantage if you understand the purposes of your conscious mind and its relationship with your biological nature.

[...] In order to dislodge unsuitable beliefs and establish new ones, you must learn to use your imagination to move concepts in and out of your mind. [...]

1. In larger terms Seth’s ideas as to what the “whole self” is take in a great deal — with reincarnation and probable personalities, for instance, being only two of the concepts involved. [...]

I told you once that with your outer senses you could not directly experience a concept. [...] We can travel through the varying intensities that make up a concept, and therefore experience it directly, as, say, you can move through a storm or a sunny day. [...]

(Among others, see the 37th and 38th sessions [in Volume 1] for material on concepts and some of the inner senses.)

To be inside a concept is to be inside an electrical field formed by varying intensities, each intensity meaningful, distinct, simultaneous and separate, yet all taken together forming a particular electrical field. [...]

(We discussed Seth’s confirmation of Jane’s feeling about concept-essences. As break ended I was asking Jane if it would be possible for her, when her ability to receive these concepts was more developed, to then write out what the concept consisted of. [...]

(Jane said these flashes reminded her of her statements about concepts or patterns as a whole unit, made during the 24th session. [...]

[...] You see, it is possible in theory for you to experience directly a concept-essence of the material in any given night’s session.

Material like this is sifted through many layers of subconscious conceptions, and is subsequently colored. [...]

(Pause at 10:01.) Like many, however, he was brought up to believe that the intellect’s function was mainly to dissect, criticize, and analyze, rather than for instance to creatively unite and build, colon: and analysis was thought of as separating the elements of a concept rather than restricting original concepts. New concepts were thought of as intuitional or psychic, as opposed to the conventional duties of the intellect, so the two seemed separate. [...]

The concepts in “Unknown” Reality will help expand the consciousness of each of its readers, and the work itself is presented in such a manner that it automatically pulls your awareness out of its usual grooves, so that it bounces back and forth between the standardized version of the world you accept, and the unofficial⁷ versions that are sensed but generally unknown to you.

[...] Reality is above all practical, so when you expand your concepts concerning the nature of reality, you are apt then to find yourselves scandalized, appalled, or simply disoriented. [...]

For a while, many of you will play with the concepts while avoiding all direct encounters with any other experience, save that already acceptable. [...]

[...] Often, again, the dream universe possesses concepts which will, some day, completely transform the history of your field; but a denial of such concepts as actualities or possibilities within reality, hold these back, and put off breakthroughs that are sorely needed.

[...] Dreams, perhaps more clearly than anything else, can help you understand the concept of value fulfillment, and of the expansion that does not take up space.

[...] This session and the 96th, among others, dealt much with the God concept, psychic gestalts, myths, etc.)

Many concepts, huge advancements and practical inventions, simply wait in abeyance in the world of dreams until some man accepts them as possibilities within his frame of reality. [...]