“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The ideas of shame are simply new versions of old religious concepts, or of scientific ones: if there is something physically wrong with you, it is either a sign of inner sin or of incompetency in terms of survival of the fittest. Neither concept has anything to do with the basic merit of a personality.

The concept, structure, can be used by you in many ways—as a vehicle to carry many differing ideas. [...]

[...] (Pause.) We are not getting this concept through as clearly. [...]

You may find some of your most cherished conceptions to be misconceptions in the light of your new experiences. [...]

You, as you think of yourself, may have trouble following such concepts, just as you would have trouble trying to follow the “future” reality of the cells within your body at this moment. [...]

[...] I think it’s a great concept and analogy. [...]

[...] To do this you must understand, again, that man must move beyond the concepts of one god, one self, one body, one world, as these ideas are currently understood.”

[...] It begins to produce itself physically at the moment of its conception.

[...] “There was also a dispute over whether or not a secondary school teacher would have the freedom to teach even the concepts of Communism, without being afraid of misinterpretation.This seemed to involve interpretation, and the final answer is left to the people.” [...]

[...] Again, Jane says this refers to the day concept, in the article on the front of the object, concerning the election of Jane and others to the Skidmore Day Students Council, etc.

[...] What I am getting at is the introduction of the concepts of a different kind of work — very valuable, vital work that is performed at another level and in a different fashion.

[...] In reconciling the many concepts and contradictions for yourselves, you also lead the way for many others. [...]

At a conscious level, of course, neither of you realized, or wanted to realize, the kind of complete repeal and overhaul that was implied by our sessions, and for some years you managed to hold many official views of reality along with the newer concepts, not ready to understand that an entire new way of thinking was involved, a new relationship of the individual with reality. [...]

He is obviously more restricted in that regard, but neither have you had a woman you had to escort, so your times were spent thinking, writing, exploring the nature of reality, and affecting society while not being infected by it, according to your concepts and beliefs. [...] Nor do you set up a school for fools—again, according to your beliefs and concepts.

[...] Partially it was the belief that women were more vulnerable, and the social conditions—Darwinian and Freudian concepts—that led him to accept that position, and all the material I have given fits in here. [...]

[...] This does not mean that good does not exist, or that in your terms you do not “progress,” but your concepts of good and progression are extremely distorted.

[...] There will be later material in this book on the god concept that will help you understand some things that remain unsaid in this chapter.

[...] In one way, we are all thought-forms, and this will be further explained in the material dealing with the god concept. [...]

(The idea seemed to be that creativity, mine and anyone’s, is initially playful, curious, seeks expression—and is one of the highest kinds of psychic play—the artist playing with concepts no matter what the art; and actually inserts his or her reality onto the world, superimposed upon it. [...]

The creativity for which Ruburt was praised as a child—the writing of his poetry, for example, became more and more frowned upon by the church as he became older, and in particular when the poetry contained concepts that did not fit Christian dogma. [...]

[...] I mentioned in a fairly mild way some of the questions I had for Seth, saying I didn’t want to pass judgment too quickly on a given concept or idea like the Sinful Self. [...]

I do not want to go into a history of culture here, but your organizations historically have largely been built upon your religious concepts, which have indeed been extremely rigid. In the light of those concepts, artistic expression has been channeled, focused, directed along certain lines. [...]

[...] For that matter, in the terms of your language, and intellectual concepts, you will probably have to take it for granted that you cannot understand the nature of such a God.

[...] Even that temporary attainment is important, for it destroys your previous concepts, and serves as new mental impetus.

[...] However, this belief frees them from childish concepts in which older persons were always not only right but infallible, and it gives them the challenge to tackle personal and world problems.

(Pause at 10:48.) A young mother may believe that her child is even more important than her husband, and according to the circumstances this belief may help her pay the necessary attention to the child — but if the concept is held as the child grows older, then this can also become highly restrictive. [...]

Your religious concepts will change considerably, and the images associated with them. [...]

[...] The concept of reincarnation itself clearly shows the change of sexual orientation, and the existence of a self that is apart from its sexual orientation, even while it is also expressed through a given sexual stance. [...]

The concepts given in this book should have already helped you do that to some extent. [...]

Many concepts, 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. [...] Often the dream world possesses concepts which will one 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.

[...] Ideas and concepts are nonphysical actualities that attract unaligned energy, direct and concentrate it. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] Many times I’ve had the idea that a good analogy here is furnished by Seth’s concept of the “moment point.” [...]

[...] (See Seth’s material on “ideals set in the heart of man” in sessions 696–97 for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality.) Apropos of such concepts, I’ll close these introductory notes by quoting from a personal session Seth gave for Jane and me, in which he reiterates the importance of the individual and the pursuit of the ideal. [...]

“When you thoroughly understand what is meant by the entire safe-universe concept, then the physical, cultural climate is seen as a medium through which the ideal can be expressed. [...]

Permanence as the ego thinks of it would be an alien concept to these portionsof the self, and to them a highly distasteful concept, adding up to rigidity. [...]

I have been slow in giving you this data, since it is so divorced from your normal experience that it is difficult to put the concept into words. [...]

[...] In a very real way of speaking, your concept of reality as seen through your physical senses, scientific instruments, or arrived at through deduction, bears little resemblance to the facts — and the facts are difficult to explain.

[...] Your idea of the soul is indeed limited by your three-dimensional concepts. [...]

[...] If it does, what is its conception of that body?

[...] They are not used to dealing with imaginative concepts, or conceptual thought, or of applying the intelligence to the realm of the imagination. [...]

[...] Your entire concept of space is so distorted that any true explanation is highly difficult. [...]

[...] Now what your senses tell you about the nature of matter is entirely erroneous, and what they tell you about space is equally wrong — wrong in terms of basic reality, but quite in keeping of course with three-dimensional concepts. [...]