“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Group discussed the concept of Christ.)

For that matter, one can ask the same questions about our supposed reincarnational heritage: Just how much free will does that concept leave us? [...]

[...] She said she could feel Seth pushing concepts at her; it was as though she could assimilate a pint, she said, but Seth wanted her to take a quart. [...]

[...] But more than this, why not call all actions of the brain “altered” when compared to Seth’s concept of the individual personality’s whole self or entity?¹

If, as Seth maintains, we have probable selves and if, besides all this, we live various existences on this planet, what happens to the concept of a single soul?

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

Whenever you cut off your painting, you have difficulties—and that also involves this internal provincial concept of the male image, for you get upset about your painting because it does not bring in money, when a male’s pursuit should. [...]

[...] Limited concepts about maleness do. [...]

[...] You use the energy of the universe to heal yourselves constantly, but you have very definite conceptions of how this healing can take place and what is possible and what is not possible. [...]

[...] You form your physical body according to your inner conception of what you are at any given time. [...]

[...] The personality-entity concept involves only one main type process involving many planes and plane groups. [...]

[...] That is your Miss Callahan I will say is on another plane, since this involves the continuation in some manner of a personality concept which you can understand.

[...] Often it operates as a framework in which poor health and disease are not only accepted as normal, but the concepts behind them strengthened. [...]

[...] It concerns the ideas that concepts, as well as our senses, act as programmers of reality. [...]

[...] The ordinary surface of my world literally quaked open, and I had no conception then of what was still to emerge.

Psychological time is the apparent lapse between the conception of ideas.

Other concepts are really not basically workable even in your own physical reality. A rigid, dogmatic concept of good and evil will force you to perceive physical existence as a battleground of opposing forces, with the poor unwary soul almost as a buffer. [...]

[...] We must use concepts that are at least fairly familiar to you. [...]

[...] It is necessary that we rely upon the mental equipment of the person through whom we speak, and at times we are able to activate the intellectual capacities many times above normal, in order that certain concepts be given. [...]

[...] In the same way, many other concepts and ideas already given will also assume a new significance and meaning, and add to the richness of your experience, because you will be open to them more than you were before — Ruburt in particular — to ideas having to do with reincarnation, life after death, other spheres of activity.

(10:05.) In those terms, the so-called subconscious has your own concept of the body. [...]

[...] The overly conscientious self has always seen itself in male terms because of the God concept, of the God being male.

It is only because your present existence is so highly focused in one narrow area that you put such stern limits upon your definitions and the self, and then project these upon your concepts of the soul. [...]

(Long pause at 10:12.) Now there are many matters concerning the nature of conception that should be discussed here. [...]

I am speaking largely to a Western audience, and so here I am using terms for a particular reason, to explain concepts in a way that will be understood. [...]