“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The consciousnesses is composed of the individual consciousnesses that make up the material that is within the painting, and yet there is also a gestalt consciousness that is the result of the artist’s overall conception. [...]

[...] Indeed we speak of past lives because you are used to the time sequence concept. [...]

[...] These dimensions, and our part in them, will be explained along with the God concept, probabilities, and time. [...]

[...] (This last remark was to lead, much later, into whole blocks of sessions dealing with the God concept.)

Your conception of time is dependent upon your perception of action, and that portion of action which you can perceive and appreciate. [...]

Ego’s concept of itself as a rock of unchanging identity is highly ludicrous, since its perceptions constantly change it from what it was. [...]

[...] Here are the paragraphs in question from pages 246–47 of the chapter on “The God Concept”:

(11:20.) For the first time, therefore, it will break through the earthly concepts of personality, liberating personality. [...]

[...] I am certainly not going into the God concept at this time, though you can be certain that I will cover it thoroughly, since it is itself an idea camouflage covering something much different.

[...] It should be simple as an analogy to consider the next point, where the figure in a painting would not only have a certain consciousness for example but would have other freedoms also; and this would give you a limited conception of what is involved in the creation of other planes of more varied scope.

[...] Mankind has had various conceptions of his own reality but he has purposely, it seems, turned away from it in the last century. [...]

[...] We have put his concepts to work in our own lives, and sometimes both of us wonder how we managed daily life before we understood the close relationship between thoughts, emotions, and health.

[...] And all of this without his realizing his basic concept of himself, and without recognizing that he projects his feared weaknesses outward unto others.

“Jung enlarged on some of his concepts shortly before he died. [...]

[...] There are many ramifications here, as I discovered when I started making notes about this concept, so I’m purposely keeping them short.”

(The entire world-view concept is extremely interesting, of course, and worthy of continuous investigation.

[...] Seth’s world-view concept, and Jane’s own experiences with it, make the accounts of such happenings much more understandable.

Jung enlarged on some of his concepts shortly before he died. [...]

Most of these are not as symbolic however as Jung thought them to be, though he used a different term, and had only a dim conception of them. [...]

(Jane said that when Seth talked about our living room and the spacious present, she had some kind of “weird” feeling that involved a concept of the thought. [...]

[...] Or is this a concept difficult to put into words? [...]

And you will realize that there are no limitations to the self except those that you insist upon—because of your own limited conceptions—and that joy is still yours, it has always been yours, and after more lives than I should tell you, that joy is still mine. [...]

[...] Each artist has other overall concepts to work with besides those regarding his art.

Indeed, if as here the super-conscientious self has a limited concept.

[...] The concept has no verbal equivalent. [...]

[...] Now all of these probabilities are in the air about you, so to speak, and I describe them as faithfully as I can, but I must relate them with concepts with which you are somewhat familiar. [...]

[...] In the next stage it is active as it takes part through action — the concepts given it are then vividly perceived through participation and examples. [...]

[...] They are also quite different from any concept of nirvana or nothingness. [...]

[...] Do not fall for the trashy concepts concerning age—particularly in relationship to art, for there there is far less correlation than there might seem to be, for example, in conventional terms in other areas of life.