“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I’m not speaking of transforming it through great dogmas, but of concepts that put people in touch with their own reality.

[...] You had very limited concepts about the ways in which you would allow it to show itself. [...]

These experiments will run along with and closely follow the vocalized expression of the concepts involved. The experiences will give you some small glimmering of unfortunate but necessary loss of meaning that occurs when any concept must be communicated in physical ways.

[...] (Pause.) We will also be developing the God concept in terms of my choosing (amused), the pyramid-consciousness gestalts of which I have spoken in the past. [...]

[...] The work of mediums, or books about mediums, that deal exclusively with conventional religious concepts, and that interpret reality in those limited terms.

[...] We will make an effort in the future to give you both some Direct-Experience-in-Concepts—hyphenated and capitalized.

[...] For that matter, such material often simply restates the entire concept of the Sinful Self in different form. [...]

(“Does it have any conception of the physical results that have come about in Ruburt?”)

[...] “Does the Sinful Self have any conception that its policies have now become self-defeating?”

[...] What a concept, I thought, speculating briefly about the untold damage it must have done to millions of people over the centuries. [...]

Now the ego’s concepts are your concepts, since it is a part of you. [...]

[...] On occasion, when the ego recognizes that such data can be highly practical, it then becomes more liberal in its recognition of it — but only when such information fits in with its concepts of what is possible and not possible.

[...] You will also react clairvoyantly and telepathically to inner information at an unconscious level that is, once more, “collected” under the organization of your quite conscious concepts concerning existence in general, and your own in particular. [...]

[...] Some astrologers use the time of conception in their calculations, while others prefer the date of birth. Various religions have decided that the “soul” enters the fetus at its conception, while others argue that consciousness cannot be considered a human soul until some time later, just prior to birth.

[...] Your beliefs in such concepts limit your perception, for by altering the focus of your attention you can to some extent become aware of perception before and after the recognized points of birth and death.

[...] Yet it is vital that you throw aside old concepts of the self and of the soul before you can begin to understand the freedom of your own selfhood.

[...] There is as yet no method of communication that can allow you to perceive their concepts of selfhood, or their [collective] vision of existence. [...]

[...] But even without Seth’s help, interesting results can flow from an awareness of the probable-self concept: The reader can begin to intuitively consider his or her own probable selves, or those of others who may be closely related psychically or physically. [...]

The sportsman that you might have been would have gathered, from that same available background, other attitudes and ideas that would have fit in with his concept of himself, and with his core focus. [...]

[...] Suppose that you suddenly understand the concept of oneness with the universe, and that this particular inner sense of feeling concepts is to be used. [...]

[...] Oftentimes, even in simple dreams, you feel concepts, you understand a particular piece of information, without a word having been spoken.

[...] In some projection experiences you will also know, or experience a concept, and at first you see you may not understand what is happening. [...]

In these you experience as actual the innermost reality of a given concept. [...]

[...] My job is to enlarge the dimensions of that world and people’s concepts of it.

[...] The concepts within it live. [...]

[...] I agree wholeheartedly with the concepts Seth presents here, while realizing that they run counter to many accepted religious, social, and scientific dogmas. [...]

[...] Following this is the concept that the “point of power” is in the present, not in the past of this life or any other. [...]

(Very actively delivered:) In your current beliefs, again, consciousness is equated in very limited terms with your conception of intellectual behavior: you consider this to be a peak of mental achievement, growing from the “undifferentiated” perceptions of childhood, and returning ignominiously to them again in old age. Such wake-sleep patterns as I have suggested would acquaint you with the great creative and energetic portions of psychological behavior — that are not undifferentiated at all, but simply distinct from your usual concepts of consciousness; and these operate throughout your life.

[...] (Pause.) Such a change in your waking and sleeping patterns very nicely helps cut through your habitual ways of looking at the nature of your own personal world, and so alters your conception of reality in general.

[...] These repressed emotions, and the whole charge behind such distorted concepts about the unconscious, result in a projection outward upon others. [...]

[...] Almost each day we reread some of the late sessions doing with letting go, trust of the body and impulses, and similar concepts; they have been a great help. [...]

(I mentioned that it would be interesting to get from Seth sometime information about the counterpart—families of consciousness concepts as pertaining to other than human creatures. [...]

I will have more to say, broadening the concepts of counterparts, though most probably in a different way than you might have supposed.

[...] We may be more “prisoners,” or more deeply rooted in our times and concepts, than we like to admit. [...] She doesn’t want to use the concept as a crutch; her caution stems from other beliefs, on which I’ll quote her shortly. [...]

[...] It seems that we can feel his concepts—intermingled with our own questions, ideas, and accomplishments—constantly turning within a kind of special excitement and revelatory insight. [...]

[...] Right here I’m dealing with just two of Seth’s larger concepts. [...]

[...] Yet, even given ancient concepts like that of Seth’s spacious present, the participants in such adventures usually quite happily ignore the conclusion that reincarnation should also operate from the opposite direction—the future—just as well! [...]

[...] You see the correlation here with what I told you in the past about experiencing concepts. [...]

[...] The methods by which emotions, concepts, and energy are projected out from the individual to form the physical environment and events, mainly occur in nonphysical terms, but there are nervous system connections that aid in this projection. [...]

[...] It is the ego’s idea of what is possible, the ego’s concept of reality, that determines in a large manner whether or not the brain will interpret any particular data.

(At lunch today I suggested to Jane that she put together a short book on the Frameworks 1 and 2 material Seth has given us since he introduced that concept in a private session last September 17, 1977. [...]

Even your concepts of creativity are necessarily influenced by Framework 1 thinking, of course, so our sessions do indeed follow a larger pattern than that, giving you certain perspectives from different angles in book dictation, and in other material. [...]

[...] Your mind is not really dealing with concepts but with the simple perception of objects, so that little imagination is involved. [...]

[...] Often, even in simple dreams, however, you will feel concepts or understand a particular piece of information without a word being spoken. In some projections, you will also experience a concept, and, at first, you may not understand what is happening. In these, you experience as actual the innermost reality of a given concept.

[...] When you explore the inside of a concept, you act it out. [...] If Ruburt’s experience had been only this, it still would have been pertinent, for when you understand a concept in such a way the knowledge is never forgotten. [...]

[...] Suppose that you suddenly understand the concept of oneness with the universe, and that this inner sensing of concepts is to be used. [...]

[...] Now: I have spoken about counterparts in Ruburt’s class.¹ Many of the students became deadly serious as they tried to understand the concept.

[...] He played with the concept, then. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Play brings you a needed rest from your distorted concepts of selfhood, and many of the world’s finest inventions have come when the inventor was not concentrating upon work, but indulging in pastimes or play.

[...] The same applies to counterparts, except that you are not ordinarily familiar with the term or concept.

These concepts can be grasped intuitively. Unfortunately the words used to describe them are the same that must be used to describe currently held concepts. [...]

I am utterly independent of Jane in any terms that have practical meaning in generally held concepts of personality. [...]

[...] As you know, and we will return now to the familiar name, Ruburt was experiencing a concept. [...]

Other concepts, as vividly felt you see, might not have, bothered him, or he might have found them extremely supportive. [...]

[...] You have taught yourselves that you cannot be conscious in your dreams, however, because you interpret the word “conscious” so that it indicates only your own prejudiced concept. [...]

[...] You must change your ideas about dreaming, alter your concepts about it, before you can begin to explore it. [...]

My remark has nothing to do with your accepted concepts of the unconscious portions of the self. [...]

[...] Inward, individualized, aware energy existed before the conception of your time, your time obviously being an interpretation of the spacious present, from which all creation not only originally began but continues in terms of value fulfillment. Without such a development before the conception of your time, indeed, your universe would never have come into existence.

Concepts, ideas, realized in dreams, have then been constructed physically. [...]

[...] That is, a concept may be brilliantly alive in the dream universe but unexpressed physically, or for one reason or another an intellectual comprehension in the physical universe may not find expression in the dream universe. [...]

(See the 78th session, August 10, 1964, [in Volume 2], for Seth’s rather long discussion on the fallacy of the entropy concept in physics.)

[...] It is purely a psychic organization that telepathically transmits concepts from me to Ruburt. [...]

[...] I am dependent in a large measure upon Ruburt’s own knowledge, and lack of it, in that I cannot force for example from him, from his speech mechanism, concepts with which he is entirely unfamiliar. [...]

[...] It is not as simple a thing as it might seem, for there is no coercion involved, Ruburt always consenting to let me push concepts at him, which he interprets speech-wise with my assistance.

Often I give him an internal image, or experience, of a whole concept, but unless it could be vocalized it would have no meaning except to him.

In like manner, when the ego concept is discarded as a concept, as the concept of nationalism will be discarded, so the individual self will not lose but gain. [...]

Your concept of consciousness is fearful and limiting, and depends for its existence upon ignorance and barriers, barriers that divide parts of the self from others, from other parts of the self, and from other selves, and from experiences of the selves.