“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Something to do with a priest or monk, something of that order: a member of the family or confidant.

[...] Luckily, the child usually walks before it is old enough to be taught that impulses are wrong, and luckily the child’s natural impulses toward exploration, growth, fulfillment, action and power are strong enough to give it the necessary springboard before your belief systems begin to erode its confidence. [...]

[...] I am also pleased to see the mark of personal confidence, as far as Ruburt is concerned, and your joint decision that he leave the gallery. [...]

[...] I did not want to impede your progress or hurt your sense of confidence. [...]

The ego is now somewhat in the confidence of the whole self, therefore we have more to contend with. We are no longer tricking the ego, which it would ultimately and sometimes almost disastrously resent, but taking it into the confidence of the whole self, so that it will allow departure from the physical image, as a mother can finally be convinced that it is safe for a son or daughter to go out alone.

[...] Such relatively harmless difficulties however are more than compensated for by increased confidence and achievements that emerge as the difficulties are met, and controls learned.

[...] There, you are confident enough to forget the body entirely, as you work with the nature of suggestion, and with the changing of mental patterns. There, you are so confident of the truth that your beliefs form reality that you need not check the body at every point to see how it is reacting, for you know it will respond as completely to the new suggestions as it did to the old, even though you recognize that practically speaking some time might be involved in Framework 2’s time.

The exterior improvements are the result of inner body workings, and they represent the growth of his inner confidence. [...]

(10:39.) Now: when you work through such an episode as this weekend’s bout, then you gain an individual but also joint confidence in your ability to do so—a very important point, a very intimate and vital way of dealing with your joint reactions. [...]

[...] Your psychic state of nervousness, fear, lack of confidence and lack of focus as far as utilizing your artistic abilities were concerned, began to build up like many encircling walls. [...]

From Ruburt you are receiving needed freedoms and necessary confidence in your own intuitional powers. [...]

[...] This material is meant in no way to corrode your confidence, but to show you past mistakes which you have already begun to remedy. [...]

[...] I suppose that the session being held in her own home added to Marian’s confidence, and at first break she said she was “fascinated.”

I am with you now, though our voice is mild enough, very strongly this evening, and I am making an effort to make my presence known quite definitely to you and to Ruburt; and I shall do this more frequently to build up Ruburt’s confidence.

[...] The building up of trust, however, will automatically accelerate Ruburt’s improvements, minimize his discomfort, and hence add to his confidence and performance. [...]

[...] Unknowingly you were working on the two levels given in my last session, through suggestion, building self-confidence while Ruburt wrote out his gripes and conscious thoughts. [...]

Both of them knew on other levels that Ruburt needed a backlog of chapters, and the book well in progress, so Tam simply went along, as Ruburt did, until the time came when Ruburt realized he had full confidence, the book was good, and that Adventures had other purposes.

The exasperation comes because your good psychiatrist almost undermined the confidence that I managed to give Ruburt in our session with your friend Philip.

I tried to build her confidence up and some stranger tore it down. [...]

[...] I wanted to build up his confidence. [...]

[...] It will never betray you and it will always bring you confidence and strength even in the midst of tumult. [...]

[...] To allow yourself what is now, in your terms, a luxury of passivity, you must have confidence in the nature of your own reality and strength. [...]

[...] “The exasperation comes because your good psychologist almost undermined the confidence I managed to give Ruburt in our session with your friend, Phillip. I tried to build Ruburt’s confidence, and some stranger tore it down. [...]

[...] These first instances greatly increased my confidence in Seth’s abilities and my own.

All in all our own tests proved invaluable, not only as a part of my training and as a means of increasing my self-confidence, but also in preparing me for some other out-of-body-experiences that would take place during later Seth sessions. [...]

[...] However he could, it seems to me, show somewhat more confidence in my ability. He certainly shows enough confidence in his own, though not in his psychic ability. [...]

Tell Ruburt to remember that the conscious mind can state its request that Ruburt’s physical condition constantly improve itself, so that he can finally walk by himself, with some ease and confidence. [...]

[...] He needed the confidence, which is why he accepted the situation.