“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] His ideas convinced the body that playing dead was the way to insure overall survival. [...]

[...] For some time he convinced himself that there was. [...]

(“I’m a professional artist,” I wrote to the scientist, “and at times have been puzzled enough by questions about evolution to consider making my own series of drawings that would show the transformation from reptile to bird, for instance, just to see if I could do it convincingly…. [...]

[...] “It seems to me,” I said to Jane, “that if science wants to be believed, it should offer some data that are at least reasonably convincing. [...]

[...] You are not just dealing with a one-line development of matter, but of an unimaginable creativity, in which all versions of your physical world exist, each one quite convinced of its physical nature. [...]

[...] There were no formal sessions, but there were impediments, for at that time you were momentarily convinced of your own physical difficulties. [...] You had to convince yourself that you were not only capable, but physically capable enough to take over for Ruburt—and this at a time when he was carrying the heavy packages up the stairs.

[...] He is convinced of it, he has told himself that so often. [...]

[...] Ruburt accepted the magic of a poem, but not the magic of health or mobility, because he was convinced that mobility stood in the way of his other abilities.

He was also convinced — as you were — that you both needed protection from the world. [...]

[...] We need dates especially, so we can correlate the efforts of others with whatever changes Jane shows: otherwise it will be very difficult to write convincingly about what transpires, for whatever we write will be designed to help others also. [...]

(9:13.) Kubler-Ross does not believe as deeply in the existence of evil forces, but is convinced of the importance and necessity of suffering in one way or another as an important means of achieving a good end. [...]

[...] The Sinful Self is convinced of its own evil, and the evil intent of others, and so it is driven to protect itself ahead of time. [...]

[...] At your particular focus of consciousness, no arguments will suffice to convince you otherwise, for you are everywhere presented with the physical evidence of “fact.” [...]

You may believe in an afterlife to some extent or another, or you may or may not be convinced by the general theory of reincarnation. [...]

Your other attitudes, mentioned earlier, continued, and the more the world seemed to knock at your door, however gently, and the more the mail came, the more convinced you both became that your solitude must be protected. [...]

[...] The body beliefs need to be tackled regardless of the attitudes that gave them birth, and your reassurances of his attractiveness are important—for he convinced himself at least to some degree that because of his condition he was not attractive to others.

[...] It was because Hitler was so convinced of the existence of evil in the individual psyche, that he set up all of his rules and regulations to build up and preserve “Aryan purity.” [...]

[...] They cannot trust the expression of the self, for they are convinced of its duplicity. [...]

As I mentioned in The Seth Material, my waking projections and the spontaneous ones in the Seth trance yielded enough evidence to convince us that I was legitimately out of my body and perceiving another location — and not just out of my mind. [...] The task of trying to maintain specific states of consciousness is enough work and effort to convince anyone having the experience that far more than simple dreaming or imagination is involved.

I’m convinced that I left my body when I decided to go into the living room, and met Miss C. who was traveling in her dream body, wandering about in her old surroundings and coming in for help as she used to do. [...]

And some of these dream projections did yield evidence that was convincing to me. [...]

[...] A newspaper man, a colleague of hers, told Peg that, though he didn’t know me at all, he awakened in the middle of the night convinced that I was in his room. [...]

[...] While you are convinced that the course is necessary you will keep the symptoms.

[...] In so doing you never think of looking for it in the conscious mind, since you are convinced that all deep answers lie far beneath — and, moreover, that your consciousness is not only unable to help you but will often send up camouflages instead. [...]

[...] You see, you are so convinced that you are guilty and you are so convinced that your ego is the most important part of you, when instead it is only the portion of yourselves that you focused upon as a child. [...]

[...] He said “You do indeed have control,” and his personal manner was such that he convinced them. [...]

You tell your body what to do with the food you eat—and when you are in a technological civilization, it is rather foolhardy to convince yourselves that your food is poisoned. [...]

[...] (Pause.) On the other hand, some leaders may give little consideration to such issues, but still be deeply convinced of the misery of the human condition, focusing upon all the “darker” elements, seeing the world’s destruction ever closer to hand without really examining the beliefs that arouse such constant feelings.

[...] They may be as equally convinced, however, of man’s basic unworthiness, and so of course of their own. [...]

Later work has convinced me that psychic phenomena do not simply appear because we want them to, or as the result of suggestion alone. [...]

[...] Seth’s personality impressed Rob to such an extent that he, at least, was convinced that Seth was a completely independent personality. [...]

[...] What was there about Seth that so convinced him that Seth was more than a dissociated part of my own subconscious?

One of the most rare and extraordinary developments that can occur in schizophrenic behavior is the construction of a seeming superbeing of remarkable power — one who is able to convince other people of his divinity.

[...] You may be convinced that you are evil simply because you are physical. [...]

[...] You will be so convinced that your projection (onto others) is the enemy that there will be no slack to take up, for all of your feelings of self-hate or self-fear will be directed outward.

In such a case, you will have already been convinced of the power of evil. [...]

[...] He believed in the absolute necessity of power, while convinced at the same time that he did not possess it; and further, he believed that in the most basic terms the individual was powerless to alter the devastating march of evil and corruption that he saw within the country, and in all the other countries of the world. [...]

[...] He used those as in other circumstances a paranoid might use the sight of a police car to convince himself that he was being pursued by the police, or the FBI or whatever. [...]

[...] If voices tell him he is to be destroyed, then these at least are comforting voices, for they convince him that his life must have value.

[...] If in your terms he were sane, he could not use his creative abilities, for they are always connected with life’s meaning; and sane, the paranoid is convinced that life is meaningless. [...]

[...] Many who make a practice of “denying” negative suggestions from others, asserting positive affirmations instead, actually do so because they are so fully convinced that the power of negative beliefs is stronger than that of beneficial ones.