“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He is who he says he is and yet he is not. There is a deception. One might call it an honest deception there.

([Gene]: “Is that deception a version of what many people call good-naturedly the dance of Shiva?”)

Not precisely. The deception of which I speak involves a distortion and emphasis applied too strongly—and a tragic one.

[...] But what you have is a learned pattern of face-saving self-deception and nefarious (with amusement) techniques, taught by parents to children; so often you pretend to want one thing, and you may say that you “will it” to happen—perhaps because what you really want is unacceptable, or so you have been taught: it is demeaning, or evil, or whatever. [...]

Imagination and will, working together, are miracle-makers, because self-deception does not stand between them.

[...] Now you are deceptive, slyly, in your own manner, to yourself, for it seems to you that you are very aware of your emotions, and that they are clear and out in front of you, and that you are an emotional person, and yet you hide them deeply and the emotions that you show are not the emotions often that you feel. [...]

[...] By integrity, I am speaking of honesty with self that demands you to go beyond the self-deceptions that you accept as your self at any given point. [...]

Any improvements Ruburt shows are considered insignificant, unimportant—or worse, deceptive. [...] Not only are they not taken advantage of then, but when they do not continue this is taken as proof that they are deceptive.

[...] You take it for granted that the improvement will not last, and is deceptive. [...]

[...] I should have known that the calm of the last few months was deceptive. [...]

In this deceptively simple but moving poem about her magical childhood responses to the world she lived in, Jane foreshadows from that viewpoint the innate knowledge she was to express a quarter of a century later in the Seth material. [...]

[...] Some use religious dogma, and others rely upon scientific dogma to prove their cases, but in any case, they are presented with a world of deception and vengeance.

[...] Now, you give a strong vitality to our scientist here but it is deceptive because on the surface, it is not apparent, and you have strong abilities and you are using them very well in a probable system of reality. [...] I said it was not apparent that you were giving strong energies to your husband and that the relationship, to that extent, could appear deceptive. [...]

[...] The writer of the other letter, while praising our work, is caught up in questions of conventional religion: “I keep wondering over and over again whether Seth is a demon or a deception. [...]

[...] At the same time you say how good it would be to just take a job and come home when it was finished—a self-deception. [...]

I have, by the way, mentioned certain self-deceptions of which you may, each of you, be half-aware. [...]

These rather self-deceptive feelings are not hidden deeply in the subconscious mind, as you might suppose. [...]

[...] In the past, however, those methods seemed to make sense: if you believe that the self is sinful or deceptive, then you must indeed set up barriers so that you allow expression while monitoring it very carefully at the same time. [...]

[...] If not, then Mark had deceived himself, and Seth had gone along and taken advantage of the deception. [...]

[...] “I don’t particularly mind a mischievous subconscious, but a deceptive one is something else again.”

“Do you think Seth is deceptive?” Rob asked. [...]

[...] They are seeking for a positive cause to rally about, but their beliefs and self-deceptions make this impossible.

[...] It is not a self-deception. [...]

[...] Until you change those beliefs, war will seem to have some practical value — a value which is highly deceptive, and quite false.

[...] Its motion could be called action, but this is deceptive because action is the basic nature of the sphere itself. [...]

When and if you manage to change your beliefs in that self-deceptive framework, then any suitable “forgotten” event from the past will be used as a catalyst. [...]

[...] Some can be used as casements to house original experiences, as methods of deception therefore rather than illumination. [...]

Taken alone, this statement can appear deceptive. [...]