“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The great value of the conscious mind lies precisely in its ability to make decisions and set directions. [...]

[...] When you are spontaneous, you accept the free nature of your mind and it spontaneously makes decisions as to the validity or non-validity of data it receives. [...]

[...] Those synthesized data are available for fresh conscious decisions.

[...] Jane and I were free to make our own joint decision — and all the while, both of us were unconsciously processing the hill-house situation.

[...] For if the authors say that oftentimes a subordinate or potential ego will take over control when necessary in order to insure the survival of the whole, then this implies a decision that has been made; and who has made it?

[...] The decision has been made on the part of the basic identity. [...]

[...] She hasn’t done any strong movements now in several days, so we await the body’s decisions and readiness to do more, when it wants to and is ready. [...]

Your thoughts, feelings, desires and intents, your reincarnational knowledge¹ as well, modify that structure, bring certain latent characteristics into actualization, minimize others, as through the experience of your life you use your free will and constantly make new decisions.

[...] This does not mean that the person cannot make conscious decisions as to areas in which he will concentrate his energy. [...]

[...] The decision was always his, however, and had he not accepted at all, other arrangements would have been made.

[...] This does not mean that such individuals make a conscious decision to die, in your terms: But such decisions are often semiconscious (intently). It might be that those individuals feel they have fulfilled their purposes — but such decisions may also be built upon a different kind of desire for survival than those understood in Darwinian terms.

(I don’t know yet how I’ll go about producing my part of Mass Events, of course, but the reader, picking up the finished work, will be able to tell at a glance all the decisions I made: whether the session notes are long or short, numerous or scarce, how often I referred to the other Seth books, and whether or not I added any appendix material.

[...] I told Jane his decision to visit might save us a lot of time later. [...]

His paper today is important, not because he has to make that kind of decision, but because he believed in it and chose a physical orientation. [...]

[...] If a decision comes up on a job, for example, then the superbeing will order Donald to take one course or another. [...]

[...] By then this place (Apartment 4) represented isolation and retreat from your relationship’s fulfillment in line with what it had meant earlier, and his decision to come out with you again (into Apartment 5).

All of the decisions he made, finally, were good ones from all viewpoints. [...]

Now: Say that at a certain stage you have some decisions to make and do not know which way to turn. [...]

You may think, “I am glad I did that,” or, “Knowing what I know now, how lucky I am that I made that decision.” [...]

First of all, I think you will find your present decision, Joseph, to be a good one—that is, your outside work compromise.

[...] Our decision, of course, contained deeply symbolic meanings for us that we still only partially understand. [...]

[...] Had we made the right decision?

[...] This decision is especially apropos where we have but one copy of the material in question: We like knowing that “security copies” will be on file elsewhere—as with Jane’s journals, for example, and many of my own notes.

[...] My last session was in a way—in a way—the result of Ruburt’s begrudging decision to “take time out to read the book.” [...]

[...] The body instantly knows when the decision is made. [...]

([Theodore:] “About problems, I’m wondering whether to make a distinction between a problem which is a personal thing in nature that we must solve on our own, and a problem that is not so personally oriented but community oriented where the decision you have affects someone else and can be a wrong solution. [...]

[...] The September 25 dream concerns reincarnation and her decision to spend each reincarnation in one “room,” say. [...]