“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Within it fulfillment and development are not dependent upon permanence of physical matter, however, and are not at all dependent upon any concept like that of your physical time. [...]

[...] There is, between the physical field and the dream universe, an interdependence that is not at all unusual, for all fields are indeed dependent one upon the other.

[...] But structure is not dependent upon matter as in the physical universe, and the motion of molecules is more spontaneous, and an almost unbelievable depth of experience is possible within what would seem to you a fraction of a moment.

Now basically even the physical universe itself is so constructed, but for all practical purposes, as far as general perception and experience is concerned, time and the physical growth development apply, so that we find the ego portion, particularly of the human personality, is to a large extent dependent for its maturity and development upon the amount of time that the physical image has spent within the system.

[...] It should be apparent that psychic identity is no more dependent upon physical permanence, certainly when you consider that even a chair retains its form as a chair, even though it is actually not one thing or object, and that no atom or molecule remains the same within it.

When you maintain that identity is dependent upon the duration of the physical body, you are taking it for granted that the physical body is one complete thing, more or less rigid in form, and permanent within a certain perspective. [...]

[...] Identity, again, is not dependent upon matter. [...]

A psychic gestalt is dependent upon matter, not for its identity but merely for its survival in the physical plane. [...]

[...] Your body’s relative permanence in time is dependent upon the electron’s magnificent behavior as it deals with probabilities. (Pause.) The cell’s stability, and its reliability in the bodily environment, is dependent upon its innate properties of instant communication and instant decision, for each cell is in communication with all others and is united with all others through fields of consciousness,³ in which each entity of whatever degree plays a part.

[...] It sets up hypotheses (pause), and its very existence is dependent upon a lack of available knowledge—knowledge that it seeks to discover.

The reasoning mind is highly necessary, effective, and suitable for physical existence, and for the utilization of free will, which is very dependent upon perception of clearly distinguishable actions. [...]

[...] Abilities and inventions were not dependent upon human migrations, but those migrations themselves were the result of information given in dreams, telling tribes of men the directions in which better homelands could be found.

[...] I’ve read that mathematical prodigies are in love with their numbers, and rely upon their dependability in an often unsure world. [...]

“I am here to tell you that your joy is not dependent upon your youth, for I am hardly young. I am here to tell you that your joy is not dependent upon your physical body, for in your terms I have none. [...]

[...] I borrow Ruburt’s [Seth’s name for me; in addition, Seth always speaks of me as male] with his consent, but what I am is not dependent upon atoms and molecules and what you are is not dependent upon physical matter. [...]

[...] Feel it travel through the universe and know that it is not dependent upon your physical image. [...]

For one thing, dependable overall use of the pendulum would ideally entail some moments each day, so that rapport could be established under even circumstances, without the pressure, say, of wanting to know about a problem or a symptom. Ideally, you should relax yourself as much as possible first—a light trance, for example, gives much more dependable results – but the mind should be stilled. [...]

[...] Sometimes, however, fear is so great that the unconscious begins soothing processes, for the healing process depends upon them. [...]

Now: Since we realize that our identity is not dependent upon form, therefore, of course, we do not fear changing it, knowing that we can adopt any form we desire.

Consciousness is not dependent upon form, as I have said, and yet it always seeks to create form. [...]

[...] On the other hand, we allow them full rein, knowing that we are motivated by an inner stability that can well afford spontaneity and creation, and realizing that spiritual and psychological identity are dependent upon creative change.

On a conscious level, again, you could not possibly handle all of the information that is available to you on other levels — information upon which your very physical survival depends. [...]

[...] It certainly seems that waking events are more steady and dependable than dream events.

[...] The atoms and molecules and all of the seemingly smaller “particles” within them are, again, information-carrying processes, and upon them depends your entire interpretation of the nature of events.

I would suggest a dependable performance for two months, followed by a week’s rest, for a while. This will allow your own energies time to regenerate, and in the overall will be more dependable.

(Smile.) The new conditions in your sessions unsettled Ruburt to some extent, so that he was the more dependent upon any other small established procedures you had between you. [...]

A spoken language is, again, dependent upon all other languages that could possibly be spoken, and thus its sounds rise into prominence and order because of the silences and pauses between them; so your waking consciousness is dependent upon what you think of as sleeping or dreaming consciousness. [...]

[...] It presupposes a far greater freedom in which perception is not dependent upon space or time, a reality in which objects appear or are dismissed with equal ease, a subjective framework in which the individual freely expresses what he or she will in the most direct of fashions, yet without physical contact in usual terms.

[...] Consider however a situation in which the personality needs to express dependency, but feels that such an expression is not possible within his waking experience. If he is able to dream in such a manner that he can construct dream dramas in which he plays a dependent part, then the action is satisfied.

[...] Psychologically however the experience would be completely valid, and the dependency therefore expressed.

[...] The stability of the personality depends in some degree upon the effectiveness with which it handles and manipulates these dream situations. [...]

There, events are not dependent upon time. [...] This proper placement is quite dependent upon an inner knowledge of probable future events, and your present time would be an impossible achievement were it not for this unconscious knowledge of the “future.”

[...] In your world, conventional and practical sanity and physical manipulation are dependent upon your ability to discriminate, accepting as real only those events with which others more or less agree.

It is true, generally speaking, generally speaking, that those personalities who fear their dependent leanings may develop ulcers. Dependent feelings are quite universal, however, and it is obvious that all human beings do not have ulcers. [...]

We find here a swing between aggressiveness and dependency. In the female existence of which I am speaking, it was the aggressiveness which the personality found distasteful; and in this existence we find the dependency, which you see does not fit in with the personality self-image.

If indeed it is understood that this personality, as with many personalities, has been materialized in feminine form, then these perfectly natural dependent feelings are found to be merely residues from previous personality patterns. And a word here should be said, indeed, concerning the distortive ideas that arise concerning dependency and passivity.

[...] It is your confusion of terms, and the distortive nature of human understanding concerning sexual give-and-take, that makes you think that dependency is weakness. For in many cases dependency is a passivity that leads to creation.

[...] But this is dependent upon my prediction as to which choice [of probable events] you will make, and the choice is still your own … Predictions, per se, do not contradict the theory of free will, though free will is dependent upon much more than any freedom of the ego alone. [...]

It is not that I am holding back so much as that, in your terms, what follows is dependent upon an understanding of concepts presented earlier. [...]

[...] In your reality, experience is dependent upon time, but all experience is not so structured. [...]

[...] The framework is so woven that each particle [of consciousness] is dependent upon every other. [...]

One belief, of course, can be dependent upon many others, each generating its own emotion and imaginative reality. The belief in illness itself depends upon a belief in human unworthiness, guilt and imperfection, for example.

[...] In fact, that consciousness of self in any person is dependent upon the constant, miraculous cooperations that exist between the mineral, vegetable, and animal worlds.³ The inner intent always forms any exterior alteration. [...]

(9:38.) To return to our main subject of the moment: The fact is that the so-called process of evolution is highly dependent upon the cooperative tendencies inherent in all properties of life and in all species. [...]

(10:02.) Give us a moment … So-called future developments of your species are now dependent upon your ideas and beliefs. [...]

[...] When your fate seems dependent upon heredity, for example, then the transmission of ideas and beliefs operates; these give signals to the chromosomes. [...]

You as a physical being are also dependent upon many forces that you do not understand, so there is no contradiction in saying that the cells are individual and independent, and yet dependent upon stronger organization. [...]

The cells of your physical body incidentally also have their awareness, which may seem minute and insignificant to you, but they make independent decisions upon which you depend in very important degrees. [...]

[...] They are also dependent upon the driving organization of your subconscious, following its directions even to cancerous reproductions, which on their part is of course growth.

[...] The framework is so woven that each particle is dependent upon every other. [...]

Your very physical stance and existence are dependent upon portions of your psyche’s reality, or your soul’s existence, of which you are normally unaware. Those portions are also dependent upon your existence, however.

In the same kind of manner, your focused existence is dependent upon all those other existences that are not you. [...]

It might be said, then, that in many ways the dream universe depends upon you to give it expression, in the same manner that you also depend upon it to find expression …

Within the reality of the dream world, fulfillment and dependence, then, are not dependent upon permanence in physical terms. [...]

[...] But structure is not dependent upon matter, and the motion of the molecules is more spontaneous. [...]

[...] As a result, the ego portion of personality is, to a large extent, dependent for its maturity and development upon the amount of time that the physical image has spent within the system.

Chemically in particular, the dependence of the physical body and the self to the planetary environment is obvious. [...]

In the same manner that you are dependent upon, say, green plants for your very physical survival, so the interdependence and connections continue in all other fields. [...]

[...] However, man has relied upon them so long, and with such cringing dependence, that now they threaten to hamper his own growth and development.

The outer senses, because they have been so dependently and almost absolutely relied upon, act as blinders, limiting the fields of perception that are possible, and therefore hampering both imagination and intellect in the formation of new concepts.