“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The conditions of existence are largely determined by genetic structure. Free will must then of course function in accordance with genetic integrity. Genetic structure makes possible physical organisms through which life is to be experienced, and to a large extent that structure must determine the kind of action possible in the world, and the way or ways in which volition can be effectively expressed.

2. Free will is the philosophical doctrine that the individual has the freedom to choose, without coercion, some actions consistent with his or her particular morals and ideals. Determinism is the opposing doctrine that everything, even the individual’s course of action, is determined by conditions outside one’s will.

Through the centuries philosophical and religious thinkers have created numerous complicated variations of ideas involving free will and determinism, so that neither thesis is as simple as it first appears to be. Man related the concept of free will long ago to the question of whether he could deliberately choose evil, for example. He still does. And he still struggles with questions about his freedom before God’s omnipotence and foreknowledge, and whether those qualities cause events, or can cause them, and whether they involve predestination. Opposing determinism is the idea that man has always fought for his personal responsibility—that instead of being controlled entirely by his heritage, he’s capable of forming new syntheses of thought and action based upon the complicated patterns of his own history.

In a strange way, determinism has always seemed lacking as a concept to Jane and me—for if it means what it’s supposed to mean, then surely human beings set up the parameters within which determinism is said to operate. I see this as a contradiction of the notion that the individual is entirely at the mercy of his or her history and of nature. How can we be, if through the ages we’ve created that history and nature against which we react? In other words, on joint and individual scales, vast though they may be, we do create our joint and individual realities.

Your pendulum sessions have been of benefit, and one reason is because they represent a united, joint and determined effort on both of your parts, and Ruburt feels your support. [...]

Your immediate situation and all past ones, regardless of personal fears, which should not be discounted, result from Ruburt’s until-now determined decision to stand critically apart from his intuitional knowledge. [...]

[...] There has been however on both of your parts a new determination to do what is necessary, an impetus not to let matters ride, and a new quickening at other levels of your own relationship with each other, so that your love for each other in Framework 2 is coming to your aid now.

Ruburt’s new inclination for house cleaning is an excellent sign of intent and impulse, and your own support marks your own determination. [...]

You were determined to find the kind of relationship you have with Ruburt, the kind of relationship your parents never had, and you applied the power of your will in that direction. You were at the same time determined to set yourself apart from the world to some extent, while still maintaining and developing an emotional contact with a mate that would be unlike any in your earlier experience.

[...] Ruburt used his will to solve one challenge: he was determined to find the kind of mate that would best suit him, and his own unique characteristics. [...]

[...] You were also intrigued, determined to travel into the nature of reality, and at least glimpse a vague picture of what it could be. [...]

[...] He has become more determined than ever to change his mode of thought and to rid himself of the physical symptoms.

[...] Physically there are very beneficial changes occurring, but these are the results of those inner determinations. [...]

That determination and that faith also let him see (long pause) how far from healthy, normal behavior he had come. [...] This did arouse still more faith and determination, but he was then faced with that realization he had not encountered earlier, and he saw how long it had been since he had enjoyed anything like normal mobility.

Ruburt began the new program with a sense of determination and faith.

[...] Those bouts, however, helped rid him of buried feelings, and his determination did indeed give the body’s immune system a greater thrust. [...]

[...] He made a determined effort to come to a decision—at last—with that fresh experience behind him—a determination to go ahead and triumph. [...]

Ruburt is determined to better his condition, and already has allowed many (underlined) improved motions. [...]

[...] And determined that he would try to circumvent it—hence your sketches in Dialogues; for despite your avid and determined dislike of the marketplace and its imperfections, of which he is more aware than you think, he thought that he would still see to it that your talent was placed to some extent at least before the world —rail as you would against the stupidities and poor craftsmanship. He was determined, protesting or not, that your work would see the light of day, that despite any compromises its merits would appear.

[...] I accept everything in the book—his opinions on medicine, etc.—but I think I felt that if I was going to tell it like it was—and I was, was determined to, then I also needed more protection from the world—and began cutting down mobility again. [...] This idea also came back, reading a book on William James Peggy G. gave me for Xmas—his attitudes and mine so often seem similar—that he was determined to be daring, press ahead no matter what, explore consciousness—while at the same time being attracted to safety, disliking controversy, wanting peace, etc. [...]

He has determined that he will not push you in any way. [...] He determined he would never push you again.

[...] The built-in problem is that he will pursue a course with dogged stubbornness and determination once he has adopted it, until it results in the desired end or is proven disastrous.

(After I resumed my seat:) The conflict was obvious, then, he had determined to write, to make his living in that manner. [...]

[...] He had always determined and said that he would not marry someone who stuck in a house on the corner of Main and such and such a street. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Since your conscious beliefs determine those unconscious functions that bring about your personal experience, your first step is to enlarge those beliefs.

Whatever talents you sense you have can be developed only if you determine to do so. [...]

[...] I am not speaking of any playful competition, obviously, but of a determined, rigorous, desperate, sometimes almost deadly competition, in which a person’s value is determined according to the number of individuals he or she has shunted aside.

[...] Any unfortunate situations in the fields of medicine, science, or religion result not from any determined effort to sabotage the “idea,” but instead happen because men often believe that any means is justified in the pursuit of the ideal.

In the electrical field it is the intensity of any given actuality that determines this sort of duration, and the intensity can project such an actuality into many dimensions at once. The intensity of a given actuality within the electrical field, of itself, determines the other dimensions of the actuality. In the physical universe, height and thickness determine to a large degree the potentialities, physically speaking, of any organism. [...]

[...] You know that a conscious determination such as Ruburt occasionally shows will get you nowhere. [...]

[...] But she spoke with much expressive determination, using many gestures and smiling often.)

[...] I have said that any of you and all of you create a dream universe of validity, actuality, durability, and for Philip's benefit, self-determination, in the same manner that the entity projects the reality of its various personalities. [...]

[...] I regret, and deeply, that we must still deal with concepts in terms of words strung out one before the other, for this method serves to reinforce your idea of continuity, cause and effect, past and present, and all such camouflages that I am completely determined to put into proper place.

The personality is on its own, with what you may call the power of self-determination and free will. [...]

The dream accentuated Ruburt’s determination to achieve normal motion, and his insistence in the dream that he depend upon his own mobility, rather than, say, a vehicle or conveyance. It also represented your joint determination to travel together, so that even friends could not deter you, or change your way.

[...] Your experience of the world is largely determined by your imaginations and your reasoning abilities. [...] There is great leeway in that direction, so that the two can be combined in many many alternate fashions, each particular combination giving you its own unique picture of reality, and determining your experience in the world.

[...] I don’t shout, don’t want to startle myself, but determined to show R—and to walk, maybe half across room. [...]

Even the duration of an event or object in space or time is determined by the intensity of the thoughts or emotions that gave it birth. [...]

[...] It fills up and illuminates the individual aspects of your life, and largely determines the pervasive subjective climate in which you dwell.

[...] It does not determine, for example, specific events. [...]

[...] They carry the genes, the “blueprints” that determine hereditary characteristics. [...]

[...] Then again I realize this is a dream and am determined to take my packages back with me, will not let them go. [...]

(3:34.) The species is filled with a powerful sense of curiosity and wonder, and the need for exploration and discovery, so that even a man born as a king through several lives would find himself bored and determined to seek out a different or opposite experience.

There are also perfectly healthy, normal children who have determined ahead of time that they will live only to the threshold of adulthood, happy and flushed with dreams and promises of accomplishment, yet not experiencing any disillusionment or regret or sorrow. [...]

[...] Probabilities to some extent, then, are determined along cellular lines. [...]

The conscious mind as you normally think of it directs your overall action, and its ideas determine the kind of selectivity you use. [...]