“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He was so direct emotionally that he idealized what he thought of as your relative detachment. [...] At one time he felt his emotional spontaneity was indeed admired by you and encouraged, and he blossomed. [...]

Now: While Ruburt is not a child he operates emotionally with a child’s simplicity, and is at his best in direct personal encounter with you or with his friends, for example. [...]

He believed that emotional freedom would be construed as chaos, that while you said be spontaneous, you meant “Be spontaneous when it is convenient.” [...]

He felt it unfair to keep at you for emotional expression of love through verbalization and touch when it was not natural to you. [...]

They are taught, in other words, the methods that allow them to translate emotion and thought into physical actuality. [...]

[...] 9:42 to 9:58.) Now: You may after death utterly refuse to believe that you are dead, and continue to focus your emotional energy toward those you have known in life.

[...] Suffice it to say that large fields of emotional focus toward physical reality can hold you back from further development.

[...] In one manner of speaking you do this now, you see, translating your psychological experience — your thoughts and emotions — quite literally but unconsciously into physical objects. [...]

He has also helped others, those with whom he had any emotional contact, when clairvoyantly aware of their situation.

[...] The emotional freedom that you have recently shown with Ruburt also results from mastery in larger terms of that conflict. [...]

[...] The emotional warmth sparking now between you is of great therapeutic value physically on Ruburt’s part, psychically and spiritually on both of your parts, and even for you supportive in a physical manner. [...]

[...] This gives us added energy with which to work, for I can also use Ruburt’s emotional connections with the young woman, and this is to our advantage.

(In Note 6 for the last session I wrote quite easily that Jane and I felt “no physical or emotional threat” as we considered the vastness of the inner universe described by Seth. [...] She also questioned the emotional value of the material on probabilities. [...]

These are emotional and psychological beings of such richness that your concepts of selfhood force you to dilute them to a degree that you can understand.⁴ Each of your persons is a part of that greater personhood. Again, these ideas alone can help you, so that to some degree you can emotionally and intellectually sense that greater godhood out of which personhood emerges.

(Actually, Jane continued, she found the material on probabilities intellectually stimulating, while wondering about its emotional connotations — the inferences that she was but one of countless billions of creatures, “blinking on and off like lights in all of those probable worlds …” What value was there to the tiny individual? [...]

[...] Most individuals, for example, develop intellectually or emotionally or physically, ignoring to a large degree the body’s and the mind’s full potential. [...]

You have been afraid of displaying emotions. [...] You have not wanted to face your own emotions, therefore you are frightened of the emotions of others. You did not, habitually, display your emotions to your husband. [...] This did not leave you too many acceptable emotions.

If you do not trust your emotions, then you can no longer trust your joy. [...] Once you begin to inhibit emotions, the practice spreads like a plague, until all emotion must be inhibited, lest the one thing that you fear show its face.

[...] This confirms your feeling that you dare not display strong emotions with him, and you feel all the more rejected. [...]

He is much more open in that regard now than he was, and he understands his own emotional behavior better, as well as yours.

[...] You think of rain or earthquakes as natural events, for example, while you do not consider thoughts or emotions as natural events in the same terms. Therefore it is difficult for you to see how there can be any valid interactions between, say, emotional states and physical ones.

[...] The great sweeps of emotional identification with nature itself do not sustain you, therefore. [...]

[...] The range of private emotions is given greater, fuller, sweep.

To some extent or another man’s desires and emotions merge with the physical aspects of nature as you understand it, so that such storms or disasters are as much the result of psychological activity as they are of weather conditions.

The expression of emotion is excellent, particularly the release of anger and frustration.

This does not mean those emotions should be concentrated upon, but acknowledged and expressed. [...]

The free association is indeed then operating as it should, and that expression will clear the mental and emotional roads, so that Ruburt’s natural, innate high spirits can begin to show their faces again. [...]

I would state furthermore that indeed Ruburt did have occasion to be angry at the chiropractor, since with an emotional fear unthinking suggestions such as his, made with only the flimsiest of evidence, can be most harmful and destructive. And in an unwary, emotionally upset personality, particularly if under stress, such a suggestion could cause a harmless and protective nodule to be changed by the strong powers of adverse expectation, or rather expectation poorly used, into the form of what is feared; as a slight but harmless irregularity of heartbeat, with the unthinking suggestion of a doctor, can become through the patient’s fears an actual functional disorder, so could suggestion turn a relatively harmless formation like Ruburt’s into an arthritic condition.

For one thing, individuals who finally visit such offices are oftentimes already emotionally upset. Oftentimes also those in attendance, the doctors or other healers are themselves tired, prone to the patient’s emotional fears, and automatically in self-defense respond by giving voice to the patient’s subconscious dread, picking it up telepathically but feeling it is directed at themselves, on a subconscious level of course.

[...] They would have to fall upon fertile ground; and given great enough emotional and subconscious fear an individual would need no outside suggestion. [...]

Despite Ruburt’s understanding, his intellectual understanding of his fear of arthritis, he was thrown into an understandable and regrettable emotional state, with which he grappled with at least some success. [...]

You have, in the dream’s meaning, your father who wants to be left alone, who likes to work in solitude, and who is quite uncomfortable with the expression of emotion. You have, in the dream’s meaning, your mother given to explosive bursts of emotional expression, who it seems makes emotional demands. In the dream’s meaning, she chased after him, and in that context you felt one portion of yourself making demands upon another portion that resented the emotional involvement, the emotional outbursts that that portion naturally expressed. [...]

[...] I respect your emotional reactions whatever they are, and your right to them. [...]

[...] As I mentioned at one time, he literally felt divorced from you emotionally, because he was divorced from the emotional nature of his own being.

[...] By suppertime Jane was getting some strong emotional reactions to parts of it. [...]

[...] If he reacted emotionally, this frightened him, because he was afraid you would interpret it as your mother’s reaction. [...]

Clear emotional communication on your part will be most valuable here. [...]

[...] The patient’s emotional condition is such that he or she readily accepts statements made under such circumstances less critically than usual.

[...] You are usually told that your emotions or beliefs or system of values have nothing to do with the unfortunate circumstances that beset you.

[...] They are more mobile than the physical body, and even more susceptible to the changing pattern of your own thought and emotion.

[...] Your emotions will fill in the patterns with light. [...]

[...] Instead you see methods can be used to direct the emotions in other channels. [...] He knows the emotional situation with your mother, and will not object.

Now, the other smaller episodes involving Ruburt and the cat alone have always occurred during the same process, only when lesser emotional crises were involved. [...]

That he finally defended himself against her, defended himself against her emotionally and psychically, is all the more astounding. [...]

[...] She was extremely unbalanced, the mother, emotionally, and considered her husband’s mother, who was a foolishly naive, good-natured and innocent thing, as a personification of evil.

(Pause.) They give the overall emotional coloration that characterizes what happens to you. [...] Your emotional feelings are often transitory, but beneath there are certain qualities of feeling uniquely your own, that are like deep musical chords. [...]

Interactions with others do occur, of course, yet there are none that you do not accept or draw to you by your thoughts, attitudes, or emotions. [...]

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. [...]

[...] Your feeling-tones are your emotional attitudes toward yourself and life in general, and these generally govern the large areas of experience.

[...] Yet because of his words you do not feel justified in the emotion. This sort of emotional tangle itself can lead to continued entanglements through various lives.

[...] In subsequent lives you may also be drawn into a family and find yourself with the same emotions, for the emotions are the problem, and not those elements that seem to bring them about.

[...] You may find after death a much stronger relationship emotionally with a personality from a past life. [...]

[...] Those who have been closely bound through emotional ties often prefer to remain in closely tied or loosely tied physical relationships that continue through many lifetimes. [...]

[...] It attempts to deny the inner emotions because the changeability of these emotions would seem to threaten its own permanence. [...] Therefore any seemingly small incident will tend to bring forth the explosion of these emotions quite against the ego’s inclination, precisely because the ego denies them so vehemently.

[...] Nevertheless this intensification is a pretense that one part of the self plays upon the other part, for the very intensity of the emotional reaction on the part of the ego to even small stimuli, allows the ego to say to itself “I feel deeply, therefore I know the depths of myself.” And this sham allows the ego to continue denying those inner emotions in an effort to maintain its permanence.

The harder the ego attempts to hold down the emotions, the more explosively will they show themselves upon the least provocation, and the more the ego will attempt to hold them down, and the worse the ulcer becomes. [...]

[...] Secondary personalities are caused by repressed emotions on a psychological basis that attempts to maintain an ascendancy. [...]

[...] The experience is valuable to Ruburt in that he sees that no invasion is involved; and that when his emotions are stilled there is still an emotional reality, as my emotions come to the foreground.

[...] There is an emotional rapport that also carries Ruburt along when my spirits or moods then also sweep him along; and again the Jane ego is content to stand aside. My emotional makeup comes to the foreground at times, of course. [...]

The emotional energy I use as when I show good spirits, are the same energies that propel themselves outward through the voice. [...]

It will be written to the intuitions and the emotions, and so it will be done somewhat differently. [...] Some will intuitively understand the material far better than others who may grasp it intellectually but without emotional comprehension.

They will be given with great emotional rapport, and I hope of my own depth of compassion and understanding for the human condition. [...]

[...] (Smile, eyes closed.) What I have told you this evening should also help you understand the use that emotion can have in your work, and its value. [...]

[...] As it is you have no real conscious conception in any meaningful way of what I will tell you; and yet you are using intuitional and emotional depths that you have not allowed yourself to use before, and I will tell you, when you are finished, the reasons.

[...] Maybe, I thought, we needed time to recover from the emotions of the last few days especially. [...]

[...] Her words were loaded with emotion, more evenly delivered than yesterday’s session had been, yet still the rhythm wasn’t one of ease and speed.

[...] I thought it was great that she was expressing deeply-felt emotion, just as I was surprised that she’d spontaneously — seemingly — chosen the subject matter for the session … This had to be good, I said.

(“I always tried to buy her things to make up,” Jane cried, her whole face twisted with tearful emotion. [...]

[...] You must try not to categorize things in old ways, but when you open your mind, you will see a similarity between chlorophyll, as a mental enzyme or mover, and emotion which is never still. Emotion ‘solidified’ is something else again and is perhaps a framework of other worlds. [...]

[...] Joking aside, I will now ask you to imagine these wires as being composed of the solidified emotion of which I have just spoken. Surely you must know that the words feeling or emotion are, at best, symbols to describe something else, and that something else comes extremely close to your mental enzymes.

[...] So can a seemingly physical chlorophyll be also a part of a seemingly immaterial emotion or feeling, but in a different form — and, of course, directed into this form or caused to take various forms in response to certain laws — as your ice will not exist of itself in the middle of your summertime. [...]

[...] During the break, Rob had made a remark about solidified emotion, and Seth began by saying:

[...] Every least alteration of psychic and emotional existence immediately alters the nature of the physical environment through instant interaction.

Thoughts and emotions directly activate the mechanics of physical matter, alter and transform it, maintain it, and also destroy it.

[...] They respond to emotional and psychic directives as the physical body responds to light.