“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

They actually represent the ways in which beliefs can dull native qualities of mind and heart alike, so that the intellect seems opaque, and emotional relationships are unduly tangled. [...]

[...] Your brother to some extent identified strongly with your father, seeing him as the intellectual, the inventor held in bonds, almost in thrall by the “emotional” demanding woman. [...]

[...] He wanted children to be frightened of him, for this proved that he was indeed superior, and not given to emotional outbursts.

His behavior, however, led him of course to quite powerful emotional outbursts, which frightened him. [...]

Friday, or Saturday, were poor evenings for various reasons, having to do with weather, emotional climate, and also having to do with Mark’s physical and emotional state. [...]

We have been speaking of the electric reality and actuality of thoughts and emotions, and of dreams, and of all such experiences which appear to be purely psychological in origin, and take up no space in your physical universe.

[...] Now indeed this electrical field in which thoughts and emotions and dreams have an independent actuality, this field contains depths and dimensions of a sort most difficult to explain.

[...] Ruburt expected her husband, the man, to show spontaneous love and affection, and to supply emotional richness, which she was willing to nurture—but she expected the artist—who happened to be her husband—to protect himself from any emotional response that might interfere with his work.

In Greece the young man was a senator, extremely brilliant, and emotionally immature and cold. [...]

He is able to give his emotional abilities far greater freedom. [...]

[...] All species are united by their participation in emotional states, however. It is not just that all species of life have feeling, but that all participate in dimensions of emotional reality. [...] (Pause.) They have loving emotional relationships, complicated societies,³ and in a certain sense at least—an important one—they also have their arts and sciences. [...]

[...] You are surrounded everywhere by other kinds of consciousness whose validity you have largely ignored, whose psychic brotherhood you have dismissed—kinds of consciousness in the animal kingdom particularly, that deal with a different kind of knowing, but who share with you the reality of keen emotional experience, and who are innately aware of biological and psychic values, but in ways that have escaped your prejudiced examination.

To some extent that emotional reality is also expressed at other levels—as your own is—in periods of dreaming, in which animals, like men, participate in a vast cooperative venture that helps to form the psychological atmosphere in which your lives must first of all exist.

[...] This often has nothing to do with numbers of words, but emotionally charged words. [...]

[...] If this is handled correctly the entire project can (underline) incite emotional excitement. [...]

[...] The ego is spoon-fed, being given only those feelings and emotions, only that data, that it can handle. [...]

[...] When it becomes swept up in a strong emotion it seems to lose itself. [...]

[...] Your dreams, emotions, feelings, thoughts, are (underlined) transformed into physical matter purposefully by this inner self. [...]

[...] They are solidified emotions, solidified subjective states, given physical materialization. [...]

[...] In his discussions on health, Seth has always maintained that illness is often the result of dissociated and inhibited emotions. [...] In other instances, the inhibited emotions can be projected outward into other persons, or as in the case of the York Beach images, very charged repressed energy can actually form pseudophysical images which present the personality with the physically materialized image of his fears.

[...] The emotional charge provides the pattern and impetus for such creations. [...]

[...] Here particular emotions are denied, dissociated. [...]

[...] There was no evidence of excessive emotionalism in the material, though: no repressed hates, prejudices, or desires. [...]

In a fashion, those stylized figures that stood for the images of God, apostles, saints, and so forth, were like a kind of formalized abstract form, into which the artist painted all of his emotions and all of his beliefs, all of his hopes and dissatisfactions. [...] The point is that the images the artists were trying to portray were initially mental and emotional ones, and the paintings were supposed to represent not only themselves but the great drama of divine and human interrelationship, and the tension between the two. [...]

(After lunch today Jane and I were visited by our old friend David Yoder, who’s been in Florida recuperating from the heart bypass surgery he underwent early this year.¹ David brought news that was at first startling, then quickly developed into several conflicting emotions and ideas for us: He’d just learned from a relative of hers that a few weeks ago Mrs. Steffans [not her real name], the wife of the couple we’d purchased the hill house from in March 1975, had committed suicide at her home in a Western state while her husband was away on a business trip.

[...] They were, then, highly charged emotionally. [...]

The species uses those conditions, however, so that the paintings of the great masters can serve as models and impetuses, not simply for the extraordinary artwork involved, but to rearouse within man those emotions that brought the paintings into being.

([Brad:] “Emotional needs?”)

I do mean emotional needs. [...]

([Florence;] “If we have relationships in our lives which are emotionally necessary—as Seth said was the case with Brad and his wife...”

([Florence:] “If it’s necessary for him to stay for emotional reasons, then...”

[...] She repeated it as best she could: “....a closed, emotionally charged mental environment, in which the characteristics of individuality were purposefully undermined.” [...]

[...] When the dream gives you such an image, and the image becomes objectified, then you are of course showing a new part of yourself in the physical world, and bringing into expression through your physical hands the emotions that otherwise could not be expressed.

I have just interpreted for Joseph a dream of his, in which he was able to express emotions of a rather profound nature, and I want to stress here that you are above all an expressive (underlined) species.

[...] I will use my own definition of a cult here, saying that a cult exists whenever a group forms a closed, emotionally charged mental environment in which the foundations of individuality are systematically and purposefully undermined.

[...] For your particular purposes you also needed to be free of many strong emotional attachments—not because such attachments are not good, but because for you and your purposes they would blur the issues.

Ruburt wanted to have a strong emotional nature in order to relate with other people, and yet also wanted to control and focus that nature so that it would also be directed toward his purpose. [...]

Your part of the purpose of course was to witness Ruburt’s condition, and therefore give you an emotional realization of the nature of the nature of beliefs as they applied not only to the two of you, but to others. [...]

In what may seem to be an odd fashion, also, your reactions kept you emotionally “alive,” and kept you from pulling too deeply into yourselves.

[...] Will the emotions that propelled me in life continue to do so? [...]

(10:26.) These people are particularly helpful because they are still involved with physical reality, and have a more immediate understanding of the feelings and emotions involved at your end. [...]

[...] You will not be automatically wise if you were not so before, but neither will there be a way to hide from your own feelings, emotions, or motives. [...]

You examine the fabric of the existence you have left, and you learn to understand how your experiences were the result of your own thoughts and emotions and how these affected others. [...]

I am fairly certain that I achieved excellent emotional contact with the students I addressed; for the projection was not only of Ruburt’s perceptive mechanisms, there was a strong psychic projection on my part.

Sitters as a rule are indeed a benefit, in that the emotional impetus causes him to allow me greater freedom. [...]

[...] You do this by constantly transforming your thoughts and emotions into physical form. [...] What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event, independent and apart from you the perceiver, is instead the physical materialization of the perceiver’s own inner emotions, energy and mental environment.

[...] The methods by which emotions, concepts, and energy are projected out from the individual to form the physical environment and events, mainly occur in nonphysical terms, but there are nervous system connections that aid in this projection. [...]

[...] It was the practical impetus of your need at the time, however, that operated as the final emotional trigger—you recall the circumstances.

[...] Rather, my emotional behavior does not follow your patterns—that is closer to “the truth.”

I have long delegated your kind of emotional activity to unconscious behavior, in your terms. [...]

A physical storm may, as you know, be far more disastrous than an emotional one. But a physical storm is a collective endeavor, and can be compared, if it is disastrous, only with disastrous collective emotional storms such as those that sweep across nations, when all minds seem seized by irrationality.

[...] Dreams also carry the weight of emotional excesses that cannot be adequately expressed within daily physical action.

As emotional storms may be the result of a lack of discipline or of knowledge, or of control of one or more portions of the self, bringing about a corresponding exaggeration or growth of other portions of the self, so also erratic physical storms come from the same causes on a collective basis, but with the energy directed outward and often turned to a constructive purpose. [...]

[...] He thought they were fascinating, charming, self-destructive, and wasted most of their time in emotional and sexual excursions leading nowhere. [...]

[...] Your biology, your abilities, your mind and your emotions, are not conflicting elements, one battling the others so that you must fight to attain your goals. [...]

[...] A problem in a painting or in a book might be solved through an hour’s lovemaking, for often what might seem to be a problem of technique is, as you are beginning to understand, an emotional equation instead. [...]

[...] He equated, again, the writer or poet as highly gifted but emotionally not stable, so that he thought he had to set himself against his own nature in order to produce.

(Very long pause at 8:13, one of many.) I have most of the material we need now, but must also organize it so that it has the most therapeutic effect possible, and so that it clears Ruburt’s understanding in emotional, intuitive as well as intellectual ways. [...] While this material is being delivered, and while you and Ruburt are dealing with it (long pause), certain emotional aspects should come to the fore to make the affair more beneficial. [...]

(Very long pause at 8:25.) The emotional forces that lie behind these statements that I make are impossible to describe. [...]

[...] I felt so many emotions churning within me that I wondered just how I was supposed to express all of this love amid all of them. [...]

[...] In this period let the conscious suggestions be given with emotion and feeling, and then have him forget all about them. [...]

[...] Your expectations are initially emotional.

As this field is further activated through imagination, emotion and expectation, it becomes more highly charged and attracts to it those elements which it needs to give dimension to those elements already present in the basic version. [...]

[...] This is the function of the conscious self, to use the emotions and expectations to bring about a desired result.