“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Anyway early after we went to bed I realized I was in the middle of an odd nightmarish experience, one terribly vivid emotionally, yet with no real story line. [...]

[...] It is true that your thoughts and emotions and beliefs form the reality that you experience — but it is also true that this creative construction is, in a manner of speaking, magically formed. [...]

(Usually we keep the records of her ESP class in a separate set of three-ring binders, but Jane wanted to insert this one as part of Session 393 in our “regular” sessions: She wanted to show Seth discussing a subject that was emotionally very important to a class member—Audrey Shepherd—whose adopted son had died by drowning last summer.)

[...] I have been here emotionally, hardly hidden in the folds of the curtains. [...]

Know, however, that your own emotions and your own feeling and your own vitality has such an energy and a power as my voice shows this evening. [...]

[...] They rise and fall because of the great sway of emotion and belief.

[...] They die because of emotion and belief, and because there is a subjective rather than an objective time for dying. [...]

[...] In the latter material he used several evocative analogies to describe his EE units: “… basically emanations rising from consciousness … the invisible breath of consciousness … The emanations are actually emotional tones … The units are just beneath the range of physical matter.”

[...] “They are one form [my emphasis] that emotional energy takes,” he told us in the 504th session. [...]

I find Seth’s discussions about probabilities most intriguing, and sense no physical or emotional threat. [...]

[...] Man has produced some fine works: The high level of verbal communication, the multitudinous varieties of emotional interactions and of cultural exchange, the facility with exteriorization of ideas and concepts, the reaches of the imagination — all of these, and many others, are unique in the universe.

To say that people can escape to another probability is pragmatically a cop-out — this is apart from the reality of probabilities, for I am speaking from your emotional viewpoint.

[...] This resulting feeling of powerlessness to act leads to a state of hopelessness of varying degrees — and that mood does not tie itself to specific details, but pervades emotional life if it is allowed to. [...]

[...] It is instead a fanatical Puritan vein, peculiarly American in character, and restrictive rather than expansive, for the bursts of emotion are highly structured — that is, the emotions are limited in most areas of life, permitted only an explosive religious expression under certain conditions, when they are not so much spontaneously expressed as suddenly released from the dam of usual repression.

[...] They gave release, and they are giving release, to the emotions, and are thus rebelling against scientific intellectualism. [...]

[...] If they were isolated in spatial terms, they extended their imaginations and to some extent their lives and emotions both backward into the past and ahead into the future in ways that modern psychology has made most difficult. [...]

[...] So there are different emotional connections along those lines. [...]

Ruburt’s nightmare experience (of March 8) is a beautiful example of the kind of explosive emotional content that many people carry, fairly hidden, representing certain taboos, translated of course in individualistic manners. [...]

(Pause at 9:15.) Again, many people carry the same kind of emotional charge. [...]

Men and women who insist that emotions are simply psychological mechanisms cannot stop themselves now and then from a soaring of emotional comprehension that later makes their materialistic philosophy quite dull, dreary, and uncreative. [...]

[...] Imagine the emotional reality of each person present, in the time that the photograph was taken. Then try to feel the emotional interactions that existed between the various individuals. [...]

[...] And the scientists, for all their seeming independence, often simply found new intellectually acceptable reasons for unconsciously held emotional beliefs.

[...] Lesbian and homosexual relationships then are at best tenuous, overwrought with confused emotions, very seldom able to maintain a stability that allows for individual growth. [...]

The private letters, while indeed private, are in a strange fashion also a public outpouring of emotions, for those people of course make up the public. [...]

[...] In it Jastrow goes on to talk about how silicon-based computer life is going to replace man and his messy emotions—theories quite in keeping with current “scientific” thinking about man’s innate worthlessness and his accidental creation. [...]

[...] It is extremely important that you know your own emotional climate. [...]

[...] The emotions are the outer extensions of the inner senses, and it is therefore through the intuitions and traveling, the traveling of the pathways of the emotions, that you will come in contact with the inner self, and therefore be able to carry back this information in the same manner.

[...] Beneath this you will find material that is concerned with the beginnings of the species as a whole; and beneath this, and connected to it by the emotions, you will come to the boundaries of the inner self.

I have explained to you how the inner self is connected to the present personality, and how the emotions at your end change through the layers of the subconscious, begin in your plane as parts of the personality, and as part of your force field, and then are transformed and become the inner-sense connective that connects the outer ego to the inner self.

[...] Under that general term I include a strong emotional arousal and fresh emotional involvement, affiliation, or sense of belonging. [...]

[...] There is little emotional involvement. [...]

[...] When the communicator is still strongly tied emotionally to your own system, and when he is still acclimating himself to his new conditions, then his communications will be extremely garbled, as a rule.

[...] I am not emotionally in strong connection with any personalities known to Frank Watts, for example. [...]

[...] Emotional intensities are still our guidelines however, and they have meaning and significance within all systems. [...]

Emotions may even cause a color reaction. [...] Even within your own system, though perhaps on a subconscious level, all emotions have a reality in color. [...]

Emotional support, such as that almost nonchalant (long pause) yet commonplace kind that happened this afternoon, is important. Such encounters provide an emotional support that cements feelings with your fellow beings, and that in a fashion helps minimize in the present some of the defects of Ruburt’s childhood relationship with his mother. [...]