“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In their own way they become what we will call pure emotional constructions, forming patterns that operate through emotional impetus that is received from and transmitted by individuals who thereby discharge and yet direct excesses of emotional energy, which the various personalities can no longer hold within the personal domain.

Your wars are of course excess, poorly controlled emotional energy. [...] What seems to be a destructive instinct is instead an inability to control emotional energy, and to discharge it in a most effective manner.

[...] You have heard doubtlessly of emotional contagion, and of emotional climate, and these terms are well named. [...]

[...] Needless to say, the use of energy, and of emotional energy in particular, varies in the male and female on your plane; and both methods of using and discharging energy are necessary to maintain not only psychic and emotional balance, but also to maintain physical balance as far as living things are concerned, and also in the counterbalancing effects within weather and nature as it exists in your physical universe.

It is all there is black and white, including suggestions in the sexual area, why it would be advantageous, the various emotional points of resistance that would appear during such encounters, and their significance, and much more.

[...] I told you that he felt emotionally deprived, whether or not this seemed logical—that he felt uncherished, whether or not that seemed logical.

He felt emotionally deprived regardless. [...]

[...] You schooled yourself not to display emotion of a warm, spontaneous, happy nature, and he needs that kind of display.

[...] Pause.) The nature of your personal beliefs in a large measure directs the kinds of emotions you will have at any given time. [...] You will not understand your emotions unless you know your beliefs. It will seem to you that you feel aggressive or upset without reason, or that your feelings sweep down upon you without cause if you do not learn to listen to the beliefs within your own conscious mind, for they generate their own emotions.

Many such philosophies make you cower at the idea of entertaining “negative” thoughts or emotions. In all cases the clues to your emotional experience and behavior lie in your systems of belief: some more evident to you than others, but all available to you consciously. [...]

Your emotions then may strike you as highly unpredictable, extremely powerful, and to be kept down at all costs. Such an attempt to strangle natural feeling is bound to take its toll, but it is the belief itself that is to blame, and not the emotions. [...]

[...] Your beliefs will dictate your very interpretation of various kinds of emotions. [...] It can be the most arousing and therapeutic emotion under certain circumstances. [...]

These are emotional. [...] The emotional attitudes are: weight is bad. [...]

Both of you also have emotional ideas, now being tempered I hope, emotional feelings, that to deny sex or minimize it is to improve your creative capacity. [...]

The feelings can be adequately handled through reason and emotion after (underlined) they are allowed expression.

[...] Reread what I told you, it will save us time, regarding the way in which emotions are buried within the body, and at your loving touch given release.

He was afraid not only of his own emotions, but terrified of his mother’s emotions. He feels free to express emotion in class because he is in control of the class, and can also justify this, the use of emotion as a teaching aid. [...]

When he is in error he sees himself as an old hag, overly cautious with his psychic work, knocks himself over the head for not being freer about it, distrusts it, knocks himself over the head for distrusting it, fearful of emotional expression. Now you missed this fear of emotional expression on his part, because even with it he relates well usually with others. Particularly of course he was afraid of unpleasant emotional expression, or anger.

Now you have been good about exchanging ideas, the two of you, but not as spontaneous in the exchange of emotions. [...]

[...] The intellectualization of the fears can be a trick to avoid facing their emotional reality, so beware of that.

You must reach him on the one level that you have been frightened of, through honest expressed emotional feeling, and again as I have told you often, through physical touch. [...] The emotions and the physical body are so iterrelated that one automatically affects the other. Ruburt needs to be reassured on an emotional and physical level.

Part of the stronger hand also had to do with his attempts to help you with your family, to shut you off from too much distracting emotion, when for example you moved back to Sayre after New York. Ruburt however reacted most vehemently against this shutdown of emotional reaction. [...]

Now your (underlined) main failure in dealing with Ruburt is an emotional one. [...] In your attempts to explain yourself in the main, now, you have tried to use logic and reason, when it was as I told you before a feeling of being deprived emotionally. [...]

[...] The muscles themselves cry out to be soothed, and the physical touch, the relaxation of muscle, brings about an emotional release. An emotional release brings about a muscular one.

Emotions also are electrically coded, and also have an independent electrical reality. [...] The validity and strength of emotions cannot be overestimated, for they represent in only slightly tinged form the uncamouflaged vitality of the universe as it passes through the inner self. Emotions represent, therefore, this vitality before it has been constructed into camouflage.

Without Ruburt’s now and then, really rather petty explosions, the stability of his working habits and the stability of emotional reactions would not be nearly as regular. [...] Nor, my dear Joseph, are these explosions, though this is quite an exaggerated phrase, nor are these his alone; for he takes up also your hidden frustrations and angers, feels them deeply, though consciously he does not know this; and he then in these small explosions rather harmlessly dispels pent-up, small but potent emotional bombshells that belong to you both.

[...] You fear moods more than he does, because of the constant emotional gyrations in which your mother is constantly involved. [...] For as a child you feared you would be swept away by the raw emotions of your parents, and you feel insecure at such demonstrations. [...]

There should be an easy flow and acceptance of such emotions, wherein they come and go; but ego often holds them tightly, for its own purposes, in which case they become imprisoned, and become stronger than they were. The origin of emotions is something that we still have to discuss, for there are many origins.

[...] Associations are tied together, so to speak, by emotional experience. In a large manner, the emotions defy time.

ASSOCIATION, THE EMOTIONS, AND A DIFFERENT FRAME OF REFERENCE

(With humorous emphasis:) Chapter Three: “Association, the Emotions, and a Different Frame of Reference.” [...]

A man or woman who knows hate also understands the difference between that emotion and love. The ambiguities, the contrasts, the similarities, the affirmation of the creature self, allows for the free flow of emotion. [...] They try to “affirm” what they think of as positive emotions. [...]

Emotions simply are. [...] You cannot affirm one emotion and deny another without setting up barriers. [...]

(11:37.) The emotions follow beliefs. [...]

[...] One emotion is not good and another one evil.

Ruburt’s intellect and his emotions, working together, work joyfully in his writing, his psychic endeavors, and his subjective experience in general. They unite and stimulate his creative abilities so that he does what comes naturally, easily and vitally to him, searching out his own view of reality—but in certain areas the intellect and the emotions begin to separate in their visions of the picture of the world. The intellect (long pause, eyes closed) disapproves of certain feelings and emotions because the intellect, allied with (pause) the social aspects of reality, thinks in terms of a public face, or respectability, of its position with other adults in the world. [...]

[...] For the purposes of this discussion, we must simplify, so we will say that generally speaking your own country aligns itself with the world of reason, while in the same fashion Iran allies itself with the world of emotion. [...] The same applies in any personality who attempts to separate the intellect and the emotions from their necessary unity within psychological structure. [...]

[...] The American response—generally, now, speaking—to Iranian emotionalism is to become still more self-righteously reasonable, cooler, more superior. The Iranian’s response to the Americans’ reason involves new outbursts of emotionalism and behavior that appear utterly irrational to the American view. [...]

[...] The intellect, however, wants the emotions to be perhaps more respectable than they are, neater, held better in check, well-dressed. [...] In Ruburt’s case, it began to worry that the exuberant, spontaneous, emotional parts of the self would allow their search for truth and creativity to get out of bounds, bringing some danger, perhaps, rather than honor—or at the very least scorn and criticism. [...]

[...] Now whenever you think emotionally of another person, you send out a counterpart of yourself, beneath the intensity of matter, but a definite form. [...] When I think emotionally of someone else, I do the same thing, except that a portion of my consciousness is within the image, and can communicate.

[...] Instead, you see, you can follow these thoughts and emotions simply by realizing that your own reality continues in another direction, beside the one with which you mainly identify. For these thoughts and emotions that have left your conscious mind will lead you into other environments.

[...] Instead your physical form, your corporeal personal environment, is the physical materialization of your own thoughts, emotions, and interpretations.

Quite literally, the “inner self” forms the body by magically transforming thoughts and emotions into physical counterparts. [...]

The shifting of polarity occurs in rhythm with changing emotional intensities, or emotional energies, if you prefer. [...]

The emotional energy within the units is obviously the motivating factor, and you can see then why emotional energy can indeed shatter a physical object. [...]

The units so charged with intensive emotional energy, formed patterns for matter that retained their strength. Now these units, while appearing within your system, may also have another reality outside of it, propelling the emotional energy units through the world of matter entirely.

The “initial,” in quotes, originating emotional energy that sets any given unit into motion, and forms it, then causes the unit to become a highly charged electromagnetic field, with those characteristics of changing polarities just mentioned.

The fact remains that when you assess your fellows, you put a far greater stress upon intellectual achievement than emotional achievement. Some of you may even question what emotional achievement is, but it is highly important spiritually and biologically. Some people, who would rate quite high on any hypothetical emotional-achievement test, might very possibly under certain conditions be labeled as retarded, according to the dictates of your society. The species is at least embarked upon its journey toward emotional achievement, as it is upon the development of its intellectual capacities, and ultimately the two must go hand in hand.

A brilliant mathematician or scientist, or even an artist, or an accepted genius in any field, can be an emotional incompetent, but no one considers him as retarded. I am not speaking now of eccentric behavior on the part of, say, creative people or anyone else, but of a lack of understanding of emotional values.

[...] In your society, however, the capacities of the reasoning mind have been considered in opposition to the intuitive abilities, so that your ideas of what a person is or should be largely ignore the idea of emotional achievement, emotional understanding.

(Pause.) You are, I hope, coming toward a time of greater psychological synthesis, so that the intuitions and reasoning abilities work together in a much more smooth fashion, so that emotional and intuitive knowledge regarding the meaningfulness of life can find clearer precision and expression, as the intellect is taught—as the intellect is taught—to use its faculties in a far less restricted manner.

[...] To some extent he overexaggerated your response to emotionalism as he came to think of it, during your illness. This is also connected to your work in that he was afraid that his quite natural emotions would frighten you, and therefore impede your work.

[...] His own paintings and work are of a highly emotional nature. [...]

[...] If you are particularly proud of a given painting, and he does not emotionally relate to it, then he feels guilty, or afraid he will offend.

[...] They should be emotionally felt in other words, rather than merely verbal.

Dogmas or systems of thought that tell you to rise above your emotions can be misleading — even, in your terms, somewhat dangerous. Such theories are based upon the concept that there is something innately disruptive, base, or wrong in man’s emotional nature, while the soul is always depicted as being calm, “perfect,” passive and unfeeling. [...] Yet the soul is above all a fountain of energy, creativity, and action that shows its characteristics in life precisely through the ever-changing emotions.

[...] Followed, your emotions will lead you to deep understandings, but you cannot have a physical self without emotions any more than you can have a day without weather.

[...] The emotions are there, but they are invisible to you because you are afraid to look. [...] These denied emotional states may be projected outward upon others — an enemy in a war, a neighbor. [...]

[...] Until the individual comes to terms with himself and his emotions, the hatred will return, because it belongs to the one who hates and not to anyone else. The earlier instructions on handling emotions, in Chapter Eleven, provide a framework in which hate can be faced and understood. [...]

Our identities do not feel threatened, for example, by the strong emotions of another. We are able to travel through emotions in a way that is not now natural to you, and to translate them into other facets of creativity than those with which you are familiar. We do not feel the need to conceal emotions, for we know it is basically impossible and undesirable. [...]

[...] The intensity of the communication is dependent upon the emotional intensity behind it, although the phrase “emotional intensity” may be misleading.

[...] Suffice it here to say that we have strong emotional experience, although it differs in a large measure from your own. It is far less limited and far more expansive in that we are also aware and responsive to the emotional “climate” as a whole. [...]

We do feel an equivalent of what you call emotions, though these are not the love or hate or anger that you know. [...]

Each thought or emotion therefore exists as an electromagnetic energy unit or as a combination of these under certain conditions, and often with the help of coordinate points, they emerge into the building blocks of physical matter. This emergence into matter occurs as a neutral “result” regardless of the nature of any given thought or emotion. Mental images, accompanied by strong emotion, are blueprints therefore upon which a corresponding physical object, or condition or event, will in your terms appear.

Your space is filled with these subordinate points, and as you will see later, these are important in allowing you to transform thoughts and emotions into physical matter. When a thought or emotion attains a certain intensity, it automatically attracts the power of one of these subordinate points, and is therefore highly charged, and in one way magnified, though not in size.

(10:31.) The concentrated energy points are activated by emotional intensities that are well within your normal range. Your own emotions or feelings will activate these coordinates whether you know of them or not. [...]

These points are like invisible power plants, in other words, activated when any emotional feeling or thought of sufficient intensity comes into contact. [...]

[...] He is in need of your emotional support, and active proclamations of love and affection. More than ordinarily, in need of your reassurances emotionally.

[...] Active emotional warmth and its manifestations on your part will now hasten complete recovery immeasurably. [...] He does not need, nor want, to smother you emotionally. [...]

[...] This is the emotional feeling behind it. [...]

[...] In his case however there is no danger that you would be emotionally smothered, for he has also this love of work and isolation, and feeling for his and your independence.

[...] You still would not want to deal with the intrusive, and to you, immediately disruptive emotions that would be obvious in a sitter. With them you would want to handle the emotion with kid gloves, precisely because of course you are so sensitive to emotion.

When you closed off and retreated to compensate, you came closer to the people with whom you work, enjoying their safer emotional contact. [...] At the same time you adopted a more hard line in your relationship with those in the family, trying to avoid all emotional situations which might trigger a release of the repressed feelings.

[...] Ordinarily you seldom paint women, feeling that in such paintings emotions would be too blatantly displayed. You may have to watch a tendency to masculinize your women if you seriously begin to do such work, for you may feel, again, that harsher lines are necessary to hold the emotional element in check.

With Ruburt of course it leads to work blockages, particularly along poetry lines where the emotions appear very clearly. [...]

Whenever circumstances tend to revitalize such a charged emotion, that particular now will be re-created. The emotion will once again rush into the psychic space which is formed by elements in the personality’s psychological environment. The immediate emotion of any moment, therefore, forms the framework of your present time within the waking state. As the emotion diminishes it takes up less of your psychic space, fills up less of your inner environment, and you seem to yourself to recede from it.

The moment is remembered because the emotions experienced at the time almost completely fill the psychic space, forcing all other experiences out. The stronger the emotion the more vivid the moment becomes, the more totally it is recalled. [...] In other words, to some large extent such a strong emotion unites experience and knocks down the artificial barrier of past, present and future.

An emotion obviously does not take up physical space, yet it takes up varying amounts of psychic space according to its intensity. [...] An intensive emotion will represent the present in time, a particular instant of now.

[...] Time as you know it, waking time, is intimately connected with the emotions and with emotional intensities. [...]