“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I’ve been expecting Seth to begin it at any time.

(Jane suggested having an earlier session, although I hadn’t really expected her to have one at all. [...]

[...] He must change his expectations drastically. He must fully expect a complete cure and release from symptoms. [...]

and filled with expectancy,

[...] I could tell she was both afraid of my touch, that it hurt, and that she hadn’t expected the response in the leg or the motion.

[...] I also will tie these discussions in with their strong connection with expectation, as the involvement here is extremely practical in everyday terms; and though it may seem at first to be Pollyanna, it certainly is not, and in many cases much training is necessary before proper attitudes can be achieved. [...]

You were definitely at a low ebb, that had its beginnings before you met Ruburt, being at loose ends in many respects, after the early financial success which was the result of work and expectation.

[...] Nevertheless I will add that the low point is now past, and even expectation rises again, as it must. [...]

[...] If I know Ruburt, twice a week will be all I can expect.

[...] You cannot concentrate upon worries and expect psychic baubles to fall into your lap. [...]

[...] I told John I expected to attend the service tomorrow at the funeral home, that I was willing to be an honorary pallbearer, providing the times worked out. [...]

(I expected a call from Carla and Jane as I typed this, but none has come through as I finish this session at 9:55 p.m. Sleep well, Jane.)

[...] 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.

[...] Expectation can also aid you. [...] The dream will then increase and activate your own expectations. And as you know, the expectations themselves have much to do with whether or not any given situation will occur. [...]

—and I expect my suggestions to be followed by you. [...]

[...] You form your physical reality through suggestion and expectation. You experience what you expect to experience at a subconscious and a conscious level. [...]

And when I do ask the questions, and I shall ask them, I shall expect some ready answers. [...]

[...] And we expect you (Ned) to maintain it and before you get the idea, again, of leaving physical reality before your chores are done, I will give you the boot from the other end. [...]

(I told Jane that now that the fever business was on the way out, I expected to see her body continue its improvements, as obviously it was trying to do. [...]

(I told Jane I didn’t expect that anybody was going to give us a million, but I did think it was a dream that meant well for our future …)

[...] When you ask you expect an answer, or at least a reply of a kind. [...]

Your reality is at every point, again, a perfect replica of your inner wishes and expectations. [...]

(After last Monday’s session, Jane told me that she’d try to hold private sessions when she could, but that at this time she’d rather be free of any expected routine, say of Monday and Wednesday nights. [...]

[...] His weaknesses were out in the open, dramatically presented, and from that point, unless he chose death he could only go forward: for suddenly he felt that there was after all some (underlined) room to move, that achievements were possible, where before all achievements seemed beside the point in the face of his expected superhuman activity. [...]

It is only because you seem to expect dream experience to be like daily life that you find so many dreams chaotic. [...]

(“At a church where we stopped, we listened to choir practice, were surprised that so many young adults were in the choir, instead of small boys or children, commented on the turnabout from what you would expect.”)

[...] Also consider our material on expectation, for indeed expectation comes closer, as a term, than does suggestion.

[...] Expectation to a large extent determines the manner in which we will use this energy, and the types of constructions that will be formed. [...]

In the face of possible rejection, which old attitudes now and then make him expect, he adopts a rigid rather than flexible stance. There is no reason to expect such rejection to begin with. [...]

[...] Jane said she hadn’t expected Seth to give me this information tonight, and she was somewhat surprised by it. [...]

[...] Negative expectations, far from protecting either the individual or those with whom he comes in contact, will actually, to a greater or lesser degree, turn as destructive as any epidemic.

[...] As time passed, and while I pored over several daily New York City newspapers plus Elmira’s daily paper, I came to realize to a small extent that poor expectations on my part had much to do with my falling ill.

(For some other examples of the psychic power of negative expectations, see the 9th, 15th and 17th sessions, involving Jane and me at York Beach, Maine. [...]

[...] I am very pleased that we did so well with it, and various other such controlled experiments can be expected in the future.

I told Ruburt that he wasn’t pregnant, so now I expect that our sessions will be a little smoother again now that he is relieved of the big question. [...]

As far as Ruburt’s fat hands and your own are concerned, this is in a very limited manner a hint of the qualities of extension that can be expected. [...]

[...] I expect to say much more about this in further sessions, as it is extremely important; and you can see now perhaps why our eighth sense, disentanglement, is so important, since the inner self must disentangle itself from a particular camouflage before it can change. [...]

[...] This is to be expected. [...]

[...] We talked about this now — without expecting Seth to discuss it — and agreed that she’d have to slack off on such extracurricular adventures, no matter how interesting the “provocation.”

[...] The unevenness in the timing of our sessions was a result of the fact that often three regular sessions were being expected from him, rather than two.