“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] We are embarked upon a journey of expression, some of that expression will necessarily involve feelings that have been inhibited, of a stressful nature. The problem is not with the feelings, but with the fact that they have not previously been expressed or accepted. [...]

[...] The TV programs become like dreams, and indeed they appear rewritten in the dream state also, as the psyche seizes upon different kinds of vehicles for its own therapeutic expression. [...]

(Pause at 9:50.) I also want to stress the fact that the entire psychic area of expression belongs to the natural person. [...]

In other words, the psychic development is a part of his natural growth (long pause), a reaffirmation and restructuring of inner information that in one fashion or another was always available to him, but needed to find a conscious format, a conscious expression, a way to pierce the seemingly opaque habits of knowledge of the cultural world. [...]

[...] The expression of love is not confined to your own species, therefore, nor is tenderness, loyalty, or concern. [...] It is the initial basic language from which all others spring, for all languages’ purposes rise from those qualities natural to love’s expression — the desire to communicate, create, explore, and to join with the beloved.

[...] Though love’s expression brilliantly illuminates its instant, at the same time that momentary brilliance contains within it an intensity that defies time, and is somehow eternal.

(Long pause at 11:22.) Give us a moment… Speaking historically in your terms, man first identified with nature, and loved it, for he saw it as an extension of himself even while he felt himself a part of its expression. [...]

Emphasis should not be on performance but on expression, and Ruburt particularly encouraged to express all feelings, no matter how ambiguous. [...] The ambiguous feelings must be expressed. [...]

[...] A half-hour at a time is fine, plus the effort to express any normally negative feelings at once.

Releasing the repressed feelings will also clear the way for freer expression of joy and exuberance, so while repressed feelings are being freed, do not forget to concentrate upon the positive aspects also. [...]

[...] He began in our work to become more aware of these feelings, and extremely frightened at expressing any of them, for many of the reasons given by me in the past.

[...] Ruburt closed off even from you the expression of his fears; many quite normal fears, dangerous only because he considered them so.

[...] But the expression of fears was very beneficial, we thought, and surprisingly this was new for both of us.

Ruburt became afraid that the thyroid condition would lead into erratic behavior, and after the Florida incident he slammed doors to expression down. [...]

[...] It is being without the means of expressing being. Now, every portion of consciousness is imbued with innate knowledge towards the means of expression and creativity. [...]

[...] Jane lit a cigarette.) It is a state, not of nothingness in your terms, but a state in which probabilities and possibilities are known, anticipated, but blocked from all expression.

[...] It knows that something existed before its own primary dilemma, when it could not express itself.

This first state of agonized search for expression may have represented the birth throes of All That Is as we know it. [...]

(The tyranny results from “it” not being allowed to express itself in usual ways, I thought. [...] If all parts of her being are allowed expression, I said, there would be no extreme reactions, as in the symptoms. [...]

[...] In the early novels his repressed feelings could be expressed. [...]

You must understand that for nearly 20 years he lived in an environment in which expression of dissent brought instant retaliation of the most frightening kind. [...]

I am an ally because I can help express those repressions. [...]

These emotional experiences, however, often express the language of the psyche. [...]

Instead, such an event is a direct expression of the psyche’s knowledge. [...]

[...] Despite distorted versions of that last statement, however, there is still obviously a distinct difference, say, between the thought of adultery and its physical expression.

[...] It presupposes a far greater freedom in which perception is not dependent upon space or time, a reality in which objects appear or are dismissed with equal ease, a subjective framework in which the individual freely expresses what he or she will in the most direct of fashions, yet without physical contact in usual terms.

If you trust the spontaneous self, then automatically you do not need such a framework, but you must learn to allow it its expression. [...]

(10:15.) Now: you can express the same statements in other ways, by being willing to make decisions on their own basis: “Yes, I want to do this. [...]

[...] He can do far better, and the way to begin is to allow the spontaneous self as much freedom as he can in daily life, and to trust its expression—that it knows his psychic and creative needs, his physical needs, his social and financial needs, and all of these can be taken care of.

[...] I want Ruburt to stress instead the expression of the spontaneous self. [...]

[...] They also often express a strong feeling of alienation from their parents, friends, family and their fellow men in general. Along the way they have forgotten the cooperative, playful ventures of childhood, and the expression of love itself becomes most difficult.

(Long pause at 3:26.) The will to live is also inbred into each element of nature, and if you trust your own spontaneity, then that will to be is joyfully released and expressed through all of your activities. [...]

Those feelings do indeed encourage expression of consciousness, and release intuitive information that may otherwise be buried beneath tensions and fears.

You grew up in an environment, my dear friend, in which violence and aggressiveness became one, were expressed in some degree by both parents. But this expression was denied to the children, and you longed to retaliate. [...] You longed to express your natural violence, you normal aggressiveness, and you also feared to do so, and dwelled mainly in your own world.

She did express this violence, and again with fury, through verbal attacks to which Ruburt was extremely sensitive. But Ruburt did not even dare to express his violence verbally, because of the parent-child relationship. [...]

As a rule you do not express these feelings in the area where they would normally be expressed, and you also use them as a basis for creative work. [...]

[...] At the same time the mother experiences unrecognized feelings of violence against the daughter, that she has never been able to express in physical terms.

The resulting thoughts and images in turn are expressed and affect others, and not only symbolically. [...]

[...] This was not basically because of the physical action involved, though in this case the physical actions were necessary for your own expression.

[...] The rubbing expressed this feeling from you, and then acted directly on a sense-data level which both of you needed at the time to confirm what was an inner experience.

Much of man’s creativity is expressed directly through his hands, and for this reason they are often used in healing experiences. [...]

As to facial expression, this again is somewhat the same matter, for in this case matter does not matter. Physical expression, facial expression, is again the result of the personality’s characteristic method of manipulating the physical organism, and when I operated primarily as such I had my own characteristic way of doing so.

[...] Her eyes had remained closed, her pace had been quite fast and expressive. [...]

[...] I soon saw that I shouldn’t have however, since Jane now turned the same humorous expression toward me that had confronted Bill a few minutes ago.)

[...] Jane sat with her eyes still closed; her movements and facial expressions were active.)

[...] As different fears are expressed the blockages disappear. One fear, expressed, will bring with it through association many others, relieving also various areas of the body. [...]

(In an emotional way Jane also expressed some fears about her mother. [...] Jane did express herself with emotion. [...]

He could not give himself well in your personal intimate relations because it was with you most of all that he had to watch his expression. [...]

To give expression to a need for help, or to show a need for comfort would be seen as weaknesses in your eyes. [...]

[...] It taught me to consider all portions of the personality—its needs, desires, creative drives and expressions, etc., and I intuitively linked this up with Jane’s problems. [...]

(This is excellent information, and as has happened before where Seth discusses art, implies knowledge that I don’t believe Jane would express in such terms.

[...] I’d had some glimmerings, but hadn’t expressed any of them to Jane.)

(“I didn’t want to be rigid in my ideas, and the way I expressed them.”)

It will help considerably if Ruburt discusses his mistrust of the body with you — thus expressing those feelings within the framework of your relationship.

[...] Expressed in such a manner, they may indeed elicit tears on Ruburt’s part — and perhaps on your own as well.

[...] He may even refer to those feelings of distrust as a dear frightened part of himself, and then, again, address that part of the self sympathetically — telling it why it need no longer be frightened, and vocally and emotionally stressing the fact that the frightened portion of the self no longer needs defenses, but can now allow itself free and natural expression.

Now: Because you have conscious minds you have great leeway in the manner in which you can express aggression, but the animals’ heritage is still retained in its own way. [...] If you tell yourself to smile when you feel like scowling, then you are tampering with your natural expression and denying to another a legitimate communication that tells how you feel.

[...] Because he is trying to be so understanding our man inhibits the expression of many of the normal irritations that would serve as a natural system of communication between, say, his superior and himself at work, or perhaps with the members of his family at home.

[...] Violence occurs only when the natural expression of aggression has been short-circuited. [...]

The fear of your own emotions can do far more damage than their expression, because the apprehension builds up a charge that intensifies the energy behind them.

[...] You have denied many impulses, or programmed others so that they are allowed expression in only certain forms of action. [...]

(Pause.) Actually the woman’s condition hid her primary impulse: to communicate better with her husband, to ask him for definite expressions of love. [...]

He could not express his love for her in the terms she wished for he believed that women would, if allowed to, destroy the man’s freedom, and he interpreted the natural need for love as an unfortunate emotional demand. [...]

[...] Sometimes he is not even aware of them as far as they involve the expression of affection or love to his wife. [...]

[...] His being must freely express itself, and part of that expression will be the fulfillment of his abilities—those about which he has been so deeply concerned.

The would-be suicide’s problem is usually not one of suppressed rage or anger, it is instead the feeling that there is no room in his or her private life for further development, expression, or accomplishment, or that those very attributes are meaningless.

In all cases, however, the need for value fulfillment, expression, and creativity are so important to life that when these are threatened, life itself is at least momentarily weakened. [...]

[...] The desire to die is considered cowardly, even evil, by some religions — and yet behind that desire lies all of the vitality of the will to life, which may already be seeking for new avenues of expression and meaning.

[...] Initially, language was meant to express and release, not to define and limit. So when you dream, images and language merge often, so that each becomes an expression of the other and each fulfills the other. [...]