“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] That is what you have taught each other, as if your natural drives and abilities would not automatically seek their own expression within time, but must be forced to do so.

When you tie these abilities to feelings of strong responsibility, serious work, too much, you limit them to whatever degree, and you limit your own expression of them. [...]

(“Probably your energy level dropped,” I said, “and that was as far or deep as you could carry the material’s expression.” [...]

[...] Now your physical perceptions operating alone are often responsible for these doubts for you think you are all that you can see of yourselves, or you think your life is all that you presently perceive of it, and so if you trust in your physical senses alone then you must, indeed, be filled with doubts for you know, instinctively, that you are more than the self that you are presently able to materialize or to give expression to. [...]

(At this writing, October 3, Tam has expressed his desire to contract Jane now for Adventures In Consciousness. [...]

[...] Overall this is beneficial, since you were saving your power until you were ready to contain and express it. [...]

[...] And yet I feel that only a portion of his consciousness is here during sessions — the part expressed through me — so that whatever the nature of Seth’s native experience, his performance in our world only hints of a psychological complexity quite beyond our present understanding.

[...] Life is expression. [...]

They also share other beliefs, for example: That the inner self is a repository for repressed fears, terrors, and uncivilized savagery; that the inner self must be forced to get rid of such material before it is possible for it to express its power, energy and strength in creative, positive terms; and that, therefore, the self must first encounter and deal with all those terrors of its past before it can be free of the fears of the present.

I am not speaking of some cold, idealized love, but of infinite, intimate expressions of it that help compose any physical form. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Poetry could not however express in a consistent way those intricate patterns so that they could be clearly understood.

[...] If, for example, a point were to be made along these lines, the following could happen— Say that you wanted to express the human characteristics that can lead to disaster, that can lead a man to betray another. [...]

[...] Or you may hear the words and thoughts being expressed, or you may see the earlier mentioned “landscape” in which the thoughts symbolically form into a picture.

(“I was thinking of trying to express myself in a different way, with a different medium.”)

[...] (Pause.) Allow the vision to express itself in form; again, do not attempt to impose the form upon the vision. [...]

[...] Either see Ruburt painted in with the expression on his face as he reads the significant letter, and instead of the title the date of the letter.

[...] My student was convinced that her mother-in-law had expressed herself through me, because I used her gestures and her language—including some pet phrases that were pretty purple.

[...] Some part of us is upset and chooses an illness or accident as a way of expressing this inner situation. [...]

[...] These experiments will run along with, and closely follow, the vocalized expression of the concepts involved. [...]

[...] Now my body was almost puppetlike, and my face was devoid of expression. [...]

[...] Symbolically, however, this would represent one way of expressing your feelings. [...]

[...] The creativity that may be physically hampered is expressed. [...]

Because you now distrust the imagination so, you do not understand the great clues it gives you, both in terms of problem solving and of creative expression. [...]