“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

People’s beliefs do form the cultural system, which then exerts its influence upon the individual. [...]

Since it is formed by beliefs held by natural creatures, culture is, as Ruburt states, as natural as your physical environment. [...]

You form your own reality or you do not, so let us look at your newspaper story.

[...] A true realistic exploration of the nature of experience would automatically study that kind of emotional interrelationship, but while your society delineates the inner particles of matter, it avoids the inner psychological “particles” that form the most intimate experiences of your lives.

[...] They are attempts to explain in words the nature of the inner reality that forms All That Is. [...]

(After the session Jane told me that in here she began to feel the familiar surge of great energy again—that no matter how fast she spoke she couldn’t keep up with the words forming and leaving her. [...]

[...] It is up to you to form a body of beliefs that is worthy of your physical image — for you are nourished by your beliefs, and those beliefs can cause your daily bread to add to your vitality, or to add to your cares and stress.

(4:17.) It is difficult to translate such (pause) biological and psychological material into the words of any language, even though these inbred psychological prerequisites form a kind of language of their own. [...]

[...] As she ate a light lunch I told her that our lawyer’s assistant had called this morning, and that I stopped on my way down to pick up our tax forms. [...]

This private probability
isn’t half bad
when you consider
the public worlds
we had to travel
to get here:
molecules waiting
in the wings,
looking for
the precise
time-space
to leap into,
tiny strands of
consciousness
reuniting
after centuries,
sorting out ourselves
from a million
other forms
we’ve taken part in—
reassembling
just those we wanted
to call Rob and Jane.

[...] Through their art they see their beliefs and feelings translated into form. [...]

[...] You form your own reality. [...]

[...] It’s been like that for all of the interwoven life forms of the poles and the tropics, of the deserts and woodlands and prairies. [...] And I think that in its way each life form must know that and love its home, and has no desire to change or destroy it.

In your dream³ you were, of course, in the process of forming new ideas about the nature of the magical self (through my art) and also in your way working that idea out through imagery. [...]

[...] In a particular fashion, that identity cannot be fully expressed within the confines of any one form, any more than yours can. [...]

1. See the picture section in Prentice-Hall’s editions of The Seth Material for a cropped, black-and-white reproduction of my oil portrait of Seth, “in the form in which he chose to appear to Rob,” as Jane wrote in Chapter 8 of that book. [...]

8. We think it quite likely that Seth’s material in this delivery, and some of Jane’s in Politics, grew out of reading we did earlier this month on “new” forms of mathematics — which embody some ideas that are actually many centuries old. [...]

[...] Those senses possess their own variances, so that without any word such as “now” or “then,” the creatures are able to know quite accurately how many living creatures are in the vicinity, how long they have been there (pause) — and their experience with time is one that follows the seasons in such a way that they have formed a wordless, fairly accurate picture of the world, including navigational direction.

[...] Before they can even see, children are already aware of what their parents expect from them in terms of health and disease, so that early patterns of behavior are formed, to which they then react in adulthood.

[...] This way you can see beliefs in their darkest form, and then little by little watch them begin to show energy, vitality, and fresh impetus.

[...] Why did we create it when we couldn’t tolerate many forms of it?

[...] In concentrated form this could be seen on the bottoms of the feet particularly. [...]

One: I will approve of myself, my characteristics, my abilities, my likes and my dislikes, my inclinations and disinclinations, realizing that these form my unique individuality. [...]

Conflicting beliefs about the nature of reality can bring about dilemmas in almost any form, for the individual will always try to make sense out of his or her surroundings, and try to at least see the world as a cohesive whole.

[...] It is light(pause), and miniature, and formed of squares. [...]

[...] Light in color (pause), mainly vertical in form; that is, taller than it is wide. [...]

[...] These constructions are those which most closely approximate inner reality, in that they are not as completely imprisoned in form or matter, but in themselves change form or matter.