“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He still refuses to consider that his problem is a psychological one, instead of disembodied, outside evil voices picking on him. [...]

[...] It seems to Ruburt that his thoughts are negative a good deal of the time—naturally—and that he must take effort to change them. [...]

—and I bid you a fond good evening.

You are meant to look at your physical condition—to compare it against what you want and what is good—and change the inner self accordingly. Any evils in the world are symptoms of you own inner disorders and are meant to lead you to cure them. [...]

[...] It does no good to look outward and apply them to others. [...]

Now I will let you rest—but I am not saying good evening. [...]

[...] The pretty colors that we have used have been good, they have caught your attention—as my personality captures your attention. [...]

(Whispering:) Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Ruburt’s book on [William] James would be good background material here, particularly the sections dealing with democracy and spiritualism. [...]

[...] He began to feel that social action itself was of little value, for if man’s evil were built-in, for whatever reasons, then where was there any hope?

[...] Some stimuli were to be sought out, and others avoided, and so over a period of time he translated the pleasant and the unpleasant into rough versions of good and evil.

Basically, what made him feel good was good. [...]

I am not here specifically blaming Christianity, for far before its emergence, your ideas (underlined) and beliefs about good and evil [were] far more important in all matters regarding the species than any simple questions of genetic variances, natural selection, or environmental influence. [...]

[...] I bid you a fond good evening.

[...] I bid you both a fond good evening.

[...] Good night.”

(To Phil) You are learning to tap your life energy, to feel its power, its availability and its strength, and that is good, and do not label it. [...]

[...] And it is a first step and a good step. [...]

[...] Some of you find a joyful world, and some of you are pursued by evil. [...]

[...] It is clean, good water, and I see we are going to have a sphinx in class, and that is something new. [...]

[...] When the sessions began, Jane was especially bothered by what she called the trite and popular ideas about reincarnation, mixed up as they were with ideas of good and evil, punishment, etc.

[...] This does not mean that poverty leads to truth, or that suffering is good for the soul. [...]

Give us a good moment. [...]

In their own ways, these are heroes representing the detective who is out to protect good against evil, to set things right. [...]

Good evening (whispering.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Christ is one of these: in some respects the most ideal detective — in a different context, however — out to save the good and to protect the world from harm. [...]

[...] There is faith in good, but there is also faith in “evil.” [...]

Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

I hope, as you understand how Framework 2 operates, that you can clearly state your intent: Ruburt’s normal flexibility and good health, and that you will be able to see each improvement as a step in that stated direction. [...]

[...] Now, it does no good to take ten minutes a day and give yourself good suggestions and say, “I am brave, I am strong, I am healthy and young and rich” and spend the rest of the time saying to yourself, “I am poor, I am getting old, I feel sore, or it is a cruddy world.” [...]

[...] Peace is truly joyful and exhilarating and it can be as good and better than any trip, so if you are going to trip, then trip through the good green grasses that grow in the sod. [...]

[...] You would have the man up to be hung and think such an affair an evil thing indeed, and yet you do this to yourselves often and then you say with all blind innocence, why does this come about, why am I sick or why am I sore or why am I caught in this cruddy universe and yet you do not change your own thought. [...]

[...] The negative habits knock away even spontaneity for all thoughts of good will and health and vitality disappear beneath these thoughts that you are handing yourself every day like poison upon the spoon, whether the spoon be wooden or tarnished or silver. [...]

[...] Good, better, best. [...]

(Pause.) When I speak of impulses, many of you will automatically think of impulses that appear contradictory or dangerous or “evil” — and that is because you are so convinced of the basic unworthiness of your being. [...]

[...] After a few comments about Jane’s and my belief systems, Seth said good night at 10:40 P.M.

[...] But it was good, huh?”)

[...] Chapters 16 and 17 in particular contain material on what Seth calls natural hypnosis, and on Western medicine, physicians, the suggestions associated with medical insurance and “health” literature, diet, childbirth, hospitals, natural death, good and evil, and so forth.

(In a whisper:) Good evening.
 (“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Even the early environment, so abhorred by the ego, were chosen in order to deepen the desire for truth and to force the personality to face the issues of life and death, evil and goodness, full face. [...]

Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] The spontaneous self is also highly relieved that it is on good terms again with the ego, and that the personality is establishing itself and the main work is beginning.

This is all apart now from good and evil. It does no good to say “Why should such things be?” since you are here to learn how (underlined) thoughts, feelings and emotions are materialized physically.

Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] A good deal of the weight problem is not a problem. [...]

[...] That is well and good. [...] It is good exercise and healthy play. [...]

You did not need to wait for me to say good evening. You need not stand or sit upon ceremony, but in case you are waiting for me to formally bid you good evening I do now here forthwith do so. [...]

Good evening to you all and welcome to our new friends. [...]

[...] There is no evil that you do not create. [...]

[...] Your point was a good one—the young man walked a good way—the energy was there to sustain him even over his delusions. [...]

Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Far from living a colorless life, he wanders through the country, in the midst of an exciting psychic chase, pursued by magicians, evil powers, and the most sophisticated weaponry of giant corporations and the government. [...]

(To Florence:) Far be it from me to disturb your ancient ideas of yin and yang, or Jung, or good and evil, or of right and wrong, or of good and bad vibrations! [...]

Now our Florence is working with her own ideas of good and evil, searching for what she thinks of as an aesthetic and moral code that she can rely upon. [...]

[...] If you want to study the nature of religion and do a good job of it, then you must be among other things a skeptic and a believer, and an Indian and a Jew, say. [...]

As Nebene, while attracted by Ruburt, and in love with her, you considered her evil, and your attraction to her as a weakness on your part, a debasement: so now you find yourself in the position of helping Ruburt understand that his basic nature is good, that he is not leading people astray, as in that life you thought he was.

[...] Nevertheless, the point has now been reached where he does realize that the basic self is good, and the abilities are being put to good purpose. [...]

Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”

[...] I want you to look through stereotyped images of good and evil until you understand what your own creativity is. [...]

([Student:] “That’s good, but what you’re saying [referring to Jane] is true too, because looking back on it, it was exactly the feeling I had when I... [...]

Physical existence is sacred and good. [...]

[...] I did indeed say to this group it was a fairly good approximation of my manner. [...]

Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] It is a blanket belief: human nature is inherently evil. [...]