“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He is a musician and now forming a group. [...] The material mentions 6 group members and this is what he hopes for but doesn’t have the 6 people yet. [...]

[...] Five men in a group and one woman. [...]

A group encounter and a specialist.

[...] At Metropolitan, alone, Bill met a group being lectured on medieval warfare.)

SUGGESTION, TELEPATHY, AND THE GROUPING OF BELIEFS

[...] Chapter Three: “Suggestion, Telepathy, and the Grouping of Beliefs.”

[...] Like attracts like, so similar ideas group about each other and you accept those that fit in with your particular “system” of ideas.

[...] It was made up of a group of energies that could represent a personality like Seth, she said, yet it was nameless. [...]

[...] Muscles and ligaments that have been released are acclimating themselves, becoming dependable, so that they can take over fully, thus signaling other groups of their kind.

[...] They will continue with different sets of muscles and ligaments—but first the initial groups had to stabilize while other portions learned to accept the new balance.

Now (Seth told us last night) you can expand the functions of any particular family group, or you can cut it down, by deciding how precise you want to be. [...]

[...] I am not giving you these groups to set up divisions, but to help you understand that consciousness is diversified — that usually each of you falls, because you want to, into a certain family. [...]

Now these families fall generally into certain groups. [...]

[...] The same group witnessed an unscheduled session described in the notes for the 214th session of December 6,1965. [...]

(The session came about after Jane had played portions of the tape of the 170th session for the group. [...]

[...] But it is not easy to maintain the unflagging attention of a group of people on a weekend night, especially when they gather to eat and drink.

[...] The rest have involved a small group of interested people, and it is probably fair to say that the question of exhibitionism has arisen in Jane’s mind on but three or four occasions. [...]

[...] You may meet with some misunderstanding when you suddenly decide to change your reality by changing your beliefs — according to the circumstances, you may be going in a completely different direction than the group to which you belong. [...] When you abruptly change your beliefs, then in the group you no longer have the same position — you are not playing that game any longer.

In the group, you may suddenly cease to provide for the others a need that you satisfied earlier. [...]

For a time then you may experience a feeling of loss as you move from one group of beliefs to another. [...]

(Pause at 10:20.) A group of cells forms an organ. A group of selves forms a soul. [...]

[...] There is a constant give-and-take and grouping of awareness within the body’s own miraculous corporeal structure. [...]

(End at 11:40 p.m. When Jane woke up the next morning, this passage of Seth’s from last night’s session was on her mind: “A group of selves forms a soul.” [...]

[...] Even considering the rest of the paragraph under discussion, she wanted to learn more; she wasn’t taken with the idea of a group soul, say, or of sharing a soul. [...]

[...] The personality-entity concept involves only one main type process involving many planes and plane groups. [...] It is extremely possible that many in the personality-existence grouping have been involved within other completely different plane groupings in some inconceivable past.

There are no gradations as far as above or below, or better or worse, or advanced or retarded as far as the various planes are concerned, but the planes themselves are grouped into certain organized patterns of development, and in a way I cannot as yet explain to you there seems to be certain kinds of gradation in these groupings.

[...] Your own animals and all the various species that you know belong to a general grouping, with man presently holding forth.

[...] The vitality on your plane and on or in all planes in your grouping displays itself in terms of self-consciousness to some degree, as you understand it.

As you and your brothers or sisters might belong to the same physical family, so generally are you and your counterparts part of the same psychic group of consciousness.¹ Remember, however, that these psychic groups are like natural formations into which consciousness seems to flow. [...]

[...] Instead, you join the Sumari grouping because you are creatively playful. The groups of consciousness, then, are not to be equated with, say, astrological houses.

The psychic groups, however, overlap physical and national ones. [...]

These figures can hardly be definitive in any sense, however; they’re meant only to point out some interesting directions for study, involving groups and the various families of consciousness to which their members may belong. [...]

[...] All of the distortions in Christianity are apparent, where the first group is blind to them, of course. [...] If the first system of beliefs sees money and goods as a sign of God’s blessing, the second group views material possessions as evidence of spiritual decay.

[...] If however you hold this group of beliefs and you fall short — that is, if in some way you do not fit in — then even within that system you are in trouble.

[...] But you will not find them quite as liberal if you understand that they are as prejudiced in one direction as the first group is in another.

[...] In the first two groups there are many leeways. [...]

(The group referred to is the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, New York City chapter; the discussed meeting is set for October 20.

Ruburt will address the group in any case (pause), and many times in the future. [...]

[...] If probabilities continue as they are now, there will be some considerable relationship with the group Miss Taylor represents through the years. [...]

(Pause.) The entire future involvement with that group was incipient on the day that Jim Crosson read Ruburt’s first book.

As you read this group of sessions, the idea is in no way to accuse the Sinful Self. [...]

Ruburt’s entire group of symptoms do not follow any established pattern. [...]

This will indeed be a brief session, but I did want to give it to you before you seriously began studying this group. [...]

(“Want to say a few words about the group in California?”)

[...] The mother is more important in the family group than our friends realize.

Many ordinary illnesses also involve the family group to some degree. [...] The group situation will encompass an acquiescence on the part of other family members.

[...] In those instances the achiever’s beliefs predominate, and yet apart from this he may also be acting out the unrealized aspirations of his family members, or of the group in which he is intimately involved. [...]

(Pause.) Many great contrasts of a social nature have the same kind of inner meaning; here whole groups of individuals chose particular life situations in which, for example, poverty and illness predominate, while other areas of the world (or of any given nation) enjoy the highest technological advances, wealth and prosperity. [...]

(Pause at 11:05.) On a much smaller scale and to different degrees, any tribe, town, family or group will show the same tendencies, and from the shared experience each individual will learn and grow.

Through such methods, and through such group hysteria, the responsibility for separate acts is divorced from the individual, and rests instead upon the group, where it becomes generalized and dispersed. [...]

[...] Organizations cannot survive without individuals, and the most effective organizations are assemblies of individuals who assert their own private power in a group, and do not seek to hide within it (all very emphatically).

Organized action is an excellent method of exerting influence, but only when each member is self-activating; only when he or she extends individuality through group action, and does not mindlessly seek to follow the dictates of others.

[...] You must look through the structures that you have yourself created, the organized ideas upon which you have grouped your experience.

[...] An artificial grouping of ideas, like paper flowers, can be collected about a standard core belief.

[...] You will see the groupings, but it is up to you to look inside your own mind and to use the images in your own way. [...]

The structuring of beliefs is done in a highly characteristic yet individual manner, so you will find patterns that exist between various groupings, and one can lead you to another.

[...] Since they do not believe that the individual is ever effective, their groups are not assemblies of private individuals come reasonably together, pooling individual resources. They are instead congregations of people who are afraid to assert their individuality, who hope to find it in the group, or hope to establish a joint individuality — and that is an impossibility (emphatically).

(Pause at 10:00.) Both reacted as groups, rather than as individuals, generally speaking now. [...]

True individuals can do much through social action, and the species is a social one, but people who are afraid of their individuality will never find it in a group, but only a caricature of their own powerlessness.

In just that one area on our globe, then, a group of consciousnesses has chosen to “evolve” into a number of religious and secular forces that are both internal and external as far as national borders go. Surely one of the larger, long-term questions those consciousnesses must be exploring concerns the confining aspects that very restrictive fundamentalistic interpretations of a certain religion must impose upon large population groups (which accept such conditions for their own collective reasons, of course). [...]

[...] Actually, our forces hadn’t come close to reaching the prisoners: Responsible were mechanical failures and two dust storms that the American helicopters had to struggle through before joining a group of transport planes at a remote airfield, code-named Desert One, in central Iran. [...]

[...] The rain didn’t bother the birds at all: a pair of cardinals, several red-winged blackbirds, some phoebes, various warblers, and a group of mourning doves. [...]

[...] Often those purposes led you to overexaggerate the differences between groups, and to minimize man’s biological unity.

Now, I am here to welcome back a certain member of our group who had to leave the group for several reasons—and read me correctly in this particular instance where my friend Ruburt did not read me correctly (addressed to Rachel). [...]