“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You only perceive your own idea constructions. [...] Telepathically you transpose your ideas in line with what you know of the other person’s thinking. [...]

[...] If you were able to focus your attention upon the dissimilarities, merely those that you can perceive but do not, then you would be amazed that mankind could form any idea of an organized reality. [...]

As soon as you realize however that the picture is not complete, then you must begin to ask new questions, and the old idea of the perfect organization is gone. [...]

[...] You transpose your ideas upon them. [...]

These ideas were not inaccessible. [...]

[...] These are still somewhat (underlined) separate to him, yet his ideas of doing good, being right, creating artistically, are now combining.

I want each of you to write a list, yourself—and this involves work—a list of your conscious ideas about yourself, your conscious beliefs. [...]

I want your ideas concerning sex and its part in your lives written down with the others, and honestly faced. [...]

[...] You only perceive your own idea constructions. [...] Telepathically, you transpose your ideas in line with what you know of the other person’s thinking. [...]

I have said this before: If you were able to focus your attention upon the dissimilarities, merely those that you can perceive but do not, then you would be amazed that mankind can form any idea of an organized reality. [...]

[...] As soon as you realize that the picture is not complete, however, then you must begin to ask new questions, and the old idea of the perfect organization is gone.

[...] You transpose your ideas upon them. [...]

The counterpart idea is merely a small attempt to hint at that interrelationship—an interrelationship of course that includes all species and forms of life. Ruburt’s idea of the four-fronted self is also an attempt to hint at that complexity in human terms.

(Before the session Jane said she thought Seth might discuss some of the ideas in a book by Fred Hoyle, the English astronomer that she’s reading, on the ten different universes of man. [...]

[...] Seth hasn’t gone into the ideas as related to insects, say, or birds or the animals—or viruses or bacteria, for that matter—at all, and I’m sure there is a wealth of fascinating information there. [...]

[...] You are familiar then with the idea that matter is composed of a conglomeration of particles that reach seemingly infinitely “beneath” the physical stuff of the world. [...]

2 After the session I wanted to tie in Seth’s material on infinity with mathematical ideas of that concept, but my reading soon convinced me that such an idea was too involved a task for a simple note like this. However, I told Jane, in his own way Seth had incorporated mathematical ideas in his material: I saw correlations between his probable realities, his intervals, and the concept of an infinite number of points on a line—and that some mathematical definitions of infinity are considered to be more basic, or of a greater order, than others. Actually, in various branches of mathematics, from the works of Euclid (the Greek mathematician who flourished around 300 B.C.) to modern information theory, I found many relationships with Seth’s ideas. [...]

[...] I have a few ideas he’ll discuss….” [...]

[...] Your ideas of historic time impede my explanations. [...]

[...] “It’s an old science-fiction idea.”

[...] Let the first house represent all negative ideas or constructions, and the new house represent the desired ideas or constructions. Have it firmly in your mind however as to what ideas these refer, specifically. [...]

[...] It was this that gave him the idea of a projection experiment that morning. [...]

To replace it with a new construction, it is a good idea to suggest that the old construction has indeed vanished, and in its place a new more acceptable one is being built. [...]

[...] The symbolism will help activate those forces that are necessary in any replacement of ideas. [...]

Now: when Ruburt worked out for money his ideas and beliefs concerning work were divorced from his ideas about creativity.

[...] Poverty in youth was counterbalanced by ideas of wealth because of the father’s background. [...]

[...] Often he tried to block out creative ideas he feared were not salable, or work.

[...] His ideas concerning out-of-bodies are important. [...]

(It’s supposed to express my views of the Seth experience, and how it has influenced or changed my ideas on art, life, and so forth. [...]

[...] Other portions should explain your own ideas concerning creativity as you feel it in yourself — the differences and similarities between your experience when you paint a picture from “usual” inspiration and when first of all you perceive the psychic impression that leads to a painting. [...]

[...] You should go into your own ideas about the people you paint, and why, being fascinated with portraits, you often do not use models.

[...] Neither of us have been thinking of such a project, which isn’t to say the idea of my doing a book involving Seth, at least in part, hasn’t occurred to me occasionally.

(10:10.) There is no difference between the idea of a book and the idea of a normally walking body. [...]

[...] At times he might think of writing in one area or another, but his imagination did not set up barriers: it was always receptive to new ideas, casting about for new experiences, consciously involved in the process of creativity.

[...] Again: Frameworks 1 and 2 merged, and the beneficial results began with a change of ideas and intents in Framework 2.

(9:45.) Now let us look at Framework 2. Your ideas come and go effortlessly, without impediments, with a sense of ease that is taken for granted. [...]

If you cannot communicate important ideas, then you must communicate trivial ones. The big conversation, in which you attempt to communicate your ideas, only frightens her. The idea should be communicated when you are not emotionally upset, and you should not adopt the tone of a parent speaking to a child.

[...] Your own ideas concerning various issues could be profitably inserted when you are not emotionally upset over them.

[...] Ideas expressed at such occasions will be strenuously fought by her. [...]

[...] His creative abilities were growing and developing, his concepts enlarging, but he was for some time so convinced of science’s viewpoint that the ideas of the Sinful Self were looked upon as unworthy and superstitious. [...] When his creative abilities found contemporary scientific thought also too narrow, however, and his natural intuitions had led him toward a new framework—one that, again, introduced values having to do with the nature of consciousness, or soul—then the new ideas began to conflict directly with the old buried ones, particularly those that had to do with the conflicts between creative expression, the church, and “forbidden knowledge.” To go ahead creatively, forming new versions of a spiritual reality, to state that man and his impulses were good, brought him finally into direct conflict with the old beliefs of the Sinful Self, whose value system was based upon the idea that the self was indeed sinful, not to be trusted. [...]

(Now I did mention to Jane perhaps the overriding question I have, and have often puzzled about: the intensity of her personality’s response to the idea of the Sinful Self. [...]

[...] The belief systems can be like blocks, which are used and then later changed or replaced, but there is a kind of (underlined) bonding of the childhood self with those ideas it takes from its parents. [...]

[...] Some people, remember, are only peripherally involved with concepts or ideas. [...]

[...] He did not choose for example a way of action, even physically, that would go against your style of life or ideas, but cleverly wove these into ideas you both initially deeply believed in. [...]

[...] The idea was to avoid chores, time taken from work, ordinary mixing with neighbors. [...]

To tell Ruburt he has a responsibility to go out is a new idea. [...]

[...] This went along with ideas of dedication to work. [...]

Ruburt got so he wanted such encounters only if they fell into his ideas of work. [...] The main point for now that I want to make is that Ruburt does indeed perceive the world differently, and he cannot try to force that vaster kind of perception into the narrow confines of ordinary work ideas.

(2. I found myself wondering if my own attitudes might have strongly influenced Jane’s early psychic behavior in ways neither of us suspected—that she may have inhibited certain elements of her abilities because she feared my own ideas about distractions, time, failure, etc. [...]

Your own ideas suited your temperament, but many of them did not particularly suit Ruburt’s. Again, I will elaborate on all of this at our next session.

[...] When Ruburt hampers it by trying to make it too specific, and ties it into distorted ideas of work, then divisions occur that need not occur.

Your ideas about the letter (to correspondents) are encouraging first motions toward what I am speaking of, as are Ruburt’s ideas about class, and your sexual advances. [...]

The sportsman that you might have been would have gathered, from that same available background, other attitudes and ideas that would fit in with his concept of himself, and fit his core focus. [...]

[...] As these ideas became entrenched, you actually became more concerned with protecting your ability than with using it. [...]

[...] Because of your joint ideas—you, the artist, Ruburt the writer—then your financial contribution was strictly limited by both of you to that one field.

Because of the personal material given in late sessions, Ruburt has the habit of worrying—protecting the idea of time and ability as described, so that in one day he will worry about what distractions may arise the next day, and this puts him on guard. [...]

[...] Your old idea of concentrating upon immediate sense data is good, to counteract these other tendencies.

[...] This is, on your part, a reflection of those ideas in which time is something to be protected first of all. [...]

[...] Now Jane burst into tears on the waterbed: “I wish we’d tried harder with our own suggestions and ideas....” [...] I told Jane we could still use our own ideas. I also wondered—but didn’t say so—why those ideas had allowed the whole question of something like vasculitis to develop to begin with—or, for that matter, the “arthritis.” [...]

I’ll go back and work with these ideas once again, more clearly—but they still prevented me from taking that final step into a satisfying-enough acceptance of my abilities, so that each time I would reach a new impasse. [...]

Though I haven’t explored this idea yet at all in depth, I got a feeling that by the time I’d finished Mass Events and my God of Jane I’d come to a point of indecision and perhaps certainly some despondency because I had not resolved the issues. [...]

[...] In any case I could see how important our ideas were, and how much they were needed—and I hope I began to feel that indeed I could trust my own life when it came down to it, when a choice should be made (all emphatically). [...]

(When I began to learn about my own symptoms, I started taking steps whereby I could present the same idea—of a man facing himself—in other ways, and shortly evolved several quite acceptable ways, that were in harmony with my ideas of pictorial form, permanence, etc. [...]

(The pendulum told me that I was bothered by the idea of the possible lack of permanency of the panel I had chosen, and briefly that I was somewhat aware of the change in this picture, as far as handling of form would be concerned, from my usual style of working. [...]

The idea of permanence in your mind is strongly connected with more representational work. [...]

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

[...] In other words this expansion has nothing to do with your (underline) idea of space. The expansion, in a most basic manner, is more like the expansion of an idea. [...] I told you earlier that your scientist’s idea of an expanding universe was in error, although in one important sense the universe was expanding, and this is what I referred to.

[...] Your ideas expand constantly, but your ideas have nothing to do with space, and the manner in which the universe constantly expands has nothing to do with your idea of space. [...]

Your scientists’ idea of an expanding universe is so dependent upon your own limited theories that it becomes very difficult to make the matter plain. [...] And experiencing the resulting inner expansion, you will perhaps come somewhat closer to the ideas involved in our real expanding universe.

[...] He was concerned with a camouflage idea, that of time, and clock time at that, the clock itself being a camouflage. [...]

[...] Your idea of a separate painting studio, and some of your attendant ideas, are simply hangovers that you do not have to accept, springing from your father and his garage. [...]

[...] The two of you together through these sessions help to spread certain ideas, yet many people not personally involved actually can use the material at times better—but they could not produce it—a very important point, and so in that area of freedom you are so ahead of the game that ordinary behavior by contrast is sadly lacking. [...]

You also have ideas of guilt about your painting that are culturally induced. [...]

[...] It is simply to believe fully in these ideas, and put them to work precisely in those areas of your lives where you are dissatisfied—to apply them to your own thought patterns, and Ruburt to his.

[...] You can live with the idea of being a mistress, not wife—the two roles clash in your own psyche. [...]

[...] Always beginning with the idea that the orgasm for you is impossible to achieve. [...]

[...] However, I suggest that you simply realize that your body is an important part of you that you have allowed to go begging—that its response can be perfectly adequate that you must release it from your own preconceptions—particularly from your idea of what an orgasm should be...that you allow yourself to feel freely.

Do not try to let go—forget the idea of letting go. [...]