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[...] No idea how or why, but a large multitude of people including myself have come to the ocean shore. [...] Another person says something I’ve forgotten to the idea that… the ocean water or sky, … were dangerous or maybe that it was lightening, but I dismiss this, stand in the bathtub and the water is great, hot and soapy. [...]

[...] Now that idea is no more ludicrous than the idea you have, for both attempt to prove personal merit through the manipulation of money and status. [...]

[...] Unless negative beliefs stand in your way, then creative ideas that you contribute to the work will automatically take care of your needs, and it is truly idiotic to want to substitute that good fortune for such parochial concepts like the male as breadwinner, or the male performing in a given definable fashion. [...]

[...] You cannot estimate the value of ideas or of creativity in that fashion. [...]

I want to rid you of any lingering misconceptions, but you still have a lingering belief that your old ideas about money and the male have some kind of high moral value. [...]

(Long pause, one of many.) I do not want to ruin your idea of stability, and I do not want to confuse you. [...] (See the last two sessions.) In doing so I used ideas and terms quite easily grasped. [...]

[...] “Funny — not that we’re going to come up with new words, but some new ideas. [...]

[...] Such systems have little to do with you in any practical manner, nor is such information given to dwarf your idea of what your own consciousness is. [...]

[...] In each now-moment, you draw from the vast bank of unpredictable actions certain ones that are “significant” to you; and your private idea of significance will result in what then seems to be predictable action.

All of those religious and political structures that you certainly recognize as valid, arising from the “event” of Christ’s ascension, existed — and do exist — because of an idea. The idea was the result of a spectacular act of the imagination that then leapt upon the historical landscape, highlighting all of the events of the time, so that they became illuminated indeed with a blessed and unearthly light.

The idea of man’s survival of death was not new. The idea of a god’s “descent” to earth was ancient. [...]

[...] What connects people and separates them is the power of idea and the force of imagination. Patriotism, family loyalty, political affiliations — the ideas behind these have the greatest practical applications in your world. [...]

[...] Even the idea of fate gave man something to act against, and roused him to action.

The same idea really applies to physical illness as well. It is possible, however, to carry this idea even further, so that a person in poor health should be seen by the physician in relationship to the family, and also in relationship to the environment. [...]

[...] Your ideas about your own body, your mind, the universe and your part in it, and your relationship to family, friends, and environment are all connected to your state of health, to your sense of well-being, or your feelings of dis-hyphen-ease. [...]

(As we talked Jane impressed upon me that she’d definitely picked up that a household pet would help our neighbor Joe Bumbalo a great deal — she wants me to be sure to impress upon Margaret Bumbalo that this is the case; she felt it strongly, it wasn’t just a generalized idea, Jane said.)

Begin with the idea of a book. That idea alone instantly mobilizes, say, Ruburt’s abilities, and the same applies to any writer. [...] The same applies to an artist, so for simplicity’s sake we will start with a single creative event—the idea the writer or artist has already geared himself, through training and practice, through intent and expectation, to receive to begin with. [...]

Without consciously knowing how his body performs such manipulations, he trusts it—the hands to hold the brush, the fingers to type or whatever, and the idea becomes reality. The idea comes from Framework 2, and Framework 2’s activity fuels the body’s actions. [...]

Now: We want to publish the book—and I will here continue, for our purposes, dealing with a book’s production rather than a painting’s. Still, however, we will keep the idea of a painting for a different reason. [...]

I want you both to remember that you are learning a new kind of orientation, and ideas directly opposed to those with which you were “inoculated”—so do not blame yourselves for inadequacies. [...]

[...] The idea of evolution in its popular meaning promulgated this theory, as through gradual progression in a one-line direction, man emerged from the ape. [...]

[...] It should change current religion’s ideas considerably. [...]

[...] The devil idea is merely the mass projection of certain fears — mass in that it is produced by many people, but also limited in that there have always been those who rejected this principle.

Some very old religions understood the hallucinatory nature of the devil concept, but even in Egyptian times, the simpler and more distorted ideas became prevalent, particularly with the masses of people. [...]

Some day, for our own amusement—but hardly with the idea of convincing others, let alone influential scientists—I’ll ask Seth to comment upon whatever connections may exist between his ideas and those embedded in quantum mechanics. [...]

[...] For if, as I wrote earlier, Jane and I agree with the ancient idea that “all seeming divisions reflect portions of a unified whole,” we also think that in some fashion the whole is enclosed within each of its parts. Science calls the idea holonomy, but Seth has been saying the same thing for years without ever mentioning the word. [...]

[...] Worse still (I write with some humor), they may “only” be ideas. [...] We hope that eventually our “fan mail” will serve as the foundation for a study concerning the ways in which society reacts to new ideas, through the viewpoints, say, of science, philosophy and psychology, religion, the “occult,” skepticism, generalized deep curiosity, and mental illness. [...]

[...] Science and philosophy will not agree with any of this, I know—at least for the most part, for I’ve read that there’s never an idea so wild that it can’t find a home in the mind of some scientist or philosopher. [...] Not even when I play around with his ideas relative to quantum theory can such proof be found—yet I let Jane’s “amazingly strong” will be the measuring and observing device that automatically causes “waves” of knowing or consciousness—in Framework 2, for example—to coalesce into the “particles” that make up the physical forms she perceives as her reality in Framework 1, either psychically from a distance or right here.

The fear that blocks that energy can indeed be dissipated if new beliefs are inserted for old ones — so again we return to those emotional attitudes and ideas that automatically promote health and healing. [...]

Such a person must also contend with society’s unfortunate ideas about the disease in general, so that many cancer patients end up isolated or alone. [...]

[...] Negative beliefs can block the passageways between Framework 1 and Framework 2. It is an excellent idea for those in any kind of difficulty to do the following simple exercise.

[...] Tell yourself mentally that you are an excellent person, and that you want to reprogram yourself, getting rid of any ideas that contradict that particular statement.

[...] In the same way that an idea may appear within your system as a thought, a mental image, a dream picture or as a physical object, so does any action-event appear in many forms.

[...] Certain ideas also are agreed upon and held so intensely that they mold much of physical activity simply because of the strong mental and psychic energy they engender.

This does not mean that such ideas are necessarily valid, you see, but in your system they certainly appear as such, due to the intensity with which they are held. [...]

Now: conversely, if you do not accept the idea of reincarnation, this does not mean that reincarnation is not a fact. [...]

[...] On the one hand Jane, Seth, and I want to see our work presented to the world as originally conceived, as a way to offer ideas to think about. On the other hand, I can visualize the dilemma those at the publisher’s feel when they’re being asked to print ideas that are, at least in part, so contrary to accepted belief structures in a very important field.…

There is no need, then, to be surprised if some of our ideas frighten Prentice-Hall.

If our ideas were already accepted in the world, there would be no need for our work. [...]

(See the session for September 22 for our own ideas and feelings, and more of Seth’s material, on the medical/disclaimer situation with Prentice-Hall.)

The conscious mind as you normally think of it directs your overall action, and its ideas determine the kind of selectivity you use. It is for this reason that I am trying to expand your conscious ideas, so that you become better equipped to choose your line of physical experience from all those probable ones open to you.

[...] Even a small understanding of these ideas can help you glimpse how limiting previous concepts of psychology have been.

[...] Why hadn’t it continued expanding until it encompassed ideas like those Jane was delivering tonight, for instance? [...]

[...] “We hadn’t given the idea of a preface a thought. [...]

[...] The ideas of your society often make certain ideas invisible to you, though they are given in black and white. [...]

[...] It is an excellent idea to look at old sessions with a view toward picking up suggestions that I have given for constructive action, and following them.

[...] They mix and merge with your other beliefs and ideas, and color your actions. [...]

[...] A lack of understanding is behind the issue, of course, but the spontaneous self was also taken into consideration, so that inner mobility—the acceleration of ideas and experience—was allowed for. [...]

This chapter consists of a potpourri of different ideas — merely to hint at the multitudinous issues connected with health and well-being.

(Long pause.) Your ideas about yourself are, again, vital in the larger context of a healthy lifetime. [...]

[...] All philosophies that stress the idea of the body’s impurity or degradation should also be seen as detrimental to bodily and spiritual integrity. [...]

When you are joyful, and I know in spite of the serious faces that you are indeed joyful, then you have some idea of All That Is. [...] When you perform some task without effort and take joy in the task, you will have some slight idea of All That Is. [...]

You will not have any idea if you project your fears. [...]

(This above data is excellent on Seth’s part, full of evocative ideas and intuitive good sense. I have at various times entertained related ideas, but never put them in as concrete form. [...] The idea of thinking of a person’s face as a landscape is very good. [...]

[...] Just thinking of this idea and its implications can lead you to some unique ideas, and there is a possibility that you could hit upon something quite new.

[...] This analogy will not carry us far, but it will be enough initially to get the idea across. [...]

[...] The idea flitted through your mind and you did not grab hold of it, but it worried you.

[...] The church, however — the Roman Catholic Church — still held a repository of religious ideas and concepts that served as a bank of probabilities from which the race could draw. The religious ideas served as social organization, much needed, and many of the monks managed to preserve old manuscripts and knowledge underground. [...] Psychic and religious ideas, then, despite many drawbacks, served as a method of species organization. [...]

(Jane had “no idea at all” of the material in the last session. [...]

[...] For now simply let me mention that any gods appearing among you must always be of your time, while expressing ideas and concepts that must shoot beyond your time into the future, and serve as psychic stimuli strong enough to effect future changes. [...]

[...] Jane and I also liked the idea that from their earliest times, religious forces had been operating in the development of the species; this seemed to be a very sensible concept — and quite obvious once it was mentioned.

Ruburt may suddenly have an idea for a book. [...] The idea for the book may come from a dream, or in that state of creativity where dreams reach toward physical actualization. [...]

[...] With ideas, with our books, you deal, both of you, with such issues all the time. [...]

[...] You would be led to make proper suggestions, for example, ahead of time, or the creative process of someone in the art department would suddenly be stimulated to a new idea, or whatever. [...]

It is as if, now, the mental atmosphere was clearer—and you would find ideas flowing into your mind in those hours also, particularly with that playfully, now, in mind. [...]

[...] The world of ideas everywhere permeates physical reality, but ideas, even when they are unexpressed, possess their own organizations, correspondences,³ their own spheres of motion and development. Master events emerge from that reality of idea, now, from which all ideas originate, uniting these through the use of natural correspondences. [...]

[...] Time itself emerges from idea, which is itself timeless (long pause), so in those terms there was no point where time began, though such a reference becomes necessary from your own viewpoint.

(Long pause at 9:44.) It is probably almost impossible for man to see that he forms the idea of historical context through his own associations and focuses. [...]

“He is also on to some excellent ideas on his own.

[...] Part of her pique stemmed from her difficulty in trying to get into her ideas on heroics. [...] And to me: “Sometimes I think that you, whenever you get any idea that doesn’t have to do with painting, ought to stamp it out with both feet, and just stick to that. [...]

[...] I’m somewhat dismayed by the work that might be entailed – that is, if I carry through with the original idea of checking through all the material, putting it into notebooks that match the originals, and so forth.

[...] Those are the ideas you are combating—not simply Freudian or Darwinian concepts from your lifetimes, but the accumulated misinformation from that historic past. [...]