“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You threw out conventional religious ideas first, and then conventional scientific ideas, so while these may be a part of your society, they are not a part of your personalized world views. Some ideas fall by the wayside easily. [...]

You accept certain ideas and beliefs as a part of your world view, as everyone does. [...]

(A note: Jane spent a large part of her working time today rereading her manuscript, The Physical Universe as Idea Construction, and writing new material related to it. [...] For more on Idea Construction see The Seth Material and Seth Speaks.)

[...] Your own ideas of values can help you achieve good health or bring about disease, can bring into your experience success or failure, happiness or sadness. [...] You will have definite ideas about what success or failure means, or what good or evil is.

The ideas however are tools given to you for your use, in your own way. [...]

[...] In my present book, The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book, I am including techniques that will allow you and thousands of others to use these ideas in normal daily living, to enrich the life that you know and to help you understand and solve your problems.

[...] World events such as those you read about in your newspaper are the result of conventional ideas and beliefs—those with which you were reared. [...]

The person as yet may have no idea that in contrast to what experience is available, his world, life, is highly limited, or flawed, for the person does not know good furniture from poor.

[...] But the ideas you have projected upon it belong to that other level of consciousness that erode the joy and accomplishment that should be connected with it.

(Loud and amused:) Your ideas about houses, for example, did not bear fruit until you had one. [...]

(3:51.) Again, it is a good idea for Ruburt to remind himself of the connections between his idea of his body and its relationship to his sexuality and to health. [...]

[...] Therefore, throughout this book we will be devoted to many ideas that may at first seem unrelated to the topic at hand.

[...] I discovered them running through my mind as I faced the easel, with no idea of what association might have triggered them. I hadn’t been consciously considering such ideas. [...]

[...] Jane had no idea of most of the material in the session — that is, she hadn’t known Seth was going to deliver it. Now, however, she remembered that just before the session she’d picked up the idea that Seth would mention effortlessness in connection with her own situation.)

[...] The idea of achieving greatness, however, was considered highly suspect. [...]

[...] Toward the end of our present book (Dreams), we will be discussing how our ideas can be applied by the individual in terms of value fulfillment, so that individuals can begin to reclaim those dimensions of experience that are indeed your rightful heritage.

Now: For Ruburt, I want him to remember the idea of effortlessness, because with the best of intentions he has been trying too hard. [...]

Simply the idea. [...] To some extent you both overemphasize the differences between you as far as your ideas of a more or less permanent dwelling place are concerned. [...]

[...] No land idea is connected. [...]

Ruburt’s ideas about a house for example are actually far more positive than your own. [...]

[...] Now real estate would, and he could double his investments easily, for he has a good idea of people in relation to dwellings, and of population movement. [...]

The Body as a Planet
Its archaeology of ideas and beliefs. Its private idea of history as alive in cellular memory, upon which the body’s current present is based. [...]

[...] Then on the morning of March 10 — the Sunday before last — we learned that we may have to rethink the idea of Seth-Jane producing more than one major work at a time; for on that day Jane received the outline for another book, along with the knowledge that she’d need Seth’s help in producing it. [...]

[...] Thus, everything she’s received so far on the health book is on file, ready to be used should she choose to follow this new idea any further.

[...] Read something in the paper about concentration on illness causing pain, and that reminded me of some ideas I had last night. [...]

[...] What would correspond, in any case, to your idea of duration within the spacious present; it is a matter of intensities however. [...]

There is some slight analogy here in your associative processes, where you might think of a person as you have known him in different periods of time, and hold that idea in your present; but that does little to give you the concept’s complexity. [...]

You must simply and practically try to divest yourself of all ideas of time as you know it, for this discussion. [...]

As a sort of shock treatment, we must almost forcibly rip out your stereotyped ideas of time before we can carry this particular subject matter further.

Ideas are not dependent upon preexisting ideas. [...] Ideas are free of space and time. Only your determined focus upon your time conceptions closes you off from many ideas that otherwise are available.

In your terms the bleed-through can occur in both past and present, an idea from today bleeding into the past or the other way around. The ideas will be actualized or put into a practical structure according to your attitude toward them.

[...] The bleed-throughs however mean that each people according to their characteristic, interests and activities, attract certain ideas both from the future and the past, and there is constant interaction. [...]

[...] I could have picked up the chanting idea from material Jane was getting earlier this evening.”

Others must be divested of many impeding ideas and symbols, as explained earlier. [...] The main impediments standing in the way of the time of choosing are, of course, the faulty ideas harbored by any given individual.

The experiment that would transform your world would operate upon the basic idea that you create your own reality according to the nature of your beliefs, and that all existence was blessed, and that evil did not exist in it. If these ideas were followed individually and collectively, then the evidence of your physical senses would find no contradiction. [...]

(Jane told me that “at the tail end of the session,” she had picked up this idea from Seth; I could tape a session, and while it was in progress I would be free to do a series of sketches of her speaking for Seth. [...] Jane was sure the idea came from Seth. [...]

[...] Some will refuse to accept the idea of further work, development, and challenge, believing instead that conventional heaven situations are the only possibility. [...]

[...] Religion deals with the idea of an afterlife, again, a future event. [...] In a way, the idea of past reincarnations often gives a feeling of support of past lives accomplished.

The idea of future lives brings into consideration certain emotions—man’s fear of the future, for he is often afraid of what tomorrow will bring. [...] That idea of death usually serves as an effective block against such future explorations.

[...] Your world is presently based so upon the ideas of cause and effect that precognition is frowned upon. The idea of a knowledge of future lives becomes even more threatening from a cultural, religious, and scientific viewpoint.

People may have some glimmerings of their own reincarnational existences, but they are patterned according to current beliefs—fleshed out by ideas from movies or history books. [...]

I hate to tell you this, and I cannot follow through in one evening’s session, but the idea of movement and the idea of time are not at all connected in reality. [...]

[...] I am trapped by the concept of time, but I had the idea of development in reality.”)

[...] Jane told me that during those years she’d had no idea that she might be anything so esoteric as a “mystic.” [...] Through her involvement with the Catholic church, she became aware of the quality called “mysticism” in connection with the saints of that church — but still she had no idea of attributing such a quality to herself. [...]

“The idea of the priestess used to fascinate me, before my own involvement in our sessions. But I thought of a priestess-poetess, mixing this with the idea of the mistress when I met Rob. [...]

[...] I wrote the first tentative notes for it shortly after the 679th session was held, in February, 1974, with the idea of adding to them later if necessary. [...]

[...] Without going into Seth’s ideas that time is simultaneous, or that any endeavor is creative, the kinds of origins I’m discussing here wouldn’t have any beginning or end. [...]

Her subconscious ideas were developing in your absence. [...]

[...] The idea “came” to me one day and I painted the portrait without a model. [...]

[...] Seth asked for ideas from Bill and Peg; it will be remembered that in past sessions he said he would go into this question when they witnessed sessions.

[...] Let’s have better ideas.

[...] He had the idea for this chapter very clearly in mind, she said; and, with extraordinary vividness, he was “impressing” her with his idea of matter being used as a means of communication. [...]

[...] You are used to the idea that you express yourselves directly through words. [...]

[...] She was much intrigued by the idea of being out-of-body, and able to watch herself give material for Seth.

[...] Unfortunately, conscience as you think of it is an untrustworthy guide, speaking to you through the mouths of mothers and fathers, teachers and clergy — all perhaps from distant years, and each of whom had their own ideas of what was right and wrong for you and for humanity at large.

[...] Those given beliefs represent the spiritual and mental fabric of ideas — the raw material, so to speak, with which you have to work. [...]

Let us consider the idea of original sin, all of the colorful forms it may take within your body of concepts, and the ways in which these will affect your behavior and experience.

[...] Before he read the book the idea would not have occurred to him in that context.

[...] Enter the idea of she starting a false church — heretical indeed — with a false god, Seth. The Catholic idea of penance was mixed in here. [...]

To a child, play and work are often one and the same thing, and parents can utilize imaginative games as a way of reinforcing ideas of health and vitality. When a child is ill-disposed or cranky, or has a headache, or another disorder that does not appear to be serious, parents can utilize this idea: have the child imagine that you are giving it a “better and better pill.” [...]

[...] Once a child gets the idea, the youngster will often make up his or her own game, that will prove most beneficial.

One of the most disastrous ideas is the belief that illness is sent as a punishment by God.

There is a constant translation of inner reality into objects in the waking state, and a constant translation of ideas into pseudoobjects in the dreaming state. Within a certain portion of dream reality, ideas or thoughts can be translated into pseudoobjects, and transported. [...]

(Jane said she had no idea of what Seth would talk about before the session began. [...]

Now, there is a connection between these areas and the idea of infinity, but first take your first break, and we shall continue.

I have used here the idea of two neighboring systems for simplicity’s sake, as if they were laid out end to end. [...]

[...] It is a wise idea to cut down your nurses’ visitations. Those visitations, however, show you in quite clear light that the medical profession’s idea of preventive medicine can often lead precisely to the conditions they seemingly wish to avoid. [...]

[...] Our idea is to soon cut down the visits to two a week, then one....

[...] Jane has grown tired of constantly trying to counter such ideas, she said now. [...]

[...] These ideas are a great improvement over her earlier attitudes, of course, and we’ll see what we can do. [...]