“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(10:10.) In Western culture since the Industrial Revolution (after about 1760), the idea grew that there was little connection between the objects in the world and the individual. Now this is not a history book so I will not go into the reasons behind this idea, but will merely mention that it was an overreaction, in your terms at least, to previous religious concepts.

[...] Boy … I didn’t have the slightest idea of what he was going to talk about tonight, but then I saw that he had one whole block of stuff to get through before he gave us any break….”

[...] One of the greatest, however, is the idea that the conscious mind does not have any touch with the fountains of its own being, that it is divorced from nature, and that the individual is therefore at the mercy of unconscious drives over which he has no control.

[...] If the purpose of civilization is to enable the individual to live in peace, joy, security and abundance, then that idea has served him poorly.

Strong moral ideas welded what I am together—welded the creative drives like glue. [...] This part was strengthened by your own ideas of work and creativity. [...]

[...] We went to Key West with the idea of possibly spending our last week there, but found prices too high for us, at least on such short notice. [...]

Many aspects of your joint ideas gravitated toward me. [...]

You began to change your ideas. [...]

[...] As far as your living quarters are concerned, enjoyment of them, taking spaciousness for granted, loving the idea of it, will bring you more.

Now when your idea of truth, or art, or artistic integrity, is connected with detail then the charged areas show themselves. [...]

[...] When your idea of artistic vision is concerned then, each detail is of utmost importance to you. [...]

[...] The idea of health however becomes as persuasive as ill health was.

(9:04.) Once again, thoughts and ideas have their own electromagnetic validity also. In waking life you test your ideas in the world of facts. Facts are only accepted fiction, of course, but the ideas must make sense and fit into the accepted “story.”

[...] It will go against your idea of reality, thereby preventing the opening and acceptance that is necessary.

In the dream state you allow yourself greater freedom, trying out certain ideas and beliefs in this more plastic framework. [...]

[...] just this afternoon in her own theoretical work, Aspect Psychology; she had also written about ideas very much like those Seth presented at 9:15.

[...] This provided needed leeway in the formation of his ideas, and allowed him to leap free of the stereotyped beliefs about femininity that otherwise could have hampered him. [...]

He developed the idea of being an outsider, as you did, setting up certain barriers against the world. [...]

[...] Because of Ruburt’s old ideas about femininity, kept beyond their time, he feels more vulnerable than you amid those unsafe conditions, and has put up extra safeguards. [...]

[...] For you, the artist was not connected with any ideas of homemaking, though outside of that context you wanted to own your own piece of land, however small. [...]

[...] This in turn reminded her of her own manuscript, The Physical Universe As Idea Construction, which she discusses in the Introduction. [...]

Now: The Physical Universe as Idea Construction, mentioned by Ruburt in his Introduction, did indeed represent our first formal contact, although Ruburt was not aware of it at that time.

[...] Often the information given clashes with previously held ideas and beliefs, however. [...]

The going-ahead involved him (long pause) with my ideas of the god concept. [...]

[...] The intellect should go hand in hand with the emotions and intuitions, but if it pulls against these too strongly, difficulties can arise when the newly freed consciousness seizes upon its ideas about reality after death, rather than facing the particular reality in which it finds itself. [...]

In periods where no such mass ideas are held, there is more disorientation, and when life after death is completely denied, the problem is somewhat magnified. [...]

Such an individual may find himself in ten different environments within the flicker of an eyelash, for example, with no idea of the reason behind the situation. [...]

[...] He hated the Jews, but somehow he was obsessed with the idea that Moses was more powerful than Allah, and for years this was the secret sin upon his conscience. [...]

[...] I realize that current experience may perhaps seem contradictory to some of these ideas, so bear with me. I will, therefore, combine the idea of a disease with the idea of creativity, for the two are intimately connected.

[...] This idea had come to her “pretty strongly” after supper: “It won’t be dictation. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The dreams of the species are highly important to its survival — not just because dreaming is a biological necessity, but because in dreams the species is immersed in deeper levels of creativity, so that those actions, inventions, ideas that will be needed in the future will appear in their proper times and places. [...]

[...] Take the idea of the book Seth mentioned on therapy and value fulfillment, and so forth, and what you said today about body consciousness. [...]

(After tonight’s session, and echoing my own ideas of how adamant Jane was becoming about the medical scene, I said that it would be ironic indeed if her encounters with the medical establishment furnished the final great impetus she needed to divest herself of the symptoms and inflate recovery; anything to get away from the massively negative pronouncement of the doctors, to dump old ideas, to set the body free to heal itself. [...]

[...] Again, I thought the visit at least preserved the status quo for us, since I could see that more and more Jane was turning against the idea of preventative drug treatment for vasculitis, say, or anything else. [...]

[...] I felt caught between these opposing ideas, and didn’t really know what to do. [...]

[...] He had a lot of other ideas that are contrary to generally accepted medical belief and practice, and we wished he lived closer. [...]

Such ideas, practically speaking anyhow, deny you the use of creative energy and vitality you think you had then, that you think you do not have now—the unbridled free energy and exuberance you have equated with youth. [...]

This also denies you in subterranean ways from utilizing certain ideas and concepts. [...]

[...] It is important that your ideas circulate freely, and that the ideas of the peoples of the world circulate freely, just as it is important that your individual body has good circulation. Your ideas about your own health are even more important than those steps you take to promote it.

Your ideas about foreign countries, allies and enemies, also have a vital role to play in how you handle your own bodily defenses. [...]

(But individual reactions to a given idea or event can vary tremendously, from the most withdrawn behavior to the most explosive. [...] Psychic matters weren’t stressed, and counterpart ideas weren’t even mentioned. [...]

[...] We’ve been thinking about counterpart ideas since Seth introduced the concept two months ago; see the opening notes for the 721st session. [...]

(Jane’s own counterparts, Sue, Zelda, Alan Koch, “Maryland,” and myself are all committed to the dissemination of Seth-type ideas, either through professional writing, classes, and/or lecture appearances that extend from one end of the country to the other.

[...] The material in those sessions concerned her ideas of work, spontaneity, and order, among other things. [...]

[...] The usual idea of order is greatly concerned with serial time, but spontaneity’s natural order, with its origins outside of time, has “all time to play with.” [...]

[...] The idea of discipline as you think of it comes into effect most generally when you try to impose a secondary kind of order over the primary one. [...]

This verbal description must necessarily distort the true picture, because the true events completely escape your vocabulary, but the explanation is valid-enough to give you some idea of what I mean. [...]

Not one idea will be discovered residing in the brain cells. You can try to convey an idea, you can feel its effects, but you cannot see it as you can the chair. Only a fool would say that ideas were nonexistent, however, or deny their importance.

[...] The atoms and molecules, like the children, enjoy their motion — solidly sketched in space from your perspective, however, with no “idea” that you consider that motion a chair, or so use it.

[...] The solid matter of your world is the result of the play of your senses upon an inner dimension of activity that exists as legitimately, and yet as tantalizingly hidden, as an idea or a dream location.

[...] In the same way ideas or thoughts form general patterns, bringing forth in your world certain kinds of events. [...]

[...] That idea, however, together with the idea of responsibility, you see, was always in the background. [...]

[...] Simply, I thought it would be a good idea if Seth would tell us about what good things we’ve managed to accomplish through the years as far as Jane’s symptoms go. [...]

[...] When he becomes overly concerned with ideas of responsibility to use his talent, then the love beneath them is smothered to some extent and denied its flow. [...]

[...] Art then becomes a method of doing something else—and that idea runs directly contrary to the basic integrity of art, and to art as he truly understands it to be. [...]

If your ideas of good and evil are rigorous, unbending, then you do not have the understanding that is necessary for any conscious manipulation in this other dimension. In other words, you should be as flexible mentally, psychologically, and spiritually as possible, open to new ideas, creative, and not overly dependent upon organizations or dogma.

In physical life there is a lag between the conception of an idea and its physical construction. [...]

[...] You perceive from the available field of reality certain data — data selected carefully by you in accordance with your ideas of what reality is. [...]

[...] If you are obsessed with the idea of evil, then you will meet evil conditions. [...]

[...] Instead he received ideas which he then interpreted and verbalized, and wrote down for himself. [...]

[...] The conscious system of beliefs behind the impediment will be illuminated, and you will realize that you feel a certain way because you believe an idea that causes and justifies such a reaction.

(9:34.) If you habitually deny the expression of any emotions, to that degree you become alienated not only from your body but from your conscious ideas. [...]

If you find yourself running around in a spiritual frenzy, trying to repress every negative idea that comes into your head, then ask yourself why you believe so in the great destructive power of your slightest “negative” thought.

[...] Your own painting is growing despite your own ideas of what you think it should be. “Unknown” is a creative triumph despite your joint ideas of what that book should be.

Forget ideas of good and evil for our discussion. [...]

[...] They cannot be anchored to conventional ideas of time. [...]

[...] You have, far more than you realize, utilized our ideas in your daily lives, both to insure financial comfort—but more, to achieve the satisfaction that you are indeed reaching others, helping to change their lives for the better. [...]

(Resume at 4:16.) It is also a good idea for Ruburt to remind himself that he knows well that these concepts are true, and that they will lead inevitably toward his recovery—or rather, to his recovery—for they follow the innate laws of nature as it exists in its own state, apart from men’s ideas about it. [...]

(Long pause at 4:20.) In review, it seems that the most vital ideas for his current situation have been given in this session, where they can be referred to easily. [...]

[...] The idea of a “cure” upset me, if it was available and we weren’t trying it. [...]

[...] However simple those ideas may sound to the adult, still they carry within them the needed power and impetus that fill all of life’s parts. [...]

In other words, we will try to instill a somewhat playful attitude, even toward the most severe problems, for the very idea of play encourages the use of the imagination and the creative abilities.

[...] You react to your beliefs habitually, often unthinkingly, and in usual ideas of time, and in your experience of it — you must allow yourself “some time” to change that habitual behavior.

[...] As you do, keep the idea of child’s play in mind, however. [...]