“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your ideas (about seeing people), mentioned earlier, should definitely be acted upon—that is, you do both need some personal communication with others. [...] Only your habits and attitudes have prevented this, but the idea should be practically put to work.

[...] Perhaps that idea can give you some glimmering of the ways in which the daily events of your readers’ lives are changed as a result of our sessions. [...]

The acknowledgment of such impulses in the procedure just given will automatically help build Ruburt’s trust in himself, and it is a good idea for him to note such impulses, for later on certain occasions he will be able to see how such and such an impulse, followed on its own, led him to such and such a beneficial event—an event that at the time was completely invisible or unforeseen.

All of these ideas can be put to excellent use now. [...]

[...] Your inclusion of the hospital mixup in the tale was, as, you suspected, connected with the medical ideas you have been dealing with of late (in extra notes for Mass Events, and the book by the physician) — and here was an excellent fictional idea, you see, that could, among other things, bring those ideas into prominence.

[...] Consciously, intellectually, the boys had no idea they were triplets. You live personally in a world of lush creative ideas. [...]

[...] I had the following ideas as I lay in that state between waking and sleeping. I found myself musing about what I thought was a great idea for a novel. [...]

[...] I’d forgotten to describe my idea for a novel to Jane, but the article immediately reminded me to do so. [...] (A fourth brother had died at birth.) Their unknowing would match my own dreamlike idea of the two young men living in the Elmira area but not knowing of each other. [...]

“You can best achieve some approximation of an idea by using Psychological Time [as a preliminary]. [...] When an idea comes to you, do not play with it intellectually, but reach out to it intuitively. [...] With practice and to a limited degree, you will find that you can ‘become’ the idea. [...]

“Concepts such as I am referring to reach beyond your ideas of time and space. [...]

One, you are limiting the time in which you can be creative or get ideas. You are saying, effectively: I can only get my creative ideas in the afternoon. Instead tell yourself that creative ideas for your paintings can come to you at any hour of the night or day, and that creativity knows no time barrier.

[...] When you feel like sketching or painting, when an idea springs into your head, try it immediately. When it does not, when an idea does not come, then walk, play with your cat, do anything you want to do.

[...] At the same time, he should dwell on the idea of flexibility and freedom, mental, spiritual, psychic and physical flexibility. [...]

[...] You drop the idea of work as work during your usual work hours. [...]

You will discover this by experiencing the idea directly, and you can best achieve some approximation of accomplishment by using psychological time. Your idea of experiencing a concept is doubtlessly to follow it through from beginning to end. Sweet tootsies, there is no beginning or end, and this idea of yours is the result of a complete and utter concentration upon camouflage time.

Reach out to the idea intuitively. [...] With practice, and to a very limited degree, you will find that you can become the idea. You will be inside the idea, looking out, not looking in. [...]

When cognition is spontaneous or nearly so, then the idea can have freedom. [...] You believe in your ideas of time, and depend upon them to such a degree that it is impossible at this stage for you to conceive of a concept that has nothing to do with space or time.

Nor does the evolution of either an idea or a species involve time. [...] Using psychological time, sit in a quiet room; and I hope this is not impossible, when an idea comes to you, and I presume it will, do not play with it intellectually. [...]

[...] The three Christs material particularly affects him that way, for to deny the conventional idea of Christ is to antagonize not merely Catholicism but basic Christian belief. [...] He stands behind the idea, you see. [...]

(“How come these early emotional ideas haven’t been influenced, at least somewhat modified by all the intuitive and intellectual activity, and new ideas, that have developed and taken place in the last few years?”)

[...] His poetry was accepted and praised artistically, when the ideas agreed with dogma.

[...] It worried him when people seem to turn to the material in the same way that they might turn to a church, merely substituting one set of ideas for another, while never experiencing the concepts themselves.

[...] Not understanding yourselves,⁶ you have tried to put the idea of God outside of yourselves and your living framework. [...] I would like to change your ideas of human nature. To some extent this will entail humanizing your idea of divinity. [...]

(Long pause, eyes closed.) To some extent great artists not only capture a physical picture of Inner Idea, capitalized, but they also have a hand in creating that idea or inner model to begin with.

In your terms, the inner world does represent Idea Potential as yet unrealized — but those ideas and those potentials do not exist outside of consciousness. [...]

(Jane said tonight that she still feels a strong emotional charge in connection with the idea of the “dead” returning in those stereotyped, banal terms. [...]

Your ideas have been limiting in that respect. You take it for granted that unless you husband your time, and divide it, what you want done will not be done in time, and so you inhibit creative ideas by your attitude. You say, consciously: “I cannot get painting ideas now because I am working on thus and so in these hours,” and so inhibit paintings. [...]

You are setting the limitations on your freedom through your ideas, and this to some extent has to do with old ideas you thought you had grown out of, about deadlines. [...]

[...] If you do not make artificial divisions, but see the day as your own, and know your intents, then you will find that while doing Dialogues, for example, ideas for paintings will come, and that while thinking of Larry’s (Herschaft) sketches you will also find future paintings coming to mind.

About the same time that the idea of the unsavory subconscious arose so strongly, the idea of the soul went out the window. Millions of people therefore believed in a reality in which they were deprived of the idea of a soul, and burdened by the concept of a very unreliable, if not definitely evil, subconscious. [...]

Your conscious mind is always trying to give you a clear picture, but you often allow preconceived ideas to block out this intelligence. It has been fashionable to blame the subconscious for personality problems and difficulties, the idea being that early events, charged and mysterious, lodged there. [...]

[...] These personal ideas about yourself and the nature of reality will affect your thoughts and emotions. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Frequently such ideas appear indisputable, so a part of you that it does not occur to you to speculate about their validity. [...]

(She also had the idea that in our society we’re so educated and used to condemning ourselves if we have anything wrong with us, that we blind ourselves to the real reasons we fall ill to begin with. Another idea I’ve mused about. I’m afraid I think that consciously we’re a long ways from incorporating such ideas into our daily society.

[...] There are, in fact, so many distorted ideas connected with the concept of reincarnation in general, that I think it far better to simply concentrate upon the idea of multiple existences. [...]

[...] While I did she had some thoughts of her own — that a person can choose illness, for example, in order to explore that reality, and to exert certain effects upon others around the ill person: thoughts I have had many times — my old idea of consciousness getting to know itself in as many ways as possible.

(Jane added that when she listens to me read a session to her, she’ll get glimpses from Seth sometimes of what he’s going to say next time: “The thoughts are mine, but also a mixture, they have a tinge of Seth’s ideas.” [...]

An idea, that cannot be scientifically observed in any of your laboratories, definitely exists. An idea is hardly a closed system, but the reality of an idea, its growth and potential, comes much closer to a description of the characteristics of the universe than any current theory.

This is the case as far as the idea of a closed system is concerned. [...]

[...] You can see therefore how unimaginative and basically unworkable the idea of a closed system is.

A closed system as a concept is also closely intertwined and dependent upon the distortive idea of time as continuity, and the resultant cause and effect premise, which we have already considered earlier. [...]

[...] My idea is that the eyes get bad after the muscular strain reaches a certain point. This idea also came back, reading a book on William James Peggy G. gave me for Xmas—his attitudes and mine so often seem similar—that he was determined to be daring, press ahead no matter what, explore consciousness—while at the same time being attracted to safety, disliking controversy, wanting peace, etc. [...] But far more than Rob, from the beginning I was nervous and anxious—about directly coming out with many of the ideas—which at the same time I fervently and even passionately believe in.... [...] Yet I’ve always known that these ideas conflicted with official ones—it’s just that before the “attack” was less direct....

(Lately I’ve really been working with ideas of safety, saying and believing that I am safe, secure and supported and that I do trust my natural spontaneous motion.... [...]

[...] Your ideas of rustic simplicity do not match your feelings about dedication to work. Ruburt’s ideas of owning a house do not match his ideas of dedication to work. [...] Both ideas are idealized, sentimentalized and distorted in your minds, and either could be incorporated in your ideas of work if you were aware of the conflicts.

[...] You do not buy much furniture so that the idea of being transitory is more convincing. [...]

[...] Thoughts of buying a house throw both of you into a quandary because they directly come in conflict with your private ideas about your work and purposes, and your places in the world.

[...] With the ideas of either buying a house or going to Florida, and what these issues involve in line with your current beliefs as given. [...]

[...] This is hard to specify, but he had the same feeling I have now about newspapers — the daily spreading out of ideas, and the kind of tremendous power behind that ability … I can see that corner of his shop/work area clearly in a half-light, illuminated by a candle in an enclosed mesh lantern sitting on a tabletop. This man had several apprentices, and he was a real artisan, putting ideas across in the form of movable type. [...] This idea was ‘shared’ in many places at once, then.⁶

[...] However, after that session my impression ‘grew’ in such a way that I knew this family had something to do in a more direct way with the printing process — with the fascination of putting ideas down on paper through the use of typefaces that would, as much as the language involved, express the ideas behind the words themselves. [...]

“It seems so hilariously logical that the Sumari, who are creators, would want to ‘merge’ with a family more prone to organization,⁴ to come up with what they would need to spread ideas: movable type. [...]

“It all gives me this feeling of great hilarity that I often have about these ideas. [...]

Remember that ideas are as natural as the weather. [...] As you come into your body with all of its physical surroundings, so at birth do you emerge into a rich natural psychological environment in which beliefs and ideas are every bit as real.

[...] You may migrate to a climate in which the prevailing ideas suit you better, as well as the weather.

[...] Your ideas of good and evil as applied to health and illness are highly important, for instance. [...]

If on the other hand you carry the idea too far — that illness can also be a learning process — then you can fall into the other extreme, glorifying sickness or disease as a necessary ennobling experience in which the body is purged so that the soul can be saved.

[...] For the book he was exploring creativity and other ideas of work and play. [...] In the material given and given, the reasons are there as to why he latched onto some of your ideas—so I will not go into those here.

When the work idea is carried to extremes than he is not even free in his so-called work time, because then he inhibits what he thinks of as nonwork ideas, and therefore much creativity. [...]

The yard at 2 or 3 in the morning might amaze you, and ideas of paintings leap up. [...] I want you then to also examine your ideas about work and creative activity.

[...] Seth told us we could have more on Jerusalem and related events whenever we want it, or have the time, so presumably the Christ Book idea stems from that. [...]

[...] It may take him a while to receive the money when it is sold, but all of this is dependent upon the first and basic reality—the idea for the book. Therefore know that your positive ideas of health and abundance are the basic realities, the most important.

You must still realize how practical these ideas are. [...] This is one of the main purposes of my material, that you construct your own physical reality, and that it is a replica of your ideas. [...]

[...] I want to make sure in these initial stages that you have the correct ideas. [...]

It is quite possible you see for you to have results tomorrow, but it takes time to paint the picture from your idea. [...]

[...] The idea actually embodies several ideas, or books. [...] Another approach would be half and half: First the family story in usual terms; then that same family story studied with Seth’s ideas in mind. [...]

(So I felt a keen regret, actually, that the idea, one of the best I’ve ever had, will probably never be used. [...] Also, how would one explain to a family that with Seth’s ideas in mind certain other family members had chosen, or planned, their deaths? [...] I suppose that part of any such survey could also go into the refusal of certain families to restudy what had happened to them in the light of Seth’s ideas.

(However, neither of us had the slightest idea that Seth himself would use the account—which Jane hadn’t read, don’t forget—as the subject matter for his first delivery tonight. [...] And his work in turn led me to what I think of as an exceptionally good idea for a book, which I’ll describe at first break.)

(10:51 PM—At break we’d also expressed our fears about Jane’s progress, beside talking about the book idea. [...] Sort of a vicious-circle idea.

[...] At one time or another, the idea of responsibility was overlaid upon his ideas of work. [...]

[...] I did mention one good point, I thought: If she must be involved with ideas of responsibility, then let her think that she has already fulfilled her responsibility to help others, through the work/books she’s already done. [...]

[...] The ideas in the books go out into the world, where they will be worked upon, worked with, in numberless fashions, in ways that you may never know. [...]

[...] The true interchange comes as those people themselves read our books, of course, and where our ideas intersect with their lives. [...]

Such ideas literally held people in chains, fostering slavery and other inhumane practices. The same unfortunately applies to the Eastern concept of nirvana, and to the Christian idea of heaven. [...]

There are many differences between the ideas of nirvana and heaven, but each has been used not only to justify suffering, but also to teach people to seek pain. The idea has been that the more persecuted and maligned a person is, the greater will be the reward in a future existence.

The ideas of penance, fasting to excess, the personal abuse of the body, such as self-flagellation — all of those practices are conducted in the belief that suffering is something to be sought in itself. [...]