“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I believe he will fall in with this idea easily. [...]

[...] And the idea is, quite simply, to reward him for achievement.

[...] The idea here is on accomplishment.

You and Ruburt have always done well expressing your intellectual ideas to each other. [...]

[...] Many of the ideas I have given you lately were indeed in Mass Events (as Jane remarked today), but they have become alive now. In the same way, many other concepts and ideas already given will also assume a new significance and meaning, and add to the richness of your experience, because you will be open to them more than you were before — Ruburt in particular — to ideas having to do with reincarnation, life after death, other spheres of activity.

[...] The entire idea, or fear, that Ruburt had at one time of leading other people down the garden path, was based upon those old beliefs. Those ideas have vanished. [...]

[...] I want you both to discuss together the ideas in the book, and to literally begin a program in which your purpose is to put those ideas to use where you need them. [...]

[...] Therefore to some extent he has not been able to use the ideas on his own behalf nearly as effectively as he might.

[...] The ideas, for example, in Personal Reality are exactly those that will resolve his doubts and remove his fears, and the techniques given do work.

[...] The pendulum method is simply a technique that is effective because of your beliefs, and brings to light your own quite conscious ideas—those that you might not approve of, and so conveniently appear to forget.

[...] He put the same idea across beautifully, of course, in Session 725 without ever using the word “shit.” [...] For many people will accept the same philosophy when expressed as it was in the 725th session, and yet be quite upset when those ideas are discussed in the vernacular, in language that certainly cannot be considered ambiguous in any fashion.)

You think that the soul is a white wall with nothing written upon it, and so your idea of sacrilege is to shit upon it, not realizing that the shit and the soul are one, and that the biological is spiritual; and that, again — if you will forgive my homey concept — flowers grow from the shit of the earth. [...]

I’m certainly not writing here about the idea of redemption in the ordinary religious sense, although I think it’s perfectly possible that in some other frameworks, larger than our taken-for-granted physical and psychological one, the idea of redemption—of understanding and embracing—may be involved in a “religious” sense, as part of an intuitive grasp of All That Is.

[...] We practice one big difference, however—for we hold within ourselves Seth’s ideas on a host of subjects. It seems that we can feel his concepts—intermingled with our own questions, ideas, and accomplishments—constantly turning within a kind of special excitement and revelatory insight. [...]

At such times I’m apt to think about ideas of reincarnation and counterparts. [...] Our gross physical senses, and indeed our very bodies, insist upon interpreting the spacious present in linear terms, however—through the inevitable processes of birth, aging, and death—so to help us get his point here Seth advances his ideas of reincarnational selves and counterpart selves in ways we can understand sensually.

[...] Consciously, however, Jane has never been overly enthusiastic about the idea of reincarnation to begin with. [...] Yet she was early subjected to the church’s rigid opposition to the whole idea of reincarnation because, strangely enough, even in her very youthful poetry she dealt with the forbidden subject (although not by name). [...]

[...] Jane had begun delivering the Seth material late in 1963, and soon afterwards Seth started developing his ideas on probabilities.¹ Many times while looking at the snapshots since then I’d found myself speculating about the probable realities surrounding their two young subjects. [...] [And added later: At the time, I had no idea that my questioning would trigger a new Seth book.²]

Ruburt’s nonconformance took the larger framework of unconventional ideas. [...] At about this time (tapping the photo) Ruburt sat on the lap of an adult man on the front porch, and neighbors duly reported this — the idea being that sexual depravity could be involved.

[...] If he went spontaneously forward in mystical experience, then, given his ideas, it threatened the conventional acceptance of his art. Conventional ideas of art and writing, upon which the old framework, now, was dependent, no longer fit.

[...] It was a massive one, lasting at least two hours, astonishing her with the “barrage” of new ideas she discovered while immersed in it. During part of that time her consciousness left her body; and during it she produced through automatic writing a manuscript called The Physical Universe As Idea Construction. [...]

[...] I was very excited by these ideas, more excited than I had been in a long time. [...] I discussed them for some little while with her before we went out to a New Year’s Eve party at McClure’s. Jane seemed to agree with the ideas.

[...] True.) The idea of mobility in one direction, and of moving, would cause all of your other ideas to move.

(At a quick scan I thought the ideas answered all the questions we’d had about the symptoms over the years—explaining, for instance, their onset before the psychic developments, etc. [...]

[...] She also told me that to her the idea of stairs represented success and failure—up and down, etc.)

(During her mid-morning exercise-and-rest break today, I asked Jane if she had any idea why Seth had come through with the material he’d given us in last Monday evening’s session. [...]

[...] His irritability is somewhat natural — but also based on the idea, still, that when he is laying down that is dead time [...]

The walking after dinner would be excellent, of course — the idea being, however, that if he became uncomfortable from sitting that he lie on the bed, perhaps before watching television for the evening.

You do not project as many negative ideas upon the evening hours, and the same applies to most people to varying degrees. [...]

In the Preface for Dreams I mentioned Jane’s idea for a second book of poetry. She’s progressed with the subject matter for it to the point where Seth could remark on November 21: “The book of love poetry is an excellent idea.” [...]

[...] You accept only those data that fit in with your ideas of motion in time. As a result, for example, your archeological evidence usually presents a picture quite in keeping with your ideas of history, geological eras, and so forth.

I have a purpose in this book—for this is dictation—and that purpose is to change your ideas of yourselves, by showing you a truer picture of your history both in terms of your immortal consciousness and your physical heritage.

[...] After giving some material for Jane, Seth ended the session at 10:32 P.M. “I had no idea he was going to do it that way,” Jane said. [...]

If you think of these as planets, then your other ideas orbit about them. [...]

Questions you cannot seem to answer as you study your own ideas, for example, may lead you to suspect the existence of such invisible core beliefs. [...]

[...] (See the notes prefacing the last session.) As you examine your ideas you will discover that even some apparently contradictory ones have similarities, and these resemblances may be used to bridge the gaps between beliefs — even those that seem to be the most diverse. [...]

[...] The conscious idea itself represents a statement of intent. [...]

[...] Take any idea. Imagine portraying the idea in various ways. First however imagine that the particular idea itself has the psychological structure of a triangle.

Now imagine the idea, not of triangle, but the idea which has the shape of a triangle, being then expressed in architecture, in a philosophical dissertation, in color, in a sculpture, in a poem, in a painting, in music, and also in so-called natural phenomena such as the shape of a rock, the angle of a shadow, a portion of a crystal, a tree branch.

[...] She had no idea of the subject matter for it. [...]

I have spoken in the past of depths that have nothing to do with space as you conceive space to be; and I will now add to this the idea of psychological solidities, that have nothing to do with space as you conceive it.

[...] The idea of the Sinful Self has served as a large portion of that definition for centuries, bringing with it innumerable difficulties, of course. As Ruburt frees himself from that idea, as he must and can, the need for such unnecessary cautionary behavior will dissipate by itself. [...]

(Long pause at 9:54.) Ideas of using considerable caution have been with him for that matter before the sessions began, when he recognized his own energy, the ease with which he could encounter people. [...]

[...] He received some ideas of that nature from you in the past. [...]

[...] Some of Ruburt’s ideas along those lines were highly reinforced by his mother as well as by the church, and later in its way by the very pronouncements of science. [...]

(I added that I’d had no idea that the idea of the Sinful Self occupied that prominent and basic a position in her life. [...]

[...] Its only methods of dealing with such guilt involve standard psychoanalytic counseling—which itself deepens the dilemma, for counseling itself is based upon the idea that the inner self is a reservoir of savage impulses. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) In the past the Sinful-Self idea was so a part of Ruburt’s conditioning that it set up an entire framework of behavior. [...]

[...] The idea of Ruburt’s book (on rationalism) is a good one because it represents creative impetus—undertaken, however, in the light of newer understanding, and I will have more to say concerning that issue. [...]

The ideas that you have, then, play a large role in the way the body handles its nutrients, and utilizes its health and vitality. [...] For it is possible for your ideas to cause chemical reactions that impede your body’s ability to accept nourishment. [...]

These ideas do not only inflict severe difficulties upon older members of the population, but they also have a vital part to play in the behavior of many young people who commit suicide directly or indirectly. [...]

We will have more to say concerning older people and their ways of life, and also discuss the many beliefs and ideas that can come almost immediately to their aid. [...]

[...] Early, some divisions occurred when Ruburt picked up the idea that womanhood was no help in being a writer, so certain aspects of the self were watched. In later years however, and partially as a result of the relationship between the two of you, and your joint ideas, Ruburt became worried that he would not do his thing as a writer. [...]

[...] When he had his last series of excellent improvements, he paid attention to the sessions I gave him on his ideas of work. [...]

[...] For “the writer” ideas, carried to extremes, would even have gobbled the dream work, where both are one.

Ideas are used in astounding fashions by creative people, and so many who read the article will in their own way use it as highly creative material. [...] Those beliefs helped give you your photographs, because, while you don’t like the idea, you believe it.

It might be a good idea to examine that statement, for in the truest sense of human motivation, the fact is that despite all appearances to the contrary, the imagination and the will are never in conflict.

Ruburt does not need to feel that he would naturally, left alone, go out into the world, into the arena, and convince the world of our ideas, or think that with his energy unimpeded that would be part of his natural mission. [...]

[...] It is sardonic, coolly critical, hip, righteous for the underdog, and with all of this a carrier now and then for new ideas of format for initiators. [...]

[...] I would like to repeat again the fact that in many instances, and with exceptions, ideas not fully constructed on your plane not only have great force but are also freer from the effects of physical laws. The idea has at its command then greater and varied methods of expression, and from it varieties of construction can be attempted. I have mentioned the advantages of a painting over a piece of sculpture, and an idea not fully captured will find further expression.

[...] It is of course impossible to achieve but the almost-completed leaves room for further development of the idea, and the idea is not imprisoned.

[...] Jane was so enthusiastic over this idea that she forgot to be nervous before the session began.

[...] All joking aside, this latest idea should really be an excellent one, and I would have suggested it myself except that I could not get through to Ruburt. [...]

[...] In the beginning of this work I “warned” the reader that here in these sessions we would go beyond ideas of one god and one self.³ I stated that your ideas of personhood would be expanded. [...]

[...] It’s just that our ideas of personhood and soul make it sound terrible, until you get used to those ideas….

His experience appeared to imply that his father’s identity had so much mobility, and so many possibilities for development, that the very idea of identity seemed to lose its boundaries.⁴

[...] The idea is working very well. [...]

[...] Your idea was to isolate yourself on a mountaintop, where the world could not get at you. His idea was an arrangement where he could not go out into the world.

(Seth’s reference to Jane’s book idea, Aspect Psychology, touches on one of our other questions. [...] We’ve been wondering if it is a good idea for Jane to become involved with Adventures, in light of past problems. [...]

[...] Some of this did have to do with old ideas that you were angry at him for any success if you had not achieved your own—and more, that the success might take you on tours and further away from your own work, which would make you angrier at him.

The idea of cutting down stimuli and concentrating on work was quite agreeable to both of you for some time, far beyond the time you think it was. [...]

(Long pause at 11:32.) In physical reality there is a time lag that exists between the conception of an idea, say, and its materialization. Beside that, other conditions operate that can slow down an idea’s physical actualization, or even impede it altogether. [...] An idea must have certain characteristics, for example, that agree with physical assumptions before it turns into a recognizable event. [...]

[...] This should be easy to grasp, for if you tried to understand physical life having only a group of snapshots taken at different places and in different times, then it would be rather difficult to form a clear idea of the nature of the physical world.

In the dream world, however, each feeling or idea can be immediately expressed and experienced. [...]

[...] Embedded within it were these lines: “Ruburt’s idea did come from me, about your reincarnational episodes involving the Roman officer, and your personal experience illustrates what I am saying in ‘Unknown’ Reality — the individual’s history is written in the psyche, and can indeed be uncovered.” [...]