“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause.) For adults, ideas of health and illness are intimately connected with philosophical, religious, and social beliefs. [...] Children, however, are far more innocent, and though they respond to the ideas of their parents, still their minds are open and filled with curiosity. [...]

They pick up their first ideas about health and disease from parents and doctors, and by the actions of those people to their own discomfiture. [...]

[...] Since they have no idea that they themselves caused the problem to begin with, then they do not realize that they themselves possess the power to right the situation. [...]

(I had wanted to hypnotize Jane for some time, but had been hesitating even though my pendulum told me I had nothing against the idea. [...]

(I believe Jane was a little nervous at the idea of being hypnotized, since I mentioned it at supper time. [...]

[...] I am not used to speaking so steadily, although Jane later said that she too had noticed a voice stain in her first session with me, until she became more relaxed and used to the idea. [...]

[...] Especially in the beginning I did wonder at times at my progress, but continued following my ideas without allowing any doubts to become bothersome. [...]

[...] They deal primarily in the great play of exchange and interchange of ideas, products, social and political concepts. They are travelers, carrying with them the ideas of one country to another, mixing cultures, religions, attitudes, political structures. [...]

[...] Ruburt finds the rugs there out of place, however, because they do not fit in with his ideas of work areas. [...] Her work in that respect is to decorate, and the rugs represent her idea of what belongs in the house.

[...] They demand a certain amount of freedom for their children, however, and while they are not political activists, like the Sumari their ideas often spring to prominence before large social changes, and help initiate them. [...]

(10:01.) Throughout the ages they have served as the spreaders of ideas, the assimilators. [...]

Beside at least walking around the house, Ruburt is to do five minutes of exercise a day, of his choice; but devote it to the idea of expressing freedom for his body—not absolute freedom, but to experience that feeling. [...]

The ideas he has been working with are good. [...]

[...] I was talking to doctor about this; I’m not sure if the people were even being told what this was, the idea being to slip the stuff as innocuously as possible. [...]

[...] (I think the idea was that increased symptoms were “preventive” medicine against a greater feared event or condition....)

“In my other books I used many accepted ideas as a springboard to lead readers into other levels of understanding. [...] Your concepts of personhood are now limiting you personally and en masse, and yet your religions, metaphysics, histories, and even your sciences are hinged upon your ideas of who and what you are. [...]

“These institutions and disciplines are composed of individuals, each restrained by limiting ideas about their own private reality; and so it is with private reality that we will begin and always return. [...] The ideas in this book are meant to expand the private reality of each reader. [...]

The first volume, like this one, defies easy description, then, since it leaps over many definitions we usually take for granted; and with its lack of chapter divisions it even confounds our ideas of what a book is. Yet it certainly contains a most intriguing, multidimensional view of the nature of probabilities, a view in which our ideas of a “simple, single event” must vanish; at least we can never again look at any event as being concrete, finished, or absolute. [...]

In my notes introducing Volume 1, I wrote about placing the basic “artistic ideas” embodied in the Seth material at our conscious, aesthetic, and practical service in daily life. [...] Of course Jane and I want Seth’s ideas and our own to touch responsive reflexes within others; then each individual can use the material in his or her own expression of that useful ideal, letting it serve to stimulate inner perceptions.

[...] “I’ll just tell you this: The whole idea of reincarnation is all screwed up. [...] What I’m getting is that the idea of just one life in any given time is bullshit — the psyche is so rich that it can have more than one life in one time period, like your Nebene and Roman soldier living together in the first century. [...]

(Now I’d like to present a batch of notes, ideas, and excerpts from sessions about reincarnation, counterparts, and related data, pulling them together into a coherent picture. [...]

(To Florence:) Far be it from me to disturb your ancient ideas of yin and yang, or Jung, or good and evil, or of right and wrong, or of good and bad vibrations! [...]

Now our Florence is working with her own ideas of good and evil, searching for what she thinks of as an aesthetic and moral code that she can rely upon. [...]

[...] As it turned out her idea was a good one.

[...] However when there is a distortion, as when an ulcer is created, then we begin what can indeed be a vicious circle, for the idea and the reality of the ulcer is then accepted as part of the self-image. [...]

[...] However it is imperative that the idea be understood thoroughly, for here we have no vague and nebulous theory indeed, but a most practical and definite explanation of the manner in which you yourselves construct not only your own physical image, but indeed your own physical environment.

[...] For here, free from the ego, the self is relieved of the necessity of constructing ideas into physical reality.

Give us a moment … (Still in trance, Jane lit a cigarette.) Your stratified concepts of one-personhood overlook all such inherent differences, however, and you have a tendency to transpose your own concepts whenever you come in contact with those whose ideas you cannot understand. [...] You protect your ideas of selfhood at all costs — even against the evidence of nature, which shows you that all are related.

I wrote in the Introductory Notes that I thought Jane’s speed in producing the Seth material was “a close physical approach to, or translation of, Seth’s idea that basically all exists at once — that really there is no time …” I’ll add here that the phenomenon of double dreaming can be another way of approximating the idea of simultaneous time (or lives), about which we as physical creatures always have so many questions.

[...] A multilingual individual, in that regard at least, might have some idea of how concepts are structured through verbal pattern, and hence possess some additional freedom in such translations — provided of course that he or she was aware of the possibilities to begin with.

[...] “I have a pretty good idea of what was said,” she told me. [...]

[...] A new synthesis is taking place concerning Ruburt’s ideas about his writing and life, so that particular session will simply insure that the old ideas are sufficiently broken up so that the new synthesis can form.

Ruburt received ideas about his on his own this week, and wrote them down. That synthesis allowed the new book idea to come to the forefront. [...]

(Pause.) In your realm of reality, there is no real freedom but the freedom of ideas, and there is no real bondage except for the bondage of ideas (intently), for your ideas form your private and mass reality. [...]

The universe expands, as I have said before, as an idea expands; and as sentences are built upon words, in your terms, and paragraphs upon sentences, and as each retains its own logic and continuity and evidence within that framework, so do all the portions of the universe appear to you also with the same cohesiveness (dash) — meaning continuity and order. [...]

[...] When Jane read her material of this afternoon to me, I thought she likened the Sinful Self’s renewal to reincarnation, meaning that she thought this renewal might account for many of our overt ideas of reincarnation—that at least some of our ideas about reincarnation were based upon our intuitive knowledge of the return of portions of one’s self to that earlier state of innocence—a rebirth, in other words, that we might translate into the idea of physical incarnation. [...]

[...] The idea had come to me some days ago that Jane’s foot troubles were directly related to her fears of being accepted in a controversial role. [...]

[...] After being initially upset, I rather humorously thought that my idea wasn’t a bad one anyhow.

(Long pause.) The original ideas connected with the Sinful Self’s beliefs were at one time, for example, not as obviously unfortunate, since the system itself also provided for salvation, methods of appeasement and so forth—all of which were thoroughly accepted through many centuries. [...]

[...] Still, your part in it conflicted with his ideas of you and what you wanted.

[...] It is only preconceived ideas of a specialized nature that prevent you from seeing that you are successes.

Sex became dangerous—not to protect your persons—which would be delighted, but to protect your rigid, limited ideas of your “artistic selves”—the writer and the artist might be threatened, and so your personal lives must suffer, and the persons be shoved away.

You each produced despite your individual and joint efforts to inhibit other areas of your life; to protect a limited, old idea of what an artist and a writer are. [...]

Now these are merely a few ideas that come to mind, and while you hold them they form the reality in which you exist physically. Change the ideas around completely, and I tell you, you will sell your paintings. While you hold these ideas you are telling yourself that your desire cannot become fact.

[...] The whole idea is not fear of the symptoms that you have. [...]

[...] But the whole idea should be “I am free, to clean the cupboards, to get down on my knees, to get up.” [...]

Give me a moment. (Pause.) The idea of the ad (to sell paintings) is a good one. [...]

[...] You quickly dismissed that idea after a taste of it. Ruburt accepted that idea, believing he must make a choice. [...]

[...] “This time it’s over exercise and related ideas. [...] I remarked about the opinions of others when they read our deleted material after our deaths, for instance, whereupon Jane said that more than once she’d had the idea of destroying all our personal material when we were older.

Children were urged in one way or another to be aggressive, competitive, and generally to fit the conventional idea of the extrovert. [...]

[...] This the day or so after I’d had the idea of calling him to ask him to do this.

These rigid ideas can indeed act as leashes, so that you are forced to circle like a tied puppy dog about a very small radius. In such cases, through perhaps a group of existences, you will find yourself battling against ideas of good and evil, running about in a circle of confusion, doubt, and anxiety.

In the present circumstances you are carrying that idea forward — of species survival regardless of the consequences, the idea of changing the environment to suit your own purposes; and this has led you to a disregard of spiritual truths.

Now: Throughout your reincarnational existences you expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions, your values. [...]

[...] Too narrow ideas of the nature of existence can follow you through several lives if you do not choose to be spiritually and psychically flexible.

[...] Discoveries in this realm will be fully as magnificent as those like discoveries in the world of physical matter; and again, because ideas and psychic energy form the basis of the physical universe, an expansion and thrust in the realm of idea will serve to actually expand and change the nature, scope and dimension of your physical universe, and in a way that could be achieved in no other manner.

(Jane had no idea of the material for the session. [...]

(Note that this relates to the ideas Jane had during her trance experiment of November 4. See page 116.)

Ruburt’s attempt at predictions is an excellent idea and should be continued. [...]

[...] The whole idea of the body’s wearing down, as that is understood in your society, is based upon the idea of the body’s mechanistic model: energy is given at birth, and gradually wears down. [...]

Ideas of course are highly important, for they are a part of your interpretation of the world, of personal events, and they are a part of the symbolizing process. [...]

[...] This noon, for example, after going downtown, leaving your painting, you found that Ruburt wanted a few more windows done, and the innocent window became a symbol, combining the idea of chores with your fear: if anything happened to you, who would do the chores for Ruburt? [...]

[...] The idea of activity, of the body wearing down—all of those issues contributed. [...]

[...] Especially, though, I sensed relationships between Seth’s idea on the one hand, and both the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics and the principle of complementarity on the other.

I doubt if physicists in the 1920s were concerned about the psychological activity of atoms, molecules, or particles, although it seems that Heisenberg came close to Seth’s idea when he considered the free behavior of an electron emitted by a light ray. [...]

Jane is largely unfamiliar with the details of the uncertainty principle and the principle of complementarity, although the general ideas fascinate her. [...]

(Pause.) Again, the world came into being in the same way that any idea does. The physical world expands in the same way that any idea does. [...]

[...] (With many pauses:) When I speak of the dream world, I am not referring to some imaginary realm, but to the kind of world of ideas, of thoughts, of mental actions, out of which all form as you think of it emerges. [...]

[...] An archivist from Manuscripts and Archives has visited us to get a rough idea of the amount of material we have to offer. [...]