“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Pause.) Because ideas and beliefs have this electromagnetic reality, then, constant interplay between those strongly contradictory beliefs can cause great power blocks, impeding the flow of inner energy outward. [...] Unassimilated beliefs, unexamined ideas, can seem to adopt a life of their own. [...]

[...] Parallel with the belief that vision will fail, you may have the before-mentioned belief that hearing will dim, and these two ideas may be reinforced by a belief that age automatically makes you less a person, turning you into an individual who can no longer relate in the daily pattern of environment. [...]

You must understand, again, that your ideas and thoughts do not exist as phantoms or shadow images without substance. [...]

[...] Easier to face, often, is the idea that the responsibility for such ideas must belong to another entity or being. [...]

[...] Other such ideas can also close you off from help, of course, but you will instinctively look for it and use it when possible.

(11:15 p.m. I chose a break in order to see if Jane still wanted me to ask Seth about the ideas she’d talked about before the session. [...]

[...] The simple event of Ruburt reading Hoyle’s book: Ruburt began reading certain ideas with which he is not yet consciously familiar. Some of those ideas, however, were picked up in California. [...] I am aware of his emotional ideas, of course, and to an important degree I am free of his prejudices, but more than that, in certain terms, my consciousness is not limited, so that I can take from Ruburt’s understanding his good comprehension of where science is, and then tell you where an enlightened science might go.

Ruburt has been remembering the idea of effortlessness, and that is all-important.

(Jane well remembers the evening when she first consciously conceived Idea Construction, and so do I. Checking her manuscripts yields the date of September 10,1963, as when she made her first notes. I remember walking out to the living room where she writes her poetry, having finished my own work in my studio in the back of the apartment at about 9 PM; Jane’s first words were “Boy, have I got a great idea,” or to that effect. She then told me about idea construction, which I didn’t go for very much. Checking with her while writing this up, she said that she never did do any poetry that night; the idea came to her as she sat down to write poetry after supper, and she spent the evening on it.

(It might be interesting to quote here the first paragraph of notes Jane made that evening: “Basic idea is that the senses are developed not to permit awareness of an already existing material world, but to create it. The inner image [idea] is projected by the senses outward to create the world of appearances. [...]

Our friend Ruburt prides himself that his conscious self, before the sessions began, started a book called The Physical Universe as Idea Construction. [...]

The idea that sparked the book came to him, though he may forget, in two ways. [...]

[...] Do not forget Framework 2. Ruburt need not go abroad in the world to promote our ideas, nor have I ever suggested it. The ideas are best promoted through these sessions, and books—and not by hasty encounters on television, where answers must be simplified and ideas diluted, but in the reasoned writings that build in their own way, tell Ruburt, resting upon the great framework of the intuitions’ knowledge. [...]

[...] Then, as of Monday, he can begin to correlate the new physical activity with his writing, gently, by settling upon three hours a day of the basic “time put in”—but with the stress upon creativity, ideas, and free creative play that may or may not include Seven on any given day.

[...] I am aware of your difficulties with time, practically, and yet freeing yourself of the ideas of work as you have begun to do lately with “Unknown” frees your creativity, and you concentrate better and more clearly. [...]

[...] In your society, with your ideas, you have paved a way for yourselves. [...]

[...] Whatever violence you did you did because you thought it was good and met a worthy end then; therefore, be careful of those ideas that you entertain now and what you will do to defend them. [...] The most bloodthirsty acts have been done because men believed themselves right and so they killed to uphold their worthy ideas. So be even playful with your ideas and what you believe, for no idea is worth killing for in your terms. [...]

[...] Therefore, be careful of those ideas now that you entertain of good and evil. [...]

[...] And so as all things that have come and gone already begun and in their beginning they change and alter, creativity once more arises and you play your part in it and you find yourselves embarked in a new world, in new sensations, in new encounters with self, even though the sense even now passes away and you know where the future is behind you and the past that is yet to come for the past is forever as new as the future and in all things are there beginnings without endings and even your ideas of endings rouse themselves and can never pass away. [...]

[...] Ideas of retirement fall generally into the same pattern, for hidden within them is the belief that at one time or another, at a specific age, your powers will begin to fail. These ideas are usually accepted by young and old alike. [...]

[...] At the same time it seems that Jane is trying to convey several sounds or ideas at once, with but one set of vocal chords.

[...] Some in this group also subscribe to philosophical ideas that somewhat moderate those concepts, recognizing the importance of the mind. [...]

[...] You begin a round of diets, all based on the idea that you are overweight because you eat too much. [...]

[...] Grace gave John sales figures for Seth Speaks which are much too low, so we really have little idea of how the book is selling, judging by those. [...]

[...] The idea of not having enough time becomes your badge of virtue, showing that you are hard-working and not “an indolent artist.”

(9:40.) You have built up the idea of free time being wrong, sinful, no matter what you tell yourself about wanting more of it. [...]

Your ideas of time however are detrimental. [...]

[...] Jim agreed that it might be a good idea for him to begin reading back sessions while Jane and I were holding our Wednesday night sessions, thus killing two birds with one idea. [...]

There is also a mechanism within the subconscious that allows for the materialization or projection of idea or inner vitality into physical construction. [...]

The capacity and mechanism necessary to project idea into physical matter is, therefore, present in the individual atom and molecule. [...]

The ability to project idea or energy into physical construction is, therefore, generalized throughout the whole physical human body, and throughout the bodies of any living thing. [...]

(“When will Jane’s book on idea construction be finished?”)

[...] Physical world is idea construction, as all worlds are.

[...] She began the book on idea construction with an obvious burst of intuition on Sept. [...]

[...] You had no such ideas of a safe universe then. [...] But even the sloppy workers will indeed pick up your ideas of excellence, and try to translate them, finding even a new satisfaction in their work—but only if you think of what you want as a product, and not what you fear you will get instead.

[...] (Long pause.) The idea of counterparts was meant to lead you beyond time-oriented reincarnational ideas.

If you choose a safe universe then you may indeed find some old habitual ideas, thoughts or beliefs, coming to haunt you. [...]

Now in one context those ideas are valid, but they are also deceiving—because your present focus will determine which reincarnational episodes you become aware of (intently). [...]

The trouble with most ideas concerning evolution is that they are all one-sided—all loaded, of course, at man’s end at the expense of the other species, and [with] all thinking in terms of progress along very narrow consecutive lines. Such ideas have much to do with the way you think of yourselves, and what you consider human characteristics, and the light in which you view those who vary in one way or another from those norms.

[...] In your society, however, the capacities of the reasoning mind have been considered in opposition to the intuitive abilities, so that your ideas of what a person is or should be largely ignore the idea of emotional achievement, emotional understanding.

[...] Your technology, however, as it stands, has to some important degree—but not entirely—been based upon a scientific philosophy that denies the very idea of value fulfillment. [...]

[...] The true motion of the species, however, has always been psychological, or psychic if you prefer, involving the exploration of ideas. [...]

The idea is current. [...] In your physical constructions of the television set then, you are aided generally by the current idea of television set, as it exists in mass knowledge.

This applies generally with most other idea constructions, and later we will discuss the construction of an unfamiliar idea into physical construction which is then classed as an invention. [...]

[...] She had no idea of Seth’s subject matter for the evening. [...]

(Here Seth refers to Jane’s book, The World as Idea Construction, which she began in the latter part of last year, 1963. [...]

[...] He did so this evening also, of course, when he remarked at 10:59 that our “ideas of Atlantis are partially composed of future memories” — thus leaving room for past manifestations. Seth’s theory of simultaneous time, which can encompass the notion of future probabilities projected backward into an apparent past, for instance, leaves great leeway for the interpretation of events or questions, however, and makes the idea of contradiction posed by an Atlantis in the past and one in the future too simple as an explanation. [...]

[...] The whole idea of probable realities seems strange or esoteric only because you are not used to following your own thought processes.

Then you feel as if you are the pawns of fate, and the idea of probable actions seems like the sheerest nonsense. [...]

[...] You begin to feel threatened, determined to uphold your old ideas of selfhood. [...]

Ideas have changed also since your boyhood, when those ideas were instilled in you. [...]

[...] Behind this is still the idea that self-disapproval is somehow valuable—it will somehow make you better. [...]

You may have accepted some of these ideas from your parents. [...]

[...] I want to impress upon you the fact that all of this simply follows the natural function of the mind, and to dispel any ideas that you have about the “magical” aspects of hypnosis.

[...] Spending a longer period of time simply reinforces the idea of problems involved.

Inspired by Jane’s ideas, Laurel wrote on September 27, 1994:

So far, metaphysics has only been entertainment, a step-science of our culture; part of the extended family of science for the purposes of inspiration and ideas, but not given credit as scientific truth. [...]

[...] Natural magic: This process can bring you more complex ideas and proof than you conceived of.

(I spent the afternoon using the pendulum and compiling a list of foods Jane shouldn’t eat, according to my own subconscious ideas. The idea was to see how accurate my delineations had been. [...]

[...] Nursery school seemed to offer a compromise between your idea of a regular job, and his own dislike of one. [...]

All of these issues bear on Ruburt’s idea of a job. [...]

There is literally tremendous energy that can be used and tapped for your benefit, and for the benefit of others in connection with Ruburt’s idea for classes.

Now, you were early given the idea that a portion of your personality was guilty and therefore you were relieved when you were told that there were methods whereby you could receive this guilt. You accepted, for example, the penances and so forth because as a child, given the idea of guilt, you wondered what punishment would befall you. [...]

[...] Because their idea of reality is limited, why should you limit yours? [...] That is what you are doing when you limit your own idea of reality. [...]

[...] The body breathes beautifully in a highly disciplined manner and knows nothing of your idea of discipline. [...]

[...] You organize physical reality, then, through ideas. You use only those perceptions that serve to give those ideas validity. [...]

[...] Certainly technological development appears to have been built most securely upon a body of concrete ideas.

The world’s ideas, fantasies, or myths may seem far divorced from current experience — yet all that you know or experience has its origin in that creative dimension of existence that I am terming Framework 2. In a manner of speaking your factual world rises on a bed of fantasy, myth, and imagination, from which all of your detailed paraphernalia emerge. [...]

[...] To some extent or another, however, all of these ideas program your interpretation of events.