“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It took me a while to discover that I was being as prejudiced against the idea of survival as some others were for it. Now I realize that while I was priding myself on my open-mindedness, my mental flexibility extended only to ideas that fit in with my own preconceptions. [...]

[...] Telepathically, we are all aware of the mass ideas from which we form our overall conception of physical reality.

[...] I found the ideas presented in the Seth Material fascinating, but I was not about to accept them as the same kind of solid fact with which I accepted, say, the bacon I eat for breakfast. [...]

The Seth Material has completely changed my ideas of the nature of reality, and reinforced my sense of identity. [...]

[...] I think it came to me because of my concern recently over the new idea I’d come across—concerning Jane’s ideas about her relationship with Seth, her feelings about her abilities versus his, etc. [...]

[...] As some of his other less auspicious ideas came into prominence, however, that natural healthy withdrawing tendency was also used to some extent (underlined) as a framework that was overextended. [...]

[...] The idea of a public life—to some extent, now—has hung over his head, so to speak, almost like a threat. [...]

[...] He is excellent at communicating ideas in writing or vocally, gifted in understanding people—so those abilities do come to his aid in public speaking engagements. [...]

[...] The idea being that positive thought within these broad outlines would pay rich dividends.)

[...] You will also find that the idea of space is a part of you, and it will be given to you in this environment or another. [...]

The idea of financial abundance and of an abundance of the good things in life will not limit you, nor limit the means possible by which they will come to you. [...]

If you reread much of the material you will again discover truths that escaped you; for I tell you precisely how the ideas in your book operate. [...]

The idea of—not perfection, now, but excellence—is presented to consciousness in many ways and in many guises, and the ideal of excellence serves as an impetus for consciousness, an excellence of pattern. [...]

[...] The purpose, a good one, was to protect and develop them in the circumstances in which Ruburt found himself, and in line with his other ideas about the nature of reality.

[...] This in itself is good, but his idea of “work” was what limited him, and what is still limiting him. [...]

(An added note: I now also realize that my not having an outside job helps Jane perpetuate her symptoms—the idea of “protecting” me against the world, etc. [...]

First of all, for Ruburt’s idea of an automobile. For his ideas are simpler and easier to explain. [...]

[...] Nor had she made any great connection with the idea of her father being a traveling man. My idea was that Seth had mentioned these things briefly in much earlier sessions.

(“I pick up a very distant connection with Wisconsin, which I do not understand”, puzzled Jane, since she had no idea of what this could mean. [...] A trip to the newsstand to check verified my idea; Model Railroader has editorial offices in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [...]

[...] Do you have any idea of what I am speaking?

1. Just before giving the 861st session last week, Jane received from Seth some intriguing material on the idea that in psychological therapy, the good intents and impulses beneath the client’s emotional and physical hassles should be searched out by the analyst. [...] It was very promising material, she told me, and could help change conventional ideas of therapy. [...] She was quite excited by the new ideas she’d presented herself with.

(Tonight, Jane repeated an idea she’d started talking about before holding the 861st nonbook session just a week ago: She thinks Seth is in the process of finishing Mass Events. [...]

[...] While I attempted to sleep, one idea from among many sprang out at me, literally shocking me: ‘We are IN God. We were NEVER externalized!’ These words do little to explain my emotional, subjective feelings of participation in this idea. [...]

(“Each of these ideas came as emotional revelations, accompanied by various bodily sensations and alterations of visual perception. [...]

[...] In Chapter One of The Seth Material, she describes her first “trip” through an altered state of consciousness — and how it resulted in the production of her manuscript, The Physical Universe as Idea Construction. [...]

[...] Such ideas are mirrored in your society in innumerable fashions, and in areas in which values of good and evil are not apparent. [...]

[...] In periods of concentrated focus, with all distractions cut out, the desired ideas are then implanted (in formal hypnosis). [...]

[...] The idea takes hold. [...]

[...] It is only in those compartments of your life that confound you that you suddenly begin to wonder what is happening — but here also, natural hypnosis is at work just as easily and naturally, and your conscious ideas are automatically coming to physical fruition. [...]

In formal hypnosis you make an agreement with the hypnotist: For a while you will accept his ideas about reality instead of your own. [...]

[...] To make an idea clear I must often resort to ideas of time that are current with you. [...]

In the intellectual development of the idea I shall, of course, decide that you exist. [...]

[...] Leading you, I hope, sweetly and gently up the path that I want you to follow, and broadening your ideas so that you will be able to read the regular Seth material and follow it. [...]

[...] This one (Daniel) has the idea that he can skim on through. [...]

[...] Now, she finds that the idea of simultaneity of “reincarnational” lives is quite acceptable; this fits her emotional and intellectual temperament. When the sessions began, Jane was especially bothered by what she called the trite and popular ideas about reincarnation, mixed up as they were with ideas of good and evil, punishment, etc.

I am myself using simple terms here to try and make these ideas clearer. [...]

[...] Only your rigid ideas of time and consciousness make these statements seem strange to you; for in a larger context, again, I can remember Seth Two. [...]

[...] There are, then, “spirits” of all natural things — but unfortunately, even when you consider such possibilities you project your own religious ideas of good and evil upon them. [...] If you do entertain such ideas yourself, you must often personify such spirits, projecting upon them your own ideas of personhood. [...]

[...] With all of their dire faults and distortions, religions have at least kept alive the idea of unseen, valid worlds, and given some affirmation to concepts that are literally known by the cells. [...]

This (precognitive ability) steers the cell through mazes of probabilities, while allowing it to retain knowledge of its own greatest fulfillment — the idea of itself, which is always alive in any given period of your time. [...]

[...] In certain terms they become the cell’s private “idea” of its own growth and development, a picture alive within the cell in terms of physical information, a part of its structure. [...]

[...] You are the judge and the final word in that regard, so that as your ideas change, as you move toward one probable self and decide upon that as your official³ self, you will always have a rich bank of probable actions to choose from. [...]

[...] The nature of consciousness as you understand it as a species will, in one way or another, lead you beyond your limited ideas of reality, for your experience will set challenges that cannot be solved within your current framework. [...]

[...] There were an infinite number of ideas behind all of those decisions. [...]

(I discussed with Seth the surprise with which Jane and I have watched young people take to his ideas on time, dreams, clairvoyance, telepathy, etc.; with this I speculated as to the reaction of Jane or myself had we been introduced to such ideas at the age of 20 or so. Seth said there was no cause for surprise here, that young people are intuitively aware of much more than one gives them credit for, and that when Jane and I meet young people who express interest we should help them by recommending books, giving our own ideas, etc.

[...] Earlier in the evening we had noted a similarity in some of the comments on her manuscript with J.B. Priestley’s ideas on time. Jane had the idea that Priestley and our unknown commentator were contemporaries. [...]

[...] Jane said she had an image of a star of sorts, and that this gave her the idea of fireworks shooting into the sky—thus the idea of a geyser, and something rising and explosive, etc.

[...] It occurs to me however that it would be advantageous to include in the middle section my ideas concerning the construction of physical matter, the inverted time system, moment points, a discussion concerning the dream universe, and the system of probability. [...]

(11:10.) In this case the other person has no idea as to why you reacted in such a fashion, and is deeply hurt. [...] The trouble is that ideas of right and wrong are intimately involved with your chemistry, and you cannot separate your moral values from your body.

[...] In the same way, the growth of any idea into temporal realization is the result of creative aggression. [...]

[...] The fact is that before being “assailed” by what may seem to be such terrifying unnatural ideas, you have already blocked off an endless variety of far less drastic ones, any of which you could have expressed quite safely and naturally in daily life. [...]

[...] To do it you must have a sense of courage and adventuresomeness; and tell yourself that you refuse to be cowed by ideas that after all belong to you, but are not you.

[...] They do not insist that everyone believe in their ideas, but they are stubborn in that they insist upon the right to believe in their own ideas, and will avoid all coercion.

[...] Instead, during the last week he let his own creative imagination go wherever it might while he held the general idea in his mind. [...]

[...] The idea is an old one; it is based upon the reality of counterparts, and presents another version of the theory. [...]

[...] I liked that idea much better. [...]

[...] And I learned during the day that our talk had upset her considerably, even though I’d told her I felt that there was “a lot of hope” in the ideas expressed in our discussion. [...]

[...] Although Jane enjoys the sessions, as Seth himself said in the session for February 1, 1981 She is still somewhat afraid of what he will produce in the future—new theories and ideas that either might or will place her in further confrontation with the major tenets of our ordinary world—meaning science, religion, medicine, history, whatever. [...]

(“The insight also reminds me of one of my questions for Seth: I plan to ask him for hints about what sort of ideas he would advance if he’s given the freedom to do so by Jane. [...]

[...] We agreed the insight represented something of a new idea.

[...] Disinfectants and the symbolic chase after germs—these simply serve as a symbolic but helpful aid in ridding the atmosphere of the idea of illness.

The ideas initiated this evening are good ones. [...]

[...] He has been depriving it physically, in a misguided attempt to force it into the ego’s idea of spirituality.

[...] When the situations developed which we have discussed, setting off the old conflicts, again you see, then the discipline idea was short-circuited back to the old compulsive behavior, though in different form, and with the old religious connotation of self-denial. [...]

You still cling, however, to ideas that I tell you now are outmoded, passé and alien to the level of consciousness that is really native to you now. [...] Creativity exists outside of time, yet your society gives you the idea that so many hours, whatever the number, must result in so many dollars—and you (to me) still cling, underneath, to that concept. [...]

[...] That idea has impeded your creativity. [...]

[...] Passé ideas, that do not belong with the level of awareness that you are achieving.

[...] Your ideas of time, jointly and individually, have hampered your creativity. [...]

The ideal may be specific, then, or ill-defined, and man’s idea of “the good” varies considerably. The better you can define your idea of the ideal, the better off you are, for it—the definition—at least clears your own mind, and suggests lines of action too. [...]

Dream one is in answer to Ruburt’s wondering whether or not it was a good idea to make out a will now, rather than to wait until a later date.

[...] The dream said “Do not wait too late to set up the legal mechanism,” and affirmed that Yale was at least a good idea. [...]

I try my best (louder) to define and redefine your ideas of the ideal, so that you can achieve greater practical benefits, and feel some satisfaction with the actualization of at least portions of the ideal in daily life.

[...] During one of our discussions yesterday, also, I mentioned to Jane some of my own ideas about the power of the Sinful Self, according to Seth’s material. For even though it was seemingly somewhat isolated or cut off from the personality’s creative processes, as well as from many current events and ideas, still it had that power to so drastically influence the physical body. [...]

[...] At the same time, for many reasons, he had the idea that he was expected to be not merely a well-adapted natural person, but a kind of superself, solving other people’s problems, being a public personality, a psychic performer, and so forth. [...]

[...] The entire idea of responsibility has been over-stressed. [...]

[...] The idea of responsibility has hampered him. [...]