“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your ideas about sexuality and your beliefs about the nature of the psyche often paint a picture of very contradictory elements. The psyche and its relationship to sexuality affects your ideas of health and illness, creativity, and all of the ordinary areas of individual life. [...]

[...] For example, in many cases the gentle “homosexual” father has a better innate idea of manliness than a heterosexual male who believes that men must be cruel, insensitive, and competitive. [...]

[...] Many of Freud’s sexual ideas did not reflect man’s natural condition. [...]

[...] Those ideas serve as handy explanations for behavior that is not inherent or biologically pertinent.

(Just before 9:45 Jane told me I could have material from Seth on the glasses idea, or on his book. [...]

[...] Coué was a pioneer in the study of suggestion, and wrote a book on the subject in the 1920’s. His ideas were well received in Europe at the time, but weren’t in this country to any large degree. [...]

[...] Jane and I think the idea of such self-centered genetic behavior is much too limited, simple, and “mechanistic,” to use another term that’s currently in scientific vogue. The idea of selfish genes also implies plan on the part of such entities — and so comes dangerously close to contradicting several basic tenets of science itself: among them that life arose by chance, that it perpetuates itself through random mutations and the struggle for existence (or natural selection), and that basically life has no meaning.

[...] When people are hurt in a natural disaster, for example, they will often profess to have no idea at all for such involvement. [...]

[...] Some may be flirting with the idea of death, and choose a dramatic encounter with nature in the final act. [...]

[...] Some are rebelling against commonly held ideas of competition. [...]

The idea image of the physical body is of course retained by the individual. The idea shape may be used or not used, according to when and in which manners the personality wishes to extend itself. [...]

[...] And for a reason too difficult now to explain, intensity, while having a certain sort of mass that is not matter, of course, does not have anything like your idea of size.

At a later date I will explain the true nature of this electrical reality, since your idea of electrical reality is extremely limited, and within your field it is perceived but dimly, as a mere shadow of itself.

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

[...] Since matter is constantly re-created, and instantaneous, many of your ideas of time are of course distorted, since you have taken it for granted that matter changes with, or in, time. [...]

[...] This particular idea is one that I have been most concerned with getting over, and I hope that I have laid the ground properly for it.

When I use the word interval I am of course using it to make the idea understandable. [...]

[...] Ruburt does not like the idea of brotherhoods, alive or dead, so I should not use that phrase. [...] It is impossible to speak to you in terms of membership, however, for the idea of individuality is not clear with you yet, and you would think in terms of how many individuals.

[...] It was also a way that Ruburt used to translate the idea of the particular kind of creativity involved; the idea, indeed, of birth, for this is the birth or a system, of a new kind of reality, that this group is involved with. [...]

[...] The second voice, therefore, also had its own part to play, bringing in the idea, hopefully, both of ancient knowledge and of youth. And in that case, the feminine idea was not used. [...]

[...] They are given much more, for example, to ideas rather than to the various camouflage realities within systems. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s Idea Construction was rather amazing. The inner senses provided him with much, but nevertheless the ideas contained represented an achievement of the conscious mind. [...]

[...] Then I want to mention briefly Ruburt’s idea of my idea about the bed, and I want to at least mention the condensed time concept, and cover briefly something new, which is the self-conscious self behind the ego.

[...] There is a reciprocal agreement here, and a give and take that is unlike your friend’s idea of invasion.

[...] His conscious and unconscious mind had to be acquainted with certain ideas to begin with, in order for the complexity of this material to come through.

[...] The idea was that my belief in an extraordinary or supernatural force, working through nature, sustained me as a child. When I saw through the conventions and dogmas of the church, I threw the whole idea overboard. [...]

[...] Or take twenty minutes when you can, with those rackets (badminton), so that running is combined with the idea of fun.

Lift up his rib cage area (gesture,) so that he gets the idea of that up and down easy motion. [...]

The Ambrose affair represents your ideas about money and the upper classes. [...] To some extent the conflicting ideas represent some of your own—hence your being in the middle.

[...] It does mean that you settle for a reasonable amount of privacy, but that you do not carry the idea to extremes. [...]

[...] Your own ideas however of privacy and so forth in your society requires a certain amount of cash. [...]

[...] I am not telling you to forget your own finances, but the contractor’s idea of the physical worth of the Foster house has only an adjacent connection with its values to you. [...]

(She had no idea what Seth would talk about tonight. [...]

[...] Because those ideas still are largely in the mainstream of your society, your television news, newspapers, and magazines are invisibly slanted. [...]

[...] (I laughed.) Those ideas to begin with began with individuals. [...]

Those ideas do not exist alone. [...]

[...] We viewed this idea and the cone effect as Jane’s efforts to construct methods to explain the sessions’ data on levels close to consciousness.

I will try in your future to explain basic systems of co-ordinates so that you will have some conception of how all creative and inspirational ideas always appear within your system; for only one portion of you appears isolated within it.

[...] But I thought it a good idea not to continue this exchange too long.)

[...] I just wanted Jane to hear from you tonight so she can get an idea of what’s going on.)

[...] I thought I had a good idea there, and Jane agreed. [...]

It is a good idea for now not to concentrate upon that leg, or what it must do eventually in order for walking to take place. [...]

[...] Of course, the lipstick is an excellent idea, and the eyebrow pencil, so that he begins to care for his face as he used to. [...]

[...] You do not simply change, or enlarge, your ideas or beliefs about the past — but you change the events of the past themselves for yourself, and sometimes for others also.

[...] He might be too relaxed to get up for an hour or so, or need your help at the moment, but the body is simply not going to collapse if it relaxes, and those ideas could impede your progress. That is exactly what Ruburt has feared, relaxing, so such ideas seem to confirm such needless worries to some degree.

It is a good idea to use after-suggestions, continuing the benefits during later portions of the day or evening. [...]

[...] Your remarks, however, and his use of them, became an example of creative suggestive behavior, for he seized upon the idea of the luxury of motion, and realized that relaxation is motion. [...]

[...] Ideas of virtue, spareness and artistic single attentiveness as opposed to the idea of extravagance, the scattering of energies, or pleasure as a tempting disruptive force; all such beliefs are suddenly shaken up in a new bag, so to speak, so that you can distinguish between them with some new understanding. [...]

In a fashion this would indeed represent a very desirable arrangement over a period of years, one that Ruburt could take advantage of, one that could serve you by also presenting you with a different framework through which to view your painting and visual world, one in which the idea of water as motion was always present. [...]

(9:00 during a rather steady, emphatic delivery.) Man has within him the need to rest and to explore, to stay by “the hills of home,” (from Thomas Wolfe), and to explore beyond them, but such a relatively accessible second environment does have certain advantages for you and Ruburt over those it sometimes presents for others, and such a willingness to explore the probability alone can give you some excellent results by providing a new elasticity of attitude, and in a fashion by bringing home in a different way the idea that the present is the point of power. [...]

[...] The rope jumping is a good idea from this standpoint. [...]

This does not mean that she does not consider such ideas now and then, but she is not actively concerned with them.

[...] Be alert for intuitional signs and ideas however that come to you.

[...] It is a good idea however for you to request such personal information.

[...] Ruburt used painting as an art in the dream rather than writing (pause), because it symbolized your joint ideas of art—to some extent, now—and allowed him to have you in his mind as he viewed the dream events.

And in the past, he toyed with some of those ideas and positions. [...]

[...] The dream gave him three scenes representing various areas of his life in terms of time—the institution of the gallery and his early ideas, the office representing the world, and his hiding place, which was a kind of storage barn. [...]

[...] You did not know where the action was, so your idea about reality kept you in a state of fighting dragons. [...]

[...] The last session, mentioning your joint ideas of time, is highly important. [...]

[...] The idea of safety is of prime importance.

(Jane’s ideas — and mine, too — have matured considerably since I wrote a month ago that she was thinking of converting half of our garage into a writing room, with its attendant back porch. [...]

[...] All of these, however, strain the individual’s biological sense of integrity, reinforce ideas of danger, and shrink the area of psychological safety that is necessary to maintain the quality possible in life. [...]

I do not intend to give a treatise upon the biological structures of the body and their interworkings, but only to add such information in that line that is not currently known, and is otherwise important to the ideas I have in mind. [...]

[...] I never ask Seth about Atlantis; I’m afraid the cultish ideas connected with it turned me off long ago.”

[...] We were left thinking that the general tone of Seth’s material early in the session, especially in his references to such ideas as “historical sequences” and “alternate realities,” might have served as a trigger.