“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It is not so much a matter of Ruburt’s vocabulary, incidentally, since even a specialized scientific one would only present these ideas in its own distorted fashion. [...] Words do not exist, for example, for some of the ideas I hope to convey. [...]

[...] Purposely, it is not as yet in any of the books, simply because certain beliefs must be dispensed with before these ideas can be at all accepted.

The deeper explanations, however, demand a further expansion of ideas of consciousness, and a certain reorientation. [...]

[...] Mathematics is a theoretical organized structure that of itself imposes your ideas of order and predictability. [...]

[...] As a result, I played around with the idea of publishing some of Seth’s ideas as my own and hiding their origin. [...]

[...] The idea of hits and misses in ESP investigations was unknown to me. [...]

In 1964, though, when we wrote to Dr. Osis, the trance hadn’t achieved this depth, and I was just getting used to the idea of sitting down in sessions. [...]

The idea of ESP tests still frightened me, but I felt that they were inevitable and necessary.

[...] You have certain pet ideas, therefore, and you use them to structure your own world view of the reality you know. [...] Many of them might work quite well “at home,” but when you begin to journey away from that home station you may find that those same ideas impede your progress.

[...] At the same time your own physical being knows better, and basically cannot accept such a concept.² So in daily life you may project this idea of unworth outward onto another person, who seems then to be your enemy; or upon another nation. [...]

Now when you leave your home station and alter your consciousness, you are always a tourist if you take your own baggage of ideas along with you, and interpret your experiences through your own personal, cultural beliefs. [...]

Give us a moment … When you try these exercises, therefore, make an honest attempt to leave your conventional ideas behind you. [...]

Instead of promoting the idea of man’s inner worth, it has taught people to distrust the inner self and its manifestations. [...]

Amid such a conglomeration of negative suppositions, the idea of a good and innocent inner self seems almost scandalous. [...]

(Long pause at 3:20.) Again, people who have such views of the inner self usually project the same ideas upon nature at large, so that the natural world appears equally mysterious, dangerous, and threatening.

(As far as the Sayre moving idea goes, I told Jane, I didn’t know what to think or say. The idea of uprooting our entire lives at this time seems far out—especially, I told her, when she couldn’t even go with me to look at houses. [...]

[...] Regardless of what you think now, the idea of moving to Sayre should be considered as a very viable probability, for its symbolic content offers additional motive power and strength. [...]

(As today passed Jane picked up from Seth—and herself—material on the events of yesterday afternoon, so that finally she had an idea at least of what Seth would discuss tonight. [...]

[...] Ruburt is working with the nature of impulses, and old ideas about impulses, spontaneity and discipline rose to mind, for the family situation of your brother and his wife almost typifies the kind of situation that Ruburt was determined to avoid. [...]

There are people who work in art departments as a living, gifted certainly more than most with an ability to visually portray an idea. [...]

[...] And at work his art must be further distorted, it seems to him, by the ideas of salesmanship and advertising. [...]

[...] Your ideas of good and evil affect not only your behavior with others, but your activity in a community and in the world at large.

[...] According to the fervor with which you cherish these ideas you will find that they enclose you, for in a very limited manner they will define your concept of good. [...]

(See the 636th session in Chapter Nine for some material on karma, reincarnation, and Seth’s idea of “simultaneous” time.)

[...] You may have one, two or three preferred characteristics that correlate with your ideas, for example, but your concepts about age leave you no such freedom; for at one time or another all of you, “if you are lucky” in your terms, will approach old age.

[...] Only then did conventional ideas come to the forefront. Those ideas themselves emotionally attracted certain aspects of Joseph’s mother. [...]

(“Well, I know you said in the last session [just before 10:33] that from her nonphysical reality my mother isn’t trying to coerce Jane and me into buying Mr. Markle’s house — yet I keep wondering what others will think about the idea of influence being felt in our reality from ‘the other side,’ you might say — ”)

[...] As your intimate daily reality can be involved with and colored by probabilities, brought into your experience by your own desires and beliefs, so is your mass culture, world history, and species orientation colored by probable events that do not fit into your officially recognized idea of physical reality.

[...] “But I’m out of it on this one,” she said, explaining that she didn’t know it well consciously, had little idea of its structure, and couldn’t particularly say what was to come in it. [...]

[...] Simply remind yourself that you are the one who has been projecting these ideas onto your joints and you can remove the ideas. [...]

[...] When you bought the dog, and particularly since your wife was so for the idea, you feared that she also took this as a sign that you had made your mind up to the fact, or faced the fact, that you would be where you are for some time.

[...] You felt your freedom threatened until little by little these ideas began to predominate. [...]

[...] You have the fears that this image can evoke, and you must be very on guard against projecting this idea or image into the future.

[...] Otherwise, with your ideas of applied science and technology, the gadgets will be the pivoting point, and the ideas of manipulation will be stressed. In other words, unless the ideas behind objective science are altered, then gadget-produced altered states will almost certainly be used to manipulate, rather than free, consciousness.

[...] The idea of interrelated fields comes closer, of course, yet even here you are simply changing one kind of term for one like it, only slightly different. [...]

[...] Such ideas involve the physicists’ ongoing conception of the duality of nature. [...]

[...] [We hardly ever talk about whatever personal involvement either of us might have had with reincarnation, incidentally, regardless of whether any such lives would be based upon Seth’s ideas of simultaneous time and probabilities, or upon time as a series of successive moments.] Jane did know that the rest of the session would be for her, though. [...]

Many schools of religion and so-called esoteric knowledge have promoted the idea that sexuality and spirituality were diametrically opposed to each other.

[...] These ideas usually ride along with feelings that power is desirable but dangerous. [...]

Let Ruburt attend, not to his book so much as to the ideas within it that give it meaning—and I bid you a fond good evening. [...]

(This grand idea soon petered out. [...]

As you read this group of sessions, the idea is in no way to accuse the Sinful Self. It is instead to understand it, its needs and motives, and to communicate the idea that it was sold a bad bill of goods in childhood—scared out of its wits, maligned. [...]

The idea is to show it that those beliefs no longer apply, that the framework in which they were learned was highly faulty. [...]

[...] Many of you have been saturated by conventional, distorted ideas concerning health and illness in general. You might think, for example, of the body being invaded by viruses, or attacked by a particular disease, and these ideas, then, may make you question. [...]

[...] Also you picked up his desire to go to battle for, only in this case you are using battle for ideas that you are struggling for. [...]

[...] A strong inclination to go ahead independently with his ideas, balanced by the desire to find security within the system, and the fear to leave it. [...]

[...] From it you form your own ideas of significance and of yourself … You must stop thinking in terms of ordinary progression. [...]

[...] I will make it clearer later in the book.² But your limited ideas of time cause conceptual barriers that operate even when you consider the structure of physical biological life.

[...] (Long pause.) It is important that these ideas be considered.

[...] Your ideas about what is possible and what is not possible are reflected in all areas.

[...] She asked a friend of JP’s to have him send her tear sheets of his last two articles, which I thought an excellent idea. [...]

(After supper this evening, Jane had a rather strong reaction, a new determination that had arisen from her encounters with the idea of impulse and inspiration. [...]

[...] The ideas about the creative personality are erroneous. [...]

[...] The soreness that he experiences at times is a physical result of mental ideas, generally, that it will hurt to face the world, for example, and this new knowledge of impulses, and of his feelings, should help there. [...]

[...] As mentioned, however, the idea of an unsafe universe automatically initiates a certain kind of thinking. [...]

There are all kinds of like suggestions, all meant as preventive measures, but based upon the idea that ill fortune can be most likely expected, and means must be taken to avoid it. [...]

[...] I could have said that one mind had many variations, but then you would still try to understand the concept using your old ideas about identity itself. [...]

[...] The idea of a safe universe seems sacriligious and impractical, and yet the next important breakthrough will be based upon that conclusion. [...]

(Afterwards we talked over Jane’s recent idea — to holding, say, a session per day for six consecutive days, to see how much Seth would get done on the book in such an arbitrary period. [...] The idea never materialized, however, even though Seth had expressed his willingness to try something like this back in March, when Chapter Three was underway. [...]

(At the end of the last session, which was held the day before yesterday, Jane told me that Seth had the rest of Chapter Ten planned; tonight, now, she said she didn’t have the slightest idea of how Seth would continue his work on the chapter.

[...] As a preliminary to the methods I will give later, it is a good idea to ask yourself now and then: “What am I actually conscious of at this time?” Do this when your eyes open, and again when they are closed.

[...] Your ideas of the unconscious are so linked to your limited ideas of personhood as to be meaningless in this discussion. [...]

[...] If I said to you, “I control my dream state,” you might have an idea of what I mean. [...]

[...] You must change your ideas about dreaming, alter your concepts about it, before you can begin to explore it. [...]