“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Have Ruburt play with his ideas and with the ideas in my book, and not overstress this idea of responsibility, particularly as far as my books are concerned. [...]

[...] She’s had some encouraging results, and we plan to give the idea a good try. [...]

Those ideas have been in your mind for some time, and they automatically throw a damper on your creative spontaneity. [...]

A note: Beside your dream images, and so forth, which are indeed an excellent idea, you have advantages here that the young man of some 20 or 30 years ago would have envied: he would have been delighted with the screened-in porches. [...]

[...] I typed half of it Tuesday night; but Tuesday morning, in keeping with our idea to ground ourselves in new ideas each day, I read the full session to her from my notes.

[...] The thought came to me after supper that Jane’s doing the ESP classes probably contributed to the symptoms over the years, since the class situation was one in which she advanced her unconventional ideas to the public. I haven’t had a chance to discuss this with her, but it seems possible that her disseminating her ideas to a large number of people, in person each week, could have struck her deep-seated need for protection.... [...]

[...] The importance of impulses was stressed in particular, and the acceptance of such an idea is important to Ruburt’s recovery, of course—but also vital in the behavior of nations. [...]

[...] The nuances, which are important, appear in many groups of sessions, given in the past, and also include his reaction to attitudes of your own, which to some extent helped form and solidify his own ideas in those regards. [...]

[...] They will be possessed by an idea of change and alteration, and will feel, at least, driven or compelled to make that idea a reality. [...]

[...] Seth didn’t suggest that we buy that particular place, and had he done so I’m fairly sure we’d have rejected the idea. [...]

[...] They know how to put other people’s ideas together. [...]

[...] They usually set up fairly stable, fairly reasonable governments, schools, fraternities, although they do not initiate the ideas behind those structures.

[...] We had no idea if Jane’s pendulum data was the magic we were looking for, but at least we hadn’t considered this idea before. [...]

[...] Much more talk followed; we speculated about ramifications stemming from the idea that the house was involved. [...]

[...] He also felt that a house might interfere with your ideas of work—the added responsibility, and he kept that in mind.

The pendulum work and the ideas on the part of the intuitive self began the process, but then the emotional state had to be quieted from a peak condition in order for the session to proceed.

No thought or idea is extinguished, and they all follow the laws which I am in the process of giving you. The growth of an idea takes up no space. [...]

This in many instances will be distasteful to many, but all physical constructions are transformations of energy made manifest as idea, and then constructed into physical reality. Without the idea you have no physical reality, and without belief that our aims are possible, there will be no achievement. [...]

There religious interests, therefore, are repeated in the present personality, but efforts are made to tie these ideas into the world of so-called reality. [...]

[...] You are always and constantly in the process of transforming energy from the inner senses into physical idea constructions. [...]

[...] This time the orator part of you is still strong in that you want to teach and like to talk and to discuss issues—but also at the same time you wanted the sense of security that you felt the other brother had—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. [...]

(Jane strongly disliked the idea of the large refrigerator in the kitchen, and actively resisted Seth’s concern with the problem. [...] I did not care for this idea but decided to see what developed, mainly for future reference.

[...] You will not be plagued certainly with furniture-moving ideas of this type.

[...] “The idea is in no way to accuse the sinful self,” Seth said on April 28. “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…. [...]

[...] My idea is that the eyes get bad after the muscular strain reaches a certain point. The idea [of protection] also came back after reading a book on William James that a friend gave us for Christmas. [...]

[...] [Rob’s emphasis:] But far more than Rob from the beginning, I was nervous and anxious about directly coming out with many of the ideas—which at the same time I fervently and even passionately believe in…. [...] Yet I’ve always known that these ideas conflicted with official ones. [...]

[...] Once I think the title of a children’s tale appeared in the air in large block letters, the idea also being that outside of the known order provided by these stories, there were raging forces working against man’s existence. (The old idea of Pandora’s box comes to mind.)

[...] Ideas for poetry, in particular, came so quickly that I hardly had time to write them down. It wasn’t too difficult to trace most of these to the “Idea Construction” manuscript. [...]

[...] Interestingly enough, reincarnation wasn’t a part of the “Idea Construction” experience. Those ideas were imbedded in me so thoroughly that I would never doubt them.

During the rest of that September in 1963, I reread the “Idea Construction” manuscript many times, trying to understand it and hoping to recapture some of the feelings I had had during its delivery. [...]

Because of the Miss Cunningham dream and the “Idea Construction” experience, Rob suggested that I try some experiments in ESP and expansion of consciousness and do a book on the results — negative or positive. [...]

The idea of a van to Florida led Ruburt into daydreaming, though he was very frightened of the idea, but you immediately thought of the difficulties, that it would not work, and overall neither of you have applied creative, imaginative, positive thought, steadily. [...]

[...] The conscientious self groups about ideas of right and wrong. [...]

Those ideas are quite conscious when you allow them to surface. [...]

At the risk of sounding childishly simple I will say, and I will not be understood, that each creation of idea or matter, physical matter, is a first creation.

[...] He forms the idea into a dream object or event with amazing discrimination, so that the dream object itself gains existence, and exists in numerous dimensions.

I do not care if this idea now appears impossible or farfetched, either to you and Ruburt or to others. [...]

[...] Certain symbols are constructed into realities in the dream universe, then, in much the same manner that certain ideas are constructed into matter in the physical universe.

[...] Most of the ideas that you stated were highly pertinent, applying specifically to Ruburt’s situation —but very touchy for him. [...]

[...] He was fairly young, then, however, when he first encountered conflicts between creativity as such, intuitive knowledge, and other people’s ideas about reality. [...]

[...] The whole idea of being a “psychic” was completely new. [...]

[...] Part of that blockage was also directly related to his ideas of work and responsibility. [...]

[...] When the natural freely creative energies were aroused in you, you instantly dispensed with all ideas of a commercial market, and completely divorced the idea of painting from selling for the reasons given.

One of the reasons why he did not understand that the spontaneous intuitive self was the deeply creative and therefore deeply stable self, was that he identified it with his idea of femininity as he unfortunately misunderstood it. [...]

He feels also that this image suits your ideas, as indeed it does to a large degree. [...]

[...] This further led to a recognition of the basic uselessness of many of the ideas upon which your existences had been based, and upon which your society was based. [...]

[...] You are indeed obsessed with the idea of marriage, and with male love, but as Joseph mentioned this is but a symptom.

This idea that you must (underlined) find a man that will love you and you alone, is a cover to hide this deeper refusal to accept life on life’s terms. [...]

[...] Ruburt has ridiculed the conventional idea of a god who says “Do what I want you to do or I will destroy you,” and yet you say to life “Give me what I want or I threaten to destroy myself.”

[...] When you understand my idea of life, then you do not destroy yourself in any form. [...]

Your ideas about mail are excellent, and could not come until each of you had some faith in others, for before you would not trust mail to class.

Ruburt’s idea did come from me, about your reincarnational episodes, and your personal experience illustrates what I am saying in the book—the individual’s history is written in the psyche, and can indeed be uncovered. [...]

In actuality, people in those circumstances are often so frightened of the use of power that the idea of being under constant surveillance actually lends them a sense of protection.

In the same fashion, the person who hallucinates the voice of God or a demon actually does so to preserve the idea of sanity in his own mind. [...]

Now there is even something like the idea of a personality god, but hardly in the terms used by theologians. [...]

Many of the old ideas of precivilization come closer to anything near the truth. [...]

The ego’s false ideas prevent it from accepting this energy, but once the ego is aware of its position as a portion of the self, then it should not be shunted aside, but can take its place. [...]

[...] Seth now looked at Tom.) And his initial reaction, his initial ideas to this issue, will give way to a more reasoning attitude. His initial idea therefore will not be the best one.

[...] To some extent your own quite natural hesitations and fears and conscious ideas still limit the full and comprehensive nature of the material that you could be receiving.

[...] (To Tom:) You have a tendency at times to water down certain ideas because they would suggest alterations in your attitude that you are not as yet willing to accept. [...]

[...] They will come with time, as your ideas on religion have changed...

(In the last session, Seth began discussing separate photographs of Jane and me [taken at the ages of 12 and 2, respectively] in connection with his ideas about probable selves. [...]

Now: When I speak of probable selves, of course I am not speaking of some symbolic portion of the personality structure, or using the idea of probabilities as an analogy.

[...] From my present viewpoint I had no idea if she’d consciously or unconsciously experienced any influx of energy resulting from the death of a probable self during that decade. [...]

[...] I added that perhaps the important thing for us now was to observe our unfolding lives with Seth’s ideas of the larger, or whole self, in mind, and so achieve insights we could interpret in terms of probabilities. [...]

All of this is interwound with the idea that personality is composed of action. [...] His ideas on God are a natural and fascinating extension of these theories.

“But the idea of self-betrayal can lead to distortions.”

I had no idea how to tell Rob that I was out of my body, as Seth was carrying on as usual. [...]

All of this was highly interesting to Phil, who had no idea where the woman lived, and knew nothing about her except her name and probable age. [...]