“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] We asked that Seth comment on the whole idea of inspiration for her, beyond material he’s already given.

I have given information on this before, but you settled upon the idea of work, as you think of it, because it was the only way at the time that you could justify art to yourself. [...]

[...] Now he did this because of his ideas of work, and of jobs to be done, and effort.

[...] Many of Frank’s ideas are appallingly shortsided, and while you are working with your own beliefs a visit every other week is enough for now—without courting Frank’s opinions, as can happen when Ruburt wants Frank, in conventional terms, to acknowledge improvements that are definitely occurring, but that Frank is too slow to perceive.

[...] But this identification is based upon the idea that without a body there is no self. [...] Obviously, according to this idea, we couldn’t perceive anything if we were out of our bodies. [...]

[...] In other words, I think that ESP abilities are natural ones that we have denied because they seem to contradict our ideas of reality.

Organized religion professes to hold the opposite idea, that man’s identity is independent of physical matter—after death. [...]

[...] If it wants to, science can take a hundred years to accept these ideas. [...]

[...] Carl studied math for two years in college; reading the first session, he said that the ideas presented by Jane in trance made sense to him; he cited some examples to us and worked out some figures, especially concerning quadrants, and drew some diagrams. [...]

[...] (Then Jane said: “I have no idea what this means:” ) And 3 in the yellow column would lead to annihilation. [...]

[...] She still had no real idea of the source of the material. [...]

[...] The dispute had mathematical and philosophical connotations, because the ideas were wrapped up with science somehow.

[...] The last session should be read whenever you feel yourselves falling out of balance with these new ideas. [...]

[...] The idea of a personal universe is highly important, and I will have more to say in that regard.

At such times it is a good idea to give yourself time to relax. [...] The entire idea involves a process in which you try and not try at the same time, in which you do not strain to achieve results, but instead gently begin to allow yourself to follow the contours of your own subjective feelings, to uncover those spiritual and biologically valid beliefs of early childhood, and to bring to them the very best wisdom that you have acquired throughout your life so far.

[...] With some people, however, the idea of death seems to grow obsessive, so that it is felt to be the one escape from life’s problems. [...]

[...] You do not need to worry or deride yourselves for stupidity if it appears (very long pause, eyes closed, at 9:04), looking over the long annals of work that we have done together, that it should have been obvious that our ideas were leading in certain directions—for not only have I been trying to divest you of official ideas, but to prepare you for the acceptance of a new version of reality: A version that could be described in many fashions. [...]

[...] To understand that much alone, to comprehend the simple idea of Framework 2’s indisputable existence is strongly important, however. [...]

[...] For while I was having experience as the Roman, for instance, I had no feeling for Nebene, or Maumee — no idea of reincarnation, or of counterparts either. [...] Now, however, as I write this I can at least feel ideas about them in the back of my mind….

[...] If you have conflicts over the ideas connected with good and evil, or wealth and poverty, then the king might lose his lands or goods, or some catastrophe might befall him.

The reflections of your ideas and intimate emotions are then projected outward in a rich drama. [...]

[...] He may be kingly but poor, signifying the idea that wealth does not necessarily involve physical goods. [...]

[...] Jane is correct in the idea she received from me this afternoon. [...]

Fodor’s idea is that personalities loosely in the same category as myself are indeed legitimate. [...]

Now Ruburt, compared to Jane’s self 3 in these terms, is closer to Jane, so close that Jane has often accepted inspiration and ideas from Ruburt without realizing it. [...]

[...] The sketch merely recorded the idea of what I had seen, and noted the composition, for I thought it would make a good painting. [...]

I affect reality, physical reality, because men’s minds are changed according to their ideas, and we shall change these ideas for the better. The ideas, working through men, will affect physical reality for the better. [...]

(Toward the end of this data, Jane said now at break, she arrived at the idea of a relative of hers who lives in New York City being featured in the photograph of a woman data. However she felt this was incorrect; she could feel Seth leading her away from the idea of this relative, and her name, so she did not give voice to it.

Because you are obsessed with the idea of time as past, present and future, you are forced to think of reincarnations as strung out one before the other, and indeed we speak of past lives simply because you are used to the time sequence concept. [...]

[...] The idea of antidote or change is expressed in the article through Mrs. Berry’s quotes and Peggy’s comments; particularly in the last half.

The idea shape itself is not one unitary thing, for example. The idea shape of this chair is not an absolute unitary, disembodied, or unspirited concept. [...] Jane pounded on the arm of her rocker.) The idea shape of this chair is a composite, a gestalt, formed on the part of each atom and molecule that composes it.

[...] The energy belongs to the idea. [...]

[...] Since this house plant also is developing a brown cast, Jane could know this easily enough once she, or Seth, picked up the idea that the envelope object represented a begonia.

[...] Neither of us have any idea of what day, 4, 24, etc., I took the begonia slip to the office.

[...] It took me a few days to realize that this is a unique idea—certainly it hasn’t been done before. “Every so often I get ideas about it,” she said, but not from Seth, at least yet.... that when you’re a kid you pick up certain ideas about what kind of a person you want to be—from a photograph, a corner of life, an edge, and you put all those little things together into a personality. [...]

[...] Equally important, too was Seth’s idea that Jane no longer needed to try to be “the perfect self.” [...]

[...] Their own nature stresses the idea of disability, say, over constructive work. [...]

[...] “Did you get any ideas?” she asked. [...]

[...] I would like to deviate from the session notes here, and comment that sometimes typing this material several days after it’s been given isn’t easy: One’s ideas change, to such a degree even that opinions and feelings of even a few days ago can seem mightily out of place. [...]

(I have no ideas at all as to the moving-back-to-Sayre business goes. [...]

[...] These ideas are to some extent already present, though they have not predominated in world experience.

This alternate way of thinking is biologically pertinent, for it should be obvious now that certain beliefs and ideas serve to foster health and vitality, while others impede it.

These ideas are translations of the emotional attitudes of all portions of nature and of life itself. [...]

[...] Her first massive sensations in March [estimated], 1962, were followed by these phenomena in 1963: our York Beach experiences in August; her reception of Idea Construction in September; her massive feelings in October [estimated]; the outline she produced for ESP Power [or The Coming of Seth] as a result of the Idea Construction adventure; and the beginning of these sessions in November, through our trying certain experiments listed in that outline [as Jane explains in Chapter 1 of The Seth Material]. It didn’t occur to us to label any of those events as “psychic” until the event of Idea Construction. [...]

[...] I thought it a good sign, actually, since these young people would one day be playing roles in society; at least, I thought, they’d have been exposed to what we thought were good ideas in their formative years.

Though the fanatic may make much noise in the world, he is actually isolated from all of the world’s ideas except his own. [...]

[...] They serve as focus points for others who have the same ideas but are afraid to really face them or admit their beliefs. [...]

Whenever you reinforce the ideas of threat, defense must be built up. [...]

[...] (Slowly and quietly:) Your present idea of identity is maintained only because you grant as valid such small aspects of your own reality.

Here also ideas of time hamper you, for I must explain all of this in temporal terms. [...]

(Long pause.) The plant has its own “idea” of itself, in which each of its leaves has its part. [...]

[...] Ideas of cause and effect can hold you back here, because it seems to you that the leaves of next year come as an effect caused by this year’s leaves.¹⁰ To the plant and its innate creative pattern, however, all of its manifestations are one — an expression of itself, each portion different. [...]

[...] The idea is current in academic psychologicalcircles that the child exists psychologically intact in the man, that the man contains within him the psychological replica of the child that was.

(She said that although she had a good idea of the reasons for her upset this afternoon, she didn’t make conscious connections with her childhood friend, Eddie Briscoe.

[...] The idea of inverted time states that time flows in all directions, and that as each action affects every other action, so time constantly affects itself and continually reacts within itself. [...]

[...] She keeps a brief daily record of activities, and verified her idea. [...]

I could not have explained moment points to you, for example, until I had clearly given the idea of the spacious present. [...]

[...] The card bears the expiration date, and Jane got at the idea of this by gesturing boldly with her arm, finishing up the several lines of data with “as something canceled.” [...]

[...] It is fairly easy to insert the idea of water, but this may lead him personally to think of the Gulf of Mexico, or the ocean off of Marathon, or even of the Atlantic at York Beach. [...]

[...] I had an idea about the first bit of data.

[...] The world as you know it therefore at any given time is pervaded by its own “ground feeling-tone” in quotes, which becomes the medium from which and in which other feelings and ideas emerge.

The creative liberation in his own work (since Seth’s book has been finished Jane has started two books of her own) is a clear symptom on the positive side of the change in feeling-tone, as was the more expansive idea of adding to your establishment. [...]

[...] Since it dealt with parents, I brought up a thought I’d been entertaining, although I told Jane I wasn’t sure it was such a good idea after all.

[...] Both grandmothers, while seeming so different, were more than usually concerned with the nature of the soul, and their idea of what religion was.

[...] Within you concepts and actions are one, and you recognize this, and your inner lives are based upon it, but your mental lives are often based upon ideas, until recently, have been considered very modern and very in, such as the idea of evolution. [...]

[...] For several reasons, not all of them are religious, many of them simply cultural, you do not relate on a deep level to some of the people with whom you deal, the ordinary, square parishioner with quite conventional religious ideas. You cannot explain your ideas in his terms, and you cannot accept his interpretation. [...]

[...] And when you go home you should be able to feel your own vitality free for once without so many ideas about when it can be used and when it shall not be used and without putting up so many barriers. [...]

Now do not bring me down in this particular subject to specifics this evening because you can help aged parents out of a feeling of vengeance and be very glad that you are strong and they are weak and take great unholy pride over the idea that you are finally stronger than they are. [...]