“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The idea of which you were speaking earlier this evening is a good one, and shows already that you have begun to change habits of thought. [...]

(Jane brought up the idea at the supper table: Having the sessions printed up for distribution as a course which could be subscribed to. [...]

[...] Your ideas are the words and the chapters. [...]

[...] I would give you if I could some idea to let you know that your problems are fleeting, but I can only tell you this. [...]

[...] And as yet you have little idea of its significance and meaning, not only to you personally. [...]

[...] I am here simply at Seth’s request to tell you that the dimension that you know is but a small spot in the all of reality, and also, that your concept of a god is highly distorted by three-dimensional concepts and ideas. [...]

Now, again, these ideas may seem impossibly rich for your mental blood because of your propensity toward serial thought and three-dimensional attitudes.

[...] It is impossible for any being to be sterile, for any idea to die, or any ability to go unfulfilled.

Ideas that you have entertained and not used may be picked up in this same manner by other probable you’s. Each of these probable selves consider themselves the real you, of course, and to any one of them you would be the probable self; but through the inner senses all of you are aware of your part in this gestalt.

[...] Ideas may be inserted in your case through the subconscious while the individual sleeps. When this happens then following your own psychological patterns the ideas would emerge more or less naturally, with little hint of their origin, and, the individual involved could well consider them his own.

You block out the realization of nontime, and accept your ideas of time along with the camouflage structure, for one is dependent upon the other. [...]

[...] You do not defend any idea with violence. With violence you kill an idea. [...]

[...] Since many of them are unaware of your idea of time, they would find it difficult to understand that you perceive events with intervals between, and would not perceive the inner organization that you thrust upon your normal environment. [...]

[...] For some reason I felt uneasy now; perhaps I thought it might not be a good idea to interrupt the flow of the book in such a manner.

[...] The bulk, or mass, is perceived whether or not the ideas have ever been materialized as physical matter. Whenever you come in contact with a particular idea form, and this will only happen in projections, then you will automatically perceive that form with bulk or mass.

(Of course the emotional involvement and reaction between us and my parents is strong, and would tend to override more specific details of the envelope object itself, once Jane had picked up the idea of my mother. Jane had the idea of Mother’s greeting card in mind from the start of the envelope data, she said. [...]

[...] I give voice to ideas that are known to various levels of your personalities, yet I am not at the level of your personalities.

In other systems the same energy idea will be transformed in a different way entirely, even as the physical objects within your universe are perceived in entirely different ways to others not within your system. [...]

(By his own definition Seth is no longer a physical being, although he’s told us he’s lived a number of previous lives; thus, ideas of reincarnation enter into his material. Mass Events is the sixth¹ book that Seth has produced — all of them with Jane’s active cooperation, obviously, as well as my own, since I write down his material verbatim, then add my own notes. [...]

[...] The idea of infinity is implied here — a concept whose implications make us uneasy, for although Seth’s material can be said to imply infinities of creation upon the part of each of us, still we realize the conscious mind’s inability to truly grasp all of the qualities inherent within such a notion.

(At the same time, Jane and I are extremely grateful that we have the opportunity to study ideas about consciousness with Seth, and this opening up of our individual realities is something we couldn’t have conceived of before 1963. [...]

[...] Ideas change the chromosomes, but the sessions and Ruburt’s books, and so forth, must first and foremost be joyful expressions of creativity, spontaneous expressions that fall into their own order…. [...]

[...] Poetry, however, did not fit into his current ideas about work, and so that excellent creativity was hardly counted at all.

Many of the ideas in our current book will be accepted by scientists most dubiously, though some, of course, will grasp what I will be saying. [...]

There is a part of man that Knows, with a capital K. That is the portion of him, of course, that is born and grows to maturity even while the lungs or digestive processes do not read learned treatises on the body’s “machinery,” ⁶ so in our book we will hope to arouse within the reader, of whatever persuasion, a kind of subjective evidence, a resonance between ideas and being. [...]

[...] To which, understandably enough, those scientists who do accept the reality of mind reply that neither can the idea be falsified that only what is “physical” is real.

[...] As mentioned earlier, your ideas of perfection mean a state of fulfillment beyond which there is no future growth, and no such state exists. [...]

[...] If you do not have too-rigid ideas of perfection, then ordinary denial serves a quite practical purpose. [...]

Nor was the idea of self-sacrifice then involved. [...]

[...] But the main idea is the affirmation that the physical being, the self that you know, is not annihilated with death. [...]

In regard to your dream: The shakiness represented values and ideas from your mother, primarily about work — beliefs you always felt were shaky. [...]

Again, do review Wednesday’s session often — and it is a good idea to designate Day 1 and so forth, as each of you try to make this a new beginning, and take each day as it is, one day at a time. [...]

(The session is included in the regular series because of the voice effects; the fact that both Seth & his entity spoke; some new ideas from both entities; and because no regular session was held the next day, Wednesday, July 16.

[...] Jane said she felt it was a good session, an unusual occasion to get some new ideas, so she went along with Seth & his entity. [...]

(It wasn’t until I was typing up these notes at 9 PM on the same day, that Jane realized she could have been in at least a light trance while giving the material; at first she thought she had not been, but then realized she retained only a hazy idea of the material’s content—just that it was optimistic. [...]

(We think such psychometrizing of emotionally-charged mail a good idea, and Jane has decided to keep experimenting in this fashion. [...]

[...] My idea had been that the cans—getting to them, digging them out—had represented my searching for negative beliefs so I could dispose of them —but Jane said the idea of nourishment was involved. [...]

You and Ruburt interpreted the dream correctly—the idea being that nourishment can come in many different cans, or under many appearances—already prepared, already available and at hand, even though you may not at first realize the fact. [...]

[...] He has therefore never pushed you really to make a change since that time, and has pushed such ideas away from him, although he feels that the longer you stay at Artistic the more unhappy you will be; and there is also in him, and in you, a fear of making a move in physical terms. [...]

[...] Then the old ideas of hopelessness settled back in, particularly when Ruburt discovered the taxes. [...]

[...] Some of your ideas are legitimate interpretations of the facts, but other are exaggerations. [...]

[...] If you read books in which you are told that a certain object always represents such and such, then you are like the artist who accepts the critic’s idea of the symbols in his own work. [...]

[...] One of the latest ideas is that certain mental conditions are caused by chemical imbalances. [...]

[...] So, in the barrage of mass ideas to the opposite, those who try to allow themselves the benefit of their own innate healing must usually face the stress of wondering whether or not they are right.

A problem caused by guilt, for example, physically materialized as a malady, is meant to lead you to face and conquer the idea of guilt, the belief in it that you hold in your conscious mind. [...]

Some of this has to do with distorted ideas of both the conscious and unconscious minds, using your terms now. [...]

Through the ages, again, underground philosophies have tried to combine the two concepts, usually going from one extreme to the other in combating the current ideas in historical terms. [...]

An attempt must be made to correlate seemingly diverse aspects of experience, to combine ideas of light and dark, consciousness and unconsciousness, and so forth, not only in private but mass experience.

I bid you then a fond good evening — and I suggest that you two at least try some of these ideas that we are offering to others. [...]

(Jane said she had no idea of what Seth would talk about this evening, as she lay her glasses on the table at 9 PM. [...]

Ruburt may have no idea, but I have several.

[...] I am using the current idea simply to explain. [...]

[...] Your influence over others will be heightened, and during such periods you will project emotions and ideas with great clearness. [...]

In the terms of evolution as you like to think of it, ideas are more important than genes (quietly), for we are again dealing with more than the surfaces of events. [...] Your cultures—your civilizations—obviously affect the well-being of your species, and those cultures are formed by your ideas, and forged through the use of your imaginations and your intellects.

(Long pause in an intent delivery.) The entire idea of evolution, of course, requires strict adherence to the concept of continuing time, and the changes that time brings, and such concepts can at best provide the most surface kind of explanation for the existence of your species or any other.

I am not here specifically blaming Christianity, for far before its emergence, your ideas (underlined) and beliefs about good and evil [were] far more important in all matters regarding the species than any simple questions of genetic variances, natural selection, or environmental influence. [...]

[...] My idea here was that as soon as I had a session typed from my original “shorthand,” Jane could add whatever she wanted to about her trance states, feelings, or ideas, while the session circumstances were still fresh in her mind.

(Jane said very little when I sprang the idea of a new book on her during the supper hour. [...]

[...] At least, I don’t have an idea in my head.”