“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Those whose ideas and perceptions of reality are completely out of line with the general agreement are called insane. [...]

(Thus also she has no idea of what size calendar page might be involved.

(The calendar data would be another reference to the memo pad and calendar idea explained earlier. [...]

[...] Jane’s idea here is that starred event could refer to her liking the job after a good deal of trouble finding one that proved suitable.

(9:30.) Certain ideas he has now are in a stage of transition still, a necessary stage. [...] It is not that he need concentrate on negative ideas. [...]

[...] Because you will not face the material, you cannot counter it with other conscious ideas, or generate other emotional feelings that would help you.

[...] Ruburt acted out his ideas of a conventional medium for Tam, who in a dream state perceived Ruburt’s dramatization.

[...] (Quite successfully.) Once he saw himself simply (underlined) as a psychic, he became prey to all of the conventional psychic ideas, afraid of the sexual-demon characteristics connected with out-of-bodies, for example.

In, I repeat, conventional ideas of evolution,¹ this would be a period in which your kind of consciousness experimented with a water environment, with fins instead of lungs. [...] Particularly without offending your ideas of selfhood — yet each of you “alive” died in just such a manner.

[...] You preserve these ideas by thinking of animals as beneath you. [...]

2. While Seth was giving his material on the fetus, I found myself recalling some ideas I’ve mentioned to Jane at various times during the last couple of years, and have written about briefly:

Of course, these ideas would apply to any form of life as we ordinarily think of that quality. [...]

[...] I was just presented with an excellent example of the ideas I’ve been discussing. [...] More ideas came to me that I scribbled down in the bedroom. [...]

When Seth began this manuscript, I was personally working with the idea of “heroic impulses” (those separate from our usual ones) that would operate as inner impetuses toward constructive action. [...]

If so, though, such altered “between world” personalities can be remarkably stable; and if they form according to our ideas of individuality, they can certainly outdo us in their unique complexity. [...]

No sooner did I sit down than such a rich vein of material opened that I could hardly write fast enough to get it all down; and it began where my earlier ideas had ended off. [...]

[...] I’m not writing here about rationalizing the existence of one or more probable selves to account for personal shortcomings in this reality, however, but of simply using the idea to enlarge our basic notions of the human potential. [...]

The sportsman that you might have been would have gathered, from that same available background, other attitudes and ideas that would have fit in with his concept of himself, and with his core focus. [...]

[...] Our idea was that Seth sought to use the idea of a relative connection with the object. [...]

[...] You usually think out an idea. [...]

[...] The form that you see will allow you to have some idea of your abilities in any given projection. [...]

[...] There is also a general idea connection with what follows and the envelope object.)

[...] Our ideas of what was possible were being turned topsy-turvy. [...] Yet we could hardly blame Seth, since the séance was our idea to begin with. [...]

[...] We had only the foggiest idea of what a séance was, never having attended one. [...]

When Seth took over, his confidence knocked all other ideas or doubts from my mind. [...]

[...] We had no idea that it was actually a highly simplified explanation, cleverly geared to our own level of understanding at the time. [...]

[...] It is true enough within the present framework of your knowledge, and the idea will work in the same way that the cause and effect theory works, which is only up to a certain point.

The idea will seem legitimate, and then suddenly it will fall apart. [...]

I will let you take a break and we shall continue as we are getting across some excellent ideas this evening.

[...] She was aware of nothing but the material while speaking, and felt the ideas were good. [...]

(10:10.) I have tried to give you some idea of the far-reaching creative effects of your own thoughts. [...]

The back room idea, however, will serve to reinforce the private nature of the sessions in your own minds. [...]

The idea of the back room will also serve as a psychological set for withdrawal from ordinary physical concerns and relationships with others. [...]

[...] But first you must divest yourself of the idea that your creaturehood is suspect. [...]

[...] A good general question, we think, and one we’d like to see discussed with our own ideas of the inviolate nature of the individual in mind, has to do with the prevalence of ordinary, daily, conscious-mind thinking and perception throughout much of the world. [...]

Yet Buddhist belief, for instance, maintains that our perception of the world is not fundamental, but an illusion; our “ignorance” of this basic undifferentiated “suchness” then results in the division of reality into objects and ideas. [...]

[...] Since we are involved in this discussion I will give you a simple analogy, and please understand that it is an analogy, meant only to simplify the idea.

(Jane had felt the ideas were coming to her so rapidly she couldn’t speak fast enough to keep up, whereas actually the delivery had been a slow one for the most part. [...]

For this reason your ideas of time and identity remain limited. [...]

[...] Later, fingers are dispensed with but the idea of counting remains. [...]

[...] In your dream, that reincarnational self may appear as a minor character, quite on the periphery of your attention, and if the dream were to include an idea, say, for a play or an invention, then that play or invention might appear as a physical event in both historic times, to whatever degree it would be possible for the two individuals living in time to interpret that information. [...]

[...] They should mix and merge with your brushstrokes, so that the idea of your subject matter is almost magically contained in each spot of paint, and that is what you are learning. [...]

[...] In her own direct cognition Jane deals with feelings and ideas that are often quite divorced from any such reliability and acceptance.

[...] They try to pass on the ideas to parents or children, and to interpret them through home life, and through areas of work and community. [...]

The ideas will grow in any case. [...]

[...] The other ideas I mentioned, to some extent now cast an unclear light, so that the attitudes they evoke are in conflict with your original, most persuasive goals.

[...] Good ideas are going out into the world. [...]

Your ready answers end up limiting your own experience, because you try to fit your subjective behavior into the cramped boot of preconceived ideas. [...]

[...] At the same time, I was thinking as I wrote that Seth’s sentence, above: “You cannot understand perceived events unless you understand who perceives them,” embodied one of his best ideas in “Unknown” Reality.)

[...] Do not overlay the personal daily aspects of your life with preconceived ideas about who you are, what you are, where you are, why you are. [...]

[...] Refuse to accept ideas that limit the dimensions of your own natural being. [...]

Now: Distorted ideas about sexuality prevent many people from attaining any close connection with the inner experience that continually stirs beneath ordinary consciousness. It is a good idea, then, to look at the psyche and its relationship to sexual identity.

Males who are creatively gifted find themselves in some dilemma, for their rich, sensed creativity comes into direct conflict with their ideas of virility. [...]

[...] If you have any direct experience with your own psyche, then you will most likely find yourself encountering some kinds of events that will not easily fit with your own ideas about your sexual nature.

[...] Only the reasoning mind, it seems, has any idea of order, discipline, or control.

Ideas about conservation enter in as a result of my comments about alternate sources of energy, of course, and these are related to a number of deep desires that Jane and I have. [...]

[...] The material came in ideas, though, not in Seth’s ‘finished copy.’ I told Rob about it when he came back, and now this morning I’ll see what I can recall for these notes.

“The idea is that the scientists’ system of beliefs is bound to result in some destructive action; that is, the implied attitudes of today’s scientists lead them to be less careful of life than they should be, and separate them from nature in a way that leads to some contempt on their parts of individual living things. [...]

Remember what I said earlier, that we form physical reality as a replica of our inner ideas. [...] She projected her ideas of reality outward, and they literally led her to destruction.

[...] He stated his ideas on health as clearly and directly as possible, dealing with their practical application. [...] I am also sure that readers who understand and follow Seth’s ideas on health will find their own greatly improved.

[...] Seth’s ideas on this subject have been of great value to Rob and me, and to everyone who has come in contact with them. [...]

[...] Even though we realized that she was literally making herself sick, we had no idea that she was “sick to death.”

[...] In Note 1 for Appendix 18, I wrote that I wanted to at least briefly discuss Seth Two in another appendix for this Volume 2, “the idea being that that material can be taken as an extension of the Jane-Ruburt-Seth study presented here.” [...]

(With Seth’s help Jane first encountered the idea of Seth Two in the 406th session for April 22, 1968. [...]

(These two ideas from Seth, which came through in connection with his data on moment points, are to me very suggestive of the concept of long sound. [...]

[...] Just before its start, Jane had had the self-conscious idea that she should rub between her eyes with a circular motion — “You know, where the third eye⁵ would be….” [...]

It is an excellent idea for Ruburt to tell his arms and legs that it is perfectly safe for them to straighten out, to stretch and flex, and to use their normal capacity for motion. [...]

It would be a good idea once or twice for him to remember the Jungle Gym (in Webster, New York where my younger brother Bill and his family live), and the first time he remembered faltering in a physical fashion. [...]

[...] He agreed with my idea to open a separate account for fund checks. [...]

[...] I’ve never forgotten that idea. [...]