“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] At 8:55 Jane had no idea whether or not Seth would appear, and she did not seem to be nervous. [...]

Your idea of keeping detailed records of psychological time experiments is an excellent one. [...]

[...] You will feel aggressive, happy, despairing, or determined according to events that happen to you, your beliefs about yourself in relation to them, and your ideas of who and what you are. [...]

Many such philosophies make you cower at the idea of entertaining “negative” thoughts or emotions. [...]

[...] Any creative idea is aggressive. [...]

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

All of this reminds me of my old idea of a projected book: The Contents of the Mind, or the Unofficial Contents of the Mind. After reading this first page of notes about Peg G. and the paintings, I remember my old ideas … that we organize the contents of our minds along certain lines that then become habitual.

Furthermore, Ruburt did not like the idea of making an invitation on such short notice. Then he became aware that those particular thoughts were intrusive, completely out of context with his immediately previous ones, for only a moment or so earlier he had been congratulating himself precisely because he had made no plans for the day or evening at all … about fifteen minutes later he found the same ideas returning, this time more insistently.

The idea is to be alert for psychological contents of the mind that we usually ignore, that science can’t prove or disprove … where we take experience over theory.

[...] Several ideas had come to me on my journey into the bedroom and back. [...] “I can tell you what I’m thinking,” I said, “or write down my ideas and you can read them later....” [...]

[...] Jane had no idea of how she could “wake up” in her trance state instead of her usual awake state of consciousness.

[...] “I gave up on that idea after Frank [Longwell] and I couldn’t convince you to try that course last summer. [...]

(“I don’t want to do that,” Jane said about the hospital idea. [...]

In your terms, the ideas of good and evil help you recognize the sacredness of existence, the responsibility of consciousness. The ideas of opposites also are necessary guide lines for the developing ego. [...]

[...] Their idea of one god was not new to them. [...]

The Hebrews conceived of an overseer god, an angry and just and sometimes cruel god; and many sects denied, then, the idea that other living beings beside man possessed inner spirits. [...]

(10:24.) God, therefore, became an idea projected outward, independent of the individual, divorced from nature. [...]

Again, your idea of personhood limits you when you think of these concepts. [...] If you can think of your present idea of identity as if it were but one shape or one motion of a moving particle, a shape or a motion that never loses its imprint or meaning, then you could also see how you could follow it forward or backward to the shape or motion taken “before or afterward.”

6. Several of my drawings in Part Two of Adventures relate visually to the idea of an “original self” (or “source self,” in Jane’s vocabulary) that never appears in physical reality. [...]

9. A note added two months later: In retrospect it’s easy to see that while discussing his ideas of counterparts here, Seth was also preparing us for the families-of-consciousness material he was to start giving in January 1975. [...]

[...] In the 687th session, Seth stated: “I am saying that the individual self must become consciously aware of far more reality; that it must allow its recognition of identity to expand … move beyond the concepts of one god, one self, one body, one world, as those ideas are currently understood.”

[...] But he seemed open to her ideas. [...]

[...] So could the idea of reincarnation, and of counterparts, I added —three situations not considered within our ordinary contemporary scheme of things.)

[...] But on the other hand the mother was early frightened by the idea of a vital male baby, who might be overly rambunctious and difficult to control. [...]

(As we talked about Seth’s statement, and decided we should concentrate upon beneficial things, Jane then wanted to know how this idea fits in with the importance of not repressing negative thoughts. [...]

[...] It is the conscientious self, incidentally, who attaches the idea of good and bad to emotions. [...]

[...] Your idea of getting up at five is (underlined) an excellent one. [...]

[...] She discussed various recent attitudes, ideas and actions, etc., and became somewhat excited talking about them. [...]

[...] For to carry the idea through, he would have to stop completely.

[...] The idea of napping evocatively brings it to mind in less severe form, so that a nap was not a creative refreshing time, but a cop-out. [...]

He received excellent ideas the other night, for Seven, after painting all day. [...]

[...] The concentration, again, on ideas, dreams, and suggestions for out-of-bodies will be quite helpful.

[...] I have no ideas at all about doing a book of my own.)

[...] He can be working out his ideas however in the meantime, as this will be most beneficial. Even though some of his ideas will change, he will still need these present ideas as a basis.

[...] If you would have some idea of what the probable universe system is like, then examine your own dreams, looking for those events which do not have any strong (underline) resemblance to physical events in your own conscious existence. [...]

[...] So far you have had little experience with these other “centers”—you may put that in quotation marks—but before too long we shall give you some ideas so that you may become at least slightly acquainted. [...]

[...] When the time for the envelope experiment arrived, I then had the idea the envelope contained another object, one I had thought of earlier in the day. [...]

(Long pause at 7:34.) His ideas had somehow led me to the point where the very dimensions of experience should change. [...]

[...] Old ideas of the survival of the fittest, conventional evolutionary processes, gods and goddesses, cannot hope to explain the “mystery of the universe”—but when we use our own abilities gladly and freely, we come so close to being what we are that sometimes we come close to being what the universe is. [...]

You are insisting that your negative ideas are reality. [...]

[...] Your own ideas concerning the artist in society being poor, mistreated and at the mercy of others—now this is a core belief of yours that you consider a truth, and the nature of reality.

I am using the different terms simply to give you an idea of how the language can be used to free your ideas about familiar things. [...]

[...] The word cordella, now for example, was used instead of alphabet to break your ordinary conceptions of alphabet while conveying an idea of symbols closely allied, and upon which alphabets are based.

Think in terms of impressionism and its values, then switch to the idea of a Sumari language and see the connection, and the purposes that can be served. [...]

[...] At the same time he tempered his ideas with passages like this one, from the 870th session for Chapter 10.)

[...] In their ways, the warden and guards subscribe to the same set of beliefs as that held by their prisoners — the idea of force and power is accentuated on both sides, and each believes the other its enemy.

[...] Following such ideas, you end up with segregations in which the ill, being powerless, are isolated; the criminals are kept together; and the old are held in institutions or in cultural ghettos with their own kind. [...]

[...] (Pause.) If you accept the basic idea that evil is more powerful than good, then your beneficial acts will bear little fruit because of your own framework; you assign such small power of action to them.

If you accept the idea that knowledge is “bad,” for instance, then in line with that belief all of your efforts to learn will be futile, or bring you great discomfort. [...]

[...] Ideas are transmitted from generation to generation—and those ideas are the carriers of all of your reality, its joys and its agonies. [...]

[...] We have no idea of pressing Seth’s personal information upon David; doing that would be an invasion of his privacy. [...]

[...] The “new” Freudian ideas of the unsavory unconscious led further to a new dilemma, for it was then—as it is now—widely believed that as the result of experiences in infancy the subconscious, or unconscious, might very well sabotage the best interests of the conscious personality, and trick it into illness and disaster.

Science, however, seeing the body as a mechanism, has promoted the idea that consciousness is trapped within a mechanical model, that man’s suffering is mechanically caused in that regard: You simply give the machine some better parts and all will be well (amused). Science also operates as magic, of course, so on some occasions the belief in science itself will seemingly work miracles: The new heart will give a man new heart, for example.

In the past Ruburt helped you generate such negative ideas, but he has been making an attempt to combat them. [...]

[...] Then switch your thoughts to ideas of plenty. [...]

[...] It will initiate intuitive concepts, ideas in your work which will automatically attract others to possess them. [...]

[...] The inner resistance to these ideas I am presenting should to some extent vanish as you reread the session. [...]

[...] They understand the multiplicity that resides within the idea of single personhood. [...]

[...] The creative abilities join the creator and created (long pause) in a behavior in which for example, now, the painting that is to be affects the creator of it before its inception and before its form, so that the two are connected in a kind of behavior in which at deeper levels the ideas of cause and effect can have no meaning. [...]

[...] I think I made clear our current ideas about insurance, our work, the need for privacy, our opinions of various doctors and the medical establishment versus the lack of psychology they often display, and so forth. [...]

[...] I’m still pursuing my new ideas about ignoring as much as possible any potential hassles, and focusing on my creative work each day.

[...] A nice idea, and I could have used such a shelter last week, all right. [...]