“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Your writing ideas are good. The two of you in fact together, briefly, even for a short time discussing those ideas, can generate some of the best creative work that either of you have ever known. [...]

(Long pause at 7:44.) Now, he more or less thinks that he must and should return to “work” immediately, where instead a more relaxed attitude would allow his natural feelings, his love of ideas and his interest in our work to naturally show their results again, with the most natural balance of recuperation. [...]

[...] “With our ideas, however, there are no props available, just waiting to be used, no organizations that personify or represent the core of our beliefs—only the individual more or less stubbornly interacting with a private universe, trying to establish this new beachhead.”

[...] This on Thursday, May 1. F. Halliday could not believe the parking lot idea, saying she had been told a “circular driveway” was all that had been planned, curving around the doctor’s house next door, and not disturbing much property. She had no idea that much of the yard on the side of the house, from the street to the far back fence, had been earmarked by our landlord for sale to Dr Levine for a parking lot.

[...] While the emphasis in our last sessions has been mainly on Ruburt’s condition, there is a definite overall general application, and this portion of the material will someday be used, though not verbatim, in a book having to do with my ideas on health.

They attempt to straighten out his basic ideas. [...]

[...] Neither of your ideas were tempered by the ideas of the other, therefore, nor were your feelings about these life problems. [...]

[...] You, now, did for some time get into the habit of nonsmiling, which led Ruburt to further reinforce his own negative ideas of what you are thinking. [...]

You must forget the ideas you have about each other, and look at the living emotional selves upon which you have built and projected. [...]

[...] There’s more than just the idea of conciseness involved, though: such answers are also just different—unexpectedly so, and they make us consider old objects or ideas in new and equally valid ways. [...]

[...] The antagonism he had for testing came not from the idea itself, as much as from the idea of focusing upon detail for detail’s sake. [...]

[...] But now my idea of great defiance was to miss a session, to go out and get a beer and let the psychologist go stare at his old vase or ink spot or whatever he’d chosen for that night’s test.

With no idea of how we were doing, I couldn’t have cared less, finally, what Dr. Instream was concentrating on. [...]

[...] First Seth gave a page or so of impressions, names, initials, events, and so forth, that he said he “derived from a certain portion of the girl’s consciousness—disjointed memories, thoughts, and ideas.

I had no idea whether or not Seth would come through that night. [...]

[...] At the same time they were intensely interested in Seth’s ideas that consciousness can be expanded safely and without drugs, using his methods. [...]

“Your idea of time is false. [...]

[...] In her mind, Freud’s ideas of repressed subconscious material merged with religious teachings of hell and the origin of sin. [...] I personally think that these distorted ideas about the nature of the inner self represent the main impediments to dream recall or to any real study of the subjective personality.

Just reading such ideas will never convince you of their validity. [...]

[...] The whole idea of deliberate dream recall was new to us. [...]

The unseen self is not a dungeon of repressed ideas and feelings, dangerous to behold, but the fountainhead of individual existence, upon which our present physical survival is dependent. [...]

[...] The idea of an infinitely expanding universe, with all of its stars ultimately burned out and all life extinct, is still the view largely accepted today; it’s based on the red shift measurements of some of the supposedly receding galaxies, their apparent brightnesses, the “missing mass” of the universe, and other very technical data. [...] But again, these ideas aren’t based on the kind of thinking Seth espouses (that consciousness comes first, that its creations are continuous), but upon other quite complicated camouflage observations and measurements. [...]

[...] The volume’s learned author treats the idea as just an idea, however, and a pretty far-out one at that — while here Jane demonstrated her version of the same principle in a practical way. [...]

(Slowly:) Your idea of space travel, for example, is to journey over the “skin of your universe.” [...]

[...] So far, your ideas of space travel involve that kind of surface navigation. [...]

[...] The idea being that if it became part of the regular session routine Jane would forget about it, thus allowing any possible effects to come through without worrying about them. At first I was joking about the idea, but when Jane said it was all right to go ahead with the idea, I took her up on it. [...]

[...] Jane gave no sign of any kind, and Seth had not even mentioned the candle; I had thought he might smile at the idea. [...]

(“Do you think this kind of test is a good idea?”)

There is nothing wrong with the idea. [...]

[...] She didn’t feel Seth around and had no idea what he might talk about, or whether the session would be long or short. [...]

[...] The dream (last night) reflected and updated old Sumari traditions that honored God as a god of festivals, of celebration, traditions, that built upon the idea of life itself as a celebration. [...]

[...] It clearly foreshadows certain ideas in the Seth material, which she was to begin delivering 19 months later. [...]

It is no coincidence that he also began working upon a novel idea, and no coincidence that further insights appeared to him this evening, and that the physical organism was almost immediately relieved. [...]

[...] On the other hand the moving of the bookcase to divide the work area showed even before his novel idea that his spontaneity was emerging fully within his work again, and that the work area was therefore to be separated from social activities.

[...] Therefore he carried this attitude into the dream state, and rebelled against the idea of working while he slept. [...]

Now, in terms of growth and development and speaking now simply to get the idea across, theoretically, you are working toward a time when the you that you now know will be aware of the entire personality and accept it as your identity. [...]

I do it for several reasons because that is the way I am, in the guise that I choose to use in my communication and also to get everyone over the idea that so-called spirits must be sweet-faced, quiet, sober and dignified. [...]

[...] And it has taken me some time to get the idea of probable realities to your heads, and I knew that someone at sometime would ask me about reincarnational selves and so I suppose it behooves me to try to give you an answer, and it is this. [...]

(To Joel) Now, I want our friend over here, our spontaneous friend, to grapple with the ideas of the soul and reincarnational probable selves. [...]

[...] Ruburt feared that the point had been reached beyond which you could not afford to go, while still maintaining those ideas, ideals and goals that were your own.

[...] After a while despite yourself you take on to some extent the coloration and attitudes of others who live by compromise entirely, until your own clear-cut ideas and purposes seem more and more unrealistic.

[...] Your own ideas and goals are worthy ones, and yours for a reason. [...]

[...] The situation however is such that almost any clear emotion is automatically denied expression, shunted aside and often replaced completely by an opposite—all under the guise of the idea of (in quotes) “being good and understanding.”

[...] Your idea, or psychologists’ idea of environment for example, will come close to what I mean. [...]

[...] I do not want either of you to become overtired, and I do not want to prolong a session when I have delivered my lecture for the night, simply because of any arbitrary idea of time involved, especially when you can both use the sleep.

[...] You must by now have some idea of what it means to take so much of your clock time for our sessions.

[...] Ruburt’s idea of taking the children’s classes at the gallery is a good one. [...]

But as you will see, we form our physical reality not only now and after death, but through at least several lifetimes, as we learn to translate energy and idea into experience. [...] Perhaps after reading the next two chapters you’ll see why I finally accepted the idea of reincarnation after having been “dead set” against it.

[...] Without realizing it we project our ideas outward to form physical reality. [...]

These are Seth’s ideas as simply as I can put them. [...]

[...] The lights had all been lit, but I just couldn’t accept the idea of an apparition.

These are not sharp images, but he already begins to build up ideas of shape and form. [...]

[...] By the time he is born he has already learned to accept his parents’ idea of what reality is. [...]

It will be a good idea for you and he to begin gently (underlined) exercising the right knee and leg, through easy motions. [...]

[...] The idea was that recent interruptions “got under your skin,” and erupted, so to speak, expressing your irritation. [...]

[...] There is an old, unfortunate idea, and I am sure by now you are above it and it is, that in order to be pious you must work very hard and be extremely dignified. [...] So if you have not dismissed the idea then at least kick it about a bit. [...]

(9:43.) You simply overdid your ideas of security and protection. [...] You kept the old ideas of problem solving, and were still hampered by old beliefs that told you not to trust yourselves.

But as it is not wise to dispense with the idea of nationalism without gradual growths of understanding and preparation, and while the idea of nationalism cannot suddenly be dispensed with, so also the ego cannot be, and will not be, overthrown overnight; and even when it is finally left behind, it will still be used as a handy reference point; and through all this the self will not lose but gain, for all expansion outward, and expansion inward is a gain, and all boundaries, whether inward or outward, are hampering and limiting. [...]

[...] The individual self will expand, as the individual man will be capable of expanding when the old idea of nationalism is finally overthrown, and he can be benefited through learning of, and cooperation with, other men as brothers upon your planet.

[...] She speculated that these recent experiments within experiences were Seth’s ideas re a more controlled approach.)