“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

His idea of trying to help others was a good one. [...]

Now the affair with Venice’s friend involved the false prophet idea again. [...]

[...] Ruburt has allowed himself to become hypnotized by certain images and ideas, that he considered true.

[...] You must act in accordance with your idea of reality. [...]

[...] It is this: your ideas of the daily amount of time being limited—these ideas are limiting you and your work far more than time is. This attitude automatically suggests that progression in your work takes a certain amount of time, and limits your intuitional insights, confining them to your idea of time.

[...] I am saying be cautious, for while certain periods of time seem necessary within your system for the development of your work, that the ideas of limited time on a daily or weekly basis can slow down the intuitional qualities of your work and growth.

(This led into the convenience idea. I suppose it’s not a good idea to keep the third carbon of this material there, either. [...]

The fact that you did not discuss plans together helped prolong his distorted ideas, you see. [...]

Now your own feelings toward success are highly ambiguous, and in the past neither of you really discussed them, so there was fertile ground for Ruburt to exaggerate some of your ideas and feelings.

[...] In your living you literally bring your ideas to life. [...]

The young man is setting himself against society, against its ideas of sanity. [...]

[...] He sees the oil company people out there with helicopters and sophisticated machinery that destroys people’s vital energy—simply a more colorful, exaggerated version of the same idea personally applied. [...]

Your idea of judging the quality of life, or of a life, is highly limited, however, for it may not lie in events as you usually think of them on many occasions.

[...] I suggested that we could go back to the old session routine of having a break halfway through, thus dividing book material from personal stuff that way, but she didn’t seem to think much of the idea, nor did it develop this evening.

[...] Your ideas jointly about time, for example, add to both of your difficulties. [...]

[...] The feeling that you would have inside this highly improbable projection would give you some idea, though a very weak one, of the feeling of infinity.

[...] The physical brain cannot contain the idea of infinity.

Take the minor god connection lightly as the term is a poor one but brings out the idea I want to portray, though it is somewhat distorted. [...]

[...] I have no idea: I can only speculate that many kinds are possible—while keeping in mind that yes, they may have chosen to go their separate psychic and psychological ways.

[...] With the publication of Volumes 7 and 8 I’d like to hear from readers about benefits they may have derived from experimenting with Seth’s ideas. [...]

[...] Oh-oh: Now there’s another idea for a book—one built around the fan mail, with permissions, of course. [...]

[...] This gives the idea to the body that these vitamins and minerals are sometimes to be provided by itself. [...]

The idea of comfort foods, however—foods which bring comfort, favorites from childhood or whenever, can be excellent aids. [...]

[...] I also thought portions of the manuscript itself were intriguing, quite acute, mixed up with Fred’s obsessions and compulsions, his personal life and family, his far-out ideas, his attempts and frustrations as he tried to use the manuscript as a vehicle toward understanding himself as he attempted to uncover the secrets of his personality: He thought them locked away from his understanding by the very device he had chosen of speaking for Seth. [...]

(As we sat waiting for the session to begin at 9:20, Jane told me she’d just “picked up” the heading for Chapter Three of Seth’s book: “Telepathy and Belief Gathering” — or “Idea Gathering”; she wasn’t sure which. [...]

I quite realize that many of my statements will contradict the beliefs of those of you who accept the idea that the conscious mind is relatively powerless, and that the answers to problems lie hidden beneath.

[...] And why I felt that way, but you didn’t. Hey, I’ve even got a bunch of history about that, all ready to deliver — a lot of material on each idea…. [...]

1. Jane rather surprised me: I knew she had an interested if generalized awareness of the old theory of the ether (or the luminiferous ether), but I hadn’t realized she was well-enough acquainted with the idea to be able to verbalize it that succinctly for Seth. [...]

The idea of the ether, or something like it, had been around since the time of the ancient Greeks. [...]

I think the idea of the ether is an excellent example of how man has always attempted to posit or visualize in physical reality his innate knowledge of Framework 2.

[...] She is very eager to get to work on her next project, but keeps struggling among many ideas, notes, etc. [...]

[...] Ruburt has been at himself constantly for new ideas, trying to force himself to plunge into something new. [...]

[...] Wait until an idea presses him for expression.

[...] Anyhow, he used a phrase that I remembered when I woke up: “I live in a brown-paper-bag part of town,” meaning a lower middle-class neighborhood; he implied that that was his station in life, and that he had no idea of trying to change it, or felt that he couldn’t. In the dream I wore a brown faded coat and perhaps a small matching hat. [...]

Peggy (Gallagher) was so surprised at Ruburt’s ideas of the pictures that Ruburt saw clearly, though briefly, the projection involved on his part, but also on your own. [...]

(The idea being since we refuse to take vacations like other people [really before I was physically bothered] we have to have our own equivalent which can be any of the above mentioned at different times. [...]

[...] But when I’d told myself I wanted to relax, I’d had no idea such a profound state could be obtained. [...]

[...] All of this cut directly across some of your ideas about success in usual terms, and your abilities fit together in different ways than you originally planned.

(Long pause.) The two of you mixed and matched your characteristics, and put them together in such a fashion that they would jointly form a completely new kind of creation, in terms of art and psychology, and this was bound to produce expansions of your consciousnesses, and stresses and strains, when you came across portions of your ideas that had not grown along with the rest of you. [...]

When he moved into this apartment the idea was “If Rob will not use the money then at least I will have more space.” He felt deeply misunderstood despite any ideas of logic or reason in conventional terms. [...]

He long ago relinquished the idea of freely dashing around the countryside. [...]

[...] He feels that all of you are not being kind to her, merely supporting her, to bolster up your own ideas of yourselves as sons. [...]

[...] I am speaking now of some of the ideas Ruburt listed.

[...] His idea of honesty and his literal interpretation led him to the idea after the worst part of his difficulties were over, that he should keep some of the symptoms to show he was not a hypocrite to others.

He has the idea that good health is a reward for excellent inner performance, and part of this attitude is because of a literal and uncompromising misinterpretation of my remarks that the physical body is the direct materialization of the inner condition.

(Already I am at work on Jane to disabuse her of any ideas like these. [...]

[...] Nor had I planned upon doing so; the idea came to me a few minutes ago.)

[...] Ruburt should try for more substantial snacks in the evening, and the out-of-body ideas as applied to Peggy Gallagher are good. [...]

[...] Very vague but definite idea... [...]

[...] It is a good idea for the doctor to question the patient sometimes, to make sure that the decision is not one of the moment alone.

[...] It is a good idea for such family members to join other groups of people who are in the same situation, so that they can express their own doubts and hesitations.

[...] So he may begin to look into his past — with that belief in mind, that he cannot relate — and then find within previous conduct all kinds of reasons to support the idea.

I have frequently said that beliefs cause reality, and that no symptom will simply fade away unless the “reason” is ascertained — but such reasons go far beneath your current ideas of cause and effect. [...]

You have been taught that you are at the mercy of previous events, so your idea of looking for the source of personal difficulty is to examine the past, but — to find what you did wrong there, or what mistakes occurred there, or what inadequate interpretations were made there! [...]

[...] (Emphatically:) If an individual believes that he is basically unworthy he will recall, or be given, those lives that justify that idea. [...]