“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now I am simply giving you a brief idea of what is involved, and I expect each of you to follow through in your own way, to see the connections and think about them. [...] You see a range of human being and personality that defies conventional ideas of sexuality or of consciousness — that defies all of the ideas that have been handed down to you, and that challenges you each to look for the reality of your own being.

Think of your ideas about your own sexuality in connection with those about your being and consciousness. Regroup your ideas so that you automatically think of sexuality in relationship to your religions and sciences. [...]

Your ideas of sexuality follow both your religions and your sciences, then, for you have created each. [...]

That is true, and also that you are projecting your ideas outward into physical reality and then often behaving as if those ideas were not yours but belonged to another. And, therefore, it behooves you to understand and know what these ideas and emotions and feelings are and not to be frightened of them. [...]

[...] In that time you were very concerned with the idea of power, and it is one that you are still deliberating with. Not political power but personal power and as to how far you should go to convince others of ideas in which you believe and how far you should go in propagating ideas in which you no longer believe. [...]

[...] And I do not want any of you, you see, to use these ideas as superficial bandages to put over your bleeding psyches because these ideas can, on occasion, be used in a superficial manner. [...]

[...] Now you have some idea in your head that good is gentle and bad is violent and that no violence can be good and this is because in your mind, violence and destruction are the same thing. Now by this analogy, you see, the soft voice is the holy voice and the loud voice is the wicked voice and the firm step is the bad voice and the soft step is the good voice and a strong desire is the bad desire and a weak one the good one so that you become afraid of projecting ideas outward or desires outward, for in the back of your mind you think that what is powerful is evil and what is weak is good and must be protected and coddled and prayed for and begged for. [...]

Because many of his ideas and beliefs were also bound up with you, your work, your ideas and his interpretations of them, then your relationship became entwined. [...]

To let these ideas go was to let his youth go, and to admit that many of those ideas, believed in so strongly and so stubbornly, were not working any longer. [...]

[...] The idea was that physical restraints would keep her at her desk and remove temptations to do other things. [...]

The paper written today should be discussed by both of you so that those ideas are brought completely into the open where he can consciously and intellectually examine them. [...]

[...] He differed from you only in that he carried your own ideas and his further in certain respects. [...] The idea of the spare, poor young artist or writer, living romantically in a garret or poor apartment, has served as a handy self-image for many in their early years, providing a sense of dignity that enabled such apprentices to make their way. [...]

[...] His physical difficulty has involved then his ideas of economical action—the cutting out of waste. These ideas, again, are a part of the one line of consciousness that says “You have only so much energy and so much time. [...]

[...] The ideas of thrift and the puritan attitudes were not the result of the Depression, but helped cause it.

[...] Let us say for our analogy that water provides the free-flowing motion of ideas circulating through the psyche freely. [...]

[...] High play of that nature opens doors of excellence that responsibility alone can never touch, and results in far more valuable help to the world as a natural by-product than any self-determined behavior can, so these are the ideas that we want to stress, both in bodily terms and in psychic and creative ones, and Ruburt is beginning to understand some of that now. The idea of creative play—and in those terms of a certain kind of abandonment—should be encouraged; the kind of abandonment a child feels when playing a game, in which it identifies with pleasurable activity. [...]

[...] “No,” I answered, “but it would be nice to have it in order to learn that your only responsibility is to get rid of the idea of responsibility. [...]

[...] I explained that my idea was only to get more material on what Seth had begun yesterday—but that didn’t mean she couldn’t do material on other things too.

Years ago, Ruburt picked up that idea of work, applying it to creativity in his (underlined) own ways. [...]

The poetry provided a direct expression of his ideas, and a protective coating as well. He lived by those ideas, however. [...]

[...] Remember, I am speaking of an overemphasis upon the idea of work, not about a normal concern about book publications, or career concerns, those are certainly reasonable. The overemphasis brings up the public image idea, so that Ruburt compares himself personally against some composite image that he imagines other people have of him. [...]

[...] Perhaps a relationship between the intent to publish the sessions, and the idea of exposure or threat for not “toeing the mark.” [...]

[...] I have given more material than I can say on the subject of Ruburt’s attitude toward creativity and what happens when he emphasizes the idea of work as work, or as a career, above his spontaneous creativity. [...]

[...] I get a spooky feeling that I’ve had before, thinking that here we are, alive and conscious, technologically accomplished, and we really haven’t the slightest idea of where the universe came from or why we’re alive, though as a species we’re gifted with both intellect and intuition. [...] This morning, looking over the few pages we have so far, I got the idea that the title for the first chapter is going to be: ‘Before the Beginning’—so we’ll see….

[...] Why haven’t others—our scientific, religious, and political leaders, or those in the fine arts, say—come up with ideas similar to those espoused by a Seth, and why aren’t those ideas common today? [...]

However, aside from being in outright conflict with the theory of evolution [and the idea of an ancient universe], the beliefs of the creationists do pose a number of questions that are quite intriguing from our joint viewpoint. [...]

(9:31.) In certain terms, science and religion are both dealing with the idea of an objectively created universe. [...]

[...] Your own ideas about money and success of course influenced his beliefs: your combined ideas now of virtuousness and thrift, as opposed to license. [...]

The ideas obviously conflicted, and each collected subsidiary beliefs. [...]

The idea of money also had conflicting connotations. [...]

The idea reversed itself—highly important. [...]

(3:37.) Such ideas are bound to color any of their followers’ ideas about other subjects also: sexuality, economics, and certainly concepts of war and peace.

The same ideas are so dead-ended, however, that they often trigger a different kind of response entirely, in which a scientist who has held to those beliefs most stubbornly, suddenly does a complete double-take. This can propel him or her into a rather severe schizophrenic reaction, in which the scientist now defends most fanatically the same ideas that he rejected most fanatically only a short time before.

[...] Many people are involved, however, with various religious ideas and philosophies, whose effects are quite unfortunate in personal experience. [...]

[...] The fact is that religions have been the carriers of some of the best ideas that man has entertained — but it has also held most stubbornly to the most troublesome concepts that have plagued mankind.

[...] Neither of you saw anything wrong with the basic ideas behind it. [...] I outlined your joint ideas about food. In the same way your joint ideas about your work and the world in general were taken and put into literal action by our friend.

(I couldn’t agree with these ideas less. [...] This idea hasn’t penetrated, though.)

(I still intend to leave Artistic at the end of January, though some of my ideas have changed. [...] I have no idea whether I can bring it off, but I feel I might as well try. [...]

[...] He trusted his mind, so the idea of retreating from the body into the mind was quite logical to him when this began. [...]

[...] The idea is to keep the material as much as you can at a conscious level, then more or less drop it before picking it up again—without the steady bombardment. [...] The idea of identifying with your pleasure, identifying yourselves with your pleasurable feelings and emotions, is highly vital. [...]

[...] The framework was loosely set up back in that time, however, when for a while, again, you toyed with the idea, for such symptoms would “justify” your staying home even part- time to paint. [...]

[...] The entire framework is indeed based upon a distorted idea of the nature of true responsibility. [...]

Your idea of looking at events as you did the other evening (re Tom D’Orio) is excellent, and can be most illuminating. [...]

The medical profession unwittingly promotes the idea of illness above health, and in its devotion to uncovering disease it often completely forgets the entire concept of the body’s natural defenses and vitality. All of these ideas unfortunately become a part of people’s daily lives, undermining their assurance, pride, and almost obscuring the body’s natural state of exuberance and strength. [...]

[...] Above all, I didn’t want the fund idea, say, to lead to complications with the insurance deal, I told Jane, or perhaps to lead to a failure of a settlement there. [...] This morning while working on the letter to Maude Cardwell, I guess I’d blithely took it for granted that the fund idea might supplement any insurance benefits. [...]

[...] We finished our discussion about the fund idea at 3:15. [...]

[...] I didn’t ask Seth to comment on the fund idea. [...]

The ideas of age bring this kind of thing into focus. [...] Conventional ideas of age, however, can limit your own ideas of your own creativity. [...]

It refers not only to the matters that I have mentioned in past sessions, but also to your ideas of age, and those are also connected to your ideas of manliness, for you want to be a provider.

(I do wish I had on record some of my remarks, since in them I clarified some of my own ideas about man’s behavior versus his basic good intent.

[...] I think some original ideas are embodied here. [...]

[...] But given her abilities, I think her speed of production is a close physical approach to, or translation of, Seth’s idea that basically all exists at once — that really there is no time, and that the Seth books, for example, are “there” to be had in final form for just the tuning in. (In Section 3 of this volume, Note 2 for Session 692 contains information on another way by which we can move closer to Seth’s idea of simultaneity from our physical reality, but that method grows out of material not discussed here.)

I think it important to periodically remind the reader of certain of Seth’s basic ideas throughout both volumes of “Unknown” Reality. [...] Part of my paragraph of commentary following the 724th session, in Volume 2, fits in here: “As he [Seth] quite humorously commented in the 14th session for January 8, 1964, ‘… for you have no idea of the difficulties involved in explaining time to someone who must take time to understand the explanation.’ Yet Seth’s simultaneous time isn’t an absolute, for, as he also told us in that session: ‘While I am not affected by time on your plane, I am affected by something resembling time on my plane … To me time can be manipulated, used at leisure and examined. [...]

[...] The very casting of the idea into words (as best Jane can do it) helps one grasp what Seth means: We can make intuitive nonverbal nudges, or jumps, toward understanding that to some degree transcend our trite ideas of that quality or essence we call time, and take so much for granted in our Western societies that to even question its seeming one-way flow appears to be quite futile.

[...] See the verse from her early poem, Summer Is Winter, which precedes these notes.) As I see it, her task with the Seth material is to place these basic artistic ideas at our conscious service, so that their use in our daily lives can change our individual and collective realities for the better; and by “artistic ideas” here I mean the deepest, most aesthetic and practical — and, yes, mystical — truths and questions that human beings are capable of expressing, then contending with. [...]

You “were” right, then, when you worked on the book before your bout, and during that time you trusted yourself—but then your ideas of the comparative nature of your ideas intruded, triggered at that time by (news of) Crowder’s death, and the ensuing beliefs about the male role in society, and as that applied to your own talents. Left alone, ideally, you might have taken a week of joyful painting, during which time your mind refreshed itself, and new ideas about your notes accumulated. [...]

[...] When you are painting your mind is also building ideas. Forget the old idea of exclusive expression. [...]

Now: Ruburt’s list is an excellent idea, and so is the note on the refrigerator. [...] Have him forget his ideas of the exclusive expression of creativity, mental or physical. [...]

(Long pause.) As a child, with no preconceived ideas in normal terms, you drew and wrote stories. [...]

Now on one occasion he did very well, although he picked up strong ideas from you of a negative nature, and this incident, in time, was connected with the college affair. He spoke to Mrs. Stein and her friend, and picked up your ideas concerning the gallery. [...]

It was no coincidence however that Ruburt’s Father Trayner read him poetry, inspired Ruburt’s love of poetry, and that Ruburt would feel that he had to use poetry to express ideas with which his mentor did not agree.

The psychic influence of the other priests was far more creative than he realizes, and it was always in the realm of ideas that he rebelled against authority. [...]

[...] Often in such situations he will hurt himself because he has an exaggerated (underlined) idea of the hurt any normal aggressive reaction, from a frown to a verbal one, can have.

The old ideas had not been wiped out. The new ideas had not yet taken hold. Part of your responsibility will be to tread upon the old ideas, to clear the distortions; and Ruburt, realizing this, hesitated, but he recognized in the dream exactly what was involved.

It reacts strongly to your ideas and to its father’s telepathically, and so its inner perception of this room, say, is highly colored by your ideas of it. It then mentally perceives the room, right now, more or less as a combination of those ideas you have individually of it. [...]

[...] The plain was empty because it was the repository of ideas. The ideas had been put there by those who had already left.

[...] The messages represent (pause) philosophies and ideas (pause) that the Seth material and his work will change. [...]

[...] This can be countered if Ruburt stresses the idea that he is indeed couched safely, and that his existence is automatically, spontaneously held. That idea of safety and reassurance counters the fear, and opens the passageways again for free association.

[...] I thought of requesting of staff that she be given some Darvoset, or something like it, in the afternoons, but I hadn’t mentioned this because I felt my wife would reject the idea. [...]

The other reason for his discomfort has to do with his birthday, coupled with the idea of Mother’s Day, which is tomorrow.

The idea of Mother’s Day made him half resentful and half sorrowful because of the poor relationship between him and his mother (long pause), and he had hoped for further improvements in time for his birthday.

[...] The idea also being that outside of the known order provided by these stories, there were raging forces working against man’s existence. (The old Pandora’s Box idea comes to mind.)

[...] The book was based on the idea that nature was against man; and that religion was man’s attempt to operate within that unsafe context. [...] The idea of the stories was to save each man from having to encounter reality in such a frightening fashion.... [...]

(10:29.) The idea is for him to play with Seven, to let his mind freely play with ideas, and to follow his impulses. [...] So the library idea that you had is an excellent one, but it should be done playfully. [...]

[...] Remember the use of the playful creative abilities, because again they can lead you to further ideas that would trigger unanticipated positive results in Ruburt’s condition, as per your chair idea, the table in the kitchen, and so forth.

He thought of that term before our Framework 1 and 2 material, and his idea was that the impulses came from a part of the self that automatically knew the entire picture of the self’s environment and potentials. [...]

[...] He enjoys the book, yet it has become entangled with his ideas of work and publishing schedules.