“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your religious ideas have often told you that deformities at birth were the result of the parents’ sins cast upon the children, or that another kind of punishment was involved in terms of “karma.” [...]

The entire idea of reincarnation has been highly distorted by other religious concepts. [...]

[...] And yet we wanted a balance also, and so you stand as a man who intuitively recognized the value of inner information and the importance of the material, even though you were unacquainted with such ideas.

[...] The idea of letting the muscular armor go, as in your current reading, is good.

For Ruburt has a grand idea. [...] I hope it did not hurt him; because while his idea is not right in one way, it is not wrong.

Having read Priestley’s ideas about Dunne, Ruburt now wonders if I am not a future self of his own, according to Dunne’s ideas; that is, if I am not one of those future selves of which Dunne speaks, or if I am not consciousness number two, or three even, of Priestley’s concept.

I am glad that you did not encounter these ideas earlier, since we cannot therefore be justly accused of having borrowed any of them. [...]

(Seth began dealing with these ideas in the very early sessions, mixing it in with reincarnational data. [...]

[...] She felt “the idea, mentally, of something shaped like a television screen” off to her right. [...]

[...] The blueprint gave him an idea of his potentials, and how they could be best fulfilled in earthly terms.³

[...] At the moment, at least, I couldn’t recall hearing her voice such ideas just that way before in the sessions.⁶

[...] I was just sort of happily dopey — no ideas at all. [...]

(Long pause.) The entire idea of the magical approach is of itself sustaining. [...]

[...] He is saying that though it did not occur historically, it did happen within another reality and emerged into history as an idea rather than a physical event—an idea that changed civilization. (According to Seth, of course, an idea is an event, whether physically materialized or not.)

[...] He forms the idea into a dream object or event with amazing discrimination, so that the dream object itself gains existence and exists in numerous dimensions. [...]

[...] Certain symbols are constructed into realities in the dream system, then, in much the same manner that ideas are constructed into matter in the physical system.

[...] If a man could actually focus upon those unrecognized elements in the physical universe upon which no agreements can be reached, if he could focus upon the dissimilarities rather than the similarities, then he would wonder what gave anyone the idea that there was even one physical object upon which man could agree.

He has freed the book also from the negative ideas that he had earlier projected upon it, ideas which were picked up by those who read it. [...]

[...] Jane wrote during the morning several pages of notes, ideas and impressions. [...]

[...] This work, just beginning, gave rise to the idea for a Seth Reader, etc.)

[...] You may portray a basic idea in various ways, and produce many excellent paintings in doing so. [...]

[...] It is therefore all the more important that he always try (pause), to use discipline and caution, that he think in terms of helping other individuals, and that he not glorify his own position egotistically, thinking, “Since I can heal you, I am therefore superior to you,” even though the idea is partially hidden from his own consciousness, and even though he feels kindly—put in here that I smiled—while feeling so superior.

[...] You form your ideas of space. [...] Your physical senses form your idea of space. [...]

[...] Do you have any idea of the energy it takes for me to speak to you in terms like this or the degree of manipulation which Ruburt needs and I need? [...]

[...] We voiced the idea that three key words seemed to symbolize her physical hassles—fears of scorn, criticism, and flamboyance. As the morning passed and we continued to exchange ideas, we saw of course that all these reflected Jane’s fear or distrust of her own nature—a situation that simply must be remedied. [...]

[...] The difference now, I told Jane, was that we were paying attention to those ideas.

Now you have been good about exchanging ideas, the two of you, but not as spontaneous in the exchange of emotions. [...]

He also comes through as a young woman with some problems, with a repressive tendency that is physically materialized, with dogmatic and somewhat rigid distorted ideas that have only lately really been understood by the personality. [...]

It would also be possible however to go through his body and pinpoint the particular energizing feelings and ideas responsible for the excellent functioning of the other body areas. [...]

(“Does she have any idea you watch over her, Frank Watts?”)

(“Jane is writing a book on her theory of the world as idea construction. [...]

(“Will the book on idea construction be successful?”)

(I went on to tell her of my idea that arthritis, for example, bridged all historical gaps and cultures, and that its origin — I think — lay in the individual’s reaction to fear of motion, for a multitude of reasons. Jane seemed a little surprised at this idea. [...]

[...] Of course we had no idea of what all those tests would cost, and weren’t billed when she was discharged, since test results weren’t in. [...]

[...] Our ideas have changed. [...]

[...] I tried to put the situation in perspective: “You’re trying to excise your fears of your mother, which in turn led to your being afraid of the world and your own fears of death, ‘cause you carried your idea of protection from the world so far …”

It may also be a good idea to read some portions of our late material over, substituting the name Jane rather than Ruburt. [...]

[...] No one we knew even owned a cycle, and neither my father-in-law or myself had the slightest idea who the driver was. [...]

[...] I knew she was a teacher, but hadn’t the foggiest idea in what school. [...]

[...] As I wrote out the list, I discovered points that I’d missed earlier — which is why it is a good idea to make such a list with any involved dream.

[...] Do you have any idea?” Rob asked.

[...] I even got the idea: Now here we have the body ‘kind of thing,’” she said.

I need freedom and agility of thought, where he tends to repress me unless I conform to definite ideas of good and wrong. [...]

You know that panic is behind such repression, and a misguided idea of self protection. [...]

[...] He picked up your ideas of discipline in the beginning, then latched upon them in his own way. [...]

[...] You have been rather pedantic in several past lives and given in one particularized in Spain, as a priest, to severe attitudes and ideas that lead you, alternately, toward violence and peace. [...] Your ideas of good and evil were highly polarized. [...]

[...] Certain ideas of yours that you have been harboring for some time will be coming to fruition, and you can trust them. [...]

[...] You cannot allow yourself freedom within conventional religion at this time because of your own ideas. [...]

[...] Eleanor also represented on another level the establishment, the rich, literary, “in” crowd, and the great youthful specialized ideas of literary success.

[...] It is no coincidence that Tam is younger than Ruburt, for this to some extent helped water down the idea of Prentice as an authority figure. [...]

The entire idea of changing houses involved treachery to him, as he interpreted it—Eleanor’s remarks, that is, implied moral dishonesty, Yet still he was tempted, mainly because he wondered if Prentice was taking advantage of him.

Remembering your past ideas toward Prentice, he wondered, regardless of what you said, if you thought he should stay with them. [...]

[...] A reality of selfhood, an idea not yet materialized in the unformed future, reaches down into the past and brings that future into realization. [...]

[...] And why is it, with all of your ideas about reincarnation, there is precious little said about future lives?⁹

[...] It’s one that Jane and I feel pretty much alone with; others don’t initiate the idea in discussions with us, for instance. [...]

[...] The idea of trying to reach a future self has been with me for some three and a half years, though, or since I first encountered Nebene, that male personality who inhabits a distant niche in my psychic past.