“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Thinking of the idea of freedom will make you more aware of freedom. [...]

[...] We haven’t had time to start on the copy of Personal Reality I brought the day after getting the idea. [...]

[...] “You’d better be careful, and not give me any ideas,” I said. [...]

I may or may not return, again according to those rhythms of which I speak, and it is indeed a good idea, as you know, to review our sessions. [...]

[...] I thought the dream meant that she was just investigating past events when she had normal freedom of movement, with the idea of bringing them into the future. [...]

2. Seth notes in part, in Chapter Three of Seth Speaks: “Root assumptions are those built-in ideas of reality … those agreements upon which you base your ideas of existence. [...]

[...] I thought this meant Jane had established some kind of contact or feeling with Blanche, or the idea of Blanche, and she verified this later. [...]

[...] My own idea was for Jane to make emotional or feeling contact with Blanche, without whatever emotions she encountered becoming too intrusive and so interfering with any data we might get.

[...] The sexual ideas of domination and submission have no part in the natural life of your species, or that of the animals. [...]

Ideas of love, then, become highly distorted, and its expression also. [...]

[...] The actual work involved in the selection of data is still made according to the beliefs in the artist’s conscious mind as to who he is, how good an artist he is, what kind of artist he is, what “school” of artistic beliefs he subscribes to, his ideas of society and his place in it, and esthetic and economic values, to name but a few.

You do not understand the communications between your selves and pets, for example, where in their own way they interpret and react to your beliefs.¹ They mirror your ideas, then, and so become vulnerable as they would not be in their natural circumstances. [...]

[...] It was about some limiting attitudes I had concerning painting and age; it was very perceptive, and I was somewhat surprised to realize that the ideas had been right there before me all along. [...]

[...] She had no idea of the subject matter for the session, nor did she know whether she would sit with her eyes closed or pace about as usual.

[...] Also, if Ruburt is experimenting as he is with the trance state in psychological time experiments, it is a good idea that some of this experimentation be carried on by him under our excellent supervision; and after consideration I think that you will agree.

(Jane said she had the idea that Seth got her to sit down by letting her smoke. [...]

(After the session, Jane said she had no idea offhand just what material is on those particular pages of the Seth manuscript. [...]

[...] This idea of action within action, of distance and movement within action, is a fairly new one in our sessions.

During our next session we will go more deeply into those pyramid gestalts of which we have spoken in the past, and perhaps consider from another viewpoint entirely the scope and nature that make up the idea of gods. [...]

There is no separate field that combines all of that information, or applies the facts of one discipline to the facts of another discipline, so overall, science, with its brand of rational thought, can offer no even, suggestive, hypothetical, comprehensive ideas of what reality is. [...]

[...] Therefore, when I speak of the natural person being also the magical person, it is easy to transpose even that idea into more isolated terms than I intend.

[...] There were other probabilities according to George’s situation, so that the affair at least opened up the idea that George could do other work for Prentice if he needed money. [...]

The ideas that you have involving the nature of reality will strongly color your experiences, for you will interpret them in the light of your beliefs, even as now you interpret daily life according to your ideas of what is possible or not possible. [...]

[...] You always form your own reality according to your ideas and expectations. [...]

At more mundane levels the same kind of problem arises when art is considered according to its utility, function, or social value—as opposed to the idea of art for its own sake. [...]

[...] He does not carry his precious spherical time idea far enough to begin with. [...]

[...] As an overall personality, I have always been concerned with ideas. [...]

[...] Her pace had been very slow, and she did not have too good an idea of what she had said.

If such a study is conducted however with preconceived ideas, then each experimenter will find only what he has been looking for, for all else will appear meaningless to him.

You had negative ideas but youth was strong enough to hold you up. And as soon as early youth left, then you allowed the negative ideas to hold sway. [...]

[...] You are being changed in this class and through your own experiences in that you are learning and you are expanding your idea of reality and of consciousness. [...]

[...] Whenever you imagine something you want, you always do it with the idea that “I cannot get it!”

[...] When I went out to see what Jane was up to I was greeted with her breakthrough accomplishment—one that, to put it mildly, was to lead to very unexpected challenges and growths in our lives: Jane held up a sheaf of typewriter paper upon which she had scribbled in large handwriting an essay that had come to her as fast as she could write it down: The Physical Universe as Idea Construction. [...] She was exhilarated, intrigued, cautious, wondering about its ideas—that basically each one of us creates our own reality in the most intimate terms, for example.

[...] For the first few days after I finally got it through my head what Jane was really saying in her essay I couldn’t accept the idea that each one of us literally, really, creates our own reality. [...] But her breakthrough had set the agenda for our lifetimes-to-come: idea construction, all right!

[...] Hardly a “coincidence,” that psychic and psychological progression, from an easy-to-use popular device to something much more personal and encompassing like idea construction. [...] One can even say that Jane’s basic intuitive knowledge of idea construction led us to use the board in the first place.

[...] It will also be rather unorthodox—more like a series of conscious and unconscious reminiscences and free associations, moving back and forth in time as I approach sets of ideas from various angles while seeking to learn more about my wife even now, 18 years after her death. [...]

[...] I want him, again, to try and sense the natural rhythms within him, of work and play, to continue his notes, to write for now four hours a day, with one hour for poetry, to think of the ideas of his book instead of thinking about the contracts, or of a book as a book, or as work as work; and tune into the library. [...]

Ruburt gave you some idea of some events that in all probability will occur. [...]

[...] It is quite safe, therefore, to criticize them in that regard, to see how a story or a painting is constructed—or more importantly, to critically analyze the structure of ideas, themes, or beliefs, that appear behind, say, the poem or the work of fiction.

(9:36.) This is the reason why some scientists who either write or read science fiction, are the most incensed over any suggestion that some such ideas represent a quite valid alternate conception of reality. [...]

[...] Theoretically only, with drugs it would be possible to be lost within an idea, caught in its electromagnetic reality, and forced to follow the ramifications and developments of the idea in various guises. [...]

[...] And the pneumonia idea was, I said, another example of an extreme. [...]

When an idea for a book or a poem comes to him, he “tunes into it” immediately. [...]