“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In a large manner in the past, he went along with your ideas involving the overall atmosphere—underline overall—of the apartment, feeling you would find contrasting elements irritants. [...] He is not so afraid now of making mistakes, or of trusting his own judgment, though he thinks it might conflict with your ideas in any given case. [...]

[...] His ideas convinced the body that playing dead was the way to insure overall survival. [...]

[...] Your ideas of quality are reinforced and sensed in the books even while they are not physically apparent. [...]

[...] Any unfortunate situations in the fields of medicine, science, or religion result not from any determined effort to sabotage the “idea,” but instead happen because men often believe that any means is justified in the pursuit of the ideal.

[...] But that also [became] bound up with Darwinian ideas of the survival of the fittest, and with the belief, then, that each individual must seek his or her own good at the expense of others, and by the quite erroneous conception that all of the members of a given species are in competition with each other, and that each species is in further competition with each other species.

[...] He was particularly frightened at the idea of living to an old age. [...]

[...] There are other decisions you will also make and he will acquiesce in them and do not be so limiting in your ideas, he does not want that either. [...]

[...] 19 three six, or nineteen six six in connection with the plane, type of plane, I believe, or the pilot is connected with a man who in 1936 conceived ideas not used until this particular plane’s construction.

(To Sue.) Let it bring you, as it did you this week, to escape from ordinary ideas of time and limitations. [...]

(Jane had no idea of the material for the session beforehand. [...]

[...] We have indeed spoken much concerning the focus of energy, and a sufferer is truly entranced with the idea of his illness, and it is only this which basically allows the illness to continue. [...]

Our material concerning the construction of the physical universe and of physical matter in general may now, perhaps, give you an idea of how important suggestion is. [...]

[...] “A great idea,” I told Frank Longwell yesterday noon.

Ruburt himself recognized the book’s deficiencies, and he and Tam together hit upon the idea of switching my book, Seth Speaks, which was not yet contracted for, instead of Dreams. [...]

[...] He valued the relationship with Prentice (long pause), and he valued the idea of distributing the books in foreign lands, even if that venture meant misunderstandings or quite deliberate translations such as the shortening of one book, feeling that Prentice, while negligent, was not deliberately negligent, and that the situation would be righted and the material restored. [...]

[...] They work well with earth materials, and translate their ideas with great force into physical terms. [...]

[...] They are not interested so much in manipulating matter as they are curious as to the ways in which ideas appear within matter.

Again generally speaking, they are always more at home with ideas, philosophies, and nontangible realities. [...]

(10:23.) You will use the idea of a body in most stages of consciousness. [...] This in turn is “later” discarded for one still less physical, but the idea of the form is so important a symbol that you carry it through all of your religious literature, and stories of hereafter.

[...] Now there was a time, speaking in your terms, before the making of symbols; a time so divorced from your idea of reality that only in the most protected areas of sleep does any memory of it ever return. [...]

[...] The idea and reality of physical time parallels the development of the ego. [...] The physical time idea is a product of the ego’s tendency to make finer distinctions in order that it can classify and categorize, and therefore identify and give permanence to its own sensations.

[...] A study of secondary personalities is most fascinating, since such a study would give you an excellent idea of the manner in which the ego in general is formed, for it is but a unity of energy under auspices of the strongest actions characteristic within the given personality system.

[...] The earlier religious scene suggests that I was appalled to find my abilities leading me anywhere within the realm of religious ideas at all to start with. [...]

(Jane said before the session that she had no idea of what Seth would talk about. [...]

Your idea of time does not exist within such intervals. [...]

[...] This evening’s material, read along with the discussions concerning the nature of action, will give you a more comprehensive idea of what I am trying to tell you.

[...] In a free manner Seth uses associations of Jane’s to get at the idea of a car, or travel. [...]

[...] It is a very good idea for you to buy a house with land about it at this time. [...]

The idea of purchasing it now causes subconscious anger, though you love land. [...]

[...] Your idea of trading your car for an old jeep would work out very well, and would not be costly. [...]

If you did not, this would lead to great bitterness on the part of your family, Joseph, beside this, you can now afford the idea behind a telephone, particularly in the country. [...]

[...] In many such instances there is a ferment of activity, a birth of new ideas, and an unstructured psychic activity, that is freewheeling and explosive.

This person will move quickly upward however, taking Philip’s ideas along. [...]

(For the last five weeks Jane has been intrigued by ideas about Seth’s next book, which, she said, would concern “the therapy of value fulfillment.” [...]

[...] The whole idea of such biological experimentation makes us wonder just how, and to what extent, those impetuses may be involved with any of the “ordinary” diseases we’re so used to thinking of as just that — diseases.

[...] You will also, it seems, be far more willing to accept such ideas, not quite as stubborn in the retention of old belief. [...]

[...] It also fit in with some of my own recent ideas—that eventually the reviving thyroid gland would lead to the dispensation of medication while also rejuvenating the physical body in many ways—including the “arthritis.” [...]

In such a system therefore your ideas of present, past and future would not exist. Nor would your idea of one and only one event at a time be understood. [...]

(Seth said a little on the above ideas when he began to give us the material on the electrical field and on moment points, several months ago. [...]

There would be many respects however where they would not agree, and I mention this similarity only to make my idea somewhat more clear to you.

[...] John said his own idea of a “fat” man is one who is grossly overweight; this Mr. McKeown is not, even though on the heavy side.

[...] Such ideas certainly do not foster feelings of security, health, or well-being, and they distort the nature of your physical environment.

The most rejuvenating idea of all, and the greatest step to any true illumination, is the realization that your exterior life springs from the invisible world of your reality through your conscious thoughts and beliefs, for then you realize the power of your individuality and identity. [...]

Let us make a clear distinction here: Your conscious beliefs direct the flow of unconscious processes which bring your ideas into physical reality, so while your thoughts cause your experience, you are not consciously aware of how this takes place (forcefully).

[...] Seth returned to deliver a page of material in which he briefly discussed Jane’s own work with beliefs, her poetry, and her latest ideas about her psychic abilities; from there he went into our relationship with each other and with our parents.