“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] No idea slips insidiously past your awareness to affect your involuntary system unless it fits in with your own conscious beliefs. Once more, you will not be sick if you think you are well — but there may be other ideas that make you believe in the necessity for poor health.

[...] While the condition of the body is directed by the conscious mind in life, then, the idea or mental pattern for the body existed before the conscious mind’s connection with the physical brain.

[...] The idea of the body is held and made physical by a conscious mind.

[...] The conscious mind could not handle all that data, but those functions perfectly mirror your consciously held ideas and beliefs.

So-called extrasensory perception gives you but a crude and distorted idea of the basic ways in which the inner self receives information, but the concepts built around extrasensory perception are at least nearer the truth, and as such represent an improvement over the idea that all perception is basically physical.

[...] In considering “immortality,” mankind seems to hope for further egotistical development, and yet he objects to the idea that such development might involve change. [...]

[...] In your physical system the nature of your perceptions limits your idea of reality to some extent, because you purposely decide to focus within a given “locale.” [...]

There are many matters here very difficult to express in words, for you are so afraid for your sense of identity that you resist the idea that the soul, for example, is an open spiritual system, a powerhouse of creativity that shoots out in all directions — and yet this is indeed the case.

[...] Any concepts of gods or other beings that are based upon limited ideas of personhood will ultimately be futile. [...] The present idea of the soul, you see, is a “primitive” idea that can scarcely begin to explain the creativity or reality from which mankind’s being comes. [...]

Your idea of one soul, one self, forms a significance and a selectivity that blinds you to these other realities that are as much “here and now” as your present self. The units of consciousness that compose your physical being alone are aware of those greater significances, to which your limited ideas make you opaque.

[...] All such discussions are based upon your idea of one-personhood, consecutive time, and limited versions of the soul. [...]

[...] It uses a time context instead, with each self given a body and a time; but a knowledge of the ideas of multipersonhood could help you realize that you have available many abilities not being used, latent to you but still important in your entire identity, and significant enough to you personally to be developed.

[...] As per James, it was no coincidence that the beliefs of Freud and Darwin merged so well to form western society’s idea of the self, physically and psychologically. The ideas of financial competition, advocated, came into direct conflict, Joseph, with your own inclinations to be an artist. The ideas of manliness in your society, particularly in past years, were directly tied in with Darwinian concepts and Freudian theory. [...]

To a large degree, however, and for many people, he did remove the idea of God’s injustice, even if he removed the image of God in the process. The idea of one God as a superman would not carry again the same weight as it had before. [...]

[...] You naturally both concentrate on ideas. [...] But many of your ideas there are your attempts to bring your work into Darwinian terms.

The practical experience of reality is formed through the suggestive psychological idea-shapes that appear in the guise of theories, dogmas, and assumptions. [...]

[...] For another he planned to use my ideas. He was getting the idea, you see, and those ideas can best be presented this way, now. [...]

[...] Now to distort these by coloring them with lesser ideas, ideas incidentally that he did not have when we began our sessions, is unfortunate.

The very point of my material is precisely that it goes beyond ideas conventionally held in most, quote, “mediumistic circles.” [...]

He has the idea at times that he should accept me in conventional terms, from the books that he has read. [...]

[...] It contained an article by our friend Otto Binder, entitled “UFO’s Own Earth and All Mankind” This article touched upon many ideas we are interested in, and quoted astrophysicist Fred Hoyle, among others, re the ownership of the race idea. [...] Seth’s ideas of time give us quite a different approach to these ideas also.

(In addition, I have always doubted the block-and-tackle idea used in constructing such massive, enormous wonders as Baalbek. [...]

(9:36.) The whole moral code idea was originally tailored for the current scene as it was encountered, told in terms that the natives could understand.

[...] They are often inventors, always then involved with the initiation of new ideas or discoveries. [...]

[...] On top of that, however, the whole idea of responsibility has played an overheavy hand, and it is this idea of responsibility—overplayed—that is to a large degree responsible for the idealized image of the public person with which Ruburt has unsuccessfully tried to compete. [...]

If you would remember natural selves, and your own characteristics, you would have a much better, clearer idea of what to realistically expect from yourselves, and you would let other ideas go when they conflict with your own quite definite inclinations. [...]

Use your abilities (underlined); a fine idea, a good policy, an excellent course—but not when it is considered a commandment. [...]

[...] The idea of responsibility, as described here, blocks creativity, hampers natural psychic and physical flow: “I should be doing thus and so.” [...]

[...] It is the mass creation formed by your inner ideas. [...] You must form ideas into physical materialization in order to recognize the force behind the ideas you are learning to use and understand. [...]

[...] It is your concept of time that highly limits your idea of individuality.

[...] Since time does not exist in such a manner, then you must not project your ideas of time upon basic reality.

[...] If such is the case with personalities so closely allied with your own, then you can perhaps understand how alien your idea of time is to personalities that have never existed within your physical system. [...]

[...] In this dream Rob is in the process of working out that idea, visually. [...] The resulting image, in two parts, shows that the idea is almost completed in his mind, just needing to be put together. In the dream he sees himself returning to the comics, only the Sunday edition (special), and the superhero character is much more prominent than the comics would ordinarily have it; the smaller head representing, I think, the idea that the intellect’s place is smaller or of a lesser nature than he earlier supposed. [...]

In your dream³ you were, of course, in the process of forming new ideas about the nature of the magical self (through my art) and also in your way working that idea out through imagery. [...]

[...] This is one of those obvious ideas that seem childish once it’s thought of. [...] What do we do next — or will we give up on that idea too? [...]

Women exceed men in such areas as finger dexterity; accounting aptitudes; rate of idea flow, as in sales, writing, and teaching; observing small changes in physical detail; non—tangible ideas requiring complex vocabulary, as in medicine and law; the ability to visualize three-dimensional relationships, as in engineering.

[...] It tries to fly ahead with avant garde ideas, while at the same time protecting its flank of college textbooks. [...] It knows that I appear in sessions, for example, but it does not know whether or not my ideas correspond with a greater reality, or whether they are the result of an extraordinary psychological creativity.

INSERTING NEW IDEAS INTO THE WORLD.

[...] Now we have an idea for our own type of “disclaimer” for the frontmatter of Mass Events, based upon a very apt quote from Seth’s material that we found late in the book. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Prentice-Hall, in capsule form, so to speak, is a representative of the most diverse kinds of thought currently held in your country — that is, under it’s overall auspices you have the most conventional establishment-oriented textbooks, devoted to continuing traditional ideas. [...]

Such ideas affect every level of life, from the most microscopic onward. It is not that plants understand your ideas in usual terms — but that they do indeed pick up your intent, and in the arena of world survival, they have a stake.

[...] Once again, then, ideas of the most optimistic nature are the biologically pertinent ones.

Behind many such attitudes is the idea that the body itself is unworthy, and that starving it somehow cuts down on the appetites of the flesh. [...]

These food ideas are important, since they are passed on from parents to children, and parents often use food as a way of rewarding a child’s good behavior, thus starting the youngster out toward conditions of overweight.

[...] The inner thoughts of the mind exist but briefly in time, and even this small tinge of time that touches both dreams and ideas is not basic to either the dream or the idea.

In your physical universe this law is followed through idea constructions which become idea approximations of inner reality that are, nevertheless, distorted to a large degree, and make up the various camouflage patterns with which you are familiar.

[...] You must understand here that your idea of space is something quite different from the reality of our fifth dimensional space. [...]

Your idea of space is some completely erroneous conception of an emptiness to be filled. [...]

Root assumptions are those built-in ideas of reality of which I spoke — those agreements upon which you base your ideas of existence. [...]

[...] An idea would be projected out there by us against this field so that it seemed to explode. Yet really the idea’s right here,” she said, nodding toward her cupped hands, which she held just below her chin.

Now your ideas of space are highly erroneous. [...]

(9:25.) Each such personality, however, comes with a built-in idea of the reality in which it will operate, and its mental equipment is highly tailored to meet very specialized environments. [...]

[...] Many of my readers may have certain ideas about good and evil that are very hampering. [...] You may think that you are quite free, only to discover that you hold old ideas but have simply put new terms to them, or concentrated upon other aspects.

[...] Ideas of right and wrong are always guidelines that are then individually interpreted. [...]

Your daily experience is intimately connected with your ideas of worth and personal value.

[...] You may have changed your ideas to such an extent that you can see little similarity between your current ones and those of the past. [...]

(At last break I had asked that Seth deal with three questions tonight after finishing dictation on his book: 1. The ideas behind Jane’s exaggerated response to events, particularly fears. 2. The idea of physical activity on her part instead of suggestion. [...]

His idea of noting down the pleasures or good points of the day should be maintained. [...]

Ruburt’s list about what he will do when he is completely well is a good idea. [...]

There are many different reasons involved there, depending upon the circumstances, his mental activities, and the habits, mental and physical, built up with the idea of sitting or lying down.

[...] As a rule these ideas represent your parents’ conceptions of natural guilt, distorted by their own beliefs. (See the 619th session in Chapter Four, as well as the first session in this chapter.) You accepted those ideas for a reason, individually and en masse, for mankind at any given “time” has a strong idea of the particular sort of world experience it will create.

Man is so highly verbal that he finds it difficult to understand that other species work with idea-complexes (with a hyphen) of a different kind, in which of course thought as you consider it is not involved. But an equivalent exists; using an analogy, it is as if ideas are built up not through sentence structure reinforced by inner visual images, but by like “mental” patterns structured through touch and scent — in other words, thinking, but within a framework entirely different and alien to you.

(1. How idea structures work in animals as opposed to mankind.

[...] Mythology bridges the gap between instinctive knowledge and the individualization of idea.

[...] Suddenly my consciousness left my body, and my mind was barraged by ideas that were astonishing and new to me at the time. [...] The notes were even titled — The Physical Universe as Idea Construction.

[...] For example, I would like to give you some idea of the contents of my own book. [...] The book will include a description of the way in which it is being written, and the procedures necessary so that my own ideas can be spoken by Ruburt, or for that matter translated at all, in vocal terms.

[...] The particular poem or idea is the only thing in the world for me at that point. The highly personal involvement, the work and play involved in helping the idea “out,” all make the poem mine.

[...] Actually what we object to is the conventional idea of a spirit, which is an extension of quite limited ideas of human personality, only projected more or less intact into an afterlife. [...]

[...] There are two main areas and issues that wind in and out of this dream, as in the other two: the idea of work and service in relation to the idea of art and creativity. [...]

[...] Ruburt has been fascinated at times by the idea of working nights, his ways of assuring such isolation. You began to accumulate some ideas of a different nature, wondering more about your responsibilities to the world as adults, wondering how “useful” art should be in the world. [...]

[...] “It all basically has to do with this idea of responsibility. [...] If it was up to me, I’d throw the idea of responsibility down the hillside and into the river.”

When you overwork the idea of responsibility—or service to the world—you erode that pleasure. [...]

(Now that idea, I thought as I went into the kitchen to get Jane some wine for the session, made sense—it could account for the perpetuation of her symptoms on a daily, present-life basis, and made a lot more sense than thinking she was suffering now because of something that happened to her when she was perhaps eight years old or whatever. [...] I thought I was onto something from a fresh viewpoint, and at the same time was afraid that we’d heard it all before and that the idea meant little. It was also difficult to visualize clearly enough so that it was not merely a repetition of old ideas, but a new slant on those old ideas. [...]

(Jane didn’t particularly look like she wanted to hold a session, though, and said she felt some resistance to the idea. [...]

(Obviously, many facets of these ideas have been discussed many times. [...]

[...] It seemed like a strange idea to me, but I didn’t have time to think about it at the moment. [...]

[...] The ideas of work have been largely covered. His beliefs about time are important in relationship to his work ideas. [...]

[...] The squatting he performed (last Friday night) should be repeated once daily at least, for it reinforces the idea of letting go with the body.

[...] These ideas are also vanishing now. [...]

[...] Even in those limited terms you see he realized that his achievements and production are in his terms now sufficient; but he must move out of those limiting ideas, and he is.