“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] She had the idea she should rub between her eyes in a circular motion— “You know, where the third eye would be,” she said. [...]

[...] All the ideas of the fear of the inner self come from the basic division that has for so long existed in the minds of man since the birth of organized religion... [...]

[...] You can practice with these ideas by applying them to your body. [...]

[...] But except for some conditions which will be mentioned later, you can become healthy if you are ill, slim if you are overweight, gain weight if you prefer, or alter your physical image in profound fashion through the use of your ideas and beliefs.

[...] It does mean that you settle for a reasonable amount of privacy, in that you do not carry the idea to extremes.

[...] “For a while I loved the idea of that place. [...]

Before children are acquainted with conventional ideas of guilt and punishment, they realize that it is easier to bring about good events, through wishing, than it is to bring about unhappy ones. [...]

That event resulted in a scribbled manuscript, unpublished, called The Physical Universe as Idea Construction. [...]

[...] Your idea of space and time then is definitely determined by your neurological structure.

[...] Pretend then that you possessed within yourself the knowledge, the sight, of all the world’s masterpieces in sculpture and art, that they throbbed and pulsed as realities within you, but that you had no physical apparatus, no knowledge of how to achieve it; that there was neither rock, nor pigment, nor source of any of these, and you ached with the yearning to produce them—and this, on an infinitesimally small scale, will perhaps give you, as an artist, some idea of the agony and the impetus that was felt.

[...] The summer, with its implications of vacation, was added, however, as he knew it would be; so the structure of working was further evaded, it seemed particularly by warm weather, which inclination did not happen to fit his ideas of scheduled work.

First of all, diet-wise, your idea of a normal diet is quite adequate. [...]

[...] Some ideas he has from William James (Varieties of Religious Experience), the seemingly disconnected realizations about his body, dreams and dialogues, will altogether help him.

Do not specifically relate the behavior of the hand with your artistic self or artistic abilities in your suggestions, but in a general manner to the natural health of your being and easy flow of your ideas outward. [...]

(Jane had no idea of what Seth would talk about during the session, although both of us hoped he would discuss the events of last Friday evening, September 23, at home. [...]

[...] Jane very nearly did not mention her idea here, thinking at first it was too “far-out.” [...]

[...] Jane thinks the idea of this data is correct, in that she wrote the poems for Peg before she wrote the one for Bill’s birthday six months later.

[...] The idea of taking up the same space is erroneous to begin with, but I don’t see how we can avoid such terms and still make any sense to you.

Your particular camouflage pattern is given to solids, among other things, and the idea of solids gives its alternative of something not solid or unfilled, which you call space. [...]

[...] I would have thought that you would have hit upon the entryway idea yourselves; something to keep your psychic energies contained, and again it is the feeling that the entryway gives you rather than the entryway itself, and the feeling that a desk and chair in another room gives Ruburt, rather than the desk and chair itself.

Beneath these ideas is the fear of the mind itself, the belief that its abilities are fine and dependable up to a point — but if it goes too far then it is in trouble.

[...] My idea that the hospital might be billing them quarterly or something like that must have been wishful thinking. [...]

[...] I had not given it much thought, beyond wondering where I had gotten the idea for the painting to begin with. [...]

[...] Lately the dreams have featured a lot of aggressive action on my part, and it had been my own idea also that this aggressiveness released was a good thing.

[...] Jane was dissociated as usual for a first monologue, meaning that she retained some idea of what she had been saying. [...]

[...] The daily walk that you plan is not only an excellent idea, but had you carried this through in the past, there is a good possibility that you would not have become ill. [...]

[...] “The idea of people we know coming to sessions doesn’t bother me at all,” she said. [...]

[...] Your cause and effect theory, again, is responsible here for many distortions, such as the idea that the matter of say, a flower, grows from matter of a seed directly. [...]

The inner self therefore uses the physical system to express its own inclinations and ideas of reality. [...]

[...] The whole idea of physical reality, individually speaking, is the emergence of experience within your particular system. [...]

[...] As you become accustomed to the idea of “reckless” expression of the ideal, then it is free to find “more perfect” expression. [...]

Your joint ideas of the ideal, its expression, and feared closure, was in the past also largely responsible for your joint embarrassment over Ruburt’s physical condition, your joint shame over his appearance.

At this party affair, mentioned before session, there are two men who will give you fine ideas for portraits. [...]

(In reference to this, I asked a question at break: Since Jung was “dead,” how had his published ideas now changed, etc.

[...] The idea against which you rebel is a very temporary social premise that is already beginning to disappear. [...]

[...] Now many of these ideas come to you because of your attitude toward your father. [...]