“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] At the same time, the wry neck itself inflicted a punishment in place of the imagined and feared greater punishment which Ruburt felt his mother intended, the imagined punishment being a basic and infantile terror of being pulled back into the womb.

Many individuals imagine the soul to be an immortalized ego, forgetting that the ego as you know it is only a small portion of the self; so this section of the personality is simply projected onward, ad infinitum, so to speak. [...]

[...] Imagine the rays undiminished, reaching then through the foliage and clouds above, through the center of the earth below, extending even to the farthest reaches of the universe.

Now I do not mean this to be merely a symbolic exercise, for though it may begin with imagination, it is based upon fact, and emanations from your consciousness and the creativity of your soul do indeed reach outward in that manner. [...]

“Imagine past, present, and future then as a single-line delineation of experience in your terms; the line, however, continuing indefinitely. [...]

[...] Following through with our analogy, imagine yourself Self A. We will start you off in physical reality on Thread A, though you have already traversed many other threads to get where you are.

[...] It gave consciousness and imagination to personalities while they still were but within Its dreams. [...]

“In Its massive imagination, It understood the cosmic multiplication of consciousness that could not occur within that framework. [...]

Imagine further this poor creature having a brain to go with each face, and each brain interprets reality in terms of the world it looks upon. [...] At the same time, imagine that these two creatures are really one, but with definite parts equipped to handle two entirely different worlds.

[...] In fact, I sometimes amuse myself by imagining a situation in which Seth wonders if Jane is a secondary personality with an obsessive belief in some improbable physical reality. [...]

[...] Curious thought — I can also imagine some good-humored game of musical chairs in which I try to get out of my body, while Seth tries to get into it. [...]

Dreams, then, are not just imaginative indigestion or psychic chaos. [...]

[...] Your imaginations will be of high value here, for they can often perceive unities that are not evident to the intellect—which you have trained to deal specifically with the evidence of the here and now.

[...] [Perhaps], then, you will let your imaginations play upon the usual events of your world, and glimpse at least in part that greater brilliance that illuminates them, so that it leads you intuitively to a feeling for the source of events and the source of your world. [...]

[...] In those terms (pause), your world’s reality stretches back far further than you imagine, and in those terms—you need the qualifications—your ancestors have visited other stars, as your planet has been visited by others. [...]

When I told you earlier to imagine the wire structure penetrating everything that is, I meant you to imagine these wires as being alive, as I am a live wire myself. Joking aside, I will now ask you to imagine these wires as being composed of the solidified emotion of which I have just spoken. [...]

[...] I put the feeling down as due to imagination. [...]

[...] You used your imagination, a very valuable tool, against yourself. [...]

[...] I am speaking of the physical situation—the illness itself.You have every good chance of ridding yourself of the symptoms now, but you must immediately begin to use your imagination, so that it works for you and not against you.

Do not force this, but again, for at least five minutes in the overall during the day, imagine as vividly as possible that you are moving normally and easily anyway you choose. [...]

[...] If you are in a position where this is difficult now then imagine the bitterness or discontent is a football, and you are kicking it with all your might. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s natural person is highly spontaneous, creative, imaginative, with an excellent intellect, natural habits of working with a spontaneous rhythm—a rhythm that follows its own internal, logical and intuitive order. [...]

[...] They can say “This is after all merely imaginative, and not to be taken seriously.”

[...] Have him imagine shrugging his shoulders. [...]

You understand the ways that continents come together, and probabilities join each other, in a manner of speaking, each rising above a field of rich nutrients, so that worlds exist in every imaginable portion of space. [...]

We have said enough, for we always leave plenty of room as the body chooses its own manifestations, but his progress will be swifter than you have imagined. [...]

[...] You do not know what would happen, pragmatically, if you did not imagine such difficulties, because in one way or another you have always anticipated them from the beginning. [...]

[...] Imagine it existing without any interference or disturbances, simply easily as a mental image.

(Long pause at 10:50.) I know the contours of your minds and consciousnesses far better than you may imagine. [...]

All probabilities exist first in the imagination.

[...] Intellectually you would have no part in it, yet your imagination spun its fantastic web despite the fact that you believed in neither fantasy or web. [...] Your imagination was rich and varied. But you so feared your present mother’s sense of exaggeration, that led often to sheer though unwitting lies and dishonesty, that you denied the capacity of the imagination lest it also lead you into ways of deceit.

You will find the above-mentioned exercises more beneficial than you imagined. [...]

[...] This led to these conflicting feelings toward freedom of the subconscious and of the imagination. [...]

What the body cannot stand today is the stress thrown upon it by the imagined stress or problems that it might be asked to face tomorrow, or next week, or 20 years from now. [...]

[...] I imagined the different ways magazines like The National Enquirer could trick someone into giving an interview to start with, and turn people against each other, (Carol Burnett is suing that paper—the story was in the news lately.) From there some wild stuff that doesn’t make sense now, with strange things happening to my chair pillow as I sat on it.... [...]

[...] Imagine that you are healthy if you have the belief that you are not. [...] Realize that you are exerting your initiative to imagine such situations. [...]

[...] Your belief will generate the proper feelings and imaginative endeavors characteristic of it. [...]

[...] It would help you if before bed you imagine your mind like an ocean upon which you could walk. [...] Then imagine yourself walking on the water, listening with your inner ear and using inner eyes. [...]

[...] Also don’t let your imagination follow along the lines of possession... [...]

[...] I “smelled victory”, and found myself imagining how I’d write it all up. [...]

Imagine if you can the figures or inhabitants in the painting having psychological reality, all within the set limits prescribed by the given space. Imagine in other words consciousness, growth, reality and expansion, having nothing to do with expansion of space in your terms, but an almost complete freedom of psychological realities, and you will come at least within the realm of understanding what I mean by an expanding universe that has nothing to do with the expanding universe of which your scientists speak.

[...] Imagine this transformation including also the addition of distance, reaching ever further backward while not disturbing the back side of the canvas.

Most realities have absolutely nothing to do with space as you imagine it. [...]

Those “properties” are the faculties of the imagination, creativity, telepathy, clairvoyance, and dreaming, as well as the functions of logic and reason. [...]

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