“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Have him imagine himself reading a session, or hearing you exclaim over how well he has read one. [...]

The panic reaction you sometimes imagine helps remind you of the panic in which many people spend whole portions of their lifetimes. [...]

[...] Now he reacts you see by bothering you all the more, peeking in on you, to discover whether or not you are really upset, or rather, if his own imagination runs away with him.

[...] The self as you know it is many things, and contains many more vestibules and rooms than you now imagine. [...]

The fact remains that the outer senses induce a conscious focusing along certain limited lines, grouping perceptions and comprehensions in a narrow fashion, and limiting the practical and imaginative range that consciousness might otherwise take. [...]

[...] Imagine what you would miss: the odor of the fresh earth, the sounds, the touch of earth beneath your feet, of sun upon your back; using only the sense of smell, you would also be severely limited.

The outer senses, because they have been so dependently and almost absolutely relied upon, act as blinders, limiting the fields of perception that are possible, and therefore hampering both imagination and intellect in the formation of new concepts.

[...] You think that this is just your “imagination.” [...] You would not be alive, in your terms, if first you did not imagine yourself as you are. [...]

[...] Instead, during the last week he let his own creative imagination go wherever it might while he held the general idea in his mind. [...]

“The thought occurred to me that perhaps Seth’s remarks (in sessions 724 and 732) were more pertinent to the situation than we imagined. [...]

[...] The imagination was itself considered suspect. [...]

[...] It showed that he was not a frivolous female, fancifully following each stray imaginative trance image. [...]

[...] If you can, imagine a huge building with many rooms, each room entirely different from the other. [...]

[...] His name is P I E T R A. (Spelled out.) In psychological time or simply when you are still, close your eyes and imagine your physical universe as one room in our analogy, and his as another with a passageway between. [...]

[...] Imagine the experience present in one moment of time over the globe, then try to appreciate the subjective experience of your own that exists in the moment and yet escapes it — and this multiplied by each living individual.

The “you” who is capable of such expansion must be a far more creative and multidimensional personality than you earlier imagined. [...]

[...] Unfortunately, in the condition in which your world finds itself, it is extremely difficult to imagine that all the young men in all of the countries at the same time will refuse to go to war. [...]

[...] I suggest you read the late sessions again, and I imagine that by our next session you will both be in a better frame of mind, unless you allow your discouraging feelings to predominate, which would be a vast mistake.

[...] Anything less will add little to your overall knowledge, simply suppositions and imaginative dallyings.

[...] I did not tell you that Ferd was a figment of your imagination, for he is not.

In a fashion, the intellect goes hand-in-hand with the imagination under such conditions. [...]

(10:10.) In those times, however, man identified more with his intuitive self, and with his imagination, and these to some extent more than now, directed the uses to which he put his intellect.

[...] You imagine that sexual expression is the only one natural to love. [...]

[...] The great human qualities of love, strength, compassion, intellect and imagination do not belong to one sex or the other.

[...] Think however in terms of what you want as far as a house is concerned, and not on any imagined problems or obstacles in your way. [...]

I am trying to stretch your imaginations, and to help you throw aside rigid concepts that literally blind you to the dimensions of your own reality. [...]

You think in terms of linear time, and the best you can do to imagine your deeper reality is to consider reincarnation in time. [...]

Imagine a string of different-colored Christmas tree lights, all glowing on a given tree. [...]

[...] For Chapter 19 of Politics (which is to be published in 1976) Jane transcribed from her library, in part: “If you imagine the official numbers 1 to 10 in a row, then there would be an infinite number of unofficial 1’s hidden in the 1 you saw, and an infinite number of spaces between the official 1 and 2. The position of the 1 on the paper would represent our sense-data world, while the invisible 1’s behind the official 1 would represent the official 1’s hidden values and infinite probabilities.”

[...] Imagine that at age 13, three strong energy centers come to the surface of the personality — highly charged, so that one person cannot adequately fulfill the desires or abilities presented. [...]

From the 15th session for January 13: “Imagination allows you to enter into these planes … Pretend that you not only understand your cat’s concept of time to some degree, but could also experience his sense of time through the cat [Willy] himself. [...]

“Imagine further that you actually experienced the feeling of such a furry coat, and all the other feline equipment from the inside, purely as a spectator. [...]

[...] When you attempt to concentrate on the tiny I that you imagine yourself, then indeed you do not know where you are and you cannot find yourself. [...]

[...] But it is difficult for me, with Ruburt’s eyes closed, for me to see you as you imagine yourself to be at this particular point in space and time. [...]

[...] The subject matter itself entices your imagination. [...]

[...] (Intently:) The threads of the work are interwoven so that various portions of your consciousness are sent out, so to speak, on separate journeys of thought and imagination. [...]

You imagine, however, that the male is aggressive, active, logical-minded, inventive, outwardly oriented, a builder of civilizations. [...]

(Intently:) It is the height of idiocy to imagine that because of the time taken in pregnancy, the female could not understand the child’s origin in intercourse. [...]

One is that because objects just originate in man’s imagination anyway, there’s always a strong connection between objects and man’s dreams. [...]

[...] The entire idea of nuclear power was first a dream — an act of the imagination on the part of private individuals — and then through fiction and the arts, a dream on the part of many people. [...]