“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] They try to imagine what death is like. They imagine what it would be like to fall from a wall like Humpty-Dumpty, or to break their necks. They imagine tragic roles with as much creative abandon as they imagine roles of which adults might approve. [...]

1. Seth’s idea that in their play children “try to imagine what death is like” certainly adds an intuitive dimension to my own activities as a child. [...]

[...] Imagine anything that you like that is pleasant to you. [...] Then imagine yourself stepping apart from yourself in whatever way you choose. And then imagine that all about you there is another dimension and you need only take one step at a time—and you will find your answers. [...]

[...] You can use your imagination and imagine perhaps that you hold an arrow and want to direct it to a proper location. [...]

[...] It was engrossed with its own subjective experiences, even divinely astonished as its own thoughts and imaginings attained their own vitality, and inherited the creativity of their subjective creator. [Those thoughts and imaginings] began to have a dialogue with their “Maker” (all very emphatically).

[...] All That Is possessed (pause) a creativity of such magnificence that its slightest imaginings, dreams, thoughts, feelings or moods attained a kind of reality, a vividness, an intensity, that almost demanded freedom. [...]

(Pause at 9:31.) All That Is contained within itself the knowledge of all existences, with their infinite probabilities, and “as soon as” All That Is imagined those numberless circumstances, they existed in what I will call divine fact.

[...] In the meantime, then, in your terms, All That Is spontaneously thought new thoughts and dreamed new dreams, and became involved in new imaginings—and all of these also related to those now-infinite generations of interweaving and interrelating thoughts and dreams that “already” existed (with many gestures and much emphasis).

[...] Imagine the best possible results of any plans or projects. Above all, do not concentrate upon past unfavorable events, or imagined future ones.

[...] After finishing the session, Jane told me now that she’d also been very blue last night, and “really got scared” this morning at the pain in her side, “imagining all sorts of things.” [...]

[...] Therefore, to the intellect it often seems ludicrous to imagine that the answer to a question lies within the question itself.

Now he did a good job on the chapter, and it will help him if he imagines the entire book to be a young beautiful sapling that moves easily with each breeze, the nerves like tiny unseen branches, soft and flexible, going even out from his body.

[...] Do this as if you were starting out to paint a picture, requesting to see the images of certain persons at a given time or situation in the future, and let your abilities then fill in on the imaginative pattern. [...]

[...] Imagine a blank canvas or board, or blank framed picture if you prefer. [...]

[...] Then imagine the blank picture as if you were going to paint it in your mind. [...]

[...] First however imagine your consciousness out of your body in its astral form. [...]

[...] Now when you feel that you have this new image of your past self before you, then imagine that your consciousness is moving from your astral form into this past self. [...]

[...] This may be done very well imaginatively, in other stages of the process.

[...] You may then imagine its image merging with your own, and its memories a part of your own consciousness. [...]

[...] In the terms of my bodily reality, those dire imaginings, whatever they are, are not real. [...] Such imaginings frighten the body consciousness, as you might frighten an animal. [...]

There is also something else you can do at such times—and try all of these suggestions of mine, for one or another may be particularly effective, while another simply does not suit you as well: one way or another, imagine a kind of neutral platform, a subjective platform. Imagine yourself standing upon it, and see it as being a certain distance away from the platform of your usual beliefs. [...]

[...] Ask him what is wrong when you are bothered with symptoms, and he will most certainly tell you that you are frightening him by dire imaginings that do not exist in his world. [...]

He understands the nature of death, as in their way all animals do, but he does not understand frightening pictures of imagined illnesses that do not exist in his present, or worries about death that is not as yet to be encountered. [...]

[...] Try to imagine that you are awake when you sleep. On other occasions when you go to bed, lie down and settle yourself, but as you fall asleep imagine that you are awakening the next morning. [...]

[...] You might wonder if your aunt will take an anticipated journey to Europe next year, and that thought might give birth to images of an imagined future. [...]

[...] Imagine a very large painting, in which the most important events of your life are clearly depicted. [...]

[...] Sometimes when you are awake, and it is convenient, imagine that your present experience of the moment is a dream, and is highly symbolic. [...]

In your terms, the imagination of the animals is limited. [...] They can imagine events that have never happened to them. Man’s abilities in this respect are far more complicated, for in his imagination he deals with probabilities. [...]

(Pause at 11:01.) Give us a moment… It is fashionable to believe that the animals do not possess imagination, but this is a quite erroneous belief. [...] They all learn through experience, and despite all of your concepts, learning is impossible without imagination at any level.

[...] The most private life imaginable is a very social affair. [...]

[...] The body will, therefore, react to imagined dangers to some degree, as well as to those that are biologically pertinent. [...]

[...] If you don’t, imagine the pyramid, the angle going out into a path that extends behind you. [...] The others do this imaginatively. [...]

Imagine yourself walking out, perhaps as a miniature person, out of this pyramid. [...]

I hope, again, to stretch the reaches of both your imaginations and intellects in this book, to give you a feeling for events larger than your usual true-or-false, fact-or-fancy categories. Your existence as a species is characterized far more by your unique use of your imaginations than it is by any physical attributes. Your connections with that unmanifest universe have always helped direct your imaginations, made you aware of the rich veins of probabilities possible in physical existence, so that you could then use your intellects to decide which of the alternate routes you wanted as a species to follow.

[...] Your cultures—your civilizations—obviously affect the well-being of your species, and those cultures are formed by your ideas, and forged through the use of your imaginations and your intellects.

[...] The physical part of [such an] event in history is actually minimal in contrast to its effects … and something about master events touching the worlds of imagination and reason in different ways.

Imagine, if you must, that you have backdoors through which this energy emerges, fresh from the fountains of the universe. Now imagine this universe, imagine this energy connecting; focused, vital and strong. Close your eyes and imagine it in this room. Imagine all the energy that is available to you, here now, connected and send it outward to the woman in question. [...]

[...] Watch television or whatever, but imagine—lightly, now—a pyramid with each of you at its base, going upward into Framework 2. The energy you sense in whatever program you watch imagine almost like a generator, as energy here drawing power from Framework 2 into the room, into Ruburt’s body and your own, activating both your physical and psychic existences.

[...] You can try, gently enough, imagining Framework 2 in your sessions with Ruburt. [...]

[...] There will be changes, I imagine, in your sessions as you mutually move ahead to even greater resolution, so that you dare make suggestions that you might not think of right now.

[...] You are an imaginative species, and so the physical world is colored, charged, by your own imaginative projections, and powered by the great sweep of the emotions. [...]

Many such people are highly creative and imaginative. [...]

[...] Man has produced some fine works: The high level of verbal communication, the multitudinous varieties of emotional interactions and of cultural exchange, the facility with exteriorization of ideas and concepts, the reaches of the imagination — all of these, and many others, are unique in the universe.

[...] You are not able to differentiate between the physically safe present situation, and the imagined, which is perhaps unsafe, calling forth the alarms of danger.

[...] The signals to the body are very contradictory, so that after a while, if such conditions continue, you can no longer tell whether you are in actual danger or imagined danger. [...]

Because of man’s great gift of imagination, however, the alarm signals not only invade a safe present moment, but go jangling into the next one and the one following, and are endlessly projected into the future. [...]

[...] Neither of you have moved mentally, even playfully, ahead in terms of imagining what you will do. [...] The imagined motel trip a beginning, a mental move. I suggested you imagine a vacation. [...]

[...] You must be free in your imagination. [...]

[...] That particular event or fantasy, nipped in the bud, is simply an example of the way that you nip such possibilities even in your imagination.

[...] Your apartment hunting, because of its novelty, and his interest in decoration and arrangement, stirred his imagination in new way so took energy away from symptoms. He imaginatively arranged you and your household in each new apartment he saw. [...]

[...] It would help him if he could imagine it as having a shape or form, or a weight. [...]

He should also imagine the future when present symptoms have vanished like the others. [...]

So now we come to imagination and desire. [...] When Ruburt feels he understands this, without taking any special time, let him think of using desire and imagination together, purposefully disconnecting them for this exercise from willpower or effort, and seeing himself shopping with you in a store, or walking a beach in Florida, or anything else that automatically comes to mind.

[...] Western religion and science promote the ideas of competition, effort, the emphasis upon the will, divorced from the imagination, so that to “give up all effort” can be read as an abdication of responsibility, an indication of laziness and sloth; or in fundamental Christian terms, the devil finds work for idle hands.

Now the will can be used, but when there are divisions then the impulses and imagination should be released in such a fashion, and they will then mobilize the will, in such a way that action is united.

When resting, and in a tranquil state of mind, he should simply imagine the limbs slowly stretching out, becoming somewhat longer, and then slowly returning to their original length. He should then imagine the neck revolving easily and normally three times in each direction; mentally here doing the yoga neck exercise that he recalls.

[...] The joints should be imagined as moving easily. [...]

It will do good also if during the day occasionally he imagines the exercise as he goes about his chores, but he should not do this willfully, with an intent to command physical performance. [...]

[...] Then immediately imagine a time when you painted very well and spontaneously, and tell yourself that you are now free to use and develop these abilities. [...]

[...] Poverty is certain, depressions, and old age with the worst of imagined terrors. [...]

[...] Ruburt first of all thought of how he could get his socks and shoes on, but then he tried to overcome those thoughts, and imagine the trip.(Sayre, PA—my home town.)

The idea of a van to Florida led Ruburt into daydreaming, though he was very frightened of the idea, but you immediately thought of the difficulties, that it would not work, and overall neither of you have applied creative, imaginative, positive thought, steadily. [...]

[...] Imagining a trip to Florida, for example, or anyplace he wants, planning for it, is a far more effective method of therapy than any worry, for such plans activate body and mind. [...]