“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: As I said before, also, when faced with the difficulty, the conventional, rational approach tells you to look at the problem, examine it thoroughly, project it into the future, and imagine its dire consequences — and so, faced with the idea of a disclaimer (for Mass Events), that is what you did to some extent, the two of you. You saw the disclaimer as fact, imagined it in your minds on the pages of our books, projected all of that onto future books, and for fine good measure you both imagined this famous disclaimer published in editions of all the books as well.

[...] The textbook division represents the workings of the intellect in the usual terms of rational thought, and in those books the qualities of the imagination, of the psyche, of poetry, of creativity, are quite lacking. [...]

Many of the Parker books on the other hand emphasize creativity, the intuitions, the use of the imagination, but are relatively innocent of any clear reasoning, logic, or any feeling for tradition at all. [...]

In such a case, begin imaginatively, following through with the other decision or decisions that you might have made. [...] Imagination may bring you a clear picture, for example, that may then become fuzzy, and in that case the blurred quality would be your hint of probable action.

[...] Experience it as clearly as possible imaginatively, but with the idea of its probable extensions. [...]

[...] Instead of any of those things, the imagined dialogue — if there is any — may suddenly change from the dialogue that you remember; or the entire scene and action may quickly alter. [...]

[...] You will know, for instance, when the remembered event and imagination intersect with another probability. [...]

[...] More important, he has been much more physically active (whispering) in his imagination. [...]

[...] His imaginings, even of simple things—the bird baths, the feeders, the picnic table that implies outside experience—all of this will pay off.

[...] It will pay far greater dividends than you imagine.

Imaginative exercises at times seemed impractical, or suggestion futile. [...]

To some extent this belief of his is quite shared by you, and if his symptoms seem so self-evident to you, imagine how self-evident they seem to him. [...]

Now separately: I want each of you to imagine operating normally in a light manner, to look again for improvements—not setbacks, and to structure your days in that manner. [...]

[...] As long as you believe your environment to be objective and independent of yourself, then to a large extent you feel powerless to change it, to see beyond it, or to imagine other alternatives that may be less apparent. [...]

[...] You may even feel jealous when you think of it, imagining that the physical universe will continue to exist long after you are gone. [...]

[...] When he feels mentally happy, and he does often, have him in his imagination translate the feeling into spontaneous physical motion. [...]

[...] Particularly as long as the imagination is allowed to function in the same direction.

[...] The session itself, with these suggestions, automatically will set Ruburt’s imagination going along these lines, you see, and the idea of freedom is generated both mentally and physically.

[...] Even to imagining throwing the symptoms out the window.

(To Florence.) And I would like you, dear Lady of Florence, to be aware of the questions asked by your inner self and not follow the intellect around like a puppy following its tail from one circle without answer to another for you limit the extent of your imagination in such a way. [...]

[...] Imagine it. [...]

[...] It did all of you good mentally, psychically, spiritually and imaginatively to try to answer our friend’s question for the same question, in precisely the same terms, was in the back of many of your minds. [...]

[...] Give us a moment… Your imaginations are intimately connected with your diseases, just as your imaginations are so important in all other areas of your lives. You form your being by imaginatively considering such-and-such a possibility, and your thoughts affect your body in that regard. [...]

[...] You would not have had any way of imagining yourselves in novel situations. [...]

[...] I want him to imagine a box. And each day simply to imagine he puts into it a sheet of paper that says “Of course I walk normally.” [...]

[...] If you don’t worry about the world, you are considered unfeeling, and it certainly seems ridiculous to imagine that the world can somehow take care of itself, and even remedy whatever damage it seems man has done to it.

(With much amused irony:) The foolhardy, the brave, the utterly courageous, might even take a step further, and imagine that whatever problem is involved no longer exists, or to pretend that “it will go away,” for in any case “it is not as bad as I thought.”

[...] There has been some success with people who imagine that the cancer is instead some hated enemy or monster or foe, which is then banished through mental mock battles over a period of time. [...] It is much better to imagine, say, the cancer cells being neutralized by some imaginary wand. [...]

[...] If you have some disease, imagine it as particles of dirt. [...]

[...] Such people begin to imagine impediments in their paths as surely as anyone would who imagined that physical barriers were suddenly put up between them and a table they wanted to reach at the end of the room.

[...] You do not imagine the existence of blocks or impediments in your way, in the form of additional furniture placed in your path by accident, fate, or design. [...]

[...] Instead, have him imagine comments by others, such as you or a doctor or a friend, expressing their delight and amazement because Ruburt is walking (softly). [...] Have him imagine your face, or someone else’s smiling and enthusiastic, saying. [...]

Now, and this can hardly be called a controversial statement, the imagination is waking man’s connection with the universe of dreams. Imagination often restates dream data, and applies it to particular circumstances or problems within the physical universe. Imagination is never basically destructive. In some cases the ego construction may be weak, or incapable of holding its own, in which case the imagination is often said to be too excitable, and to be at fault.

I cannot impress upon you too strongly that imagination is another such basically nonphysical reality, with a basis however, and interrelationship, in both dream and matter. [...]

[...] Imagine that you have many lives enduring in the same fashion. [...]

[...] In a book we must use words, but such analogies can, if you let them, conjure up within your imagination some feeling of your intimate relationship with all other reality. [...]

(Long pause.) Imagine yourself as a portion of an invisible universe, but one in which all the stars and planets are conscious and full of indescribable energy. [...]

If instead there is a physical event that you strongly desire, then use that energy to imagine its actual occurrence as vividly as you can. [...]

The birth of imagination initiated the largest possibilities, and at the same time put great strain upon the biological creature whose entire corporeal structure would now react not only to present objective situations, but imaginative ones. [...] Imagination helped because an individual could anticipate the behavior of other creatures.

[...] Man’s mind then struggled to contain many images — past, present, and future imagined ones — and was forced to correlate these in any given moment of time. [...]

Your main sense of identity is involved with your physical body, so that it is, for example, extremely difficult for you to imagine yourself without it, or outside it, or in any way disconnected from it. [...]

[...] To help you imagine what I am speaking of, you might think of them as ghost images, or shadow images, though this is only for the sake of analogy — forms, for example, just beneath, that have not emerged completely into physical reality as you know it, but are nevertheless vivid enough to be constructed. [...]

[...] Now for an analogy, imagine if you can that behind the table is another just like it, but not quite as physical, and behind that one another, and another behind that — each one more difficult to perceive, fading into invisibility. [...]

(10:02 to 10:20.) There are also realities (pause), that are “relatively more valid” than your own; in comparison, strictly for an analogy, for example, your physical table would appear as shadowy in contrast, as [like] those very shadowy tables we imagine. [...]

[...] Therefore, when you consider the question of a supreme being, you imagine a male personality with those abilities that you yourselves possess, with great emphasis upon qualities you admire. This imagined god has therefore changed throughout your centuries, mirroring man’s shifting ideas of himself.

[...] You could not but imagine God as a father. It would never have occurred to you to imagine a god in any other than human terms. [...]

[...] Before conditioning, children’s play follows the love of performance, of body or imagination, for performance’s sake only; the expansion of mental or physical abilities. [...] The exercises I will suggest have to do with games “that anybody can play,” then — with the natural joyful manipulation of the imagination that children employ.

[...] In their own periods of imaginative play, however, children utilize dream events, or events perceived in dreams, while clearly realizing that these are not considered actual in the “real” world.

Physical play is pleasant, and accompanied by high imaginative activity. [...]

[...] By seeing himself doing this and by imagining it vividly, he is taking good health for granted, and this of course is what he must do.

[...] Intelligent use of the imagination, focused use as suggested in psycho-cybernetics and other such methods, provide excellent training. [...]

The ramifications of our work will be far greater than either of you usually imagine. [...]

[...] Beginning with an act of imagination in the waking state, you can sometimes follow for a short way into the “road not taken.”

[...] At the same time, if he imagines that he took another alternative and agreed on the engagement, then he might experience a sudden rift of dimensions. [...]

[...] Imagination will have opened the door and given him the freedom to perceive, but hallucination will not be involved. [...]