“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He did not imagine impediments that might rise to prevent a next book being written—nor did he doubt his ability to write one, or any number of books. At times he might think of writing in one area or another, but his imagination did not set up barriers: it was always receptive to new ideas, casting about for new experiences, consciously involved in the process of creativity.

[...] Let us look then at the third area, for at one time you both also to some extent imagined impediments, changed your approach, and found new results. [...]

[...] Just not worrying about it immediately began to give you some financial gain, for in Framework 2 conditions were reversed, and the imagined impediments were not projected into the future. [...]

[...] That help is blocked, if in Framework 1 you constantly imagine impediments or concentrate upon past poor performance, or project such performance into the future.

[...] Go out, completely and fully, or if you are pussyfooting, then send your imaginative self out but go. [...]

Now if you are able to go even further imaginatively, you can open those other eyes and look into that other room and that is what I would like you to do. [...]

[...] If you are a parent, imagine that you are your mate, and in that role imaginatively consider your children.

Dictation: In their play children often imaginatively interchange their sexes. [...]

Those who imagine they look upon nature with the most objective of eyes are those whose subjective beliefs blind them most of all, for they cannot see through their own misinterpretations. [...]

[...] In the beginning they imagined the myriad of forms that were physically possible. They imagined the numberless c-e-l-l-s (spelled out) that could arise from their own cooperative creation. [...]

[...] All possible visible or invisible particles that you discover or imagine—meaning hypothesized particles—possess consciousness. [...]

[...] Energy is imaginative. [...]

In those terms, then, there was in the beginning an almost unimaginable time in which energized consciousness, using its own creative abilities, its own imagination (underlined), experimented with triumphant rambunctiousness, trying out one form after another. [...]

[...] I have told you about the importance of imagination, both in building up and destroying beliefs, but you still do not understand completely.

With Ruburt’s literal-mindedness, again, there is a big difference, a vital one, between freely imagining a trailer trip which then becomes a probable beneficial reality, and being told it will not work.

It is precisely the challenge of things like dancing when he is in poor shape, but coming through when others are watching, or a trailer trip, or riding a bicycle when it seems impossible, or climbing a tree, that has the imaginative literal qualities that inspires him to change beliefs, whether or not those issues in that way make sense to you.

This, you see, is connected with the trailer idea, and I am telling you because you still do not understand the importance of belief and imagination combined. [...]

[...] When you are emotionally concerned about the person for whom you are working, then imagine a distance between yourself and the situation that you see. [...]

[...] You do not need the electroencephalograph to let you know when you are in Alpha I. If you want, you may imagine a particular kind of pattern as being your waking consciousness, as in a graph with the very quick motions representing delta and then slowing out gently for the Alpha patterns, if you prefer. [...]

[...] It will help all of you if you imagine it as a platform and see yourselves throwing all your fears off one by one, and it would help if you do this before you begin working on anyone else. [...]

Now as you sit before me, and I have said this before, you imagine yourselves to be particular people upon this earth at this particular time and at this particular address and cut off from any deeper reality that you have and yet, in your inner awareness, you realize that you are more than you know. [...]

[...] I told you (in the 619th session) to imagine a game in which you see yourself acting in line with the new desired belief. [...]

[...] See how your imaginations often follow the same lines. [...]

[...] See how they were followed by your imagination and emotions. [...]

Behind 1 then imagine the infinite other 1’s, literally for the analogy’s sake one behind the other. [...]

Now imagine number 2 placed beside number 1, number 2 also having behind it infinite variations. [...]

[...] You perceive—in other terms—the 1, say, as a flat line on a flat surface, and are unable to imagine the existence (pause), the intensity, within that simple unit number.

[...] They constantly pretend, and they quickly learn that persistent pretending in any one area will result in a physically-experienced version of the imagined activity. They also realize that they do not possess full freedom, either, for certain pretended situations will later happen in less faithful versions than the imagined ones. [...]

[...] Fairy godmothers are definitely a thing of the storyteller’s imagination, and many serious, earnest adults will tell you that daydreaming or wishing will get you nowhere.

[...] They imagine joyful and terrifying experiences. [...]

[...] Now Ruburt in his exercises has been imagining vividly his dream book sold, selling. While you have been imagining the dwindling accounts and pessimistically thinking that after all the book may not sell, and to be practical you cannot be sure that the outline will sell and your efforts therefore have been knocking each other out.

[...] For fifteen minutes a day agree to suspend critical judgment, and following the Maltz method imagine yourself vividly in the position you would like to be. [...]

Whenever you mentioned a particular bill even in passing, he has immediately imagined it paid and given himself directions so that the needed funds would be obtained. [...]

—then make all efforts to imagine in your mind those figures you wish were there.

(Very long pause.) People often react to their beliefs about the kinds of persons they should be, and to imagined events. In such a way that the imagined ones are as real in their effect upon their lives as physical events are. In some cases the imagined events never do show. [...]

[...] The young man (see the 816th session proper) was really comparing his life and the earth unfavorably with an idealized imagined world, to which he could never return. [...]

[...] To concentrate upon what is right opens up greater power than you can presently imagine.

[...] The source of its power is so great that its imaginings become worlds, but it is endowed with a creativity of such splendor that it seeks the finest fulfillment, for even the smallest of its thoughts and all of its potentials are directed with a good intent that is literally beyond all imagining.

[...] I admit that it is sometimes inconceivable to me that a human being can imagine his world to be meaningless, for the very existence of one human body speaks of an almost unbelievable molecular and cellular cooperation that could hardly result through the bounty of the most auspicious works of chance.

[...] When he finds himself negatively imagining a situation, he must immediately realize this as a negative habit pattern. Then re-imagine the circumstances, seeing himself performing adequately, but without telling himself that he must be therefore perfectly all right on the next occasion. [...]

[...] Your compliments are always the frosting on the cake, and he responds to them more than you imagine. [...]

[...] With such an edifice, Ruburt can only use his abilities under certain conditions, and he imagines all kinds of impulses, situations, or whatever, that might steal them away, or steal away the time necessary to express them. Just like our millionaire, who everywhere imagines in the most innocent face the gluttonous look of the thief-to-be.

They imagine that thieves will steal it away. [...]

We will be treating this same topic in our own sessions...imagine the ill plant as being able to use sunlight more effectively during the day and continuing to make use at night of that energy which has been absorbed. [...]

[...] In the future, you will probably imagine it as a magic carpet.

[...] It was indeed a dreamlike world, but a highly charming and vital one, in which dreaming imaginations played rambunctiously with all the probabilities entailed in this new venture: imagining the various forms of language and communication possible, spinning great dream tales of future civilizations replete with their own built-in histories—building, because they were now allied with time, mental edifices that automatically created pasts as well as futures.

[...] But in terms of your world the units of consciousness, acting both as forces and as psychological entities of massive power, planted the seeds of your world in a dimension of imaginative power that gave birth to physical form. [...]

[...] You can imagine events with which you have had no personal experience. [...]

When I say “You create your own reality through your thoughts,” you, meaning anyone, have a tendency to imagine each thought as a small brick, a psychological object, each one being formed into the structure of your experience. [...]

[...] Forget then, both of you, imagined dangers of any kind, and all such projections.

The trip will not be as tangled as he imagines.

[...] Imagine yourself doing so. You may find it of benefit also to imagine a flying dream, or form a dream consciously in which you feel me waiting for you to let go the cares of the day, and ready to help you leave your body.

It is literally impossible for you, and it is a logistic contradiction to imagine, with your physical structures, that any perception can be received unless the perceiver’s own inner situation is altered. [...]

[...] Even imagine the rising sensations as I help you out. [...]