“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It is not understood that this connection exists, but metabolism is to some degree influenced by the physical organism’s dream connection. The physical organism is not only open to, but to some extent influenced by, many more areas of actuality than is supposed; and its survival is determined by a large variety of factors as yet hardly considered possible by your scientists or doctors.

The physical organism itself then, even as you know it, exists and moves and reacts and influences, and is influenced by, many fields or planes of actuality; and its existence as you know it in your universe is determined by and dependent upon its existence within other fields, of which man is still intellectually ignorant.

The physical organism protrudes into many fields of actuality, and is to some extent perceived within these fields, and influences those fields as they influence the physical organism. It is because you conceive of the body as existing within one field only that you have not had more success in dealing with human illness.

This is not to say that a man has no control over the physical state of his own organism. It is to say that many more factors go into the construction and maintenance of the physical organism than you realize. Subconsciously, man manages to balance these influences, and there are physical mechanisms within the organism whose purpose it is to deal with such data.

He is willing to compromise by taking various jobs, but here there are other influences also. His grandfather strongly influenced him, and to the grandfather only a man who worked for himself was independent. [...]

[...] It was meant to keep harmful influences out, but it was also meant to keep harmful influences in.

Some environmental influences of a real but not profound nature can be cleared up by the simple process of the housecleaning ritual. [...]

[...] Now he may if he prefers, and this is not original with me, imagine a circle of psychic safety about him, through which only constructive suggestions and influences can pass.

Reincarnational influences are not nearly as rigid as many believers in the concept think. That is, reincarnational influences usually leave many options open to an individual in any case. [...]

[...] The reincarnational influences are most apparent in what would be considered bodily defects dating from birth, and these will be discussed later on in this book.

[...] You may be less when you would be more, but you are not under a pall placed upon your psyche, either by original sin, Freud’s infancy syndromes, or past-life influences. I will try to explain the past-life influences a bit more clearly here. [...]

[...] There are influences working and she could cause you to return when you do not want to through influencing your parent. [...]

The emotional climate, though intangible, is intimately known by each individual as it exists within himself, and it is the best indication of his physical condition, for thoughts and emotions as independent electrical actions have great influence directly upon the physical mechanism, acting indeed as electric storms which flash through the entire nervous system; or as great stabilizers as the case may be, and with of course many middle varieities of influence.

[...] In turn these thoughts or emotions, as electric actions, can affect other actions; and influence patterns can be set up, and are set up. [...]

[...] Jane was fully dissociated, unaware of all outside influences. [...]

Here you were influenced, where Ruburt was not, toward a job because of ideas of security that came from your mother, and, despite your conscious evaluations, from the activities of your brothers. Your having a job made sense to you therefore for these reasons, more so than it did to Ruburt, who had no such countering influences. [...]

The entire environment concerning your brothers’ homes, and the implications, always upset Ruburt, for he sensed that influence.

Ruburt did not have, again, those influences working on him that worked on you to prolong the situation. [...]

[...] You can be sure of adequate protection if you daily suggest that you will be open to constructive and healthful suggestions and influences. Also suggest that you will be automatically protected against negative suggestions and influences.

It is important that influences also be included.

Your hay fever situation will be greatly benefited if you particularly suggest that you be free of past (underlined) negative influences and suggestions. [...]

Now in some cases a physical illness is the best solution for various reasons having to do with reincarnational influences, and the inner lack of balance of the personality. [...]

[...] But every man has a strong, domineering and definite voice in his own destiny, and he accepts and reacts to those influences of his own choosing.

(“Does his poor eyesight, for instance, influence your perception of me?”)

[...] You cannot justify or rationalize present circumstances by saying, “This is because of something I did in a past life,” for within yourself now is the ability to change negative influences. You may have brought negative influences into your life for a given reason, but the reason always has to do with understanding, and understanding removes those influences.

[...] At times you have both asked why an ailing body does not simply assert itself and use its healing abilities, throwing off the negative influence of a given set of beliefs and thoughts.

[...] It is not just that thoughts influence the body, as of course they do; but each one of them represents a triggering stimulus, bringing about hormonal changes and altering the entire physical situation at any given time.

Now all of these issues made him more and more susceptible to certain influences that were in the house. The influences were not dangerous unless you were in the mental mood to be affected by them.

[...] I also would like Seth to elaborate on the top paragraph on this page, about influences in the house. Is he saying that these influences were those indicated by Jane’s pendulum this evening?)

[...] I am saying that the build-up of influences affected Ruburt more because this was his only environment through those years when you were away part time.

[...] It’s going to influence science, the arts, everything. [...]

You fear overinfluencing him, but since your influence is considerable in any case, this is a good time to use it. [...]

This time reference is perhaps the most important within earth experience, and the one that most influences all creatures. [...]

[...] And each species has its own overall characteristics and propensities that further help it define the sphere of influence in which it will exert its ability to make choices.

[...] You went overboard, trying to influence their minds, and not influencing their minds at the same time in this life, lest they follow you blindly.

[...] Your children are the people you influence, help, and guide.

[...] You were both used to the idea of attaining knowledge and influencing minds. [...]

[...] Theoretically the influence of a particular given self is endless, and not only in so far as your own physical camouflage time universe is concerned. The influence of any given self reaches also into realities that are not bounded by space and time.

[...] I mentioned, or hinted however that the influence of the self, and therefore the self itself, also had reaching effects in realities that did not consist of a space-time continuum. [...]

[...] Although you have chosen to form a particular group of qualities into a field pattern of a particular personality, upon which you focus the bulk of your energy, there are also other more shadowy, less well-constructed possibilities of personality selves that exist loosely within the psychic framework of the dominant personality, and these also have their influence. [...]

EARLY INSTANCES OF DEATH OR DISEASE
IN RELATIONSHIP TO FURTHER
REINCARNATIONAL INFLUENCES

Next chapter: “Early Instances of Death or Disease in Relationship to Further Reincarnational Influences.”

[...] The sale of the book and his influence led him to question anew that if he had such influence, it had better be based upon legitimate truths.

[...] I remarked to Jane that if we paid attention to that material, then instead of turning away the people who would be influenced by the newspaper notice, we might be able to influence some of them to buy Seth/Jane’s books.

Our work is affecting the lives of millions—of millions (repeated in answer to my surprised look at Seth), through direct readership, and through the influence of those readers upon others, who may not, for example, even read the books, or who may read rarely in any case.