“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In fact, children let little escape them, so that, again, they experiment constantly in an effort to discover not only the effect of their thoughts and intents and wishes upon others, but the degree to which others influence their own behavior. [...]

(Actually, the session might better be called a Jane/Seth session, in that Jane’s own consciousness was often uppermost, riding upon Seth’s underlying and steadying influence. [...]

[...] Yet I could see that I confused Jane, for to make such a venture possible we’d have to change certain beliefs and values that are deeply rooted within us; especially those about personal privacy and our reluctance to “go public” with such topical, immediate material, instead of trusting that the Seth material will exert a meaningful influence in society over the long run. [...]

Influences.

(Long pause.) Those creative elements of personality must then to some extent or another finally communicate with the “Sinful Self” directly—sympathetically embrace that self (pause) as the part of personality that first accepted cultural and religious beliefs with all of their negative and positive influences. [...]

[...] Too many influences of this nature would be distracting, but some are definitely necessary; and again now, I would suggest that you invite a few congenial visitors to your home. [...]

[...] They will be together, I believe, and you should add them to your people series; for one you have known before, and the other influenced your life at one time, though you did not know him personally. [...]

[...] Regardless of past-life influences, which did exist, and granting some other interior reasons, you had a child to prove that you were a woman both to your mother and to yourself.

(I mention this incident with the idea that perhaps it helped influence the following data. [...]

[...] Their vitality is influenced by the seasons, and runs in cycles of ten to fifteen days, followed by a more relaxed period. [...]

[...] However Jane says that last Friday evening when we experimented with the candle flame, she thought that we should have the flame enclosed in a glass chimney, to obviate any chance of the flame being influenced by a draft.

[...] I would not like the matter of the sessions in general, and the subconscious influence question, to go by the board, and in one way or another we must find time for those matters.

[...] Seth could develop this material, since I do not know how one of these men “influenced my life at one time,” etc. [...]

[...] It stayed as a counterbalancing influence in the family, for the sons’ sake. [...]

[...] Not only does the human system for example become influenced chemically, electronically and psychically by physical weather, but also the human system electronically, electromagnetically, chemically and psychically affects and creates the climate in which existence is possible.

The conscious mind will benefit greatly as it becomes more and more aware of its directing influence upon events. [...]

[...] You can influence the past today; you can have memory of the future.

[...] The alteration actually changes atomic alignments, and shakes off such influences that have been soaked up.

The psychic influence of the other priests was far more creative than he realizes, and it was always in the realm of ideas that he rebelled against authority. [...]

[...] But then such events in our own lives have influenced every other chapter in the book, too. [...]

[...] There have been freer, more exuberant beliefs systems, and there have been more limiting ones, so look at those of your culture as they influence you as simply one of the ever-varying social fabrications by which a man colors his days. [...]