“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

On some occasion however I do want to discuss this matter of our sessions, as to when they should and should not be held; and I repeat: in no way do I ever attempt to influence Ruburt’s subconscious mind.

[...] As entireties—I use the phrase purposely—however, you respond to many influences that may or may not result in a session.

[...] For in the same way that dream images are projected outward from the personality, so also are thoughts projected, and all influences that extend from one personality to another.

[...] For one thing, there are also individual differences which operate, so that any given personality will be more open to particular influences, and will tend to ignore others. [...]

[...] She liked the article, and agreed that her work would continue to grow in influence.

[...] Through poor habits he attracts negative influences from others, and actually amplifies them, projecting them outward in a highly magnified manner. [...]

[...] John met Mr. Murphy just once, briefly, he states, and has no idea of the man’s position in politics, his influence, etc. It is possible that Murphy influenced Clint Smith.

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

Yet in your terms of time you are often in periods where you appear more influenced by the past. You are moving into a period where you are becoming more influenced by the future, in those terms, drawn by an impetus you feel but cannot consciously elucidate as yet.

(Long pause.) Ruburt has been adding to the strength of the negative influences of his past. [...]

The dream book was an attempt to try again, a desperate attempt for independence on his part to succeed in spite of the negative influences. (Pause.) He felt that you rejected it as a whole, and completely. [...]

[...] Her material, however, wasn’t influenced by the news story, for just about a year ago Seth-Jane delivered a session for Personal Reality on the mixing of animal and man: the 648th for March 14, 1973, in Chapter 12. [...]

([Tom D:] “What I was trying to say was, it is easier to influence the kids that are slow learners... less outside influence... [...]

There are seasonal variations, temperature variations, electromagnetic and chemical reactions that all influence the production and efficiency of dream images, and that also influence the effect of dream images upon the individual. [...]

[...] I can already see how her healing is going to influence future books, or notes I may write—for I’ll have to explain how the diagnosis of arthritis came about in the medical profession, how erroneous it was, and why we went along with it for so long, while all the time knowing, or at least feeling, that it wasn’t so, that there was more involved than Jane having “an incurable disease.” [...]

[...] Yet, while your world and the dream world are basically independent, they exert pressures and influences one upon the other.

[...] Not being a physical reality, it influenced the world of physical matter in a way that no purely physical reality ever could.

[...] We have seen that the ego begins, sparked into being by the inner self, greatly influenced by heredity and physical environment; and that this ego, as it continues to exist, builds up an electrical reality of its own and forms its experiences … into the coded data within the cells.

[...] The influence of others is also involved.

[...] It represents the world, outside influences. [...]

Your own behavior with your parents, with Ruburt, your attitudes toward your painting and outside jobs, Ruburt’s attitudes toward children, his work and you—all of these were so influenced. [...]

Yet those terms influenced you both. [...]

[...] Your own ideas about money and success of course influenced his beliefs: your combined ideas now of virtuousness and thrift, as opposed to license. [...]

[...] How can we become more keenly aware of the facts and implications of our dreams, for example, and the very great influences they exert in our lives? [...]

Each life influences each other life, and some portion of the personality retains memory not only of past lives, but of future lives also.

[...] They help in ridding the personality of harmful influences, and in generating new energy. [...]