“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The exterior dimensions are replicas of interior personal ones. The accomplishments, wars, difficulties and institutions are all “after the event” — that is, they are outward actions of an inward existence. Under certain conditions water turns into ice. In the same way, interior events can appear in physical reality in a quite different form than the original.

As creatures you are a part of nature. The change of thoughts, feelings and beliefs into physical, objectively perceived phenomena is as natural as water changing into ice, for example, or a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. You not only form the structure of your civilizations and social institutions through the transference of beliefs, thoughts and feelings; but in this natural exchange you also help on quite intimate levels in the “psychic manufacture” of the physical environment itself, with all of its great sweeping variety, and yet seasonal stability.

[...] We visited the Seamen’s Institute [Museum].”)

[...] The people within the environment appeared happy because they did not think and everything was done for them and life was, indeed, like an institution and they could not leave. [...]

You felt, you see, that on entering this institution or this culture or civilization, that something had been taken from you symbolized by you as the fluid that was taken from the brain. [...]

[...] It is the feeling that the fugitive will always be hunted down and that there is safety in numbers and that if you leave the numbers, or the institution, you will be hunted down. [...]

[...] Every individual in such institutions or societies is not affected in the same fashion, of course — yet you do have these kinds of closed societies, relatively speaking, and they can indeed serve as cradles for fanaticism and rigid stereotypes of behavior. [...]

[...] The basis of your most intimate experience, the framework behind all of your organized structures, rests upon a reality that is not considered valid by the very institutions that are formed through its auspices.

[...] Your institutions change their aspects accordingly, so that experience fits the beliefs that you have about it. [...]

[...] When this happens your institutions become more repressive, and violence often emerges as a result.

This is not to say that all such children should be cared for at home, or that parents should feel guilty if they are forced through circumstances to place their offspring in an institution. [...]

[...] The dream gave him three scenes representing various areas of his life in terms of time—the institution of the gallery and his early ideas, the office representing the world, and his hiding place, which was a kind of storage barn. [...]

(Long pause.) He has indeed done well enough, considering the negative suggestions of such an institution as a hospital. [...]

(Pause.) When, at this point now, of mankind’s development, his emerging unconscious knowledge is denied by his institutions, then it will rise up despite those institutions, and annihilate them. [...]

[...] The prisoners’ energies are usually used in boring, innocuous tasks, even though some attempt is made to provide vocational training in many institutions.

[...] Following such ideas, you end up with segregations in which the ill, being powerless, are isolated; the criminals are kept together; and the old are held in institutions or in cultural ghettos with their own kind. [...]

[...] For example: Scientific advisers to the government’s National Cancer Institute, which is conducting elaborate studies of many thousands of women of varying ages, have called for a halt to the routine screening of younger women. [...]

[...] Large scale studies, including one by the National Cancer Institute, are planned to explore the whole question of prophylactic mastectomies.

(10:07.) I have been very gentle in my treatment of your mores and institutions — for I do not want you to be against your world, but for a more fulfilling one. [...]

These institutions and disciplines are composed of individuals, each restrained by limiting ideas about their own private reality; and so it is with private reality that we will begin and always return, period. [...]

[...] The Hospital as a Social Institution

[...] The matter of Yale led him in his own way to think of his work as if it were to be an institution, every word recorded, so that you only wrote down what you wanted other people to know—and therefore somewhat discouraged spontaneity of expression. [...]

[...] The person was connected with Robert Monroe’s institute in Charlottesville, Va. [...]

[...] Peg felt the situation was building up to some kind of climax; she spoke of small matters like limits being placed on personal phone calls, etc; various economies being instituted; the dissatisfaction of employees.

[...] Just before going outside I’d told Jane a capsule of my current thinking—that we were at the end of the line that she was going to end up hospitalized again, or in an institution where she could receive constant care. [...]

[...] The nunneries and monasteries were long-time social and religious institutions, some extremely rigorous, while others were religiously oriented in name only. [...]

[...] She was always involved in the politics of such institutions. [...]