“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause at 10:24.) Physical perception gives you a necessary kind of feedback, but it is also based upon learning processes, so that from a young age you learn to put the pieces of the world together in acceptable fashions. [...] Schizophrenia represents a kind of learning disability in that particular respect.

Bill Baker left soon after learning that Jane no longer holds her ESP classes. [...]

There are countless instances where “schizophrenic episodes” occur in otherwise normal personalities, where for learning purposes and periods of growth the personality sorts its parts out, and helps them enlarge their frameworks.

[...] Yet as the years passed I still had to learn the obvious—that Jane’s creative powers are inextricably a part of her whole approach to life, including her symptoms. [...]

[...] As you practice, you will learn to tell one from the other.

[...] In order to dislodge unsuitable beliefs and establish new ones, you must learn to use your imagination to move concepts in and out of your mind. [...]

Ruburt is finally learning to trust the nature of his being—the self that is. [...]

As he matures and learns, and studies and works, he will then be able to do this when he wishes to do so. [...]

[...] You want me to deprive you of experience that you need, and in the reality in which you now exist, and in which you are learning very well to manipulate. [...]

[...] You are learning very quickly, for that matter.

[...] As far as I’ve been able to learn, no such transitional fossils have been found, like the discrete forms of reptiles and birds that have been discovered, so I decided to search out the next best thing: the visual representations as to what they must have looked like. [...]

[...] So as you begin to learn self-trust, you acknowledge your impulses. [...]

[...] Children trusting their impulses learn to walk, and trusting your impulses, you can find yourselves again.

[...] At that point he immediately took it for granted, with a rush of self-disapproval, that this was a sign that he had learned nothing, and that his body was objecting to the whole idea of going out, and therefore challenging him—in other words, that his negative beliefs had risen to challenge new healthier attitudes.

[...] You both took it for granted, however, that despite what it seemed Ruburt might have learned lately, negative beliefs were rising in rebellion, and forcing a crisis that you then had to meet.

[...] If you want challenges, learn to challenge your self-disapproval, and to question those beliefs that you take for granted as truth. [...]

[...] At the same time, she laughed, in early grades she had much trouble learning to salute the flag with her right hand; she repeatedly used her left hand until she “learned better.”

[...] Our nine-month involvement under those conditions revealed both our naïveté at the time and our stubbornness in trying to learn. But learn we did, if not always as we’d expected to; for besides gaining valuable insights into Seth-Jane’s abilities through our own envelope tests, we discovered much through our dealings with at least some kinds of “authority.” [...]

[...] Even now, more than 10 years after Jane began speaking for Seth, one might say that each session we hold represents another step in this learning process; we fully expect it to continue as long as the sessions do.” [...]

[...] Without the loyalty that you are learning as a woman, your character had many defects — and there, I said I would not get into anything serious.

[...] You are learning that you are responsible. When you learn how to handle responsibilities, you will have a hand in very important matters. [...]

[...] (Smile, forceful manner, eyes open wide.) You only learn emotionally. If you do not learn emotionally, you do not learn.

(Actually this data is quite legitimate, and becomes understandable when we learned after break that, according to Seth, Bill Gallagher felt very old on his 41st birthday, last July 1. Once again, see the 286th session.

You do not have to learn new things at the same time as you are struggling to exist in a strange environment. After death there is no instant struggle, where birth on your plane involves a pressing, agonizing attempt to get one’s bearings, and learn new patterns of behavior, when there is no time in your sense really to make any mistakes at all. [...]

[...] She had been preparing herself since she learned of the operations’ necessity for her own departure. [...]

The whole self slowly regains knowledge of its own reincarnations, and learns of its relationship to its own entity. [...]

Now, on your particular camouflage universe you are learning energy transformation. And in your case you are learning to transform inner energy by forming it into physical constructions that the plane enables you to manipulate by the formation of particular outer senses for this purpose. [...]

[...] By coincidence, this session fell on April 15, so naturally I was curious to learn more. [...]

(She went on to say that as good as she wants the sessions to be, she has learned that she must overcome any feeling of responsibility for them; to do otherwise invariably makes her tense and hampers the flow of material. [...]

There are civilizations of the psyche,¹¹ and only by learning about these will you discover the truth about the “lost” civilizations of your planet, for each such physical culture coincided with and emerged from a corresponding portion of the psyche that you even now possess.

[...] Ruburt was often almost indignant when presented with such evidence, but he also refused to cast it in conventionalized guise, and his own curiosity and creative abilities kept him flexible enough so that learning could take place while he maintained normal contact with the world you know.¹²

[...] As you learn to throw aside old concepts you will begin to experience the evidence for other levels of reality, and become aware of other “messages” that you have previously blocked. [...]

[...] Yours is not a system of reality formed by the most intense concentration of energy … Other portions of yourself, therefore, of which you are not consciously aware, do inhabit what you could call a super-system of reality in which consciousness learns to handle and perceive much stronger concentrations of energy….”

[...] We may have learned a great lesson.)

[...] Years ago you learned how potent suggestion could be when Ruburt used hypnosis with you, and you promptly dropped it. [...]

As you learned, you went through periods where you tried out alterations. [...]

He then reverted to the alternate pattern of behavior he learned early (in childhood) as a defense mechanism, withholding his feelings from his own conscious knowledge as well as hiding them from you. [...]

(At the time Rebellers was published, I was jealous, but it took me some time to learn this. [...]

[...] You have learned through his behavior, and saved yourself some other steps, for example.

[...] For it has learned to form literally millions of new connections, meanings and concepts, new gestalts that have indeed made man something quite different than he was. [...]

[...] After she learned of the Seth sessions Peggy searched the files of the newspaper for a copy of her article on the experience. [...]

When Ruburt learns a few lessons, he will be able to tell when his impressions are correct. [...]

[...] What you have learned seems as nothing, because you forget how your attitudes changed. [...]

At Ruburt’s end, it almost seems as if he had our material at hand magically without effort, and therefore should have put it to use at once, learning the lessons of half a lifetime in a few years, and graduating to solve all of his own problems and half of the world’s as well. [...]

[...] I suggest that at a later time Ruburt study the entire test series again, for there are lessons to be learned there that have still escaped you.

[...] It is true that we can still learn from the envelope test series, which covered a year. [...]

(After supper, I learned several things. [...]

(Her nights have been particularly rough, I learned. [...]

[...] Maybe just the permissiveness is a sign of loosening checks and balances that have had physical reflections—not just because of psychic work per se—but because I haven’t learned to trust the self I was working with....