“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Learning processes are definitely hampered through your present habits, for there are certain periods when consciousness is attuned to learning, and yet you try to force learning during unrecognized minimal periods. [...]

[...] Concentration will be increased, problems seen more clearly, and learning capacities better utilized.

[...] You grow in understanding, and if you kill, then it is necessary that you learn what it means to be a victim and so you become a victim if you choose. You may indeed learn what it is to be a victim in other ways. You must learn how to use the consciousness that is yourself. [...]

For of real love, you know very little; of real understanding, you know very little; but you will learn and you are learning and learning itself is discovery and joy. [...]

[...] You will learn the sacredness of consciousness. You will learn to be responsible for life. You will learn to protect and cherish life as you know it and the plant life as you know it. [...]

[...] If you believe that a leaf is a piece of physical matter without consciousness, without glory, then you will learn nothing from it. [...]

[...] You possess an unconscious environment, a given psychological world attuned to the physical one, and your learning takes place in it subjectively even as objectively you learn exterior manipulation.

[...] In your terms, events are still plastic to young children, in that they have not as yet learned to apply your stringent structure. [...]

[...] Left alone, children would learn how to cope with animals by pretending to be animals, for example. [...]

When children dream, they utilize these inner senses as adults do, and then through dreaming they learn to translate such material into the precise framework of the exterior senses. [...]

[...] In your early life you learned the discipline of form, most necessary. [...] The framework, learning the form first, was adopted for several reasons, having to do with other existences, to some extent given.

You wanted to express now the fuller inspirations that come later, and with an exquisite sense of form that Josef never learned. [...]

You also wanted your work to show and express those mysterious moments when the rivers begin to flow (underlined), the heart learns to speak. [...]

[...] It is instead your own characteristic method of expressing reality, of perceiving inner data; the particular channel of your own understanding, learning and application, to which there are no limits.

You will learn them here, you will learn them through reading. You will learn them through listening to your own inner self. [...]

[...] You need to learn the power of thought and emotion, but this should fill you with the joy of creativity and the possibility, not frighten you out of (words missing) of responsibility. [...] You simply have to learn the methods. [...]

[...] We learned what spices would do way before the present generation got hung up on grass, and we sniffed oregano on the high seas, and we got high on the high seas sniffing oregano. [...]

([Nadine:] “But I don’t know how to learn them.”)

[...] This is a natural learning process. [...] This learning process is nipped in the bud, however. [...]

[...] They constantly pretend, and they quickly learn that persistent pretending in any one area will result in a physically-experienced version of the imagined activity. [...]

[...] He learns that such beliefs are acceptable. [...]

[...] He cannot learn from his own experience, then, and each bout of illness will appear largely incomprehensible.

[...] A person who loves to teach needs people who love to learn. [...] A true teacher allows you to learn from yourself. [...]

[...] I am merely encouraging you to focus your joint energies in that direction … You will be dealing with symbols, yet you will learn that symbols are reality, for you are symbols of yourselves that live and speak. [...]

[...] There, I hope, you will work at developing skills, in terms of the dream-art scientist (for instance; see Session 700 in Volume 1 of ‘Unknown’ Reality), and learn other professions than the ones you now know.”

[...] I had to learn to handle more stimuli than ever before, and to maintain overall stability as I learned to develop latent abilities. [...]

“When you leave the physical system after reincarnations, you have learned the lessons—and you are literally no longer a member of the human race, for you elect to leave it. [...] Therefore, the lessons must be taught and learned well.

[...] We can see and feel and learn while our consciousness is separated from the physical form. [...]

[...] To learn more we must be willing to examine our own consciousness, individually. [...]

He took these steps for his own reasons, but you have come together in a joint reality, so his situation is teaching you things that you wanted to learn, and you are learning through his example. [...] In a way however you are working through the same problems artistically, and Ruburt would never accept that coloration, so he has learned from you there.

It is foolish to say “Why does it take so much time to learn?” For each learning process is highly unique, and contains within it particular achievements that you yourself want; and these achievements not only rise above the difficulties, but in the greater view the steps are seen as steps “upward”—the individualized problems understood as the same kind of challenges you might set for yourself to conquer in a painting, or as part of the entire creative process.

[...] “Will this sell or won’t it?” That question was more or less imperative when Ruburt was learning to use his abilities. [...]

[...] You are each on the way to important kinds of progress in this life, and what you are learning about the quality of consciousness is important.

[...] A gobbler of ideas, of emotions, of atmosphere, in some ways a veritable sponge soaking up whatever he can, but he has learned discipline and he is learning a certain amount of patience, which is difficult for him.

Your generation as a whole had to learn the importance of thought and responsibility. You had to learn that basically to hate is to kill. [...]

This was one of the reasons for the decay of knowledge and learning in the Middle Ages. [...]

(“Have we learned our lesson?”)

[...] He travels and learns. He also learns some secrets of color through the man mentioned earlier, and there is a binding agent in his work not recognized as such. A chemical technique learned.

Ruburt has learned to make compromises, not always gracefully, but he has learned that they are sometimes important. [...]

(I would say that all of this marks definite learning on Jane’s part. [...]

[...] If he added anything else to his pigments it would be well worth learning about.)

[...] We learned much with the pendulum today, and kept hoping we had finally unearthed the symptoms’ cause. [...]

[...] We again used the pendulum, and learned a few new things. [...]

[...] We went over what we had learned through Jane’s pendulum about an innocent remark of mine, that Jane didn’t have to ask Eleanor to return the script of Rich Bed after a two-week period. [...]

[...] It seems we learned a lot today. [...]

[...] All living is a thrusting out toward, and joyful thrusting out toward, the energy that you have not learned, as yet, to use creatively, you call violence. It has great potentials for creativity, and it is up to you now to learn how to use it creatively for it is another face of creativity. [...]

[...] They did not learn how to project their energy outward constructively. They blocked large portions of energy, rather than learn how to use it and so, in many ways, denied themselves facets of creativity. [...]

The meaning behind and the object lesson to be learned. [...]

[...] Learn what energy and life is, and then you will use it creatively and you will not fear it. [...]

Now, beside Alpha I there are many other states that you will learn and hopefully learn to master and use. [...] You may be amazed at what you learn when you do not program yourself. [...]

Now you are dealing with methods that have been known through the ages and other civilizations than your own have learned them, some have mastered them. [...] Alpha I is a very simple method of learning to control physical matter through realizing that you do yourselves make it and can direct its flow and direct the energy available to it. [...]

You are beginning with Alpha I, but there are many other kinds of consciousness, and there is no reason why you cannot experiment with them and learn to handle them. [...]

[...] Until you learn to manipulate the world that you know, and constructively and creatively, you will not be able to manipulate the inner realities in which you already live but instead will be swept merely within them. [...]

He has indeed now learned one of the most basic lessons of his life. Had he not learned it, there would have been further difficulties. [...]

But this lesson, learned, is a valuable achievement. [...] I have to a large degree kept my eye upon him, but you see the lesson had to be learned by him.

[...] You learned it some time ago, and he knew it intellectually. [...]

[...] He is now returning, and he has learned much. [...]

[...] But as a peasant I walked with a heavy foot and great weight until I learned the lessons that I had to learn, as all of you will learn your own lessons. [...]

[...] This is what you should learn to achieve. [...]

You should learn to. [...]

[...] You are learning how to use the creative energy of which you are a part, and you are indeed quite isolated, so you cannot do much harm, in your terms. [...]

[...] You can learn to focus your attention away from physical reality, to learn new methods of perception that will enable you to enlarge your concept of reality and greatly expand your own experience.

[...] If you think of your stream of consciousness as transparent, however, then you can learn to look through and beneath it to others that lie in other beds of reality. You can also learn to rise above your present stream of consciousness and perceive others that run, for analogy’s sake, parallel. [...]

Any creative work involves you in a cooperative process in which you learn to dip into these other streams of consciousness, and come up with a perception that has far more dimensions than one arising from the one narrow, usual stream of consciousness that you know. [...]

[...] You are learning, studying, playing; you are anything but asleep (smile) as you think of the term. [...]

[...] At times during it I’d felt somewhat overwhelmed, thinking of what we still had to learn and accomplish, as well as about what we hadn’t learned in the past: Why was it all taking so long? [...]

[...] You are learning how to form reality from your own beliefs. [...]

(Long pause.) He is learning to create whole private and public worlds that directly correspond to his own states of mind. [...]

Even these, however, act as automatic learning devices, and left alone they themselves trigger the necessary creative procedures that would begin corrective measures. [...]

[...] We want you to realize that though it is hard for us to communicate, we spoke with your race before your race learned language. We gave you mental images and upon these images you learned to form the world that you knew. [...]

[...] We gave you the pattern by which you learned to form your physical reality. [...]

In this respect you and Ferd are both involved in a mutual learning process and development of abilities. [...] He has recently left our area of existence for another, and he has not yet sufficiently learned to operate within the new set of conditions. [...]

[...] You must have patience while these abilities develop, while Ferd learns to perfect his own communication process, and while you learn to perfect your receptive abilities.

[...] If you are willing then you shall do well, for the abilities are indeed there, and you can learn to use them.

You should learn from Ruburt’s experience you see, this evening and benefit from it in your own endeavors.