“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As Ruburt would put it, your sidekick over here (Jim’s wife, Jean) did not go along with your ideas at all in that life. [...] As a male in that life she had an expanding effect upon your personality, but you were very given to ritual and a belief in magic acts, and to the idea that existence in itself was evil and wrong. [...]

(Bert C.: “It sounds like a life-long task just to work out the first half of that, before you can begin to relate to others.”)

[...] May you live a long and merry life.”

[...] God bless your life.” [...]

[...] Affirmation means that you embrace the life that is yours and flows through you. [...] You go along with your life, understanding that you form your experience, emphasizing your ability to do so.

Now: Affirmation means saying “yes” to yourself and to the life you lead, and to accepting your own unique personhood.

[...] Such states of personality can be compared to colors alone, bright and dark, the strong patterns of energy that always represent motion, life and variety.

If you learn to get hold of this feeling of power now, you can use it most effectively to alter your life situation in whatever way you choose — again, within those limitations set by your creaturehood. If you were born without a limb, for example, your power in the present cannot automatically regenerate it in this life, although in other systems of reality you do possess that limb. [...]

(9:25.) The beliefs of both of you find justification in physical life, and only reinforce themselves. [...]

[...] During your life, any event must come through your creaturehood, with the built-in time recognition that is so largely a part of your neurological structure; so usually there is a lag, a lapse in time, during which your beliefs cause material actualization. [...]

[...] You create your life, then. [...]

[...] Life’s exterior conveniences would hardly matter if science’s knowledge was used to undermine the very foundations of life itself.

Those who survive feel that they have been given a new lease on life, regardless of their circumstances: They could have been killed and were not. Others use the same circumstances as excuses for no longer hanging on to a wish for life, and so it seems that while saving face they fall prey to the exterior circumstances.

[...] Yet the dream is a vital portion of American national life, and even those who are unscrupulous must pay it at least lip service, or cast their plans in its light.

In the public mind, it made little difference whether the devil or tainted genes condemned the individual to a life in which it seemed he could have little control. [...]

[...] And I know that in the Puerto Rico trench in the Atlantic Ocean, life in the sea at more than 8,000 feet down goes on just as it has for many millennia. [...] It’s been like that for all of the interwoven life forms of the poles and the tropics, of the deserts and woodlands and prairies. [...] And I think that in its way each life form must know that and love its home, and has no desire to change or destroy it.

(9:14.) In the same way, some private-life decisions or events may appear disadvantageous to the intellect for the same reasons, while instead they are also self-corrective measures that you are not able to perceive because of your beliefs. [...] That belief of course is highly detrimental because it runs against the basic principles of life. [...]

[...] That rational approach goes against what I can only call life’s directives and life’s natural rhythms. [...]

[...] They begin to collect evidence of danger so that any other kind of orientation to life seems foolhardy, and to be a realist means in that framework to look out for the worst.

AFFIRMATION, THE PRACTICAL BETTERMENT OF YOUR LIFE, AND THE NEW STRUCTURING OF BELIEFS

(At once at 12:25.) New chapter heading [Twenty-two:] “Affirmation, the Practical Betterment of Your Life, and the New Structuring of Beliefs.”

(Pause.) Your father’s sentence—the paper-bag reference—was one he actually made in his own mind, in the life that you actually knew him in, and he considered that sons rather than daughters represented his one physical triumph —that is, he believed sons preferable, and they alone compensated for a working man’s life—a life he felt did not befit him. [...]

[...] If your father did have daughters, rather than sons in the life that you know, he actually would have fared better in the physical world, because he would have felt it his duty to protect them financially: he would have considered them fairly helpless, and in need of his abilities. [...]

[...] Search your life for proofs of your health. Your very life itself is hard evidence that health is within you!

(10:45.) It is for this reason that “past-life information” is so often used to reinforce current personal social situations — because, like the past in this life, such memories are constructed through present belief.

You are structuring your earlier life through the dissatisfactions of the present, and therefore reinforcing your problems.

[...] Large areas of life may not be touched by certain attitudes, while others are. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] The past of memories in this life. [...]

[...] I have never seen such benign tomfoolery in all my life before. [...]

[...] There is an association in your mind, however, between the character of Camp and your grandfather, but it is an association from this life that seems to connect them. [...]

At the same time, young children in particular still possess a feeling of oneness with the universe, and with all of life, even as they begin to separate themselves at certain levels from life’s wholeness to go about the delightful task. Seeing themselves as separate and apart from all other individuals, they still retain an inner comprehension and a memory of having once experienced a oneness with life as a whole.

[...] They are even more entangled with scientific concepts, and with science’s views of life in general. [...]

(3:21.) At that level even illness is regarded simply as a part of life’s experience, however unpleasant it might be. [...]

[...] I told Jane I also felt that Jean was somehow dissatisfied in life, perhaps confused, perhaps caught between her artistic leanings and her upbringing to lead the more conventional life — working at the hospital, and so forth. [...]

[...] I told Jane that I suddenly understood that in the dream I’d experienced paternal feelings — genuine ones — that I’d never known in conscious life, or had access to. It followed that in the dream state, then, I’d actually enlarged upon my experience in this life, and in a most meaningful and strong way. [...]

[...] Then Del returned; he wore clean, modern, tailored hiking clothes, a wool jacket and a fedora with a feather in it — much sharper than he dresses in real life. [...]

In physical life there is a lapse while messages leap the nerve ends. [...]

(9:39.) In this regard now, and for the sake of our analogy only, think of the life of the self as one message leaping across the nerve cells of a multidimensional structure — again, as real as your body — and consider it also as a greater “moment of reflection” on the part of such a many-sided personality.

[...] The cell does not need to be consciously aware of you in order to fulfill itself, even though your expectations of health largely influence its existence, but your recognition of the soul and entity can help you direct energies from these other dimensions into your daily life.

[...] Souls make up the life of the entity in those terms. [...]

(We then discussed her reaction to her early religious home environment, especially to the priests in her life. [...] Of course all extremes aren’t acceptable, as say, a life of crime. [...]

[...] I said they might be normal enough, that everyone was essentially isolated, or at least alone, since no one else could live their life for them. [...]

In this case, the notes allowed Ruburt to see the vaster and yet even more intimate kind of communication that unites you, and that unites all of life.

The television program, about the communication of plants, also served as an impetus, so that Ruburt was able to sense the continuous “inner world” flow of love and cooperation within which all of life is couched. [...]

You may feel that you want to “relive” certain episodes of your life so that you can understand them better. Your life’s experience, therefore, is your own. [...] Your life is your own personal experience- perspective, and when at death you take it out of the mass physical time context, then you can experience it in many ways. [...]

Perhaps your life span runs for seventy-seven years. [...]

[...] They use the immediately-past life as a canvas, and with the same “canvas,” they attempt a better picture. [...]

[...] With practice you will discover that your normal waking consciousness is highly limited, and that what you thought of once as death conditions seem much more like life conditions. [...]

[...] Some such problems are settled in mid-life or even before, and new challenges set. You are not stuck with a situation, then, because of a previous life. [...]

[...] He is not concerned with his health because he takes it on trust unthinkingly, as he takes his life on trust.

The life that you two personally have, has been brought about through trust and expectation. [...]

[...] Open expressions of warmth are extremely important, on both of your parts in your daily life, and are also connected with your creativity as well as your health. [...]

[...] (Pause.) It seems to you that any naturally aborted fetus has no physical life at all, that such life has been denied to it for some reason. Instead, the fetus experiences another level: physical life at a different scale, that in your terms would apply to the distant past.

[...] So in those terms, and following that analogy, the psyche makes the same kind of adjustments and life-changes. [...]

[...] Then, however, you must wonder when the soul enters the flesh, or when the alien fetus becomes one of your own, and therefore blessed by the gods and granted the right to life.

[...] Soul is the life within everything that is. [...]

YOUR LIFE AS YOUR MOST INTIMATE WORK OF ART, AND THE NATURE OF CREATIVITY AS IT APPLIES TO YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

When you are fairly happy and content in your daily life, you can be said to be in a state of grace. [...]

[...] According to the state of illumination or grace, those mass memories may be activated that do not necessarily involve your personal experience — though your own involvement and the events of your life may appear within them in an entirely different framework than the one with which you are familiar.

Any event of your life is written in the memory of the universe, for example, as you think of it. [...]

[...] In many areas of your own life, those in which you are satisfied, you need make no effort. [...] It is only in those compartments of your life that confound you that you suddenly begin to wonder what is happening — but here also, natural hypnosis is at work just as easily and naturally, and your conscious ideas are automatically coming to physical fruition. [...]

[...] Yet in other facets of your life you may be hypnotizing yourself into wealth, accomplishment, satisfaction — and here you do not complain. [...] In those positive life situations you are certain of your initiative. [...]

[...] The same processes occur in normal life, however; areas of primary concentration then regulate your experience both biologically and mentally, and generate similar conditions.

[...] His life constantly reinforces this concept, and while he is peripherally aware that some people are “nicer” than others, his main intimate experience allows him to see the best in others and in himself. [...]

But beyond this life, and before this life, and forming this life, there are identities and there are realities and these are not dead. [...]

[...] I cannot kill, for there is only life, and life cannot be killed.

[...] Some of you will be finished with earthly reincarnations after this life. [...]

[...] The physical mechanism has chromosomes indeed, but the physical chromosomes have a psychic counterpart, and the psychic counterpart is the original; and within you is the codified information containing all your past lives and all your knowledge, and it is hidden so deep within you that the subconscious as you know it does not realize the truth, for the subconscious as you know it is, indeed, a very shallow affair containing only those hidden memories from this life.

[...] You operate on faith constantly, so that it becomes indeed an almost invisible element in each life. [...]

[...] I want to point out that faith is not all that unusual, but a prime element in your life. [...]

[...] Lo and behold—for while everything seems so poorly, our friend’s life is being saved, for he misses his plane.

Later he wonders what happened, that his life was saved, and his plans altered at the last moment. [...]