“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In such a state you do not seem to experience yourself directly, and indeed in the midst of what you think of as the waking state you act in the most mechanical of fashions, following habit and being less aware of sensual stimuli.

[...] Mechanisms and pathways exist, making it quite possible for you to see sound, or hear color, although that is not your primary habit at this time.

This could not happen if your physical structure did not have built-in mechanisms allowing it to, and if under certain conditions the normal intervals between the synapses of the nerve cells could not be leaped in a different fashion. [...]

The emotional climate, though intangible, is intimately known by each individual as it exists within himself, and it is the best indication of his physical condition, for thoughts and emotions as independent electrical actions have great influence directly upon the physical mechanism, acting indeed as electric storms which flash through the entire nervous system; or as great stabilizers as the case may be, and with of course many middle varieities of influence.

Thought and emotion then, is not only generally related to the physical mechanism, but as electrical actions, thoughts and emotions act directly upon the system. [...]

[...] Nevertheless it must be clearly understood that thoughts and emotions are actualities in themselves, that directly work upon the physical mechanism. [...]

[...] You saw the doctor in working clothes, expressing your feeling that doctors were more like mechanics, dealing with exterior manipulation, thus your doctor appears without his usual well-groomed attire, and fashionable facade. This is tied in of course with your experience in general regarding the members of the medical profession, and here symbolically you strip the doctor of his assumed authority, and see him more like a hired man—a plumber or mechanic, perhaps, but devoid of any deep philosophical bent. [...]

She is going to grow up to be a mechanical genius. [...]

I never pretended to be a mechanical genius. [...]

[...] But nevertheless, under various circumstances, such individuals will attempt to reactivate the physical mechanism, becoming more panicstricken when they discover the body’s condition. [...]

[...] Your perceptive mechanisms simply do not allow you to tune in to their ranges. [...]

As your perceptive mechanisms insist that objects are solid, for example, so they insist that such a thing as space exists. [...]

Both mechanisms suddenly line up the belief systems in one particular manner, knocking aside all doubts but accepting instead a strict obedience to the new belief system, and a new reorganization of life itself beneath that new cause.

Once again, I quicken those coordinates that accelerate your own peace of mind and body, and so encourage the healing mechanisms.

[...] Your problem there rests with the will to live, and with the mechanics of the psyche. The complete physician would try to understand the inner mechanics of vitality and, as best he could, learn to encourage these.

[...] Yet you will not learn the mechanics of health by putting yourself in a hospital. [...]

Science, however, seeing the body as a mechanism, has promoted the idea that consciousness is trapped within a mechanical model, that man’s suffering is mechanically caused in that regard: You simply give the machine some better parts and all will be well (amused). Science also operates as magic, of course, so on some occasions the belief in science itself will seemingly work miracles: The new heart will give a man new heart, for example.

[...] If you believe in heredity, heredity itself becomes a strong suggestive factor in your life, and can help bring about the precise malady in the body that you believed was there all along, until finally your scientific instruments uncover the “faulty mechanism,” or whatever, and there is the evidence for all to see.

[...] Actually, our forces hadn’t come close to reaching the prisoners: Responsible were mechanical failures and two dust storms that the American helicopters had to struggle through before joining a group of transport planes at a remote airfield, code-named Desert One, in central Iran. [...]

[...] All details of the failed attempt may not be released for months, or even years, but already critics are questioning whether the excessive secrecy surrounding the operation led to basic errors in planning and judgment, as well as poor anticipation of the mechanical factors involved.

[...] Science of course looks at it the other way around, as if your physical acts are the result of a robot’s mechanical, formalized behavior—a robot miraculously programmed by the blind elements of an accidental universe formed by chance. [...]

[...] See Note 2 for that session, in Chapter 4, wherein I wrote that as a physical principle the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics “sets definite limits to the accuracy possible in measuring both the motion and position of atoms and elementary particles simultaneously,” and that “there is an interaction between the observer (with his instruments) and the object or quality being measured.”

[...] Ideas and feelings that you want made physical carry within them the mechanisms that will put them in the proper range, well within the electromagnetic field necessary for physical development.

[...] The physical brain is the mechanism by which thought or emotion is automatically formed into EE units of the proper range and intensity to be used by the physical organism.

The mechanics of consciousness remain the same. [...]

[...] He has been afraid to simply sit and think, for fear of letting the spontaneous self show without the symbolized writing mechanism.

[...] On this dining out, for example: even the small shock, you see, involved in different tastes provides small surprises that are releasing to the sense mechanisms.

[...] This attitude is a defense mechanism, most understandable, since your plane or field of actuality is so involved in its relationship with material construction. [...]

[...] Subconsciously, man manages to balance these influences, and there are physical mechanisms within the organism whose purpose it is to deal with such data.

The pores of the skin are such mechanisms.

([Bill:] “Then you use Ruburt’s mechanical equipment, the voice, the eyes and body and so forth, to speak to us.”)

I do, and I use them in the manner that I have used mechanical faculties of my own when I had them.

[...] First of all, as far as the hands are concerned, to be left or right-handed has to do with inner mechanisms and brain patterns that come first, before the motions of the hands. [...]

[...] A necessary defense mechanism, which is part of each personality.

There is also a mechanism within the subconscious that allows for the materialization or projection of idea or inner vitality into physical construction. [...]

The capacity and mechanism necessary to project idea into physical matter is, therefore, present in the individual atom and molecule. [...]

[...] From the material that you have so far you understand, I hope, that this constant creation of the physical universe is carried on by each individual in it, on a subconscious level, through the use of mechanisms which I have at least partially explained.

[...] You already have a basic statement concerning the mechanisms involved.

[...] Consciousness has been away from the body for too long a period, and such a returning consciousness then has difficulty dealing with the sick body mechanism. [...] In many cases it is too great a strain on the part of the returning consciousness to take over again the ailing mechanism.

[...] Now your consciousness does return at times, to check upon the physical mechanisms, and the simple consciousness of atom and cell — the body consciousness — is always with the body, so it is not vacant. [...]

Dream 1—I was looking at some weird contraption, maybe mechanical, that my father had made, to leave me some money after his death; money was supposed to come out of it. [...]

Dictation: This is a continuation of the chapter begun (5) : “The Mechanics of Experience.”

[...] In some important areas this means that the mechanics of experience are actually becoming more apparent, for they are no longer hidden beneath one belief system.

[...] The mechanics of experience were hidden behind that screen.

A person could neither be proud of personal achievement nor blamed for failure, since in large measure his characteristics, potentials, and lacks were seen as the result of chance, heredity, and of unconscious mechanisms over which he seemingly had little control. [...]

[...] In the first experience then Ruburt projected an image outward and his consciousness entered it, then he had a session by the same mechanics we always use. [...]

In other ways the same kind of mechanism operates in the growing popularity of the books. [...]

In another system of reality your father was — in fact, still is — a well-known inventor, who never married but used his mechanically creative abilities to the fullest while avoiding emotional commitment. [...]

By far, the creative, mechanically inventive personality began to outstrip the other. [...]

3. While dealing with emotional realities in this life, my father also exercised very considerable mechanical abilities. [...]

[...] I think that his exacting mechanical abilities are reflected in Linden’s very realistic models, and are transmuted in the methods I use to solidly “construct” my paintings and to keep the records for the Seth material.

[...] Your biological makeup includes mechanisms that allow a certain portion of your consciousness to leave your body and return. These mechanisms are a part of the nature of animals as well. [...]