“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Do not think of the mind as a purely mental entity, and of the body as a purely physical one. Instead, think of both mind and body as continuing, interweaving processes that are mental and physical at once. [...]

[...] In your system of reality you are learning what mental energy is, and how to use it. [...] What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event, independent and apart from you the perceiver, is instead the physical materialization of the perceiver’s own inner emotions, energy and mental environment.

[...] Mental images, though they may occur within the physical skull, are not in themselves physical. [...]

[...] Ruburt did not come to his recognition of the world’s mental source through reasoning. [...] Ruburt’s consciousness merged, while still retaining its own individuality, with the consciousness of the leaves outside his window, and with the nail in the windowsill, and traveled outward and inward at the same time, so that like a mental wind his consciousness traveled through other psychological neighborhoods.

[...] In those terms, then, Framework 2 deals with associations, so that within it the recognizable events of the physical world can be put together in an infinite number of ways, after which they appear in your private experience according to directions you have given them through those associations that you form mentally.

[...] A City that does indeed exist mentally. But all things must exist mentally first or they will never be materialized. [...] And mentally the same thing applies. [...]

([Rick:] Seth, this is a little changing the subject just a bit, but I’ve been very interested about your comments about the dream art scientists and mental physicists as being some of the careers that I have been interested in.

[...] That it is a mental creation of others, to some extent, in which you participate. [...]

[...] The change of beliefs and feelings, the acceptance of freedom mentally, will vastly accelerate both of your creative abilities, releasing on both of your parts energy that has been withheld.

The instances of Framework 2 activity as you become aware of them will show you the true nature of creativity, and acquaint you with the mental feeling of freedom and spontaneity. [...]

[...] It will find its own schedules, but your joint ideas of work hours were meant to fit in with a time-clock puncher’s mentality, and not your own.

Left alone, you would both work many hours, but under completely different mental conditions. [...]

Some of you are simply mentally lazy. [...]

The repetition, verbally or mentally, is important because it activates biological patterns and reflects them. [...]

(Long pause at 3:35.) It is not too frequently noticed, but many so-called mentally deficient people possess their own unique learning abilities — that is, often they learn what they do learn in a different manner than most other people. [...]

Children who are labeled mentally deficient or even called idiots, can often grow and develop far beyond medical science’s suppositions — particularly if they are aided by loving parents who constantly provide stimulation and interest.

[...] Of late, when he says that he is out of it, or very relaxed, he is involved at certain levels of awareness, in which indeed mental and physical tensions are being relieved and drained away. [...]

[...] His state of mind during the day then varies, so that with his files (of poetry) today he was in a highly relaxed, creative, productive, mental level, one that served to cushion his mind from the critical reproaches he can often give himself, and therefore bodily relaxation could continue. [...]

[...] Such cross purposes, of course, can lead to mental, spiritual, physical and emotional difficulties.

[...] All of these attitudes can be extremely detrimental, and along with other beliefs are responsible for a goodly number of spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional problems.

Now Ruburt mentally cut down upon the discomfort of his symptoms, so that the body did not feel its own discomfort strongly enough to trigger healing processes to the degree necessary. [...] Instead you remove the impetus for improvement by minimizing the symptoms, which, ideally now, would activate psychological, spiritual, mental, and physical centers, bringing about necessary adjustments.

By going along with feelings you unify your emotional, mental and bodily state. [...]

[...] Each symptom, mental or physical, is a clue to the resolution of the conflict behind it, and contains within it the seeds of its own healing.

[...] Both approaches require honesty with yourself, and a firm encounter with the mental, psychic and emotional aspects of your current reality.

[...] You are denying the body’s corporeal existence and its focus in the time of the seasons, and cheating yourself of those natural biological, psychic, and mental motions that are meant to take you past themselves.

Environments are primarily mental creations of consciousness thrust out into many forms. [...] In your physical terms it does not exist, and I know quite well it is my mental production. [...]

[...] It seems also that your subjectivity has a mysterious unknown quality about it, and that even your mental life has a sort of insidious dropping-off point, a subjective cliff over which thoughts and memories fall, to disappear into nothingness. [...]

[...] You were able to do something few people can: leap intuitively and mentally above your own period — to discard intellectually and mentally, and sometimes emotionally, the shortsighted, unfortunate religious, scientific, and social beliefs of your fellows.

This recognition does indeed involve a new performance on the part of your own consciousness, a mental and imaginative leap that gives you control and direction over achievements that you have always performed, though without your conscious awareness.

[...] And again, a book may sell in the millions, and still go in one mental ear and out the other while our books literally do change lives—and to that extent the world—for the better.

A man who makes shoes may see his customers, but he will not know what roads his customers walk in his shoes—and you cannot know the mental and psychic changes for the better that the books are making in parents and their children. [...]

I have a suggestion, and it is that you mentally speak to what I will call “the basic creative self”—and remember, these are terms. [...]

The official line of consciousness is a certain mental stance, a kind of convention. [...]

[...] The way of thinking becomes so automatic as to be mentally invisible. [...]

The body is trying to tell you that you have a problem, and because you did not cope with it, and denied it mentally, it is physically materialized in symbolic body language. [...]

[...] You are terrified of inactivity, for many reasons: bodily inactivity, mental inactivity, some of this based upon fear of your mother’s disease. [...]

[...] The problem is not in the exterior circumstances but in your own mental attitude toward them, and in the habitual patterns of thought that you have subjectively accepted.

You must use mental images of mobility and action. [...]

[...] Later, while resting, I received a mental impression of Linda Butts and perhaps her mother Betts. [...] Linda and Betts could have been arguing [although this is unlikely; as far as I know Linda is away at school.] All of this was a mental impression, more of a jumbled sense of sound and emotional clutter, with but vague images. [...]

(January 7, Thursday, 11:30 AM: Mentally I saw Mother’s old house. [...]

[...] Also mental conversation I’ve forgotten.

[...] But many of these actions are also mental manipulations, or esthetic realizations and even esthetic performances. [...]

In the dream universe however the slower physical growth process is replaced by psychic and mental value fulfillment, which does not necessitate any long-range imprisonment of molecules within a pattern.

[...] This is not to say that structure does not exist within the dream universe, for structures of a mental or psychic nature do exist. [...]

[...] What she “saw,” she said, was an approximation of a mental diagram involving a circular string. [...]

Mental enzymes transform vitality into the particular camouflage patterns. Mental enzymes as I have said have a chemical reaction on your planet. [...]

Mental enzymes have much to do with psychic phenomena naturally, as they have to do with the transformation of energy on any level and of any kind. [...]

Mental enzymes are the transformers, and as I have said they are extremely important. [...]

Mental enzymes have a chemical effect or reaction on your plane. [...]

[...] He does this by mentally changing over his account (emphatically) from Framework 1, where he is indeed improving through effort, trial and error and determination—but improving at a far slower rate than he would like. [...]

[...] You mentally change your account with Prentice from Framework 1 trial-and-error, a framework which has brought you some good rewards, but not as good interest as you would like. [...]

(As far as changing our mental accounts re Prentice, I don’t know whether I can bring myself to do that or not, especially after the foreign mess. [...]