“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane dictates:) Some substances produced mentally are absolutely necessary for the maintenance of a world. [...] However we got involved in other affairs, and also there is some difficulty in explaining an idea to you that I know to be mental, when to you it appears as definitely a physical manifestation.

[...] The knowledge of the mother lingers in the mental genes, and the memory of the flesh still occurs in your physical genes. [...]

(“Seth, will you begin again on the subject of mental enzymes? [...]

I am keeping my mental eyes on you both. [...]

[...] The proper mental attitude could have prevented the indisposition. [...]

The overall psychic and mental problems were concentrated into physical symptoms—

[...] The mental and psychic difficulties were concentrated into physical symptoms, and the system was rid of the difficulty in this manner. [...]

There is always the initial attempt to handle problems on a mental and psychic level. [...]

He is thinking of what to do physically, however, which automatically alters his mental expectations, and further improves his beliefs. [...]

Your brilliance (?) in your work, and Ruburt’s in his, partially results from the fact that you ignored the mental reality, the psychic and spiritual reality you saw all about you. [...]

[...] He also told us that amateur mediumship could produce mental symptoms under certain conditions.

[...] His intentions were of the best, but I suppose that I must now feel obligated—and I do—to go into the matter of mental and emotional stability and any dangers to such stability that might be involved here.

[...] If anything, the personal advice I have given you both should add to your mental and emotional balance and result in a stronger relationship with the outside world. [...]

[...] For Seth to come through I had to stop such mental quibbling—at least temporarily.

[...] Mental impressions of any kind therefore are not simply imprinted, or written, as it were, in a medium of space and time. [...]

[...] “Each mental act opens up a new dimension of actuality. [...]

[...] You imagine personhood to be a kind of mental particle that must have definite boundaries, or it will lose its identity. [...]

[...] In such a way mental abilities and propensities are given a greater range, and distributed about the earth.

[...] Mentally, a part of you actually starts out upon each street — a projected mental image. [...] You have, however, already sent out an energized mental image of yourself into Street Three, and you cannot withdraw that energy.

[...] But while you stand almost equally attracted by streets Three and Four, then you send out mental and psychic energy in those directions.

[...] Other portions of my entity are aware of it, by a process of mental osmosis, so to speak.

[...] These people can and will help him, and add their mental and psychic energy to his own in a strongly supportive manner. [...]

[...] The yoga exercises simply include rather painlessly, and in one package, techniques that are of greatest benefit in the maintenance of spiritual, mental and physical health.

[...] This is something like a mental message meant for me. [...]

All motion is mental or psychological motion, and all mental and psychological motion has electric reality. [...]

[...] At break she told me that as she spoke the word dense, and during the pause, she had a rather strong mental image of a field of points of light. [...]

[...] The male figure however represented the fact that he believes that strong muscular motion is a male characteristic, and not one that he feels belongs to mentally oriented males. [...] He felt they would not understand his mental properties. Here indeed he saw a symbolic representation of Ruburt—not one that could be physically materialized with his bone structure as a woman, but a figure of idealistic physical proportions that also possessed great mental faculties to match.

[...] They should be considered as creative play, though of a mental nature, and they actually consist of mental endeavors tried quite spontaneously by children. [...]

[...] Before conditioning, children’s play follows the love of performance, of body or imagination, for performance’s sake only; the expansion of mental or physical abilities. [...]

“The initial thought or image exists within the mental enclosure [as explained in earlier sessions]. [...] Then it is sparked into physical materialization by the mental enzymes.

“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 from you, is instead the materialization of your own inner emotions, energy, and mental environment.”

[...] Exactly how do we form events from mental energy? [...]

“Mental enzymes are connected with the pineal gland. [...]

Camouflage patterns do, of course, also belong to the inner world, since they are formed from the stuff of the universe by mental enzymes, which have a chemical reaction on your plane. [...] Mental enzymes are actually the property of the inner world, representing the conversion of vitality into camouflage data which is then interpreted by the physical senses. [...]

More on Mental Enzymes
Excerpts from Sessions 19 and 20

Mental enzymes, by the way, have a chemical effect or reaction on your plane, but the effect itself is, of course, distortion. [...]

As I told you, mental enzymes transform vitality into the particular camouflage patterns. [...]

Ruburt’s work, as far as his symptoms are concerned, rests primarily in his mental attitudes, and they are indeed changing for the better. [...] In it there is a kind of mental or psychic plasticity, where the evidence of the normal world loses its hard edges, becomes less real, and yet is touched by the psyche’s creativity so that it can (underlined) in a moment be literally transformed.

[...] Physical matter is seen out of the corners of mental eyes, so to speak. [...]

(11:28.) Those in earthquake regions are attracted to such spots because of their innate understanding of the astonishing relationship between exterior circumstances and their own quite private mental and emotional patterns.

[...] Obviously there have been earthquakes where there are no people, but in all cases the origins are to be found in mental properties rather than exterior ones. [...]

Psychically, mentally and physically, they will be as much a part of such an event as, say, the water that sweeps through a town in a flood. [...]

[...] I have mentioned the dream-art scientist and the [true] mental physicist (in sessions 700–1). [...]

[...] So far, Seth hasn’t designated or titled a Part 1.⁶ Jane had received more, but she was vague on it: “… something to do with how each of us could be our own dream-art scientist, mental physicist, and complete physician. [...]

The bulk of the material in Personal Reality concerns the nature of beliefs, and the physical and mental environments that are created, both individually and en masse, as a result of those beliefs. [...]

[...] This has contributed to the survival of the species by not separating any of its mental or psychological abilities into two opposite camps. [...]

Language is practiced by infants in the dream state, and it is indeed that mental practice that results in children speaking sentences far more quickly than otherwise would seem possible. [...]

[...] In a way dreams are of course composite behavior — mental and psychic games that suit the purposes of mind and body alike. [...]

[...] As the mind within the body clearly sees its earthly time coming to an end, mental and psychic accelerations take place. [...]

[...] Many instances of expansion of consciousness, and mental and psychic growth, are interpreted by you as senility. [...]

[...] The natural therapies, both physical and mental, are denied. [...]

There have been changes in the past month, extremely important in his mental and spiritual condition, and along with this the release of mental and psychic energies, and healthy concentration in all areas of his work, with reasonable and optimistic plans for the future. [...]

[...] The body is quite ready to comply now, and he is mentally ready. [...]