“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It was impossible to imagine civilizations built upon data that were mentally received, consciously accepted, and creatively used.⁷ Under such circumstances scientists could hardly look for precognition in cells.⁸ They did not believe it existed to begin with.

[...] In that period, however, at an inner order of events, you are highly active and do much of the interior mental work that will later appear as physical experience.

[...] Even in a coma there is mental activity, though it may be impossible to ascertain it from the outside. [...]

“Years ago such spontaneous objections of mine really bothered me,” she continued, “and I’d sit and mentally argue with Seth so that the session didn’t begin right away; it only started after I mentally shut up. [...]

The initial contagion in such cases is always emotional and mental. [...]

[...] There is a change in chemicals and hormones, so that he is for now mentally cushioned and relatively unconcerned about events.

[...] We gave you mental images and upon these images you learned to form the world that you knew. [...]

[...] There may be a flare-up of mental confusion, accompanying any physical improvement or release of symptoms. [...]

A steady, progressive, but paced release from symptoms will allow for a more orderly mental and physical return to health. [...]

So far in our discussion, then, we have an inner self, dwelling primarily in a mental or psychic dimension, dreaming itself into physical form, and finally forming a body consciousness. [...]

[...] Outside of that, basically, there are all kinds of mental distinctions made [among] stimuli. [...]

[...] Briefly, most authorities in the Roman Catholic Church realize that almost all of those who are supposed to be “possessed” by malevolent forces are in actuality mentally ill people who need treatment. [...]

(Long pause at 9:25.) In the first place, reality is primarily a mental phenomenon, in which the perceptions of the senses are organized and put together in ways that perfectly “mimic” in physical terms a primary (long pause) nonphysical experience. [...]

[...] Both religion and science, parents and schools, stress that idea, and it is one of the most important causes of mental alienation, spiritual and physical distress.

[...] For many reasons given in earlier sessions, he related mentally. [...]

It is not as easy, however, to realize that your feelings and thoughts form your exterior experience in the same way, or that the events that appear to happen to you are initiated by you within your mental or psychic inner environment.

[...] These characteristics are mental, and are thrust outward by you upon your image. [...]

[...] The dream-art scientist, the true mental physicist, the complete physician — such designations represent the kinds of training that could allow you to understand the unknown, and therefore the known reality, and so become aware of the blueprints that exist behind the physical universe. [...]

Dictation: To some extent, each individual who wants to can become aware of the “unknown” reality — can become his or her own dream-art scientist, mental physicist, or complete physician, and begin to explore those lands of the psyche that are the real frontier.

(9:58.) Mentally it can form an infinite number of events, and consciousness can take an infinite number of roles. [...]

[...] If you want to sense the motion of your psyche, it is perhaps easiest to imagine a situation either in the past or the future, for this automatically moves your mental sense-perceptions in a new way.

[...] New mental impetus will initiate new physical impetus, so do not be impatient.

[...] Divisions seem to appear between the mental and the physical, where again each are supported by those magical processes. [...]

Ruburt’s [recent] mental conversation with “Mary,”⁴ and your own dream about Mary with the sketchbook sheets⁵ — all of these experiences are indications of the exquisite kind of reasoning that goes on at the levels of awareness that are usually considered unreasonable. [...]

4. Two days after delivering the first session for The Magical Approach, Jane made notes about her mental exchange with our dear longtime friend, “Mary” (the name I’ve given her):

“… later in the night, last night, I became aware of a mental conversation between Mary and myself. [...]

(9:47.) The two of you do not have children, yet you do indeed not only have mental children, but you are—if you will forgive the term—psychic or mental parents to many thousands of people. [...]

[...] Something about us not taking vacations….and even not wanting to rest between mental creative projects; that Rob had his stomach troubles when he needed a rest....a vacation of some sort could have prevented that....but since we prefer to do things differently, we should frequently arrange changes in our lives....that we control....changes in the house, routine, hours....or even a week off to do the house or yard or whatever.... [...]

[...] All physical matter exists first as an idea or mental image. The idea of mental image has its own reality, and is charged with energy, and this energy can never be withdrawn. [...]

[...] But the mental or psychic energy behind all this is the one basic reality.

[...] In the beginnings within your universe psychic characteristics grouped into units of attraction, so that mental enclosures were formed that could be compared to the smallest physical particle.

Initially these mental enclosures formed as much matter about themselves as they could manage, capturing other such enclosures through attraction when possible, in which case the two groups thusly joined both benefited by the additional matter that they could form. [...]

[...] I heard the name “Toby” mentally. [...]

Mental enzymes belong to the mind rather than the brain, although they function through both and use chemical properties of the physical body in their operation.

The camouflage patterns of course do belong to the inner world also, since the camouflages themselves are formed from the vitality 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 outer senses. [...]

[...] Seth hardly mentions the individual involved, however, but instead goes into the subject of mental illness in more inclusive terms. [...]

[...] He told her he’d been hospitalized several times for mental problems, and demonstrated his ability to speak very fluently a “nonsense” language he cannot decipher. [...]

[...] The patterns are seen in an exaggerated fashion, so that in some such cases at least you can gain glimpses of mental, emotional, and psychic processes that usually remain psychologically invisible beneath the more polished or “finished” social personality of the usual individual.

[...] The outstanding mental phenomena, therefore, show in isolated fashions those elements of the personality that are not to be assimilated in the usual smooth fashion.

[...] A portion of each person dwells in Framework 1 and Framework 2. Understand that Framework 2 is a psychic or spiritual or mental structure. [...]

Ruburt is quite correct: his vision has fluctuated through the years, and in periods of mental ease, understanding, and physical improvements, his vision also improves.

[...] The painting is providing a mental rest, aiding in the coordination of hand and eye, and allowing him to work at certain inner challenges in a different way. [...]

The visual activity itself stimulates different portions of the psyche, and allows mental concepts to be rearranged while he is thus occupied. [...]